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History on the 29th of November

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29 Nov 1223 RELIGIOUS Through publication of "Regula Bullata," Pope Honorius III formally authorized the "Regula Prima," a settled rule of organization and administration for the Franciscan order.
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29 Nov 1644 RELIGIOUS The Massachusetts General Court issued a call for local pastors to learn the dialects of neighboring Indian tribes, as an aid toward converting them to the Christian faith.
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29 Nov 1776 RELIGIOUS Anglican hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'He knows our sorrows, not merely as He knows all things, but as one who has been in our situation, and who, though without sin himself, endured when upon earth inexpressibly more for us than He will ever lay upon us.'
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29 Nov 1780 RELIGIOUS In Connecticut, Lemuel Haynes, 27, was licensed to preach in the Congregational Church, becoming the first black minister to be certified by a predominantly white denomination. Five years later, in 1785, Haynes was ordained pastor of a church in Torrington, CT, also making him the first black minister to pastor a white church.
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29 Nov 1922 WW2 Hiroshi Nemoto graduated from the Japanese Army War College. 
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29 Nov 1923 WW2 Crown Prince Yi Un graduated from the Japanese Army War College and was made the commanding officer of a company in the Japanese 2nd Infantry Regiment. 
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29 Nov 1924 WW2 Karl Wiligut was arrested by the police in Austria and was taken to a mental hospital, where he would be diagnosed with schizophrenia. 
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29 Nov 1930 WW2 The Do X aircraft's flight from Germany to the United States was canceled in Lisbon, Portugal due to an accidental fire that damaged the port wing. 
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29 Nov 1936 WW2 ShCh-320 was commissioned into service. 
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29 Nov 1937 WW2 USS Pollack departed Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, United States. 
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29 Nov 1937 WW2 Kaga departed waters south of Guangdong Province, China; some of her aircraft were left behind to operate from airfields in southern China. 
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29 Nov 1937 WW2 USS Permit departed Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States. 
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29 Nov 1939 WW2 British destroyers HMS Kingston, HMS Icarus, and HMS Kashmir forced German submarine U-35 to surface and surrender in the North Sea with depth charges. U-35's crew scuttled the submarine to prevent capture. 
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29 Nov 1939 WW2 Finnish diplomats in Moscow, Russia made the final pleas to avoid war. At midnight, Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov ordered the invasion to commence. 
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29 Nov 1939 WW2 Residents of Soviet-occupied Poland had Soviet citizenship forced on them. 
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29 Nov 1940 WW2 General Freyberg's British and New Zealand troops occupied all of Crete. 
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29 Nov 1940 WW2 Draft plan issued by German military leaders for the invasion of the Soviet Union. 
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29 Nov 1940 WW2 German destroyers Galster, Lody, and Beitzen departed from Brest, France and raided British shipping off southern England, United Kingdom. British tug Aid, Free French tug Abeille, and British barge BHC10 were attacked and sunk. Royal Navy destroyers HMS Javelin, HMS Jersey, HMS Jackal, HMS Jupiter, and HMS Kashmir intercepted the raiders and engaged in combat 20 miles south of the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall; HMS Javelin was sunk by two torpedoes from Lody (46 killed), but she was successfully towed to Devonport for repairs. The Germans suffered no casualties. 
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29 Nov 1940 WW2 New Zealand cruiser HMNZS Leander bombarded a factory and a radio station at Banda Alulu, Italian Somaliland at 1038 hours. Italian aircraft counterattacked without success. 
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29 Nov 1940 WW2 Italian submarine Delfino attacked Greek destroyer Spetsai south of Piraeus near Athens, Greece, without success. 
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29 Nov 1940 WW2 British minesweeping trawler HMT Calverton hit a mine and sank in the mouth of the Humber Estuary in England, United Kingdom, killing 2. 
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29 Nov 1940 WW2 HMS Hermes arrived at Freetown, South Africa. 
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29 Nov 1941 WW2 Operation Crusader: Italian Ariete Division overran the New Zealand 21st Battalion at Point 175 in Libya. 
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29 Nov 1941 WW2 US Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Stark directed that defense recommendations made by Major Alfred R. Pefley was to be implemented immediately, consisting mostly of the construction of defensive gun positions on various Pacific islands. 
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29 Nov 1941 WW2 US Marine Corps Major Walter L. J. Bayler arrived at Wake Island with a detachment of Marines from Marine Aircraft Group 21 to set up air base communication facilities. 
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29 Nov 1941 WW2 Japanese ambassador in Germany Hiroshi Oshima reported that, on the previous day, Joachim von Ribbentrop had verbally promised a German declaration of war on the United States should Japan and the US enter a state of war. 
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29 Nov 1941 WW2 Russian partisan fighter Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was publicly executed by hanging by the Germans. 
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29 Nov 1941 WW2 The German 4th Motor Torpedo Boat Flotilla attacked Allied convoy FN.564 off the coast of East Anglia, England, United Kingdom, sinking British tanker Asperity and freighters Empire Newcomen and Cormarsh. 
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29 Nov 1941 WW2 German submarine U-43 sank British ship Thornliebank 240 miles north of the Azores islands at 0411 hours, killing all 75 aboard. The navigator of U-43 was injured by showering debris. 
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29 Nov 1941 WW2 German 7th Panzer Division completed the evacuation of the Yakhroma bridgehead near Moscow, Russia; 45 were killed in the unsuccessful attempt to cross the Moskva-Volga canal. 
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29 Nov 1941 WW2 Soviet destroyer Slavny, destroyer Stoiki, troop ship Iosif Stalin, and other vessels, escorted by 5 minesweepers, 4 torpedo boats, and 7 submarine chasers, departed Kronstadt, Russia for Hanko, Finland to evacuate troops. German aircraft discovered the force, attacked, and sank icebreaker ship Oktyabr. 
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29 Nov 1941 WW2 US Navy river gunboats Luzon and Oahu departed Shanghai, China for Manila, Philippine Islands. 
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29 Nov 1941 WW2 British aircraft from Malta sank Italian tanker Berbera and damaged Italian tanker Volturno at Navarino (now Pylos), Greece. 
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29 Nov 1941 WW2 British Royal Navy Force B (cruiser HMS Ajax, cruiser HMS Neptune, destroyer HMS Kimberly, and destroyer HMS Kingston) under the command of Rear Admiral Bernard Rawlings arrived in Malta. 
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29 Nov 1941 WW2 The British Royal Air Force's No. 151 Wing, which had been conducting successful combat missions in Northern Russia, handed over its Hurricane fighters to Lieutenant Colonel Boris Safonov's Soviet 72nd Air Regiment before sailing back home. 
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29 Nov 1942 WW2 Air Vice Marshal J. O. Andrews became the commanding officer of the No. 12 Group RAF. 
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29 Nov 1942 WW2 The United States began to ration coffee. 
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29 Nov 1942 WW2 Despite serious wounds, RAF Pilot Officer Ron Middleton flew his Stirling bomber back from Turin allowing four crewmen to bale out over Kent before he ran out of fuel. Knowing he could not land and anxious to avoid civilian casualties, he turned the aircraft towards the coast and went into the English Channel with two seriously wounded crewmen still on board. Their bodies were recovered on the next day but Middleton's was not found until it is washed up on the coast in the following February. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. 
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29 Nov 1942 WW2 The Soviet Transcaucasus Front launched an offensive against the Germans along the Terek River in the Caucasus region in southern Russia; it was to be halted within days. 
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29 Nov 1942 WW2 Top American leadership in Washington DC agreed to relieve the 1st Marine Division on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands with the US Army 25th Infantry Division. After sundown, off Tassafaronga Point, US Navy vessels turned back a small group of Japanese destroyers attempting to supply the Japanese garrison. 
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29 Nov 1942 WW2 Repair ship Akashi completed the repair work for destroyer Murasame at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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29 Nov 1942 WW2 USS Pollack arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her fourth war patrol. 
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29 Nov 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Yokosuka, Japan for her 8th voyage with the Japanese Navy. 
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29 Nov 1942 WW2 Light cruiser Voroshilov bombarded German troop positions near Feodonisi, Russia and was damaged by German naval mines. 
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29 Nov 1942 WW2 British 2nd Parachute Battalion was dropped near Depienne airfield, Tunisia. 
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29 Nov 1943 WW2 USS Cod attacked Japanese merchant ships but was not able to observe the results. 
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29 Nov 1943 WW2 The second session of AVNOJ, the Anti-fascist council of national liberation of Yugoslavia, was held in Jajce to determine the post-war ordering of the country. 
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29 Nov 1943 WW2 21 RAF Mosquito aircraft attacked Bochum, Cologne, and Düsseldorf in Germany. 
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29 Nov 1943 WW2 The Japanese ship, Suez Maru, carrying troops as well as 200 Japanese, 422 British, and 127 Dutch sick and wounded, was torpedoed by submarine USS Bonefish in the Java sea. Many were trapped in the holds and drowned, but others take to the water. A Japanese minesweeper in escort picked up nearly 300 of its own nationals but left between 200 and 250 Allied prisoners threshing in the sea. The minesweeper then began shooting the defenceless swimmers. Of the 549 British and Dutch prisoners, there was only one survivor, Kenneth Thomas, who was picked up twenty-four hours later by an Australian ship. 
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29 Nov 1943 WW2 USS Rock completed a journey down the Mississippi River and arrived at New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. 
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29 Nov 1943 WW2 USS Snook fired a total of 26 torpedoes at a Japanese convoy over a three hour period; 9 torpedoes hit, sinking Japanese passenger ship Yamafuku Maru and cargo ship Shiganoura Maru and damaging one escort vessel off the Mariana Islands. 
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29 Nov 1943 WW2 Hornet (Essex-class) was commissioned into service. 
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29 Nov 1943 WW2 Rear Admiral Ryunosuke Kusaka was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Navy 11th Air Fleet. 
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29 Nov 1943 WW2 USS Pompon departed Fremantle, Australia for her third war patrol. 
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29 Nov 1943 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho arrived at Manila, Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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29 Nov 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Two men of CASU-34 arrived on board. 
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29 Nov 1943 WW2 British troops captured Mezzagrogna and Santa Maria in Italy. 
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29 Nov 1943 WW2 American B-29 bombers attacked the Nakajima factory outside Tokyo, Japan. 
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29 Nov 1943 WW2 USS Mingo entered Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States for overhaul. 
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29 Nov 1944 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze rescued survivors of carrier Shinano in the Inland Sea in Japan. 
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29 Nov 1944 WW2 Soviet and Yugoslavian troops crossed the Danube River, taking large swathes of southwestern Hungary. 
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29 Nov 1944 WW2 Three Brazilian battalions attacked Monte Castello 61 kilometers southwest of Bologna, Italy at 0700 hours. The poor weather precluded support from the air and by the attached three platoons of US tanks. The attack was repulsed by the afternoon. 
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29 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Archer-Fish damaged Shinano at 0315 hours with 4 of 6 torpedoes fired, causing flooding on the starboard side of the carrier. Shinano would capsize at 1057 hours. 
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29 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Sunfish sank Japanese ship Daiboshi Maru in the Yellow Sea. 
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29 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Preston guarded carriers while the carriers launched strikes against Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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29 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Sennet departed Balboa, Panama Canal Zone. 
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29 Nov 1944 WW2 Allied convoy JW-62 departed Loch Ewe, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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29 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Wake Island took on two new air squadrons and departed San Francisco, California, United States. 
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29 Nov 1945 WW2 The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia was declared with Marshal Tito as its first president. 
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29 Nov 1945 WW2 Films of concentration camp atrocities were shown at the Nuremberg Trials in Germany. 
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29 Nov 1945 WW2 Fox was decommissioned from service. 
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29 Nov 1945 WW2 Soviet Politburo replaced MGB 1st Deputy Bogdan Kobulov with Sergei Ogoltsov, the former NKVD/NKGB chief of Kuibyshev, Russia. 
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29 Nov 1945 WW2 USS Mero arrived at New Orleans, Louisiana, United States via a floating drydock down the Mississippi River. 
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29 Nov 1945 WW2 Joseph Redman gave Joseph Rochefort a good fitness report, recommending Rochefort for promotion. 
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29 Nov 1947 WW2 The United Nations General Assembly votes to partition Palestine (The Partition Plan). 
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29 Nov 1970 RELIGIOUS In Nagpur, India, six church bodies __ the Anglicans, the United Church of Northern India, the Baptists, the Methodists, the Church of the Brethren and the Disciples of Christ __ merged to form the Church of India.
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