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History on the 26th of October

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26 Oct 1779 RELIGIOUS Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'The Lord is so rich that He easily can -- so good that He certainly will -- give His children more than He will ever take away.
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26 Oct 1813 RELIGIOUS Birth of Henry T. Smart, English sacred organist. Though largely self-taught, Smart published many compositions, two of which are still popular as hymn tunes: LANCASHIRE ("Lead On, O King Eternal") and REGENT SQUARE ("Angels From the Realms of Glory").
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26 Oct 1889 RELIGIOUS Birth of Millar Burrows, American archaeologist. Director of the American School of Oriental Research at Jerusalem 1931-32, 1947-48), Burrows' most popular published work was "What Mean These Stones?" (1941).
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26 Oct 1911 WW2 Haichou fired on revolutionary forces at Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. 
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26 Oct 1914 WW2 The Allies, front line troops exhausted, decided to flood to the canal and waterways of the Yser River in Belgium should German troops continue to advance. 
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26 Oct 1914 WW2 Boris Shaposhnikov was awarded the Order of St. Anna, 4th Class. 
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26 Oct 1917 WW2 In Russia the first Bolshevik Government was established; Joseph Stalin was given the Commissariat of Nationality Affairs with responsibility for preventing the non-Russian borderlands (including his own native Georgia) from seceding from the new revolutionary community. 
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26 Oct 1919 WW2 General Jiro Akashi was removed from his position as the commanding officer of the Taiwan Army. 
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26 Oct 1921 WW2 In a speech in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, President Warren Harding advocated Civil Rights for African-Americans. 
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26 Oct 1927 WW2 Jiang Dingwen was named the commanding officer of the Chinese 1st Division. 
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26 Oct 1927 WW2 HMS Hermes arrived in Britain. 
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26 Oct 1931 WW2 Prince Nagahisa was awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers. 
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26 Oct 1935 WW2 Montcalm was launched at La Seyne-sur-Mer, France. 
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26 Oct 1936 WW2 Germany set up a the Reich Central Office for Combating Abortion and Homosexuality to specifically deal with homosexuality and abortion, both of which, in their thinking, decreases the German birth rate. 
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26 Oct 1937 WW2 Japanese commando battalions broke through Chinese lines and pushed the defenders back along the Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan Railway in Shanxi, China. 
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26 Oct 1937 WW2 At 2200 hours, the Chinese 524th Regiment withdrew from Shanghai North Railway Station into the six-story Sihang Warehouse in Shanghai, China. 
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26 Oct 1937 WW2 Liu Cuigang, flying a Hawk III fighter, led three others from Piaosui Airfield in Jiangsu Province, China to reinforce Communist guerrilla forces near Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China, taking off at 0700 hours. In the evening, they briefly stopped at Luoyang, Henan Province, China to refuel, taking off again at 2000 hours. As the sun began to set and in poor weather, he led the flight past Taiyuan into Japanese lines by mistake and was subjected by anti-aircraft fire. Failing to locate their destination airfield near Taiyuan, they turned back for Luoyang, but one of the fighters ran out of fuel. Liu swooped down to drop a flare for his comrade, who was descending via a parachute. Misjudging his altitude, Liu crashed into a pagoda southeast of Gaoping, Shanxi Province, killing him. 
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26 Oct 1938 WW2 Japanese troops captured undefended Wuchang and Hankou (now districts of the city of Wuhan) in Hubei, China. 
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26 Oct 1939 WW2 Jozef Tiso was declared the President of Slovakia. 
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26 Oct 1939 WW2 German authoriities decreed that Polish Jews between the age of 14 and 60 were to be conscripted as forced laborers. 
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26 Oct 1939 WW2 Arthur Greiser became the administrator of Reichsgau Posen in occupied Poland. 
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26 Oct 1940 WW2 Italy lodged a protest against Greece, citing its anti-Italian attitude. 
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26 Oct 1940 WW2 British Ministry of Food subsidised fish and chip shops to encourage potato consumption. 
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26 Oct 1940 WW2 Thunderbolt was commissioned into service. 
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26 Oct 1940 WW2 The P-51 Mustang fighter, NA-73X, took its maiden flight. 
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26 Oct 1940 WW2 Hubert Lanz was given command of 1. Gebirgs-Division. 
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26 Oct 1940 WW2 German submarine U-28 hit British ship Matina 250 miles northwest of Ireland at 0432 hours with a torpedo, then surfaced to hit her with 15 shells with the deck gun; 67 crew members and 2 gunners of Matina abandoned the ship in lifeboats, but they would never to be seen again. On the same day, German Fw 200 Condor bomber discovered and hit British troop ship Empress of Britain with two 250kg bombs 70 miles northwest of Aran Island in the Atlantic Ocean; most of the 416 crew, 2 gunners, and 205 passengers survived the attack and abandoned ship; German submarines were alerted, and would close in for the kill. 
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26 Oct 1940 WW2 Japanese aircraft raided the CAMCO factory at Loiwing (Leiyun), China, destroying recently arrived kits of CW-21 fighters. 
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26 Oct 1940 WW2 The German Luftwaffe conducted the longest night time raid on London, England, United Kingdom to date. 
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26 Oct 1940 WW2 James Lacey shot down a German Bf 109 fighter over Britain. 
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26 Oct 1940 WW2 The US Marine Corps organized a Marine Parachute Detachment at the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States. 
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26 Oct 1941 WW2 General Fedyuninsky was transferred from Leningrad, Russia to lead the Soviet 54th Army at Tikhvin about 120 kilometers to the east. The relieved commanding officer of the Soviet 54th Army, General Mikhail Khozin, who had previously served in Leningrad in 1938, was assigned to direct the defenses there. 
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26 Oct 1941 WW2 German submarine U-83 attacked Allied convoy HG-75 in the central Atlantic at 0354 hours and damaged British fighter catapult ship HMS Ariguani with a torpedo, killing 2. 
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26 Oct 1941 WW2 British submarine HMS Tetrach departed Malta for Gibraltar. 
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26 Oct 1941 WW2 Karl von Le Suire was awarded the Order of the Cross of Liberty 1st Class with Swords. 
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26 Oct 1941 WW2 HMS Eagle arrived off Greenock, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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26 Oct 1942 WW2 USS S-28 began performing training missions for the West Coast Sound School and for the Amphibious Forces Training Group. 
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26 Oct 1942 WW2 850 Jews were arrested in Norway. Meanwhile, in Nürnberg, Germany, 95 scientists gathered to review the result of Dr. Sigmund Rascher's freezing experiments using concentration camp prisoners as subjects. 
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26 Oct 1942 WW2 British Private Percy Gratwick used grenades, rifle, and bayonet to take enemy positions at El Alamein, Egypt but was then shot and killed. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. 
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26 Oct 1942 WW2 In the morning, Rommel committed much of his reserves to the Point 29 region in Egypt. Meanwhile, noting that Rommel had taken the bait, Montgomery planned to pin down Axis troops around Point 29 while launching a new offensive to the southwest. 
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26 Oct 1942 WW2 Allied convoy UCF 1, containing troops and equipment for the invasion of French North Africa, was met by a covering force of battleships and cruisers which had sailed from Casco Bay, Maine, United States. 
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26 Oct 1942 WW2 USS S-31 stalked Japanese cargo ship Keizan Maru starting at 0825 hours in Otomae Wan, Paramushiro, Kurile Islands. At 0922 hours, she fired two torpedoes, both scoring and sinking the cargo ship. While withdrawing after the attack, S-31 ran aground on reef multiple times, finally reaching deep waters at 1000 hours. 
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26 Oct 1942 WW2 At the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands, US forces achieved victory but saw USS Enterprise, USS Hornet, USS South Dakota, and USS San Juan damaged. On the Japanese side, carriers Shokaku and Zuiho were damaged by dive bombers from USS Hornet and USS Enterprise, respectively. 
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26 Oct 1942 WW2 US Navy Ensign George L. Wrenn of VF-72 from the USS Hornet engaged Japanese aircraft attacking the US fleet. He shot down five Nakajima B5N torpedo bombers during the sortie. The Hornet was sunk during the battle and Wrenn had to be recovered aboard the USS Enterprise. 
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26 Oct 1942 WW2 Men of the 1st Battalion of US 164th Infantry Division repulsed a Japanese attack on the southern flank of the Lunga Perimeter at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. Meanwhile, another attack against Hill 67, initially penetrating into the American line, was eventually driven back by US Marines. 
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26 Oct 1942 WW2 Joseph Stilwell announced his intention to establish his forward base at Ledo, India for the planned offensive into Burma. 
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26 Oct 1942 WW2 ShCh-307 sank Finnish merchant ship Betty H. south of the Åland Islands in the Gulf of Finland. 
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26 Oct 1942 WW2 USS S-35 departed Unalaska, US Territory of Alaska for her fourth war patrol. 
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26 Oct 1942 WW2 Tenryu evacuated 260 Sasebo No. 5 Special Naval Landing Force troops from Welle Island (now Sanaroa), D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Australian Papua. 
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26 Oct 1942 WW2 Shokaku was heavily damaged by bombs during the Battle of Santa Cruz. Four to six bombs struck the flight deck; one struck aft of the island and the rest were grouped around the amidships and aft elevators. Large fires were started, and the flight deck was completely buckled by the blasts. Though sixty officers and men were killed, since no aircraft were aboard, no fuel was active and damage control was able to extinguish the fires and save the ship. Admiral Nagumo transferred his flag to destroyer Arashi. Then, with the damaged light carrier Zuiho, Shokaku was detached and ordered home to Truk escorted by Hatsukaze and Maikaze. 
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26 Oct 1942 WW2 Nachi arrived at Paramushiro (Paramushir), Kurile Islands. 
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26 Oct 1942 WW2 USS Whale sank a Japanese freighter south of the Kii Channel between the islands of Shikoku and Honshu, Japan, hitting her with 2 of 5 torpedoes fired. Shortly after, she damaged two other freighters, hitting them with 2 of the 6 additional torpedoes fired. 
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26 Oct 1942 WW2 In light of the positive report from Friedrich Paulus from Stalingrad, Russia, Adolf Hitler, from his Wehrwolf headquarters near of Vinnytsia in Ukraine, ordered some of the German units in that region to prepare to move north once Stalingrad was conquered. 
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26 Oct 1942 WW2 USS Sunfish departed San Francisco, California, United States. 
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26 Oct 1943 WW2 RAF bombers attacked Stuttgart, Germany before dawn; during the day, USAAF bombers bombed Bremen, Germany. 
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26 Oct 1943 WW2 USS Rock was commissioned into service with Commander John Jay Flachsenhar in command. 
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26 Oct 1943 WW2 USS Scorpion completed a reconnaissance mission of Agrihan and Pagan islands in the Mariana Islands. 
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26 Oct 1943 WW2 The human collection at the University of Strasbourg in Strasbourg, Alsace, France was destroyed, as reported by the scientists who performed research on them for the Nazi regime. In actuality, there was not enough time to destroy the entire collection, and a few cadavers were hidden, to be found later. 
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26 Oct 1943 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho departed Singapore. 
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26 Oct 1943 WW2 Vasily Chuikov was awarded the Order of Lenin for the first time. 
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26 Oct 1943 WW2 82 B-25 bombers were launched from Port Moresby, Australian Papua; their mission to attack Rabaul, New Britain was canceled mid-flight due to poor weather. 
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26 Oct 1943 WW2 Yamato arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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26 Oct 1943 WW2 Repair ship Akashi performed repair work for submarine I-180 at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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26 Oct 1943 WW2 USAAF 14th Air Force deployed naval mines at the entrance of Haiphong harbor in northern French Indochina. US Navy Sino-American Special Technical Cooperative Organization (SACO) intelligence officers Raymond Kotrla, Ralph DuBois, and Duncan McCann were aboard to provide naval expertise. As they departed, the lead ship of a Japanese convoy struck a mine, blocking the harbor entrance for the rest of the war. The remainder of the convoy fled toward Hainan island, China to the east, but they would be discovered by a second wave of B-24 bombers, which sank six of the ships. 
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26 Oct 1944 WW2 10 Lancaster bombers of No. 1 Group RAF conducted minelaying operations off Helgoland, Germany; one bomber was lost. 
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26 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Rock sank Japanese tanker Takasago Maru No. 7 with three torpedoes in the South China Sea. 
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26 Oct 1944 WW2 George Giffard was mentioned in a despatch for his service in Burma and India. 
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26 Oct 1944 WW2 B-24 and B-25 bombers of the US 14th Air Force attacked Japanese shipping off Leizhou Peninsula, Guangdong, China. 
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26 Oct 1944 WW2 Shinano completed bow repairs at Yokosuka, Japan. 
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26 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Ticonderoga departed Eniwetok, Marshall islands for Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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26 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Marcus Island launched 12 aircraft to attack and shared the credit for the sinkings of Kinu and Uranami in the Vasayan Sea in the Philippine Islands. 
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26 Oct 1944 WW2 Nachi refueled from oiler Nichiei Maru at Coron, Palawan, Philippine Islands. 
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26 Oct 1944 WW2 A German V-2 rocket hit Palmers Green Station in North London, England, United Kingdom at 1845 hours; detonating next to a stationary train, it seriously injured 15 people, while 38 suffered minor injuries. Elsewhere, another rocket hit Ilford, London, killing 8, seriously injuring 15, and lightly injuring 20. 
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26 Oct 1944 WW2 Archbishop of Canterbury, William Temple, passed away at Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, England, United Kingdom. He was the last Archbishop of Canterbury to die in office and had only recently returned from visiting the Normandy battlefield - the first Archbishop of Canterbury to go into battle since medieval times. 
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26 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Brill was commissioned into service with Commander H. B. Dodge in command. 
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26 Oct 1945 WW2 Du Yuming was named the commanding officer of the Northeastern Provinces Security Command. 
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26 Oct 1945 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru departed Uraga, Japan. 
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26 Oct 1948 RELIGIOUS The Pentecostal Fellowship of North America was organized at Des Moines, Iowa. The association is comprised of 24 Pentecostal groups and meets annually to promote unity among Pentecostal Christians.
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26 Oct 1963 RELIGIOUS One month before his death at age 65, English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter addressed to a child: 'If you continue to love Jesus, nothing much can go wrong with you, and I hope you may always do so.'
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