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History on the 28th of October

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28 Oct 1646 RELIGIOUS At Nonantum, Mass., colonial missionary John Eliot ("Apostle to the New England Indians"), 42, conducted the first Protestant worship service for the Indians of North America. He also delivered the first sermon preached to the Indians in their native tongue.
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28 Oct 1777 RELIGIOUS Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter; 'The Lord usually reserves dying strength for a dying hour.'
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28 Oct 1820 RELIGIOUS Birth of John H. Hopkins, a leader in the development of Episcopal church hymnody during the mid-19th century. Today, he is better remembered as the author and composer of the Christmas hymn, "We Three Kings of Orient Are."
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28 Oct 1911 WW2 Haichou fired on revolutionary forces at Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. 
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28 Oct 1911 WW2 Haichen fired on revolutionary forces at Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. 
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28 Oct 1914 WW2 Michio Kobayashi was born. 
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28 Oct 1916 WW2 German fighter Ace Hauptmann Osward Boelcke was killed when the wing of his Albatros scout was struck by the undercarriage of another Albatros flown by Leutnant Boehme. 
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28 Oct 1918 WW2 Karl von Le Suire was awarded the Wound Badge in Black. 
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28 Oct 1918 WW2 Settsu hosted Emperor Taisho during a naval review off Yokohama, Japan. 
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28 Oct 1922 WW2 Four columns of National Fascist Party paramilitary personnel, as known as the Blackshirts, marched into Rome. As a result, King Vittorio Emanuele handed over political power to Benito Mussolini. 
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28 Oct 1929 WW2 Black Monday: In the United States, Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 13% on the stock market. 
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28 Oct 1930 WW2 Cruiser Köln began to perform gunnery drills in the North Atlantic. 
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28 Oct 1932 WW2 HMS Hermes arrived at Hong Kong. 
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28 Oct 1936 WW2 The first 25 I-15 fighters, accompanied by 15 Soviet pilots, arrived in Cartagena, Spain. 
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28 Oct 1937 WW2 Japanese troops attacked the Sihang Warehouse in Shanghai, China with light field guns. In the evening, trucks loaded with donated supplies from Shanghai residents reached the warehouse; Japanese snipers killed three Chinese soldiers while they were unloading the trucks. 
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28 Oct 1938 WW2 Germany expelled 15,000 to 17,000 Jews of Polish origin across the Polish border. 
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28 Oct 1939 WW2 German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee received fuel from and transferred British prisoners to tanker Altmark near Tristan de Cunha in the South Atlantic. 
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28 Oct 1939 WW2 USS Pollack arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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28 Oct 1940 WW2 Pierre Laval became the Foreign Minister of Vichy France. 
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28 Oct 1940 WW2 German raider Pinguin and auxilliary minelayer Passat began to lay mines off Sydney, Newcastle, Hobart, Melbourne, and other locations along the long Australian coast line. 
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28 Oct 1940 WW2 HMS Edinburgh completed her refitting at Tyne, England, United Kingdom. 
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28 Oct 1940 WW2 HMS Eagle patrolled the western coast of Greece. 
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28 Oct 1940 WW2 German submarine U-32 sunk British troop ship Empress of Britain, under tow as she was damaged by aircraft two day prior, with two torpedoes 50 miles northwest of Aran Island, Ireland at 0205 hours, killing 25 crew and 20 passengers. At 42,348 tons, she would become the largest German submarine victim. 
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28 Oct 1940 WW2 Greek leader Ioannis Metaxas rejected the Italian ultimatum; realizing the Italians were already preparing for an invasion, he noted "Alors, c'est la guerre" ("Then, it's war"). 85,000 Italian troops crossed the border from Albania, outnumbering the 30,000-strong Greek Army. 
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28 Oct 1940 WW2 Adolf Hitler traveled to Florence, Italy for a meeting with Benito Mussolini in an attempt to stop the Italians from attacking Greece, but it was too late. 
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28 Oct 1940 WW2 Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain pledged support for Greece against the Italian invasion. 
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28 Oct 1940 WW2 An additional 489,000 children had been evacuated from the greater London area in England, United Kingdom. 
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28 Oct 1940 WW2 At 1300 and 1430 hours, German fighters conducted sweeps towards the British airfield at Biggin Hill in England, United Kingdom, but were turned back. Between 1630 and 1710 hours, Bf 109 fighter-bombers and Ju 88 bombers attacked various sites in southern England; 2 Bf 109 and Ju 88 aircraft were shot down without any British aircraft losses. Overnight, London and Birmingham were bombed. 
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28 Oct 1941 WW2 34,000 Jews were massacred in Kiev, Ukraine. 
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28 Oct 1941 WW2 American destroyer Anderson detected a submarine contacted and dropped depth charges; shortly after, she reported seeing "considerable oil slick". 
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28 Oct 1941 WW2 German submarine U-432 sank British ship Ulea 320 miles northeast of the Azores islands at 0500 hours; 19 were killed, 9 survived and were rescued by British corvettes HMS La Malouine and HMS Bluebell. 
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28 Oct 1941 WW2 German submarine U-106 sank British ship King Malcolm in the North Atlantic, killing all 38 aboard. 
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28 Oct 1941 WW2 German submarine U-68 sank British ship Hazelside 600 miles southeast off the island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic at 0343 hours; 2 were killed, 44 survived and picked up by British merchant ship Malayan Prince. 
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28 Oct 1941 WW2 Axis forces rehearsed for the planned assault on the besieged city of Tobruk, Libya. 
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28 Oct 1941 WW2 Aleksandr Vasilevsky was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. 
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28 Oct 1941 WW2 Zang Shiyi signed a document in Nanjing, China that formally recognized Manchukuo's recognition of fellow Japanese-sponsored puppet state in the formal Chinese capital. 
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28 Oct 1941 WW2 Soviet General Grigoriy Savchenko was executed without trial. 
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28 Oct 1941 WW2 Nikolai Rychagov, Rychagov's wife, and other accused conspirators were executed by the Soviets near Kuibyshev (now Samara), Russia. 
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28 Oct 1941 WW2 The Soviet Military Collegium evacuated Moscow, Russia for Chkalov (now Orenburg), Russia. 
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28 Oct 1942 WW2 The construction of the Alaska-Canadian Highway was completed; it would not be dedicated until 20 Nov 1942. 
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28 Oct 1942 WW2 Allied convoy UCF 1, containing troops and equipment for the invasion of French North Africa, was met by carriers Ranger, Sangamon, Suwannee, Chenango, and Santee which had sailed from Bermuda. Task Force 34 now contained the full invasion force of 102 ships, carrying 35,000 American troops; the force sailed for Casablanca. 
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28 Oct 1942 WW2 Australian troops captured Kokoda airfield in New Guinea. 
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28 Oct 1942 WW2 Shokaku arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands for emergency repairs. 
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28 Oct 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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28 Oct 1942 WW2 Repair ship Akashi began repairing carrier Shokaku at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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28 Oct 1942 WW2 From his headquarters in Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, Chester Nimitz sent Ernest King a message protesting Joseph Rochefort's removal. 
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28 Oct 1942 WW2 USS Whale patrolled the waters south of Bungo Channel between the islands of Shikoku and Kyushu, Japan. 
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28 Oct 1942 WW2 The first transport from Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in occupied Czechoslovakia arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp in occupied Poland. 
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28 Oct 1943 WW2 USS Flying Fish sank a Japanese transport east of the Philippine Islands, hitting her with 1 of 4 torpedoes fired; she attacked another transport of the same convoy four hours later in failure, with all 3 torpedoes fired missing. 
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28 Oct 1943 WW2 US 2nd Marine Parachute Battalion landed by sea at Voza on Choiseul Island in Operation Blissful. 
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28 Oct 1943 WW2 Naka arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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28 Oct 1943 WW2 Italian destroyers FR 23 and FR 31, which were captured French destroyers previously named Tigre and Trombe, were returned to the French Navy at Bizerte, Tunisia. The high tension between Italian and French sailors led to a brawl, which was broken up by American military policemen. 
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28 Oct 1943 WW2 USS Luce arrived at Bremerton, Washington, United States. 
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28 Oct 1944 WW2 German forces evacuated Albania. 
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28 Oct 1944 WW2 German forces in Netherlands started withdrawing to Walcheren in the face of Canadian pressure. 
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28 Oct 1944 WW2 German 4.Armee stubbornly resisted around Goldap, East Prussia, Germany, halting the Soviet advance. 
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28 Oct 1944 WW2 The Finnmark region of Norway was ordered by the Germans to be evacuated and destroyed. Nearly 50,000 people were forced to flee and over 10,000 homes are destroyed. 
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28 Oct 1944 WW2 One day after a mission over Rabaul, New Britain in which unmanned TDR drones damaged some buildings, the US Navy canceled the TDR project. 
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28 Oct 1944 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze arrived at Brunei. 
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28 Oct 1944 WW2 General Rudolf Viest sent a message to the Czechoslovakian government-in-exile in Britain that the organized resistance had ended. 
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28 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Sea Cat departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. 
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28 Oct 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Composite Squadron 90 (VC-90) on board. 
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28 Oct 1944 WW2 The US 5th Army offensive Bologna, Italy began to stall. 
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28 Oct 1944 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. 
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28 Oct 1944 WW2 Unryu departed Kure, Japan. 
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28 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Wasp departed waters off Philippine Islands for Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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28 Oct 1944 WW2 Nachi arrived at Manila Bay, Philippine Islands and entered drydock at No. 103 Repair Facility at Cavite for repairs. 
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28 Oct 1944 WW2 Allied convoy JW-61 arrived at the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. 
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28 Oct 1944 WW2 HMS King George V departed Scapa Flow, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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28 Oct 1947 WW2 Louis Mountbatten was made Earl Mountbatten of Burma. 
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28 Oct 1948 WW2 The High Command Trial (The United States of America vs. Wilhelm von Leeb, et al) ended in Nuremberg. 13 generals and 1 admiral of the German military were tried, many of them were found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. 
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28 Oct 1949 RELIGIOUS American missionary martyr Jim Elliot, 22, inscribed in his journal perhaps the most oft-quoted of all his sayings: 'He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.'
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