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History on the 4th of January

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04 Jan 1917 WW2 Richard O'Connor was Mentioned in Despatches. 
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04 Jan 1919 WW2 In Germany, the 4,000-strong Freikorps was placed at the disposal of Chancellor Ebert as a Peace keeping force. 
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04 Jan 1921 WW2 USS Arizona departed New York City, New York, United States. 
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04 Jan 1922 WW2 Joseph Rochefort was transferred out of battleship USS Connecticut and was assigned to destroyer USS Stansbury. 
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04 Jan 1926 WW2 The construction of the General Government Building in Keijo (now Seoul), Korea was completed. 
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04 Jan 1932 WW2 Japanese troops captured Shanhai Gate of the Great Wall in Hebei Province, China. 
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04 Jan 1933 WW2 Franz von Papen and Adolf Hitler met at the home of aristocratic banker Kurt von Schröder's home in Cologne, Germany and secretly made plans to together work against Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher. 
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04 Jan 1933 WW2 Henry Arnold was made the commanding officer of 1st Wing of US Army Air Corps. 
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04 Jan 1935 WW2 HMS Hermes arrived at Hong Kong. 
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04 Jan 1936 WW2 Emperor Bao Dai's oldest son, Crown Prince Bao Long, was born in the Palace of Kien-Trung within the Imperial City in Hue, Annam, French Indochina. 
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04 Jan 1936 WW2 The town of Vorkuta was established in northern Komi Republic, Russia to support the Vorkuta Gulag forced labor camps. 
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04 Jan 1939 WW2 Borjas Blancas, Spain was captured by Spanish Nationalist forces during the eastward Republican retreat towards Barcelona, causing the retreat to become a rout. 
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04 Jan 1939 WW2 Walter Grabmann shot down an I-15 fighter over Spain. 
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04 Jan 1940 WW2 British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax sent a diplomatic note to Norway, with a copy sent to Sweden, asking for permission to send British Royal Navy ships into Norwegian waters, citing German sinking of British merchant ships. 
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04 Jan 1940 WW2 The first Norwegian volunteers departed Oslo, Norway for Finland. 
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04 Jan 1940 WW2 HMS Mauritius was commissioned into service. 
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04 Jan 1941 WW2 After an entire day of fighting, Allied troops reached Bardia, Libya at about 1600 hours, splitting the Italian defenders into two groups, shaking Italian morale, causing large numbers of Italian troops to surrender. Jokingly emulating Winston Churchill, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden said "ever has so much been surrendered by so many, to so few." On the same day, Italian General Bergonzoli and his staff withdrew from Bardia toward Tobruk. 
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04 Jan 1941 WW2 British torpedo bombers attacked an Italian supply convoy off Cape Bon, Tunisia in failure. 
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04 Jan 1942 WW2 Soviet Army took Kaluga near Moscow, Russia. 
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04 Jan 1942 WW2 Indian 11th Infantry Division withdrew from Kampar Hill in western Malaya, falling back to a new defensive line at the Slim River. 
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04 Jan 1942 WW2 Following a heavy bombardment, Japanese Lingayen Force penetrated the US-Filipino Guagua-Porac defensive line at Luzon, Philippine Islands and captured the town of Guagua and the Del Carmen airfield. On the same day, American B-17 Flying Fortress bombers from Australia attacked Japanese shipping at Malalag Bay, Davao, Mindanao, damaging cruiser Myoko. 
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04 Jan 1942 WW2 Soviet cruiser Krasnyi Kavkaz was damaged by German Ju 87 aircraft but was able to reach Novorossiysk, Russia for repairs. 
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04 Jan 1942 WW2 Repair ship Akashi arrived at Davao, Mindanao, Philippine Islands. 
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04 Jan 1942 WW2 16 Type 96 G3M bombers of Chitose Air Group of Japanese Navy 24th Air Flotilla, based at Truk in Caroline Islands, were spotted over Tabor 90 miles north of New Britain at 1000 hours. They reached Rabaul, New Britain at 1100 hours, where they were able to attack various military facilities with minimal resistance (only 2 Wirraway fighters scrambled, while anti-aircraft guns were ineffective). Shortly before sundown, 11 Type 97 H6K flying boats of Yokohama Air Group attacked the Vunakanam Airfield on New Britain; Australians failed to open fire with the anti-aircraft guns altogether, while most of the Japanese bombs missed the airfield. 
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04 Jan 1942 WW2 Chinese troops continued to put pressure on the Japanese offensive on Changsha, Hunan Province, China. 
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04 Jan 1942 WW2 USS Skipjack arrived at Balikpapan, Dutch Borneo and took on fuel. 
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04 Jan 1942 WW2 A Japanese floatplane flew near Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii in a reconnaissance mission. 
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04 Jan 1942 WW2 RAF Blenheim bombers from No. 21 and No. 107 Squadrons based in Malta raided the Italian base at Castelvetrano destroying eleven Axis transport aircraft on the ground and thereby hindering the amount of supplies and reinforcements that could be forwarded to North Africa. 
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04 Jan 1942 WW2 Nachi received light shrapnel damage in the searchlight (wounding one officer) in Malalag Bay, Davao Gulf, Philippine Islands from US B-17D bombers. Later in the day, Rear Admiral Takeo Takagi transferred his flag from Myoko to Nachi; Myoko had received a direct hit during the same attack. 
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04 Jan 1943 WW2 I-168 departed Shortland Islands in the Soloman Islands. 
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04 Jan 1943 WW2 Polish resistance group ZOB attacked German occupation troops in the Jewish ghetto in Czestochowa, which resulted in failure. 251 were killed while a number of others were arrested and deported. 
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04 Jan 1943 WW2 For the delay in carrying out anti-Semitic policies ordered by Rome, mayors of Florence and Padua in Italy were fired by the Fascist Party. 
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04 Jan 1943 WW2 The US Army 161st Infantry, the US 6th Marine Regiment, and the headquarters of the US 2nd Marine Division arrived at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 
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04 Jan 1943 WW2 American cruisers and destroyers bombarded the Japanese airfield at Munda Point, New Georgia in the Solomon Islands after sundown and into the next day. 
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04 Jan 1943 WW2 Allied convoy JW-51B arrived in the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. 
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04 Jan 1943 WW2 Soviet troops captured Morozovskaya Airfield, Rostov Oblast, Russia. Commanding officer of KG 55 Oberstleutnant Ernst Kühl and his small staff destroyed various equipment and supply dumps before evacuating. 
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04 Jan 1944 WW2 Germany called for the mobilization of school children to aid the war effort. 
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04 Jan 1944 WW2 Operation Carpetbagger: Allied aircraft began to drop supplies to resistance fighters in Axis-occupied Europe. 
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04 Jan 1944 WW2 In a conference attended by German leaders Heinrich Himmler, Wilhelm Keitel, Albert Speer, and Fritz Sauckel, it was decided that four million people were to be conscripted from occupied territories as forced laborers for war production. One million were to be drafted from France between 1 Feb and 31 Dec 1944. 
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04 Jan 1944 WW2 The fascist Italian Social Republic in Northern Italy passed laws to prohibit Jews from owning stock or land and to seize Jewish-owned assets. 
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04 Jan 1944 WW2 German government office RSHA released five Danish Jews of mixed descent per an agreement reached between Adolf Eichmann and the Danish administration. 
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04 Jan 1944 WW2 USS Cabrilla sank a Japanese transport in the late afternoon in the South China Sea, hitting her with 3 of 6 torpedoes fired. Six hours later, she attacked another oiler with 3 torpedoes, damaging her with 1. 
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04 Jan 1944 WW2 Sydir Kovpak was made a Hero of the Soviet Union for the second time. 
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04 Jan 1944 WW2 USS Ray attacked two Japanese cargo ships south of the Philippine Islands, damaging one of them with 2 of 4 torpedoes fired. 
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04 Jan 1944 WW2 Lieutenant Douglas Bedkober, a coast watcher of Australian Z Special Unit, died while in captivity at Rabaul, New Britain. It was reported by fellow prisoners of war that he had refused to eat for several days prior to his death. 
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04 Jan 1944 WW2 80 British RAF aircraft attacked two German flying bomb sites in France. 
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04 Jan 1944 WW2 13 British Mosquito aircraft attacked Berlin, Germany. 
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04 Jan 1944 WW2 Artur Axmann was awarded the German Order. 
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04 Jan 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of ACORN-20 arrived. 
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04 Jan 1944 WW2 USS Grayback arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her ninth war patrol. 
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04 Jan 1944 WW2 US II Corps attacked along Route 6 across the Bernhardt Line in Italy. 
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04 Jan 1944 WW2 Irako departed Yokosuka, Japan for Truk, Caroline Islands with destroyers Shigure and Harusame in escort. 
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04 Jan 1944 WW2 USS Bluefish sank a Japanese oiler and damaged other ships in the South China Sea, hitting them with 3 of 13 torpedoes fired. 
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04 Jan 1944 WW2 At Auschwitz Concentration Camp, SS Doctor Eduard Wirths notified fellow medical officers at Auschwitz III-Monowitz that, as of this date, corpses of deceased prisoners should be identified and then sent directly to the crematoria, bypassing the previous procedure of sending the corpses to the morgue at Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau first. Death reports, however, must still be filed at the orderly room of prisoners' hospital in Auschwitz I by noon time of the same day that the corpses were sent to the crematoria. 
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04 Jan 1944 WW2 US Navy aircraft struck Japanese bases on Taiwan. 
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04 Jan 1945 WW2 Operation Lentil: British aircraft attacked oil refineries at Pangkalan Brandon, Sumatra. 
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04 Jan 1945 WW2 In the Philippine Islands, Japanese aircraft attacked the American invasion fleet bound for Luzon; USS Ommaney Bay was seriously damaged by a special attack and was scuttled. 
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04 Jan 1945 WW2 An aircraft from USS Wake detected a Japanese floatplane in the water off Panay Island, Philippine Islands and strafed the Japanese aircraft. 
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04 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Puffer sank a Japanese vessel in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired. 
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04 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Whale searched for survivors of a downed B-29 Superfortress bomber east of Tokyo, Japan without success. 
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04 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Ticonderoga launched Air Group 80 aircraft for strikes on Taiwan. 
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04 Jan 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit Woodland Street in Hackney, London, England, United Kingdom. 
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04 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Dragonet arrived at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States for repairs. 
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04 Jan 1948 WW2 Burma gained independence from the United Kingdom but, unlike most other former colonies, declined to become a member of the Commonwealth. 
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