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History on the 30th of December

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30 Dec 1741 RELIGIOUS English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'O how little do I for Jesus, who has done so much for me!'
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30 Dec 1838 RELIGIOUS Hanover College was chartered by the Presbyterian General Assembly of Indiana. The school had been founded as a seminary "in the wilderness" for training ministers.
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30 Dec 1927 RELIGIOUS The International Church of the Foursquare Gospel was incorporated in Los Angeles, CA. Founded in 1923 by evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, the denomination recognizes the significant role that women in ministry. Today, over 40% of its ministers are women.
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30 Dec 1931 WW2 He Yingqin stepped down as the deputy director of the Department of Training. 
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30 Dec 1932 WW2 While in Washington DC, United States, Joseph Rochefort was ordered to travel to Norfolk, Virginia, United States, where he would depart for the west coast of the United States for sea duty aboard USS Maryland. 
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30 Dec 1936 WW2 The keel of HMS Edinburgh was laid down. 
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30 Dec 1937 RELIGIOUS Birth of No l Paul Stookey, American folk singer. Stookey was "Paul" of the 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul & Mary. Converted in the late 1960s, Stookey is now a Christian recording artist, and prefers using his "born_again" name, No l.
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30 Dec 1938 WW2 HMS Eskimo (L75) was commissioned into service with Commander St. J. A. Micklethwait in command. 
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30 Dec 1938 WW2 The Spanish Republican destroyer Diez was damaged by the Spanish Nationalist cruiser Canarias off the coast near Catalon Bay, Gibraltar. The Diez was so badly damaged that she had to be beached to stop her sinking. She was later towed to Gibraltar and remained there, interned, until the end of the war. 
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30 Dec 1939 WW2 Remnants of the Soviet 163rd Division was destroyed by the Finnish 9th Division at Suomussalmi as it attempted to retreat over the frozen Lake Kiantajärvi. 
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30 Dec 1940 WW2 In Libya, RAF bombers continued to bomb Italian defensive positions at Bardia and airfields at Tobruk, Derna, Benina. 
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30 Dec 1940 WW2 British anti-submarine trawler HMT Bandolero collided with Australian destroyer HMAS Waterhen off Sollum, Egypt; Bandolero sank with no casualties. 
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30 Dec 1940 WW2 HMAS Waterhen entered Port Taufiq on the Suez Canal in Egypt for repairs, which would be completed in Jan 1941. 
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30 Dec 1940 WW2 Australian destroyer HMAS Voyager captured Italian sailing craft Zingarella on the Libyan coast, transporting British prisoners of war from Bardia to Tobruk. Zingarella would later serve in the British Royal Navy as a store carrier. 
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30 Dec 1940 WW2 Destroyer HMS Venomous hit a mine off Liverpool, England, United Kingdom but did not sink. She would remain in Liverpool for repairs until 18 Feb 1941. 
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30 Dec 1940 WW2 British ship Calcium hit a mine in the North Sea (killing 1), and then collided with British ship Sodium. Calcium would ultimately sink. 
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30 Dec 1941 WW2 USS Tennessee arrived at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, United States for repairs. 
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30 Dec 1941 WW2 USS Maryland arrived at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, United States for repairs. 
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30 Dec 1941 WW2 Japanese submarine I-1 shelled Hilo, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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30 Dec 1941 WW2 5-inch and 3-inch anti-aircraft batteries and 16 machine guns, along with their crew, arrived at Johnston Atoll. 
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30 Dec 1941 WW2 General Sir Archibald Wavell assumed command of the newly created ABDA Command (American-British-Dutch-Australian) with his headquarters in Java, Dutch East Indies. 
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30 Dec 1941 WW2 Winston Churchill spoke to the Canadian Parliament. 
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30 Dec 1941 WW2 Soviet troops captured Kaluga, Russia near Moscow. 
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30 Dec 1941 WW2 Three British Blenheim aircraft from Singapore airdropped 900 pounds of food and ammunition over Singkawang II airfield in Dutch Borneo for the British, Dutch, and Indian troops there. 
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30 Dec 1941 WW2 Japanese Lingayen Force captured Tarlac on Luzon, Philippine Islands; American and Filipino forces fell back to the Bamban-Sibul Springs Line, the final defensive line north of Manila. South of Manila, the Japanese 16th Division reached the Laguna De Bay lake. 
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30 Dec 1941 WW2 8,000 troops of the 9th Brigade of the Japanese 5th Division launched probing attacks on Kampar on the west coast of British Malaya. On the east coast, Japanese troops attacked the defensive positions north of the Kuantan River, whose defenders were confused by inaccurate intelligence that the Japanese were to land from the sea behind them. 
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30 Dec 1941 WW2 German and British tanks clashed near El Haseiat, Libya; the Germans destroyed 65 tanks at the loss of only 30. 
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30 Dec 1941 WW2 Ernest King was officially sworn in as the Commander-in-Chief of US Fleet. 
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30 Dec 1941 WW2 American submarine Thresher departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for the Marshall Islands and the Mariana Islands region. 
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30 Dec 1941 WW2 Sergio Osmeña was sworn in as the Vice President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines at the west entrance of the Malinta Tunnel on Corregidor, Philippine Islands. 
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30 Dec 1941 WW2 Manuel Quezon was sworn in as the President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines at the west entrance of the Malinta Tunnel on Corregidor, Philippine Islands. 
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30 Dec 1941 WW2 Soivet cruiser Molotov departed from Sevastopol, Russia with 600 wounded men on board. 
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30 Dec 1941 WW2 German troops retreated from Kerch, Russia. 
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30 Dec 1941 WW2 10,000 Jews were massacred in Simferopol, Russia. 
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30 Dec 1941 WW2 USS Yorktown arrived at San Diego, California, United States after a 15-day trip from Norfolk, Virginia, United States. 
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30 Dec 1942 WW2 Jules Bastin was named the commanding officer of Belgian Legion. 
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30 Dec 1942 WW2 6 Japanese fighters intercepted an air convoy from China to Lashio, Burma; one Japanese fighter was shot down by the escorting P-40 fighters. 
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30 Dec 1942 WW2 7 B-17 bombers of US 43rd Bomb Group attacked Rabaul, New Britain at 0530 hours, sinking small cargo ship Tomiura Maru. The pilots reported 21 warships gathering in Simpson Harbor. 
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30 Dec 1942 WW2 Satoru Anabuki, flying Ki-43 fighter "Fubuki", shot down a Blenheim aircraft over Meiktila, Burma, his 13th victory. 
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30 Dec 1942 WW2 Allied convoy RA-51 departed Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. To the west, German submarine U-354 detected Allied convoy JW-51B; Admiral Erich Raeder ordered Lützow, Admiral Hipper, and six destroyers to sortie from Altafjord, Norway to intercept. 
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30 Dec 1943 WW2 Subhas Chandra Bose declared an independent India at Port Blair, Andaman Islands; his Azad Hind government was heavily reliant on Japan. 
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30 Dec 1943 WW2 10 Lancaster bombers of 617 Squadron RAF and 6 Mosquito aircraft attacked a German V-1 rocket launch site but failed to destroy it. 
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30 Dec 1943 WW2 USS S-35 arrived at Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska, ending her seventh and final war patrol. 
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30 Dec 1943 WW2 Two missions were planned against Rabaul, New Britain. The fighter sweep mission was canceled due to poor weather, but the bombing raids proceeded as planned. 20 B-24 bombers escorted by 20 F4U and 20 F6F fighters dropped 70 1,000-pound bombs. At least one B-24 bomber was shot down by the Japanese. 
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30 Dec 1943 WW2 Robert Johnson shot down a German Fw 190D aircraft over Soissons, France. 
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30 Dec 1943 WW2 USS Bluefish sank a Japanese oiler southwest of Borneo, Dutch East Indies, hitting her with 5 of 5 torpedoes fired. 
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30 Dec 1943 WW2 Allied convoy JW-55B arrived at Arkhangelsk, Russia. 
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30 Dec 1944 WW2 King George II of Greece declared a regency, leaving the throne vacant. 
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30 Dec 1944 WW2 I-400 was commissioned into service. 
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30 Dec 1944 WW2 German submarine control requested a passage report from U-869, which did not respond. 
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30 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Parche began her fourth war patrol. 
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30 Dec 1944 WW2 Germans again attacked in the Bastogne corridor in Belgium. Meanwhile, British troops attacked Houffalize, Belgium, but they were stopped by fierce German defense. 
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30 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Ticonderoga departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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30 Dec 1944 WW2 The US Navy Fast Carrier Task Force sortied from Ulithi, Caroline Islands for the invasion of Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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30 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Astoria departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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30 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Charr departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. 
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30 Dec 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 48 arrived on board. 
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30 Dec 1944 WW2 Allied troops regained most of the territory lost in Tuscany, Italy over the past few days from the latest Axis offensive. 
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30 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Preston departed waters off Philippine Islands for Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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30 Dec 1944 WW2 150 female prisoners of Auschwitz Concentration Camp were employed in the demolition squad (Abbruchkommando), working on the demolition of crematorium III. 50 female prisoners worked in the forestry-demolition squad (Gehölz-Abbruchkommando), which was filling in the incineration pits and covering them with grass and planting small trees on the grounds of crematorium IV. 
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30 Dec 1944 WW2 Two YP-80A jet fighters arrived in Burtonwood, England, United Kingdom. 
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30 Dec 1944 WW2 Allied convoy JW-63 departed Loch Ewe, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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30 Dec 1945 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru completed its repairs at the Uraga Zosen docks near Tokyo Bay, Japan. 
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30 Dec 1945 WW2 Friedrich Gustav Bernhardt was found guilty and was executed in Moscow, Russia. 
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30 Dec 1947 WW2 King Mihai I of Romania was forced to abdicate the throne by the Soviet-backed communist government. 
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30 Dec 1949 WW2 The NKVD of the Soviet Union provided Joseph Stalin a secret dossier that contained a biography of Adolf Hitler. 
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30 Dec 1949 WW2 Deng Xihou defected to the Chinese communists, allowing communist forces to occupy Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China without opposition. 
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30 Dec 1971 RELIGIOUS The Anglican_Roman Catholic International Commission announced that an agreement had been made between the two Christian traditions on the essential teachings about the Eucharist.
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