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History on the 15th of December

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15 Dec 1558 RELIGIOUS Dutch Anabaptist reformer Menno Simons wrote in a letter: 'Wherever there is a pulverized and penitent heart, there grace also is, and wherever there is a voluntary confession not gained by pressure, there love covereth a multitude of sins.'
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15 Dec 1629 RELIGIOUS In England, proto_Baptist minister and founder of Rhode Island, 26_year_old Roger Williams married Mary Barnard, daughter of a Puritan clergyman. Two years later, he and his wife sailed from Bristol to Massachusetts.
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15 Dec 1739 RELIGIOUS English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'My brother, entreat the Lord that I may grow in grace, and pick up the fragments of my time, that not a moment of it may be lost.'
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15 Dec 1915 WW2 Yoshimi Minami was born. 
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15 Dec 1917 WW2 Alekseev's small Volunteer Army recaptured Rostov, Russia. After this the Krug (Cossack Parliament) allowed the volunteers to remain on Cossack soil on the understanding that it came under control of the Don Coalition Government and that it assisted in protecting the western Don from Bolshevik invasion. 
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15 Dec 1917 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo was named the commanding officer of destroyer Kisaragi. 
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15 Dec 1922 WW2 The Fascist Grand Council of Italy created the Milizia Volontaria Sicurezza Nazionale (National Security Volunteer Militia). 
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15 Dec 1924 WW2 In a letter to Stanley Baldwin, Winston Churchill noted that there was no need to worry about Japan in their lifetime. 
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15 Dec 1925 WW2 Yoshijiro Umezu was promoted to the rank of colonel. 
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15 Dec 1928 WW2 Thomas Hitchcock married Margaret Mellon in New York City, New York, United States. 
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15 Dec 1931 WW2 Lin Sen was appointed by the Nationalist Party to become the President of the Republic of China after the resignation of Chiang Kaishek. 
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15 Dec 1931 WW2 Chiang Kaishek stepped down from his positions as the Chairman of the Nationalist Government and the Premier of the Republic of China. 
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15 Dec 1934 WW2 Masafumi Arima became a naval logistics instructor. 
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15 Dec 1937 WW2 In Spain, in order to pre-empt a Spanish Nationalist attack upon Catalonia, two Spanish Republican armies (led by Generals Hernández Sarabia and Leopoldo Menendez) launched an offensive to capture the city of Teruel, surrounding the city by nightfall. The city's garrison commander Colonel Rey d’Harcourt would hold out in the southern part of the city until early Jan 1938. 
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15 Dec 1937 WW2 Troops of the 23rd Company of the Japanese 6th Division executed over 1,000 captured Chinese military and civilians and over 400 police personnel (all captured in the city legislature building area where a temporary refugee camp was located) outside of Hanzhong Gate of Nanjing, China; their 2,000 bodies were burned. At Yijiangmen at about 1400 hours, Japanese troops rounded up 300 residents of the Jiang estate, killing them by machine gun fire and buring. On the Yangtze River, gunboats Futami and Seta of the Japanese Navy 3rd Fleet fired on Chinese refugees attempting to cross the river; nearby, Japanese naval personnel began executing many of the 9,000 captives they held. As reported by the International Committee later, "a number Japanese soldiers entered the University of Nanking buildings at Tao Yuen and raped 30 women on the spot, some by six men." 
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15 Dec 1938 WW2 Nobutake Kondo was named the commanding officer of the Japanese 5th Fleet. 
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15 Dec 1938 WW2 Crown Prince Yi Un was attached to the Japanese Northern China Army. 
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15 Dec 1938 WW2 Captain Tamotsu Takama was named the commanding officer of Naka. 
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15 Dec 1938 WW2 Captain Sadanao Yamazaki was named the commanding officer of Tenryu. 
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15 Dec 1938 WW2 Masafumi Arima became the commanding officer of Kisarazu Naval Air Corps. 
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15 Dec 1938 WW2 Raizo Tanaka stepped down as the commanding officer of light cruiser Jintsu and was named the Chief of Staff of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan. 
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15 Dec 1938 WW2 The combination of The T10 gun and T5 carriage was officially adopted as the 37 mm Gun M3 and Carriage M4. 
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15 Dec 1939 WW2 Red Army assaulted Taipale, Finland. Meanwhile, the Finnish government decided to bring fallen Finnish soldiers of the Winter War to their home towns for burial. 
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15 Dec 1939 WW2 5,000 Japanese troops launched a counter-attack against recent Chinese offensives in northern China. 
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15 Dec 1939 WW2 Erich Raeder suggested that the pocket battleship Lützow and the blueprints for the Bismarck-class battleships could be made available for sale to the Soviet Union if the Soviet Union was willing to pay a good price. 
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15 Dec 1940 WW2 Italian troops were driven out of Egypt by the British Operation Compass offensive. At Bardia, Libya, British monitor HMS Terror bombarded the port from 1220 to 1717 hours. 
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15 Dec 1940 WW2 British submarine HMS Thunderbolt sank Italian submarine Tarantini 2 miles off of the Gironde Estuary, France in the Bay of Biscay, killing the entire crew of 58. 
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15 Dec 1940 WW2 Free French submarine Narval hit a mine and sank in the Mediterranean Sea 40 miles northeast of Sfax, Tunisia, killing the entire crew of 54. 
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15 Dec 1940 WW2 German motor torpedo boat S.58 sank Danish ship N. C. Monberg off Yarmouth, England, United Kingdom, killing 9. 
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15 Dec 1940 WW2 The remains of Napoleon II were relocated to the Les Invalides cemetery in Paris, France. Benito Mussolini continued to assert his objection to this friendly gesture by Adolf Hitler to France. 
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15 Dec 1940 WW2 Pierre Laval was freed from imprisonment. 
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15 Dec 1940 WW2 16 German He 111 bombers dropped 11,520 B1 E1 incendiaries on the city of Sheffield in central England, United Kingdom between 1900 and 1950 hours, starting large fires as a beacon for the main force of 50 He 111 bombers and 11 Do 17 bombers. The German raid ended at 2215 hours, damaging steelworks. 
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15 Dec 1941 WW2 Erwin Rommel ordered the Cyrenaica region of Libya abandoned, using his remaining tanks to guard Point 204 on the Gazala Line as rearguard for the troops that would begin to fall back. To the southwest, British 4th Armoured Brigade arrived at Bir Halegh el Eleba at 1500 hours where they planned to outflank the Axis forces. 
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15 Dec 1941 WW2 US Submarine sank first Japanese merchantman. 
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15 Dec 1941 WW2 To the north of Moscow, Russia, Soviet tanks cut the road west of Klin; to prevent encirclement, the German 3rd Panzer Army abandoned Klin at 2130 hours and fled to the southwest, abandoning most of its heavy equipment. On the same day, Soviet state offices moved back to Moscow. 
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15 Dec 1941 WW2 US Navy seaplane tender Tangier, oiler Neches, and four destroyers sailed from Pearl Harbor for Wake Island. 
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15 Dec 1941 WW2 Japanese submarine I-22 shelled Johnston Island, destroying a 1,200-gallon oil tank; another submarine, I-1, shelled Kahului, Maui, Hawaii Islands. 
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15 Dec 1941 WW2 The American Federation of Labor established a no-strike policy in war industries. 
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15 Dec 1941 WW2 The construction of submarine Tang was ordered. 
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15 Dec 1941 WW2 Archibald Wavell received a cable from Winston Churchill, which warned him of a likely Japanese invasion of Burma. 
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15 Dec 1941 WW2 A group of 300 Japanese troops crossed the Lye Mun Channel onto Hong Kong island at 0300 hours, but the Allied defenders on the beach drove off this amphibious attack. Starting on this date, the Japanese artillery and aerial bombardment on the northern coast of Hong Kong island began. 
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15 Dec 1941 WW2 Japanese troops overran the Allied defenses at Gurun, British Malaya, opening up the road toward Penang. On the same day, the British abandoned the RAF base at Butterworth near Penang, flying all of of the remaining aircraft to Singapore. 
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15 Dec 1941 WW2 The US B-17 bombers at the Del Monte airfield on Mindanao, Philippine Islands were ordered to fly to Australia on the following day. 
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15 Dec 1941 WW2 Australian destroyer HMAS Nestor sank German submarine U-127 with depth charges 200 miles west of Gibraltar, killing all 51 aboard. 
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15 Dec 1941 WW2 Dutch submarine HNMS O 16 struck a mine and sank 22 miles northeast of Tioman Island, British Malaya at 0230 hours, killing 41. 
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15 Dec 1941 WW2 Edward Brooks was promoted to the rank of brigadier general. 
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15 Dec 1941 WW2 Australian Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Erwin spotted the Japanese invasion fleet, 19 barges and 1 transport, gathering at Kapingamarangi northeast of Rabaul, Bismarck Islands. Hudson medium bombers were dispatched to attack, but they caused no damage. 
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15 Dec 1941 WW2 Nachi arrived in the Palau Islands. 
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15 Dec 1941 WW2 USS Saratoga arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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15 Dec 1941 WW2 Japanese reconnaissance flying boats bombed Wake Island. Meanwhile, US Navy Task Force 14 (USS Saratoga, USS Astoria, USS Tangier, with escorts; under Rear Admiral Frank Fletcher), carrying a US Marine Corps expeditionary force consisted of elements of the 4th Defense Battalion and Marine Fighter Squadron 211, departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii to reinforce Wake. 
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15 Dec 1941 WW2 German SS personnel began killing the remaining Jews in Liepaja, Latvia, most of whom were women and children. 
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15 Dec 1941 WW2 Henry Arnold was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. 
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15 Dec 1942 WW2 US submarine USS Seadragon discovered Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru, with an escorting destroyer, zigzagging in the St. George's Channel off New Britain. Although Hikawa Maru was in violation of international law (by zigzagging and by being accompanied by a warship), USS Seadragon did not attack. Hikawa Maru arrived at Rabaul later that day. 
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15 Dec 1942 WW2 USS S-35 reached the waters near Attu and Kiska in the Aleutian Islands. 
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15 Dec 1942 WW2 Repair ship Akashi completed the repair work for destroyer Amatsukaze at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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15 Dec 1942 WW2 Satoru Anabuki, flying Ki-43 fighter "Fubuki", claimed the downing of a Hurricane fighter over Chittagong, India (now Bangladesh), but he did not receive a victory. 
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15 Dec 1942 WW2 I-168 departed Kure, Japan for Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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15 Dec 1942 WW2 USS Wahoo departed waters off Buka, Solomon Islands. 
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15 Dec 1942 WW2 Allied convoy JW-51A departed Liverpool, England, United Kingdom; it was consisted of 16 freighters and was escorted by seven destroyers and four smaller warships. 
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15 Dec 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Kwajalein, Marshall Islands. 
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15 Dec 1943 WW2 The four Germans on trial for war crimes in Kharkov, Ukraine all pled guilty, with admissions that over 30,000 victims died. 
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15 Dec 1943 WW2 16 RAF Mosquito aircraft attacked Düsseldorf, Germany. 
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15 Dec 1943 WW2 San Jacinto was commissioned into service. 
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15 Dec 1943 WW2 USS Finback completed overhaul at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii and departed for her seventh war patrol. 
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15 Dec 1943 WW2 The Guilin Infantry Training Center in China graduated its first class of infantry troops. 
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15 Dec 1943 WW2 The Allied Troop Carrier Command was established incorporating 443rd Group USAAF and 177 Transport Wing RAF under the command of US Brigadier General William D. Old. 
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15 Dec 1943 WW2 Repair ship Akashi began repairing destroyer Amagiri at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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15 Dec 1943 WW2 Indian troops secured positions between Ortona and Orsogna in Italy, while New Zealand troops advanced toward Orsogna. Nearby, German troops mounted a counterattack on Casa Berardi, which was repulsed by Canadian troops. To the west, Units of US VI Corps and French Expeditionary Corps attacked German positions on the Bernhardt Line. 
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15 Dec 1944 WW2 The US 7th Army crossed into Germany from Alsace, France. 
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15 Dec 1944 WW2 US troops landed on Mindoro, Philippine Islands. 
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15 Dec 1944 WW2 Submarine I-369 was assigned to Submarine Squadron 7 of the Japanese 6th Fleet. 
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15 Dec 1944 WW2 HMS King George V arrived at Trincomalee, Ceylon. 
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15 Dec 1944 WW2 The Japanese Navy 3rd Air Fleet attached to the Combined Fleet grew to the strength of two air flotillas and 10 air groups. The 13th Air Group attached to the Southwest Area Fleet was reorganized to contain one air flotilla and two air groups. 
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15 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Pintado set sail for Australia. 
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15 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Hawkbill sank Japanese destroyer Momo. 
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15 Dec 1944 WW2 Noted American dance band leader Glenn Miller was killed whilst on a flight across the English Channel. 
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15 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Wake Island departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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15 Dec 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Simulated amphibious maneuvers were held just off the southwest corner of this base. Attending the maneuvers, and guests at this station, included Vice Admirals Mark A Mitscher, and George D Murray. 
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15 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Dragonet struck an underwater obstruction near Matsuwa in the Kurile Islands, Japan (now Matua, Russia) in the morning and flooded her forward torpedo room, forcing her to surface and escape. 
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15 Dec 1944 WW2 Japanese Navy 6th Fleet established Submarine Squadron 1 for the operation of long range carrier submarines. By this time, however, none of the Seiran attack aircraft were ready for operational service. 
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15 Dec 1944 WW2 Japanese Navy formed 631st Naval Air Group for the operation of submarine-borne attack seaplanes. 
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15 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Spot arrived at Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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15 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Preston guarded carriers while the carriers launched strikes against Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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15 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Ticonderoga launched Air Group 80 aircraft for 6 strikes against Japanese positions in northern Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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15 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Marcus Island's air group shot down three Japanese aircraft off Mindoro, Philippine Islands; two aircraft crashed in the water near her and caused minor damage and some casualties. 
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15 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Wasp's aircraft attacked Japanese airfields on Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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15 Dec 1944 WW2 William Leahy was promoted to the rank of fleet admiral. 
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15 Dec 1945 WW2 The United States ended the rationing of tires. 
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15 Dec 1945 WW2 Japanese women were allowed to vote. 
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15 Dec 1957 RELIGIOUS British apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'May it please the Lord that...faith unimpaired may strengthen us, contrition soften us and peace make us joyful.'
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15 Dec 1990 RELIGIOUS More than 400 American Roman Catholic theologians charged that the Vatican had been throttling church reforms and imposing "an excessive Roman centralization." They contended that the Vatican had undercut a greater role for women, slowed the ecumenical drive for Christian unity and undermined the collegial functioning of national conferences of bishops.
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