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History on the 7th of January

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07 Jan 1912 WW2 Robert Greim was promoted to the rank of Fähnrich. 
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07 Jan 1929 WW2 Ira Eaker completed a 7-day flight aboard "Question Mark", breaking the endurance flight record. He and the entire crew won Distinguished Flying Cross medals for this feat. 
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07 Jan 1932 WW2 The United States criticized the Japanese aggression against China. 
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07 Jan 1932 WW2 Cruiser Köln began to perform gunnery drills and training operations in the North Atlantic. 
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07 Jan 1932 WW2 Governor Zhang Jinghui of Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China, with support from the Japanese declared the secession of Heilongjiang from China to join the puppet state of Manchukuo. 
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07 Jan 1932 WW2 German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning met with Adolf Hitler regarding the upcoming re-election and President Paul von Hindenburg's old age. Brüning attempted to convince Hitler that they should convince the Reichstag to cancel the election and keep Hindenburg in power, but Hitler secretly considered to challenge Hindenburg in the election. 
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07 Jan 1935 WW2 The League of Nations approved the results of the Saar plebiscite, which allowed Saar to be incorporated into German borders. 
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07 Jan 1935 WW2 The prototype Ki-9 trainer aircraft took its first flight. 
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07 Jan 1937 WW2 Erwin Rommel was briefly without a position in the German Army. 
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07 Jan 1939 WW2 Scharnhorst was commissioned into service. 
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07 Jan 1939 WW2 Japanese bombers attacked Chongqing, China during the day. 
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07 Jan 1940 WW2 Battle of Raate Road ended with the Finnish 9th Division routing the Soviet 44th Division over the past few days. On the same day, General Semyon Timoshenko took command of Soviet Army forces in Finland. 
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07 Jan 1940 WW2 Vessels of German First Minesweeper Flotilla sank British submarine HMS Seahorse southeast of Helgoland, Germany. Entire crew of 36 was lost. 
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07 Jan 1940 WW2 At 0940 hours, British submarine HMS Undine spotted three trawlers 20 miles west of Helgoland, Germany and moved in to attack. The trawlers, actually minesweepers, counterattacked, forcing Undine to dive. A depth charge attack caused damage to Undine's hydroplanes, leading to the scuttling. The crew of 27 was later rescued by the German minesweepers. 
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07 Jan 1940 WW2 USS Helena departed Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. 
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07 Jan 1941 WW2 Australian 6th Division and British 4th Armoured Division nearly surrounded Tobruk, Libya after capturing Acroma 10 miles to the west. 
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07 Jan 1941 WW2 British submarine HMS Rover attacked an Italian convoy off the coast of Libya 25 miles west of Tobruk. Italian torpedo boats Clio and Castore counterattacked, damaging HMS Rover, putting her out of commission for the following 13 months for repairs at Malta. 
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07 Jan 1941 WW2 German torpedo boats Kondor and Wolf laid a minefield off Dover, England, United Kingdom but Wolf sank in a British minefield north of Dunkirk, France on the way home. 
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07 Jan 1941 WW2 Italian submarine Giacomo Nani attacked Allied convoy HX.99 200 miles south of Iceland without success. British corvette HMS Anemone and French corvette La Malouine counterattacked, sinking Nani; all 58 Italian sailors and officers were rescued and taken prisoner. 
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07 Jan 1941 WW2 Admiral Cunningham's Mediterranean Fleet, consisted of battleship HMS Warspite, battlesip HMS Valiant, aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious, and 7 destroyers departed Alexandria, Egypt, to meet the Excess convoy. 
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07 Jan 1941 WW2 Admiral Somerville's Force H, consisted of battlecruiser HMS Renown, battleship HMS Malaya, aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, cruiser HMS Sheffield, and 7 destroyers, departed Gibraltar to cover the Excess convoy which left Gibraltar on the previous day. 
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07 Jan 1942 WW2 Japanese troops made probing attacks at the opening of the Bataan peninsula at Luzon, Philippine Islands. Meanwhile, General MacArthur organized his forces into two corps and a rear area service command. 
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07 Jan 1942 WW2 The Soviet Volkhov Front attempted to force Germans back from Leningrad. 
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07 Jan 1942 WW2 USS Pollack sank Japanese cargo ship Unkai Maru No. 1 off Japan with one of two torpedoes fired; this was the first confirmed sinking by the Submarine Force of the US Navy Pacific Fleet. 
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07 Jan 1942 WW2 Franz Halder noted that there was a very brief thought of using chemical weapons against Soviet troops, but discussions never went beyond this idea. 
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07 Jan 1942 WW2 During a meeting with top German leaders, Adolf Hitler noted his belief that the United States' commercial prowess would not be able to overcome the Axis powers. 
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07 Jan 1942 WW2 US President Franklin Roosevelt submitted a US$29,000,000,000 budget to the US Congress to fund the construction of 60,000 aircraft, 45,000 tanks, and 8,000,000 tons of shipping. 
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07 Jan 1942 WW2 Japanese tanks wiped out the Indian 11th Division at Slim River, British Malaya early in the morning; by 0930 hours, both the road and railway bridges were secured by Japanese troops. 
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07 Jan 1942 WW2 Archibald Wavell inspected troops and defenses in Singapore. 
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07 Jan 1942 WW2 A Japanese invasion force departed Davao, Mindanao, Philippine Islands for Tarakan, Dutch Borneo. 
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07 Jan 1942 WW2 ShCh-401 attacked an enemy ship with three torpedoes off Helnes, Norway at 0038 hours; all torpedoes missed. 
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07 Jan 1942 WW2 George Brett was promoted to the temporary rank of lieutenant general. 
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07 Jan 1942 WW2 18 Japanese Type 96 G3M bombers were spotted over Tabar en route to Rabaul, New Britain; when they struck Rabaul, they destroyed one Wirraway fighter and one Hudson bomber. 
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07 Jan 1942 WW2 Naka departed Davao, Mindanao, Philippine Islands. 
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07 Jan 1942 WW2 Soviet Army began an offensive near Lake Ilmen in Russia, with the aim of encircling Demyansk. 
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07 Jan 1943 WW2 A 3-day German operation in the Lvov ghetto in Ukraine ended with about 10,000 deaths and the disbanding of the Jewish Council. 
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07 Jan 1943 WW2 USS Marlin arrived at Casco Bay, Maine, United States and joined Task Group 27.1. 
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07 Jan 1943 WW2 HMS Jura was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-371 in the western Mediterranean Sea. 
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07 Jan 1943 WW2 The British assault on Japanese bunkers at Donbaik, Burma on the Bay of Bengal coast was halted with heavy losses. 
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07 Jan 1943 WW2 USAAF B-17, B-24, B-25, and A-20 bombers, escorted by USAAF P-38 fighters and RAF Catalina flying boats, attacked a Japanese convoy en route to Lae, New Guinea, sinking transport Nichiryu Maru off Gasmata, New Britain. 
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07 Jan 1943 WW2 44 Japanese bombers and 60 fighters took off from Rabaul, New Britain, intending to attack Port Moresby, Australian Papua; the attack was canceled after the aircraft ran into bad weather. 
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07 Jan 1943 WW2 I-168 arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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07 Jan 1943 WW2 British murderer Harry Dobkin is hanged at Wandsworth Prison in London, England, United Kingdom. Dobkin had murdered his wife whose mutilated body he had dumped in a badly damaged Baptist chapel near where he was a fire watcher, in the hope that she would appear to be another unidentified victim of the Blitz. He confessed to his crime after examination of the remains indicated death by strangulation. 
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07 Jan 1944 WW2 11 RAF Mosquito aircraft attacked Krefeld and Duisburg in Germany. 
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07 Jan 1944 WW2 USS Puffer sank a Japanese trawler in the South China Sea with her deck gun. 
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07 Jan 1944 WW2 Captain Yoshimasa Sutezawa was named the commanding officer of Naka. 
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07 Jan 1944 WW2 USS Gunnel ended her third war patrol. 
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07 Jan 1944 WW2 US Navy and US Marine Corps aircraft attacked a Japanese radar site at Cape Saint George, New Ireland. 3 F6F and 4 SBD aircraft were lost on this mission. 
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07 Jan 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Planes of Air Group 12 on board. 
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07 Jan 1944 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Sasebo, Japan. 
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07 Jan 1944 WW2 USS Iowa transited the Panama Canal. 
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07 Jan 1944 WW2 Dwight Eisenhower arrived at Prestwick, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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07 Jan 1945 WW2 The RaLa Experiment of the Manhattan Project conducted its first test using exploding bridgewire detonators. 
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07 Jan 1945 WW2 Light cruiser USS Dayton (CL-105) was commissioned with Captain Paul William Steinhagen in command. 
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07 Jan 1945 WW2 US ace Major Thomas McGuire (38 victories) was killed in a low level combat with a group of Japanese Zero fighters led by Shiochi Sugita, the third-highest scoring ace of the Japanese Navy Air Force over Los Negros island. It was believed that McGuire failed to release his drop tanks whilst attempting a fast turn which caused his P-38 to stall and spin into the ground in a ball of fire. 
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07 Jan 1945 WW2 Masafumi Arima was posthumously promoted to the rank of vice admiral. 
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07 Jan 1945 WW2 Anglo-Indian troops reached the outskirts of Shwebo, Burma. 
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07 Jan 1945 WW2 The German Navy began the first of a series of evacuation convoys between the Gulf of Danzig and the trapped German Army in Latvia. 
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07 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Spot sank two small Japanese trawlers with her deck gun in the Yellow Sea. 
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07 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Ticonderoga launched Air Group 80 aircraft for strikes on Japanese positions in northern Luzon, Philippine Islands; 4 men and 2 aircraft were lost. 
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07 Jan 1946 WW2 USS Saint Paul departed Shanghai, China. 
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07 Jan 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru departed Kirun (now Keelung), Taiwan. 
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07 Jan 1947 WW2 US General George Marshall departed China after failing to secure peace in China. 
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07 Jan 1947 WW2 Colorado was decommissioned from service. 
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07 Jan 1947 WW2 Roderick Carr became the Division Controller of the London and South East Division of the United Kingdom Ministry of Civil Aviation. 
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07 Jan 1949 WW2 Israeli aircraft attacked and shot down four Spitfire Mk XVIII fighters (of No. 208 Squadron RAF) and a Hawker Tempest fighter which were conducting reconnaissance patrols over Israel. Two RAF pilots were killed. 
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