Search examples: Microsoft | 2015 | 2014/10 | 4.12 | 04/20 | 05/26/1980 | Galileo Galilei

History on the 1st of January

History
Date Text
01 Jan 1912 WW2 Woo Yi was born. 
0
01 Jan 1913 WW2 Robert Capa was born. 
0
01 Jan 1914 WW2 Takeo Yoshikawa was born. 
0
01 Jan 1915 WW2 Giulio Cesare was commissioned into service. 
0
01 Jan 1915 WW2 Conte di Cavour was commissioned into service. 
0
01 Jan 1916 WW2 Denise Bloch was born. 
0
01 Jan 1916 WW2 Lieutenant R. B. Davis of the British Royal Naval Air Service was awarded the Victoria Cross for valour whilst flying a Nieuport fighter. 
0
01 Jan 1916 WW2 Richard O'Connor was Mentioned in Despatches. 
0
01 Jan 1918 WW2 The British Cabinet, hearing false rumours of Bolshevik atrocities at Irkutsk, Russia, sent a telegram to US President Wilson asking that he reconsider the proposal to land an Allied force in the Far East to safeguard the 600,000 tons of supplies and other interests at Vladivostok. 
0
01 Jan 1918 WW2 The Allies decided to supply the Ukraine and Romania through Persia and Siberia in the event of a renewed German offensive in the east. It was further decided that, for this purpose, the Trans-Siberian railway must be brought under Allied control. This would naturally involve the commitment of ground troops to the region. 
0
01 Jan 1918 WW2 Edmund Herring met Mary Ranken Lyle in Maryborough, Victoria, Australia. 
0
01 Jan 1919 WW2 Tunku Osman was born. 
0
01 Jan 1919 WW2 Robert Saundby was awarded the Air Force Cross. 
0
01 Jan 1919 WW2 Karl Wiligut retired from military service. 
0
01 Jan 1919 WW2 The VO, or Military Department, the Soviet military intelligence service, was renamed OO, or Special Department. 
0
01 Jan 1919 WW2 Richard Saul was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. 
0
01 Jan 1920 WW2 Andrew McNaughton was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. 
0
01 Jan 1920 WW2 The Byelorussian Communist Organization was founded as a separate party. 
0
01 Jan 1921 WW2 Pierre Barjot was assigned to the ship Aldebaran and served in Asia. 
0
01 Jan 1922 WW2 Quintin Brand was promoted to the rank of squadron leader. 
0
01 Jan 1923 WW2 Andrew McNaughton was promoted to the rank of colonel. 
0
01 Jan 1924 WW2 Centurion was decommissioned from service. 
0
01 Jan 1926 WW2 Kliment Voroshilov became a full member of the Soviet Politburo. 
0
01 Jan 1926 WW2 Arthur Coningham was awarded the Air Force Cross medal. 
0
01 Jan 1927 WW2 The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was founded by Royal Charter, replacing the British Broadcasting Company Limited. 
0
01 Jan 1928 WW2 Trieste was commissioned into service. 
0
01 Jan 1928 WW2 Vojtech Tuka published an article claiming that there had been a secret clause to the 1918 declaration that formed the nation of Czechoslovakia which put Slovakia on a path to independence. This would soon lead to his arrest and imprisonment for treason. 
0
01 Jan 1929 WW2 Ira Eaker served as the chief pilot aboard the aircraft "Question Mark" on a quest to break the endurance flight record. 
0
01 Jan 1929 WW2 Trento was commissioned into service. 
0
01 Jan 1929 WW2 Andrew McNaughton was promoted to the rank of major-general. 
0
01 Jan 1930 WW2 Köln was commissioned into service. 
0
01 Jan 1933 WW2 Japanese troops attacked Hebei Province, China. 
0
01 Jan 1934 WW2 Germany passed the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring". 
0
01 Jan 1934 WW2 Georg von Bismarck was promoted to the rank of Major. 
0
01 Jan 1934 WW2 Brummer was commissioned into service. 
0
01 Jan 1934 WW2 The French Air Force placed an order for 30 examples of MB.200 bombers. 
0
01 Jan 1934 WW2 Robert von Greim was promoted to the rank of Major. 
0
01 Jan 1934 WW2 Italo Balbo was named the Governor-General of Italian Libya. 
0
01 Jan 1935 WW2 Werner Mölders began receiving fighter pilot instructions at the flying school in Tutow, Germany and the Jagdfliegerschule near Munich, Germany. 
0
01 Jan 1935 WW2 Admiral Canaris was appointed head of the German Abwehr (Military Intelligence Department). 
0
01 Jan 1936 WW2 Wilhelm Keitel was promoted to the rank of Generalleutnant. 
0
01 Jan 1937 WW2 Battleship King George V was laid down. 
0
01 Jan 1937 WW2 The United States began withholding taxes from payrolls per the Social Security Act legistration. 
0
01 Jan 1937 WW2 François Darlan was made the chief of staff of the French Navy. 
0
01 Jan 1937 WW2 Captain Clement Moody was named the commanding officer of HMS Eagle. 
0
01 Jan 1938 WW2 Cruiser Köln began two months of repairs at Kiel, Germany. 
0
01 Jan 1938 WW2 Lord Gort was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath. 
0
01 Jan 1938 WW2 George Giffard was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath. 
0
01 Jan 1938 WW2 Japanese Army General Iwane Matsui reportedly told a Japanese diplomat "y men have done something very wrong and extremely regrettable" regarding the atrocities committed in Nanjing, China. 
0
01 Jan 1938 WW2 Chen Shaokuan was named the supreme commander of the Chinese Navy. 
0
01 Jan 1938 WW2 Chiang Kaishek stepped down as the Premier of the Republic of China. 
0
01 Jan 1938 WW2 Although Hurricane fighters had been arriving for the past week, this date was the official date that No. 111 Squadron RAF (based at RAF Northolt, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom) converted to operate these newly developed fighters. 
0
01 Jan 1939 WW2 Strasbourg was commissioned into service. 
0
01 Jan 1939 WW2 Friedrich Christiansen was promoted to the rank of General der Flieger. 
0
01 Jan 1940 WW2 Age of conscription increased to 27 in the United Kingdom, thus adding two million potential conscripts for military service. 
0
01 Jan 1940 WW2 German submarine U-58 sank neutral Swedish steamer Lars Magnus Trozelli with one torpedo 50 miles northeast of Aberdeen at 1100 hours, killing 7. The survivors were picked up Norwegian merchant ship Ask. 
0
01 Jan 1940 WW2 1,000 men from the Finnish 9th Division under the command of Captain Eino Lassila skied into their attacking position; when they arrived at 2300, they were looking down a large Russian tank and artillery concentration on the Raate Road. 
0
01 Jan 1940 WW2 Between the start of the European War on 1 Sep 1939 and this date, 15,600 British men registered themselves as conscientious objectors. 
0
01 Jan 1940 WW2 10,000 Japanese troops launched a counter-attack in eastern Shanxi Province in China in an attempt to relieve the nearly-surrounded Japanese 36th Division. It would be driven back by stiff Chinese resistance within the next two days. 
0
01 Jan 1940 WW2 Tingfang Bie passed away. 
0
01 Jan 1940 WW2 Gunner LAC T. Gibbin became the first airman from RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom to be killed in World War II when Spitfire fighters from No. 602 Squadron intercepted returning Hampden bombers and, mistaking them for German aircraft, shot down two of the bombers. The other seven crewmen were picked up by fishing boats. 
0
01 Jan 1940 WW2 Lorraine was transferred to 2nd Battleship Division of 1st Squadron of the French Navy. 
0
01 Jan 1940 WW2 Robert von Greim was promoted to the rank of Generalleutnant. 
0
01 Jan 1940 WW2 British authorities detained several American ships at Gibraltar to search for contraband. 
0
01 Jan 1940 WW2 German aircraft bombed RAF Coastal Command at Sullom Voe in the Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom damaging light cruiser HMS Coventry and ground facilities with the loss of one Ju 88 bomber. 
0
01 Jan 1941 WW2 Negotiations began between Germany and Bulgaria to use Bulgarian territory as a staging area for Operation Marita, the German invasion of Greece. 
0
01 Jan 1941 WW2 In Hitler's New Year's Order of the Day, he promised the Wehrmacht the completion of the "greatest victory in our history" on the Western Front. 
0
01 Jan 1941 WW2 The United Kingdom suppressed the Daily Worker, a Communist publication. 
0
01 Jan 1941 WW2 British General O'Connor's Western Desert Force in Egypt was reorganized as the British 13th Corps. Meanwhile, in Libya, RAF aircraft continued to bomb the port of Bardia and the airfields at Tobruk, Derna, and Benina. 
0
01 Jan 1941 WW2 In the Gibraltar Strait, British destroyers HMS Duncan, HMS Firedrake, HMS Foxhound, HMS Jaguar, and HMS Hero stopped a French convoy from Casablanca, French Morocco. The convoy was consisted of French ship Chantilly, French tankers Octane and Suroit, and Danish ship Sally Maersk. HMS Jaguar attacked Chantilly, causing 2 killed and 4 wounded, leading to the convoy's capture. 
0
01 Jan 1941 WW2 The BBC aired the Brains Trust for the first time. This radio programme which had five men discussing such diverse subjects as philosophy, art and science was surprisingly a great success, frequently having a regular audience of ten million listeners. 
0
01 Jan 1941 WW2 George Giffard was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath. 
0
01 Jan 1941 WW2 Arthur Coningham was Mentioned in Despatches. 
0
01 Jan 1942 WW2 The United States introduced a ban on the purchase of new private cars and trucks in order to conserve steel. 
0
01 Jan 1942 WW2 Jean Moulin, the former mayor of Chartes, parachuted into France in an effort to coordinate and unify resistance groups. 
0
01 Jan 1942 WW2 Allied powers announced preliminary plans for punishing enemy war criminals after the war. 
0
01 Jan 1942 WW2 Oberstgeneral Ernst Udet, head of the Luftwaffe's Production and Development, committed suicide over his perceived inability to properly perform his mission. 
0
01 Jan 1942 WW2 Douglas MacArthur accepted a payment of US$500,000 from Philippine President Manuel Quezon for his pre-war service. 
0
01 Jan 1942 WW2 General der Artillerie Robert Martinek succeeded Wilhelm Weiß as the commanding officer of the German 7th Mountain Division. 
0
01 Jan 1942 WW2 Four Australian Hudson medium bombers attacked Kapingamarangi northeast of Rabaul, Bismarck Islands, causing light damage. 
0
01 Jan 1942 WW2 George Brett was named the Deputy Supreme Commander of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDA). 
0
01 Jan 1942 WW2 Kittyhawk fighters saw combat in North Africa for the first time, with 9 No. 3 Squadron RAF Kittyhawk fighters attacking 16 German Ju 87 Stuka dive bombers escorted by 6 Bf 109 fighters. The British Kittyhawk fighters would shoot down four Ju 87 and one Bf 109 aircraft. 
0
01 Jan 1942 WW2 Chinese troops launched a counterattack at Changsha, Hunan Province, China. 
0
01 Jan 1942 WW2 Japanese troops continued the assault on Kampar, British Malaya; both sides incurred heavy casualties in the morning. Meanwhile, Japanese 11th Regiment landed in the Bernam River 35 miles to the southwest. In London, England, United Kingdom, Winston Churchill complained of the British Royal Navy's inability to disrupt Japanese shipping in Malayan waters. 
0
01 Jan 1942 WW2 American and Filipino forces south of Manila, Luzon, Philippine Islands abandoned their positions and joined the defenses north of the city, which would fall back across the Calumpit bridges by the end of the day. Meanwhile, the Japanese sent a message to the mayor of Manila announcing that the Japanese forces would arrive on the following day. 
0
01 Jan 1942 WW2 Soviet cruiser Molotov arrived at Sevastopol, Russia with 700 men of the Soviet 386th Infantry Division. 
0
01 Jan 1942 WW2 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, US President Franklin Roosevelt, Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinov, and Chinese Ambassador Song Ziwen (also known as T. V. Soong) signed the Declaration by United Nations during the Arcadia Conference in Washington DC, United States. 
-1
01 Jan 1942 WW2 Vice Admiral Royal E. Ingersoll was appointed as Commander-in-Chief, US Atlantic Fleet with the USS Augusta as his flagship. 
0
01 Jan 1943 WW2 Tatsuta Maru arrived at Makassar, Celebes. 
0
01 Jan 1943 WW2 I-168 arrived at Guadalcanal with 15 tons of cargo; she was chased away by two patrol boats after only 60% of her cargo had been unloaded. 
0
01 Jan 1943 WW2 German 1st Panzer Division withdrew from Terek area in southern Russia to prevent encirclement by the Soviet Salsk-Rostov and Mozdok-Stavropol Offensive Operations. 
0
01 Jan 1943 WW2 In a letter to Chester Nimitz, Bill Halsey described Miles Browning as someone who "has an uncanny knack of sizing up a situation and coming out with an answer" in an attempt to save Browning's career as the temperamental Browning had made many political enemies. 
0
01 Jan 1943 WW2 USS Gar reported firing four torpedoes against two Japanese ships on this date, hitting one of them with one torpedo and causing damage. 
0
01 Jan 1943 WW2 The US 2nd Marine Aviation Engineer Battalion and the US Army 27th Division arrived at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 
0
01 Jan 1943 WW2 HMS Activity began hosting deck landing training. 
0
01 Jan 1943 WW2 Frustrated with the poor performance of the German Navy, Adolf Hitler angrily ordered the decommissioning of the entire German high seas fleet. 
0
01 Jan 1943 WW2 Claus von Stauffenberg was promoted to lieutenant colonel. 
0
01 Jan 1943 WW2 Wolfgang Falck was promoted to the rank of Oberstleutnant. 
0
01 Jan 1943 WW2 Lord Gort was promoted to the rank of field marshal. 
0
01 Jan 1943 WW2 Archibald Wavell was promoted to the rank of field marshal. 
0
01 Jan 1943 WW2 Alexander Löhr was made the Commander-in-Chief of the South East, with personal command over Army Group E. 
0
01 Jan 1943 WW2 A new marine railway for handling destroyers and submarines began construction at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, US Territory of Hawaii. 
0
01 Jan 1944 WW2 Petr Novikov passed away. 
0
01 Jan 1944 WW2 General Mark Clark became the commander of US Fifth and Seventh Armies. 
0
01 Jan 1944 WW2 Soviet forces closed to within 30 miles of the old Polish frontier. 
0
01 Jan 1944 WW2 Robert Saundby was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. 
1
01 Jan 1944 WW2 The Japanese Navy 11th Air Fleet was reorganized to contain two air flotillas, one air group, one seaplane tender, and two destroyers. The 13th Air Fleet was assigned to the Southwest Area Fleet with two air flotillas and one air group. 
0
01 Jan 1944 WW2 USS Pintado was commissioned into service, Lieutenant Commander Bernard A. Clarey in command. 
0
01 Jan 1944 WW2 USS Finback sank a Japanese tanker in the East China Sea, hitting her with 5 of 6 torpedoes fired. 
0
01 Jan 1944 WW2 USS Puffer sank Japanese freighter Ryuyo Maru and damaged another ship south of the Philippine Islands; she expended 7 torpedoes and observed 4 hits. 
0
01 Jan 1944 WW2 Light carrier Hosho was assigned to Training Force of the 5th Force. 
0
01 Jan 1944 WW2 Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein was named the commanding officer of Nachtjagdgeschwader 2. 
0
01 Jan 1944 WW2 USS Ray sank Japanese converted gunboat Okuyo Maru in the mouth of Ambon Bay, Java, Dutch East Indies, hitting her with 3 of 6 torpedoes fired. 
0
01 Jan 1944 WW2 George Giffard was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. 
0
01 Jan 1944 WW2 15 B-24 bombers escorted by 68 fighters attacked Rabaul, New Britain. The Americans lost 1 B-24 bomber in combat, and another on landing after the mission was over; additionally, two returned bombers were noted as heavily damaged. 
0
01 Jan 1944 WW2 40 Japanese aircraft arrived at Rabaul, New Britain. 
0
01 Jan 1944 WW2 Aircraft from carriers USS Monterey and USS Bunker Hill attacked Japanese positions at Kavieng, New Ireland, destroying 7 Japanese aircraft. 
0
01 Jan 1944 WW2 500th Bomb Squadron (flying B-25 aircraft) of USAAF 345th Bomb Group was transferred from Port Moresby to Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua. 
0
01 Jan 1944 WW2 Naka departed Truk, Caroline Islands and took damaged transport Kiyozumi Maru in tow southwest of Truk. 
0
01 Jan 1944 WW2 Syria gained independence from France. 
0
01 Jan 1944 WW2 421 RAF Lancaster bombers attacked Berlin, Germany; 28 aircraft were lost. 15 Mosquito aircraft attacked Hamburg in diversion. 
0
01 Jan 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: More of 76th Construction Battalion (76th SeaBees) arrived. More of 72nd Construction Battalion (72nd SeaBees) arrived. Five officers and 240 men of the 56th Construction Battalion (56th SeaBees) departed. 
0
01 Jan 1944 WW2 The Brigata Marina naval infantry unit of the pro-Allied government in southern Italy was renamed "San Marco". 
0
01 Jan 1944 WW2 Allied convoy RA-55A arrived at Loch Ewe, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
0
01 Jan 1944 WW2 Just three years after its creation the short lived Reconnaissance Corps was officially absorbed into the Royal Armoured Corps of the British Army. 
0
01 Jan 1944 WW2 Colonel Donald Blakeslee took control of USAAF 4th Fighter Group at RAF Debden in North Essex, England, United Kingdom. 
0
01 Jan 1944 WW2 Dwight Eisenhower arrived in Washington DC, United States where he and his wife would take a brief break from the war. 
0
01 Jan 1945 WW2 Some time during this month, Oberleutnant Otto Wermuth took command of German submarine U-530. 
0
01 Jan 1945 WW2 Fregattenkapitän Frotz-Henning Brandes took command of cruiser Köln. 
0
01 Jan 1945 WW2 Air Vice Marshal J. W. Baker became the commanding officer of the No. 12 Group RAF. 
0
01 Jan 1945 WW2 When his 9 Squadron Lancaster bomber from Bardney was hit and set on fire in a raid on the Dortmund-Ems canal, wireless operator RAF Flight Sergeant George Thompson gallantly braved the flames to save his mid-upper and rear gunners who were trapped in the inferno. The rear gunner later recovered but Thompson's burns were so severe that three weeks later he developed pneumonia and died in a hospital. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. 
0
01 Jan 1945 WW2 US aircraft attacked Japanese airfields on Negros Island, Philippine Islands. 
0
01 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Kete began lifeguard duty off Ryukyu Islands, Japan. 
0
01 Jan 1945 WW2 Otto Skorzeny departed Cologne, Germany to return to the field headquarters of German Armored Brigade 150. 
0
01 Jan 1945 WW2 Captain Chuzaburo Yamazumi was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Navy 3rd Air Fleet. 
0
01 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island arrived at Kossol Roads, Palau Islands, loaded ammunition and other supplies, and departed for the Philippine Islands. 
0
01 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Pintado arrived in Brisbane, Australia, ending her third war patrol. 
0
01 Jan 1945 WW2 German submarine control requested a position report from U-869, which did not respond. 
0
01 Jan 1945 WW2 Heinz Guderian requested Adolf Hitler to allow reinforcements to be sent to German units in Hungary and Poland. 
0
01 Jan 1945 WW2 German troops began a withdrawal from the Ardennes Forest in the Belgian-German border region. Meanwhile, in retaliation for the Malmedy massacre, US troops massacred 30 SS prisoners at Chenogne, Belgium. In the air, the German Luftwaffe launched Unternehmen Bodenplatte, which consisted of 800 aircraft conducting low-level strikes against snow-bound Allied airfields in the Netherlands and Belgium. They destroyed 220 aircraft, mainly on the ground, but lost 188 aircraft of their own, as well as many experienced pilots who could not be replaced. This operation failed to achieve its goal of wiping out Allied air power based in the region. 
0
01 Jan 1945 WW2 US Army troops landed on Fais Island in the Caroline Islands to capture and destroy a Japanese radio station. 
0
01 Jan 1945 WW2 Xiao Yisu was awarded the Order of Blue Sky and White Sun. 
0
01 Jan 1945 WW2 Fairey Firefly Fighters from the No. 1770 Squadron FAA, recently arrived in Ceylon to join the British Pacific Fleet, attacked the Japanese-held oil refineries at Pangkalan Brandan, Sumatra, Dutch East Indies using rocket projectiles (RP). 
0
01 Jan 1945 WW2 19 American B-24 bombers based in Saipan, Mariana Islands struck Japanese positions at Iwo Jima. 
0
01 Jan 1945 WW2 Five Japanese submarines departed Inland Sea, Japan with Kaiten submarines aboard. I-36 sailed for Ulithi in the Caroline Islands, I-48 for Hollandia in New Guinea, I-53 for Palau Islands, I-56 for the Admiralty Islands, and I-58 for Guam in the Mariana Islands. 
0
01 Jan 1945 WW2 US aircraft attacked Clark Field on Luzon Island of the Philippine Islands. 
0
01 Jan 1945 WW2 100 male and 100 female Polish prisoners of the Gestapo from block 11 in Auschwitz I camp were transferred by SS doctor Fritz Klein to the chief of Auschwitz II-Birkenau Crematorium V Erich Muhsfeldt. Muhsfeldt's men executed these police prisoners by firing squad. 
0
01 Jan 1946 WW2 Emperor Showa of Japan renounced his divinity. 
0
01 Jan 1946 WW2 The rationing of tires in the United States ended. 
0
01 Jan 1946 WW2 Ioannis Rallis passed away. 
0
01 Jan 1946 WW2 Rikichi Ando passed away. 
0
01 Jan 1946 WW2 Waller was decommissioned from service. 
0
01 Jan 1946 WW2 Arthur Coningham was made Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. 
0
01 Jan 1946 WW2 The 737 Nauruan forced laborers deported by the Japanese to Truk, Caroline Islands were returned to Nauru aboard the ship Trienza. 
0
01 Jan 1946 WW2 Arthur Harrison Graubart of the US Navy was named the commanding officer of the captured German cruiser USS IX-300 (formerly Prinz Eugen). 
0
01 Jan 1947 WW2 The American and British occupation zones in Germany merged to form the Bizone, which later became the Federal Republic of Germany. 
0
01 Jan 1947 WW2 Hjalmar Siilasvuo passed away. 
0
01 Jan 1947 WW2 Miles Browning retired from the US Navy. 
0
01 Jan 1947 WW2 The Atomic Energy Act of 1946, signed into American law by US President Harry Truman on 1 Aug 1946, came into effect. Manhattan Project was thus turned over to the newly established civilian United States Atomic Energy Commission. 
0
01 Jan 1947 WW2 Escort carrier Makin Island was sold for scrap. 
0
01 Jan 1947 WW2 Kashima was decommissioned from service. 
0
01 Jan 1947 WW2 Smalley was decommissioned from service. 
0
01 Jan 1947 WW2 Philip was decommissioned from service. 
0
01 Jan 1947 WW2 Shad was decommissioned from service. 
0
01 Jan 1947 WW2 USS Mingo was decommissioned at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States and entered the Pacific Reserve Fleet. 
0
01 Jan 1947 WW2 Joseph Rochefort retired from the US Navy. 
0
01 Jan 1948 WW2 The nationalised British Rail came into existence. 
0
01 Jan 1948 WW2 Nymphe was decommissioned from service. 
0
31st December 2nd January
© 2016 OnThisDay.net All rights reserved.
Loaded in 0.0531s.