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History on the 15th of October

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15 Oct 1784 RELIGIOUS Birth of Thomas Hastings, American sacred composer. Hastings was an albino afflicted with extreme nearsightedness, yet from his pen came such enduring hymn tunes as TOPLADY ("Rock of Ages") and ORTONVILLE ("Majestic Sweetness Sits Enthroned").
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15 Oct 1790 RELIGIOUS Ann Teresa Mathews (aka Mother Bernardina) and Frances Dickinson founded a convent of Discalced Carmelites (a contemplative working order) in Port Tobacco, Maryland. It was the first Catholic convent founded in the United States.
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15 Oct 1840 RELIGIOUS In Melville, Missouri, the Evangelical Synod of North America was founded. It later became one of the branches of today's United Church of Christ.
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15 Oct 1900 RELIGIOUS Pentecostal evangelist Charles Fox Parham opened Bethel Bible Institute in Topeka, Kansas. It was here on January 1, 1901 that the first Christian in modern times was reported to have spoken in tongues: student Agnes Ozman.
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15 Oct 1923 WW2 Commander Shinichi Oguri was named the acting commanding officer of Tenryu. 
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15 Oct 1925 WW2 Emden was commissioned into service. 
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15 Oct 1926 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo was named the commanding officer of gunboat Uji. 
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15 Oct 1930 WW2 Cruiser Köln completed trials and training in the Baltic Sea and North sea. 
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15 Oct 1930 WW2 Joseph Jules Brévié was named the Governor-General of French West Africa. 
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15 Oct 1934 WW2 Erwin Rommel was posted to the Infantry School at Potsdam, Germany as an instructor. 
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15 Oct 1935 WW2 The first three Panzer Divisions were established in the German Army. The 1st Panzer Division was placed under General Freiherr Maximilian von Weichs at Weimar, 2nd Panzer Division under Colonel Heinz Guderian at Würzburg and 3rd Panzer Division under General Fessmann at Berlin, Germany. 
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15 Oct 1936 WW2 The Spanish Republican Popular Army established a system of Commissars (Political Officers) in each unit. 
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15 Oct 1936 WW2 50 Soviet T-26 Model 1933 light tanks arrived in Spain to aid the Republic forces in the Spanish Civil War. 
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15 Oct 1937 WW2 Soviet aircraft bombed Khotan, Xinjiang, China, causing 2,000 Nationalist Chinese military and civilian casualties. 
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15 Oct 1938 WW2 The Czechoslovakian government resigned after Germany occupied the Sudetenland. 
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15 Oct 1938 WW2 Walter Grabmann shot down an I-16 fighter over Spain. 
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15 Oct 1938 WW2 Major General Kazuo Otsu was named the chief of staff of the Taiwan Army. 
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15 Oct 1939 WW2 German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee refueled from tanker Altmark. 
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15 Oct 1939 WW2 Walter Krupinski began flight training. 
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15 Oct 1940 WW2 British submarine HMS Triad detected Italian submarine Enrico Toti while running on the surface 100 miles south of Taranto, Italy at 0100 hours. Triad hit Enrico Toti twice with her deck gun, but the torpedo fired missed; Enrico Toti's damage prevented her from diving. Enrico Toti returned fire, hitting Triad twice with the deck gun and sprayed her with machine gun. As Triad attempted to dive, Enrico Toti scored a hit with a torpedo, sinking Triad at about 0130 hours and killing the entire crew of 59. 
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15 Oct 1940 WW2 Italian submarine Foca sank while laying a minefield off Haifa, British Mandate of Palestine. 
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15 Oct 1940 WW2 German submarine U-93 sank British ship Hurunui of Allied convoy OA-228 100 miles northwest of the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom just after 0000 hours; 2 were killed and 72 survived. Five hours later in the same general area, German submarine U-138 sank British ship Bonheur (all survived) and damaged British tanker British Glory (3 killed) of Allied convoy OA-228 between 0510 and 0515 hours. German submarine U-103 sank British ship Thistlegarth 100 miles northwest of the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom at 1933 hours; 30 were killed and 9 survived. Far to the south, Italian submarine Comandante Cappellini sank Belgian ship Kabalo 800 miles west of Casablanca, Morocco; 1 was killed. 
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15 Oct 1940 WW2 US Marine Corps mobilized its reserve battalions, ordering that these reserve personnel to be assigned to active duty no later than 9 Nov 1940. 
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15 Oct 1940 WW2 Adolf Hitler noted that about half the Czechs in occupied western Czechoslovakia could be assimilated into the German population. The other half, which included the intellectuals, were to be eliminated. 
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15 Oct 1940 WW2 Captain Sadayoshi Yamada was named the commanding officer of Kaga. 
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15 Oct 1940 WW2 Captain Matsuji Ijuin was named the commanding officer of Naka. 
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15 Oct 1940 WW2 The German Luftwaffe launched 5 fighter sweeps toward London and 1 over Southampton, both in England, United Kingdom; the Germans lost 16 fighter and 3 bombers, while the British lost 15 fighters with 6 pilots killed. Overnight, 400 German bombers dropped 530 tons of high explosives on London, killing 400 and wounding 900; Bristol and Birmingham were also attacked. 
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15 Oct 1941 WW2 Japanese Navy Captain Shutoku Miyazato, Chief Equipping Officer of Battleship No. 1, was promoted to the rank of rear admiral. 
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15 Oct 1941 WW2 US Marine Corps Major James P. S. Devereux relieved Major Lewis A. Hohn as the commanding officer of the Wake Island Marine Detachment. Devereux also took on the responsibility of the island's overall commander. 
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15 Oct 1941 WW2 British authorities reported that, in the week ending at 0600 hours on 15 Oct 1941, an estimated 61 people were killed and 69 seriously injured by German bombing. 
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15 Oct 1941 WW2 German submarine U-553 attacked Allied convoy SC-48 500 miles west of Ireland at 0815 hours, sinking British ship Silvercedar (21 killed, 26 survived) and Norwegian ship Ila (14 killed, 7 survived). Merchant ship Silverelm attempted to ram the submarine, and hours later Canadian destroyer HMCS Columbia attacked with depth charges, but none damaged U-553. 
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15 Oct 1941 WW2 German submarine U-558, en route to attack Allied convoy SC-48, came across and sank Canadian ship Vancouver Island in the Atlantic Ocean at 2317 hours; all aboard were lost. 
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15 Oct 1941 WW2 German SS-Brigadeführer Franz Stahlecker of Einsatzgruppe A sent a 130-page report to Berlin, Germany on this date. He reported that, among other things, 71,105 Jews had been liquidated in Lithuania and 30,000 Jews in Latvia, and 3,387 Communists in Russia. 
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15 Oct 1941 WW2 German SS General Hans Frank, the Nazi Governor-General of occupied Poland, issued a general order proclaiming that any Jews leaving the Warsaw ghetto would be liable for the death penalty as would any person who knowingly gave shelter to such Jews. 
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15 Oct 1941 WW2 ShCh-320 fired a torpedo at a merchant ship north of Danzig Bay at 1115 hours; the torpedo missed. 
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15 Oct 1941 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille arrived at Munich-Riem Airfield in Germany to be introduced to the new Bf 109E-7 and Bf 109F4 variant designs. 
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15 Oct 1941 WW2 Tatsuta Maru departed Yokohama, Japan for the United States; she carried American nationals who wished to return to the US due to the rapidlyl deteriorating US-Japan relations. She would maintain radio silence throughout the entire journey. 
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15 Oct 1941 WW2 Raizo Tanaka was promoted to the rank of rear admiral. 
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15 Oct 1941 WW2 In Russia, German 1st Panzer Division turned northwest, thus away from Moscow, to attack Soviet Northwestern Front from the rear. The Soviet GKO ordered the NKVD, various agencies, and various foreign legations to evacuate from Moscow to Kuibyshev (now Samara). 
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15 Oct 1941 WW2 The Lubyanka Prison staff began the evacuation from Moscow, Russia, transferring the first group of prisoners to Kuibyshev (now Samara) and Saratov on this day. 
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15 Oct 1941 WW2 In southern Ukraine, Soviet troops set off explosive charges to destroy port facilities and defensive structures at Odessa in preparation of the evacuation of 35,000 Soviet troops from Odessa to Sevastopol in Russia, which would commence after sundown. 
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15 Oct 1942 WW2 Lieutenant Commander Sakae Nakajima became the commanding officer of I-168. 
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15 Oct 1942 WW2 After a naval bombardment, 3,000 to 4,000 men of Japanese 230th and 16th Infantry Regiments landed at Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. Despite interference from US Marine Corps SBD aircraft, 80% of the men and supplies successfully made to shore. With the arrival of these reinforcements, General Hyakutake ordered a new offensive against Henderson Field to take place on 18 Oct. 
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15 Oct 1942 WW2 Robert Oppenheimer was appointed, by Leslie Groves, to coordinate the scientific research of the Manhattan Project at Site Y, a location yet to be finalized. 
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15 Oct 1942 WW2 Aircraft from carrier Shokaku and Zuikaku sank destroyer USS Meredith off San Cristobal, Solomon Islands. 
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15 Oct 1942 WW2 Alfred Jodl suggested to Adolf Hitler to order Vichy France to strengthen its defenses in North Africa as intelligence indicated a possible Allied attack; Hitler rejected the suggestion as he thought the Italians would object to any moves that strengthened France. 
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15 Oct 1942 WW2 USS Skipjack attacked a Japanese ship south of the Palau Islands; both torpedoes missed. 
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15 Oct 1942 WW2 The Soviet submarine ShCh-311 was attacked and sunk off Porkkala Peninsula in Kirkkonummi, Finland by Finnish patrol boats VMW-13 and VMW-15. 
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15 Oct 1942 WW2 George Kenney and Kenneth Walker awarded US servicemen at Townsville and Mareeba in Australia. After the ceremonies, Kenney ordered Walker to use instantaneous fuses on aerials bombs, not delayed fuses that Walker had preferred. 
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15 Oct 1942 WW2 Joseph Stilwell departed Chongqing, China or Delhi, India. 
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15 Oct 1942 WW2 German Stuka dive bombers of Luftflotte 4 flew 900 individual sorties against Soviet positions at the Stalingrad Tractor Factory in Stalingrad, Russia, wiping out several Soviet regiments. 
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15 Oct 1942 WW2 German Luftwaffe unit I./KG 100 (flying He 111 bombers) briefly returned to Stalino (now Donetsk), Ukraine to conduct three bombing raids on Stalingrad, Russia. 
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15 Oct 1942 WW2 USS Marble completed her repairs New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York, United States and departed for South America. 
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15 Oct 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Singapore. 
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15 Oct 1943 WW2 I-168 was struck from the Navy List. 
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15 Oct 1943 WW2 USS Tang was commissioned into service with Lieutenant Commander Richard O'Kane in command. 
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15 Oct 1943 WW2 The keel of future escort carrier Petrof Bay was laid down. 
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15 Oct 1943 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho arrived at Sama (now Sanya), Hainan, China. 
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15 Oct 1943 WW2 15 D3A dive bombers of Air Group 582 escorted by 39 A6M fighters attacked Oro Bay just south of Dobodura, Australian Papua. 54 P-38 and 8 P-40 fighters rose of defend. The Japanese lost 14 D3A dive bombers and 5 A6M fighters, and caused only light damage to Allied shipping. 
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15 Oct 1943 WW2 33rd Bomb Squadron and 408th Bomb Squadron (both flying B-25 aircraft) of USAAF 22nd Bomb Group were transferred from Australia to Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua. 
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15 Oct 1943 WW2 Originally given the task of escorting US Army Air Force bombers to attack Kahili Airfield on Bougainville island, the US Marine Corps F4U fighters arrived earlier than the bombers, thus the mission became a fighter sweep of the Japanese airfield. 22 Japanese A6M fighters rose to defend. USMC pilot Bill Case claimed 2 victories, Tom Emrich 2, Burney Tucker 1, and Gregory Boyington 1. Japanese records would later reveal that only 1 fighter was destroyed on this day. 
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15 Oct 1943 WW2 Shokaku departed Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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15 Oct 1943 WW2 French General de Lattre de Tassigny escaped from Vichy France, eventually joining the Free French. 
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15 Oct 1943 WW2 Britain-based US 55th Fighter Group became the first group to conduct operations in P-38 fighters over continental Europe. 
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15 Oct 1944 WW2 Japanese Navy Captain Nobuei Morishita, commanding officer of Yamato, was promoted to the rank of rear admiral. 
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15 Oct 1944 WW2 Prinz Eugen collided with light cruiser Leipzig by accident north of Hela (Hel, Poland) in the Baltic Sea, causing light damage. 
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15 Oct 1944 WW2 Damaged German battleship Tirpitz set sail for Tromsø, Norway at the speed of 10 knots. 
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15 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Franklin was attacked by Japanese aircraft off of Luzon, Philippine Islands; 1 bomb hit and 2 near misses caused damage. 
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15 Oct 1944 WW2 Shortly after announcing that Hungary would withdraw from the war, Admiral Miklós Horthy's son Miklós Horthy, Jr. was abducted by Sturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny's commandos. In Horthy's place, the new head of state, Fenenc Szalasi promised to maintain the alliance with Germany. Among the first pro-German policies implemented was the resumption of the deportation of Hungarian Jews. 
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15 Oct 1944 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit Rettendon, Essex, England, United Kingdom. The village pub was damaged and two were slightly injured. 
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15 Oct 1944 WW2 Rear Admiral Masafumi Arima of the Japanese 26th Air Flotilla in the Philippine Islands attempted a special attack with a D4Y Suisei aircraft against an American carrier; it was said that "This act of self-sacrifice by a high flag officer spurred the flying units in forward combat areas and provided the spark that touched off the organized use of suicide attacks in the battle for Leyte." 
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15 Oct 1944 WW2 Submarine Carbonero was launched, sponsored by Mrs. S. S. Murray. 
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15 Oct 1944 WW2 1st Lieutenant Hugh Foster, flying a P-47 fighter, damaged a Me 262 jet fighter. His fellow USAAF 78th Fighter Group pilot 2nd Lieutenant Huie Lamb, Jr., also flying a P-47 fighter, shot down a Me 262 jet fighter, flown by Feldwebel Edgar Junghans, during the same mission. 
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15 Oct 1944 WW2 Raizo Tanaka was promoted to the rank of vice admiral. 
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15 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Kete arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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15 Oct 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Aircraft storage area of 150 acres near Iroquois Point opened. 
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15 Oct 1944 WW2 Miklós Horthy announced that Hungary and Soviet Union had signed an armistice and asked the Hungary troops to lay down their arms; the order was rejected by the Hungarian generals, and the troops continued to fight against the invading Soviets. 
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15 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Alabama supported landing operations on Leyte, Philippine Islands. 
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15 Oct 1944 WW2 On or about this date, Masafumi Arima personally led a flight of special attack aircraft out of Clark Airfield, Luzon, Philippine Islands and never returned; it was unknown whether his flight was able to hit any targets. 
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15 Oct 1945 WW2 Pierre Laval was executed for treason. 
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15 Oct 1945 WW2 US Army ship FS-390 was decommissioned from service. 
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15 Oct 1945 WW2 Du Yuming arrived at Chongqing, China, where Chiang told him that Du was to become the scapegoat for the removal of General Long Yun; Chiang would later award him with higher positions for taking on this responsibility. 
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15 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Puffer arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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15 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Iowa arrived at Seattle, Washington, United States. 
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15 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Wisconsin arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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15 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Alabama arrived at San Francisco, California, United States at about 1200 hours. 
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15 Oct 1946 WW2 Two hours before his scheduled execution, Hermann Göring committed suicide. 
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15 Oct 1948 WW2 Du Yuming arrived in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China. 
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15 Oct 1948 WW2 Shigeru Yoshida became the 48th Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister of Japan. 
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15 Oct 1948 RELIGIOUS American missionary martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: '"They shall mount up with wings as eagles" (Isa. 40:31). These wings are not so typical of purity as they are of power -- strength to live above snares and everything ese...Thanks for wings, Lord.'
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