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History on the 28th of November

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28 Nov 1739 RELIGIOUS English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'Follow after, but do not run before the blessed Spirit; if you do, although you may benefit others, and God may overrule everything for your own good, yet you will certainly destroy the peace of your own soul.'
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28 Nov 1863 RELIGIOUS Thanksgiving was first observed as a regular American holiday. Proclaimed by President Lincoln the previous month, it was declared that the event would be observed annually, on the fourth Thursday in November.
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28 Nov 1904 RELIGIOUS Death of Jeremiah E. Rankin, 76, American Congregational clergyman. He authored a number of hymns during his life, including "Tell It To Jesus" and "God Be With You Till We Meet Again."
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28 Nov 1914 WW2 Hugo Sperrle was promoted to the rank of Hauptmann. 
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28 Nov 1916 WW2 A German L.V.G. C.II aircraft flown by Deck Offizier R. Brandt dropped six bombs near Victoria railway station in central London, England, United Kingdom. 
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28 Nov 1917 WW2 Lenin's new commander in chief, a former Tsarist officer named Ensign Krylenko, ordered all hostilities to end on all fronts. 
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28 Nov 1920 WW2 Semyon Timoshenko was awarded the honorary sword to his Order of the Red Banner. 
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28 Nov 1928 WW2 Nachi was commissioned into service and was assigned to the Sasebo Naval District, Japan. 
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28 Nov 1932 WW2 Japanese luxury ocean liner Hikawa Maru departed Kobe for Seattle, her 14th round trip across the Pacific. 
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28 Nov 1932 WW2 HMS Eagle completed a refit at Devonport, England, United Kingdom. 
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28 Nov 1934 WW2 Rudolf Höss was promoted to the rank of SS-Unterscharführer. 
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28 Nov 1934 WW2 Kenkichi Ueda was promoted to the rank of general. 
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28 Nov 1934 WW2 Winston Churchill warned the House of Commons that should Britain be attacked by hostile forces from the air, as many as 40,000 Londoners would be lost in the first week of war. 
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28 Nov 1935 WW2 Mussolini dismissed the 68-year-old General Emilio de Bono as the Italian Commander-in-Chief in East Africa and replaced him with the younger and more energetic Pietro Badoglio, one of Italy's most prestigious soldiers and the Army's Chief of Staff. 
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28 Nov 1936 WW2 3,000 Mongolian and Chinese irregulars loyal to the Japanese-sponsored puppet state Mengjiang launched an offensive toward Bailingmiao, Suiyuan Province, China. 
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28 Nov 1937 WW2 Gao Zhihang's remains reached Yichang, Hubei Province, China. 
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28 Nov 1938 WW2 German police issued orders restricting movement of Jews. 
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28 Nov 1939 WW2 The Soviet Union tore up the Soviet-Finnish non-aggression pact, noting that Finland had committed an act of aggression for the shelling of Mainila, Russia two days prior. Finland presented a witness, a Finnish border guard, who saw that it was the Soviets who fired the mortar rounds. 
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28 Nov 1939 WW2 British Royal Navy trawler HMS Kingston Beryl scuttled the stern section of Swedish tanker Gustaf E. Reuter in the North Sea. Gustaf E. Reuter had been attacked by German submarine U-48 on the previous day, and the bow section had sunk overnight during an unsuccessful towing attempt. 
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28 Nov 1940 WW2 German Reserve Police Battalion 101 was deployed to the Lodz ghetto and was given orders to shoot anyone who came too close to the fence. 
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28 Nov 1940 WW2 British minesweeping trawler HMT Manx Prince hit a mine and sank in the mouth of the Humber Estuary in England, United Kingdom. The entire crew survived. 
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28 Nov 1940 WW2 German submarine U-104 disappeared off the northern coast of Ireland, presumably sunk by a mine. The crew of 49 was never heard from again. 
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28 Nov 1940 WW2 German submarine U-103 sank Greek ship Mount Athos northwest of Ireland at 0842 hours (19 killed) and sank British ship St. Elwyn at 2024 hours (24 killed, 16 survived). 
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28 Nov 1940 WW2 German submarine U-95 attacked Norwegian ship Ringhorn with two torpedoes 300 miles northwest of Ireland, with both missing. At 1025 hours, U-95 fired her deck gun and temporarily stopped Ringhorn; seeing the ship did not sink and U-95 had left the area, the escaped crew reboarded the ship and sailed the ship to Belfast. 
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28 Nov 1940 WW2 Italian destroyers Pigafetta, Da Recco, Pessagno, and Riboty bombarded Greek positions on the island of Corfu. 
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28 Nov 1940 WW2 Flight Lieutenant John Dundas of No. 609 squadron shot down Major Helmut Wick in air combat over the English channel, south of the Isle of Wight. Wick, the Geschwaderkommodore of JG 2, was Germany's current highest scoring ace of the war at the time with 56 kills to his credit. Major Wick was seen to parachute from his Messerschmitt and drift towards the water but his body was never recovered. By a cruel twist of fate, on the day that he died, Major Wick was pictured standing with Hermann Göring on the front cover of the Berlin magazine Illustrirte Zeitung. 
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28 Nov 1940 WW2 Lieutenant General Waichiro Sonobe ordered the Japanese 11th Army to fall back in Hubei Province, China. 
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28 Nov 1940 WW2 Captain Tokuji Mori was named the commanding officer of Settsu. 
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28 Nov 1940 WW2 Operation Collar: British Royal Navy Force H handed off the responsibility of escorting Allied convoy ME4 to the Royal Navy Mediterranean Fleet. At 1430 hours, British freighters Clan Forbes and Clan Fraser of this convoy reached Malta. British freighter New Zealand Star would continue sailing, escorted by cruisers and destroyers, for Alexandria, Egypt. 
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28 Nov 1940 WW2 German Luftwaffe bombers attacked Liverpool, England, United Kingdom overnight. A parachute mine hit Edge Hill Training College on Durning Road, the site of a large underground shelter; the blast, boiling water from a damaged boiler, and gas from damaged pipes killed 166 of the about 300 civilians taking shelter there. 96 were seriously injured. 
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28 Nov 1941 WW2 The German 3.Panzerkorps evacuated Rostov-on-Don, Russia due to lack of supplies; the city was reoccupied by Soviet forces later on the same day. 
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28 Nov 1941 WW2 The air echelon of US Marine Fighter Squadron 211 secretly flew 12 F4F-3 fighters from Ewe to Ford Island for further transfer to USS Enterprise. Later on the same day, USS Enterprise set sail for Wake Island. En route, Captain G. D. Murray of the USS Enterprise informed his subordinates that the carrier was now operating under war conditions. 
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28 Nov 1941 WW2 US Navy Commander W. S. Cunningham relieved US Marine Corps Major James P. S. Devereux as the overall commanding officer of Wake Island. 9 US Navy officers and 58 sailors arrived with Cunningham aboard seaplane tender USS Wright. 
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28 Nov 1941 WW2 German 7th Panzer Division crossed the Yakhroma bridge over the Moskva-Volga canal 37 miles north of Moscow, Russia at 0330 hours, but it would be driven back at the end of the day. 
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28 Nov 1941 WW2 British 7th Armored Division attacked German 15th Panzer Division with numerical superiority, but the Germans continued to press on toward Tobruk, Libya. Nearby, commanding officer of the German 21st Panzer Division General Johann von Ravenstein was captured by troops of the New Zealand 2nd Infantry Division. 
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28 Nov 1941 WW2 While being shadowed by German submarine U-95, Dutch submarine O-21 fired two stern torpedoes at its stalker 125 miles east of Gibraltar, sinking the German boat; 35 were killed, 12 survived and captured. 
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28 Nov 1941 WW2 US Navy-chartered passenger liner President Harrison departed from Shanghai, China for the Philippine Islands with the final elements of the US 4th Marine Regiment. 
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28 Nov 1941 WW2 USS Marblehead arrived at Tarakan, Borneo, Dutch East Indies. 
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28 Nov 1941 WW2 A state funeral was held for Werner Mölders in Berlin, Germany. 
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28 Nov 1941 WW2 Joachim von Ribbentrop met with Hiroshi Oshima in Berlin, Germany, promising that Germany would declare war on the United States should Japan and the US enter a state of war; Ribbentrop, however, did not know Japan was planning on starting the war soon. 
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28 Nov 1941 WW2 Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini arrived in Berlin, Germany. 
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28 Nov 1941 WW2 Allied convoy PQ-4 arrived at Arkhangelsk, Russia. 
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28 Nov 1941 WW2 Naka arrived at Mako, Pescadores islands. 
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28 Nov 1942 WW2 Infantry of British 11th Brigade and tanks of US 1st Armored Division attacked Djedeida, Tunisia unsuccessfully, losing 19 tanks in the process. 
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28 Nov 1942 WW2 USS Gar began her fifth war patrol. 
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28 Nov 1942 WW2 Repair ship Akashi completed the repair work for destroyer Ariake at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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28 Nov 1942 WW2 Nachi arrived at Kakumabetsu, Paramushiro (Paramushir), Kurile Islands in the morning and departed at 1200 hours. 
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28 Nov 1942 WW2 About 1,000 Jews from Ciechanów ghettos in Poland arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp; after the selection 325 men and 169 women were registered in the camp, and the remaining about 506 people were gassed. 
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28 Nov 1942 WW2 Air Marshal Trafford L. Leigh-Mallory took over RAF Fighter Command from Sholto Douglas. 
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28 Nov 1942 WW2 Joseph Rochefort arrived at the Federal Building in San Francisco, California, United States and reported to the headquarters of the Western Sea Frontier. He would soon be asked to establish and command a naval intelligence center that covered the entire Alaska-California coastline. 
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28 Nov 1942 WW2 In the United States, Rabbi Stephen Wise held a press conference on the Nazi extermination of European Jews. 
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28 Nov 1943 WW2 The Teheran Conference began between Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill. 
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28 Nov 1943 WW2 USS Wake Island anchored at Bremerton, Washington, United States to take on supplies. 
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28 Nov 1943 WW2 Lieutenant General Walter Krueger, commanding officer of US Sixth Army, established on Fergusson Island, Australian Papua the Alamo Scouts, an all volunteer elite unit consisting of small teams which could operate deep behind enemy lines to gather intelligence for the Sixth U.S. Army. 
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28 Nov 1943 WW2 Repair ship Akashi completed the repair work for cruiser Maya at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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28 Nov 1943 WW2 10 RAF Mosquito aircraft attacked Essen, Germany. 
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28 Nov 1943 WW2 British Eighth Army forced a second bridgehead across the Sangro River in Italy; German Generalmajor G. H. von Ziehlberg was seriously wounded in the action. 
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28 Nov 1944 WW2 Allies began to operate the port in Antwerp, Belgium. 
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28 Nov 1944 WW2 US Ninth Army reached the Roer River in Germany. 
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28 Nov 1944 WW2 French First Army surrounded Burnhaupt-le-Bas, France, but not before most of German LXIII Korps escaped. 
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28 Nov 1944 WW2 Albania was liberated by the Albanian partisans. 
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28 Nov 1944 WW2 Anglo-Indian troops captured Kalewa, Burma. 
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28 Nov 1944 WW2 Louis Mountbatten sent Air Marshal Richard Peirse and Lady Auchinleck back to England when their affair became common knowledge in India. 
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28 Nov 1944 WW2 German troops captured Monte Belvedere 61 kilometers southwest of Bologna, Italy. 
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28 Nov 1944 WW2 Shinano departed Yokosuka, Japan with 2,175 officers and crew, 300 shipyard workers, and 40 civilians on board at 1800 hours, escorted by destroyers Isokaze, Yukikaze, and Hamakaze. 
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28 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Preston guarded carriers while the carriers launched strikes against Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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28 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Wake Island arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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28 Nov 1945 WW2 Submarine Marlin was struck from the US Naval Registrar. 
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28 Nov 1945 WW2 Submarine Pollack was restored onto the US Naval Register. 
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28 Nov 1945 WW2 The US 4th Marine Division was deactivated at Camp Pendleton, California, United States. 
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28 Nov 1945 WW2 Sable was struck from the US Naval Vessel Register. 
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28 Nov 1945 WW2 Wolverine was struck from the US Naval Vessel Register. 
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28 Nov 1945 WW2 Marblehead was struck from the US Navy Register. 
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28 Nov 1948 WW2 USS Gar arrived at Cleveland, Ohio, United States to serve as a training submarine for the 4th Naval District. 
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28 Nov 1950 RELIGIOUS A constitutional convention (comprised of 14 Protestant, Anglican, and Eastern Orthodox denominations) met in Cleveland, Ohio, and brought into being the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Today, the NCCC serves to administer disaster relief, strengthen family life, provide leadership training, and promote world peace.
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28 Nov 1984 RELIGIOUS Pope John Paul II completed the last of 133 homilies in St. Peter's Square on the theme, "Theology of the Body." It was the first time in public catechesis that a pope made use of higher criticism of the Old Testament and freely cited a number of Protestant theologians.
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