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History on the 10th of October

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10 Oct 1560 RELIGIOUS Birth of Jacob Arminius, the Dutch theologian from whose writings and doctrines Protestants opposed to Calvinism have since been called "Arminians."
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10 Oct 1821 RELIGIOUS Charles Finney, 29, claimed to have received "a mighty baptism of the Holy Ghost," and was converted to a Christian faith. Finney soon abandoned his pursuit of law and embarked on a 50-year career in evangelism and higher education.
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10 Oct 1838 RELIGIOUS Birth of Theodore Zahn, German Lutheran Bible and patristics scholar. Author of many monographs and commentaries, Zahn's leading work was his 3-volume "Introduction to the New Testament" (1899; 1909).
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10 Oct 1841 RELIGIOUS Birth of William A. Ogden, American sacred composer. A student of Lowell Mason, Ogden became a well-known music teacher, and penned the hymns "Bring Them In" and "He is Able to Deliver Thee."
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10 Oct 1851 RELIGIOUS Birth of W. Robertson Nicoll, Scottish theologian. At one time editor of five periodicals, his most enduring achievement was "The Expositor's Greek Testament," a series of 50 volumes of commentaries he edited and published between 1888-1905.
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10 Oct 1915 WW2 Robert Greim achieved his first kill as an observation plane pilot over France and was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class medal. 
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10 Oct 1916 WW1 Begin of Eighth Battle of the Isonzo
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10 Oct 1921 WW2 Oi was commissioned into service. 
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10 Oct 1921 WW2 Settsu was reclassified as a guard ship and training vessel. 
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10 Oct 1928 WW2 Chiang Kaishek was made the Chairman of the Nationalist Government, making him the head of state of the Republic of China. 
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10 Oct 1931 WW2 German President Paul von Hindenburg received Adolf Hitler for the first time; Hindenburg told his confidants that he was not impressed with Hitler. 
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10 Oct 1931 WW2 Light cruiser Ninghai was launched in Japan. 
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10 Oct 1931 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo was attached to the naval headquarters. 
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10 Oct 1932 WW2 Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura was named the commanding officer of Yokosuka Naval District. 
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10 Oct 1935 WW2 General Georgios Kondylis forced the Greek President, Alexandros Zaimis, to resign, abolished the republic and declared himself Premiere and Regent. 
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10 Oct 1936 WW2 The Spanish Republican Government announced the creation of the Popular Army. This was to incorporate both the Army units which had remained loyal to the Government and the Party Militias. 
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10 Oct 1937 WW2 Marseillaise was commissioned into service. 
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10 Oct 1938 WW2 After three days of heavy fighting, the enveloped Japanese 106th Division was largely wiped out by Chinese troops at the Battle of Wanjialing in Jiangxi, China. 
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10 Oct 1938 WW2 Walter Grabmann shot down a SB-2 bomber over Spain. 
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10 Oct 1939 WW2 The first deportation of Austrian and Czechoslovakian Jews into concentration camps in Poland took place. 
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10 Oct 1939 WW2 Erich Raeder informed Adolf Hitler the strategic importance of Norway to the German Navy. 
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10 Oct 1939 WW2 The highly successful Empire Air Training Scheme was set up to train Australian, Canadian and New Zealand aircrew. 
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10 Oct 1939 WW2 Chinese troops recaptured all territory in Hubei, Hunan, and Jiangxi Provinces in China that the Japanese had captured as part of the recently-failed advance on Changsha, Hunan. 
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10 Oct 1939 WW2 Adolf Hitler announced the victorious end to the Polish campaign and called on France and England to end hostilities, which was ignored by both governments. 
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10 Oct 1939 WW2 Adolf Hitler ordered the invasion of the Low Countries and France, but without a specific start date. 
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10 Oct 1939 WW2 Vice Admiral Matome Ugaki was named the chief of staff of Admiral Shigetaro Shimada at Kure Naval District, Japan. 
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10 Oct 1939 WW2 Soviet Union forced an agreement on Lithuania allowing Red Army bases in that country. 
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10 Oct 1939 WW2 The United Kingdom removed 303 sacks of letters destined for the United States from the freighter Black Gull to censor any potential intelligence useful for the Axis. 
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10 Oct 1940 WW2 During the night, 14 British aircraft from Waddington, Lincolnshire and Lindholme, Yorkshire attacked battleship Tirpitz to little effect. 
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10 Oct 1940 WW2 British ship Graigwen, damaged on the previous day and abandoned, was sunk by German submarine U-123 at 2333 hours. 
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10 Oct 1940 WW2 British motor torpedo boats MTB-22, MTB-31, and MTB-32 attacked a German convoy in the middle of the Dover Strait, sinking German trawler Nordenham and capturing 34 prisoners. 
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10 Oct 1940 WW2 Communist Chinese New 4th Army linked up with Communist Chinese 8th Route Army at Baiju Village, Dongtai County, Jiangsu Province, China. 
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10 Oct 1940 WW2 Adolf Hitler initiated the Führer-Sofortprogramm, an emergency program to build shelters for the urban populations of Germany. 
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10 Oct 1940 WW2 A lone German Do 17 bomber on a reconnaissance mission was caught over RAF Tangmere in England, United Kingdom by British fighters. While attempting to shoot it down, two British fighters collided, killing both pilots. Then, another fighter, piloted by Sergeant Ellis, was damaged by the German bomber's guns, and crash landed The Do 17 bomber sustained heavy damage, but was able to make it back to France, crash landed, and saved all of its photographs. During the day, four German raids of 20 to 100 aircraft were mounted, with bombs dropping on London and other towns. Through the day, the British lost 5 fighters with 3 pilots killed, while shooting down 3 German fighters and 1 Do 17 bomber. Between 1824 and 1844 hours, Dover was struck by 18 shells from German guns at Calais, France. Overnight, London, Manchester, and various airfields were bombed. 
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10 Oct 1941 WW2 The German 250.Infanterie Division, also known as the Blue Division, entered service on the Eastern Front. This division was notable as being made up of Spanish volunteers. 
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10 Oct 1941 WW2 General Zhukov took command of a new Soviet Western Front, which was made up of the remnants of the former Western Front, the Southwestern Front, and the Reserve Front. He immediately called for the formation of a new defensive Mozhaysk Line to protect Moscow, Russia, stretching from Tula south of the city to Volokolamsk to the northwest. 
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10 Oct 1941 WW2 The German 1.Panzergruppe reached the Sea of Azov. 
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10 Oct 1941 WW2 Indomitable was commissioned into service. 
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10 Oct 1941 WW2 German Field Marshal Walther von Reichenau issued the "Severity Order" in which he ordered the annihilation Bolshevism and the extermination of Jews. 
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10 Oct 1941 WW2 German submarine U-126 sank British ship Nailsea Manor 150 miles northeast of the Cape Verde Islands at 0543 hours; all 51 survived and were picked up by British corvette HMS Violet. 
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10 Oct 1941 WW2 British submarine HMS Thunderbolt sank Italian ship Citta di Simi northeast of Crete, Greece. 
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10 Oct 1941 WW2 Soviet submarine ShCh-322 departed Kronstadt near Leningrad, Russia. 
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10 Oct 1941 WW2 Reinhard Heydrich established a camp-ghetto in Sudetenland in southern Germany (occupied Czechoslovakia) that would later be known as the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp. He recommended the site to be used to house deported German, Austrian, and Czechoslovakian Jews. He placed Adolf Eichmann and Rolf Günther in charge of establishing this camp-ghetto. 
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10 Oct 1941 WW2 Adolf Hitler ordered a stop to night intruder operations over RAF airfields in eastern England; 1/NJG2 who have been conducting successful harrying of returning RAF bombers were consequently transferred to the Mediterranean. 
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10 Oct 1941 WW2 The Soviet 32nd Rifle Division began to arrive at Mozhaysk, west of the Soviet capital of Moscow in Russia, from Siberia. Further west in Gzhatsk in Smolensk Oblast, 40 miles west of Mozhaysk and 32 miles east of Vyasma, Soviet 18th and 19th Tank Brigades halted a German offensive. German 4th Panzer Division reached Mtsensk, Russia in Oryol Oblast, but it would be held there for many days by stubborn Soviet resistance. 
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10 Oct 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, from Arkhangelsk, Russia arrived at Scapa Flow, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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10 Oct 1942 WW2 British submarine HMS Unique (Lieutenant Robert Evelyn Boddington) disappeared while on patrol in the Bay of Biscay west of France. Her loss would be officially announced by the Admiralty on 6 Dec 1942. 
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10 Oct 1942 WW2 USS S-28 detected an unidentified target which was presumed to be Japanese. As she prepared for an attack, a ground in her fire control circuits caused an accidental firing from the No. 1 tube, thus prematurely ending the attack. She arrived in Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska that afternoon and then departed for San Diego, California, United States. 
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10 Oct 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Rabaul, New Britain. 
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10 Oct 1942 WW2 7 Australian PBY Catalina aircraft attacked Rabaul, New Britain at 0330 hours. At 0400 hours, 18 US B-17 Flying Fortress bombers attacked Rabaul's Simpson harbor while 3 B-17 bombers attacked nearby Lakunai airfield. 
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10 Oct 1942 WW2 Repair ship Akashi began repairing destroyer Minegumo at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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10 Oct 1942 WW2 From Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany, Sigmund Rascher reported his findings from experiments involving putting concentration camp prisoners in full flight suits and placing them in freezing conditions, concluding that the warming of the subjects' heads and necks were vital for the subjects' survival. 
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10 Oct 1942 WW2 German government increased rations by 10% for all foreign workers. 
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10 Oct 1942 WW2 USS Pollack departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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10 Oct 1942 WW2 The major Axis air offensive against Malta began. 
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10 Oct 1943 WW2 One of the crewman aboard USS S-28 developed severe appendicitis, causing the submarine to turn toward the Aleutian Islands one day ahead of schedule. 
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10 Oct 1943 WW2 Franco ordered the 250th Spanish "Blue" Division back to Spain from Wehrmacht service. A few thousand disobeyed this order and remain behind attached to either the 121.Infanterie Division or the Waffen-SS. 
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10 Oct 1943 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho arrived at Saeki, Japan. 
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10 Oct 1943 WW2 US 8th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron successfully took photos of Rabaul, New Britain. 
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10 Oct 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Surabaya, Java. 
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10 Oct 1943 WW2 Robert Johnson shot down a German Bf 110 aircraft and a Fw 190 aircraft over Münster, Germany. 
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10 Oct 1943 WW2 Prince Morihiro married Shigeko, the Princess Teru, the oldest daughter of Emperor Showa. 
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10 Oct 1943 WW2 USS Grayback damaged a Japanese transport in the Pacific Ocean, hitting her with 1 of 4 torpedoes. 
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10 Oct 1943 WW2 N. A. Rozanov was named the Soviet counterintelligence agency GUKR SMERSH's chief within the 2nd Byelorussian Front. 
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10 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Franklin launched strikes against Okinawa. 
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10 Oct 1944 WW2 10 Lancaster bombers conducted minelaying operations off Helgoland, Germany. 
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10 Oct 1944 WW2 British troops captured Corinth, Greece. On the same day, German Armeegruppe E started its final retreat from Greece. 
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10 Oct 1944 WW2 Soviet units reached the Baltic coast at Memel (now Klaipeda, Lithuania), cutting off the 26 divisions of German Armeegruppe Nord once and for all. 
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10 Oct 1944 WW2 German Army put down the anti-Tiso rebellion in Slovakia. 
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10 Oct 1944 WW2 Stanley Hollis received the Victoria Cross medal from King George VI. 
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10 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Makin Island became the flagship of Rear Admiral Calvin T. Durgin of an escort carrier task unit. 
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10 Oct 1944 WW2 Miklós Horthy, Jr., son of the Hungarian leader, met with Yugoslavians. German intelligence learned of this anti-German act, but decided not to take any action. 
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10 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Pollack completed the exercise with HMAS Geelong off Brisbane, Australia and sailed for the Hawaii Islands. 
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10 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Iowa arrived off Okinawa, Japan to cover carriers while the carrier aircraft struck targets in the Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan. 
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10 Oct 1944 WW2 Auxiliary escort Kari was sunk by US Task Force 38 carrier aircraft off Okinawa, Japan. 
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10 Oct 1944 WW2 Walter Stettner von Grabenhofen stepped down as the commanding officer of 1st Mountain Division. 
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10 Oct 1944 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Sasebo, Japan. 
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10 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Wasp's aircraft attacked positions on Okinawa, Anami, and Miyaki of the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. 
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10 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Miami operated off Okinawa, Japan. 
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10 Oct 1944 WW2 A Soviet military tribunal sentenced Rudolf Körpert, Otto Mäder, and four other former officers of German-run prisoners of war camps to death. 
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10 Oct 1944 WW2 Red Army cracked the German line in the Serbia region of Yugoslavia en route to Belgrade. 
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10 Oct 1945 WW2 A Soviet code clerk defected to the US and revealed the extent of the Soviet spy network in the US. 
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10 Oct 1945 WW2 The Japanese Navy 5th and 10th Air Fleets were officially disbanded. 
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10 Oct 1945 WW2 Dong Zhao was awarded the Order of Loyalty and Diligence. 
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10 Oct 1945 WW2 George Brett stepped down as the chief of the US Caribbean Defense Command and the US Army's Panama Canal Department. 
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10 Oct 1945 WW2 US 68th Composite Wing departed Baishiyi Airfield near Chongqing, China. 
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10 Oct 1945 WW2 Hiroshi Nemoto surrendered the Japanese North China Area Army at a ceremony at the Forbidden City in Beiping, China. 
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10 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Enterprise arrived at the Panama Canal Zone. 
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10 Oct 1947 WW2 The US firm Curtiss-Wright closed its aircraft manufacturing division. 
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