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History on the 29th of October

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29 Oct 1869 RELIGIOUS Birth of E. O. Sellers, American Baptist musician. At various times the song evangelist for R.A. Torrey, Gipsy Smith, A.C. Dixon and J. Wilbur Chapman, Sellers is remembered today for his two original hymns: "Thy Word Have I Hid in My Heart" and "Wonderful, Wonderful Jesus."
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29 Oct 1870 RELIGIOUS Birth of Juji Nakada, Japanese Christian evangelist. In 1901 he influenced Charles and Lettie Cowman (authors of "Streams in the Desert") to come to Japan, where in 1910 they incorporated the Oriental Missions Society.
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29 Oct 1889 RELIGIOUS New York City missions pioneer Albert B. Simpson, 46, incorporated the International Missionary Alliance. Combined in 1897 with a group formerly also organized by Simpson, it became the Christian and Missionary Alliance, one of the most missions-minded denominations in modern American Protestantism.
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29 Oct 1914 WW2 After sundown, as German troops continued to advance in Belgium, eight flood gates of the Noordervaart Canal were opened by the Allies. 
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29 Oct 1918 WW1 Begin of Battle of Sharqat
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29 Oct 1919 RELIGIOUS The Apostolic Christian Association was incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia. It later merged with what is now the International Pentecostal Church of Christ, headquartered in London, Ohio.
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29 Oct 1920 WW2 S-30 was commissioned into service. 
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29 Oct 1921 WW2 Bill Mauldin was born. 
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29 Oct 1929 WW2 HMS Hermes arrived in Hong Kong. 
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29 Oct 1929 WW2 Black Tuesday: In the United States, Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 12% on the stock market. 
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29 Oct 1936 WW2 Soviet tanks and aircraft appeared in the front-line for the first time in the Spanish Civil War. Meanwhile, German and Italian bombers began a series of raids on Madrid, Spain in the hope of destroying civilian resistance. 
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29 Oct 1936 WW2 In Germany, Josef Wagner, the Gauleiter of Silesia, was appointed Price Commissar to ensure that inflation did not undermine the Four Year Plan announced by Hitler in Sep 1936. 
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29 Oct 1936 WW2 T-26 tanks saw their first combat action in Spain. 
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29 Oct 1937 WW2 A 12-foot-wide Chinese flag was raised atop the Sihang Warehouse in Shanghai, China, which was a great morale booster for the defenders fortified inside the building. Meanwhile, western officials in the international zone in Shanghai appealed to Chiang Kaishek to order the defenders in the Sihang Warehouse to withdraw, while negotiating for a short ceasefire agreement from the Japanese so that the withdraw would be conducted in peace. 
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29 Oct 1938 WW2 Czechoslovakia and Hungary agreed to allow Germany and Italy arbitrate their territorial dispute. 
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29 Oct 1938 WW2 Pierre François Boisson was named the acting Governor-General of French West Africa. 
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29 Oct 1938 WW2 Japanese Navy warships entered the harbor of Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, raising the Japanese Navy ensign on the customs buoy. 
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29 Oct 1939 WW2 During the German planning for future invasion in Western Europe, the Netherlands was briefly dropped as a target. 
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29 Oct 1939 WW2 Soviet troops began occupying bases in Latvia while preparing for war with Finland. 
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29 Oct 1939 WW2 The first German aircraft to be shot down in Britain, a He 111 bomber, crashed near Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom. The kill was claimed by No. 602 and No. 603 Squadrons RAF. Two members of the crew of four survived the crash and were captured. 
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29 Oct 1940 WW2 The first British troops arrived at Suda Bay, Crete in Greece; meanwhile, a fleet of 4 battleships, 2 carriers, and 19 destroyers departed from the British naval base at Alexandria, Egypt for Crete. To the north, the Italian invasion advanced slowly. 
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29 Oct 1940 WW2 Conscription, as allowed by the Selective Training and Service Act, began; it was the first military draft during peacetime in US history. 
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29 Oct 1940 WW2 The full mobilization of the Italian Blackshirt units began. 
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29 Oct 1940 WW2 German submarine U-31 sank the drifting wreck of British ship Matina, which was damaged by U-28 on 26 Oct and had already been abandoned, at 2200 hours. 
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29 Oct 1940 WW2 German submarine U-29 made made rendezvous with German armed merchant cruiser Widder, which was returning from her merchant raiding mission for repairs, in the Bay of Biscay west of France. 
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29 Oct 1940 WW2 Werner Mölders claimed his 54th victory. 
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29 Oct 1940 WW2 The British RAF conducted the 25th raid on Berlin, Germany. 
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29 Oct 1940 WW2 Scirè launched three manned torpedoes into Gibraltar harbor. The mission was a failure as one of the torpedoes broke down and the crew of the two torpedoes aborted due to breathing equipment issues. 
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29 Oct 1940 WW2 German bombers conducted several raids in southern England, United Kingdom all day, escorted by Bf 109 fighters, damaging areas of London and Portsmouth. At dusk, German Ju 88 aircraft, acting as dive bombers, attacked airfields in East Anglia, Lincolnshire, and Yorkshire. Italian BR20M bombers bombed Ramsgate in formation. During the day, the Germans lost 22 Bf 109 fighters, 3 Bf 110 fighters, and 2 Do 17 bombers; the British lost 7 fighters with 2 pilots killed; the Italians lost 5 bombers. Overnight, London, Birmingham, and Coventry were bombed. 
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29 Oct 1941 WW2 German submarine U-106 torpedoed and damaged American tanker Salinas off Iceland. 
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29 Oct 1941 WW2 15,000 Jews were massacred in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. Their remains were buried in mass graves at the Ninth Fort. 
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29 Oct 1941 WW2 General Walter Kuntze was named the commanding officer of the German 12th Army. 
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29 Oct 1941 WW2 The Atlantic Amphibious Force, consisted of both US Army and US Marine Corps units and commanded by Major General Holland M. Smith, was redesignated Amphibious Force of the US Navy Atlantic Fleet. 
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29 Oct 1941 WW2 British minesweeping trawler HMS Flotta ran aground off the east coast of Scotland, United Kingdom and became damaged. 
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29 Oct 1941 WW2 USS Astoria arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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29 Oct 1941 WW2 Kampfgruppe Eberbach of German 4th Panzer Division reached Tula, Russia, which was about 110 kilometers south of Moscow. The group dug in near Tula to organize an offensive in the next day. 
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29 Oct 1941 WW2 German forces pushed Soviet units back to Sevastopol, Russia. 
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29 Oct 1941 WW2 Aleksandr Vasilevsky was slightly wounded by a German bomb while working at his office in Moscow, Russia. 
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29 Oct 1941 WW2 Winston Churchill visited the Harrow School in London, England, United Kingdom, which he attended in his younger days. In a speech there, he gave the advice "Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." 
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29 Oct 1942 WW2 Britain advised Italy that Italy would continue to be bombed by the RAF until they stepped out of the war. 
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29 Oct 1942 WW2 German troops were now only 50 miles from the oil fields in Grozny as they captured Nalchik in southern Russia. 
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29 Oct 1942 WW2 USS Grenadier deployed naval mines in the Tonkin Gulf. 
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29 Oct 1942 WW2 Leading British religious and political figures held a public meeting to voice their outrage at the Nazi German treatment of Jews. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sent a message to the meeting, denouncing the German "vile crimes". 
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29 Oct 1942 WW2 Walter Krupinski was awarded the Knight's Cross medal. 
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29 Oct 1942 WW2 USS Skipjack attacked a Japanese oiler off the Palau Islands; all three torpedoes missed. 
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29 Oct 1942 WW2 Repair ship Akashi performed repair work for destroyer Teruzuki at Truk, Caroline Islands. She also began the repair work for cruiser Chikuma. 
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29 Oct 1942 WW2 US freighter Richard H. Alvey and British freighter Empire Galliard departed Iceland in Operation FB. 
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29 Oct 1942 WW2 USS Whale patrolled the waters south of Bungo Channel between the islands of Shikoku and Kyushu, Japan. 
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29 Oct 1942 WW2 16,000 Ukrainian Jews of Pinsk Ghetto in Poland (now in Belarus) were massacred two days after Heinrich Himmler ordered the liquidation of this ghetto. 
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29 Oct 1942 WW2 USS Copahee arrived at San Diego, California, United States and began an overhaul. 
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29 Oct 1942 WW2 Submarine Cisco was laid down at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, United States. 
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29 Oct 1943 WW2 Spanish volunteers from the recently disbanded German 250th Infantry Division began to arrive in Spain. 
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29 Oct 1943 WW2 Colonel General Hans-Valentin Hube replaced Eberhard von Mackensen as the commander of the German 1.Panzerarmee. 
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29 Oct 1943 WW2 Merrill's Marauders, or officially US Army 5307th Composite Unit (provisional), began to arrive in Bombay, India; the unit was being transferred to the Allied South East Asia Command. 
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29 Oct 1943 WW2 USS Seahorse sank a small Japanese vessel with her deck gun south of Japan. 
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29 Oct 1943 WW2 US Task Force 38 sortied from Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides in support of the Bouganville, Solomon Islands invasion. 
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29 Oct 1943 WW2 B-24 bombers, escorted by P-38 fighters, attacked Vunakanau Airfield at Rabaul, New Britain. 72 A6M fighters rose to defend. The Japanese lost at least 7 fighters in combat. 
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29 Oct 1943 WW2 63rd Bomb Sauadron (flying B-24 aircraft) of USAAF 43rd Bomb Group was transferred from Port Moresby to Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua. 
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29 Oct 1943 WW2 Lieutenant General Shinpachi Kondo was named the chief of staff of the Taiwan Army. 
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29 Oct 1944 WW2 Captain and Surgeon Shunroku Kagiyama became the commanding officer of hospital ship Hikawa Maru. 
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29 Oct 1944 WW2 Operation Obviate: 39 British Lancaster bombers attacked German battleship Tirpitz, scoring one near miss 15 meters to port. 
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29 Oct 1944 WW2 The Köln, Germany archive noted that, overnight, British bombers dropped about 4,000 high explosive bombs and 200,000 incendiary bombs on the city. 
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29 Oct 1944 WW2 Allied troops captured Breda, the Netherlands. 
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29 Oct 1944 WW2 Dr. Graeme Warrack, a RAMC Colonel with 1st Airborne Division, who had been in hiding after the last Arnhem casualties in the Netherlands were transferred from hospital to POW camps, escaped and eventually, with the help of the Dutch Resistance, made his way back into the Allied lines. 
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29 Oct 1944 WW2 Major Fred Bollmann and Oberleutnant Werner Thoß of the German Kampfgeschwader 55 wing were awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. 
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29 Oct 1944 WW2 Lavrentiy Beria informed Joseph Stalin that two NKVD regiments were being relocated to the Bialystok, Poland area to bolster total NKVD strength in the region to 4,000 men. The troops were used to suppress the activities of the Polish Home Army. 
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29 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Ticonderoga arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands and joined Task Force 38 of Task Group 38.3. 
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29 Oct 1944 WW2 Leutnant ALfred Shreiber, flying a Me 262 jet fighter, shot down a P-38 or F-5 Lightning aircraft. 
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29 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Sterlet sank a small Japanese freighter in the Pacific Ocean with four torpedoes (all missed) and her deck guns. 
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29 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Boarfish departed New London, Connecticut, United States for the Panama Canal Zone. 
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29 Oct 1944 WW2 While in the drydock at No. 103 Repair Facility at Cavite, Philippine Islands, she was hit by a bomb and was strafed by a US Navy carrier aircraft, killing 53. 
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29 Oct 1944 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit the Beckton Gas Works in London, England, United Kingdom. 
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29 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Whale arrived at Midway Atoll, ending her ninth war patrol. 
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29 Oct 1945 WW2 S-18 was decommissioned from service. 
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29 Oct 1945 WW2 S-40 was decommissioned from service. 
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29 Oct 1945 WW2 Ellet was decommissioned from service. 
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29 Oct 1945 WW2 Trial against Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita began in Manila, Philippine Islands. 
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29 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Alabama departed San Francisco, California, United States and arrived at San Pedro, which was also in California. 
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29 Oct 1946 WW2 Submarine Pollack was struck from the US Naval Register. 
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29 Oct 1955 RELIGIOUS American missionary Jim Elliot, 28, wrote in his journal: 'First time I ever saw an Auca--1500' is a long ways if you're looking out of an airplane.' Ten weeks later, on Jan 8, 1956, Jim and four other missionaries would be speared to death by these same Indians they had come to Ecuador in hopes of evangelizing.
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