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History on the 19th of November

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19 Nov 1742 RELIGIOUS English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'Plead His promises, be much in secret prayer, and never give God rest, till your soul is filled with all His fulness.'
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19 Nov 1862 RELIGIOUS Birth of William (Billy) Sunday, American revivalist. Orphaned during the Civil War, Sunday became a major league baseball player 1883_91, then turned to evangelism in 1893, speaking to an estimated total audience of 100 million before his death in 1935.
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19 Nov 1885 RELIGIOUS Birth of Haldor Lillenas, American hymnwriter. He penned nearly 4,000 Gospel texts and hymn tunes during his lifetime, including "It Is Glory Just to Walk With Him," Wonderful Grace of Jesus" and "Peace, Peace, Wonderful Peace."
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19 Nov 1910 RELIGIOUS Swedish Pentecostal missionaries Daniel Berg, 26, and Adolf Vingren, 31, arrived in Brazil. In 1918 they established the first Pentecostal church, from which grew Brazil's largest Protestant body, the Assemblies of God.
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19 Nov 1917 WW2 The destroyer USS Chauncey was lost after a collision with USS Caya in the Straits of Gibraltar. 
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19 Nov 1931 WW2 Chinese General Ma Zhanshan evacuated to Hailun, Heilongjiang Province, China, establishing new defensive positions at Hailun and Baiquan. 
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19 Nov 1932 WW2 German President Paul von Hindenburg met with Adolf Hitler during which Hitler demanded Chancellorship. Hindenburg offered Hitler Chancellorship which had no power to dissolve the Reichstag (thus forcing the Nazi Party to work with rival parties), or the Vice Chancellor position under Franz von Papen. 
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19 Nov 1936 WW2 Perch (Porpoise-class) was commissioned into service. 
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19 Nov 1937 WW2 Lord Halifax met Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden in southern Germany; he failed to achieve any official agreements with the German leader, and gave Hitler the confidence that the current British government would be likely to concede to future German demands. Upon his return, Halifax reported that Hitler did not appear to be pursuing war. 
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19 Nov 1937 WW2 The Wufu defensive line between Shanghai and Nanjing in China was overrun by Japanese troops. to the rear, Lieutenant General Shun Tada ordered Lieutenant General Heisuke Yanagawa to stop the Japanese 10th Army's advance toward Nanjing, but Yanagawa did not comply with the order. 
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19 Nov 1937 WW2 Japanese troops captured Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China; the civilians of the city suffered through days of massacre and rape. 
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19 Nov 1939 WW2 The Heinkel He 177, the German Luftwaffe's only real heavy bomber of the war, took its first flight. 
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19 Nov 1939 WW2 Japanese troops overran the Xiaodong defensive line in Guangxi Province, China, advancing toward Nanning. 
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19 Nov 1940 WW2 357 German aircraft bombed Birmingham, England, United Kingdom overnight, dropping 403 tons of high explosive bombs and 810 incendiary bombs. About 900 were killed and 2,000 injured. 
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19 Nov 1940 WW2 German bombers attacked an Allied convoy in the North Sea 12 miles off the coast of East Anglia, England, United Kingdom, sinking minesweeping trawler HMT Fontenoy and damaging 3 freighters. Sloop HMS Lowestoft shot down one German bomber. 
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19 Nov 1940 WW2 Italian troops were driven across the Kalamas River in northwestern Greece by Greek troops. To the south, British cruiser HMS York arrived at Suda Bay, Crete, Greece and disembarked a battalion of troops. 
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19 Nov 1940 WW2 RAF bombers attacked the Skoda armament plant at Pilsen, Czechoslovakia with little effect. 
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19 Nov 1940 WW2 Noor Inayat Khan joined the British Women's Auxiliary Air Force, receiving the rank of Aircraftwoman 2nd Class. 
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19 Nov 1941 WW2 British newspaper The Times estimated that 82,000 Polish people had been killed since Poland became occupied. 
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19 Nov 1941 WW2 Franz Halder noted in his diary that, in a meeting Adolf Hitler held with his top military leaders on this date, Hitler no longer talked about ending the war in 1941; instead, plans for Soviet targets east of Moscow, Russia were made for spring and summer of 1942. Meanwhile, 70 miles west of Moscow, German 4th Panzer Army attempted to penetrate the gap between the Soviet 30th and 16th Armies which were pushed back on the previous day, but stubborn Soviet resistance slowed the German advance in the area of Istra. 
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19 Nov 1941 WW2 HMAS Sydney was intercepted by German raider Kormoran 140 miles west of Shark Bay, Australia, with Kormoran firing the first shot at 1730 hours. Both ships were heavily damaged after the 20-minute battle. 
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19 Nov 1941 WW2 In northern Russia, Soviet 4th and 52nd Armies continued to attack Tikhvin, held by the Germans, 120 kilometers east of Leningrad. Meanwhile, near Leningrad, General Feofan Nikolaevich Lagunov drove an American-built M1 Scout Car across the frozen Lake Ladoga and declared it safe to use as a truck route. 
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19 Nov 1941 WW2 German 2nd Motor Torpedo Boat Flotilla attacked Allied convoy FS.650 10 miles east of Lowestoft, England, United Kingdom, sinking tanker War Mehtar and transports Aruba and Waldinge. German torpedo boat S.41 collided with a convoy escort and sank. British destroyer HMS Garth was damaged by friendly fire during the engagement. 
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19 Nov 1941 WW2 The Jager Report (issued on 1 Dec 1941) noted that 6 prisoners of war and 8 Polish Jews were killed in Vilnius, Lithuania. 
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19 Nov 1941 WW2 During this month, the excavated fossils of the Peking Man were packed up at the Cenozoic Research Laboratory of the Beiping Union Medical College, and the US Marines stationed in China, who already received orders to be withdrawn, were supposed to bring the bones back to the United States for safekeeping. During the hurried transit between Beiping and the port of Qinghuangdao, the boxes vanished, and had not been found to this day. 
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19 Nov 1941 WW2 Shokaku departed the Inland Sea with Zuikaku for Hittokappu Bay in the Kurile Islands to join the ships massing for the Hawaii Operation. 
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19 Nov 1941 WW2 Kaga departed Saeki Bay off Oita, Japan for Etorofu Island, Kurile Islands. 
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19 Nov 1941 WW2 Italian Ariete Division halted the advance of British 22nd Armoured Brigade at Bir el Gubi, Libya; 40 British Crusader tanks were destroyed or disabled. Elsewhere, British 7th Armoured Brigade continued its advance toward Tobruk, capturing Sidi Rezegh airfield in the process. To the north, tanks of the British 4th Armoured Brigade engaged German tanks of the 21st Panzer Division. 
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19 Nov 1941 WW2 HMS Hermes arrived at Simon's Town, South Africa for a refit. 
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19 Nov 1941 WW2 The Japanese embassy in Washington DC, United States was instructed that, should war be decided with the United States, Japanese public radio broadcast would include the code phrase "higashi no kaze ame" (“east wind rain”), with the Soviet Union "ita no kaze kumori" ("north wind cloudy"), and with the United Kingdom "nishi no kaze hare" ("west wind clear"). This clear preparation for a likely war was intercepted by the Americans. 
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19 Nov 1941 WW2 A ground echelon from US Marine Aircraft Group 21 was dispatched to Midway Island to prepare the island to receive aircraft. 
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19 Nov 1942 WW2 A raid on the German heavy water plant at Telemark, Norway, came to grief when the gliders carrying 34 commandos crashed. After torturous interrogations, all survivors were shot by the Germans. 
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19 Nov 1942 WW2 Axis forces under General Walter Nehring attacked and penetrated the Vichy-French defense line at Majaz al Bab, Tunisia. 
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19 Nov 1942 WW2 Adolf Galland was promoted to the rank of Generalmajor. 
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19 Nov 1942 WW2 Archibald Wavell announced that British involvement in the planned upcoming offensive into Burma would be scaled back to a ground invasion of Akyab island only. 
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19 Nov 1942 WW2 Kenneth Walker unsuccessfully attempted to convince George Kenney to use delayed fuses for aerial bombs; Kenney preferred instantaneous fuses. 
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19 Nov 1942 WW2 Nachi arrived at Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan at 1745 hours. 
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19 Nov 1942 WW2 Having fought the Germans to a standstill, the Soviets launched a surprise counter-attack north and south of Stalingrad, Russia designed to encircle Friedrich Paulus's German 6th Army bogged down in the city. 
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19 Nov 1943 WW2 At 2159 hours near Tarawa, submarine USS Nautilus was mistaken for Japanese ship and was fired upon by destroyer USS Ringgold, blasting a hole in the conning tower. 
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19 Nov 1943 WW2 Senior Lieutenant Koratevitch and Lieutenant Bykov rammed their Ilyuashin Il-2 attack aircraft into a German ship in the Baltic Sea. For this extreme act of bravery both airmen would be awarded the Gold Star. 
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19 Nov 1943 WW2 Lieutenant Colonel Joe Smoak placed US Marine Corps squadron VMF-214 commander Gregory Boyington under arrest for 10 days for speaking to the staff of the wing commander without Smoak's explicit authorization. 
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19 Nov 1943 WW2 The US submarine Sculpin was scuttled by her crew after being severely damaged by Japanese destroyers off Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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19 Nov 1943 WW2 USS Harder detected a convoy of three Japanese transports in the Pacific Ocean and called in two wolfpack mates via radio. She would sink transport Udo Maru, sink transport Hokko Maru, and damage transport Nikko Maru (which would only sink on the next day from rough seas); of the 17 torpedoes fired, 9 scored hits. 
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19 Nov 1943 WW2 En route to a gas chamber at Auschwitz II in Poland, Bina Braun and Rosa Theberger attempted to escape but was caught and shot, and the rest were gassed. The list of 394 prisoners killed on this day was stolen and smuggled to the resistance leader in Auschwitz I camp, who sent the list on to Krakow, Poland on 21 Nov and then to London, England, United Kingdom. 
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19 Nov 1944 WW2 US 95th Division fought its way into Metz, France, but fighting would continue for several more days. 
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19 Nov 1944 WW2 French 1st Armored Division reached the Rhine River near Strasbourg, France. 
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19 Nov 1944 WW2 Czechoslovakian communists issued a resolution from the city of Mukachevo, Slovak Republic requesting the separation of Subcarpathian Ruthenia from Czechoslovakia so that it could join Ukraine. The resolution was backed by the Soviet Union, but the Soviet Union agreed to put off negotiations for such a border change until the end of the war. 
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19 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Kete departed East China Sea due to heavy weather and malfunctioning bow planes. 
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19 Nov 1944 WW2 The first successful test of a rocket-powered Ohka aircraft was conducted, leading to the formal authorization of production. 
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19 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Pintado arrived at Tanapag Harbor, Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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19 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Baya departed Fremantle, Australia for her second war patrol in the South China Sea. 
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19 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Ray rescued a downed pilot from USS Cowpens. 
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19 Nov 1944 WW2 Japanese submarine I-37 was sunk by American ships off Ulithi, Caroline Islands; the four Kaiten submarines aboard that she was supposed to deliver for Operation Gen were also lost. 
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19 Nov 1944 WW2 Shinano was comissioned into service at Yokosuka, Japan with Captain Toshio Abe in command. 
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19 Nov 1944 WW2 1,030 arrested Polish Home Army and other partisan fighters arrived at the NKVD-run Ostashkov Special Camp in Tver Oblast, Russia by a special train after a 7-day journey. 
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19 Nov 1944 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit a car park at Southborough Lane, Bromley in southeast London, England, United Kingdom, across from a crowded pub, at 2115 hours. 23 were killed and 63 were injured. 
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19 Nov 1944 WW2 Evacuating Germans faced an 85-mile traffic jam after the RAF destroyed the Drina bridge near Visegrad, Yugoslavia. 
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19 Nov 1945 WW2 The US Congress voiced its opinion to withdraw US Marines from China. 
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19 Nov 1945 WW2 Commander Keiji Koeu was relieved as the commanding officer of destroyer Yukikaze. 
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19 Nov 1948 WW2 USS Blackfin was decommissioned from service at Mare Island Navy Yard in California, United States. 
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19 Nov 1961 RELIGIOUS The Third Assembly of the World Council of Churches convened at New Delhi, India, during which the International Missionary Council and its work was integrated into the larger ecumenical group.
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