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History on the 24th of September

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24 Sep 0787 RELIGIOUS The Second Nicene Council opened under Pope Hadrian I. Numbered by some as the 7th of the church's 21 ecumenical councils, Nicea II condemned iconoclasm (belief that the veneration of Christian images and relics is idolatry).
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24 Sep 1889 RELIGIOUS In Holland, the Declaration of Utrecht was signed and became the doctrinal basis of the Old Catholic Church. ("Old Catholics" reject clerical celibacy, papal authority and the Council of Trent decisions.) Today in Europe, Old Catholics are active in Holland, Germany and Switzerland.
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24 Sep 1914 WW2 Erwin Rommel, wielding a rifle without any ammunition, fought three French soldiers, catching a ricocheting bullet in the left thigh. 
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24 Sep 1918 WW2 US Navy Lieutenant David S. Ingalls, on exchange with No. 213 Squadron RAF, shared the destruction of a German Rumpler in his Sopwith Camel aircraft, becoming the only US Navy fighter Ace of World War I. 
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24 Sep 1920 WW2 Richard Bong was born. 
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24 Sep 1921 WW2 Prince Kotohito was awarded Collar of the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum. 
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24 Sep 1923 WW2 Quintin Brand was appointed the commanding officer of No. 56 Squadron RAF. 
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24 Sep 1927 WW2 Joseph Rochefort was assigned to destroyer USS Macdonough as her executive officer and navigator. 
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24 Sep 1929 WW2 Flying a Consolidated NY-2 Husky biplane, equipped with a Sperry artificial horizon, directional gyro, and a Kollsman altimeter, Lieutenant James H. Doolittle USAAC, completed the first successful blind take-off circuit and landing at Mitchell field, Long Island, New York, United States. 
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24 Sep 1929 WW2 Benjamin Kelsey flew with James Doolittle as his safety pilot during the first fully blind instrument flight. 
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24 Sep 1931 WW2 Yuan Chin-hai was appointed the Chairman of the Committee for the Maintenance of Peace and Order for the newly renamed Fengtien Province in northeastern China (now Liaoning Province, China) as he negotiated with the Japanese. Meanwhile, Lieutenant General Xi Qia of neighboring Jilin Province continued his separate discussion with the Japanese. 
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24 Sep 1935 WW2 Hitler's Minister for Church Affairs, Hans Kerrl, appointed a Reich Church committee to supervise the local committees of dissident Evangelical Churches. 
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24 Sep 1935 WW2 ShCh-317 was launched at Leningrad, Russia. 
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24 Sep 1935 WW2 In Britain, newly constructed British cruiser HMS Phaeton was commissioned into Australian service as HMAS Sydney. Aging Australian cruiser HMAS Brisbane, which had brought HMAS Sydney's crew to Britain, was decommissioned from service and was prepared to be sold to Thomas Ward and Company for scrapping. 
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24 Sep 1938 WW2 German Army chief Walther von Brauchitsch married Charlotte Rueffer. 
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24 Sep 1938 WW2 As Neville Chamberlain departed Bad Godesberg, Germany to return to London, England, United Kingdom, Adolf Hitler promised him that the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia would be the last German territorial demand in Europe. In France, the French government rejected the latest German demands; the French military partially mobilized in preparation for war. 
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24 Sep 1938 WW2 Adolf Hitler arrived in Berlin, Germany. 
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24 Sep 1939 WW2 Limited food rationing began in Germany. 
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24 Sep 1939 WW2 German Einsatzgruppen murdered 800 members of Polish intelligentsia at Bydgoszcz, Poland. 
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24 Sep 1939 WW2 The Soviet Union gave an ultimatum to the Estonian Foreign Minister in Moscow, Russia, demanding land to build a Soviet minitary base in Estonia. 
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24 Sep 1939 WW2 Winston Churchill noted that the past three weeks since the European War had begun had been the longest he had ever lived. 
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24 Sep 1940 WW2 In Britain, gasoline price rose to 2 shillings and 2 pence per gallon. 
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24 Sep 1940 WW2 Japanese troops occupied Lang Son, Indochina. 
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24 Sep 1940 WW2 Operation Menace: Overnight, Governor of French West Africa, Pierre Boisson, rejected Free French demand for the surrender of Dakar. At 0700 hours, British destroyer HMS Fortune detected Vichy French submarine Ajax, which was forced to surface by depth charges and then sunk with gunfire after the crew of 61 was captured. British battleship HMS Barham shelled French battleship Richelieu in Dakar harbor; Richelieu was damaged with two shells and a misfire of her own. French coastal batteries was able to force back the British fleet at 1000 hours. In the afternoon, the British fleet returned. French coastal artillery opened fire again, hitting Barham with four shells, and forced back the British fleet once again. Far to the north, 64 Vichy French bombers from Algeria and Morocco bombed Gibraltar in retaliation, damaging one ship. 
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24 Sep 1940 WW2 British submarine HMS Cachalot attacked a German submarine in the Bay of Biscay off France without success. Meanwhile, British submarine HMS Tuna sank German catapult ship Ostmark 35 miles west of Saint-Nazaire, France. 10 miles off Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, German motor torpedo boat S-30 sank British ship Continental Coaster in the North Sea, killing 4. 
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24 Sep 1940 WW2 King George VI of the United Kingdom instituted the George Cross medal to award those who displayed courage not in the face of the enemy. 
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24 Sep 1940 WW2 Douglas Bader was promoted to the war time rank of flight lieutenant. 
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24 Sep 1940 WW2 Scirè departed La Spezia, Italy for Gibraltar with three manned torpedoes on board. 
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24 Sep 1940 WW2 At 0830 and then again at 1115 hours, 200 German bombers, escorted by 400 fighters, were launched to attack targets in Kent in southern England, United Kingdom; Portsmouth, Southampton, and the nearby Spitfire fighter factory at Woolston were among the targets. Meanwhile, as the British government announced plans to expand evacuation, 444,000 children had already been evacuated from the London area. The arrival of German bombers on this night marked the 18th consecutive night in which London had been bombed; Liverpool, Dundee, and other cities and towns were also bombed. 
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24 Sep 1941 WW2 US Marine Corps 1st Provisional Marine Brigade was detached from US Navy jurisdiction for service with the US Army in Iceland. 
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24 Sep 1941 WW2 German submarine U-67 sank St. Clair II at about 0000 hours. 
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24 Sep 1941 WW2 German submarine U-107 and U-67 attacked Allied convoy SL-87 and sank four British ships 350 miles west of Madeira island; 16 were killed, 197 survived. 
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24 Sep 1941 WW2 Allied convoy ON.18 became the first westbound convoy to be escorted by American ships as it made rendezvous with US destroyers USS Madison, USS Gleaves, USS Lansdale, USS Hughes and USS Simpson in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. 
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24 Sep 1941 WW2 German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran stopped, evacuated, and scuttled Greek ship Stamatios G. Embiricos in the Indian Ocean 600 miles west of the Maldives islands; the crew of 31 were captured. 
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24 Sep 1941 WW2 British minelaying cruiser HMS Abdiel and destroyers HMS Napir, HMS Kingston, and HMS Hotspur departed Alexandria, Egypt with troops and supplies for the besieged Tobruk, Libya; they would set sail to return to Alexandria overnight, arriving in the following day. 
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24 Sep 1941 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille shot down a Maryland bomber and five Hurricane fighters near Buq Buq, Egypt, his 19th through 24th kills. Among his victims were South African Captain C. A. van Vliet, South African Second Lieutenant J. Mac Robert, South African Lieutenant B. E. Dodd, and New Zealand Pilot Officer D. F. Westenra. 
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24 Sep 1941 WW2 Tobacco ration in Paris, France dropped to 4 cigarettes per day for men and 0 for women. 
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24 Sep 1941 WW2 The German Armeegruppe Sud started its offensive from southern Ukraine towards Crimea, Russia. 
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24 Sep 1941 WW2 The German Einsatzgruppe C set up its headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine. 
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24 Sep 1941 WW2 Arthur Coningham was made Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. 
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24 Sep 1942 WW2 The planned submarine Senorita was renamed Trepang. 
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24 Sep 1942 WW2 Adolf Hitler sacked General Franz Halder as Chief of Staff, replacing him with General Kurt Zeitzler. 
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24 Sep 1942 WW2 The planned submarine Blanquillo was renamed Caiman. 
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24 Sep 1942 WW2 The plan for future submarine Bocaccio was renamed submarine Charr. 
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24 Sep 1942 WW2 Japanese troops landed on Maiana, Gilbert Islands. 
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24 Sep 1942 WW2 USAAF B-17 bombers damaged Japanese seaplane carrier Sanuki Maru off Shortlands Island, Solomon Islands. 
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24 Sep 1942 WW2 HMS Somali (Lieutenant Commander C. D. Maud) broke apart and sank while under tow by HMS Ashanti 185 miles north of Iceland; 77 were killed, 35 survived. 
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24 Sep 1942 WW2 The planned submarine Bonaci was renamed Chub. 
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24 Sep 1942 WW2 German submarine U-432 sank US ship Penmar 400 miles east of southern Greenland at 0144 hours; 2 were killed, 59 survived. In the same general area, U-617 sank Belgium ship Roumanie at 0158 hours; 42 were killed, 1 survived. At 0924 hours, U-175 sank US ship West Chetac 100 miles north of Georgetown, British Guyana; 31 were killed, 19 survived. At 1825 hours, U-512 sank US merchant ship Antinous (under two by British rescue tug HMS Zwatre Zee) also north of British Guyana. At 1910 hours, U-619 sank US ship John Winthrop 450 miles southeast of Greenland; all 52 aboard were killed. 
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24 Sep 1942 WW2 Greek submarine Nereus sank Italian freighter Fiume 7 miles southwest of Rhodes, Greece. 
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24 Sep 1942 WW2 German submarine U-561 sank Egyptian sailing vessel Sphinx with the deck gun miles southwest of Tiros, Syria-Lebanon at 2335 hours. 
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24 Sep 1942 WW2 British destroyer HMS Nizam sank a Vichy French merchant ship southwest of Madagascar. 
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24 Sep 1942 WW2 Tenryu arrived at Rabaul, New Britain. 
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24 Sep 1942 WW2 Dauntless dive bombers of US Marine Corps VMSB-231 squadron and US Navy VS-3 squadron from Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands attacked Japanese destroyers Umikaze and Kawakaze in the western Solomon Islands; they heavily damaged Umikaze (8 were killed) and forced the convoy to turn back. On the same day, US Army B-17 bombers attacked the Japanese Navy base on Shortland island, damaging seaplane carrier Sanuki Maru. 
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24 Sep 1942 WW2 The northern crew and the southern crew of the Alaska-Canadian Highway met at the British Columbia-Yukon border in Canada and began to connect the two portions. 
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24 Sep 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-165 sank US freighter Losmar 220 miles west of the southern tip of India; 3 were killed, 14 survived. 
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24 Sep 1942 WW2 A Japanese fighter detected Australian destroyer HMAS Voyager in Betano Bay, East Timor at 1330 hours, which ran aground on the previous day. At 1600 hours, a wave of Japanese bombers attacked, heavily damaging the ship. 
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24 Sep 1942 WW2 The German Armeegruppe A launched an assault against Tuapse on the Black Sea. 
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24 Sep 1942 WW2 German 94th Infantry Division and 24th Panzer Division effectively wiped out all Soviet units in the southern pocket in Stalingrad, Russia. 
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24 Sep 1942 WW2 German bombers attacked Hastings, England, United Kingdom; 19 were killed, 17 were seriously injured. Seaford in southeastern England was also attacked. 
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24 Sep 1942 WW2 Leslie Groves purchased 210 square kilometers (52,000 acres) of land in Tennessee, United States. Also known as Site X, it would soon become the Oak Ridge site of the Manhattan Project. 
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24 Sep 1942 WW2 The United States Marine Corps established the Marine Corps Air Station Mojave in California, United States under the command of Lieutenant Colonel John Holmsberg. 
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24 Sep 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Ambon, Molucca Islands and departed later on the same day. 
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24 Sep 1943 WW2 USS Cabrilla attacked a Japanese escort carrier with six torpedoes in the Western Pacific, causing some damage. 
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24 Sep 1943 WW2 James Johnson was awarded Bar to his Distinguished Service Order medal. 
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24 Sep 1943 WW2 Two of the ten sections of USS ABSD-1 arrived at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. 
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24 Sep 1943 WW2 USS Columbia arrived at Vella LaVella, Solomon Islands. 
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24 Sep 1943 WW2 USS Permit arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her tenth war patrol. 
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24 Sep 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Portions of Air Group 1 arrived on board. 
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24 Sep 1943 WW2 Naka arrived at Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. 
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24 Sep 1943 WW2 German submarine U-711 shelled the Soviet wireless telegraph station at Blagopoluchiya in northern Russia. 
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24 Sep 1943 WW2 Following the untimely death of Sir Kingsley Wood, Sir John Anderson was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom. 
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24 Sep 1944 WW2 British Second Army reached the Rhine River, while the Germans sealed off US Third Army's bridgeheads across the Moselle River, south of Aachen, Germany. 
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24 Sep 1944 WW2 The Soviet minesweeper T.120 (formerly the USS Assail) was sunk by the German submarine U-739 in the Kara Sea in the Arctic Circle. 
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24 Sep 1944 WW2 The US coastal minesweeper YMS-19 was lost after striking a Japeanese mine southeast of Angaur, Palau Islands. 
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24 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Becuna fired three torpedoes at a Japanese transport in the Luzon Strait south of Taiwan; all torpedoes missed. 
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24 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Ticonderoga arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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24 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Tang departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, starting her fifth war patrol in the Taiwan Strait. 
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24 Sep 1944 WW2 British XIII Corps captured Marradi, Italy. 
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24 Sep 1944 WW2 The STAVKA ordered the Soviet First Baltic Front to halt on the advance to Riga, Latvia, leaving the job to the Second Baltic Front and Third Baltic Front, and instead march toward Memel (now Klaipeda, Lithuania). 
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24 Sep 1944 WW2 British troops captured Deurne, the Netherlands. 
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24 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Alabama escorted US carriers as carrier aircraft began attacking Japanese positions in the central area of the Philippine Islands. 
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24 Sep 1944 WW2 Irako was attacked by US carrier aircraft and sank in Coron Bay, Busuanga, Philippine Islands. 
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24 Sep 1944 WW2 The Soviet GKO issued an order to increase food rations of NKVD, NKGB, and SMERSH operatives and officers. 
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24 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Wisconsin departed Philadelphia Navy Yard in Pennsylvania, United States. 
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24 Sep 1945 WW2 Salmon was decommissioned from service. 
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24 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Sea Robin arrived at Galveston, Texas, United States. 
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24 Sep 1945 WW2 Soviet operative Andrei Onishchenko and his team captured Konstantin Volkov, who was in the process of defecting to the United Kingdom, and departed Turkey for Russia. 
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24 Sep 1945 WW2 German test pilot Karl Bauer arrived at Wright Field in Ohio, United States. 
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24 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Baya arrived in San Francisco, California, United States. 
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24 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Preston arrived at San Pedro, California, United States. 
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24 Sep 1948 WW2 Mildred Gillars, known to the Americans as "Axis Sally", pled innocent to charges of treason. 
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24 Sep 1956 RELIGIOUS In Minneapolis-St. Paul, a congregation of worshipers was organized into the first Southern Baptist church to be established in Minnesota.
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24 Sep 1977 RELIGIOUS Rev. John T. Walker was installed as the sixth -- and first African American -- bishop of the Episcopal diocese in Washington, D.C.
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24 Sep 1988 RELIGIOUS The Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts elected Barbara C. Harris, 58, as a suffragen (assistant) bishop, making her the first woman to be so ordained in the Anglican communion.
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