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History on the 11th of December

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11 Dec 1518 RELIGIOUS Swiss Reformer Ulrich Zwingli, 34, was elected People's Preacher at the Old Minster Church in Zurich, where he continued as pastor for the remaining 13 years of his life.
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11 Dec 1640 RELIGIOUS English Puritans introduced the "Root and Branch" petition to the Long Parliament in London. It demanded the English episcopacy, "with all its dependencies, roots and branches, be abolished." (The imagery comes from Malachi 4:1.)
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11 Dec 1792 RELIGIOUS Birth of Joseph Mohr, the Austrian Roman Catholic vicar who, along with the Oberndorf Church organist Franz Gruber, on Christmas Eve of 1818, authored the enduring Christmas hymn, "Stille Nacht" ("Silent Night").
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11 Dec 1914 WW2 Hiroaki Abe was promoted to the rank of sub-lieutenant and was transferred out of battlecruiser Kongo. 
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11 Dec 1915 WW2 Douglas MacArthur was promoted to the rank of major. 
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11 Dec 1917 WW2 Friedrich Christiansen shot down the British airship C27 near the Belgian coast. 
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11 Dec 1917 WW2 Arthur Coningham was Mentioned in Despatches. 
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11 Dec 1929 WW2 Salt Lake City was commissioned into service. 
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11 Dec 1931 WW2 The Statute of Westminster, passed by the British Parliament, provided the instrument by which the self-governing Dominions gained legislative independence from the United Kingdom. 
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11 Dec 1935 WW2 Details of the Hoare-Laval Plan were published. Brewed by Pierre Laval with the agreement of Sir Samuel Hoare, the British Foreign Secretary, the plan suggested that Italy receive large slices of northern and southeast Abyssinia with half the country handed over for future exploitation and settlement. Abyssinia's compensation would be only an outlet to the sea. The Hoare-Laval plan raised such vigorous protests and outrage from British public opinion that Hoare was sacked and the Baldwin government forced to disown the plan. 
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11 Dec 1936 WW2 King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom abdicated in favour of his brother, Prince Albert, who would soon become King George VI. 
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11 Dec 1937 WW2 Italy withdrew from the League of Nations. 
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11 Dec 1938 WW2 Kaga arrived at Sasebo, Japan. 
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11 Dec 1939 WW2 Soviet 163rd Division was held by Finnish defenses north of Lake Piispajarvi in Finland, while Soviet 81st and 759th Regiments were likewise bogged down by Finnish border police forces to the south at Suomussalmi, a road junction village. Lightly-armed troops of the Finnish 27th Regiment, on skis, launched an attack on the Soviet supply line along the Raate Road in an attempt to isolate Soviet troops at Suomussalmi. 
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11 Dec 1939 WW2 German submarine U-38 sank Greek freighter Garoufalia off Norway; 4 were killed, 25 survived. 
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11 Dec 1939 WW2 Vidkun Quisling met with Erich Raeder in Germany. 
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11 Dec 1940 WW2 German freighter Rhein, already being monitored by American destroyers Simpson and MacLeish, was intercepted by Dutch destroyer Van Kinsbergen near the Florida Straits; her crew scuttled the ship to avoid capture. 
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11 Dec 1940 WW2 British 7th Armored Brigade attacked Buq Buq, Egypt, forcing Italian 64th Infantry Division to surrender; meanwhile, Indian 4th Infantry Division and British 7th Royal Tank Regiment forced the surrender of Italian 4th Blackshirt Division and two colonial Libyan divisions in the desert. On the coast, British battleships HMS Barham and HMS Valiant bombarded Italian positions at Sollum, Egypt. The Allied forces had now captured 38,000 Italian prisoners of war, 237 guns, and 73 tanks. 
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11 Dec 1940 WW2 German submarine U-96 attacked Allied convoy HX-92 125 miles northwest of the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom, sinking British liner Rotorua at 1512 hours (21 were killed, including HX-92 commodore Rear Admiral Fitzgerald; 108 survived) and Norwegian ship Towa at 2242 hours (18 were killed, 19 survived). 
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11 Dec 1940 WW2 German submarine U-94 sank British ship Empire Statesman 225 miles west of Ireland at 1912 hours, killing the entire crew of 31. 
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11 Dec 1940 WW2 278 German aircraft attacked Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, dropping 277 tons of high explosives and 685 incendiary bombs. 
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11 Dec 1940 WW2 HMS King George V was commissioned into service. 
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11 Dec 1941 WW2 Japanese infantrymen under the command of Colonel Shizuo Saeki overran the defenses set up by Punjabi troops between Changlun and Asun, British Malaya, and gave chase into Asun, where Gurkha troops slowed the Japanese advance by destroying the two Japanese tanks in the spearhead; the Gurkha positions, however, would be captured by 1900 hours, killing or capturing 350 men. Nearby, Japanese troops also under Saeki reached the outskirts of Jitra, British Malaya, which was defended by troops of the 11th Indian Division. Out at sea, Japanese pilot Lieutenant Ito, flying a torpedo bomber over the location where Repulse and Prince of Wales were sunk on the previous day, dropped a wreath to honor the killed British sailors. 
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11 Dec 1941 WW2 Germany and Italy declared war on the United States; United States responded with a declaration of war. 
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11 Dec 1941 WW2 US Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox arrived at Hawaii to personally assess the damage inflicted on 7 Dec 1941 by the Japanese. Meanwhile, Japanese submarine I-9 shelled the unarmed US freighter Lahaina about 800 miles northeast of Honolulu. 
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11 Dec 1941 WW2 US submarine Triton successfully attacked a Japanese ship south of Wake Island. 
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11 Dec 1941 WW2 Japanese troops landed at Legaspi, Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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11 Dec 1941 WW2 In North Africa the Italians reformed the line running south from the coast at Gazala with their armour on the right flank. Rommel's Afrika Korps, reduced to just forty operational tanks after the Operation Crusader battles, protected the open southern flank. 
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11 Dec 1941 WW2 USS R-1 arrived at Bermuda. 
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11 Dec 1941 WW2 North of Moscow, Russia, Soviet 16th Army captured Istra while Soviet 20th Army reached Solnechnogorsk. South of Moscow, Soviet troops captured Stalinogorsk. 
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11 Dec 1941 WW2 German submarine U-374 sank British anti-submarine trawler HMS Lady Shirley in the Strait of Gibraltar at 0421 hours, killing all 33 aboard. 21 minutes later, U-374 sank British patrol yacht HMS Rosabelle, which attempted to locate U-374; 30 were killed, 12 survived and rescued by patrol yacht HMS Sayonara. 
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11 Dec 1941 WW2 British submarine HMS Truant fired two torpedoes at Italian tankers in Suda Bay, Crete, Greece; one of them hit torpedo boat Alcione, killing 20. 
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11 Dec 1941 WW2 British destroyer HMS Farndale forced Italian submarine Caracciola to surface 30 miles northeast of Bardia, Libya and sank her with gunfire; 1 was killed (a passenger with the rank of an army general), 53 survived. 
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11 Dec 1941 WW2 Light carrier Hosho rejoined the fleet; in the previous night, she fell out of formation as she slowed to conduct a night time landing operation. 
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11 Dec 1941 WW2 Adolf Hitler announced that since the start of the war against the Soviet Union, the German forces had captured 3,806,865 Soviet prisoners of war. 
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11 Dec 1941 WW2 USS Permit began her first war patrol in Philippine waters. 
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11 Dec 1941 WW2 U-576 began her second war patrol. 
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11 Dec 1941 WW2 Japanese troops advanced southward along the Kowloon Peninsula north of Hong Kong, capturing Stonecutter's Island. 
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11 Dec 1941 WW2 Irako began embarking food supplies in the western Inland Sea region in Japan. 
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11 Dec 1941 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille shot down the British P-40 fighter piloted by Canadian Flight Sergeant M. A. Canty southeast of El Adem, Libya. It was his 32nd kill. 
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11 Dec 1941 WW2 Nachi provided support for the landing at Legaspi, Philipine Islands. 
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11 Dec 1941 WW2 While bombarding US installations at Wake Atoll, Tenryu was strafed by a US Marine Corps F4F-3 Wildcat fighter, wounding 5 sailors and mildly damaged three torpedoes in the No. 1 mount. 
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11 Dec 1941 WW2 The 2,890-ton Japanese light cruiser Yubari, flagship of Rear Admiral Sadamichi Kajioka, was seriously damaged by shell fire from two 5-inch guns at Peacock Point, Wake Island, and forced to retire listing heavily to port. 
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11 Dec 1942 WW2 The Allies launched a new offensive toward Marsa Brega and El Agheila in Libya. 
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11 Dec 1942 WW2 The Cockleshell Heroes Raid: Ten British Commandos in five two-man canoes were launched from a submarine to attack enemy shipping in the port of Bordeaux, France. Three canoes were lost but two paddle 70 miles up-river to plant limpet mines on ships in the harbour. Six vessels were disabled. Two Commandos were drowned en route, six were captured and executed and two made it back to England, United Kingdom. 
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11 Dec 1942 WW2 USS S-35 departed Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska for her fifth war patrol. 
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11 Dec 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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11 Dec 1942 WW2 Tatsuta Maru was re-requisitioned by the Japanese Navy and was attached to the Yokosuka Naval District, Japan. 
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11 Dec 1942 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho departed Yokosuka, Japan for Truk, Caroline Islands, escorted by destroyer Tokitsukaze. She had on board 20 light bombers and their pilots. 
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11 Dec 1943 WW2 The USAAF bombed Emden, Germany, while 18 RAF Mosquito aircraft attacked Duisburg, Germany. 
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11 Dec 1943 WW2 USS Pompon sank two small Japanese boats in the South China Sea with her deck gun. 
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11 Dec 1943 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho departed Singapore. 
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11 Dec 1943 WW2 USS Ray departed Fremantle, Australia for her second war patrol. 
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11 Dec 1943 WW2 65th Bomb Squadron (flying B-24 aircraft) of USAAF 43rd Bomb Group and 80th Fighter Squadron (flying P-38 aircraft) of USAAF 8th Fighter Group were transferred from Port Moresby to Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua. 
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11 Dec 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Fourteen men of GROPAC-5 departed. 
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11 Dec 1943 WW2 The Canadian attack in "The Gully" region in Italy was met with resistance, suffering heavy casualties. 
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11 Dec 1944 WW2 The last gassing at the Hartheim Castle in Austria for the euthanasia program took place. 
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11 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Gar delivered 35 tons of supplies to an American position near Duriagaos Inlet, Luzon, Philippine Islands and picked up intelligence documents. 
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11 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Guitarro departed Fremantle, Australia for her fourth war patrol. 
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11 Dec 1944 WW2 Adolf Hitler held a meeting with top German military commanders at the Adlerhorst headquarters in Wetterau, Germany, stressing the importance of the upcoming Ardennes Offensive. 
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11 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Astoria set sail for the Philippine Islands. 
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11 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Shamrock Bay departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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11 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Preston guarded carriers while the carriers launched strikes against Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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11 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Skipjack arrived at Midway Atoll. 
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11 Dec 1945 WW2 USS Gar was decommissioned from service. 
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11 Dec 1945 WW2 Rall was decommissioned from service. 
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11 Dec 1945 WW2 William Halsey was promoted to the rank of fleet admiral. 
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11 Dec 1945 WW2 Beatrice Patton, wife of paralyzed George Patton, arrived at Heidelberg, Germany. 
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11 Dec 1945 WW2 I-400 departed Sasebo, Japan. 
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11 Dec 1945 WW2 I-401 departed Sasebo, Japan. 
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11 Dec 1945 WW2 I-14 departed Sasebo, Japan. 
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11 Dec 1946 WW2 Searaven was decommissioned from service. 
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11 Dec 1946 WW2 USS Parche was decommissioned from service at Mare Island Naval Shipyard at Vallejo, California, United States. 
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11 Dec 1962 RELIGIOUS American missionary and apologist Francis Schaeffer wrote in a letter: 'Our trusting the Lord does not mean that there are not times of tears. I think it is a mistake as Christians to act as though trusting the Lord and tears are not compatible.'
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11 Dec 1975 RELIGIOUS The Central American Mission changed its name to CAM Intentional, after expanding its missionary efforts into Latin America. (This evangelical mission group was founded in 1890 by C.I. Scofield, editor of the Scofield Bible.)
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