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History on the 11th of October

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11 Oct 1521 RELIGIOUS Leo X conferred the title "Fidei Defensor" (Defender of the Faith) upon England's Henry VIII. Three popes and 13 years later, Henry severed all ties with Rome to establish the Church of England.
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11 Oct 1551 RELIGIOUS The 13th Session of the Council of Trent opened, during which major decisions were reached regarding the Catholic doctrine of the Eucharist.
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11 Oct 1895 RELIGIOUS Birth of Avis B. Christiansen, devotional author. One of the most prolific hymnwriters of the 20th century, two of her most enduring hymns today are "Up Calvary's Mountain" and "Precious Hiding Place."
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11 Oct 1914 RELIGIOUS During World War I, the Cathedral of Notre Dame suffered minor damage during an air raid on Paris. (Notre Dame, the most famous of the Gothic cathedrals of the Middle Ages, is distinguished for both its size and antiquity.)
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11 Oct 1926 WW2 HMS Hermes arrived at Hong Kong. 
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11 Oct 1927 WW2 Princess Josèphine-Charlotte (later the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg) of Belgium was born at the Royal Palace in Brussels. 
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11 Oct 1927 WW2 Captain Harry Kimball Cage was named the commanding officer of USS Marblehead. 
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11 Oct 1928 WW2 The German passenger airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin crossed the Atlantic Ocean from Friedrichshafen, Germany to Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States, in a flight time of 71 hours. 
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11 Oct 1933 WW2 Vendetta was commissioned into service. 
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11 Oct 1938 WW2 Wilhelm Keitel reported to Adolf Hitler, noting that the German military was poised to invade Czechoslovakia without needing much time to prepare. 
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11 Oct 1938 WW2 Japanese troops captured Yueyang, Hunan Province, China. 
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11 Oct 1939 WW2 The radio station in Berlin, Germany reported the false rumor of the fall of the British government, and that the new government was to offer Germany peace terms. "Old women in the vegetable markets tossed their cabbages into the air, wrecked their stands in sheer joy and made for the nearest pub to toast the peace", reported journalist William Shirer. 
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11 Oct 1939 WW2 Wilhelm von Leeb wrote a note to Walther von Brauchitsch and other German Army leaders, noting that Germany should not invade neutral Belgium due to moral reasons. 
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11 Oct 1939 WW2 Russia demanded from Finland rights to establish airfields on Finnish territory as well as ceding of large amounts of Finnish soil; Finland rejected the demands. 
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11 Oct 1939 WW2 Leó Szilárd and Albert Einstein's letter (sent on 2 Aug 1939) reached Franklin Roosevelt, who agreed to establish a committee for the research of nuclear energy as a weapon. This led to Roosevelt's decision to establish the Uranium Advisory Committee shortly after. 
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11 Oct 1939 WW2 US President Franklin Roosevelt sent a cable to Soviet President Mikhail Kalinin, asking the Soviet Union to de-escalate the tension with Finland. 
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11 Oct 1940 WW2 During the night, 4 British Hampden aircraft (out of 5 launched) from Lindholme, Yorkshire attacked battleship Tirpitz to little effect. 
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11 Oct 1940 WW2 Operation Medium: Between 0333 and 0351 hours, British battleship Revenge and destroyers Javelin, Jaguar, Jupiter, Kashmir, Kelvin, and Kipling bombarded Cherbourg, France. German torpedo boats attempted to interfere, but the attack was fought off. 
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11 Oct 1940 WW2 British destroyer HMS Zulu hit an acoustic mine in the Firth of Forth, Scotland at 0920 hours, badly damaging the ship, but incurred no casualties. She would remain under repair at nearby Rosyth until Jan 1941. 
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11 Oct 1940 WW2 German torpedo boats Falke, Greif, Kondor, Seeadler, and Wolf sank British anti-submarine trawler HMT Warwick Deeping (no deaths), French submarine chasers Ch.6 (9 killed, 12 captured) and CH.7 (12 killed, 8 captured), and French armed trawler Listrac (12 killed, 25 wounded) off the Isle of Wight overnight. German submarine U-48 attacked Allied convoy HX-77 250 miles northwest of Ireland in the evening; at 2150 hours, Norwegian ship Brandanger was sunk (6 killed, 24 survived); at 2209 hours, British ship Port Gisborne was sunk (26 killed when lifeboat capsized, 38 survived). 
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11 Oct 1940 WW2 Italian bombers attacked Allied convoy BS.6 in the Red Sea 50 miles off of Italian East Africa, damaging escorting vessel British sloop HMS Auckland. 
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11 Oct 1940 WW2 Werner Mölders claimed his 43rd victory over Canterbury, England, United Kingdom. 
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11 Oct 1940 WW2 Charles Hunziger presented the Order of Merit and the Croix de Guerre medals to the American Hospital in Paris, France. 
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11 Oct 1940 WW2 Repair ship Akashi participated in the annual naval review in Tokyo Bay, Japan. 
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11 Oct 1940 WW2 Settsu participated in a naval review in Yokohama Bay, Japan. 
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11 Oct 1940 WW2 A convoy of 4 merchant ships arrived at Malta from Alexandria, Egypt. The escorting British Mediterranean Fleet began to sail back to Alexandra, but was spotted by an Italian civilian aircraft 100 miles southeast of Malta. Italian destroyers and torpedo boats were dispatched to intercept. 
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11 Oct 1940 WW2 Garland entered drydocks at Malta for repairs. 
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11 Oct 1940 WW2 While small raids of 10 or few aircraft harassed southern England, United Kingdom all day, a number of larger raids, with 25 to 90 aircraft, attacked larger towns. The larger raids were composed mostly of fighters as the Germans continued to try to wear down British fighter strength. On this day, the Germans lost 1 Do 17 bomber and 4 Bf 109 fighters, while the British lost 8 fighters with 3 pilots killed. Overnight, London, Liverpool, Manchester, Bristol, and the Tyne and Tees areas were bombed; 3 Do 17 bombers were shot down over Anglesey after attacking Liverpool, at the cost of 1 British fighter. 
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11 Oct 1941 WW2 At Bryansk, Russia, enveloped Soviet 3rd and 13th Armies counterattacked positions held by troops of German Panzergruppe 2 and broke through. 
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11 Oct 1941 WW2 Soviet submarine ShCh-322 was lost in the Gulf of Finland to unknown reason; all 40 aboard were killed. She had most likely struck a mine. 
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11 Oct 1941 WW2 Soviet submarine S8 departed Kronstadt near Leningrad, Russia. 
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11 Oct 1941 WW2 Paul von Kleist was mentioned in the Wehrmachtbericht daily radio report. 
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11 Oct 1941 WW2 Alexander Löhr was mentioned in the Wehrmachtbericht daily radio report. 
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11 Oct 1941 WW2 Malta-based British bombers of No. 830 Squadron attacked an Italian convoy 100 miles north of Tripoli, sinking ships Zena and Casaregis. 
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11 Oct 1941 WW2 Thousands fled Moscow, Russia based on rumors of an imminent German capture of the Soviet capital. To the west, the enveloped Soviet troops at Vyasma suffered a heavy artillery and air bombardment that caused heavy casualties. 
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11 Oct 1941 WW2 Allied convoy PQ-1, consisted of 11 merchant ships escorted by 7 British warships, arrived in Arkhangelsk, Russia. 
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11 Oct 1942 WW2 USS Copahee launched its cargo of 20 US Marine Corps aircraft for Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 
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11 Oct 1942 WW2 Battle of Cape Esperance off Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands brought an overnight victory to the US Navy. 
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11 Oct 1942 WW2 ShCh-307 attacked an Axis convoy south of the Åland Islands in the Gulf of Finland; both torpedoes missed. 
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11 Oct 1942 WW2 USS Helena assumed position west of Savo Island, Solomon Islands in darkness, awaiting an incoming Japanese task force. 
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11 Oct 1942 WW2 Shokaku departed Truk, Caroline Islands for Guadalcanal operations. 
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11 Oct 1943 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho departed Saeki, Japan for Singapore. 
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11 Oct 1943 WW2 USS Skipjack attacked a Japanese transport in the North Pacific; all four torpedoes missed. 
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11 Oct 1943 WW2 Neel Kearby led a fighter sweep over Wewak, Australian New Guinea; his flight shot down several Japanese aircraft, including one carrying Lieutenant Colonel Tamiji Teranishi, commanding officer of 14th Flying Brigade. 
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11 Oct 1943 WW2 US 8th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron successfully took photos of Rabaul, New Britain. 
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11 Oct 1943 WW2 13 Beaufighter aircraft of 30 Squadron RAAF from Goodenough Island and 2 squadrons of US 38th Bomb Group arrived at Dobodura Airfield in Australian Squadron in preparation of a planned strike on Rabaul, New Britain on the next day. 
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11 Oct 1943 WW2 Naka departed Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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11 Oct 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Jakarta, Java. 
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11 Oct 1943 WW2 Dudley Morton was killed in the sinking of USS Wahoo by Japanese anti-submarine aircraft in La Pérouse Strait between Hokkaido and Karafuto (Sakhalin), Japan. 
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11 Oct 1943 WW2 The US submarine Wahoo was bombed and sunk by Japanese anti-submarine aircraft in La Pérouse Strait between Hokkaido and Karafuto (Sakhalin), Japan. All aboard were killed. 
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11 Oct 1943 WW2 Vern Skjonsby was killed aboard USS Wahoo when the submarine was sunk by Japanese aircraft in the La Pérouse Strait north of Hokkaido, Japan. 
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11 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Franklin launched strikes Aparri, Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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11 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Trepang attacked a Japanese convoy, claiming the sinking of one freighter. 
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11 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Tang sank Japanese transports Joshu Go at about 0500 hours, hitting her with two of three torpedoes fired. Later in the day, at about 2100 hours, she sank Oita Maru with one torpedo. 
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11 Oct 1944 WW2 USAAF raids began on the island of Okinawa, Japan. 
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11 Oct 1944 WW2 A German V-2 rocket hit Rockland St Mary 6 miles southeast of Norwich, England, United Kingdom, which was the second rocket to hit the village during the war (first being on 4 Oct 1944). It damaged 14 houses. 
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11 Oct 1944 WW2 US 83rd Infantry Division became part of the VIII Corps of the Ninth Army of US 12th Army Group. 
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11 Oct 1944 WW2 Hakusan Maru arrived at Hong Kong. 
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11 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Luce departed Manus, Admiralty Islands. 
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11 Oct 1944 WW2 Hungary and the Soviet Union began to finalize a cease fire agreement. 
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11 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Miami operated off Okinawa, Japan. 
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11 Oct 1944 WW2 Soviet troops of the 2nd Ukranian Front assaulted and captured the town of Cluj in Romania, the capital of Transylvania. 
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11 Oct 1944 WW2 Patrick Hurley recommended Franklin Roosevelt to remove Joseph Stilwell from China. 
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11 Oct 1945 WW2 US Marines landed on the southern coast of Shandong Province, China to slow the Chinese Communist advance. 
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11 Oct 1945 WW2 Shyler Cammann and four other US Navy personnel became the first to depart Sino-American Special Technical Cooperative Organization (SACO) Camp Four in China. They would return to the US via Chongqing and then Shanghai. 
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11 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Enterprise departed the Panama Canal Zone. 
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11 Oct 1945 WW2 Submarine Pollack was struck from the US Naval Register. 
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11 Oct 1945 WW2 Submarine R-5 was struck from the US Naval Register. 
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11 Oct 1954 RELIGIOUS Presbyterian apologist Francis Schaeffer wrote in a letter: 'Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship -- and not as ends in themselves.
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