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History on the 26th of September

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26 Sep 1774 RELIGIOUS Birth of pioneer environmentalist Jonathan Chapman (Johnny Appleseed). Distributing apple seeds and religious tracts from the Alleghenies to the Ohio Valley, Chapman's theology was strongly reminiscent of Swedenborgianism, which taught an empathy with the natural world.
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26 Sep 1814 RELIGIOUS With over 1,000 delegates from 17 churches, the Flint River Association was established -- the first official Baptist organization of its kind in the history of Alabama.
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26 Sep 1835 RELIGIOUS The Suwanee Association was formed, in Florida. Comprised of eight member churches, it was the first official Baptist organization in Florida history.
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26 Sep 1897 RELIGIOUS Birth of Giovanni Battista Montini. He was ordained in 1920, named a cardinal in 1958, and in June 1963 chosen successor to John XXIII as Pope Paul VI. His 15 years as pontiff saw a widening application of the decisions first made at the Vatican II Ecumenical Council (1962-65).
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26 Sep 1910 WW2 Prince Hiroyasu was made the commanding officer of armored cruiser Takachiho. 
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26 Sep 1914 WW1 Begin of Battle of Sandfontein
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26 Sep 1917 WW2 Arthur Coningham was awarded the Distinguished Service Order medal of Britain. 
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26 Sep 1918 WW2 George Patton was injured in the leg during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in France. 
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26 Sep 1923 WW2 Hideo Kodama was named the Governor-General of Kwantung Leased Territory in northeastern China. 
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26 Sep 1923 WW2 Bavarian Prime Minister Eugen von Knilling declared a state of emergency in Munich (München) and appointed Gustav von Kahr as State Commissioner with dictatorial powers. 
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26 Sep 1931 WW2 The Manchukuo National Airways was established in Fengtian Province, Manchukuo per orders of the Japanese Kwantung Army. 
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26 Sep 1934 WW2 RMS Queen Mary was launched at Clydebank, Scotland, United Kingdom. The Queen Mary would play a vital role in the war; transporting hundreds of thousands of Allied troops across the world's oceans. 
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26 Sep 1934 WW2 USS Astoria arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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26 Sep 1938 WW2 Kirov was commissioned into service. 
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26 Sep 1938 WW2 Adolf Hitler spoke at the Berlin Sportpalast in Germany, claiming that whether Europe was to go into war or remain in peace, it was now up to Czechoslovakian President Edvard Beneš. He also announced that Sudetenland was to be Germany's last territorial demand in Europe. In the United States, President Franklin Roosevelt sent Hitler a message in an attempt to maintain peace. Also on this day, French General Maurice Gamelin told Britain that France possess enough strength to overwhelm German defenses should France go to war over German threats on Czechoslovakia. 
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26 Sep 1939 WW2 Three Skua aircraft of 803 Naval Air Squadron of HMS Ark Royal were collectively credited with the first confirmed British kill (a Do 18 flying boat) against Germany. 
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26 Sep 1939 WW2 Werner Mölders was relieved of his duty as the commanding officer of 1./JG 53 as he was named the commanding officer of III./JG 53. 
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26 Sep 1939 WW2 Former German Army Commander-in-Chief Werner von Fritsch was buried in Berlin, Germany. Neither Adolf Hitler, nor Joachim von Ribbertrop, nor Heinrich Himmler attended the ceremonial state funeral. 
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26 Sep 1939 WW2 Armia Krajowa, or Polish Home Army, was established in Warsaw, Poland. 
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26 Sep 1940 WW2 German armed merchant cruiser Thor sank Norwegian whaling factory ship Kosmos 400 miles northwest of Natal, Brazil with her deck gun after imprisoning the crew of 89; Captain Kahler of Thor would later be criticized for not transferring Kosmos' valuable cargo of whale oil aboard before sinking the ship. German submarine U-137 fired three torpedoes at Allied convoy OB-218 10 miles off the Mullet Peninsula, Ireland between 0050 and 0052 hours, sinking British ship Manchester Brigade (44 crew and 8 navy personnel killed, 4 survived) and damaging British ship Ashantian (4 killed). At 0135 hours, U-137 struck again, sinking British ship Stratford of the same convoy; 2 were killed and 32 survived. About 20 minutse later, German submarine U-46 sank British ship Coast Wings 350 miles southwest of Ireland at 0153 hours, killing the entire crew of 16. Further out to sea, at 0234 hours, German submarine U-32 attacked an Allied convoy 400 miles west of Ireland, damaging British ship Corrientes (entire crew of 50 rescued by Swedish ship Kolsnaren), sinking Norwegian ship Tancred (entire crew of 36 survived) at 0811 hours, and sinking British ship Darcoila (entire crew of 31 killed) at 0137 hours. In the evening at 2120 hours, U-64 struck again, sinking Swedish ship Siljan; 9 were killed and 18 survived. 
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26 Sep 1940 WW2 British submarine HMS Tribune fired four torpedoes at German submarine U-138 off Lorient, France. All torpedoes missed. 
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26 Sep 1940 WW2 In the late evening, the German ambassador in the Soviet Union shared the news that Japan was about to join Germany and Italy in a military alliance. The Soviet Union immediately complained that, according to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the text of such an alliance should have been shared with the USSR prior to the pact being signed, including any secret clauses. 
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26 Sep 1940 WW2 Erich Raeder met with Adolf Hitler, noting that the Italian territories in the Mediterranean Sea was in danger of being attacked by the British as he deduced from the importance the British had placed on the region historically. To prevent this, he recommended Hitler to make plans to seize Gibraltar, the Canary Islands, and the Suez Canal. 
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26 Sep 1940 WW2 Japan conducted an amphibious landing at Dong Tac, Indochina; later that day, Japanese troops captured the Gia Lam airfield and several rail yards near Hanoi. In the evening, Emperor Showa ordered fighting to stop in Indochina since the French had already surrendered on the previous day. 
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26 Sep 1940 WW2 At 1630 hours, 100 German aircraft attacked Southampton in England, United Kingdom, causing damage to the factory at Woolston producing Spitfire fighters. RAF fighters claimed 16 bombers and 16 fighters shot down, which was likely over-estimated, while losing 10 fighters and 3 pilots. Overnight, London, England was bombed for the 26th consecutive night, while Liverpool and other towns and cities were also attacked. 
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26 Sep 1941 WW2 German battleship Tirpitz sailed with other warships to patrol off of the Aaland Islands in the Baltic Sea to prevent Soviet naval maneuvers. 
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26 Sep 1941 WW2 General de Gaulle's Free French government signed an alliance with the Soviet Union. 
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26 Sep 1941 WW2 Soviet troops in Kiev, Ukraine were beginning to run out of food and ammunition. 
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26 Sep 1941 WW2 German submarines U-124 and U-203 attacked Allied convoy HG-73 500 miles north of the Azores islands and sank 6 merchant ships; HMS Larkspur counterattacked U-203 with depth charges but caused no damage. 
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26 Sep 1941 WW2 British submarine HMS Tetrarch sank Italian ship Citta Di Bastia off Greece; the Italian ship was en route from Piraeus to Crete. 
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26 Sep 1941 WW2 British minelaying cruiser HMS Latona and destroyers HMS Jackal, HMS Kimberley, and HMS Hasty 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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26 Sep 1941 WW2 ShCh-320 fired a torpedo at a merchant ship north of Danzig Bay; the torpedo missed. 
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26 Sep 1941 WW2 Raizo Tanaka was named the commanding officer of 2nd Destroyer Squadron; he broke his flag aboard light cruiser Jintsu. 
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26 Sep 1942 WW2 The Nazi SS organization began to confiscate possessions of Auschwitz and Majdanek concentration camps prisoners. Currency, gold, and jewelry were sent to the SS Headquarters of the Economic Administration. Watches, clocks, and pens were sent to the troops on the front lines. Finally, clothing was distributed to German families in need. 
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26 Sep 1942 WW2 US Marines attacked Japanese positions at the Matanikau River on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands in failure. 
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26 Sep 1942 WW2 The Manhattan Project was given permission to use the highest wartime priority rating by the United States War Production Board. 
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26 Sep 1942 WW2 Soviet troops launched the Tuapse Defensive Operation in the Caucasus region of southern Russia. 
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26 Sep 1942 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille shot down one Hurricane fighter and three Spitfire fighters near El Daba, Egypt between 0910 and 0916 hours. In his second sortie of the day, escorting Stuka dive bombers to El Hammam, Egypt, he shot down four enemy fighters between 1656 and 1710 hours. His score stood at 158 kills by the end of the day. When he returned to base, he was observed to be extremely exhausted, and his hands trembled uncontrollably. His superior Eduard Neumann grounded him for some days to give him a chance to rest. 
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26 Sep 1942 WW2 Repair ship Akashi performed repair work for destroyer Urakaze at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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26 Sep 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Yokosuka, Japan for her 6th voyage with the Japanese Navy. 
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26 Sep 1942 WW2 The German troops begin another "final" attack in Stalingrad, Russia. 
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26 Sep 1942 WW2 British No. 12 Squadron of 1 Group Bomber Command, having arrived at the newly completed RAF Wickenby in England, United Kingdom just the previous day, conducted its first operation with Wellington bombers. 
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26 Sep 1942 WW2 Allied convoy QP-14 arrived at Loch Ewe, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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26 Sep 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Kupang, Timor and departed later on the same day. 
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26 Sep 1943 WW2 Otto Skorzeny presented three Knight's Cross medals at the Harvest Thanksgiving festival at the Berlin Sportpalast in Germany. In the early afternoon, he had lunch with Joseph Goebbels and his family. 
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26 Sep 1943 WW2 USS Cero departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. 
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26 Sep 1943 WW2 USS Grayback departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her eighth war patrol. 
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26 Sep 1943 WW2 Large scale riots began taking place on the streets of Naples, Italy. 
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26 Sep 1943 WW2 Naka arrived at Jaluit Atoll, Marshall Islands. 
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26 Sep 1943 WW2 USS Bluefish sank a Japanese patrol ship and damaged a transport south of Celebes, Dutch East Indies, hitting the patrol ship with 2 of 3 torpedoes fired and the transport with 1 of 5 torpedose fired. 
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26 Sep 1944 WW2 Allied troops captured Mook, the Netherlands. 
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26 Sep 1944 WW2 German shore batteries, cut off behind Allied lines around Calais in France, bombarded Dover, England, United Kingdom, killing 49 people. The Royal Air Force retaliated with a series of bombing raids in which the gun sites were pounded into silence. 
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26 Sep 1944 WW2 Lord Gort stepped down as the Governor of Malta. 
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26 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Gabilan began her third war patrol in Japanese home island waters. 
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26 Sep 1944 WW2 US and British intelligence missions were forced out of Sofia, Bulgaria by political pressure asserted by the Soviet Union. 
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26 Sep 1944 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Jamuan. 
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26 Sep 1944 WW2 All of Estonia was occupied by the Red Army. 
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26 Sep 1944 WW2 British 8th Army drove out German positions along the Uso River north of Rimini, Italy. 
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26 Sep 1944 WW2 Unryu departed Yokosuka, Japan. 
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26 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Whale patrolled in the Bashi Channel between Taiwan and Philippine Islands. 
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26 Sep 1944 WW2 Soviet troops fortified positions along the Danube River on the Romanian-Yugoslavian and Romanian-Bulgarian borders. 
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26 Sep 1944 WW2 Joseph Stalin issued an order stating that all arrests of former top level Bulgarian and Romanian leaders could be done only with authorization of the Soviet Stavka. 
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26 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Tunny arrived at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, United States. 
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26 Sep 1945 WW2 Viet Minh troops in Vietnam rioted against the French, killing US Army Lieutenant Colonel A. Peter Dewey by accident. 
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26 Sep 1945 WW2 US President Truman announced that the remaining assets of the German Navy was to be divided among United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union. 
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26 Sep 1945 WW2 Brigadier General John Magruder and Assistant Secretary of War John McCloy, defying US President Harry Truman's orders to disband the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), kept a number of OSS operatives active in a new organization called the Strategic Services Unit. 
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26 Sep 1946 WW2 Sa-ik Hong passed away. 
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26 Sep 1946 WW2 The British Element of the Control Commission for Germany established a collection center for German refugees in the municipality of Friedland about 12 kilometers south of Göttingen in central Germany. This facility would be taken over by the East Germans in 1947, and between 1952 and 1987 it was used as a transit camp for about 1,400,000 people from the Soviet Union, the majority of whom were German prisoners of war and ethnic Germans whose ancestors had settled in Eastern Europe prior to WW2. 
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26 Sep 1990 RELIGIOUS In Russia, the Supreme Soviet ended decades of religious repression with a new declaration, forbidding government interference in religious activities and giving citizens the right to study religion in homes and private schools.
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