Fr. Alberic Crescitelli (1郭西德) was executed by Boxers in China. He was beatified as one of the Martyr Saints of China.
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Fr. Alberic Crescitelli (1郭西德) was executed by Boxers in China. He was beatified as one of the Martyr Saints of China.
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China's minister to the United States, Wu Ting-fang, delivered a telegraphed message from U.S. Ambassador to China Edwin H. Conger to United States Secretary of State John Hay confirming that the foreign envoys in Beijing were still alive.
The message was in cipher. John Hay wasn't fully convinced and sent back a message asking for Conger's sisters name as confirmation, which he rapidly sent.
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President Truman informed Prime Minister Churchill that the atomic bomb test had been successful in a stating: "Babies satisfactorily born."
Not so coincidently, American interest in Soviet participation in the war against Japan was noticeably lessened.
A fire broke out on the jetty of the Bedford Magazine during the evening causing a chain reaction of fires, explosions, and concussions that continued for more than 24 hours. Fifteen people were killed.
Captured German mines in Italy exploded destroying an American Red Cross club resulting in the death of 36 people.
Aircraft from the USS Wasp attacked Wake Island.
The U.S. Army Air Force, flying out of Okinawa, bombed Kiangwan airfield near Shanghai.
The Brazilian Expeditionary Force parades through Rio de Janeiro marking its return from Italy.
The Belgian senate voted to forbid the return of Leopold III.
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A temporary truce was called between the Chinese Army and the Eight National Alliance in Beijing which allowed for food and the transmission of information to occur.
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Boxers and Imperial Chinese soldiers began the siege of Tchou-kia-ho (Zhujiahe) in Qin County of Hebei Province, China.
It had a large Christian population.
Chinese residents of the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk were slaughtered by Russian troops.
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Bishop Antonino Fantosati and Father Joseph Gambaro were tortured and killed by Boxer rebels. They were both canonized as party of the Martyrs of China.
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The Kuomintang proclaimed a new national government for the Republic of China.
Ford Australia produced its first Model T.
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Today in World War II History—June 30, 1940 & 1945: 80 Years Ago—June 30, 1945: In the Philippines, Luzon is declared secure. Organized Japanese resistance ends on Mindanao in the Philippines.
Sarah Sundin's blog.
Indeed, some Japanese troops would hold out on the Philippines on an individual basis for decades.
American forces on Okinawa completed a week of mop-up operations in which 8,975 Japanese were reported killed and 2,902 captured, showing how intense operations remained.
While not apparent to anyone yet, the U.S. Army and Marine Corps had effectively concluded the main part of their ground fighting in the war. Ground combat, however, carried on for the British and Dominion armies, and the Chinese Army.
Former U.S. Army Air Force base Liuzhou, China, was recaptured by the Chinese. They also took Chungchin on the Indochinese border.
The French the 5e REI, a Foreign Legion regiment which had been stationed in Indochina, was deactivated, having been decimated in their retreat into China.
Truman appointed James F. Byrnes to be Secretary of State.
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The United Nations Conference on International Organization concluded with the United Nations Charter being signed at the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center by 50 of the 51 original member countries.
Poland was unable to send a delegation, and therefore did not sign.
While many people in the world were becoming optimistic about the post war world, the Manhattan Project scientists were getting worried.
The US dropped paratroopers near Aparri to link up with the 37th Infantry Division.
The Chinese army took Liuchow airfield.
The United States Army Air Force commenced B-29 raids at night against Japanese oil refineries.
Norma Jeane Dougherty, later known as Marilyn Monroe, appeared as the Yank centerfold.
The title of Generalissimo of the Soviet Union was introduced aand assigned next day assigned to I.V. Stalin, who declined to use it, favoring Marshall.
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Today in World War II History—June 23, 1940 & 1945: June 23, 1945: In the last airborne assault of the war, paratroopers of the US 11th Airborne Division land near Aparri in northern Luzon.
The Battle of Okinawa ended. It was the last major ground battle of World War Two.
Today in World War II History—June 22, 1940 & 1945: 80 Years Ago—June 22, 1945: Battle for Okinawa officially ends at a high cost—12,520 Americans and 110,000 Japanese were killed, plus 42,000 civilians.
June 22, 1945: The Battle of Okinawa
Operation Ten-Go, the last major Japanese naval operation, concluded.
Gen. MacArthur announced that Gen. Joseph Stilwell would replace Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. as commander of the U.S. Tenth Army.
Emperor Hirohito directed his government to find a way to peace talks.
Japanese generals Isamu Chō, 50, and Mitsuru Ushijima, 57, committed suicide on Okinawa.
The Japanese withdrew from Liuchow.
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Nguyen Ai Quoc (Ho Chi Minh) founded the Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League (Việt Nam Thanh niên Cách mệnh Đồng chí Hội; chữ Hán: 越南青年革命同志會) in Guangzhou, China. It was Vietnam's first Communist organization and had the support of the Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang.
It'd dissolve due to internal splits in 1929.
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The Chinese government delivered an ultimatum in response to the attack on the Taku Forts to eleven ambassadors in the legation quarter demanding that all foreign residents, including diplomats, missionaries and their families leave Beijing by 4pm the following day. The demand accompanied a promise to provide troops for a safe exit.
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The Taku Forts surrendered after a sixteen hour bombardment by ships of the Eight Nation Alliance. Chinse casualties were very heavy. One Russian ship was sunk in the engagement. Four Chinese destroyers were captured, and recommissioned in Western navies.
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A Canadian federal election was held in which the incumbent Liberal Party led by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King was re-elected to its third consecutive mandate, but this time through a minority government.
It was likely a sign of things to come in the upcoming British election.
US forces captured the height east of Mount Yaeju on Okinawa but an accompanying Marine assault failed to capture Kunishi Ridge.
Japanese forces recaptured Ishan in Kwangsi Province.
The U.S. Supreme Court decided In re Summers, ruling 5-4 that the First and Fourteenth Amendment freedoms of a conscientious objector were not infringed when a state bar association declined to admit him to the practice of law, which seems obviously wrong.
The Soviets began the expulsion of Sudetenlanders from Czechoslovakia.
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