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History on the 25th of November

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25 Nov 1742 RELIGIOUS In New York, David Brainerd, 24, was approved as a missionary to the New England Indians by the Scottish Society for the Propagating of Christian Knowledge (SPCK). Brainerd worked heroically from Apr 1743 to Nov 1746, before advancing tuberculosis forced him to relinquish his work. (He died in October 1747.)
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25 Nov 1807 RELIGIOUS Anglican missionary Henry Martyn wrote in his journal: 'With thee, O my God, there is no disappointment; I shall never have to regret that I loved thee too well.'
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25 Nov 1820 RELIGIOUS English poet and Oxford Movement leader John Keble, 28, penned the words to the hymn, "Sun of My Soul" ("Sun of my soul, Thou Savior dear, It is not night if Thou be near....").
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25 Nov 1864 RELIGIOUS British Jewish statesman Benjamin Disraeli declared in a speech: 'Man is a being born to believe, and if no church comes forward with all the title deeds of truth, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.'
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25 Nov 1917 WW2 Marcel Albert was born. 
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25 Nov 1918 WW2 German Colonel Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, who had been conducting a successful campaign in east Africa since 1914, surrendered at the Zambezi River in southern Africa. 
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25 Nov 1927 WW2 Having observed poor handling of sensitive codes by other officers in his destroyer squadron while he served aboard USS Macdonough, Joseph Rochefort submitted a report noting so and would soon make recommendations to secure communications. 
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25 Nov 1935 WW2 King George II of Greece returned from exile and retained Georgios Kondylis as Prime Minister. 
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25 Nov 1936 WW2 Japan and Germany signed the Anti-Comintern Pact. 
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25 Nov 1936 WW2 Cummings was commissioned into service. 
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25 Nov 1936 WW2 In a major speech announcing the new Soviet Constitution, Joseph Stalin critically accused democracy in the capitalist countries as being "democracy for only the propertied classes", and further stated that the Soviet Union only needed to be a one-party state as "there was no longer any division between capitalists and workers, landlords and peasants". 
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25 Nov 1937 WW2 Błyskawica was commissioned into service. 
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25 Nov 1937 WW2 From Nanjing, China, German businessman John Rabe sent a message to Adolf Hitler, appealing for the German leader to voice concern over the atrocities committed by the Japanese in China. 
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25 Nov 1938 WW2 German Major General Otto von Loosow passed away. Once the military commander of the region that included Bavaria, von Lossow had been one of the triumphirate appointed, in 1923, by Eugen von Knilling to enforce the state of emergency proclaimed in München (Munich), Germany which had led to the infamous Beer Hall Putsch. 
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25 Nov 1939 WW2 German submarine U-28 sank British merchant ship Royston Grange of Allied convoy SL-8B 50 miles southwest of Land's End, England, United Kingdom at 1319 hours. Between 2200 hours and midnight, German submarine U-43 attacked and sank British ship Uskmouth 120 miles northwest of Cape Finisterre, Spain with gunfire and torpedoes; 2 were killed, 22 survived and rescued by Italian merchant ship Juventus. 
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25 Nov 1940 WW2 During the night 5 British aircraft attacked battleship Tirpitz in bad weather conditions; they scored no hits. 
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25 Nov 1940 WW2 A Hitler decree (the basic law of social housing construction) gave Robert Ley's German Labour Front the project of building 6 million homesteads, at the rate of 300,000 per year. Priority was given to providing homes for German families with children and Hitler alone kept personal responsibility for deciding how many houses should be built. The decree stated that houses were to have a minimum floor area of 62 square metres, a kitchen, two bedrooms, bathroom, hallway and balcony. Each home was also to have an air-raid shelter built to resist a direct hit and large enough to house everyone in the family. 
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25 Nov 1940 WW2 German armed merchant cruisers Orion and Komet stopped New Zealand ship Holmwood 500 miles east of New Zealand, capturing 17 crew, 12 passengers (civilians from the Chatham Islands), and 1,370 sheep. Holmwood was then sunk by gunfire, killing 1 horse. 
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25 Nov 1940 WW2 Jewish paramilitary group Irgun destroyed British liner Patria in Haifa Harbor, Palestine as Patria began to embark Central European Jewish refugees. 213 refugees were killed along with 50 of the 130 British crew. 
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25 Nov 1940 WW2 British minesweeping trawler HMT Conquistador collided with another vessel and sank in the Thames Estuary in southern England, United Kingdom. 
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25 Nov 1940 WW2 British minesweeping trawler HMT Kennymore hit a mine and sank in the Thames Estuary in southern England, United Kingdom, killing 4. 
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25 Nov 1940 WW2 British motor launch ML-111 hit a mine and sank 10 miles off Grimsby in the Humber Estuary in England, United Kingdom, killing 2. 
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25 Nov 1940 WW2 British submarine HMS Talisman disabled a German tanker with a torpedo and captured the French trawler Le Clipper in the Bay of Biscay 10 miles south of Lorient, France. 
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25 Nov 1940 WW2 Japanese 11th Army launched an offensive in Hubei Province, China. 
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25 Nov 1940 WW2 Operation Collar: British Royal Navy Force H under Admiral Somerville departed from Gibraltar to escort Allied convoy ME4 to Malta. 
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25 Nov 1941 WW2 German 2nd Panzer Division was halted by British-built Matilda tanks of the Soviet 146th Tank Brigade at Peshki, 35 miles northwest of Moscow. 30 miles west of Moscow, German 10th Panzer Division and SS Reich Division attacked Istra, which was being defended by Soviet 78th Rifle Division. Finally, German XXIV Panzer Corps launched a new attack 100 miles south of Moscow, cutting the rail line to Moscow near Tula. 
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25 Nov 1941 WW2 Adolf Hitler met with Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, agreeing on the need for the elimination of the "Jewish element". 
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25 Nov 1941 WW2 American submarines Triton and Tambor arrived at Wake Island on "simulated" war patrols. 
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25 Nov 1941 WW2 Indian 7th Brigade repulsed an attack by the German 5th Panzer Regiment at Sidi Omar, Libya. Australian troops from Tobruk linked up with advancing New Zealand forces at Ed Duda, Libya. After dark, Erwin Rommel conducted an inspection of the front, got lost, and was forced to wait until daybreak to find his way back. 
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25 Nov 1941 WW2 German submarine U-331 torpedoed British battleship HMS Barham in the Mediterranean Sea, which went down after a magazine ignited. Fewer than 400 of her crew of 1,258 survived. 
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25 Nov 1941 WW2 Captain James Jackson was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for organising defences at Tobruk, Libya, where he was killed by a mortar splinter. 
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25 Nov 1941 WW2 Soviet patrol vessel CKP-25 rammed German submarine U-578 in the Arctic Sea, causing light damage. 
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25 Nov 1941 WW2 The Jager Report (issued on 1 Dec 1941) noted that 9 adult male, 46 adult female, and 8 children, all Jews, were killed in Vilnius, Lithuania for a total of 63 people. Additionally, 1 Polish national was also executed for possession of arms. 
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25 Nov 1941 WW2 Air Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, the British RAF Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, informed Oliver Lyttelton, Winston Churchill's Minister of State for the Middle East, that General Alan Cunningham was not confident in winning the battle in Libya. The following day Cunningham was relieved as Eighth Army commander. Neil Ritchie would take his place on the following day. 
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25 Nov 1941 WW2 Japanese troops transports en route to Malaya were detected off Taiwan. 
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25 Nov 1941 WW2 Henry Stimson noted in his diary that, during a cabinet meeting, Franklin Roosevelt thought Japan was likely to attack the United States in as soon as one week, and it would provide Roosevelt the reason to take the United States into the war. 
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25 Nov 1942 WW2 Chuyo was commissioned into service. 
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25 Nov 1942 WW2 Over the course of the past 3 days, aircraft of the Royal New Zealand Air Force 3rd Reconnaissance Squadron, US Navy Patrol Squadron 12, US Army 12th, 68th, and 70th Fighter Squadrons, and US Army 69th Bombardment Squadron arrived at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 
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25 Nov 1942 WW2 Adolf Hitler ordered the seizure of the French fleet at Toulon, France. 
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25 Nov 1942 WW2 British submarine HMS Utmost (Lieutenant John Walter David Coombe) was depth charged and sunk by the Italian gunboat Groppo off Sicily, Italy. 
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25 Nov 1942 WW2 USS S-35 arrived at Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska, ending her fourth war patrol. 
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25 Nov 1942 WW2 Ramgarh Trainin Center in India established a special units section; it was to absorb the previously established Chinese language section. 
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25 Nov 1942 WW2 The first deportation of Norwegian Jews to Auschwitz Concentration Camp in occupied Poland took place. 
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25 Nov 1942 WW2 He 111 aircraft from Tatsinskaya Airfield and Morozovskaya Airfield in Rostov Oblast, Russia flew 75 tons of supplies, mostly fuel, into Stalingrad, Russia. 
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25 Nov 1942 WW2 The American newspaper New York Times published an announcement on page ten by Rabbi Wise about the slaughter of two million Jews. 
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25 Nov 1943 WW2 The Battle of Cape St. George took place near Buka Island north of Bougainville in the Solomon Islands; three Japanese destroyers were sunk at the end of what was to be the final surface battle of the Solomon Islands campaign. 
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25 Nov 1943 WW2 At Cairo, Egypt, Chiang Kaishek decided to pull his support for a Chinese invasion of northern Burma due to his perception that the British and the Americans were not putting in their full effort in the theater. 
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25 Nov 1943 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho departed the Inland Sea in Japanese Wars for Tairajima, Bonin Islands. 
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25 Nov 1943 WW2 George Patton sent Dwight Eisenhower a cable apologizing for the public relations row that he had caused. 
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25 Nov 1943 WW2 Father Joseph Lamarre witnessed two Australian and ten American captives, blindfolded and bounded at the wrists, being loaded onto trucks. While the Japanese said that they were being transported to Japan, Lamarre noted that the trucks did not stop by the wharves. Instead, they were taken to a field of volcanic ash near Tavurvur for their execution. US Lieutenant Marcus Mangett, Jr. and US Staff Sergeant Kenneth Vetter, who were wounded and could not stand, were executed by rifle fire. The remaining ten prisoners of war were executed by beheading at the hands of newly arrived junior officers as a test of their courage; the ten victims included Australian Warrant Officer John Bailey, Australian Flight Officer Charles Vincent, US Lieutenant John Rippy, US Lieutenant Philip Bek, US First Lieutenant Ernest Naumann, US Aviation Ordnanceman 2nd Class Harlan Burrus, US Lieutenant Leslie Neuman, US Staff Sergeant Ernest Burnside, US Corporal John Mulligan, and US Private Robert George. 
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25 Nov 1943 WW2 US Marine Corps squadron VMF-214 commanding officer Gregory Boyington was released from his arrest three days early. 
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25 Nov 1943 WW2 Noor Inayat Khan attempted a failed escape attempt from her imprisonment at Sicherheitsdienst (SD) headquarters in Paris, France along with fellow Special Operations Executive agents John Renshaw Starr and Leon Faye. 
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25 Nov 1943 WW2 RAF bombers attacked Frankfurt, Germany; 3 Mosquito aircraft attacked Berlin, Germany as diversion. 
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25 Nov 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Two officers of ACORN-20; 11 officers of ACORN-21; 2 officers of CASU-30; 1 officer of ARGUS-18; 1 officer of ARGUS-21; and 1 officer of ARGUS-22 arrived on board. Parts of ACORN-17 and CASU-16 departed. Part of ARGUS-16 departed. Two officers of ACORN-22 and 1 officer of CASU-30 arrived on board. 
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25 Nov 1943 WW2 Destroyer Yuzuki arrived at Yokosuka, Japan for a scheduled overhaul. 
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25 Nov 1943 WW2 Naka arrived at Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. 
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25 Nov 1943 WW2 6 B-25 bombers of 2nd Bomber Squadron of the Chinese-American Composite Wing and 8 B-25 bombers of US 11th Bomber Squadron, escorted by 8 P-51A and 8 P-38 fighters of US 23rd Fighter Group, attacked Japanese airfields in Taiwan, destroying 32 aircraft without any losses. 
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25 Nov 1943 WW2 Aircraft of US Army 14th Air Force (14 B-25 bombers, 16 P-38 and P-51 fighters) attacked Shinchiku Airfield in Shinchiku (now Hsinchu), Taiwan. US claimed 50 Japanese aircraft destroyed, but Japanese records showed only 4 shot down and 13 destroyed on the ground. 25 Japanese servicemen were killed, and a further 20 were wounded. 2 US aircraft were damaged. US journalist Theodore Harold White observed this attack in one of the bombers. 
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25 Nov 1944 WW2 Yoshimi Minami passed away. 
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25 Nov 1944 WW2 French troops captured Belfort, France. 
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25 Nov 1944 WW2 Hazel Lee died from the wounds received during the landing accident two days prior. 
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25 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Gar reported sinking a Japanese ship in daylight with her deck gun. 
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25 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Mingo sank a Japanese tanker in a night time torpedo attack, hitting her with three of six torpedoes fired. She also damaged an escorting vessel with one of four torpedoes fired. 
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25 Nov 1944 WW2 Yasoshima was sunk by American carrier aircraft west of Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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25 Nov 1944 WW2 He Yingqin was named the commanding officer of all ground troops in the China War Area, with headquarters in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China. In this role he was responsible for all actions in southwestern China. 
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25 Nov 1944 WW2 US and Brazilian troops attacked Monte Castello 61 kilometers southwest of Bologna, Italy. 
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25 Nov 1944 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze departed Kure, Japan to escort battleship Nagato to Yokosuka, Japan. 
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25 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Preston guarded carriers while the carriers launched strikes against Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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25 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Ticonderoga launched Air Group 80 aircraft for strikes on Japanese positions in northern Luzon, Philippine Islands; 2 men and 2 aircraft were lost. 
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25 Nov 1944 WW2 A German V-2 rocket hit near the intersection of High Holborn and Chancery Lane, Holborn, London, England, United Kingdom at 1115 hours, killing 6 and injuring 292. At 1225 hours, another V-2 rocket hit across the street from the Woolworths store in Deptford, London, destroying the store and many nearby building, killing 160 and injuring 199 (77 seriously). 
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25 Nov 1945 WW2 The US Congress again voiced its opinion to withdraw US Marines from China. 
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25 Nov 1945 WW2 Soviet SMERSH operatives arrested Captain Yutaka Takeoka who had previously killed Russian defector Genrikh Lyushkov in Dalian, Liaoning, China (Lyushkov had refused to commit suicide in the face of defeat). 
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25 Nov 1945 WW2 USS Miami received orders to return to the United States. 
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25 Nov 1946 WW2 The city government of Beiping, China renamed a road in honor of Zhao Dengyu. 
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25 Nov 2348 RELIGIOUS _BC_ According to Archbishop James Ussher's Old Testament chronology, the Great Deluge ("Noah's Flood") began on this date.
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