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History on the 7th of February

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07 Feb 1915 WW1 Begin of Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes
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07 Feb 1918 WW2 The Bolsheviks captured Kiev which brought the entire Ukraine effectively under their control. 
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07 Feb 1919 WW2 Desmond Doss was born. 
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07 Feb 1920 WW2 Vice-Admiral Aleksandr Vasilevitch Kolchak, one-time Supreme Ruler of Russia, was taken from his cell to a place on the bank of the Angara River in Siberia, and there with Victor Pepelyaev, was shot by an execution squad and his body pushed through a hole in the ice. Representatives of the Czech Legion signed an agreement with Smirnov guaranteeing the evacuation of all Czech personnel and their equipment from Russian soil, in return for their non-intervention of the Bolshevik treatment of Kolchak and his staff. 
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07 Feb 1929 WW2 USS Arizona passed through the Panama Canal. 
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07 Feb 1932 WW2 Light carrier Hosho launched aircraft to support ground troops at Shanghai, China. 
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07 Feb 1932 WW2 Part of the air groups from Japanese carriers Kaga and Hosho was dispatched to Shanghai, China to support fighting on the ground. 
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07 Feb 1934 WW2 Kichisaburo Nomura was awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun. 
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07 Feb 1938 WW2 Spanish Nationalist cavalry attacked the Spanish Republican forces to the north of Teruel, Spain. 
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07 Feb 1938 WW2 Japanese General Iwane Matsui made a speech during a memorial service for troops of the Shanghai Expeditionary Force who were killed in combat. The speech included his order to "put an end to various reports affecting the prestige of the Japanese troops", referring to reports of atrocities committed by Japanese troops in Nanjing, China. Later on the same day he made an entry in his dairy noting that "I could only feel sadness and responsibility today, which has been overwhelmingly piercing my heart. This is caused by the Army's misbehaviors after the fall of Nanjing and failure to proceed with the autonomous government and other political plans." 
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07 Feb 1939 WW2 Sargo was commissioned into service. 
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07 Feb 1940 WW2 Information regarding Allied Supreme War Council's decision to send aid to Finland was leaked to British and French newspapers. 
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07 Feb 1940 WW2 Soviet troops attacked the Summa gap in Finland for the 7th consecutive day. 
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07 Feb 1940 WW2 Belfast-Liverpool ferry boat Munster, with 45 crew and 190 passengers on board, hit a mine (laid by German submarine U-30 on 6 Jan 1940) at 0600 hours. All aboard were rescued by British steamer Ringwal. 
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07 Feb 1940 WW2 Convicted IRA terrorists Peter Barnes and James Richards were executed at Wilson Green prison, Birmingham, England for their part in a street bombing in Coventry which killed five innocent passers-by. 
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07 Feb 1940 WW2 Douglas Bader joined the British No. 19 Squadron RAF flying Spitfire fighters. 
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07 Feb 1941 WW2 The Italian Italian Special Armoured Brigade saw some initial success in a dawn attempt to break out of the encirclement of the Italian Tenth Army on the Benghazi-Tripoli road in Libya, but the breakthrough was quickly contained by Allied field guns. The 25,000-strong Italian Tenth Army formally surrendered before the end of the day. 
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07 Feb 1941 WW2 British and Indian troops continued to hold the Cameron Ridge near Keren, Eritrea, Italian East Africa, which was a ridge named after the British infantry regiment Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders which had initially taken it at the start of the Battle of Keren. On the other side of the Gorge, Indian 4th Division launched an attempt to flank the Italian troops at Dologorodoc Fort by moving through the Scescilembi Valley. 
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07 Feb 1941 WW2 The first Beaufighter IF fighter (T4623) built at the Fairey factory in Stockport near Manchester, England, United Kingdom made its maiden flight. 
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07 Feb 1942 WW2 King George VI approved the name Ark Royal to be used on a new Audacious-class Carrier which had not yet even been laid down. 
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07 Feb 1942 WW2 The Japanese infiltrated across the Salween River in Burma cutting the defenders of Martaban River, 3/7th Gurkhas with a company of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry under command, from the 46th Indian Brigade headquarters base at Thaton. The Gurkha's Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel H. A. Stevenson, knowing that his position was now untenable led a bayonet charge to clear the road block. The subsequent retreat from Martaban (over difficult terrain with no food) of more than 50 miles in two days was a terrible ordeal and a foretaste of things to come. 
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07 Feb 1942 WW2 British destroyers HMS Zulu and HMS Lively sank Italian trawler Grongo and small ship Aosta in the Mediterranean Sea near Malta. 
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07 Feb 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-25's floatplane conducted a reconnaissance mission on Sydney, Australia. 
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07 Feb 1942 WW2 Japanese aircraft attacked Palembang, Sumatra, Dutch East Indies, destroying 34 RAF aircraft. 
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07 Feb 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-55 sank Dutch passenger ship Van Cloon 30 miles north of Java; all 187 aboard survived. American yacht USS Isabel and a PBY Catalina aircraft counterattacked in failure. 
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07 Feb 1942 WW2 USAAF B-17 bombers from Java, Dutch East Indies unsuccessfully attacked Japanese shipping off Balikpapan, Borneo, Dutch East Indies. 
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07 Feb 1942 WW2 Irako arrived at Hashirajima, Japan and disembarked 80 tons of sugar from Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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07 Feb 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Wotje, Marshall Islands to tend to personnel wounded on an American strike on 1 Feb. 
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07 Feb 1942 WW2 German troops halted the Soviet offensive northwest of Leningrad, Russia. 
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07 Feb 1942 WW2 Allied convoy PQ-11 departed Loch Ewe, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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07 Feb 1943 WW2 The Japanese Army completed Operation Ke, the evacuation of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, as the final 1,796 soldiers were evacuated by 18 ships. 
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07 Feb 1943 WW2 The US Navy transferred two US submarine squadrons from Brisbane, Australia to Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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07 Feb 1943 WW2 USS Tunny patrolled off Shantou, China. 
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07 Feb 1943 WW2 Admiral William Halsey named Rear Admiral Richmond Turner the overall commander of the Russell Islands operation. 
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07 Feb 1943 WW2 Chiang Kaishek messaged Franklin Roosevelt, agreeing with Chinese support for an offensive into Burma. 
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07 Feb 1943 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze evacuated troops from Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 
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07 Feb 1943 WW2 He Yingqin departed Chongqing, China for India. 
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07 Feb 1943 WW2 USS Wahoo arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her third war patrol. 
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07 Feb 1943 WW2 Archibald Wavell visited Orde Wingate's Chindit headquarters 7 miles north of Imphal, India. Wingate was able to convince Wavell to continue the Chindit operations despite the fact that the offensive into Arakan, Burma was soon to be canceled. 
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07 Feb 1944 WW2 American troops completed the conquest of Kwajalein and Majuro Atolls in the Marshall Islands. 
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07 Feb 1944 WW2 Remy Van Lierde was assigned to RAF Manston in Kent, England, United Kingdom. 
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07 Feb 1944 WW2 British Air Marshal Ralph Cochrane ordered Leonard Cheshire's 617 Squadron to attack the important aero-engine plant at Limoges in mid-France. The War Office was extremely nervous about this operation as it was known, from resistance sources, that 500 French women were employed at the plant, and a large number of civilian fatalities would have serious political consequences. Instructions were therefore issued that no bombs were to be dropped until the factory was clear of workers. Arriving over the target Cheshire twice swooped his Lancaster bomber at 50 feet in order to alert the workers below. Then on the third pass a member of his crew said "There they go" and hundreds of women were seen running away from the factory. All this was recorded by a film cameraman worked by Moya of the RAF film unit. Just before midnight Cheshire dropped his markers right on top of the factory, and minutes later five 1200-lb bombs from 617 Squadron's Lancasters hit the factory and destroyed the greater part of it. 
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07 Feb 1944 WW2 Bruce Fraser was promoted to the rank of admiral. 
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07 Feb 1944 WW2 The headquarters of USAAF 417th Bomb Group was transferred from Cape Sudest Airfield to Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua. 
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07 Feb 1944 WW2 Japanese troops captured a divisional Anglo-Indian dressing station at Sinzweya, Burma and killed 35 medical staff and patients. 
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07 Feb 1944 WW2 Hiroshi Nemoto was named the commanding officer of the Third Army of the Japanese Kwangtung Army based in northeastern China. 
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07 Feb 1944 WW2 German and Allied artillery pieces bombarded each other at Anzio, Italy; at 2100 hours, Germans launched a full attack on the beachhead. 
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07 Feb 1944 WW2 US troops reached Point 445, a hill 370 meters away from the monastery at Monte Cassino, Italy. 
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07 Feb 1944 WW2 Nachi departed Tokuyama, Japan. 
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07 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Ticonderoga was launched at Norfolk, Virginia, United States. 
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07 Feb 1945 WW2 German demolition of Ruhr floodgates flooded the area west of Köln, Germany, inhibiting Allied action. 
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07 Feb 1945 WW2 Kriegsmarine cruisers assisted with naval gunfire to halt Soviet attacks near Königsberg, Germany. 
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07 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Carbonero was commissioned into service, Commander Charlton Murphy, Jr. in command. 
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07 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Parche sank Japanese transport Okinoyama Maru east of Taiwan, hitting her with 1 of 4 torpedoes fired. 
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07 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Bergall fired eight torpedoes at a Japanese convoy east of Cam Rahn Bay, French Indochina, damaing two oilers with three hits. 
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07 Feb 1945 WW2 Captain William Sinton was named the commanding officer of USS Ticonderoga. 
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07 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Sennet departed Saipan, Mariana Islands for her second war patrol. 
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07 Feb 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit the railway sidings near Barking Marches, London, England, United Kingdom. 
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07 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Franklin departed San Francisco, California, United States. 
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07 Feb 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru departed Kirun (now Keelung), Taiwan. 
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07 Feb 1947 WW2 Denver was decommissioned from service. 
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07 Feb 1948 WW2 Bruce Fraser was promoted to the rank of Admiral of the Fleet. 
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07 Feb 1949 WW2 Li Mi met with Chiang Kaishek over a meal and reported to Chiang his Nov 1948 total defeat at the hand of the communists near Chenguan County, Henan Province, China. 
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