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History on the 28th of December

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28 Dec 1741 RELIGIOUS English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'Redeem your precious time: pick up the fragments of it, that not one moment of it may be lost. Be much in secret prayer. Converse less with man, and more with God.'
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28 Dec 1832 RELIGIOUS In Missouri, St. Louis Academy (founded in 1818) was chartered as St. Louis University. It was the first Catholic university established in the U.S. west of the Allegheny Mountains.
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28 Dec 1838 RELIGIOUS Greensborough Female College was chartered in North Carolina, under the Methodist Church. In 1920 its name was changed to Greensboro College.
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28 Dec 1847 RELIGIOUS Birth of Samuel A. Ward, American music publisher. Ward composed the tune MATERNA, to which we sing today the patriotic hymn, "America, The Beautiful."
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28 Dec 1916 RELIGIOUS At a seven_day convention in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, the General Assembly of Apostolic Assemblies (GAAA) was formed. Its institutional life was short, however. Due to the pressures of World War I, the GAAA was formed too late to recognize ministers of military age.
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28 Dec 1918 WW2 Submarine S-31 was launched, sponsored by Mrs. George A. Walker. 
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28 Dec 1922 WW2 The keel of Rodney was laid down by the firm Cammell Laird at Birkenhead, England, United Kingdom. 
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28 Dec 1923 WW2 George Bernard Shaw's play St. Joan premiered at the Garrick theatre, New York, New York, United States. 
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28 Dec 1931 WW2 Lin Sen stepped down as the head of the Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China. 
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28 Dec 1932 WW2 Väinämöinen was commissioned into service. 
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28 Dec 1936 WW2 The keel of Graf Zeppelin was laid down. 
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28 Dec 1937 WW2 The Japanese occupation forces in Nanjing, China began registering men. 
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28 Dec 1937 WW2 Hisao Tani was made the commanding officer of the Central Defense Army. 
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28 Dec 1938 WW2 Viktor Abakumov was promoted to the rank of State Security Captain. 
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28 Dec 1939 WW2 Joseph Stalin ordered the Soviet troops in Finland to hold position as his generals worked on a new offensive plan against the surprisingly resilient Finnish defenses. The Soviet troops enveloped within Finnish lines was thus abandoned and left to be eliminated by the Finnish forces. 
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28 Dec 1939 WW2 German submarine U-30 sank British submarine trawler HMS Barbara Robertson in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom at 0400 hours, killing 1; the German submarine radioed Swedish merchant ship Hispania to pick up the survivors. Later on the same day, at 1545 hours, she spotted and damaged British battleship HMS Barham with one torpedo, killing 4; she was chased off by destroyers HMS Isis and HMS Nubian. 
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28 Dec 1939 WW2 The British Ministry of Food announced that sugar would be rationed from 8 Jan 1940 and meat from a date still to be fixed. The Minister of Food William Morrison said this would release foreign exchange and provide shipping space for the importation of armaments and raw materials. 
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28 Dec 1940 WW2 Mussolini requested German aid against the Greeks in Albania. 
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28 Dec 1940 WW2 British monitor HMS Terror bombarded Bardia, Libya keeping up pressure on the 40,000 besieged Italian troops. 
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28 Dec 1940 WW2 German bombers attacked two destroyers under construction at Southampton, England, United Kingdom; future destroyer Norseman was blown in half, and future destroyer Opportune was also heavily damaged. 
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28 Dec 1940 WW2 British destroyer HMS Valorous collided with minesweeping trawler HMT Libyan in Sheerness Harbour in the Thames Estuary, England, United Kingdom. HMS Valorous would be repaired at Chatham, England until 11 Jan 1941. 
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28 Dec 1941 WW2 I-68 arrived at Kwajalein, Marshall Islands and received temporary repairs. 
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28 Dec 1941 WW2 American destroyer USS Peary, while in transit from the Philippine Islands toward Australia, was attacked by 4 Japanese aircraft at 1420 hours, causing no damage. At 1800 hours, she was mistaken for a Japanese ship and was bombed and damaged by 3 RAAF Hudson bombers off Kina, Celebes, Dutch East Indies, killing 1 and wounding 2. 
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28 Dec 1941 WW2 The US Navy Chief of Bureau of Yards and Docks, Rear Admiral Ben Moreell, requested that construction battalions be recruited. These construction personnel were soon to be known as the "Seabees". 
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28 Dec 1941 WW2 Lieutenant-General Thomas Hutton assumed command of Burma army. A competent and efficient Staff Officer (he had been responsible for the great expansion of the Indian army), he had not actually commanded troops for twenty years. Across the border in Thailand, Japanese Colonel Keiji Suzuki announced the disbandment of the Minami Kikan (Burmese armed pro-Japanese nationalists) organization, which would be replaced by the formation of a Burma Independence Army (BIA), to accompany the Invasion force. 
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28 Dec 1941 WW2 Indian 22nd Brigade arrived at Kuantan, Malaya. 
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28 Dec 1941 WW2 German submarine U-75 attacked Allied convoy ME-8 off Mersa Matruh, Egypt, sinking British ship Volo; 24 were killed, 14 survived. British destroyer HMS Kipling counterattacked and sank U-75 with depth charges; 14 were killed, 30 survived. 
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28 Dec 1941 WW2 George Brett arrived in Darwin, Australia. 
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28 Dec 1941 WW2 While in Athens, Greece, Hans-Joachim Marseille received a short telegram from his mother stating that his sister, Ingeborg, was dead, asking him to return to Berlin, Germany. 
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28 Dec 1941 WW2 On Luzon island, Philippine Islands, the US 4th Marine Regiment completed its move from the Bataan Peninsula to Corregidor Island except for the radar detachment. Meanwhile, also on Luzon, north of the capital of Manila, the Allied defenses fell back to the Tarlac-Cabanatuan line. Over Manila, Japanese aircraft appeared again, sinking four freighters in Manila Bay. To the south, Japanese 16th Division captured Luisiana, with forward units reaching as far as Los Baños on the southern shore of Laguna de Bay. 
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28 Dec 1941 WW2 USS Permit embarked Admiral Thomas Hart's staff at Mariveles Harbor at the southern tip of the Bataan Peninsula, Philippine Islands for evacuation. 
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28 Dec 1942 WW2 Concentration camp doctors at Birkenau began sterilization experiments on female prisoners. 
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28 Dec 1942 WW2 Chiang Kaishek cabled Washington DC in the United States, complaining of Archibald Wavell's uncooperativeness regarding a possible coordinated offensive in Burma. 
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28 Dec 1942 WW2 Repair ship Akashi began refitting light cruiser Sendai at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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28 Dec 1942 WW2 Tatsuta Maru arrived at Balikpapan, Borneo and took on fuel. 
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28 Dec 1942 WW2 Robert Johnson and fellow members of the USAAF 61st Fighter Squadron arrived at Camp Kilmer at Piscataway and Edison, New Jersey, United States. 
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28 Dec 1943 WW2 I-52 was commissioned into service. 
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28 Dec 1943 WW2 Adolf Hitler ordered the demolition of the Wehrwolf headquarters north of Vinnytsia, Ukraine. "There must be a special detachment at Vinnitsa to burn the whole headquarters down and blow it up", he ordered. "It is important there should be no furniture left, otherwise the Russians will send it to Moscow and put it on display. Burn the lot." 
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28 Dec 1943 WW2 USS Gabilan was commissioned into service, Commander K. R. Wheland in command. 
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28 Dec 1943 WW2 British cruisers HMS Glasgow and HMS Enterprise intercepted a force of German destroyers off France; the German ships were responding to the Allied sinking of German merchant ships. By 1600 hours, German destroyers T25, T26, and Z27 were sunk. 
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28 Dec 1943 WW2 64 F4U Corsair fighters of US Marine Corps squadrons VMF-214 and VMF-216 conducted a fighter sweep over Rabaul, New Britain. 72 Japanese fighters rose to defend. The Americans claimed 30 Japanese shot down, but Japanese records would later revealed that only 3 fighters were actually lost. 
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28 Dec 1943 WW2 69th, 310th, and 311th Fighter Squadrons (all flying P-47 aircraft) of USAAF 58th Fighter Group were transferred from Brisbane, Australia to Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua. 
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28 Dec 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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28 Dec 1943 WW2 Canadian 1st Division succeeded in taking Ortona, Italy after a heavy battle with German airborne troops; the Germans fell back across the Moro River. 
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28 Dec 1943 WW2 F. G. Petrov stepped down as GUKR SMERSH's chief in the 3rd Ukrainian Front. 
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28 Dec 1943 WW2 USS Golet arrived at New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. 
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28 Dec 1943 WW2 USS Miami was commissioned into service with Captain John G. Crawford in command. 
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28 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Kete arrived north of Okinawa, Japan. 
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28 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Gunnel ended her seventh war patrol. 
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28 Dec 1944 WW2 The Infantry Landing Ship Empire Javelin was torpedoed and sunk by the German Submarine U-772 in the English Channel. Among the passengers were 208 officers and 624 enlisted men of the main body of the newly raised US 15th Army. Most were rescued by the French frigate L'Escarmouche, but thirteen men were reported as missing in action and 20 others sustained injuries. 
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28 Dec 1944 WW2 American troops began gaining ground in their counteroffensive in the Battle of the Bulge. Adolf Hitler ordered renewed offensives in Alsace and Ardennes regions against the advice of his generals. 
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28 Dec 1944 WW2 21st Brigade of Indian 8th Infantry Division arrived on the western end of the German Gothic Line in Toscana, Italy. 
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28 Dec 1944 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho departed Kure, Japan for Moji, Japan. 
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28 Dec 1945 WW2 Dwight Eisenhower ordered the Imperial Regalia of the Holy Roman Empire to be transferred to Vienna, Austria despite protest by the representatives of Nürnberg, Germany. 
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28 Dec 1945 WW2 The command of the United States Coast Guard was transferred under the US Treasury Department. 
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28 Dec 1947 WW2 Vittorio Emanuele III passed away. 
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