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History on the 30th of September

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30 Sep 0430 RELIGIOUS Death of Latin Father St. Jerome, ca.75. Converted at 19, Jerome spent the last half of his life rendering the Scriptures into the contemporary ("vulgar") Latin of his day -- hence the "Latin Vulgate" -- as well as preparing commentaries on nearly every book of the Bible.
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30 Sep 1770 RELIGIOUS English revivalist George Whitefield, 56, died in Newburyport, Mass., while on his seventh visit to America. Regarded as the most striking orator to come out of 18th century English revivalism, Whitefield's last spoken words were: 'I had rather wear out, than rust out.'
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30 Sep 1913 WW2 Lorraine was launched at Saint-Nazaire, France. 
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30 Sep 1914 WW2 Erwin Rommel was hospitalized for the thigh wound he sustained in action on 24 Sep. He was awarded the Iron Cross Second Class medal for the action. 
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30 Sep 1920 WW2 Quintin Brand began studies at Cambridge University in Britain. 
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30 Sep 1920 WW2 McFarland was commissioned into service. 
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30 Sep 1921 WW2 Tony Stein was born. 
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30 Sep 1930 WW2 Dorsetshire was commissioned into service. 
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30 Sep 1931 WW2 Lieutenant General Xi Qia, collaborating with the Japanese, announced that Jilin Province, China was now independent from the Republic of China and was under protection of the Japanese Army. 
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30 Sep 1934 WW2 Erwin Rommel met Adolf Hitler for the first time. 
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30 Sep 1934 WW2 Reich Minister of Economics Hjalmar Schacht reported to Adolf Hitler on his progress of planning the German economy for war. 
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30 Sep 1936 WW2 Mutsu completed her reconstruction at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan. 
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30 Sep 1937 WW2 Yorktown (Yorktown-class) was commissioned into service. 
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30 Sep 1937 WW2 Japanese aircraft bombarded Chinese coastal battery positions overlooking the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong Province, China. 
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30 Sep 1938 WW2 Shortly after midnight, Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini, and Édouard Daladier, in that order, signed the Munich Agreement at the Führerbau building in München in Germany, which ceded Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia to Germany; the actual document was backdated to the previous day, 29 Sep 1938. Upon returning to the United Kingdom, outside 10 Downing Street in London, Chamberlain announced that "I believe it is peace for our time". 
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30 Sep 1939 WW2 The German pocket-battleship, Admiral Graf Spee (Kapitän Zur See Hans Langsdorff), intercepted her first victim, the SS Clement, off Brazil. But the 5,084-ton ocean-going tramp steamer reported the pocket-battleship as the Admiral Scheer, a report that confused the eight Raider Hunting Forces formed jointly by the British Admiralty and the French Ministry of Marine. 
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30 Sep 1939 WW2 French forces on the French-German border fell back to the Maginot Line in anticipation of a German invasion. 
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30 Sep 1939 WW2 Reinhard Heydrich became the leader of new Reich Main Security Office, RSHA. 
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30 Sep 1939 WW2 Deaths in automobile accidents in Britain at night in the month of Sep 1939 increased from 617 in the previous month to 1,130; night time blackout was blamed. 
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30 Sep 1939 WW2 Joseph Rochefort reported to heavy cruiser Indianapolis at San Pedro, California, United States. 
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30 Sep 1940 WW2 British monitor HMS Erebus fired 17 15-inch shells at German gun emplacements near Calais from the Strait of Dover, escorted by destroyers HMS Vesper and HMS Garth. 
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30 Sep 1940 WW2 British armed yacht HMY Sappho and minesweeping trawler HMT Comet were sunk by German mines laid by destroyers Eckholdt, Riedel, Lody, Galster, Ihn, and Steinbrinck on 28 Sep off Falmouth in southwestern England. 29 and 15 were killed, respectively. 
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30 Sep 1940 WW2 German submarine U-37 sank British ship Samala 300 miles west of Ireland at 1013 hours, killing everyone aboard (65 crew, 1 gunner, and 2 passengers). At 2156 hours, in the same area, U-37 sank British ship Heminge, killing 1; 24 crew and 1 gunner were rescued by British merchant ship Clan Cumming. 
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30 Sep 1940 WW2 Hugh Dowding was made Knight Grand Commander of the Order of Bath. 
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30 Sep 1940 WW2 Georg von Bismarck was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. 
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30 Sep 1940 WW2 Thomas Adlerson of British Air Raid Precautions was gazetted for a George Cross award for the daring and skillful rescue of many civilians in Bridlington in Aug 1940. 
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30 Sep 1940 WW2 Communist Chinese New 4th Army withdrew from Jiangyan (now a district of Taizhou), Jiangsu Province, China and moved toward nearby town of Huangqiao ("Yellow Bridge"), where it intended on fighting against the detected Nationalist attack. 
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30 Sep 1940 WW2 4 German raids, each consisting of 60 to 200 bombers and escorted by large numbers of fighters, crossed into southern England, United Kingdom at 0900, 1000, 1300, and 1600 hours; some got through to London, but some did not drop their bombs as they had little visibility due to low clouds, overshooting their targets as radar operators misread the Knickebein radio beacon signals. Meanwhile, 2 groups of about 100 bombers each attacked cities on the southern coast. On this day, the Germans lost 14 bombers, 28 Bf 109 fighters, and 1 Bf 110 fighter, while the British lost 19 fighters with 8 pilots killed. Today's daylight attacks would represent the last major raids of such type conducted by the Luftwaffe. Overnight, London, Liverpool, and several others cities were bombed; the aircraft factory at Yeovil was attacked but was only lightly damaged as most bombs fell on the town instead. 
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30 Sep 1940 WW2 James Lacey damaged a German Ju 88 aircraft over Britain. 
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30 Sep 1940 WW2 Over Britain, Josef Frantisek scored his final kill as a fighter pilot. 
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30 Sep 1940 WW2 USS Arizona arrived at Long Beach, California, United States. 
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30 Sep 1941 WW2 The RAF withdrew B-17 bombers from service. 
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30 Sep 1941 WW2 Chinese troops at Changsha declared victory at the Second Battle of Changsha after pushing Japanese troops back to the Yueyang region. 
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30 Sep 1941 WW2 The German Operation Typhoon got an unofficial start when Guderian's Panzergruppe 2 attacked two days ahead of the rest of the operation. 
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30 Sep 1941 WW2 The detention center in Peel, Isle of Man had its guard forces strengthened after disturbances; 20 arrested British fascists were transferred to Liverpool as another result. 
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30 Sep 1941 WW2 German bombers attacked shipyards at Tyneside in northern England, United Kingdom; submarine HMS Sunfish was badly damaged during the attack. 
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30 Sep 1941 WW2 The Jager Report (issued on 1 Dec 1941) noted that 366 adult male, 483 adult female, and 597 children, all Jews, were killed in Trakai, Lithuania for a total of 1,446 people. 
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30 Sep 1941 WW2 Representatives of France and Thailand further defined the boundaries between Thailand and French Indochina per the 9 May 1941 peace treaty. 
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30 Sep 1941 WW2 Pierre Laval was discharged from the hospital after recovering from the wounds sustained during the unsuccessful assassination attempt against him on 25 Aug 1941. 
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30 Sep 1941 WW2 British bombers attacked Stettin and Hamburg in Germany after sundown for the second consecutive night. 
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30 Sep 1941 WW2 Italian submarine Adua attacked British ships sailing for Malta to Gibraltar (having just completed escorting the Operation Halberd on the previous day) 250 miles east of Gibraltar. British destroyers HMS Gurkha and HMS Legion counterattacked with depth charges, sinking the Italian submarine, killing all 46 aboard. 
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30 Sep 1941 WW2 The leadership of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet began to consider evacuating forces in Odessa, Ukraine to the Crimean region of Russia (now also in Ukraine). 
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30 Sep 1942 WW2 Adolf Hitler publicly repeated his forecast of the destruction of the Jewry. 
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30 Sep 1942 WW2 Soviet troops crossed the Volga River near Moscow, Russia. 
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30 Sep 1942 WW2 Repair ship Akashi completed the repair work for destroyer Shirakumo at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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30 Sep 1942 WW2 After a dive bomber escorting mission, the engine of Hauptmann Hans-Joachim Marseille's Bf 109G-6 fighter caught fire southeast of El Imayid, Egypt. Unable to make it back to his airfield due to black smoke entering the cockpit, the 22-year-old "Star of Africa" attempted to bail out, but while doing so he struck the vertical stabilizer across his chest and hip. He fell to his death 7 kilometers south of Sidi Abdel Rahman, Egypt at 1142 hours. 
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30 Sep 1942 WW2 Nachi departed Ominato Guard District, Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, Japan in search of a nearby US task force (which was faulty intelligence). 
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30 Sep 1942 WW2 Commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp Rudolf Höss forbade his SS guards to consume raw fruits, raw vegetables, and raw milk due to the typhus epidemic in the camp. 
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30 Sep 1942 WW2 A transport containing 610 Jews arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp from the Westerbork camp in the Netherlands; 37 men and 118 women were registered into the camp, and the remaining 454 were gassed. 
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30 Sep 1942 WW2 German bombers attacked Lancing and Colchester, England, United Kingdom. 
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30 Sep 1942 WW2 Battleships of US Navy Task Force 1 arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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30 Sep 1943 WW2 The Soviet Dneiper bridgehead in southern Ukraine expanded to a 300-mile frontage. 
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30 Sep 1943 WW2 On the eve of the Jewish New Year, the Gestapo and Danish Nazi members began rounding up Danish Jews. A Danish businessman passed the news of the operation and passed the information to the Danish resistance, which then arranged fishing boats to ferry a large number of Danish Jews to Sweden. 
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30 Sep 1943 WW2 USS Hoe fired 4 torpedoes at a Japanese freighter; all torpedoes missed. 
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30 Sep 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Composite Squadron 24 (VC-24) on board. 
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30 Sep 1943 WW2 German troops began evacuating Naples, Italy amidst continued fighting, leaving behind a burning city historical archive and many booby traps. 
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30 Sep 1943 WW2 A wolfpack consisted of German submarines U-703, U-601, and U-960 attacked Soviet convoy VA-18 near the Sergey Kirov Islands in the eastern Kara Sea and sank freighter Arhangelsk. 
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30 Sep 1943 WW2 Carrier Colossus was launched. 
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30 Sep 1943 RELIGIOUS Pius XII issued the encyclical "Divino Afflante Spiritu," which encouraged Catholic scholars to devote more attention to biblical exegesis in their teachings and writings. One of the long-term effects of this encyclical was the publication in 1970 of the New American Bible.
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30 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Blackfin departed from Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. 
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30 Sep 1944 WW2 The last of the German guns at Calais, France that had been shelling the Dover, England, United Kingdom for three years was destroyed. Shortly after, the 7,500 German garrison at Calais surrendered to Canadian troops. 
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30 Sep 1944 WW2 Italian minelayer FR 71, captured from the French Navy in 1942, was returned to France. 
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30 Sep 1944 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Balikpapan, Dutch Borneo. 
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30 Sep 1944 WW2 Destroyer Yuzuki arrived at Sasebo, Japan for a scheduled overhaul. 
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30 Sep 1944 WW2 Unryu departed Kure, Japan. 
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30 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Escolar sent out a distress radio signal noting that she was under enemy gunboat attack. 
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30 Sep 1945 WW2 US Marines landed in Tanggu, Tianjin, China and began to move toward Beiping. 
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30 Sep 1945 WW2 The Chenggong Airfield in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China ceased operations. 
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30 Sep 1945 WW2 Chengdu Airfield in Sichuan Province, China was closed. 
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30 Sep 1945 WW2 Du Yuming gave the order to launch a surprise attack against General Long Yun in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, forcing Long to flee to the high ground at Wuhua Mountain, where he would soon surrender. 
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30 Sep 1945 WW2 Milton Miles was officially relieved of his command of the US Navy Naval Group China, and his rank was reverted to the peace time rank of captain. 
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30 Sep 1945 WW2 I-401's crew was disbanded by the Americans. All officers and men went back into the civilian population, including the few who had committed war crimes. 
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30 Sep 1945 WW2 A captured Me 262 jet fighter flew over Freeman Field in Indiana, United States with test pilot Harold Watson in the cockpit. The flight was observed by German test pilot Karl Bauer. 
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30 Sep 1949 WW2 USS Sea Cat was redesignated AGSS-399. 
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30 Sep 1951 RELIGIOUS Billy Graham's "Hour of Decision" first aired over ABC television. Broadcast on Sunday nights 10:00-10:30, the program aired through February 1954, before entering syndication.
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30 Sep 1952 RELIGIOUS The complete Old and New Testament of the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Bible was first published by Thomas Nelson and Sons. (The RSV New Testament had first appeared in 1946.)
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