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History on the 19th of October

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19 Oct 1562 RELIGIOUS Birth of George Abbot, archbishop of Canterbury. A recognized leader of the English Calvinists, Abbot also demonstrated Puritan sympathies, and took a leading part in translating the 1611 King James Version of the Bible.
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19 Oct 1609 RELIGIOUS Death of Jacob Arminius, 49, the Dutch theologian who lent his name to the beliefs (known today at Arminianism) which oppose the major tenets of Protestant Reformed (Calvinist) theology.
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19 Oct 1720 RELIGIOUS Birth of John Woolman, American Quaker reformer. His "Journal," written from 1756-72, greatly influenced 19th century abolitionists.
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19 Oct 1744 RELIGIOUS English revivalist George Whitefield, 29, arrived in Maine at the start of his second visit to America. Whitefield struggled to adapt the beliefs of Calvinism to the Arminian teachings of proto-Methodists John and Charles Wesley.
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19 Oct 1913 WW2 Future German submarine ace Kapitänleutnant Hans Jenisch was born at Gerdauen, East Prussia, Germany. He would command U-32 which would be responsible for sinking seventeen vessels and damaging three more (including HMS Fiji) before being captured on 30 Oct 1940. 
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19 Oct 1915 WW2 Barham was commissioned into service. 
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19 Oct 1921 WW2 Harry Dimoline was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant with the 59th (4th West Lancashire) Medium Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery, British Territorial Army. 
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19 Oct 1921 RELIGIOUS Birth of Bill Bright, American youth evangelist. Bill and his wife Vonette founded Campus Crusade for Christ in 1951, incorporating this evangelical Christian student organization in California in 1953.
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19 Oct 1922 WW2 A rebellion by Conservative Party Members of Parliament at the Carlton Club in London, England, United Kingdom resulted in a decision to end the Coalition government of Lloyd George. The Prime Minister, who had already lost the support of his influential Foreign Minister, Lord Curzon, was forced to resign, never to return as a major figure in party politics. 
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19 Oct 1923 WW2 Harry Dimoline was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. 
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19 Oct 1926 WW2 Prince Hironobu was awarded Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia. 
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19 Oct 1937 WW2 769th Regiment of Chinese 120th Division attacked the Yangmingbao airfield in Shanxi, China, destroying 24 aircraft on the ground. 
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19 Oct 1937 WW2 Elizabeth "Betty" Carver-Montgomery, wife of the future Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery and sister of Major-General Sir Percy Hobart, passed away. 
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19 Oct 1938 WW2 Prince Hiroyasu's first child, Prince Hiroyoshi, passed away. 
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19 Oct 1939 WW2 American gunboat Erie arrived off Manzanillo, Mexico on neutrality patrol to monitor movements of German freighter Havelland. 
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19 Oct 1939 WW2 Western Poland was incorporated into the Großdeutsches Reich, but not Germany itself, as the General Government. 
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19 Oct 1940 WW2 German submarines U-38, U-46, U-47, and two others attacked Allied convoy HX-79 200 miles west of Ireland, sinking 5 ships and damaging tanker Shirak. 
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19 Oct 1940 WW2 While escorting Romanian freighter Ingener N. Vlassopol Canadian auxiliary minesweeper HMCS Bras d'Or sank during a storm in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in northeastern Canada, killing the entire crew of 30. 
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19 Oct 1940 WW2 German submarines U-99, U-100, U-101, and U-123 continued to attack Allied convoy SC-7 100 miles northwest of Ireland. U-123 sank British ship Shekatika as Shekatika received her fifth torpedo hit. U-99 sank Norwegian ship Snefjeld; the entire crew of 21 survived. 
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19 Oct 1940 WW2 British destroyer HMS Venetia hit a mine and sank in the Thames Estuary 10 miles north of Herne Bay, Kent in southern England; 35 were killed and 18 were wounded. 
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19 Oct 1940 WW2 During the day, a German Ju 88 bomber was shot down near Maidstone, Kent and another near Falmouth, Cornwall in England, United Kingdom. A raid of 60 German fighters and fighter-bombers for London was intercepted by 5 RAF squadrons over Kent at 1430 hours; 2 British fighters were shot down during the battle with 1 pilot killed. Overnight, London, Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester, and Coventry were bombed. 
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19 Oct 1941 WW2 German submarine U-126 torpedoed and sank American freighter Lehigh 100 miles west of Freetown, British West Africa at 1051 hours; all 38 aboard survived. U-126 had misidentified the American ship as a Greek vessel. 
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19 Oct 1941 WW2 German submarine U-204 sank British tanker Inverlee carrying 35 miles southwest of Tangier, Spanish Morocco at 0300 hours; 22 were killed, 21 survived. In the same region, German submarine U-206 sank British ship Baron Kelvin at 0614 hours; 26 were killed, 16 survived. British corvettes from Gibraltar were dispatched to hunt for these submarines; HMS Mallow was able to find and sink U-204 at 2146 hours with depth charges. 
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19 Oct 1941 WW2 British gunboat HMS Gnat bombarded a German artillery battery near Tobruk, Libya after sundown. 
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19 Oct 1941 WW2 German troops began rounding up men over the age of 16 in the Serbian town of Kragujevac in Yugoslavia. Of the 2,324 gathered, about 300 of them were students from the First Boys High School. 
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19 Oct 1941 WW2 German troops defeated the Soviet forces within the Vyazma pocket in Russia and captured 670,000 men, 1,000 tanks, and 4,000 artillery pieces. At Volokolamsk, the northwest end of the Mozhaysk defensive line, newly arrived Soviet 316th Rifle Division halted the attack by German 4th Panzer Army. In Moscow, Lavrentiy Beria advised the Soviet GKO to evacuate the capital "or they will strangle us like chickens", but it was rejected by Joseph Stalin; however, Stalin did order the Politburo (less Stalin, Beria, and Georgy Malenkov) to evacuate. 
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19 Oct 1942 WW2 The British King's African Rifles regiment captured 800 Vichy French troops in Madagascar without incurring a single casualty of their own. 
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19 Oct 1942 WW2 USS Gar laid 32 naval mines off Bangkok, Thailand. 
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19 Oct 1942 WW2 Joseph Stilwell convinced Archibald Wavell to commit to an offensive in Burma in cooperation with the Sino-American forces. 
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19 Oct 1942 WW2 USS Gunnel started her first war patrol. 
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19 Oct 1942 WW2 British officers Major Ronnie Littledale and Lieutenant-Commander Billie Stephens, having escaped from Oflag IV-C prisoners of war camp at Colditz Castle in Germany on 14 Oct 1942, successfully made it to Switzerland. 
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19 Oct 1943 WW2 US Navy communiqué revealed that, since 7 Dec 1941, American submarines had sunk 319 Japanese vessels and damaged at least 81. 
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19 Oct 1943 WW2 Louis Mountbatten met with Chiang Kaishek for the second day in a row. Mountbatten offered Chiang 10,000 tons of supplies to be flown over the Hump to China each month, while Chiang allowed Mountbatten to launch guerrilla operations into northern Burma. 
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19 Oct 1943 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho arrived at Seletar, Singapore. 
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19 Oct 1943 WW2 F-5 aircraft of US 8th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron detected more than 200 Japanese aircraft gathered at the four airfields in and near Rabaul, New Britain. 
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19 Oct 1943 WW2 US Marine Corps squadron VMF-214 strafed Kara Airfield (Bougainville), Kahili Airfield (Bougainville), and Ballale Airfield (Shortland Islands) in the Solomon Islands. They caused only minor damage. 
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19 Oct 1943 WW2 Shokaku arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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19 Oct 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Twenty-two officers and 500 men of CASU-17; 12 officers and 175 men of ACORN-14; 22 officers and 132 men of ARGUS-12; 2 officers and 190 men of CASU-18; 19 officers and 139 men of ARGUS-15; 5 officers and 383 men of ACORN-16; and one staff officer of Task Group 19.14 arrived on board. 
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19 Oct 1943 WW2 US Fifth Army's Volturno River offensive in Italy was stalled by resistance and weather. 
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19 Oct 1943 WW2 Yamato arrived at Brown Atoll, Eniwetok, Marshall Islands. 
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19 Oct 1944 WW2 Feldmarschal Model called off the attempts to relieve Aachen, Germany. 
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19 Oct 1944 WW2 Hitler ordered the complete and total destruction of the city of Warsaw, Poland. 
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19 Oct 1944 WW2 German 4.Armee withdrew from around Tilsit, East Prussia, Germany. 
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19 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Franklin launched an attack on the Japanese on Manila Bay, Philippine Islands sinking several ships and downing 11 aircraft. 
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19 Oct 1944 WW2 A state funeral was held in Budapest, Hungary for the 26 Hungarian and German personnel killed during the kidnapping of Miklós Horthy, Jr. four days prior. 
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19 Oct 1944 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt relieved Joseph Stilwell from all commands in China and recalled him to the United States. 
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19 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Whale set sale for Midway Atoll. 
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19 Oct 1944 WW2 Takijiro Onishi met with the senior staff officers of Japanese 201st Kokutai at Mabalacat airfield north of Manila, Philippine Islands, and asked for volunteers to form a special attack unit. 
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19 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Wasp's aircraft attacked Japanese positions on Luzon, Philippine Islands; Manila was attacked by US aircraft for the first time. 
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19 Oct 1944 WW2 German troops evacuated Belgrade, Yugoslavia. 
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19 Oct 1944 WW2 Walter Stettner von Grabenhofen was killed by Yugoslavian partisan fighters in Montenegro, Yugoslavia. 
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19 Oct 1945 WW2 Communist forces in China attacked US Marine trains and aircraft. 
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19 Oct 1945 WW2 USS S-31 was decommissioned from service. 
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19 Oct 1945 WW2 S-32 was decommissioned from service. 
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19 Oct 1945 WW2 Maury was decommissioned from service. 
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19 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Parche arrived at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States. 
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