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History on the 8th of January

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08 Jan 1915 WW2 Georg von Küchler was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class. 
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08 Jan 1924 WW2 Yi Gang, Prince Imperial Eui, was awarded the Grand Cordon of the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum of Japan. 
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08 Jan 1924 WW2 Su Yu ran away from home. 
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08 Jan 1930 WW2 Princess Marie-José of Belgium married Prince Umberto of Piemonte in Rome, Italy. 
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08 Jan 1931 WW2 HMS Eagle departed Malta. 
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08 Jan 1935 WW2 The Gestapo prison Columbia-Haus in Berlin, Germany became a concentration camp. 
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08 Jan 1938 WW2 Short on supplies, Spanish Colonel Rey d’Harcourt surrendered Teruel to Spanish Republican forces. 
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08 Jan 1938 WW2 Filipp Golikov was promtoed to the rank of lieutenant general. 
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08 Jan 1938 WW2 A Japanese-controlled newspaper in China published that the residents of Nanjing, China welcomed Chinese troops with joy, and the Japanese Army offered food and other aid to those in need. 
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08 Jan 1938 WW2 Japanese seaplane tender Kinugasa Maru departed Ryojun (Lushunkou), northeastern China with troops aboard. 
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08 Jan 1940 WW2 The government of the United Kingdom introduced rationing, allowing each citizen 112 grams (4 ounces) of bacon and 336 grams (12 ounces) of sugar per week. 
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08 Jan 1940 WW2 In Finland, Finnish 9th Division took possession of Raate Road at dawn after taking 1,000 Soviet prisoners of war, 43 tanks, 70 field guns, 278 vehicles, 300 machine guns, 6,000 rifles, and 1,170 horses. An estimated 10,000 to 15,000 Soviet troops were killed in the Battle of Raate Road, while 700 would be successful in escaping back into Soviet lines, but many of them would be shot by NKVD agents for treason for retreating. The Finnish forces suffered 2,700 casualties in the battle. 
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08 Jan 1940 WW2 Benito Mussolini sent a message to Adolf Hitler, cautioning against waging war with the United Kingdom. 
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08 Jan 1941 WW2 During the night, 7 British Wellington bombers from Feltwell, Lincolnshire attacked battleship Tirpitz at Wilhelmshaven, which suffered light damage from near misses. 
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08 Jan 1941 WW2 British Lord Baden-Powell, founder of the Scout Movement and hero of the Boer War, died in Kenya at the age of 84. 
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08 Jan 1941 WW2 British Wellington bombers from Malta attacked Italian battleships Guilio Cesare and Vittorio Veneto moored in Naples, Italy. Guilio Cesare was badly damaged by 3 near misses but Vittorio Veneto was hit without serious damage. Both ships would be moved to La Spezia, Italy and repaired, out of the range of the Malta bombers. 
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08 Jan 1941 WW2 Australian 6th Division began reconnaissance patrols around Tobruk, Libya. Overnight, a patrol reached the Italian defensive perimeter. 
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08 Jan 1941 WW2 Royal Thai Air Force aircraft attacked French positions at Siem Reap and Battambang in Cambodia, French Indochina. 
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08 Jan 1941 WW2 Adolf Hitler hosted a two-day military conference at his Berghof residence in southern Germany, where he stated that Germany would continue to support Italian efforts in North Africa despite it being a secondary theater, the Soviet Union must be brought down, southern France might need to be occupied, and, for the first time, told the military leaders to prepare Germany for the possibility of American entry into the war. 
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08 Jan 1941 WW2 Zuikaku departed Hiroshima, Japan for Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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08 Jan 1941 WW2 British cruisers HMS Gloucester and HMS Southampton arrived at Malta to disembark 510 Army and RAF personnel, escorted by destroyers HMS Ilex and HMS Janus. HMS Gloucester, HMS Southampton, and HMS Ilex continued west to meet the Excess convoy from Gibraltar. 
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08 Jan 1941 WW2 US President Franklin Roosevelt requested the US Congress to pass a defense budget in the size of US$10,811,000,000 for fiscal year of 1942. 
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08 Jan 1942 WW2 Japanese troops penetrated the outer lines of defense at Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, which was about 15 miles north of the capital city. Australian 8th Division began to move forward to replace the nearly-destroyed Indian 11th Division near Kuala Lumpur. 
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08 Jan 1942 WW2 Adolf Hitler gave Günther von Kluge the permission to fall back in the Moscow, Russia region. On the same day, the Soviet West Front attacked towards Mozhaysk, Russia west of Moscow, which was defended by troops of German 4th Army. 
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08 Jan 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-56 sank Dutch freighters Van Riebeeck and Van Rees off Cilacap, Java, Dutch East Indies. 
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08 Jan 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-19 launched her seaplane for a reconnaissance mission over Pearl Harbor, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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08 Jan 1942 WW2 British Air Marshal John Baldwin replaced Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse as the chief of the RAF Bomber Command. 
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08 Jan 1942 WW2 Archibald Wavell inspected troops and defenses in central British Malaya. 
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08 Jan 1942 WW2 Allied convoy PQ-8 departed Hvalfjörður, Iceland. 
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08 Jan 1942 WW2 Akagi departed Iwakuni, Japan for Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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08 Jan 1942 WW2 Shokaku departed Hiroshima, Japan for Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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08 Jan 1943 WW2 Tatsuta Maru departed Makassar, Celebes. 
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08 Jan 1943 WW2 Axis convoys between Italy and Tripoli, Libya were suspended after a British force of two cruisers and four destroyers sank 14 ships trying to reinforce and supply Erwin Rommel's troops. 
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08 Jan 1943 WW2 General Rokossovsky issued a surrender ultimatum to German 6th Army, which guaranteed their lives and safety until their return to Germany after the war. Paulus refused the ultimatum. 
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08 Jan 1943 WW2 Japanese troops again halted a British assault at Donbaik, Burma. 
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08 Jan 1943 WW2 British submarine P311 (Commander R. D. Cayley) was reported missing and was believed sunk by a mine in the Mediterranean Sea. 
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08 Jan 1943 WW2 Allied aircraft sank Myoko Maru in Huon Gulf off Australian New Guinea. 
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08 Jan 1943 WW2 I-168 departed Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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08 Jan 1943 WW2 British RAF Bomber Command's No. 8 Group was reformed as No. 8 (Pathfinder Force) Group under the command of Air Vice-Marshal Donald Bennett. With specialist squadrons the group's primary task would be to accurately mark targets to be attacked by other Bomber Command aircraft. 
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08 Jan 1944 WW2 In Castel Vecchio in Italy, the trial began for Count Ciano and 18 other Fascists Mussolini held responsible for his downfall. 
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08 Jan 1944 WW2 Red Army troops captured Kirovograd, Ukraine. 
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08 Jan 1944 WW2 23 RAF Mosquito aircraft attacked Frankfurt, Solingen, Aachen, and Dortmund in Germany; 2 aircraft were lost. 
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08 Jan 1944 WW2 General Sir Henry Wilson replaced General Dwight Eisenhower as Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean Theater. 
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08 Jan 1944 WW2 Repair ship Akashi performed repair work for armed merchant cruiser Kiyosumi Maru at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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08 Jan 1944 WW2 Naka arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands with damaged transport Kiyozumi Maru in tow. 
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08 Jan 1944 WW2 A Sino-American Cooperative Organization (SACO) team crossed the frozen Yellow River in Ningxia Province, China; they were headed toward Xamba, Suiyuan Province to establish the weather station Camp Four. 
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08 Jan 1944 WW2 USS Tang arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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08 Jan 1944 WW2 US II Corps captured Monte Chiaia and Monte Porchia, Italy. 
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08 Jan 1944 WW2 US Marine Corps squadron VMF-214 arrived at Turtle Bay fighter strip, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. 
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08 Jan 1944 WW2 Allied convoy RA-55B arrived at Loch Ewe, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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08 Jan 1944 WW2 Lockheed's XP-80 prototype jet fighter took its first flight; the test pilot was Milo Burcham. 
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08 Jan 1944 WW2 The first XP-80A prototype jet aircraft "Gray Ghost" took its first flight with test pilot Milo Burcham in the cockpit. 
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08 Jan 1945 WW2 Light cruiser USS Amsterdam (CL-101) was commissioned with Captain Andrew P. Lawton in command. 
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08 Jan 1945 WW2 HMAS Australia was damaged by Japanese special attack aircraft at Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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08 Jan 1945 WW2 The Japanese Navy 2nd Air Fleet was officially disbanded after suffering major losses in the Philippine Islands. 
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08 Jan 1945 WW2 Rear Admiral Bunji Asakura was named the chief of staff of the Japanese 1st Southern Expeditionary Fleet. 
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08 Jan 1945 WW2 Vice Admiral Minoru Tayui was named the commanding officer of the Japanese 1st Southern Expeditionary Fleet. 
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08 Jan 1945 WW2 Another unpowered J8M Shusui/Ki-200 aircraft took flight, with water ballast installed in place of the rocket engine. 
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08 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Marcus Island's air group shot down four Japanese aircraft. 
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08 Jan 1945 WW2 Soviet 5th Army formally granted Roza Shanina the permission to fight on the front lines. 
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08 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Brill arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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08 Jan 1945 WW2 I-401 was commissioned into service at Sasebo, Japan under the command of Lieutenant Commander Nobukiyo Nambu. The ceremony was attended by very few, as she was a top secret submarine. She departed Sasebo later in the same day for the Inland Sea. 
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08 Jan 1945 WW2 Allied convoy JW-63 arrived at the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. 
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08 Jan 1945 WW2 The US Fast Carrier Task Force refueled then sailed toward Taiwan. 
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08 Jan 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit the junction of LMS and Met. railway lines behind 114 Iverson Road between West End Lane and Kilburn High Road in Hampstead, London, England, United Kingdom at 1630 hours. 2 were killed, 64 seriously injured, and 57 lightly injured. The rocket destroyed 14 houses, badly damaged 152 houses, and lightly damaged 1,600 houses. 
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08 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Springer departed Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States. 
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08 Jan 1946 WW2 Westcott was decommissioned from service. 
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08 Jan 1946 WW2 British submarine HM Safari, reputedly the most successful Allied submarine of the Second World War, sank in the English Channel whilst under tow to the breakers. 
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08 Jan 1946 WW2 USS Tirante arrived at New London, Connecticut, United States. 
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08 Jan 1946 WW2 USS Menhaden arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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08 Jan 1947 WW2 Soviet Union turned over Slovak diplomat Jan Spisak, who had been arrested in Budapest, Hungary in Dec 1944, to Czechoslovakia for trial. 
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08 Jan 1949 WW2 Yoshijiro Umezu passed away from rectal cancer while in imprisonment in Tokyo, Japan. 
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