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History on the 16th of November

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16 Nov 1621 RELIGIOUS The Papal Chancery first adopted January 1st as the beginning of the calendar year. Previously, March was the first month, which explains why our modern names for the 9th_12th months begin instead with prefixes meaning "7" (sept_), "8" (oct
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16 Nov 1894 RELIGIOUS Death of James McCosh, 83, Scottish_born theologian and educator. President of Princeton from 1868_88, McCosh was one of the first orthodox clergymen in America to accept and defend the theory of evolution.
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16 Nov 1916 WW2 USS Arizona departed Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York, United States for shakedown training. 
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16 Nov 1918 WW2 The Hungarian Republic was established. 
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16 Nov 1918 RELIGIOUS In NY City, the United Lutheran Church was organized by a merger of three general Lutheran bodies in the U.S. and Canada. (In 1962, the ULC became one of the branches of Lutheranism which formed the Lutheran Church in America.)
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16 Nov 1921 WW2 Joseph Rochefort requested transfer to battleship USS Connecticut. 
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16 Nov 1927 WW2 Saratoga was commissioned into service. 
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16 Nov 1933 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt recognized the Soviet Union. 
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16 Nov 1933 WW2 Submarine tender Taigei was commissioned into service. 
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16 Nov 1934 WW2 Emperor Showa visited the Nakajima aircraft plant at Ota, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. 
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16 Nov 1935 WW2 Blohm & Voss Shipyard in Hamburg, Germany received the contract for laying down the hull of the future battleship Bismarck; the construction number was BV 509. 
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16 Nov 1936 WW2 Spanish Nationalist Colonel José Varela's troops had forced a bridgehead over the River Manzanares en route to Madrid, Spain. They would capture almost three quarters of the University City in the coming week before being stopped by Spanish Republican militias. 
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16 Nov 1936 WW2 John Winant began his second term as the Chairman of the United States Social Security Board. 
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16 Nov 1936 WW2 Soviet pilot Pavel Rychagov was shot down in Spain in an I-15 fighter; he survived the crash. 
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16 Nov 1936 WW2 Captain Ryozo Fukuda was named the commanding officer of Nachi. 
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16 Nov 1936 WW2 The US 2nd Marine Brigade completed a three-day training exercise with US Navy warships at San Clemente Island, California, United States. 
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16 Nov 1937 WW2 Chiang Kaishek ordered Chinese government ministries and agencies to depart from the capital city of Nanjing within the next three to four days. 
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16 Nov 1937 WW2 Liu Cuigang's remains were buried at the Air Force Martyrs Cemetery on Purple Mountain in Nanjing, China. 
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16 Nov 1938 WW2 Lavrentiy Beria personally interrogated Yakov Serebryansky, a former NKVD leader; Serebryansky later reported that he was beaten severely until he agreed to sign a previously prepared confession document.  
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16 Nov 1939 WW2 In Egypt, Major General Michael O'Mare Creagh replaced Major General P. C. S. "Hobo" Hobart as GOC of the Mobile Division (Later 7th Armoured). 
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16 Nov 1940 WW2 American destroyer Punkett intercepted German tanker Phrygia; Phrygia's crew scuttled the ship to avoid capture. 
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16 Nov 1940 WW2 The Greek 3rd Army Corps broke through the Italian 9th Army defensive line at Korcë, Albania. Far to the south, 4,230 British troops arrived at Pireaus, Greece by sea. 
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16 Nov 1940 WW2 German submarine U-65 sank British ship Fabian with torpedo and her deck gun 250 miles southwest of Sierra Leone, killing 6. 33 survivors were briefly interrogated, given food and water, and placed in lifeboats; they would later be rescued by British tanker British Statesman. 
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16 Nov 1940 WW2 German submarine U-137 sank British ship Planter 30 miles north of Ireland at 2015 hours; 13 were killed and 60 survivors were picked up by British destroyer HMS Clare. 
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16 Nov 1940 WW2 British anti-submarine trawler HMT Arsenal collided with Polish destroyer Burza 4 miles south of Toward, Clyde River estuary, Scotland, United Kingdom. Arsenal sank as her depth charges were detonated, which damaged HMS Arrow which came to rescue survivors. Tug Superman also participated in the rescue. 
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16 Nov 1940 WW2 Heinz Guderian was named commander of Panzer Group 2. 
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16 Nov 1940 WW2 RAF bombers attacked Hamburg, Germany again for the second day in a row. 
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16 Nov 1941 WW2 Japanese carrier fleet exercised in the Kurile Islands. 
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16 Nov 1941 WW2 Canadian troops arrived at Hong Kong. 
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16 Nov 1941 WW2 British Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Keyes' team, tasked with capturing or assassinating Erwin Rommel in Libya, hid during daylight and moved into positions after sundown. 
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16 Nov 1941 WW2 German 3rd Panzer Party established a crossing over the Lama River 70 miles west of Moscow, Russia. 
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16 Nov 1941 WW2 British corvette HMS Marigold damaged German submarine U-433 with depth charges 50 miles east of Gibraltar at 2255 hours. After U-433 surfaced, Marigold continued to attack her with guns. U-433's crew scuttled the boat after suffering 6 killed; the 38 survivors were captured. 
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16 Nov 1941 WW2 Allied convoy PQ-3 departed Hvalfjörður, Iceland in stormy weather. 
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16 Nov 1941 WW2 Obsolete Japanese battleship Settsu began to sail around the Inland Sea in Japan to generate fake radio communication messages at different ports. 
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16 Nov 1941 WW2 Crown Prince Yi Un was attached to the training department of the Japanese Army. 
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16 Nov 1941 WW2 On this Sunday, a Catholic Mass was secretly held in a dark aisle between bunks on the second floor of Block 4 at Auschwitz Concentration Camp. 
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16 Nov 1941 WW2 The German 11.Armee captured Kerch, Russia. Soviet Deputy Navy Commissar Admiral Gordei Levchenko was arrested after being deemed responsible for this defeat. 
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16 Nov 1942 WW2 Georg von Bismarck was promoted to the rank of Generalleutnant posthumously. 
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16 Nov 1942 WW2 American destroyers sank German submarine U-173 off Casablanca, French Morocco. 
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16 Nov 1942 WW2 The first US Marine night fighter squadron, VMF(N)-531, was commissioned at Cherry Point, North Carolina, United States under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Frank Schwable. 
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16 Nov 1942 WW2 Oberfeldwebel Karl Lipp of the German Kampfgeschwader 55 wing was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. 
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16 Nov 1942 WW2 Two or three US B-24 bombers were destroyed while a further two were damaged during an accident during a takeoff at the Iron Range airfield in Queensland, Australia. 
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16 Nov 1942 WW2 Repair ship Akashi completed the repair work for destroyer Kuroshio at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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16 Nov 1942 WW2 The Italian Air Force merged its "Loreto" combat engineers battalion and the 1st Air Force Paratroop Unit to form the 1st Air Force Assault Regiment "Amedeo d'Aosta" at Marsala, Sicily, Italy. 
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16 Nov 1942 WW2 Captain Akira Sone was named the commanding officer of Nachi. 
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16 Nov 1942 WW2 Joseph Rochefort was transferred to the US Navy Office of the Chief of Naval Operations based in Washington DC, United States. Later in the day, he wrote a personal letter to his former subordinates in Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, noting that his relief was the result of politics, and asking them to be loyal to his successor William Goggins, who was not part of the bureaucratic in-fighting. 
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16 Nov 1943 WW2 Greek island Leros again surrendered to the Germans; Germans carried out severe reprisals against the Italians who cooperated with British forces. 
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16 Nov 1943 WW2 British bombers attacked the Telemark heavy water plant in Norway, which was in the process of being rebuilt by the Germans. 
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16 Nov 1943 WW2 US 705th Railway Grand Division, the 758th Railway Shop Battalion, and the 721st, 725th, 726th, 745th, and 748th Railway Operating Battalions were transferred to British India to assist in the expansion of railway systems from India to Burma. 
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16 Nov 1943 WW2 7th Fighter Squadron (both flying P-40 aircraft) of USAAF 49th Fighter Group was transferred out of Port Moresby to Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua. 
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16 Nov 1943 WW2 The US submarine Corvina was torpedoed and sunk by the Japanese submarine I-176 off Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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16 Nov 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Yokosuka, Japan for her 16th voyage with the Japanese Navy. 
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16 Nov 1943 WW2 USS Cero arrived at Midway Atoll, ending her first war patrol. 
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16 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Trepang departed for her second war patrol. 
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16 Nov 1944 WW2 US First and Ninth Armies began attacking east of Aachen, Germany, aimed at the Roer Dams. 
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16 Nov 1944 WW2 With sufficient ports now usable by the Allies in Europe, the Red Ball Express was shut down. 
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16 Nov 1944 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit Collier Row in Romford, Essex, England, United Kingdom, killing 12 and injuring 32. 
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16 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Becuna departed Fremantle, Australia for her second war patrol. 
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16 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Guitarro arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her third war patrol. 
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16 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Ray fired two torpedoes at a grounded Japanese transport in the Philippine Islands; both torpedoes missed. 
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16 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Astoria departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for Eniwetok, Marshall Islands after conducting 16 days of gunnery exercises in Hawaiian waters. 
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16 Nov 1944 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze departed Brunei, Borneo to escort a task force to Kure, Japan. 
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16 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Segundo departed Majuro, Marshall Islands for her second war patrol. 
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16 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Sterlet sank a small Japanese submarine chaser in the Pacific Ocean, hitting her with one of four torpedoes. 
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16 Nov 1945 WW2 88 German rocket scientists were brought into the United States. 
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16 Nov 1945 WW2 Albert Wedemeyer ordered that public saluting for US servicemen in Shanghai, China was no longer required unless on official business. 
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16 Nov 1946 RELIGIOUS The Evangelical United Brethren Church was constituted at Johnstown, PA by a merger of the United Brethren in Christ and the Evangelical Church. The new denomination originated in the work of two German Reformed pastors, Philip W. Otterbein and Martin Boehm, who had ministered among Pennsylvania Germans two centuries earlier.
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16 Nov 1952 RELIGIOUS "Our Goodly Heritage" debuted over CBS television. This Sunday morning Bible study program, hosted by William Rush Baer of New York University, aired a little over five years.
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