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History on the 24th of October

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24 Oct 1260 RELIGIOUS Under Pope Alexander IV, Chartres Cathedral in France was consecrated. Completed in less than 30 years, the structure represents high Gothic architecture at its purest.
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24 Oct 1538 RELIGIOUS French reformer John Calvin wrote in a letter: 'Among Christians there ought to be so great a dislike of schism, as that they may always avoid it so far as lies in their power.'
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24 Oct 1790 RELIGIOUS English founder of Methodism John Wesley, 87, made the last entry in his 55-year-long journal, written after preaching a sermon: 'I hope many even then resolved to choose the better part.' (Wesley died the following March.)
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24 Oct 1911 RELIGIOUS Missionary widow Aimee Elizabeth Kennedy Semple, 21, married Harold Stewart McPherson, also 21. Afterward, Aimee Semple McPherson went on to establish the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel in 1918. (She and Harold would divorce in 1921).
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24 Oct 1914 WW2 French 7th Division advanced between Zonnebeke and Langemarck, Belgium just east of Ypres as the Germans launched a renewed offensive supported by heavy siege guns. 
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24 Oct 1916 WW2 Heinrich Hoffmann's wife Therese gave birth to their son Heinrich. 
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24 Oct 1917 WW1 Begin of Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo
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24 Oct 1917 WW1 Begin of Battle of Caporetto
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24 Oct 1918 WW2 Edmund Herring was promoted to the rank of acting major and took command of B Battery, 99th Field Artillery Brigade of the British Army. 
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24 Oct 1921 WW2 Mutsu was assigned to the Sasebo Naval District, Japan. 
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24 Oct 1928 WW2 He Yingqin was named the deputy director of the Department of Training. 
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24 Oct 1933 WW2 Following Germany's withdrawal from the League of Nations and the International Disarmament Conference 10 days earlier, British Member of Parliament Winston Churchill gave an outspoken warning to the Parliament highlighting the dangers to peace posed by the growth of German military aviation. 
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24 Oct 1935 WW2 Garland was launched at Govan, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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24 Oct 1937 WW2 Kaga departed waters south of Guangdong Province, China. 
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24 Oct 1938 WW2 Japanese troops captured Huangpo, Anhui, China and began to march toward the northern border of Wuhan, Hubei, China. In the same province, elements of the Japanese 2nd Army Group captured the city of Ma. 
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24 Oct 1938 WW2 Japanese aircraft sank Chinese gunboat Zhongshan. 
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24 Oct 1938 WW2 Joachim von Ribbentrop met with Polish ambassador Józef Lipski at Berchtesgaden in southern Germany. During the meeting, he noted that Danzig was German and Germany wanted to see it back within German borders. He also noted that Germany wanted to build a highway and a railway through western Poland to connect East Prussia with the main German territory, and that Germany would like to have Poland join the Anti-Comintern Pact. 
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24 Oct 1939 WW2 German submarine U-37 sank British steamships Menin Ridge by torpedoes and Ledbury by gunfire off Gibraltar. 
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24 Oct 1939 WW2 German RSHA organization noted that generally no prisoners would be released from protective custody during the war. 
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24 Oct 1939 WW2 German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop delivered a speech in Danzig in which he accused the British government of preparing for a war with Germany for the past few years. 
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24 Oct 1940 WW2 The British government declared that the daylight-savings Summer Time was to be continued throughout the coming winter winter. 
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24 Oct 1940 WW2 Operation DNU: British battlecruisers HMS Hood and HMS Repulse, 2 cruisers, and 8 destroyers conducted a sweep off the Norwegian coast in search of German shipping. German weather trawler WBS5 was sunk by destroyers HMS Somali, HMS Matabele, and HMS Punjabi 30 miles off the Stadlandet Peninsula; she would be the only target destroyed during the operation. 
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24 Oct 1940 WW2 Adolf Hitler met with Philippe Pétain and Pierre Laval at Montoire-sur-le-Loir, France, agreeing in principle with collaboration but Pétain refused to declare war on Britain. 
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24 Oct 1940 WW2 British destroyer HMS Mendip suffered an accidental depth charge detonation in Scapa Flow, Scotland at 1135 hours, ripping off her stern. She would survive the explosion and would be undergoing repairs for the next four months. 
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24 Oct 1940 WW2 During hte day, poor weather restricted German efforts against Britain, limiting missions to that of reconnaissance only; one Do 17 bomber was shot down on such a mission. Overnight, London and Birmingham were bombed. 
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24 Oct 1941 WW2 German troops captured Belgorod, Russia. 
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24 Oct 1941 WW2 German troops captured Kharkov, Ukraine. 
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24 Oct 1941 WW2 Elements of the German 4th Panzer Division moved from Mtsensk, Russia northward toward Moscow, reaching Chern 20 kilometers away. 
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24 Oct 1941 WW2 Romanian troops massacred Ukranian civilians in the village of Dalnik near Odessa, setting fire to warehouses full of people. 
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24 Oct 1941 WW2 German submarines U-563 attacked Allied convoy HG-75 300 miles west of Gibraltar at 0038 hours, damaging British destroyer HMS Cossack with a torpedo; 159 were killed, 60 survived. At 0636 hours, U-564 joined in on the attack, sinking British ships Carsbreck, Ariosto, and Alhama; 30 were killed, 96 survived. 
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24 Oct 1941 WW2 British minesweeping trawlers HMS Lucienne Jeanne and HMT Emilion struck naval mines and sank in the Thames Estuary in southern England, United Kingdom. 
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24 Oct 1941 WW2 50 communists were executed by the Germans at Camp Souge, France in retaliation for the killing of German occupation administrator Hans-Gottfried Reimers three days prior. 
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24 Oct 1941 WW2 After sundown, British minelaying cruiser HMS Abdiel and destroyers HMS Kandahar, HMS Kingston, and HMS Griffin departed Alexandria, Egypt with troops and supplies for Tobruk, Libya, returning with troops of Australian 9th Division early in the next day. 
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24 Oct 1941 WW2 Tatsuta Maru departed Honolulu, US Territory of Hawaii for San Francisco, California, United States. 
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24 Oct 1941 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt hosted Princess Märtha of Sweden (Crown Princess of Norway) at his home in Hyde Park, New York, United States. 
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24 Oct 1942 WW2 Norwegian police were ordered to arrest Jews over the age of 15 and seize their property; the arrests were to be carried out beginning 26 Oct 1942. 
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24 Oct 1942 WW2 In Egypt outside of El Alamein, British aircraft dropped 122 tons of bombs on Axis airfields and tank concentrations as Allied troops continued to engage in heavy combat. 
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24 Oct 1942 WW2 USS S-31 departed from waters off Paramushiro Island, Kurile Islands. 
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24 Oct 1942 WW2 USS Snook was commissioned into service with Lieutenant Commander C. O. Triebel in command. 
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24 Oct 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Sanya, Hainan, China. 
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24 Oct 1943 WW2 USS Cabrilla attacked a Japanese oiler with six torpedoes in the Dutch East Indies; all torpedoes missed. 
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24 Oct 1943 WW2 Leonard Siffleet was executed by beheading at the hands of Yasuno Chikao at Aitape, New Guinea. 
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24 Oct 1943 WW2 62 B-25 bombers (modified for ground attack) from Dobodura, Australian Papua made rendezvous with 54 P-38 fighters from Kiriwina of Trobriand Islands, and the group attacked Rabaul, New Britain. The Americans lost 2 B-25 and 1 P-38 aircraft. The Japanese suffered 8 A6M fighters lost, 6 A6M fighters damaged, 2 G4M bombers lost, 5 G4M bombers heavily damaged, 27 G4M bombers lightly damaged. 
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24 Oct 1943 WW2 A Japanese patrol found a group of Australian and native coast watchers about 100 miles from Cape Orford on New Britain. Lieutenant Francis Barrett was killed in the engagement; Captain John Murphy, Sergeant Lambert Carlson, and others escaped. 
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24 Oct 1943 WW2 Afghanistan and the Republic of China signed a friendly treaty in Ankara, Turkey. 
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24 Oct 1944 WW2 Japanese freighter Arisan Maru, carrying 1,782 Allied prisoners of war, was sunk by an American submarine. Only 9 POWs survived the sinking. 
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24 Oct 1944 WW2 Shoji Nishimura passed away. 
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24 Oct 1944 WW2 Toshihira Inoguchi passed away. 
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24 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Croaker attacked a Japanese convoy; firing a total of 13 torpedoes, 6 of them made contact, damaging two ships and sinking one freighter. 
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24 Oct 1944 WW2 Oberleutnant Alfred Veith of the German Kampfgeschwader 55 wing was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. 
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24 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Tang attacked an escorted Japanese convoy in the Taiwan Strait off the island of Niushandao, China, sinking five transports and tankers and one destroyer; among the sunken were, Kogen Maru and Matsumoto Maru. 
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24 Oct 1944 WW2 Japanese battleship Musashi was lost in the Battle of Sibuyan Sea to overwhelming American air power. 
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24 Oct 1944 WW2 Nachi departed Coron, Palawan, Philippine Islands. At 0427, she fired eight torpedoes at a radar target in Surigao Strait, scoring no hits. Two minutes later, she collided with cruiser Mogami, forcing the force to retire. 
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24 Oct 1945 WW2 Norwegian collaborator Vidkun Quisling was executed by firing squad. 
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24 Oct 1945 WW2 The United Nations was officially inaugurated. 
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24 Oct 1945 WW2 Lawrence was decommissioned from service. 
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24 Oct 1945 WW2 Cuttlefish was decommissioned from service. 
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24 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Marcus Island arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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24 Oct 1946 WW2 Kurt Daluege passed away. 
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24 Oct 1956 RELIGIOUS In Syracuse, New York, Margaret Ellen Towner became the first woman ordained in the Presbyterian Church.
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