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History on the 30th of November

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30 Nov 1215 RELIGIOUS The Fourth Lateran Council closed, under Innocent III. It was this council that made first official use of the term "transubstantiation," with reference to the Eucharist (Lord's Supper).
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30 Nov 1530 RELIGIOUS German reformer Martin Luther remarked: 'Whenever I happen to be prevented by the press of duties from observing my hour of prayer, the entire day is bad for me.'
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30 Nov 1554 RELIGIOUS Roman Catholicism was (briefly) restored to England, under the reign of Mary Tudor, the daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. In the process, "Bloody Mary" had Thomas Cranmer, Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley and nearly 300 other Protestant leaders burned at the stake.
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30 Nov 1729 RELIGIOUS Birth of Samuel Seabury, first bishop of the American Protestant Episcopal Church. (Following the American Revolution, Seabury helped formulate the constitution which made the American Protestant Episcopal Church independent and autonomous from the Church of England.)
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30 Nov 1894 RELIGIOUS In Naperville, Illinois, seven groups of the Evangelical Association withdrew from the organization to form the United Evangelical Church. (In 1922 the two denominations reunited.)
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30 Nov 1910 WW2 General Katsusaburo Shiba was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea. 
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30 Nov 1918 WW2 USS Arizona arrived at Portland, England, United Kingdom. 
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30 Nov 1922 WW2 Masafumi Arima completed studies at the advanced gunnery school. 
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30 Nov 1925 WW2 Naka was commissioned into service; chief equipping officer Commander Choji Inoue was named her commanding officer. 
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30 Nov 1929 WW2 Isoroku Yamamoto was promoted to the rank of rear admiral. 
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30 Nov 1929 WW2 Hiroaki Abe became a staff officer with Japanese Navy Destroyer Squadron 2. 
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30 Nov 1929 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo was promoted to the rank of captain and was given command of the light cruiser Naka. 
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30 Nov 1929 WW2 Nobutake Kondo was named the commanding officer of heavy cruiser Kako. 
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30 Nov 1929 WW2 Captain Chuichi Nagumo was named the commanding officer of Naka. 
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30 Nov 1929 WW2 Captain Sadae Chiya was named the commanding officer of Settsu. 
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30 Nov 1929 WW2 An unknown officer assumed command of Nachi. 
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30 Nov 1931 WW2 Xinjiang forces, with Soviet military equipment, defeated Uyghur rebel forces which had previously laid siege to Kumul. 
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30 Nov 1937 WW2 The Spanish Republican government moved from Valencia to Barcelona. 
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30 Nov 1938 WW2 The Czechoslovakian National Assembly elected Dr. Emil Hacha as the president of the republic. The official name of the country was changed by adding a dash, becoming Czecho-Slovak Republic, or Czecho-Slovakia for short. 
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30 Nov 1939 WW2 21 Soviet divisions crossed the border into Finland at 0800 hours after about one hour of artillery bombardment, starting what was to be known as the Winter War. Soviet aircraft bombed Helsinki. 
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30 Nov 1940 WW2 German armed merchant cruiser Pinguin attacked British ship Port Wellington in the southern Indian Ocean overnight. 2 were killed and 87 were captured. Seeing some of the female captives were shivering in their nightgowns, Pinguin's First Officer personally returned to the burning wreck and retrieved clothes for the women. 
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30 Nov 1940 WW2 German submarine U-101 sank British ship Aracataca 400 miles northwest of Ireland at 0204 hours. 36 were killed and 34 survived. 
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30 Nov 1940 WW2 British motor torpedo boats MTB.30 and MTB.31 attacked an anchored German convoy off the mouth of the Scheldt River off the Netherlands. German ship Santos was damaged by a depth charge from MTB.31, while MTB.30 was damaged by gunfire. 
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30 Nov 1940 WW2 British minesweeping trawler HMT Chestnut hit a mine and sank in the Thames Estuary in southern England, United Kingdom. The entire crew survived. 
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30 Nov 1940 WW2 In Hubei Province, China, Chinese troops halted the offensive launched by the Japanese 11th Army five days prior. 
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30 Nov 1940 WW2 Wang Jingwei of the Japanese-sponsored puppet government in Nanjing, China established diplomatic relationship with fellow puppet state Manchukuo. 
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30 Nov 1941 WW2 Emperor Showa ordered Prime Minister Hideki Tojo to proceed with plans to start the Pacific War, and subsequently Tojo rejected US proposals to de-escalate tension in the Far East. 
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30 Nov 1941 WW2 Passenger liner President Madison, chartered by the US Navy, arrived at Olongapo, Philippine Islands, disembarking the 2nd Battalion of the US 4th Marine Regiment before continuing on to Singapore. 
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30 Nov 1941 WW2 New Zealand 24th and 26th Battalions were battered by Axis attacks at Sidi Rezegh, Libya. German forces launched a fresh attack on Tobruk, Libya. Out at sea, British aircraft from Malta sank Italian ship Capo Faro and damaged Italian ship Iseo, which were en route from Brindisi, Italy to Benghazi, Libya; they were carrying fuel and other supplies that were very much needed for the Axis campaign in North Africa. 
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30 Nov 1941 WW2 The United States Marine Corps reported the strength of 65,881 personnel. 
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30 Nov 1941 WW2 Shoho was commissioned into service. 
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30 Nov 1941 WW2 The Japanese ambassador in Germany Hiroshi Oshima was informed by his superiors that war with the United States was near, and he was to inform Adolf Hitler and Joachim von Ribbentrop of such news. 
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30 Nov 1941 WW2 A Soviet force consisted of two destroyers, a troop ship, and other minor vessels arrived at Hanko, Finland to evacuate troops, while another force consisted of troop ship Maya, 3 minesweepers, 2 submarine chasters, and 1 gunboat departed Kronstadt, Russia for Hanko. 
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30 Nov 1941 WW2 Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau replaced Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt as the commanding officer of German Army Group South in the Caucasus region of southern Russia. 
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30 Nov 1941 WW2 German submarine U-206 became missing in the Bay of Biscay west of France, possibly lost in a British minefield. All 46 men aboard were lost. 
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30 Nov 1941 WW2 Whitley bombers of No. 502 Squadron RAF based in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom attacked German submarines U-71 and U-563 with depth charges in the Bay of Biscay, damaging U-71. This attack marked the first successful use of air-to-surface vessel radar. 
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30 Nov 1941 WW2 The warming of temperature in the region around Leningrad, Russia meant a decrease in the ice thickness over Lake Ladoga, which led to the decrease of supplies delivered by ground vehicles driving over ice; only 61 tons of food made its way into the city on this date. 
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30 Nov 1941 WW2 Elements of German 2nd Panzer Division captured the railway station at Lobnya 19 miles north of Moscow, Russia. Meanwhile, Georgy Zhukov was ordered by Joseph Stalin to organize a counterattack. 
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30 Nov 1941 WW2 German submarine U-96 dove to evade attacks by a British Swordfish aircraft off Gibraltar at 2235 hours. 
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30 Nov 1941 WW2 German submarine U-43 sank British ship Ashby 170 miles south of the Azores islands at 1926 hours; 17 were killed, some survived and were rescued by Portuguese destroyer Lima. U-43 survived the subsequent depth charging without any damage. 
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30 Nov 1941 WW2 Winston Churchill sent Franklin Roosevelt a message requesting a conference on the impending war with Japan. Roosevelt would reject the request to avoid appearing like he was taking the United States toward war for the defense of the British Empire. 
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30 Nov 1941 WW2 Japanese submarine I-10 launched a scout aircraft for a reconnaissance mission over Suva Bay, Fiji. 
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30 Nov 1941 WW2 German armed merchant cruiser Komet arrived at Hamburg, Germany after a 516-day, 87,000-mile, circumnavigating journey. She sank 5 ships, captured 1 ship, and shared credit for another two sinkings on this mission. 
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30 Nov 1941 WW2 Japanese destroyers Akembono and Ushio departed Tokyo Bay, Japan for Midway, where they were to bombard US military facilities when hostilities would begin. 
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30 Nov 1941 WW2 Latvian and German Jews were massacred near Riga, Latvia. 
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30 Nov 1941 WW2 USS Grayback arrived at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States for a scheduled overhaul. 
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30 Nov 1942 WW2 Near Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, US cruisers ambushed a night time fast destroyer convoy led personally by Rear Admiral Raizo Tanaka. Tanaka's quick thinking led to a Japanese victory in the Battle of Tassafaronga. 
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30 Nov 1942 WW2 HMCS Iroquois (G89) was commissioned into service with Commander W. B. L. Holms in command. 
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30 Nov 1942 WW2 Submarine Mingo was launched, sponsored by Mrs. Henry L. Pence. 
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30 Nov 1942 WW2 Submarine tender Taigei completed her conversion work and was recommissioned into service as light aircraft carrier Ryuho with Captain Nobishiro Soma in command. 
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30 Nov 1942 WW2 Angry at the slow progress in Australian Papua, General Douglas MacArthur dismissed the commander of US 32nd Infantry Division, Major General Harding, and replaced him with his corps commander, Lieutenant General Robert Eichelberger, who he instructed "to take Buna or not come back alive". 
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30 Nov 1942 WW2 Irako transited the Bungo Strait between Shikoku and Kyushu, Japan. 
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30 Nov 1942 WW2 USS Wahoo attacked a Japanese freighter with one escorting destroyer; all torpedoes missed. 
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30 Nov 1942 WW2 German Luftwaffe VIII. Fliegerkorps was relieved of all its combat duties. Instead, its aircraft stationed across Rostov Oblast, Russia were ordered to focus on flying supplies into Stalingrad, Russia. 
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30 Nov 1942 WW2 British 2nd Parachute Battalion reached high ground at Prise de L'Eau in Tunisia one day after having been dropped into the country. 
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30 Nov 1942 WW2 Ships of Allied convoy QP-15 began to arrive at Loch Ewe, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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30 Nov 1943 WW2 USS Tang was delivered to the US Navy. 
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30 Nov 1943 WW2 Destroyer Yuzuki was assigned to Destroyer Division 30 of Destroyer Squadron 3 of the Eighth Fleet. 
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30 Nov 1943 WW2 Remy Van Lierde shot down a German Bf 110 fighter, which was his sixth and final kill. 
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30 Nov 1943 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho departed Manila, Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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30 Nov 1943 WW2 USS Flying Fish departed for her eighth war patrol with Lieutenant Commander R. D. Risser in command. 
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30 Nov 1943 WW2 USS Luce began a period of anti-submarine patrol off Attu in the Aleutian Islands. 
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30 Nov 1943 WW2 After dark, Australian Beaufort aircraft from Goodenough Island off the tip of Australian Papua attacked Rabaul, New Britain. 
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30 Nov 1943 WW2 In the early morning, a US Navy PBY aircraft sank Japanese passenger ship Himalaya Maru 10 miles south of New Hanover Island in the Bismarck Islands. Many of the 2,400 passengers were killed, while the rest were rescued by other ships in the convoy. 
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30 Nov 1943 WW2 4 RAF Mosquito aircraft attacked Essen, Germany. 
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30 Nov 1943 WW2 USS Gar arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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30 Nov 1943 WW2 USS Harder arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her third war patrol. 
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30 Nov 1943 WW2 British troops captured Fossacesia, Italy. 
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30 Nov 1943 WW2 Naka departed Kwajalein, Marshall Islands. 
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30 Nov 1943 WW2 Rudolf Höss served his final day as the commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp in occupied Poland. 
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30 Nov 1943 WW2 Vice Admiral Ryozo Fukuda was named the commanding officer of Takao Guard District in southern Taiwan. 
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30 Nov 1943 WW2 Submarine Golet was commissioned into service at Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States with Lieutenant Commander James M. Clement in command. 
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30 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Gar arrived at Mios Woendi, Biak Islands, ending her fourtheenth war patrol. 
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30 Nov 1944 WW2 Destroyer Yuzuki arrived at Manila, Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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30 Nov 1944 WW2 Sakawa was commissioned into service. 
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30 Nov 1944 WW2 U-869 was detached from the German Navy 4th Submarine Flotilla. 
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30 Nov 1944 WW2 Ivan Bagramyan was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the second time. 
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30 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Sterlet arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her second war patrol. 
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30 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Sunfish sank Japanese transport Dairen Maru in the Yellow Sea, hitting her with 1 of 5 torpedoes fired. 
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30 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Preston guarded carriers while the carriers launched strikes against Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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30 Nov 1944 WW2 Former commandant and guards of Majdanek Concentration Camp were put on trial in Poland. 
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30 Nov 1944 WW2 German V-2 rocket at Shooters Hill, London, England, United Kingdom at 0100 hours, killing 23. 
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30 Nov 1944 WW2 At a cost of £9,000,000 (excluding the cost of her guns and their mountings), Britain's last Battleship, HMS Vanguard, was launched at Clydebank, Scotland, United Kingdom. Too late to see service in World War II, Vanguard would eventually be completed in Apr 1946. 
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30 Nov 1944 WW2 Production of P-40 fighters ceased. 
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30 Nov 1945 WW2 The US 101st Airborne Division was deactivated. 
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30 Nov 1945 WW2 At the Nuremberg Trials, Rudolph Heß announced that he had been faking insanity and amnesia all along. 
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30 Nov 1945 WW2 Junyo was decommissioned from service. 
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30 Nov 1945 WW2 Kitakami was decommissioned from service. 
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30 Nov 1945 WW2 McCall was decommissioned from service. 
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30 Nov 1945 WW2 The Japanese Navy 12th Air Fleet was officially disbanded. 
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30 Nov 1945 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho was removed from the Japanese Navy List. 
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30 Nov 1945 WW2 Irako was struck from the Japanese Navy List. 
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30 Nov 1945 WW2 Yoshijiro Umezu was placed on the reserve list. 
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30 Nov 1945 WW2 Prince Hiroyasu's position with the Japanese Navy was abolished. 
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30 Nov 1945 WW2 The US Naval Dry Docks, Roosevelt Base near Los Angeles, California, United States was renamed Terminal Island Naval Shipyard. 
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30 Nov 1946 WW2 USS Columbia was decommission from service in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. 
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