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History on the 27th of October

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27 Oct 1553 RELIGIOUS In Switzerland, Spanish physician Michael Servetus, 42, convicted for promulgating anti-Trinitarianism, was condemned for heresy and blasphemy, and burned at the stake in Geneva.
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27 Oct 1771 RELIGIOUS Landing at Philadelphia, pioneer bishop Francis Asbury, 26, first arrived in America. He had been sent from England by John Wesley to oversee Methodism in the American colonies, and stayed all of his remaining 45 years, till his death in 1816.
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27 Oct 1889 RELIGIOUS The first Lithuanian Church in America was organized in Plymouth (near Wilkes-Barre), PA. Rev. Alexander Burba was its first pastor.
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27 Oct 1913 WW2 USS Idaho was placed in reserve in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. 
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27 Oct 1923 WW2 Prince Hiroyasu was named the protocol officer of the Imperial court. 
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27 Oct 1923 WW2 Prince Kotohito was made the Protocol Officer. 
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27 Oct 1923 WW2 Excursion steamer Greater Buffalo was launched at the American Ship Building Company of Lorain, Ohio, United States. 
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27 Oct 1924 WW2 The Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic was formed. 
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27 Oct 1926 WW2 Prince Hiroyasu's fifth child, Princess Atsuko, married Count Yukiyasu Kiyosu. 
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27 Oct 1933 WW2 Irina Cioc received her pilot's license, becoming the second Romanian woman to do so. 
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27 Oct 1936 WW2 Preston (Mahan-class) was commissioned into service. 
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27 Oct 1936 WW2 Mrs. Wallis Simpson, mistress of King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, was awarded a decree nisi in her divorce proceedings against her second husband. 
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27 Oct 1937 WW2 Republican forces in Spain set fire to their fuel reserves in Gijon, Spain to avoid Nationalist capture. 
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27 Oct 1937 WW2 Vincenzo Gioberti was commissioned into service. 
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27 Oct 1937 WW2 After taking Shanghai North Railway Station in the morning, Japanese troops moved on to launched a small scale attack the Sihang Warehouse on the north bank of the Suzhou River in Shanghai to test Chinese defenses. The Japanese avoided using mortars and other weapons of greater firepower, including aerial bombardment, to avoid hitting the international zone just across the river. 
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27 Oct 1937 WW2 The keel of US battleship USS North Carolina (BB-55) was laid down at New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York, United States. 
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27 Oct 1938 WW2 Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano persuaded German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop that Germany and Italy should arbitrate over the Czechoslovakian-Hungarian territorial dispute. 
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27 Oct 1939 WW2 Heinz Guderian was awarded the Knight's Cross to the Iron Cross. 
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27 Oct 1939 WW2 The US Consul at Gibraltar met with British authorities to protest the detention of American merchant ships by the United Kingdom. 
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27 Oct 1940 WW2 Free French forces from Cameroon attacked Vichy French forces in Gabon, penetrating 70 miles across the border and capturing the town of Mitzic. 
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27 Oct 1940 WW2 Men of British destroyer HMS Broke was ordered to attach tow lines on the troop ship Empress of Britain, which was disabled on the previous day by German aircraft. Tugs HMS Marauder and HMS Thames arrived to tow the former luxury liner for Clyde River, Scotland, United Kingdom with destroyers and aircraft in escort. 
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27 Oct 1940 WW2 Italian submarine Nani sank Swedish ship Meggie 70 miles southeast of the Azores Islands; the entire crew of Meggie survived. 
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27 Oct 1940 WW2 Late in the evening, Italian ambassador in Athens Emanuele Grazzi issued an ultimatum, demanding that Italian troops be allowed occupy strategic positions in Greece. 
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27 Oct 1940 WW2 British intelligence intercepted a German radio message referring to the continuation of training for the invasion of Britain, and determined that if German troops were still in this early stage of preparations, than an invasion would not take place in the very near future. 
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27 Oct 1940 WW2 Aircraft from HMS Eagle struck the Italian seaplane base at Maltezana, Rhodes, Greece. 
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27 Oct 1940 WW2 5 raids of 50 to 60 German aircraft attacked Britain throughout the day, most of which were German fighter-bombers and medium bombers, but Italians also contributed several BR20M bombers for the attack on Ramsgate, England, United Kingdom; 6 German fighters and 4 bombers were shot down, while the British lost 8 fighters with 4 pilots killed. Overnight, London and Liverpool were bombed. 
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27 Oct 1941 WW2 Soviet forces launched multiple counter-attacks around Moscow, Russia, trying to blunt the German advance. German troops were now positioned in the west at Volokolamsk 60 kilometers from Moscow and in the south at Plavsk 110 kilometers from Moscow. 
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27 Oct 1941 WW2 Mountbatten replaced Roger Keyes as the British Chief of Combined Operations. 
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27 Oct 1941 WW2 President Franklin Roosevelt addressed his country, noting that the German attack on the destroyer USS Kearny "was to frighten the American people off the high seas - to force us to make a trembling retreat", claiming that the "American spirit" was now "aroused". 
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27 Oct 1941 WW2 HMS Cossack, damaged by German submarine U-563 300 miles west of Gibraltar on 24 Oct 1941, sank while under tow. 
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27 Oct 1941 WW2 British submarine HMS Tetrach, one day out of Malta, hit an Italian naval mine and sank between Sicily and Tunisia; all 62 aboard were killed. 
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27 Oct 1941 WW2 The Jager Report (issued on 1 Dec 1941) noted that 946 adult male, 184 adult female, and 73 children, all Jews, were killed in Vilnius, Lithuania for a total of 1,203 people. 
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27 Oct 1941 WW2 USS Arizona entered the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, US Territory of Hawaii for overhaul, during which she would receive a mounting atop her foremast for future installation of a search radar. 
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27 Oct 1941 WW2 Admiral Thomas Hart, having changed his mind on moving the US fleet at the Philippine Islands south to combine with the British allies, decided to base his main force in Manila Bay. 
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27 Oct 1941 WW2 Erich von Manstein's German Eleventh Army broke through the mud and fog on the Perekop Isthmus into the Crimean Peninsula in Russia. 
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27 Oct 1941 WW2 The trial of twenty-eight people indicted on a charge of being in violation of the 1861 Sedition Act and the Smith Act began at the Federal District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. 
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27 Oct 1942 WW2 USS Hornet was lost during the naval Battle of Santa Cruz. 
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27 Oct 1942 WW2 Himmler ordered the destruction of the last major Ukrainian ghetto in Pinsk. 
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27 Oct 1942 WW2 A second conference on the sterilization of undesirable peoples took place in Germany. 
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27 Oct 1942 WW2 Heavy fighting was observed at "Woodcock" and "Snipe" positions in Egypt. 
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27 Oct 1942 WW2 USS S-31 patrolled the waters off Paramushiro Island, Kurile Islands. 
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27 Oct 1942 WW2 9 Chinese A-29 Hudson light bombers attacked Japanese positions at Yungcheng, Shanxi, China; the 12 escorting Chinese P-43 fighters destroyed one Japanese aircraft on the ground. 
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27 Oct 1942 WW2 Tenryu arrived at Rabaul, New Britain. 
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27 Oct 1942 WW2 USS Flying Fish departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her third war patrol. 
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27 Oct 1942 WW2 USS Whale patrolled the waters south of Bungo Channel between the islands of Shikoku and Kyushu, Japan. 
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27 Oct 1943 WW2 After suffering severe injuries in a car crash, Feldmarschall von Kluge was invalided home. 
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27 Oct 1943 WW2 Johnston was commissioned into service. 
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27 Oct 1943 WW2 USS Flying Fish sank two Japanese transports east of the Philippine Islands in two separate attacks, hitting them with 3 of 10 torpedoes fired. 
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27 Oct 1943 WW2 From Rabaul in New Britain, Jinichi Kusaka reported to his superiors at the Combined Fleet headquarters at Truk, Caroline Islands that only 10 D3Y dive bombers, 70 A6M fighters, and 36 G3M bombers were left at Rabaul. He requested four divisions of fighters and three divisions of dive bombers to be sent to reinforce the base. 
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27 Oct 1943 WW2 New Zealand 8th Brigade captured Mono Island and Stirling Island of Treasury Islands of the Solomon Islands. 
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27 Oct 1943 WW2 Bernard Montgomery restarted the British offensive on the eastern shore of Italy. 
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27 Oct 1943 WW2 Italian Navy formed the "NP" battalion under Commander Junio Valerio Borghese for saboteur work. 
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27 Oct 1943 WW2 Nachi arrived at Akkeshi Bay, Hokkaido, Japan. 
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27 Oct 1943 WW2 USS Grayback fired six torpedoes at a Japanese convoy in the East China Sea, sharing credit for one transport sinking. 
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27 Oct 1943 WW2 4th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron of 13th Composite Wing of 72nd Observation Group of US Army Air Forces was assigned to Borinquen Field in Puerto Rico. 
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27 Oct 1943 WW2 Sterlet was launched at Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine, United States, sponsored by the wife of Charles A. Plumley. 
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27 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Franklin provided support for campaign at Leyte, Philippine Islands through 30 Oct 1944. 
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27 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Rock fired nine torpedoes to scuttle the damaged submarine USS Darter on Bombay Shoal in the Spratly Islands; three hits were recorded. 
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27 Oct 1944 WW2 Allied troops captured Den Bosch, Tilburg, and Bergen op Zoom in the Netherlands. 
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27 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Snook fired 3 torpedoes at a Japanese tanker; all torpedoes missed the target, but another Japanese ship was hit by one of them, causing damage. 
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27 Oct 1944 WW2 Rear Admiral Tomozo Kikuchi was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Navy 2nd Air Fleet. 
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27 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Cero damaged two small Japanese boats with gunfire west of the Philippine Islands. 
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27 Oct 1944 WW2 Roza Shanina was awarded the Medal for Courage. 
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27 Oct 1944 WW2 Unmanned TDR drones attacked Rabaul, New Britain with bombs, damaging some buildings. 
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27 Oct 1944 WW2 Slovakian resistance fighters abandoned their headquarters in Banská Bystrica, Czechoslovakia. 
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27 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Bergall sank a Japanese transport in the South China Sea, hitting her with 4 of 6 torpedoes. 
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27 Oct 1944 WW2 Nachi departed Coron, Palawan, Philippine Islands. 
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27 Oct 1944 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho arrived at Kirun (now Keelung), Taiwan and disembarked aviation materials. 
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27 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Shamrock Bay arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, United States, completing her second ferrying mission across the Atlantic Ocean. 
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27 Oct 1945 WW2 Indonesian separatists rioted against Dutch and British security forces. 
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27 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Rock participated in Navy Day celebrations in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. 
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27 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Missouri hosted US President Harry Truman for the annual Navy Day ceremonies at New York, New York, United States. 
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27 Oct 1945 WW2 On this Navy Day holiday in the United States, Harry Truman reviewed the fleet aboard USS Missouri on the Hudson River and then gave a speech in Central Park, New York, New York, United States. 
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27 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Alabama hosted 9,000 civilian visitors at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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27 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Wasp arrived at Boston, Massachusetts, United States. 
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27 Oct 1947 WW2 Fanni Luukkonen passed away from a heart attack in Helsinki, Finland. 
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27 Oct 1948 WW2 Georg von Küchler was given a 20-year prison sentence for atrocities committed against captured Soviet partisan fighters. 
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27 Oct 1963 RELIGIOUS One month before his death at age 65, English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life.'
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27 Oct 1977 RELIGIOUS American missionary and apologist Francis Schaeffer wrote in a letter: 'The unforgivable sin is not something done once and for all and which when done is without remedy. it is the constant, unremitting resistance of the gracious work of the Holy Spirit for salvation.'
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