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History on the 24th of November

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24 Nov 1703 RELIGIOUS In Philadelphia, German_born pastor and hymnwriter Justus Falckner, 31, became the first Lutheran clergyman to be ordained in America.
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24 Nov 1713 RELIGIOUS Birth of Father Junipero Serra, Spanish missionary to western America. From 1769, he established 9 of the first 21 Franciscan missions founded along the Pacific coast, and baptized some 6,000 Indians before his death in 1784.
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24 Nov 1838 RELIGIOUS Canadian Sulpician missionary Franois Blanchet, 43, first arrived in the Oregon Territory. A native of Quebec, he spent 45 years planting churches in the American Northwest, and is remembered today as the "Apostle of Oregon."
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24 Nov 1880 RELIGIOUS In Montgomery, AL, more than 150 delegates from Baptist churches in 11 states met to form the Baptist Foreign Missions Convention of the United States. Liberian missionary William W. Colley was chief organizer, and the Rev. William H. McAlpine was elected the first president.
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24 Nov 1917 WW2 In Russia, the old Tsarist courts and legal codes were abolished. Judges were told by Lenin to make use of what they needed from the old legislation but to be guided by revolutionary consciousness when arriving at their judgements. 
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24 Nov 1917 WW2 Masafumi Arima departed for a training tour in the Inland Sea of Japan. 
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24 Nov 1918 WW2 Submarine R-5 was launched at Quincy, Massachusetts, United States, sponsored by Miss Margaretta King. 
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24 Nov 1918 WW2 The nation of Yugoslavia was established. 
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24 Nov 1922 WW2 General Shinnosuke Kikuchi was named the commanding officer of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea, relieving Jiro Oba. 
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24 Nov 1932 WW2 The FBI Crime Lab was established in the United States. 
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24 Nov 1933 WW2 Germany passed laws noting that a habitual criminal, defined as a person convicted of two criminal offenses, could be detained in a concentration camp indefinitely. 
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24 Nov 1936 WW2 The United States Social Security Administration began distributing SS-5 application forms for the future issuing of Social Security Numbers. 
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24 Nov 1936 WW2 Chinese and Mongolian troops engaged in heavy combat near Bailingmiao, Suiyuan Province, China starting at 0100 hours through dawn, pushing back Mongolian forces back repeatedly. Chinese generals Sun Changsheng and Sun Lanfeng chose to make a major push despite sunrise, which meant Japanese air support might arrive at any time. Spearheaded by armored cars, Chinese troops pushed into the town of Bailingmiao, taking it by 0930 hours. 600 to 700 Monglians were killed, 200 were captured; the Chinese suffered 300 killed and wounded. Chinese troops captured 10 field guns, 10 machine guns, 600 rifles, several radios, 500 barrels of gasoline, a food storage dump, an ammunition dump, and many horses. 
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24 Nov 1937 WW2 Kaga arrived off Guangdong Province, China and began launching aircraft against Chinese positions near Guangzhou. 
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24 Nov 1937 WW2 River gunboat USS Guam arrived at Hankou, Hubei Province, China to protect American interests in the temporary Chinese capital. 
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24 Nov 1938 WW2 Adolf Hitler ordered his top military leaders to prepare plans for the invasion of the Free City of Danzig, but careful to include that it was not to include war with Poland. 
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24 Nov 1939 WW2 Gestapo executed 120 Czech students accused of participating in an anti-Nazi conspiracy. 
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24 Nov 1939 WW2 Japanese 5th Division captured Nanning, Guangxi Province, China. 
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24 Nov 1940 WW2 Prime Minister Vojtech Tuka of Slovakia signed the Tripartite Pact. 
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24 Nov 1940 WW2 The British Treasury canceled the bank holiday Boxing Day. 
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24 Nov 1940 WW2 German destroyers Galster, Lody, and Beitzen departed Brest, France after sundown to attack British shipping off Cornwall, southwestern England, United Kingdom, sinking Belgian trawler Marguerite Simonne and Dutch ship Apollonia (killing 15). Five British destroyers were dispatched to hunt down the attackers, but failed to locate them. 
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24 Nov 1940 WW2 British anti-submarine trawler HMT Amethyst hit a mine and sank in the Thames Estuary in southern England, United Kingdom; the entire crew of 7 survived. 
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24 Nov 1940 WW2 German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer stopped British ship Port Hobart near the Azores; the crew was imprisoned and Port Hobart was scuttled. 
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24 Nov 1940 WW2 German bombers dropped 156 tons of high explosive bombs and 12,500 incendiary bombs on Bristol, England, United Kingdom. Historical buildings such as the Dutch House and St Peter's Hospital, and various buildings in the historical Castle Park district, were damaged. 207 were killed, 689 were injured, and 1,400 were made homeless. 
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24 Nov 1940 WW2 Formidable was commissioned into service. 
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24 Nov 1940 WW2 After dark and into the next date, aircraft from HMS Eagle struck Tripoli harbor, Libya. 
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24 Nov 1940 WW2 Operation Collar: Allied convoy ME4, with 3 merchant ships and a powerful escort fleet, passed the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean Sea, sailing for Malta. 
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24 Nov 1941 WW2 German Luftwaffe Leutnant Heinz Schnabel and Oberleutnant Harry Wappler received 28-day solitary confinement sentences by their British captors for their nearly-successful escape attempts from a prisoner or war camp in Britain. Masquerading as Dutch pilots in the RAF, they managed to get airborne before realizing they had not enough fuel to reach France, causing them to turn back to Britain. 
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24 Nov 1941 WW2 Elements of German LVI Panzer Corps captured Rogachevo, Russia, north of Moscow. To the south of the Soviet capital, XXIV Panzer Corps captured the road junction at Venyov 30 miles east of Tula. 
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24 Nov 1941 WW2 German submarine U-124 sank British cruiser HMS Dunedin 650 miles east of Natal, Brazil at 1521 hours, hitting her with two torpedoes. 236 were killed; 250 survived the sinking, but only 67 would survive the entire ordeal, succumbing to wounds, drowning, and shark attacks. 
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24 Nov 1941 WW2 British landing ship HMS Prince Leopold landed 90 men of British No. 9 Commando battalion at Butte de Houlgate, France, who captured some classified documents and immediately returned to Britain aboard the same ship. 
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24 Nov 1941 WW2 German 4th Motor Torpedo Boat Flotilla attacked Allied convoy FS.654 off East Anglia, England, United Kingdom, sinking British tanker Virgilia (23 killed, 17 survived) and Dutch ship Groenlo (10 killed). 
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24 Nov 1941 WW2 The United States government announced the takeover of the defence of Dutch Guiana in South America as a precaution against the Germans securing the use of the French base at Dakar in Africa. 
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24 Nov 1941 WW2 The Theresienstadt camp was established in occupied Czechoslovakia to serve as a transit point for Jews en route to concentration camps to the east. 
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24 Nov 1941 WW2 German and Italian tanks advanced and split the British XXX Corps in Libya, but Allied aircraft halted the attack. The offensive was uncoordinated and achieved little. 
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24 Nov 1941 WW2 USS Gar departed New London, Connecticut, United States. 
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24 Nov 1941 RELIGIOUS American Trappist monk Thomas Merton wrote in his "Secular Journal": 'Spiritual dryness is an acute experience of longing therefore of love.'
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24 Nov 1942 WW2 During the night, Japanese bombers struck Darwin, Australia. 
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24 Nov 1942 WW2 US Marines advanced to Poho, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 
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24 Nov 1942 WW2 The 3rd Battalion of the "San Marco" naval infantry regiment of Italian Navy completed its transfer from Corsica, France to Tunisia. 
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24 Nov 1943 WW2 Doris Miller passed away. 
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24 Nov 1943 WW2 British Army Sergeant Thomas Derrick won the Victoria Cross in New Guinea after volunteering to go out alone to tackle Japanese gun positions. He destroyed 10 with grenades, enabling the Australian advance to continue. Derrick did not live to receive the medal, dying from wounds sustained in a later action in Borneo in May 1945. 
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24 Nov 1943 WW2 Albert W. Grant was commissioned into service. 
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24 Nov 1943 WW2 USS Puffer departed Fremantle, Australia for her second war patrol in the Sulu Sea area off the Philippine Islands. 
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24 Nov 1943 WW2 US Army aviation engineering units arrived in India to expand airfields in the Calcutta area. 
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24 Nov 1943 WW2 The still under construction Torokina Airfield at Bougainville, Solomon Islands saw its first unscheduled landing, an emergency landing by a US Navy SBD aircraft. 
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24 Nov 1943 WW2 6 RAF Mosquito aircraft attacked Berlin, Germany; one aircraft was lost. 
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24 Nov 1943 WW2 Before dawn, while on display at a museum in Berlin, Germany, the Do X aircraft was destroyed by British bombing. 
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24 Nov 1943 WW2 USS Luce departed Hawaiian Islands waters. 
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24 Nov 1943 WW2 Allied convoy JW-54A arrived at the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. 
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24 Nov 1943 WW2 USS Wasp was commissioned into service with Captain Clifton A. F. Sprague in command. 
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24 Nov 1944 WW2 The Royal Canadian Navy corvette Shawinigan was torpedoed off Newfoundland and went down with all 91 hands. 
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24 Nov 1944 WW2 Allied troops crossed the Saar River on the border of France and Germany. 
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24 Nov 1944 WW2 French 2nd Armored Division captured Strasbourg, France while French First Army captured Mühlhausen in Alsace, France. 
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24 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Kete arrived at Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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24 Nov 1944 WW2 Chinese troops captured Mengka, Yunnan Province, China. 
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24 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Alabama arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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24 Nov 1944 WW2 The first B-29 bombing raid against Tokyo, Japan from Tinian in the Mariana Islands took place; 88 American aircraft participated in this mission. 
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24 Nov 1944 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze arrived at Kure, Japan. 
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24 Nov 1944 WW2 Japanese Navy officially accepted M6A Seiran seaplane for service. 
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24 Nov 1944 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit McCullum Road, Poplar in East End of London, England, United Kingdom at 2030 hours. 18 were killed and 53 were injured. 
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24 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Escolar was officially listed as lost. 
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24 Nov 1945 WW2 Per orders of United States Secretary of War Robert Patterson, all cyclotrons in Japan were destroyed. 
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24 Nov 1945 WW2 USS Menhaden became Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz's flagship at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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24 Nov 1947 WW2 The First Auschwitz Trial against 40 former camp staff members, including Arthur Liebehenschel, began in Kraków, Poland. 
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