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History on the 28th of September

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28 Sep 1704 RELIGIOUS A statute was enacted by the colony of Maryland, giving ministers the right to impose divorce on "unholy couples."
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28 Sep 1774 RELIGIOUS Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'We are always equally in danger in ourselves and always equally safe under the shadow of His wings.'
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28 Sep 1808 RELIGIOUS Andover Theological Seminary first opened in Massachusetts, under sponsorship of the Congregational Church.
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28 Sep 1895 RELIGIOUS At a convention in Atlanta, three Baptist groups merged to form the National Baptist Convention. It is today the largest African-American denomination in America and the world.
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28 Sep 1912 WW2 General Koichiro Tachibara was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea. 
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28 Sep 1914 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt's bid for US Senate was defeated in the Democratic primary. 
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28 Sep 1914 WW1 Begin of Siege of Antwerp
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28 Sep 1915 WW1 Begin of Capture of Kut-al-Amara
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28 Sep 1915 WW1 Begin of Battle of Es Sinn
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28 Sep 1917 WW1 Begin of Battle of Ramadi
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28 Sep 1924 WW2 Shortly after 0000 hour, while Joseph Rochefort was acting as the officer of the deck, tanker Cuyama and the several destroyers attached to her began drifting into the San Francisco Bay in California, United States, causing minor damage to various ships but causing no casualties. Rochefort would escape blame in the resulting inquiry, receiving only a minor reprimand on his file. 
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28 Sep 1927 WW2 Lieutenant Dick Bently of the South African Air Force landed his D.H.60X Moth aircraft after making the first solo flight from Great Britain to Cape Peninsula, South Africa. He had left London on 1 Sep 1927. 
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28 Sep 1929 WW2 Joseph Rochefort reported in to the United States Embassy in Tokyo, Japan. 
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28 Sep 1934 RELIGIOUS The first issue of "The Sword of the Lord" was published. Founded by Baptist evangelist John R. Rice, 39, it became the largest independent Christian weekly for years, and was recognized by liberals as the "voice of fundamentalism."
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28 Sep 1935 WW2 Light cruiser Pinghai was launched at the Jiangnan Arsenal in Shanghai, China. 
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28 Sep 1937 WW2 Zhaohe was sunk by Japanese aircraft off Guangdong Province, China. 
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28 Sep 1938 WW2 Neville Chamberlain proposed to Adolf Hitler a conference between European powers to resolve the issue of Czechoslovakia; Hermann Göring convinced Hitler to accept such an offer rather than waging war. Meanwhile, Chamberlain sent Czechoslovakian President Edvard Beneš a message to express that Britain was to represent Czechoslovakia in the upcoming conference with Germany, and Britain would keep Czechoslovakia's best interest in mind. 
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28 Sep 1938 WW2 Franz Halder went to see German Army chief Walther von Brauchitsch and gained some support for his planned overthrow of Adolf Hitler should there be a war over the Sudetenland crisis. At the end of the day, with Neville Chamberlain visiting Munich, Germany, and thus dramatically lessening the possibility of war between Britain and Germany, Halder called off the revolt. 
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28 Sep 1938 WW2 The Italian Naval Staff (Stato Maggiore Marina) formed a special research and development section at La Spezia, Italy; it was to report to 1a Flottiglia MAS, a torpedo boat flotilla. 
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28 Sep 1938 WW2 British cruiser HMS Apollo was recommissioned as Australian cruiser HMAS Hobart. 
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28 Sep 1939 WW2 At Brest-Litovsk, Germans and Soviets signed the agreement denoting their common border in Poland. 
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28 Sep 1939 WW2 Estonia and the Soviet Union signed a 10-year mutual assistance pact which allowed Soviet troops to be stationed in Estonia. 
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28 Sep 1939 WW2 Vsevolod Merkulov sent his superiors in Moscow, Russia a report, noting his NKVD Operational Group No. 1 had arrested 923 Polish officers, policemen, land owners, Ukrainian nationalists, etc. in eastern Poland. 
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28 Sep 1939 WW2 Joachim von Ribbentrop arrived in Moscow, Russia, where would announce jointly with the Soviets an attempt to negotiate for peace with the western powers; should Britain and France reject this peace offer, Germany then could not be blamed for the aggression, he reasoned. 
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28 Sep 1940 WW2 The first of the purchased US destroyers arrived in Britain. 
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28 Sep 1940 WW2 Battleship Bismarck departed Kiel for Gotenhafen and then into the Baltic Sea for her trials. 
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28 Sep 1940 WW2 German submarine U-32 sank British ship Empire Ocelot 350 miles west of Ireland at 1609 hours; 2 were killed and 32 were rescued by British destroyer HMS Havelock. German submarine U-37 sank the already-abandoned British ship Corrientes at 2000 hours; she was damaged by U-32 on 26 Sep. German destroyers Eckholdt, Riedel, Lody, Galster, Ihn, and Steinbrinck departed Brest, France and laid mines in Falmouth Bay at the western end of the English Channel. Meanwhile, British anti-submarine trawler Recoil hit a mine and sank in the English Channel off Portland Bill in southern England, United Kingdom; 25 were killed. 
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28 Sep 1940 WW2 German tanker Shell II was sunk by British bombers in the River Scheldt in the Netherlands. 
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28 Sep 1940 WW2 Australian destroyer HMAS Stuart and British aircraft sank Italian submarine Gondar 12 miles off Egypt. Gondar was carrying three piloted torpedoes intended for use against the British Mediterranean Fleet, thus this plan to attack on the fleet at Alexandria was thwarted. Gondar's entire crew of 43 and the 4 torpedo pilots were rescued by HMAS Stuart. 
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28 Sep 1940 WW2 British submarine HMS Pandora sank Italian ship Famiglia 10 miles off Libya between Benghazi and Tobruk. Italian torpedo boat Enrico Cosenz counterattacked unsuccessfully. 
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28 Sep 1940 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille shot down his 7th kill, a British Spitfire fighter, over the English Channel. His fighter received damage in the engagement, but he was able to crash land in France. 
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28 Sep 1940 WW2 At 1000 hours, over 120 German aircaft crossed the coast of Kent in southern England, United Kingdom in two waves; British fighters intercepted most of them, and only 6 bombers were able to reach London to release their bombs. At 1330 hours, 35 German bombers escorted by 125 fighters attacked targets in Kent; this group was turned back by 1410 hours. At 1415 hours, 60 German aircraft flew toward Portsmouth, southern England from Cherbourg, France; they were intercepted over the English Channel, released their bombs into the water, and returned to base. Although most German missions failed to reach their targets, the kill ratio of the day favored the Germans; 16 British fighters were shot down with 9 pilots killed, while the Germans only lost 6 fighters. Overnight, London was heavily bombed, while Liverpool was also attacked; meanwhile, German aircraft mined the Thames Estuary. 
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28 Sep 1940 WW2 Nearly half a million mothers and children began evacuating London, England, United Kingdom. 
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28 Sep 1940 WW2 Sumner Welles, US Under-Secretary of State, in a statement said that the overwhelming majority of the American nation was determined to render all material support and assistance to the people of Britain "successfully defending their homes with a heroism which is worthy of the finest traditions of that proud people". 
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28 Sep 1941 WW2 US and British representatives traveled to Moscow, Russia to discuss the matter of western aid to the Soviet Union. 
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28 Sep 1941 WW2 The Second Battle of Changsha commenced. 
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28 Sep 1941 WW2 The British transferred the airfield RAF Bassingbourn in Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom to the US Army. The airfield would soon house the USAAF 91st Bombardment Group, which would remain until the end of the war. 
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28 Sep 1941 WW2 The Oak Leaves and Swords to the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross award, and Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds to the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, were both established in Germany. 
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28 Sep 1941 WW2 British submarine HMS Tetrarch damaged German ship Yalova 20 miles south of Naples, Italy; Yalova was beached to prevent sinking. 
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28 Sep 1941 WW2 British corvette HMS Hyacinth sank Italian submarine Fisala 35 miles west of Palestine. 
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28 Sep 1941 WW2 HMS Edinburgh arrived at Malta. 
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28 Sep 1941 WW2 Light carrier Hosho became the temporary flagship of Carrier Division 3. 
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28 Sep 1941 WW2 Georgy Zhukov announced to his troops that family members of those who become captured by the enemy would be arrested and shot. 
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28 Sep 1941 WW2 A uprising against Bulgarian occupation began in Macedonia region of Greece. 
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28 Sep 1941 WW2 Joseph Rochefort warned US commanders at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii that the recent Japanese Navy communications changes might mean the preparation of a large exercise or another major action. 
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28 Sep 1941 WW2 The Allied Operation Halberd convoy arrived in Malta and began to disembark 50,000 tons of supplies aboard its ships. 
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28 Sep 1941 WW2 Allied convoy QP-1, which was consisted of 14 British and Soviet merchant ships escorted by British cruiser HMS London and four minesweepers, departed Arkhangelsk, Russia at about 1200 hours for Britain. 
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28 Sep 1941 WW2 A notice was posted in Kiev, Ukraine, requiring all Jews in the region to gather at Dorogozhitshaya Street at 0700 hours the next day. 
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28 Sep 1942 WW2 USS Copahee arrived at Nouméa, New Caledonia. 
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28 Sep 1942 WW2 USS Sculpin hit Japanese seaplane carrier Nisshin with torpedoes east of Kokoda Island, Bismarck Archipelago. 
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28 Sep 1942 WW2 Chester Nimitz arrived at Nouméa, New Caledonia, which was his first stop in a front-line inspection tour of the Solomon Islands area. 
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28 Sep 1942 WW2 Vice Admiral Jinichi Kusaka was named the commanding officer of the Japanese Navy 11th Air Fleet. 
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28 Sep 1942 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille was telephoned by Erwin Rommel, who wanted him to accompany him to Berlin, Germany for a speech at the Berlin Sportpalast. Marseille rejected the offer, citing his wish to save his leave time to marry Hanne-Lies Küpper later in the year. 
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28 Sep 1942 WW2 USS S-31 arrived at Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska, ending her fourth war patrol. 
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28 Sep 1942 WW2 Irako transited the Bungo Strait between Shikoku and Kyushu, Japan. 
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28 Sep 1942 WW2 In Stalingrad, Russia, Sergeant Jacob Pavlov and three others assaulted the much shelled apartment block facing Solechnaya street, expelling the incumbent Germans with hand-grenades. In the cellar they found several badly wounded Soviet soldiers still holding out. "Pavlov's House" would become a boundary fortification, and a symbol of resistance. The handful of men defended the outpost for 58 days, against infantry, artillery and tank assaults. 
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28 Sep 1942 WW2 German bombers attacked Colchester and Broadstairs, England, United Kingdom. 
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28 Sep 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Makassar, Celebes and departed later on the same day. 
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28 Sep 1943 WW2 Germans recaptured Split, Dalmatia, Yugoslavia from the partisans. 
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28 Sep 1943 WW2 The US submarine Cisco was sunk by Japanese aircraft west of Mindanao, Philippine Islands. 
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28 Sep 1943 WW2 USS Grouper unloaded supplies for coast watchers on New Britain. She also picked up downed airman Captain Arthur Post of US 8th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron, who had been shot down three months prior. 
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28 Sep 1943 WW2 Edmund Herring and his staff officers R. B. Sutherland and R. Bierwirth boarded a USAAF B-25 bomber at Dobodura Airfield on New Guinea island for transport to Milne Bay. The undercarriage of the aircraft collapsed during takeoff, causing the propeller to break pieces off of the Marston Mat; Sutherland was struck and killed by one such piece. 
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28 Sep 1943 WW2 US 3rd Infantry Division captured Avellino, Italy. 
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28 Sep 1943 WW2 Italian resistance fighters and German occupation troops clashed in the Materdei district, the Vomero district, the Porta Capuana city gate, the Castel Nuovo fortress, the Sant'Anna dei Lombardi church, and other locations in Naples, Italy. 
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28 Sep 1943 WW2 USS Harder attacked a Japanese transport off Japan; both torpedoes missed. Later in the day, she set sail for the Hawaiian Islands. 
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28 Sep 1943 WW2 USS Bluefish sank a Japanese transport in the Banda Sea, hitting her with 2 of 2 torpedoes fired., 
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28 Sep 1944 WW2 USMC landed on Ngesebus of Palau Islands to eliminate a Japanese artillery position. 
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28 Sep 1944 WW2 RAF bombers dropped 909 tons of bombs on Kaiserslautern, Germany, destroying 36% of the town. 
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28 Sep 1944 WW2 Apart from a few isolated pockets of resistance, the Germans surrendered Calais Citadel in France after further intensive bombing raids by British bombers. 
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28 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Columbia arrived at Manus, Admiralty Islands. 
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28 Sep 1944 WW2 The grand Shinto shrine in Lushun, puppet nation of Manchukuo (Liaoning Province, China), its contruction completed in Mar 1944, held its opening ceremony. 
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28 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Alabama arrived in Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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28 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Whale patrolled waters south of Taiwan. 
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28 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Kete departed the Panama Canal Zone. 
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28 Sep 1944 WW2 Beginning on this date and through the following month, about 18,402 prisoners from Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in occupied Czechoslovakia were transferred to Auschwitz Concentration Camp in occupied Poland. 
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28 Sep 1944 WW2 Allied convoy RA-60 departed the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. 
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28 Sep 1944 WW2 During a speech in the House of Commons, Winston Churchill condemned Bulgaria, reminding the members that Bulgarians have been responsible for many war crimes in Greece and Yugoslavia, and that (as far as Great Britain was concerned) they were not welcome as co-belligerents, until they demonstrate atonement for their former misdeeds. 
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28 Sep 1944 WW2 In Moscow, Russia, Josip Tito formally authorized Soviet troops to enter Yugoslavia. Soviet 57th Army began marching toward Belgrade, Yugoslavia in three columns, with 64th Rifle Corps crossing the Morava River at Paracin, 68th Rifle Corps advancing from Vidin toward Mladenovac, and 75th Rifle Corps advancing from Turnu toward Pozarevac. 
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28 Sep 1945 WW2 Rioting took place in Indonesia against the Dutch. 
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28 Sep 1945 WW2 US Coast Guard Lieutenant (jg) John Murchison relieved G. E. Oliver as the commanding officer of US Army ship FS-390. 
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28 Sep 1945 WW2 Lu Han accepted the surrender of Japanese 38th Army at Hanoi, French Indochina. 
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28 Sep 1945 WW2 George Patton was summoned to Frankfurt, Germany by Dwight Eisenhower, who scolded him for repeatedly stirring up controversies and transferred him to the US 15th Army in the rear, which was tasked with compiling a history of the European War. 
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28 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Marcus Island arrived at Okinawa, Japan. 
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28 Sep 1946 WW2 Danae was decommissioned from service. 
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