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History on the 6th of January

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06 Jan 1913 WW2 Pierre Le Gloan was born. 
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06 Jan 1916 WW1 Begin of Battle of Sheikh Sa'ad
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06 Jan 1919 WW2 Richard O'Connor was Mentioned in Despatches. 
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06 Jan 1920 WW2 USS Arizona departed New York Navy Yard, New York, United States for Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. 
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06 Jan 1923 WW2 Mitsuru Yoshida was born. 
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06 Jan 1928 WW2 Earning a Medal of Honour, Lieutenant Christian F. Schilt flew a Vought O2U Corsair aircraft on ten trips between 6 and 8 Jan 1928 to the village of Quilali, Nicaragua to evacuate 18 US Marines wounded in fighting with hostile rebels. 
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06 Jan 1930 WW2 Heinrich Himmler was named the leader of the Schutzstaffel (SS) organization within the Nazi Party. 
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06 Jan 1936 WW2 Admiral Graf Spee was commissioned into German service. 
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06 Jan 1938 WW2 Submarine Scirè was launched at La Spezia, Italy. 
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06 Jan 1940 WW2 At 0300 hours, Finnish troops cut the Soviet column on Raate Road in Finland at several locations. Soviet troops began to become demoralized and many fled into the nearby forest. Soviet tanks began to counterattack to but little effect. Soviet 44th Division's commanding officer Vinogradov ordered a general retreat. Also on this day, Finnish Air Force Lieutenant Jorma Sarvanto shot down 6 of 7 Soviet bombers he attacked in only 5 minutes. In neighboring Sweden and Norway, the governments there reasserted their neutrality, both rejecting British requests to operate in their waters. 
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06 Jan 1940 WW2 Adolf Hitler postponed the attack of France and the Low Countries until spring 1940. 
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06 Jan 1940 WW2 USS Helena arrived at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. 
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06 Jan 1940 WW2 The United States liner Manhattan was detained at Gibraltar by the British Contraband Control. A protest was made by the American government. 
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06 Jan 1941 WW2 A Free French force under Lieutenant Colonel Jean Colonna d'Ornano attacked Murzuk airfield in southwestern Libya from Chad, capturing the airfield, but d'Ornano was killed in action. 
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06 Jan 1941 WW2 British 4th Armoured Division advanced 50 miles from Bardia, Libya to capture Belhamed to the east of Tobruk and the airfield at El Adem 8 miles to the south. Patrols were now conducted 10 miles west of Tobruk at Acroma. 
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06 Jan 1941 WW2 Overnight, Greek destroyers shelled the Albanian port of Vlorë. 20 miles south, Italian destroyers Alfieri, Carducci, Fulmine, and Gioberti, and torpedo boats Partenope, Pallade, Romeda, and Altair shelled Greek positions at Porto Palmermo. The Greek offensive against Italian positions in the mountains of Albania reached the strategically important Klisura Pass on the river Vjosë, which, if captured, would allow Greek forces in the center of the front to link up with troops on the coast, but it was met with stiff resistance. 
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06 Jan 1941 WW2 German submarine U-124 sank British ship Empire Thunder 200 miles northwest of Outer Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom at 1137 hours; 9 killed and 30 survived. 
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06 Jan 1941 WW2 German raider Kormoran stopped Greek ship Antonis in the Atlantic Ocean 200 miles northwest of Cape Verde Islands. Antonis was scuttled when 4,800 tons of British coal was found on board. All 29 crew and 7 sheep were taken on board Kormoran. 
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06 Jan 1941 WW2 In his State of the Union address, US President Franklin Roosevelt enunciated the Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. 
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06 Jan 1941 WW2 Neutral Ireland sent a note of protest to Germany after Dublin was "accidentally" bombed three nights in succession by "stray" Luftwaffe aircraft. 
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06 Jan 1941 WW2 The keel of battleship Missouri was laid down. 
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06 Jan 1941 WW2 British cruisers HMS Gloucester and HMS Southampton, escorted by destroyers HMS Ilex and HMS Janus, departed Alexandria, Egypt, at 1315 hours to carry 510 Army and RAF personnel to Malta and to meet Excess convoy which had departed from Gibraltar on the same day. 
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06 Jan 1941 WW2 British convoy Excess (British ships Essex, Clan Cumming, Clan Macdonald, and Empire Song) departed from Gibraltar for Malta and Greece, escorted by anti-aircraft cruiser HMS Bonaventure (carrying 400 troops) and destroyers HMS Hereward, HMS Jaguar, HMS Hasty, and HMS Hero. 
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06 Jan 1941 WW2 US 22nd, 23rd, and 32nd Fighter Squadrons, both operating P-40 Warhawk fighters, was assigned to Losey Field in Puerto Rico. 
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06 Jan 1941 WW2 British destroyers HMS Mashona and HMS Sikh collided in the naval base at Scapa Flow, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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06 Jan 1942 WW2 In the face of over 52,000 murders in Kiev, Ukraine, Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov denounced German atrocities in the Soviet Union and began to document incidents of atrocities for future actions. 
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06 Jan 1942 WW2 British aircraft sink Italian freighter Perla off Pantellaria off the Tunisian coast. 
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06 Jan 1942 WW2 Japanese aircraft from Truk, Caroline Islands attacked Rabaul, New Britain, Bismarck Islands. 
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06 Jan 1942 WW2 Nine Japanese flying boats attacked Vunakanau Airfield at Rabaul, New Britain, destroying a direction-finding station and damaging a Wirraway fighter, a Hudson bomber, and the runways; one Wirraway fighter was scrambled and reached the flying boats, but it failed to hit the attackers. 
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06 Jan 1942 WW2 Japanese aircraft bombed Dutch positions on Ambon, Dutch East Indies for the first time. 
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06 Jan 1942 WW2 German Navy Großadmiral Erich Raeder inspected battleship Tirpitz at Kiel, Germany. 
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06 Jan 1942 WW2 German forces successfully evacuated Agedabia, Libya. 
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06 Jan 1942 WW2 11 British RAF Coastal Command bombers attacked Sola Airfield at Stavanger, Norway in indirect support of the Operation Kitbag naval attack at Florø, Norway.
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06 Jan 1942 WW2 British cruiser HMS Sheffield, destroyer HMS Inglefield, and destroyer HMS Intrepid departed Scapa Flow, Scotland, United Kingdom for Operation Kitbag at 0300 hours, reaching Florø, Norway by the evening, sinking a trawler and damaging fish processing facilities. 
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06 Jan 1942 WW2 Remy Van Lierde was assigned to the No. 609 Squadron RAF. 
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06 Jan 1942 WW2 USS Yorktown departed for San Diego, California, United States to escort transports carrying the US 2nd Marine Brigade to American Samoa. 
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06 Jan 1942 WW2 USS Hammann departed Norfolk, Virginia, United States. 
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06 Jan 1943 WW2 Parkash Singh of Indian 14th Division daringly rescued wounded comrades on the Mayu Peninsula in Burma. For his, and similar deeds on 19 Jan 1943, he was to be awarded the Victoria Cross medal. 
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06 Jan 1943 WW2 Doherty was commissioned into service. 
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06 Jan 1943 WW2 Brigadier General Alphonse DeCarre assumed command of all US Marines on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands except for Marine aviation units. 
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06 Jan 1943 WW2 In a conference between Adolf Hitler and Erich Raeder, Hitler continued to express his anger in the German Navy's ineffectiveness. Raeder asked to be relieved of his duty. 
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06 Jan 1943 WW2 The US B-24 bomber piloted by Lieutenant George Rose, tasked with finding shot-down B-17 bomber San Antonio Rose between Rabaul, New Britain and Port Moresby, Australian Papua, was shot down over Wide Bay. 
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06 Jan 1943 WW2 USS Flying Fish departed Brisbane, Australia for her fourth war patrol. 
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06 Jan 1943 WW2 USAAF B-17 and B-24 bombers attacked Japanese shipping at Rabaul, New Britain. 
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06 Jan 1943 WW2 Jews in Opoczno, Poland were told that those with family in Palestine would be deported there. 500 Jews came out from hiding to register and were sent to Treblinka Concentration Camp where they were gassed. 
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06 Jan 1943 WW2 Captured French submarine Phoque departed Bizerte, Tunisia with an Italian crew. 
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06 Jan 1943 WW2 Captured French submarine Saphir departed Bizerte, Tunisia with an Italian crew. 
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06 Jan 1943 WW2 Robert Johnson departed New York, New York, United States for Britain aboard the Queen Elizabeth. 
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06 Jan 1944 WW2 19 RAF Mosquito aircraft attacked Duisburg, Bristillerie, Dortmund, and Solingen in Germany. 
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06 Jan 1944 WW2 The families of the men lost during the 1943 sinking of battleship Mutsu was finally notified; they were not informed that the ship had been destroyed in an accident. 
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06 Jan 1944 WW2 HMS Wallasea was sunk by a German motor torpedo boat off Mount's Bay, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. 
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06 Jan 1944 WW2 P-38 and F4U aircraft attacked Rabaul, New Britain, many of which were turned back due to poor weather. 33 A6M fighters rose to defend. The Japanese lost 2 A6M fighters, while the Americans lost 2 P-38 fighters. Harry Johnson of US Marine Corps squadron VMF-214, flying a F4U Corsair fighter, scored one of the two victories; this would be the squadron's final victory of the war. 
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06 Jan 1944 WW2 USS Snook departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her fifth war patrol. 
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06 Jan 1944 WW2 USS Seahorse departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her third war patrol. 
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06 Jan 1944 WW2 Shokaku left drydock. 
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06 Jan 1944 WW2 The Fast Carrier Task Force 50 was renumbered TF 58 and put under the command of Rear Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, one of the US Navy's most skilled aviators. With new carriers coming forward in such numbers it was now possible to provide the Task Force with six fleet carriers and six light fleet carriers with over 700 aircraft. Screened by six battleships and six cruisers it was the most powerful fleet in the world. 
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06 Jan 1944 WW2 Red Army units crossed the original 1939 Polish border, advancing nearly 200 miles in 2 weeks. 
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06 Jan 1944 WW2 James Doolittle, commanding officer of USAAF Eighth Air Force, ordered his fighter chief William Kepner to go on a fighter offensive, rather than focusing on bomber escort as he had instructed under the former commanding officer. 
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06 Jan 1945 WW2 With its war over, Finland lifted the ban on dancing, which was made illegal during the war. 
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06 Jan 1945 WW2 Battleship New Mexico was struck by Japanese special attack aircraft in the Philippine Islands; among the men killed were members of an observing British military mission, including Lieutenant General Herbert Lumsden, Winston Churchill's personal military representative to General of the Army Douglas MacArthur. 
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06 Jan 1945 WW2 Japanese special attack aircraft sank minesweeper USS Long at Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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06 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Sea Robin sank the Japanese tanker Tarakan Maru in the Luzon Strait, hitting her with 2 of 3 torpedoes fired. She also fired another 9 torpedoes at a destroyer and another tanker, but none of them struck their targets. 
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06 Jan 1945 WW2 U-869 reported in to German submarine control, revealing its location to be 600 miles southwest of Iceland to both her German comrades as well as to American eavesdroppers. 
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06 Jan 1945 WW2 George Bush married Barbara Pierce. 
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06 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Pompon departed Majuro, Marshall Islands. 
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06 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Whale set sail for Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii via Midway Atoll. 
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06 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Columbia was struck by two special attack aircraft off the Philippine Islands. The second aircraft and its bomb penetrated two decks before the bomb detonated. 13 were killed and 44 were wounded. 
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06 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Ticonderoga launched Air Group 80 aircraft for strikes on Japanese positions in northern Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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06 Jan 1945 WW2 Four Jewish women, Ella Gartner, Róza Robota, Regina Safir, and Estera Wajsblum, were executed by hanging in the female camp of Auschwitz Concentration Camp; they had smuggled explosives out of their workplace which were used during the 7 Oct 1944 uprising in the camp. About 100 other Auschwitz prisoners were also executed on this date, having sentenced to death by the Kattowitz Gestapo on the previous day; they faced a firing squad at Auschwitz II-Birkenau and were sent to Crematorium V. These prisoners were among the last to be executed at Auschwitz. 
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06 Jan 1946 WW2 I-400 arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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06 Jan 1946 WW2 I-401 arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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06 Jan 1946 WW2 I-14 arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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06 Jan 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Kirun (now Keelung), Taiwan and embarked Japanese personnel. 
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06 Jan 1948 WW2 USS Sterlet arrived at Okinawa, Japan. 
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