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History on the 4th of February

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04 Feb 1919 WW2 USS Arizona departed Norfolk, Virginia, United States. 
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04 Feb 1920 WW2 Pierre van Ryneveld and Quintin Brand departed England on a flight to South Africa. 
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04 Feb 1923 WW2 Prince Hiroyasu's father, Prince Sandanaru, passed away. 
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04 Feb 1924 WW2 Iwane Matsui was named the commanding officer of the 35th Infantry Brigade. 
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04 Feb 1924 WW2 Kenkichi Ueda was made the commanding officer of 3rd Cavalry Brigade. 
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04 Feb 1924 WW2 Major General Kinzo Watanabe was named the chief of staff of the Taiwan Army. 
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04 Feb 1925 WW2 Memphis was commissioned into service. 
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04 Feb 1932 WW2 Japanese troops captured Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China. 
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04 Feb 1933 WW2 A German emergency decree outlawed gathering of people against the national government and outlawed publication of any writing against the national government. 
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04 Feb 1938 WW2 Adolf Hitler took direct control of the German military. 
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04 Feb 1938 WW2 The German cabinet met for the last time. 
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04 Feb 1938 WW2 Walther von Brauchitsch was promoted to the rank of Generaloberst. 
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04 Feb 1938 WW2 Franz von Papen received a call at his office in Vienna, Austria from Hans Lammers in Berlin, Germany, noting that Papen was to be relieved of his duties in Austria. Within days, however, Papen would return to duty as Adolf Hitler noticed an opportunity to take Austria. 
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04 Feb 1938 WW2 Japanese troops inspected the buildings of Ginling College, a school for women, in Nanjing, China, and took at least 20 women for their comfort houses. 
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04 Feb 1938 WW2 In Germany the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW), Supreme command of the Armed Forces, was created with Wilhelm Keitel as its chief. 
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04 Feb 1939 WW2 U-52 was commissioned into service. 
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04 Feb 1939 WW2 Hammann was launched at Kearny, New Jersey, United States, sponsored by Miss Lillian Hammann, daughter of Ensign Charles Hammann. 
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04 Feb 1940 WW2 Members of the Balkan Entente (Romania, Yugoslavia, Greece, and Turkey) declared neutrality. 
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04 Feb 1940 WW2 Japanese 26th Division captured Linhe, Suiyuan Province, China. 
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04 Feb 1941 WW2 The United Service Organizations, USO, was established to maintain the morale of American military personnel. 
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04 Feb 1941 WW2 The Italians began evacuating Benghazi, Libya. At dawn, British 7th Armoured Division departed from Mechili, Libya to move across the desert toward Jebel El Akhdar 150 miles away in an attempt to cut off the Italian retreat. 
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04 Feb 1941 WW2 German submarine U-93, having damaged British ship Dione II on the previous day with gunfire northwest of Ireland, sank the ship at 0440 hours with the deck gun and the anti-aircraft gun; 28 were killed, 5 survived. 
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04 Feb 1941 WW2 German submarine U-52 sank Norwegian ship Ringhorn 500 miles west of Ireland at 0838 hours; 14 were killed, 5 survived. 
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04 Feb 1941 WW2 German submarine U-123 sank British ship Empire Engineer 1,000 miles west of Ireland at 1644 hours; the entire crew of 39 was lost, some during the sinking while others, aboard rafts, were never found. 
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04 Feb 1941 WW2 British bombers attacked Düsseldorf, Germany. 
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04 Feb 1941 WW2 German pocket battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau broke out into the Atlantic Ocean via the Denmark Strait undetected by the British Royal Navy. 
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04 Feb 1941 WW2 Erich Raeder thought that the US entry into the war might be advantageous for the Germans as it would force Japan into belligerency. 
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04 Feb 1941 WW2 HMS Hermes set sail toward Kismayo, Somaliland, Italian East Africa. 
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04 Feb 1941 WW2 The American newspaper Chicago Tribune featured an article on the US government's secret plan for war, including details such as a 10,000,000-strong military, half of which were to be destined for the to-be-established American Expeditionary Force for fighting in Europe. 
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04 Feb 1942 WW2 British forces seized the Egyptian royal palace in Cairo to force the abdication of the 22-year old King Farouk who was sympathetic to the Axis Powers. 
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04 Feb 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Kwajalein to tend to personnel wounded on an American strike on 1 Feb; departed later on the same day. 
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04 Feb 1942 WW2 Believing that reinforcements were on their way, the British Authorities in Singapore turned down a Japanese demand for the unconditional surrender. 
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04 Feb 1942 WW2 German submarine U-103 sank US tanker India Arrow 50 kilometers east of Delaware, United States, killing 26 of 38 aboard. 
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04 Feb 1942 WW2 Japanese troops under Lieutenant Tadaichi Noda executed 130 Australian prisoners of war by bayoneting and machine gunning at the Tol Plantation on the southern coast of Gazelle Peninsula in New Britain; there were only 6 survivors; Noda ordered a message to be posted on the door of Tol noting that Australian Lieutenant Colonel J. J. Scanlan was responsible for these deaths for not having surrendered his command to the Japanese. 
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04 Feb 1942 WW2 9 Japanese flying boats from Rabaul, New Britain attacked Port Moresby, British Territory of Papua, destroying one house and two commercial buildings. 
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04 Feb 1942 WW2 The American-Dutch fleet which departed Surabaya, Java, Dutch East Indies on the previous day was detected by the Japanese aircraft at 0949 hours in the Bali Sea. The Japanese aircraft, originally flying to bomb Surabaya, attacked the fleet instead, hitting US cruiser USS Marblehead with 2 bombs (killing 15), US cruiser USS Houston with 1 bomb (killing 48), and Dutch destroyer HNLMS De Ruyter (7 killed); 4 Japanese aircraft were lost during the attack. The Allied fleet abandoned its original plans to intercept a Japanese invasion convoy due to the damage suffered. 
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04 Feb 1942 WW2 US submarine USS Sculpin attacked Japanese destroyer Sukukaze at mouth of Staring Bay near Kendari, Celebes, Dutch East Indies, causing damaging to the destroyer and killing 9 of her crew. 
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04 Feb 1942 WW2 USS Marblehead suffered two bomb hits and one near miss during the Battle of Makassar Strait, killing 15 men and wounding 84. She suffered a list to starboard, a few fires, and jammed rudder, but survived the battle.  
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04 Feb 1942 WW2 Tatsuta Maru arrived at Busan, Korea. 
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04 Feb 1942 WW2 US submarine Seadragon evacuated 21 military personnel, 23 torpedoes, spare submarine parts, and radio equipment from Corregidor, Philippine Islands. 
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04 Feb 1942 WW2 US tanks once again attacked the Japanese beachheads at Quinauan Point, Bataan, Luzon, Philippine Islands, nearly successfully in wiping out several positions. 
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04 Feb 1943 WW2 Soviet naval infantry thwarted a German attempt to land at Malaya Zemlya. Nearby, later on the same day, Soviet troops landed near Novorossiysk, southern Russia. 
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04 Feb 1943 WW2 Rear Admiral Shintaro's destroyers extracted 3,921 Japanese soldiers from Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands successfully, but four of his destroyers were damaged by air attack from Henderson Field. 
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04 Feb 1943 WW2 British 8th Army entered Tunisia. 
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04 Feb 1943 WW2 USS Tunny's crew found a six feet long black and yellow striped snake aboard and disposed of it. Later on the same day, she detected a hospital ship and chose not to take any action. 
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04 Feb 1943 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze evacuated troops from Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 
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04 Feb 1943 WW2 USS Sunfish began her second war patrol. 
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04 Feb 1943 WW2 In Germany, three days of national mourning began over the disaster at Stalingrad, Russia. All theatres, cinemas and night clubs were closed. 
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04 Feb 1943 WW2 Winston Churchill visited Tripoli, Libya and inspected British 8th Army. 
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04 Feb 1943 WW2 A transport of 890 Jews from Westerbork Concentration Camp in the Netherlands arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland. 48 of the 312 males and 52 of the females were registered; the remaining 790 were sent to the gas chambers. 
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04 Feb 1944 WW2 German troops began operations to relieve the Korsun/Cherkassy pocket in Ukraine. 
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04 Feb 1944 WW2 Orde Wingate issued the guidelines for the second Chindit operation. 
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04 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Puffer departed Fremantle, Australia for her third war patrol. 
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04 Feb 1944 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze arrived at Moji, Japan. 
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04 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Luce began a period of anti-submarine patrol off Attu in the Aleutian Islands. 
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04 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Cero departed Milne Bay, Australian Papua for her third war patrol. 
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04 Feb 1944 WW2 672nd, 674th, and 675th Bomb Squadrons (all flying A-20 aircraft) of USAAF 417th Bomb Group were transferred from Cape Sudest Airfield to Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua. 
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04 Feb 1944 WW2 Major-General Francis Tuker, commanding 4th Indian Division, suffering a bad attack of a tropical illness that had recurrently bothered him for years, was obliged to hand over command to Brigadier Harry Dimoline. 
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04 Feb 1944 WW2 German troops penetrated Allied lines at the Anzio beachhead in Italy. 
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04 Feb 1944 WW2 In Italy, the Second New Zealand Corps was established with the task of exploiting any breach in the Gustav Line, should the depleted American 5th Army be successful in creating one. The title was one of convenience only, for the Corps was a multi-national force assembled from the 2nd New Zealand, 4th Indian and (later) 78th British Divisions plus a combat group of the 1st US Armored Division. 
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04 Feb 1944 WW2 British Royal Air Force formed No. 46 Group to control the five Dakota aircraft squadrons (Nos. 48, 233, 271, 512 and 575) which would carry the 3rd Parachute Brigade to Normandy, France in Jun 1944. 
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04 Feb 1944 WW2 Shamrock Bay was launched in Vancouver, Washington, United States, sponsored by the wife of James R. Dudley. 
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04 Feb 1945 WW2 Belgium was reportedly free of German forces as of this date. 
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04 Feb 1945 WW2 The first of seven Ruhr dams in Germany was captured by the US First Army. 
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04 Feb 1945 WW2 15 Lancaster bombers and 12 Halifax bombers conducted minelaying operations off Helgoland and at the mouth of River Elbe, Germany. 
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04 Feb 1945 WW2 The US submarine Barbel was sunk by Japanese aircraft southwest of Palawan, Philippine Islands. 
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04 Feb 1945 WW2 Second Lieutenant Danilo of 1st Brazilian Fighter Group was shot down in flames whilst attacking trains to the Southwest of Treviso, Italy. Baling out Lieutenant Danilo walked for twenty-four days, across enemy territory before joining the partisans and finally getting through the front lines to rejoin his comrades. 
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04 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Springer departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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04 Feb 1945 WW2 Seventy American B-29 Superfortress bombers dropped 160 tons of incendiaries on the Japanese city of Kobe. Most of its building were made of wood and they blazed instantly. 
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04 Feb 1945 WW2 The Yalta Conference commenced in Russia. 
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04 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Franklin arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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04 Feb 1947 WW2 Grayson was decommissioned from service. 
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04 Feb 1948 WW2 Ceylon was granted independence with Dominion status. 
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