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History on the 22nd of September

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22 Sep 1601 RELIGIOUS The first (Catholic) priests of the newly established Christian Church in Japan -- Sebastian Chimura and Aloysius Niabara -- were ordained in their hometown of Nagasaki.
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22 Sep 1692 RELIGIOUS During the famous Salem Witch Trials, the last 8 "witches" were hanged in Massachusetts. When the turmoil finally settled, 13 women and 7 men had been executed, and over 150 others remained in jail through the next summer.
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22 Sep 1827 RELIGIOUS The angel Moroni reportedly revealed the golden tablets (containing the "Book of Mormon") to Joseph Smith. They were hidden near the family farm, in Palmyra, NY. Smith's English translation of their strange hieroglyphics became the literary foundation for the new Mormon religion.
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22 Sep 1871 RELIGIOUS Death of Charlotte Elliott, 82, English devotional writer and author of the enduring hymn, "Just As I Am." (A serious illness at 33 had left her an invalid her remaining 50 years.)
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22 Sep 1917 WW2 Vampire was commissioned into service. 
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22 Sep 1925 WW2 Quintin Brand was appointed the Senior Technical Officer at the Royal Aircraft Establishment. 
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22 Sep 1925 WW2 Song Ziwen was named the Minister of Finance. 
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22 Sep 1933 WW2 Germany's Reich Culture Ministry passed laws banning Jewish writers and artists. 
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22 Sep 1934 WW2 Sir Alan Cobham attempted to make a non-stop flight from England to India in an Airspeed As 5 Courier (G-ABXN). The flight relied upon in-flight refueling by Sir Alan's two Handley Page W.10 aircraft over Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom and Malta, and by RAF tankers at Aboukir, Egypt and Basra, Iraq. The fuel transfers were successfully completed off Selsey Bill in England and over Halfar aerodrome in Malta, but soon after this a disconnected throttle control forced Sir Alan to make an emergency landing at Halfar, where the record-breaking attempt was abandoned. 
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22 Sep 1934 WW2 The first stage of renovations at the SS castle of Schloß Wewelsburg in Büren, Germany was completed, and a ceremony was held to mark the transfer of its possession to Heinrich Himmler. 
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22 Sep 1934 WW2 HMS Phaeton was launched at Wallsend on Tyne, England, United Kingdom, sponsored by Mrs. Ethel Bruce, the wife of the High Commissioner of Australia to the United Kingdom Stanley Bruce. 
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22 Sep 1936 WW2 Do 18 flying boat "Aeolus" arrived at Horta, Azores from Hamilton, Bermuda after a 17-hour 50-minute flight. 
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22 Sep 1937 WW2 The Chinese Nationalist Party issued a declaration of cooperation with the Communist Party in the war against Japan. 
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22 Sep 1937 WW2 Liu Cuigang, flying a Hawk III fighter, shot down a Japanese D1A2 dive bomber near Nanjing, China. His wingman Lieutenant Yuan Baokang also claimed a D1A2 shot down, but Japanese records showed only one lost (from 13th Kokutai). 
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22 Sep 1938 WW2 The International Brigades fighting in the Spanish Civil War were withdrawn by the Spanish Republicans from the front-line prior to them being repatriated. 
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22 Sep 1938 WW2 Seeing that the Czechoslovakians gave in to German demands, Hungary also made demands of their own on Czechoslovakian territory. On the same day, Sudeten Freikorps occupied two Czechoslovakian towns close to the German border. In Prague, the Czechoslovakian cabinet resigned. In Bad Godesberg, Germany, Chamberlain met Adolf Hitler; the German leader demanded Czechoslovakia to allow German troops to occupy Sudetenland by 1 Oct 1938. 
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22 Sep 1938 WW2 Henry Arnold was made the Chief of the US Army Air Corps. 
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22 Sep 1938 WW2 CW-21 prototype aircraft took its first flight at Wilbur Wright Field in Riverside, Ohio, United States. 
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22 Sep 1939 WW2 Chinese forces recaptured Gao'an, Jiangxi Province, China. 
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22 Sep 1939 WW2 Georg von Küchler was awarded Clasp 1st Class to his Iron Cross. 
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22 Sep 1939 WW2 Battle of the Bzura, also known as Battle of Kutno to the Germans, ended in Polish defeat; it was the largest battle of the Polish campaign during which more than 18,000 Polish troops and about 8,000 German troops were killed. At Lvov, over 210,000 Poles surrender to the Soviets, but at the Battle of Kodziowce the Soviets suffered heavy casualties. Also on this day, the Soviet NKVD began gathering Polish officers for deportation. 
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22 Sep 1939 WW2 Former German Army Commander-in-Chief Werner von Fritsch was mortally wounded by a Polish bullet whilst on a tour of inspection at Praga, Warsaw, Poland. 
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22 Sep 1939 WW2 Josef Frantisek and his Polish Air Force squadron were evacuated to Romania. 
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22 Sep 1939 WW2 Petrol rationing was introduced in Britain. Cars were restricted to 20 gallons per month. 
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22 Sep 1939 WW2 Chief of Naval Operations Harold Stark ordered US Navy Scouting Force (under Adolphus Andrews) to move from California, United States to Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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22 Sep 1940 WW2 Moscow radio reported that RAF bombing had largely destroyed the German invasion fleet along the English Channel. 
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22 Sep 1940 WW2 France tentatively agreed to meet increased Japanese demands for Indochina. 
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22 Sep 1940 WW2 Allied convoy HX-72 continued to be attacked by German submarines in the Atlantic Ocean after being detected and attacked in the previous day. Between 0022 and 0214 hours, German submarine U-100 sank British ship Empire Airman (33 killed, 4 rescued), British tanker Frederick S. Fales (11 killed, 32 rescued), British ship Scholar (entire crew of 45 survived), Norwegian ship Simla (5 drowned after jumping overboard, 31 survived), and three other ships. At 0740 hours, U-32 attacked British ship Collegian with her deck gun, but return fire from Collegian drove off the attack. Meanwhile, 100 miles south of the Faroe Islands, German submarine U-31 sank Faroese trawler Union Jack at 1755 hours by deck gun fire; the entire crew of 7 survived. 1 mile off the French coast near Bordeaux, British submarine HMS Tuna sank Norwegian passenger liner Tirranna; the commanding officer of HMS Tuna did not know that Tirranna was a prize ship taken by German armed merchant cruiser Atlantis back in Jun, and it carried 274 prisoners; of the 88 killed, only one was German; the remainder were all civilians of friendly nations. 
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22 Sep 1940 WW2 British Royal Navy launched 11 Swordfish torpedo bombers and 6 Skua fighters/dive bombers from carrier HMS Furious at 0300 hours to attack German positions at Trondheim, Norway. Rough waters due to bad weather forced HMS Furious to turn back for Scotland ahead of schedule. When the aircraft returned, 1 Swordfish aircraft ran out of fuel while looking for HMS Furious (3 killed), 3 Swordfish aircraft crash landed in Norway (9 captured), and 1 Swordfish and 1 Skua aircraft cash landed in Sweden (5 interned). 
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22 Sep 1940 WW2 British destroyers HMS Jervis, HMS Janus, HMS Juno, and HMS Mohawk bombarded Italian positions at Sidi Barrani, Egypt. 
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22 Sep 1940 WW2 British submarine HMS Truant sank Italian ship Provvidenza 10 miles west of Naples, Italy. 
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22 Sep 1940 WW2 British submarine HMS Osiris sank Italian destroyer Palestro in the Adriatic Sea 75 miles east of Bari, Italy. 
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22 Sep 1940 WW2 Bad weather restricted flying on both sides; only 1 German aircraft (Ju 88 bomber on reconnaissance mission shot down near the Isle of Wight, with entire crew captured) and 3 British Hurricane fighters (became lost in fog while on patrol) destroyed during the day. Overnight, London, England, United Kingdom received a heavy bombing from German bombers. 
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22 Sep 1941 WW2 German submarine U-562 sank British ship Erna III 200 miles east of Iceland at 0233 hours, killing all 25 aboard. 
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22 Sep 1941 WW2 German submarines U-68 attacked Allied convoy SL-87 300 miles west of the Canary Islands at 0222 hours, damaging British merchant ship Silverbelle. At 2346 hours, U-103 attacked the same convoy, sinking British merchant ships Edward (all 63 aboard survived) and Niceto de Larrinaga Blyden (2 killed, 53 survived). 
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22 Sep 1941 WW2 British minelaying cruiser HMS Abdiel and destroyers HMS Kandahar, HMS Jaguar, and HMS Griffin departed Alexandria, Egypt with supplies for Tobruk, Libya. They would arrive overnight and return on the following day. 
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22 Sep 1941 WW2 The Jager Report (issued on 1 Dec 1941) noted that 512 adult male, 744 adult female, and 511 children, all Jews, were killed in Riess, Lithuania for a total of 1,767 people. 
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22 Sep 1941 WW2 The US 1st Marine Brigade (Provisional) was placed under the command of the US Army's Iceland Base Command. 
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22 Sep 1941 WW2 Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. 
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22 Sep 1941 WW2 German Stuka dive bombers damaged Soviet destroyer Bezuprechny at 1300 hours, destroyer Besposhchadny at 1630 hours, and destroyer Boyki in the Black Sea off Odessa, Ukraine. 
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22 Sep 1941 WW2 British cruiser HMS London departed Scapa Flow, Scotland, United Kingdom with Lord Beaverbrook and Averell Harriman aboard for Archangel, Russia for Lend-Lease discussions. She was escorted by Soviet and British destroyers. 
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22 Sep 1941 WW2 King George II of the Hellenes, with members of his family and government who have escaped from Crete, Greece arrived in England, United Kingdom. 
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22 Sep 1942 WW2 Tony Stein enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. 
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22 Sep 1942 WW2 German submarine U-435 attacked Allied convoy QP-14 50 miles west of Jan Mayen Island, Norway at 0718 hours, sinking US merchant ship Bellingham (all 75 aboard survived), British merchant ship Ocean Voice (civilian commodore J. C. K. Dowding's ship; all 89 aboard survived), and British fleet oiler RFA Grey Ranger (6 were killed, 33 survived). 
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22 Sep 1942 WW2 British submarine HMS Unruffled sank Italian merchant ship Leonardo Palomba 25 miles east of Sousse, Tunisia. 
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22 Sep 1942 WW2 Australian destroyer HMAS Voyager departed Darwin, Australia with 400 men of Australian 2/4th Independent Company, sailing for the island of Timor to evacuate troops of Australian 2/2nd Independent Company and Portuguese civilians. 
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22 Sep 1942 WW2 Repair ship Akashi performed repair work for destroyer Kagero at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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22 Sep 1942 WW2 Tenryu departed Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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22 Sep 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-29 sank US freighter Paul Luckenbach 800 miles west of Kochi, India. 
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22 Sep 1942 WW2 The Soviet 62nd Army was split in half by the German advance down the Taritsa River gorge in Stalingrad in southern Russia, and the German troops now held nearly the entire southern half of the city. 
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22 Sep 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Davao, Philippine Islands. 
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22 Sep 1943 WW2 Operation Source: The first of the charges placed by British midget submarines below German battleship Tirpitz in Norway exploded at 0812 hours. The second explosion took place shortly afterwards. The explosions caused damage to the hull and disabled the turbines, propeller shafts, and the rudder. One sailor was killed and 40 were wounded. 
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22 Sep 1943 WW2 USS Hoe damaged a Japanese tanker after hitting her with 2 out of 6 torpedoes fired. 
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22 Sep 1943 WW2 USS Snook sank Japanese cargo ship Katsurahama Maru off Dalian, China with 1 of 4 torpedoes fired. She fired another 8 torpedoes at another ship, but all of them missed. 
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22 Sep 1943 WW2 Three Australian battalions landed at Finschhafen, Australian New Guinea. 
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22 Sep 1943 WW2 Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein was presented Oak Leaves to his Knight's Cross by Adolf Hitler at Wolfsschanze near Rastenburg, East Prussia, Germany. 
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22 Sep 1943 WW2 To outwit the German Luftwaffe's fighter reaction, British RAF Bomber Command launched its first "spoof raid"; the main force attacked Hannover, while a feint heads for Osnabrück. 
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22 Sep 1943 WW2 British 78th Infantry Division began to arrive at Bari, Italy. Elsewhere in Italy, US 3rd Infantry Division captured Acerno. 
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22 Sep 1943 WW2 German occupation administration in Naples, Italy announced that all men between 18 and 33 years of age were to be sent to labor camps in northern Italy and in Germany. On the same day, Italian resistance fighters captured a stock of weapons and ammunition from a military warehouse in the Vomero district of Naples. 
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22 Sep 1943 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho entered the drydocks at Kure, Japan. 
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22 Sep 1943 WW2 USS Harder attacked a Japanese oiler off Japan; all 3 torpedoes missed. 
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22 Sep 1943 WW2 Nachi arrived at Sasebo, Japan for refitting; she would receive a new Type 21 air search radar. 
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22 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Gunnel ended her sixth war patrol. 
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22 Sep 1944 WW2 Red Army units captured Tallinn and Reval, Estonia. 
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22 Sep 1944 WW2 The German garrison in Boulogne, France surrendered to Canadian troops. 
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22 Sep 1944 WW2 US First Army halted its offensive on Aachen, Germany. 
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22 Sep 1944 WW2 US troops captured the Il Giogo pass on the Gothic Line in Italy. 
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22 Sep 1944 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze departed Kure, Japan to escort battleships Fuso and Yamashiro to Lingga, Borneo. 
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22 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Alabama escorted US carriers as carrier aircraft began attacking Japanese positions in the Manila Bay area in the Philippine Islands. 
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22 Sep 1944 WW2 Irako departed Manila, Luzon, Philippine Islands at 0300 hours with a deck load of reconnaissance floatplanes for Coron Bay, Calamian Islands, Philippine Islands. 
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22 Sep 1944 WW2 The leading Divisions of Marshal Fedor Tolbukhin's 3rd Ukrainian Front commenced a crossing of the River Danube near Turnu Severin, Romania, meeting strong opposition from German Army alpine and German Waffen-SS troops under Field Marshal Maximilian Freiherr von Weich's command. 
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22 Sep 1944 WW2 The Taiwan Army was absorbed into the Japanese Tenth Area Army with General Rikichi Ando remaining as its commanding officer. 
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22 Sep 1944 WW2 British scientists, returning from studying a German rocket research site at Blizna, Poland, found that the crates of rocket parts collected had been switched to ordinary aircraft parts, presumably by the Soviets who wished to retain the rocket parts for their own weapons research. 
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22 Sep 1944 WW2 The first RaLa Experiment of the Manhattan Project with a radioactive source was performed. 
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22 Sep 1945 WW2 Taken out of context, Patton's careless comparison of Nazi Party members in Germany to Democratic Party or Republican Party members in the United States stirred much controversy. 
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22 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Carbonero arrived at Seattle, Washington, United States. 
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22 Sep 1945 WW2 Edward Brooks' son, Major Edward Brooks, Jr., was killed in Belgium in a night flight training landing accident. 
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22 Sep 1945 WW2 The overworked Milton Miles was placed under house arrest at his headquarters in Chongqing, China by the orders of his physician. 
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22 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Hawkbill departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for San Francisco, California, United States. 
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22 Sep 1945 WW2 The US 5th Marine Division landed at Nagasaki on Kyushu Island, Japan, for occupation duties. 
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22 Sep 1945 WW2 US 5th Marine Division landed at Sasebo, Japan and took control of the Sasebo Naval District, including its shipyards. 
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22 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Becuna arrived at San Diego, California, United States and was assigned to the Submarine Force of the US Navy Pacific Fleet. 
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22 Sep 1947 WW2 USS Becuna completed her scheduled overhaul at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States. 
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22 Sep 1950 RELIGIOUS Basil and Esther Miller incorporated World-Wide Missions in California. Headquartered today in Pasadena, this evangelical missions agency specializes in providing relief and medical aid to over 30 countries worldwide.
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