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History on the 23rd of November

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23 Nov 1654 RELIGIOUS French mathematician Blaise Pascal, 31, underwent a profound religious conversion. He thereupon abandoned his study of science, having realized that "the Christian religion obliges us to live only for God, and to have no other aim than him."
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23 Nov 1729 RELIGIOUS German_born John Philip Boehm, 46, was formally ordained a pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church. Boehm had previously come to America in 1720, where he began organizing religious services among German Reformed immigrants in Pennsylvania.
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23 Nov 1742 RELIGIOUS English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'Two things I would earnestly recommend to your constant study: the book of God, and your own heart. These two, well understood, will make you an able minister of the New Testament.'
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23 Nov 1920 WW2 Paik Sun-yup was born in Kangso-gun (now Nampho), Phyongannamdo, Korea. 
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23 Nov 1923 WW2 The German coalition government collapsed with the departure of the Socials Democrats. Centrist Wilhelm Marx was appointed Chancellor with his predecessor, Gustav Stresemann, as Foreign Minister. 
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23 Nov 1932 WW2 The construction for Taihoku City Hall began in Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan under the direction of chief engineer Kaoru Ide. 
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23 Nov 1934 WW2 The Dornier Do 17 twin-engine medium bomber took flight for the first time. 
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23 Nov 1934 WW2 Nazi Party member Arthur Greiser became the President of the Senate of Danzig. 
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23 Nov 1936 WW2 The Spanish Nationalist attack toward Madrid had stalled, but the Spanish Republican forces were exhausted as well. Althought Nationalist Colonel José Varela had failed in his primary mission of capturing Madrid, the Nationalists now held areas in the northwest of the city, and it was becoming increasingly obvious that further frontal attacks upon Madrid would be both costly and likely to fail. 
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23 Nov 1936 WW2 Near Bailingmiao, Suiyuan Province, China, Chinese forces began marching toward Mongolian positions at midnight. At 1300 hours, Chinese forces of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army began firing at Mongolian forward posts and took high ground. 
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23 Nov 1939 WW2 RAF claimed seven Luftwaffe aircraft over France. 
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23 Nov 1939 WW2 Rawalpindi stumbled upon German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. When asked to abandon ship, Captain Edward Kennedy turned toward the German ships in an attempt to get into range of her 6-inch guns. She was to be sunk by the German 11-inch guns before she could get close enough. 
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23 Nov 1939 WW2 Adolf Hitler gathered the top German leaders and lectured them on his vision for the future of Germany, which involved an invasion of France. 
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23 Nov 1939 WW2 In an aerial battle over the French border, Leutnant Werner Methfessel became the Luftwaffe's first Bf 110 fighter pilot ace (although the veracity of his claim remained in some doubt). 
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23 Nov 1939 WW2 All Jews above the age of 10 in the General Government in German-occupied Poland were required to wear the Star of David. 
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23 Nov 1939 WW2 Britain recovered a magnetic mine from muddy fields near River Thames in southern England, United Kingdom. 
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23 Nov 1940 WW2 German submarine U-100 attacked Allied convoy SC-11 100 miles off Ireland throughout the day, sinking 6 ships totaling 24,601 tons and killing 119. 
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23 Nov 1940 WW2 German submarine U-123 attacked Allied convoy OB-244 250 miles west of Ireland between 0416 and 0914 hours, sinking 4 ships totaling 20,885 tons and killing 119. After one of the attacks, U-123 collided with one of the sinking ships, damaging the periscope and conning tower, forcing her to sail for Lorient, France for repairs. 
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23 Nov 1940 WW2 German bombers attacked Southampton, England, United Kingdom overnight, damaging British troopship Llandovery Castle and paddle minesweeper Duchess Of Cornwall. 
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23 Nov 1940 WW2 Japanese 11th Army began to prepare for an offensive in Hubei Province, China. The army was organized into five groups under the overall command of Lieutenant General Waichiro Sonobe. 
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23 Nov 1940 WW2 Ion Antonescu of Romania signed the Tripartite Pact in Berlin, Germany. 
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23 Nov 1940 WW2 Nachi arrived at Sasebo, Japan. 
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23 Nov 1940 WW2 It was announced in the United States that Admiral William Leahy was to be appointed Ambassador to France in place of Mr. William Bullitt. 
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23 Nov 1941 WW2 I-68 departed Kwajalein, Marshall Islands for her first war patrol in the Hawaii Islands area. 
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23 Nov 1941 WW2 German forces captured Solnechnogorsk, Russia advanced to within 35 miles of the Soviet capital of Moscow. 
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23 Nov 1941 WW2 US Army troops arrived in Dutch Guiana and occupied the region on behalf of the Dutch government-in-exile in order to protect bauxite mines. 
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23 Nov 1941 WW2 Japanese carriers made a rendezvous at Hitokappu Bay, Kurile Islands, Japan in preparation for the Pearl Harbor attack. On the other side of the international date line, Joseph Rochefort reported to his superiors that his cryptanalytic team had detected a Japanese submarine squadron moving into the Marshall Islands. 
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23 Nov 1941 WW2 Destroyer Yuzuki departed Sakaide, Shikoku, Japan, escorting a troop convoy. 
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23 Nov 1941 WW2 The German ambassador in Japan Eugen Ott warned Germany that the Japanese military seemed to be on the verge of a war, its military preparing to move southward. He was not aware of Japan's plans to attack the United States. 
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23 Nov 1941 WW2 60 trucks brought in 33 tons of flour and 2.5 tons of sugars and fats into besieged Leningrad, Russia, driving across the frozen Lake Ladoga; this was the first of many over-ice truck runs that would ramp up to bring in 100 tons of supplies each day. The population of Leningrad, however, required about 600 tons of supplies for survival. 
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23 Nov 1941 WW2 British Captain Philip Gardner led two Matilda tanks in the rescue of the crews of two armored cars pinned under enemy fire at Tobruk, Libya, becoming wounded in the process. He was later awarded the Victoria Cross award. 
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23 Nov 1941 WW2 The Italian High Command in Rome, Italy agreed to put the Italian XX Mobile Corps, which included the Ariete Division and the Trieste Division, under Erwin Rommel's direct command. On the same day, at the Battle of Totensonntag, Axis troops outflanked British forces south of Sidi Rezegh, Libya, inflicting heavy casualties and forcing the British 7th Armored Division to withdraw 20 miles. 
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23 Nov 1941 WW2 German Luftwaffe II./KG 55 departed Kirovograd, Ukraine for Saint-André-de-l'Eure, France for rest and refitting. 
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23 Nov 1942 WW2 Doris Miller of Pearl Harbor fame began a war bond tour in the United States. 
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23 Nov 1942 WW2 The vital French West African port of Dakar came under Allied control when the Vichy governor changed sides. 
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23 Nov 1942 WW2 Axis forces evacuated Agedabia, Libya. 
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23 Nov 1942 WW2 German submarine U-625 sank British freighter Goolistan at 0145 hours; shortly after, U-601 sank Russian merchant ship Kuznets Lesov; all 82 people aboard the two ships were killed. 
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23 Nov 1942 WW2 Captain Charles Purcell Cecil was named the commanding officer of USS Helena, relieving Captain Gilbert Corwin Hoover. 
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23 Nov 1942 WW2 USS Grampus arrived at Australia, ending her fourth war patrol. 
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23 Nov 1942 WW2 Tenryu arrived at Rabaul, New Britain and was named the flagship of Cruiser Division 18 under Rear Admiral Mitsuharu Matsuyama. 
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23 Nov 1942 WW2 Major General Tomitaro Horii, his chief of staff, and another staff officer died when the canoe on which they traveled aboard capsized in the Kumusi River in Australian Papua. 
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23 Nov 1942 WW2 USS Sunfish departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. 
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23 Nov 1942 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: First dental office. Equipment: one portable field outfit. 
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23 Nov 1942 WW2 The "Riverside" tent area was set up 5 miles west of Ramgarh Training Center in India to house the inflow of troops. 
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23 Nov 1942 WW2 Nachi arrived at Kakumabetsu, Paramushiro (Paramushir), Kurile Islands at 0620 hours and departed at 1400 hours. 
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23 Nov 1942 WW2 The 1219C2 fighting utility knife was adopted by the United States Marine Corps. 
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23 Nov 1943 WW2 Japanese resistance ended on Tarawa and Makin atolls in the Gilbert Islands. 
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23 Nov 1943 WW2 USAAF fighter pilot Chuck Yeager departed for Britain. 
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23 Nov 1943 WW2 Kaiyo was commissioned into service. 
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23 Nov 1943 WW2 In a meeting between Chinese and American leadership in Cairo, Egypt, Chiang Kaishek demanded American supplies for the Chinese war effort; believing that the demands were unreasonable and observing that Chiang would not budge, George Marshall simply stormed out of the meeting. 
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23 Nov 1943 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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23 Nov 1943 WW2 Irako arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands at 1550 hours. 
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23 Nov 1943 WW2 Naka departed Ponape, Caroline Islands. 
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23 Nov 1943 WW2 FR.11 was damaged by Allied bombing at Toulon, France and sank to the bottom. 
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23 Nov 1943 WW2 383 RAF aircraft (365 Lancaster, 10 Halifax, and 8 Mosquito) attacked Berlin, Germany. 
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23 Nov 1943 WW2 Allied troops attacked across the Sangro River, Italy in strength. 
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23 Nov 1943 WW2 Tomokazu Kasai was assigned to a front line fighter squadron based at Matsuyama airfield, Shikoku, Japan. 
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23 Nov 1943 WW2 The USAAF commenced operations with the new P-51A fighter in Asia when eight P-51 fighters from Claire Chennault's 23rd Fighter Group escorted B-25 Mitchell bombers in an attack on the Japanese airfield in Shinchiku Prefecture (now Hsinchu), Taiwan. 
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23 Nov 1944 WW2 Soviet troops entered Czechoslovakia. 
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23 Nov 1944 WW2 Four RAF Mosquito aircraft patrolled near Heligoland, Germany. 
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23 Nov 1944 WW2 Hazel Lee took off from Fargo, North Dakota, United States with a P-63 Kingcobra fighter, landing at Great Falls, Montana, United States shortly after 1400 hours. On the ground, her aircraft collided with another aircraft, causing serious burns. 
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23 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Gar landed 16 men and 25 tons of supplies to Santiago Cove, Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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23 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Hoe departed Fremantle, Australia for her seventh war patrol. 
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23 Nov 1944 WW2 T-44 medium tanks officially entered Soviet Army service. 
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23 Nov 1944 WW2 Fanni Luukkonen stepped down from her position as the chairman of Lotta Svärd as the Finnish organization was forcibly disbanded by the Soviet Union. 
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23 Nov 1944 WW2 Allied troops crossed the Cosina River in Italy. 
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23 Nov 1944 WW2 Destroyer Yuzuki departed Kure, Japan, escorting carrier Junyo. 
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23 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Astoria arrived at Eniwetok, Marshall Islands and celebrated the American holiday of Thanksgiving. Later in the day she departed for Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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23 Nov 1944 WW2 The Macedonian area of Yugoslavia was declared free of Germans. 
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23 Nov 1945 WW2 The United States government ended rationing for butter. 
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23 Nov 1945 WW2 Brigadier General Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Schuyler was named the head of the US section of the Allied Control Commission in Bulgaria. 
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23 Nov 1945 WW2 Arthur Coningham was made Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold and was awarded Croix de Guerre of Belgium with Palms. 
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23 Nov 1946 WW2 French warships bombarded the port of Haiphong, French Indo-China, forcing the communist Viet Minh to agree to a cease fire. 
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23 Nov 1947 RELIGIOUS E. L. Sukenik of Jerusalem's Hebrew University first received word of the existence of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The documents, dating between 200 BC and AD 70, had been accidentally discovered the previous winter (1946_47) by two Bedouin shepherds in the vicinity of Qumran.
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23 Nov 1970 RELIGIOUS Pope Paul VI issued a decree barring cardinals over the age of 80 from voting for a new pope.
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