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History on the 9th of February

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09 Feb 1925 WW2 The incomplete Japanese battleship Tosa, which had been cancelled in accordance with the 1922 Washington Treaty, was expended as a target. 
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09 Feb 1925 WW2 The incomplete 40,000-ton Japanese battleship Tosa was scuttled off Kure, Japan, her existance being banned by the Washington Treaty. 
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09 Feb 1931 WW2 USS R-1 arrived at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. 
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09 Feb 1931 WW2 USS R-5 arrived at New London, Connecticut, United States. 
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09 Feb 1932 WW2 Adolf Hitler arrived in Berlin, Germany. 
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09 Feb 1933 WW2 The Oxford Union debating society of Britain debated on the resolution: "That this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country". It was passed by 275 votes to 153 and became one of the most well-known and notorious debates conducted by the Union. 
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09 Feb 1934 WW2 President Roosevelt suspended all civil airmail contracts (effective from 19 Feb 1934) and handed the role over to the United States Army Air Corps. 
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09 Feb 1937 WW2 Martin Bormann ordered that clergymen and theology students were not allowed to join the Nazi Party. 
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09 Feb 1937 WW2 The first flight of the Blackburn Type B-24 Skua prototype aircraft was made at Brough, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. A Dive bomber it became the British Fleet Air Arm’s first monoplane. 
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09 Feb 1939 WW2 The Japanese 5th Fleet arrived off Qinghai Bay, Hainan island in southern China some time between 2300 hours and the end of the day. 
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09 Feb 1940 WW2 Winston Churchill made a radio broadcast to warn Bulgaria against joining the Tripartite Pact. 
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09 Feb 1940 WW2 The Finnish defensive Mannerheim Line in the Summa sector began to fall apart, with Soviet troops taking control of a bunker near the village of Karhula. Finnish troops brought up reserves to counterattack, but failed to retake the bunker. 
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09 Feb 1940 WW2 German destroyers Z3, Z4, and Z16 deployed 110 mines in the Shipwash, a busy sea lane in the North Sea east of Harwich, England. 
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09 Feb 1940 WW2 British vessel Chagres, carrying 1,500 tons of Cameroonian bananas, hit a mine deployed by German submarine U-30 on 6 Jan 1940. Chagres sank 10 miles from her destination, killing 2. The remaining 62 men were rescued by anti-submarine trawler HMS Loch Montreith. 
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09 Feb 1940 WW2 Submarine Squalus was renamed USS Sailfish. 
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09 Feb 1941 WW2 Admiral Darlan became the new Vice Premier of Vichy France. 
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09 Feb 1941 WW2 13 British aircraft from Scampton, Lincolnshire attacked battleship Tirpitz at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. The air crews reported to have caused damage, but in actuality no hits were scored. 
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09 Feb 1941 WW2 Allied troops captured El Agheila, Libya, marking an end of Operation Compass. 
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09 Feb 1941 WW2 Erwin Rommel was promoted to the rank of Generalleutnant. 
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09 Feb 1941 WW2 British Force H, including two battleships and one cruiser, with carrier HMS Ark Royal supporting from a distance, bombarded Genoa, Italy at 0815 hours. 273 15-inch shells and 782 6-inch shells were fired. Four merchant ships and a training vessel were sunk, 18 ships were damaged, harbor facilities and nearby industrial areas were damaged, and the cathedral was also hit. 144 Italians were killed, most of whom were civilians. The British lost 1 Swordfish torpedo bomber. Italian battleships Vittorio Veneto, Cesare, and Doria, supported by cruiser and destroyers, were launched to intercept the British fleet but failed to find them. 
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09 Feb 1941 WW2 German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau detected Allied convoy HX-106 off Newfoundland at 0830 hours. Because it was escorted by British battleship Ramilies, the German fleet withdrew at 1000 hours per orders not to engage British capital ships. 
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09 Feb 1941 WW2 German submarine U-37 attacked Allied convoy HG-53 435 miles west of Gibraltar at 0430 hours, sinking British ships Estrellano (5 killed, 21 survived) and Courland (3 killed, 27 survived). U-37 had also reported the sighting to aircraft based in Bordeaux, France, which led to the arrival of five Fw 200 Condor bombers, which sank British ships Jura, Dagmar I, and Brittanic and Norwegian ship Tejo. 
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09 Feb 1941 WW2 British cruiser HMS Neptune was damaged by German bombing at Plymouth, England, United Kingdom. 
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09 Feb 1942 WW2 Year-round daylight saving time was re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy. 
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09 Feb 1942 WW2 George Marshall, Henry Arnold, Harold Stark, and Ernest King attended the first formal meeting of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. 
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09 Feb 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Kwajalein, departing later on the same day. 
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09 Feb 1942 WW2 Destroyer Yuzuki departed with Destroyer Division 23 to escort the invasion fleet for Gasmata, New Britain, Bismarck Islands. 
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09 Feb 1942 WW2 USS Trout sank Japanese auxiliary gunboat Chuwa Maru 50 miles northeast of Taiwan. 
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09 Feb 1942 WW2 German submarine U-654 attacked Allied convoy ON-60 in the Atlantic Ocean 450 miles east of Cape Race, Newfoundland just after 0000 hours, damaging Free French corvette Alysse; 36 were killed, 34 survived. At 2020 hours, German submarine U-85 also attacked ON-60, sinking British ship Empire Fusilier; 9 were killed, 38 survived. 
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09 Feb 1942 WW2 German aircraft damaged British cruiser HMS Cleopatra west of Malta in the Mediterranean Sea. 
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09 Feb 1942 WW2 German aircraft damaged British destroyer HMS Farndale off Egypt. 
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09 Feb 1942 WW2 Japanese Special Naval Landing Force troops arrived at Gasmata airfield, renamed Surumi airfield by the Japanese, in southern New Britain to expand the existing grass runway built by the RAAF. 
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09 Feb 1942 WW2 Kaga accidentally hit a reef in the Palau Islands, Caroline Islands, damaging her bilges. 
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09 Feb 1942 WW2 Japanese Sasebo Combined Special Naval Landing Force troops landed at Makassar, Celebes, Dutch East Indies at dawn and captured the city. Most Dutch defenders fell back to the fortifications at Tjama. A small number of captured native troops were tied in groups of three and thrown into a river near Makassar to drown. 
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09 Feb 1942 WW2 Japanese aircraft damaged British river gunboat HMS Scorpion in the Bangka Strait off Sumatra, Dutch East Indies. 
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09 Feb 1942 WW2 Italian aircraft bombed Alexandria, Egypt. 
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09 Feb 1942 WW2 During the day, Japanese troops captured Tengah airfield at Singapore while behind the front 10,000 additional troops arrived at the beachheads. At 2100 hours, the Japanese 4th Imperial Guard Regiment landed at Kranji in northern Singapore, but the attempt was driven off by Australian 27th Brigade's heavy machine gun and mortar fire before the Australians fell back in anticipation of another landing. 
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09 Feb 1942 WW2 Satoru Anabuki, flying a Ki-27 fighter, shot down a P-40 fighter over Bataan, Philippine Islands, his third victory. 
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09 Feb 1942 WW2 USS Lafayette (former French luxury liner SS Normandie, impounded by the United States in May 1941), amidst conversion into a troop transport, caught fire and capsized at midnight in New York Harbor, United States. 
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09 Feb 1943 WW2 Allied authorities declared Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands secure after Japan evacuated its remaining forces from the island. 
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09 Feb 1943 WW2 Soviet troops recaptured Belgorod, Russia. 
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09 Feb 1943 WW2 The first Chindit operation began. Brigadier Orde Wingate took a force of 3,000 troops into Burma to conduct a guerrilla-style campaign behind Japanese lines. 
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09 Feb 1943 WW2 On Ambon Island in eastern Indonesia, the Japanese beheaded 85 Australian and Dutch prisoners. 
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09 Feb 1943 WW2 Shoe rationing went into effect in the United States. 
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09 Feb 1943 WW2 USS Gar began her sixth war patrol. 
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09 Feb 1943 WW2 HMS Erica (Lieutenant A. C. C. Charles Cuthbert Seligman) was mined and sunk whilst escorting a convoy from Benghazi, Libya to Alexandria, Egypt. 
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09 Feb 1943 WW2 Chinese leaders Song Ziwen and He Yingqin, British leaders Archibald Wavell and John Dill, and American leaders Henry Arnold, Joseph Stilwell, Clayton Bissell, and Brehon Somervell met in Delhi, India. 
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09 Feb 1943 WW2 USS Runner attacked a Japanese transport and an escorting destroyer in the western Pacific; she claimed the sinking of a Japanese transport, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired. 
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09 Feb 1943 WW2 George Kenney ordered a series of strong night attacks on Rabaul, New Britain. 
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09 Feb 1943 WW2 Irako supplied food to seaplane tender Sanyo Maru at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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09 Feb 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Army 72nd Fighter Squadron, consisting of 21 aircraft (Model P-40K), with a compliment of 25 officers and 229 men, departed for Bellows Field. The 19th Fighter Squadron arrived on board, with 32 aircraft (Model P-40F), 26 officers and 238 men. Note: the 72nd Fighter Squadron and its successor, the 19th Fighter Squadron, were on a constant alert status. 
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09 Feb 1943 WW2 The first of seven Axis convoys left Italy with reinforcements bound for Tunisia but British aircraft from Malta, submarines, and minefields took a heavy toll. 
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09 Feb 1943 WW2 USS Tunny fired torpedoes on a Japanese convoy in the Taiwan Strait, damaging one transport with two torpedoes. 
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09 Feb 1943 WW2 Allied convoy RA-52 arrived at Loch Ewe, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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09 Feb 1943 WW2 The US Naval Dry Docks, Roosevelt Base was established near Los Angeles, California, United States. 
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09 Feb 1944 WW2 Walter Heitz passed away. 
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09 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Gar ended her tenth war patrol. 
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09 Feb 1944 WW2 The Royal Navy's Second Escort Group (Captain F. J. Walker CB, DSO and three bars) sank the German submarines U-734 and U-238. 
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09 Feb 1944 WW2 German troops captured Aprilia, Italy. 
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09 Feb 1944 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Beppu, Japan. 
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09 Feb 1944 WW2 The German Foreign Ministry in the Hague reported back to Berlin that to date 108,000 Jews had been deported from the Netherlands. The Dutch population considered German methods brutal, and church circles were actively promoting disapproval for the deportations. 
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09 Feb 1944 WW2 George Bell, Bishop of Chichester, in a speech in the House of Lords in Britain openly criticised the Government over the bombing of German cities. 
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09 Feb 1944 WW2 Lieutenant Commander James Grady was named the commanding officer of USS Whale, relieving Lieutenant Commander Albert Burrows. 
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09 Feb 1945 WW2 British and Canadian troops forced their way through a main Siegfried Line/Westwall defensive zone. Meanwhile, half of German 19.Armee was evacuated back into Germany before the final Rhine River bridge in the Colmar Pocket in France was blown. 
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09 Feb 1945 WW2 Elbing and Posen in Germany (now Elblag and Poznan in Poland) were surrounded by the Soviet forces. 
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09 Feb 1945 WW2 In a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat, British HMS Venturer sank German U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway. 
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09 Feb 1945 WW2 Between this date and 12 Feb 1945, US submarine Batfish sank three Japanese destroyers. 
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09 Feb 1945 WW2 Soviet submarine S-13 sank the German ship Steuben, killing 3,000 to 4,000, most of which were military personnel being evacuated from East Prussia, Germany. 
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09 Feb 1945 WW2 German engineers blew up the dam over the Ruhr, thereby presenting the US Ninth Army with an unbridgeable strip of surging water. This led to the attack from the south being postponed and the waters would not subside sufficiently for General William Simpson's leading troops to resume their advance until 23 Feb 1945. 
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09 Feb 1945 WW2 Soviet Captain Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was arrested for his private criticism of Joseph Stalin; he would eventually be sentenced to 8 years imprisonment at labor camps for this crime. 
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09 Feb 1946 WW2 Hammerhead was decommissioned from service. 
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09 Feb 1946 WW2 At the Bolshoi Theater in central Moscow, Russia, Joseph Stalin made a speech which effectively claimed that the Western Allies played little or no part in the Soviet victory over Germany in WW2. 
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