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History on the 17th of November

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17 Nov 0003 RELIGIOUS (BC) According to early Christian theologian Clement of Alexandria (ca.155_ca.220 AD), Jesus Christ was born on this date.
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17 Nov 1758 RELIGIOUS English churchman Philip Embury, 30, married Margaret Switzer. Afterward immigrating to America, Embury was later encouraged by his cousin Barbara Heck to found a Methodist society in New York City in 1768. Embury thus became the first Methodist preacher in North America.
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17 Nov 1775 RELIGIOUS Anglican hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'Rational assent may be the act of our natural reason; faith is the effect of immediate almighty power.'
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17 Nov 1876 RELIGIOUS English_born Rodney ("Gipsy") Smith, 16, was converted to a living faith. Smith later became an English Wesleyan singing evangelist whose preaching emphasized the love of God.
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17 Nov 1906 RELIGIOUS In Toronto, Ellen Hebden experienced a Pentecostal baptism, followed soon after by her husband James. Their East End Mission afterward became a source and focal point for establishing Pentecostal holiness throughout Canada.
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17 Nov 1914 WW2 Battleship HMS Royal Oak was launched. 
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17 Nov 1931 WW2 Japanese troops attacked Qiqihar, Heilongjiang Province, China. Chinese troops, out-gunned, attempted to hold defensive lines against Japanese artillery bombardment and cavalry charges. 
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17 Nov 1932 WW2 Franz von Papen resigned as the Chancellor of Germany. 
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17 Nov 1933 WW2 The first non-political prisoners were sent to concentration camps in Germany. 
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17 Nov 1934 WW2 The first manufacturing drawing of the fuselage of the later-christened Hurricane fighter was completed. 
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17 Nov 1936 WW2 Submarine ShCh-205 was commissioned into service. 
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17 Nov 1937 WW2 Jiang Dingwen was named the director of the military commission of Xi'an, China. 
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17 Nov 1939 WW2 Supreme Allied War Council approved a plan for British and French war production. 
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17 Nov 1939 WW2 Plans were made for British and French troops to move into Belgium to counter a possible German invasion, but reconnaissance parties were denied entry into Belgium to avoid provoking Germany. 
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17 Nov 1939 WW2 U-36 set sail for Basis Nord, a secret base on the Kola Peninsula in northern Russia provided by the Soviet Union. 
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17 Nov 1939 WW2 Japanese troops landed at Fangcheng and Beihai in Guangxi Province, China. 
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17 Nov 1939 WW2 Massive Czech student uprising resulted in executions of 9 student leaders, the closing of Czech colleges and universities, and the movement of over 1,000 students to concentration camps. 
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17 Nov 1940 WW2 Adolf Galland claimed his 53rd, 54th, and 55th victories. 
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17 Nov 1940 WW2 British Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding was removed as the head of RAF Fighter Command after losing a political struggle with Sholto Douglas and other Big Wing proponents. 
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17 Nov 1940 WW2 German submarine U-137 attacked Allied convoy HG-46 40 miles north of Ireland, sinking British ship Saint Germain at 2014 hours (entire crew of 18 survived) and Swedish ship Veronica at 2040 hours (17 killed, 3 survived). 
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17 Nov 1940 WW2 Greek 3rd Army Corps engaged in heavy fighting with Italian 9th Army near Korcë, Albania. 
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17 Nov 1940 WW2 Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weißenfeld scored his first victory; his victim was a British Wellington bomber. 
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17 Nov 1940 WW2 Pierre Barjot was assigned to Marseille, France to oversee merchant shipping. 
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17 Nov 1940 WW2 Overnight, RAF bombers raided Hamburg, Germany for the second consecutive night. 
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17 Nov 1940 WW2 British aircraft carrier HMS Argus launched 12 Hurricane and 2 Skua aircraft to reinforce Malta, but 6 Hurricane aircraft were ditched at sea and 1 Skua aircraft crash landed on Sicily, Italy after becoming lost. 
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17 Nov 1941 WW2 US Congress amended the Neutrality Act of 1939, thus allowing American merchant ships to be armed and allowing them to enter war zones. 
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17 Nov 1941 WW2 The United States delivered escort carrier Archer to the United Kingdom, the first of 38 escort carriers that would be delivered during the war under Lend-Lease. 
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17 Nov 1941 WW2 The Reichskommissariat Ostland was established under Alfred Rosenberg to administer territories taken from the Soviet Union. 
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17 Nov 1941 WW2 German troops near Moscow, Russia fought Central Asian troops for the first time (Soviet 44th Cavalry Division) at Musino, Russia, 70 miles west of the capital. German artillery blunted the cavalry charges, with the Germans claiming 2,000 killed. 
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17 Nov 1941 WW2 Japanese Navy Admiral Yamamoto revealed the Pearl Harbor attack plan to the naval leadership. 
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17 Nov 1941 WW2 German submarine U-331 landed eight commandos on the Egyptian coast to mine the railway line near Daba, 60 miles west of Alexandria. They would soon be captured before they completed their mission. 
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17 Nov 1941 WW2 Soviets dispatched several small teams to test the thickness of the ice on Lake Ladoga near Leningrad, Russia. 
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17 Nov 1941 WW2 Allied convoy QP-2 arrived at Kirkwall, Scotland, United Kingdom and convoy PQ-4 departed Hvalfjörður, Iceland. 
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17 Nov 1941 WW2 Following twelve months of illness, depression and strain at the Luftwaffe's increasing losses on the Eastern Front, Generaloberst Ernst Udet, the German Director General of Air Armament, commited suicide by shooting himself. Udet, Germany's second highest fighter ace of the First World War (behind the Red Baron) with 62 kills, had already lost favour with Hitler after the air force's performance in the Battle of Britain. The official version was that he had died whilst testing a "new weapon" and Jagdgeschwader 3 was named in his honour. Udet was accorded a state funeral at which he was eulogised by Hermann Göring, who described him as his "best friend". 
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17 Nov 1941 WW2 Kaga arrived at Saeki Bay off Oita, Japan and embarked 100 aerial torpedoes. 
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17 Nov 1941 WW2 British Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Keyes led the daring Operation Flipper commando raid to either kill or capture Rommel at his Afrika Korps Headquarters at Sidi-Rafa. He was mortally wounded and the other commandos were forced to withdraw. Only two men made it back, the rest being either killed or captured. Keyes would be awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross even though the raid was doomed from the start - Rommel was not even at Sidi-Rafa. 
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17 Nov 1941 WW2 German Luftwaffe III./KG 55 received orders to relocate from Kirovograd, Ukraine to Saint-André-de-l'Eure, France for rest and refitting after spending only seven weeks at Kirovograd. 
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17 Nov 1941 WW2 The ration of canned meat, canned fish, and canned beans began in the United Kingdom; this was announced 15 days earlier by the British Minister of Food. 
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17 Nov 1941 WW2 Japanese special envoy Kurusu Saburo arrived in Washington DC and met with US Secretary of State Cordell Hull. 
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17 Nov 1942 WW2 American troops captured Gafsa, Tunisia and British 36th Brigade engaged German forces at Djebel Abiod, Tunisia. German General Walter Nehring arrived in Tunis, Tunisia to lead a counterattack against the Allies. The Italians formally absorbed the French Protectorate of Tunisia into the borders of Italian North Africa. 
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17 Nov 1942 WW2 British Admiral Sir Max Horton was appointed the Commander-in-Chief of Western Approaches Command. 
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17 Nov 1942 WW2 Archibald Wavell gave up the amphibious component to the planned assault on Arakan Peninsula, Burma (largely due to the lack of landing craft, the majority of which were assigned to Operation Torch in North Africa and to the Pacific Theater), and told Noel Irwin to focus on ground assault through Mayu Hills only. 
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17 Nov 1942 WW2 The Americans launched ten bombers to attack Rabaul, New Britain, but due to stormy weather only five of them arrived over the Japanese base, and only one was successful in dropping its payload, hitting nothing. One of the ten airfield failed to return after the mission, having disappeared en route. 
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17 Nov 1942 WW2 Allied troops advanced in Australian Papua towards Buna and Gona. Meanwhile, the 3rd Battalion of Japanese 229th Infantry Regiment and 300 reinforcements landed near Gona. 
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17 Nov 1942 WW2 Repair ship Akashi began repairing destroyer Ikazuchi at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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17 Nov 1942 WW2 The Stoneage convoy departed Alexandria, Egypt for Malta. 
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17 Nov 1942 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo was granted audience with Emperor Showa. 
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17 Nov 1942 WW2 Allied convoy QP-15 departed Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. It was consisted of 28 freighters and was escorted by one anti-aircraft vessel, five minesweepers, four corvettes, and two destroyers. 
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17 Nov 1942 WW2 British Admiral Max Horton was appointed Commander-in-Chief Western Approaches Command with his Headquarters at Northways, North London, England, United Kingdom. 
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17 Nov 1943 WW2 Shokaku's commanding officer Captain Hiroshi Matsubara was relieved; the successor was unknown. 
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17 Nov 1943 WW2 Koichi Shiozawa passed away from an acute pancreas ailment. 
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17 Nov 1943 WW2 Australian 9th Division launched an offensive to take Sattelberg, New Guinea. 
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17 Nov 1943 WW2 Soviet troops captured Korosten, Ukraine. 
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17 Nov 1943 WW2 Bataan (Independence-class) was commissioned into service. 
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17 Nov 1943 WW2 USS Gunnel started her third war patrol. 
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17 Nov 1943 WW2 US Marine Corps squadron VMF-214 began training missions in the South Pacific. 
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17 Nov 1943 WW2 Japanese submarine I-176 fired three torpedoes at an un-identified enemy submarine south of Truk in the Caroline Islands, claiming two hits. The target might be USS Corvina. 
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17 Nov 1943 WW2 Foch's wreck was captured by the Germans at Toulon, France. 
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17 Nov 1943 WW2 The British government announced that Sir Oswald Mosley, well-known British fascist, was to be released from imprisonment due to health reasons, to public protest. 
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17 Nov 1944 WW2 Japanese physicist Yoshio Nishina reported to his army liaison officer Major General Nobuji that the atomic bomb research project under him had not made much progress in the past nine months. This was partly because his cyclotron could not operate at full power due to the poor quality vacuum tubes. 
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17 Nov 1944 WW2 Seisho Maru was damaged by a torpedo from USS Sunfish in the East China Sea. 
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17 Nov 1944 WW2 Vice Admiral Kinpei Teraoka was named the commanding officer of the Japanese Navy 3rd Air Fleet. 
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17 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Becuna damaged four Japanese ships: tanker San Luis Maru, tanker Tokuwa Maru, a transport, and cargo ship. 
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17 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Ticonderoga arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands together with other ships of Task Group 38.3. 
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17 Nov 1944 WW2 Destroyer Yuzuki arrived at Kure, Japan. 
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17 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Gunnel attacked a Japanese convoy in the South China Sea, sinking passenger-cargo ship Shunten Maru and damaging several ships; 16 torpedoes were expended during this attack, 7 of which scored hits. 
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17 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Sunfish attacked a Japanese convoy in the Yellow Sea, sinking Edogawa Maru and Seisho Maru, hitting them with 6 of 16 torpedoes fired; her wolfpack mates USS Peto and USS Spadefish claimed several other ships. 
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17 Nov 1944 WW2 Allied convoy RA-61A arrived at Loch Ewe, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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17 Nov 1945 WW2 USS Boarfish departed Apra Harbor, Guam. 
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17 Nov 1945 WW2 Stepan Petrichenko (who had participated in the 1921 Kronstadt mutiny but had since became loyal to the Soviet Union once again, acting as a Soviet spy in Finland) was found guilty of counter-revolutionary activities and of being a spy for Finland. The NKVD sentenced him to 10 years in labor camps. 
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17 Nov 1948 WW2 The nationalised British Steel Industry was established in the United Kingdom. 
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