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History on the 6th of February

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06 Feb 1912 WW2 Eva Braun was born in München in southern Germany. 
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06 Feb 1922 WW2 The Naval Armament Limitation Treaty was signed. 
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06 Feb 1922 WW2 The reign of Pope Pius XI commenced in the Vatican City. 
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06 Feb 1926 WW2 Joseph Rochefort was promoted to the rank of lieutenant and would soon take over the cryptanalysis section of the US Navy in Washington DC, United States as the previous commanding officer received sea duty. 
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06 Feb 1930 WW2 Pensacola was commissioned into service. 
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06 Feb 1933 WW2 One day after all elected bodies in Prussia, Germany were dissolved, control of all police in Prussia were given to the national government. Most of the former police officials retired, and some of the positions vacated were given to Nazi Party members. 
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06 Feb 1933 WW2 E7K floatplane took its first flight. 
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06 Feb 1934 WW2 Werner Mölders began receiving basic flying instructions at the Deutsche Verkehrsfliegerschule in Cottbus, Germany. 
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06 Feb 1934 WW2 Han Chinese and Muslim Chinese forces captured Kashgar, Xinjiang, China after defeating the 10,000-strong Khotanlik Uyghur separatist garrison. 
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06 Feb 1937 WW2 Spanish Nationalist forces entered Malaga, Spain as Republican forces fled toward Almeria. At Madrid, the Nationalists under General Luis Orgaz renewed the attempts to capture the city; this time they concentrated their efforts on cutting the Valencia road where it ran through the Jarama valley to the southeast of the city. General Sebastian Pozas led the Republican forces at Madrid. 
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06 Feb 1940 WW2 Finnish 9th Division completed its encirclement of the Soviet 54th Division at Kuhmo. To the south, Soviet troops continued to shell Finnish defensive positions on the Mannerheim Line on the Karelian Isthmus, but actual advances were limited. 
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06 Feb 1940 WW2 The "Carreless Talk Costs Lives" slogan debuted, designed to prevent war gossip. 
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06 Feb 1940 WW2 Vultee received an order from the Swedish government for 144 Vanguard fighters. 
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06 Feb 1940 WW2 Estonian steamer Anu sank after hit a mine 30 miles east of Dundee, Scotland, United Kindgom, killing the captain, his wife, the cook, and four crew members. The mine was laid by German submarine U-13 on 12 Dec 1939. 
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06 Feb 1941 WW2 Adolf Hitler made his final appeal to Francisco Franco to bring Spain into the war on the Axis side. 
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06 Feb 1941 WW2 The British House of Commons voted for the first £1,600,000,000 war credit of the year. 
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06 Feb 1941 WW2 On the Benghazi-Tripoli road in Libya, the trapped Italian Tenth Army attempted to break out without success. Australian 6th Division captured Benghazi while 7th Support Group of British 7th Armoured Division captured Sceleidima; these captures further secured the envelopment of the Italian Tenth Army. 
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06 Feb 1941 WW2 The German High Command issued the order for Operation Sonnenblume, which called for the organization and transfer of a German force to reinforce Italian forces in North Africa. 
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06 Feb 1941 WW2 Near Keren, Eritrea, Italian East Africa, Indian 3rd Battalion of 14th Punjab Regiment attacked Brig's Peak but was pushed back by Italian 65th Infantry Division "Granatieri di Savoia". 
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06 Feb 1941 WW2 German Motor Torpedo Boats S.30, S.54, S.58, S.59 sank British ship Angularity on the east coast of England, United Kingdom; 2 were killed, 1 was captured by S.30. 
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06 Feb 1941 WW2 German submarine U-107 sank Canadian ship Maplecourt 250 miles northwest of Ireland at 1752 hours, killing the entire crew of 37. 
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06 Feb 1941 WW2 HMS King George V arrived at Scapa Flow, Scotland, United Kingdom after delivering Lord Halifax to the United States. 
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06 Feb 1942 WW2 German submarine U-107 sank US freighter Major Wheeler off the east coast of the United States, killing the entire crew of 35. Off Bermuda, German submarine U-106 sank British ship Opawa. Northeast of the Azores islands, German submarine U-109 sank Panamanian ship Halcyon. Finally, German submarine U-82 attempted to attack convoy OS-18, but was sunk by depth charges in return. 
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06 Feb 1942 WW2 US Army allocated resources for the construction of the Alaska-Canadian Highway, pending approval of the US President and the US Congress. 
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06 Feb 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed at Roi, Marshall Islands. 
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06 Feb 1942 WW2 German troops captured Benghazi, Libya, but the westward offensive had been halted at the Gazala Line. 
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06 Feb 1942 WW2 The United Kingdom declared war on Thailand. 
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06 Feb 1942 WW2 Wavell, still angry at the loss of Moulmein, Burma, ordered 2nd Burma Brigade to "take back all you have lost". It was too late-the Japanese were already bringing more troops (33rd "White Tigers" Division and the Headquarters of 15th Army) across the frontier. Lieutenant-General Hutton insisted on abandoning Moulmein and taking up new positions on the Salween which would be reinforced by the newly committed 46th Indian Brigade who had been brought down from the Shah States. 
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06 Feb 1942 WW2 The Nazi Germans published new guidelines for the conduct of anti-guerrilla warfare, in which it was spelled out that the war against irregulars (Himmler having earlier ordered that the word "Partisan" was to be replaced with "Bandit" in all correspondence) was to be fought regardless of any conventional legality or morality, "without limitations even against women and children". 
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06 Feb 1942 WW2 A Carley float containing a dead body of a HMAS Sydney crewman was spotted off Christmas Island. 
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06 Feb 1942 WW2 While at sea, USS Lexington received orders to set sail for Fiji. 
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06 Feb 1942 WW2 An Australian Hudson bomber conducted a reconnaissance mission over Rabaul, New Britain; a Japanese fighter rose to attack and damaged the Australian aircraft, but it would be able to escape and return to Port Moresby, British Territory of Papua. 
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06 Feb 1942 WW2 Six Japanese troop transports, escorted by cruiser Nagara, 11 destroyers, and 2 minesweepers, departed Kendari, Celebes, Dutch East Indies for Makassar on the western coast of the island. 
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06 Feb 1942 WW2 USS Permit disembarked Admiral Thomas Hart's staff at Surabaya, Java, Dutch East Indies, ending her third war patrol. 
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06 Feb 1942 WW2 USS Yorktown arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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06 Feb 1942 WW2 Hermann Göring departed Rome, Italy. Galeazzo Ciano noted in his diary that during this visit, Göring was seen wearing expensive jewelry and furs. 
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06 Feb 1942 WW2 Vice Admiral Aimone di Savoia Aosta took command of the 10th MAS Flotilla special forces unit and the "San Marco" naval infantry regiment. 
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06 Feb 1942 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille returned to his unit at Martuba, Libya. 
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06 Feb 1942 WW2 Japanese artillery and aerial bombardment continued against various military and port facilities at Singapore. 
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06 Feb 1942 WW2 Japanese artillery shelled Corregidor from Cavite at Luzon, Philippine Islands. Meanwhile, Filipino troops continued to assert pressure on the nearly-eliminated Japanese beachheads at Quinauan Point, Bataan, Luzon. 
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06 Feb 1942 WW2 The US Navy established the Gulf Sea Frontier (GULFSEAFRON) with headquarters at Key West, Florida, United States. Captain Russell S. Crenshaw was named its first commanding officer. 
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06 Feb 1943 WW2 Wilkinson Sword Limited received renewed contracts to produce more Fairbairn-Sykes commando daggers; they would be the firm's final government contracts of the war. 
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06 Feb 1943 WW2 USS Tunny patrolled off Shantou, China. 
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06 Feb 1943 WW2 The keel of escort carrier Wake Island was laid down in Vancouver, Washington, United States. 
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06 Feb 1943 WW2 Brazil, which was already at war with Germany and Italy, now declared war upon Japan. 
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06 Feb 1943 WW2 USS S-28 departed Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska for her fifth war patrol. 
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06 Feb 1943 WW2 Adolf Hitler met with Erich von Manstein at Rastenberg, East Prussia, Germany. The Field Marshal had been flown 900 miles from Donetsk, Ukraine to the Führer's Wolfsschanze headquarters in Hitler's personal Focke-Wulf Fw200 V3 "Immelmann III". At the four hour conference, only five days after the surrender at Stalingrad, Russia, the Army Group South commander persuaded Hitler to allow him to retreat to the River Mius. 
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06 Feb 1943 WW2 USS Finback arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her third war patrol. 
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06 Feb 1943 WW2 USS Flying Fish sank a Japanese transport in the Sunharon Roadstead off Tinian, Mariana Islands, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired. After sundown, she attacked a destroyer in the same area; the 1 torpedo fired missed. 
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06 Feb 1943 WW2 All female prisoners at Auschwitz Concentration Camp were gathered for a general roll call at 0330 hours then marched outside the camp. They were kept outdoors until 1700 hours, then were ordered to run back to the camp, prodded by swinging clubs. About 1,000 women died during this forced march. Those who were not able to keep up but survived were rounded up and sent to block 25 in the BIa sector of the camp, from which location they would later be transported to the gas chambers. 
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06 Feb 1944 WW2 Shokaku departed Inland Sea by Tokuyama with Zuikaku for Singapore. 
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06 Feb 1944 WW2 Harry Dimoline was promoted to the war time rank of major general. 
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06 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Ray departed Fremantle, Australia for her third war patrol. 
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06 Feb 1944 WW2 Japanese attacked the forward headquarters of Indian 7th Division in Arakan, Burma by surprise. 
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06 Feb 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of ARGUS-22 departed. Part of CASU-30 departed. 
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06 Feb 1944 WW2 German and Allied artillery pieces bombarded each other at Anzio, Italy. 
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06 Feb 1944 WW2 Nachi refueled at Tokuyama Fuel Depot, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. 
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06 Feb 1944 WW2 A transport from Drancy Concentration Camp in Paris, France arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp. 999 of the 1,214 Jews were sent to the gas chambers upon arrival; only 166 men and 49 women were registered into the camp. 
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06 Feb 1945 WW2 Soviet 1st Byelorussian Front expanded its holdings along the east bank of the Oder River in Germany. 
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06 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Mingo departed Fremantle, Australia for her seventh war patrol. 
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06 Feb 1945 WW2 S-37 was decommissioned from service. 
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06 Feb 1945 WW2 Rear Admiral Tsuyoshi Matsumoto was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Navy 12th Air Fleet. 
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06 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Marcus Island was relieved as Rear Admiral W. D. Sample's flagship while at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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06 Feb 1945 WW2 Raoul Wallenberg was transferred back to the Lubyanka prison in Moscow, Russia. 
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06 Feb 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Kirun (now Keelung), Taiwan and embarked Japanese personnel. 
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06 Feb 1947 WW2 A court in Najing, China, Lieutenant General Hisao Tani, commanding officer of the Japanese 6th Division in Nanjing from late 1937, was found guilty of encouraging his men to commit crimes such as rape, murder, plunder, and destruction. 
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06 Feb 1947 WW2 Hisao Tani was put on trial in Nanjing, China for his role in the Rape of Nanjing in 1937. 
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06 Feb 1949 WW2 Hiroaki Abe passed away. 
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