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History on the 10th of February

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10 Feb 1495 RELIGIOUS King's College was founded under Roman Catholic sponsorship in Aberdeen, Scotland. In 1860 it merged with the Protestant Marischal College (established in 1593) to become the University of Aberdeen.
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10 Feb 1546 RELIGIOUS German reformer Martin Luther wrote in a letter to his wife Kate: 'Pray, and let God worry.'
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10 Feb 1899 RELIGIOUS The Church of England first authorized use of the 1885 English Revised (RV or ERV) Version of the Bible in Anglican liturgy and worship.
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10 Feb 1913 WW2 Settsu departed Kure, Japan for her training cruise. 
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10 Feb 1927 WW2 William Halsey was promoted to the rank of captain. 
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10 Feb 1929 RELIGIOUS In London, renowned Baptist clergyman and devotional author F. B. Meyer, 81, preached his last sermon. He soon entered a nursing home where his health failed rapidly, and he died March 28.
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10 Feb 1933 WW2 HMS Phaeton was ordered. 
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10 Feb 1936 WW2 The Gestapo was moved outside normal civil law, answering only to Adolf Hitler via Heinrich Himmler. 
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10 Feb 1936 WW2 Ernst Udet was appointed the Inspector of Fighters and Dive Bombers of the German Luftwaffe. 
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10 Feb 1937 WW2 Jean de Vienne was commissioned into service. 
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10 Feb 1938 WW2 Tetsuzo Iwamoto was transferred to Nanjing, China. 
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10 Feb 1938 WW2 J. W. Gillan, commander of No. 111 Squadron RAF, made a flight between RAF Northolt, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom and RAF Turnhouse (now Edinburgh Airport) in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom in a Hurricane fighter only 48 minutes, assisted by a 80mph tailwind. 
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10 Feb 1939 WW2 Pope Pius XI of the State of Vatican City passed away. 
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10 Feb 1939 WW2 Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces troops landed at Haikou, Hainan island in southern China. 
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10 Feb 1940 WW2 Soviet troops penetrated the Finnish defensive Mannerheim Line, crossing the Munasuo swamp into the Merkki sector. 
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10 Feb 1940 WW2 Two wooden British ships HMS Salve and HMS Servitor successfully swept for magnetic mines on the sea bed, dragging a long charged electrical cable which detonated the mines in their wake. 
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10 Feb 1940 WW2 German submarine U-48 stopped Dutch steamer Burgerdijk, transporting grain from the United States to Rotterdam), inspected the cargo, and then sank the ship 40 miles from Land's End in southwestern England. The ship's crew, floating in lifeboats, were rescued by Dutch steamer Edam 12 hours later. 
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10 Feb 1940 WW2 German submarine U-37 torpedoed and sank Norwegian steamer Silja, transporting salt from Gibraltar to Bergen, southwest of Ireland at 2100 hours. All 16 men aboard were killed. 
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10 Feb 1940 WW2 USS Helena departed Santos, Brazil. 
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10 Feb 1940 WW2 Hiroshi Nemoto was named the chief of staff of the Japanese South China Area Army. 
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10 Feb 1940 WW2 Jews from Stettin (now Szczecin, Poland) and Stralsund in Pommern, Germany were deported to ghettos in Lublin, Poland. 
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10 Feb 1940 WW2 HMS Hermes completed a period of refitting in Britain. 
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10 Feb 1940 WW2 In Washington DC, United States, President Franklin Roosevelt confronted a booing demonstration of 4,446 members of the American Youth Congress who had marched up Constitutional Avenue with banners condemning the prospect of the US being drawn into an imperialistic war. Angrily he told the demonstrators that American sympathy is overwhelmingly in support of Finnish efforts to stave off invasion, and warned them not to pass resolutions on subjects of which they have no complete knowledge. 
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10 Feb 1941 WW2 The Stirling aircraft made its operational debut as bombers of No. 7 Squadron RAF bombed oil storage facilities at Rotterdam, the Netherlands. 
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10 Feb 1941 WW2 Werner Mölders claimed his 56th victory. 
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10 Feb 1941 WW2 German submarine U-37 attacked Allied convoy HG-53 600 miles west of Gibraltar at 0633 hours, sinking British ship Brandenburg, killing entire crew of 23 plus 26 of the 27 passengers on board. The passengers were survivors of the ship Courland, which had just been sunken by U-37 on the previous day. 
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10 Feb 1941 WW2 German submarine U-52 sank British ship Cranford Chine 200 miles west of Ireland at 1435 hours, killing the entire crew of 35. 
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10 Feb 1941 WW2 222 British aircraft attacked Hannover, Germany. 
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10 Feb 1941 WW2 British Prime Minister Churchill ordered General Wavell to prioritize the campaign in Greece over that in North Africa. 
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10 Feb 1941 WW2 The German convoy carrying the newly formed German Afrika Korps, with one Italian destroyer and three torpedo boats in escort, departed Palermo, Sicily, Italy for Tripoli, Libya. 
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10 Feb 1941 WW2 1st Punjab Regiment of Indian 3rd Battalion captured Brig's Peak near Keren, Eritrea, Italian East Africa. To the south, British General Cunningham launched Operation Canvas against Italian positions on the Juba River in Italian Somaliland. 
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10 Feb 1941 WW2 6 Whitley bombers of No. 91 Squadron RAF delivered 38 paratroopers of British No. 11 Special Air Service Battalion to the Tragino aqueduct in southern Italy at 2200 hours in what was codenamed Operation Colossus. They were to plant explosives on one of the columns to stop supplies of fresh water to nearby military and civilian centers. 
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10 Feb 1942 WW2 The United Kingdom transferred 34 Royal Navy anti-submarine vessels and their crews to the United States Navy for anti-submarine patrols in the western Atlantic Ocean. On the same day, German submarine U-564 sank Canadian tanker Victolite 400 kilometers east of Hampton Roads, Virginia, United States. In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, Free French corvette Alysse sank from damage suffered from an attack by German submarine U-654. 
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10 Feb 1942 WW2 The 2nd Joint Training Force of the US Marine Corps, under Major General Clayton B. Vogel, was redesignated the Amphibious Force of the US Pacific Fleet. 
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10 Feb 1942 WW2 Japanese troops crossed the Salween River in Burma. 
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10 Feb 1942 WW2 Rear Admiral Munetaka Sakamaki was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Navy 11th Air Fleet. 
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10 Feb 1942 WW2 USS R-5 fired three torpedoes at an enemy submarine in the Atlantic Ocean; all torpedoes missed. 
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10 Feb 1942 WW2 Australian Lieutenant Colonel J. J. Scanlan decided to surrender to the Japanese and began to trek toward Rabaul, New Britain from the coast of Wide Bay on the southern coast of the island's Gazelle Peninsula. 
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10 Feb 1942 WW2 The Japanese Navy established the 4th Air Group at Rabaul, New Britain under the command of Captain Yoshiyotsu Moritama. 
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10 Feb 1942 WW2 Yamato's 1.5-month fitting out period completed. Deficiencies found were corrected at Kure, Japan. Her initial AA suite was twelve 127-mm guns (6x2), twenty-four 25-mm guns (8x3 enclosed mounts), and four 13.2-mm machine guns (2x2). 
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10 Feb 1942 WW2 Captain Keishi Ishii was named the commanding officer of Settsu. 
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10 Feb 1942 WW2 Australian 22nd Brigade misunderstood an order and withdrew past the Jurong Road in northern Singapore, thus exposing the flanks of neighboring Indian troops, forcing the entire Allied line to shift further south. Meanwhile, the British Royal Air Force withdrew the small number of aircraft from Singapore to prevent Japanese capture. After sundown, Japanese troops captured the Bukit Timah heights which overlooked Singapore and hosted two reservoirs of fresh water. 
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10 Feb 1942 WW2 US forces continued the attempt to eliminate the 500 Japanese troops trapped in the "Big Pocket" at Bataan, Luzon, Philippine Islands. In Tokyo, Japan, the Imperial General Headquarters approved the transfer of the Japanese 4th Division from Shanghai, China to the Philippine Islands to reinforce Masaharu Homma's forces, but it would take weeks for the troops to arrive due to logistical issues. 
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10 Feb 1942 WW2 German aircraft began flying supply missions to the 100,000 trapped German troops at Demyansk, Russia. 
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10 Feb 1942 WW2 Allied convoys PQ-9 and PQ-10 arrived at Murmansk, Russia together. 
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10 Feb 1942 WW2 A Japanese submarine fired two rounds at American installations at Midway Atoll and then was chased away by aircraft of Marine Fighter Squadron 221. 
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10 Feb 1943 WW2 The German Central Construction Office (Bauleitung) reported that it could not meet the deadline for the construction of Crematorium II at Auschwitz Concentration Camp due to the fact that, of the 500 masons requested, only 30 were available. 
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10 Feb 1943 WW2 Yekaterina Budanova shot down a Fw 190 aircraft over Rostov on Don, Russia, sharing the credit with other pilots. 
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10 Feb 1943 WW2 The US Liberty ship Starr King was torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-21, 150 miles east of Sydney, Australia. By the time that the Australian destroyer HMAS Warramunga arrived in the early afternoon, Starr King was awash from her bridge aft and her crew had abandoned ship, but they re-boarded when Warramunga tried to take the 7,176-ton vessel in tow. 
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10 Feb 1943 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze departed Shortland Islands, Solomon Islands to escort damaged destroyer Maikaze to Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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10 Feb 1943 WW2 The British Admiralty officially announced the loss of submarine HMS Utmost, sunk by Italian gunboat Groppo off Sicily, Italy on 25 Nov 1942. 
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10 Feb 1943 WW2 USS Pollack arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her fourth war patrol. 
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10 Feb 1943 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho completed her repairs and exited the drydock at Yokosuka, Japan. 
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10 Feb 1944 WW2 During the night, 15 Soviet bombers attacked German battleship Tirpitz to little effect. 
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10 Feb 1944 WW2 The Korsun pocket in Ukraine received a blistering bombardment by Soviet forces as an inducement to surrender. 
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10 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Snook fired four torpedoes at a Japanese patrol craft; all torpedoes missed. 
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10 Feb 1944 WW2 Winston Churchill wrote to Harold Alexander, urging him to order the field generals at Anzio, Italy to be more aggressive. 
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10 Feb 1944 WW2 59 SBD dive bombers, 24 TBF torpedo bombers, and 99 fighters attacked Vunakanau Airfield at Rabaul, New Britain. This attack was followed by another attack on Vunakanau Airfield by 24 B-25 bombers escorted by 20 fighters. Finally, a third attack wave with 21 B-24 bombers escorted by 28 fighters which targeted both Vunakanau Airfield and Tobera Airfield. Vunakanau's runways were hit by two 2,000-pound bombs by B-24 bombers. 
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10 Feb 1944 WW2 The Allies turned over control of southern Italy to the Italian royal government. 
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10 Feb 1944 WW2 German 4.Fallschirmjäger Division, with a Italian parachute regiment within its ranks, arrived at Anzio, Italy. 
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10 Feb 1944 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Beppu, Japan. 
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10 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Permit damaged a Japanese cruiser in the Pacific Ocean, hitting her with 1 of 4 torpedoes fired. 
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10 Feb 1945 WW2 US First Army captured the last of seven Ruhr dams in Germany, but in general Canadian and American troops continued to make very slow progress as key areas had been flooded by retreating Germans. 
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10 Feb 1945 WW2 In Poland, Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front reached the Niesse River, taking Liegnitz and encircling Glogau in the process. 
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10 Feb 1945 WW2 Soviet submarine S-13 torpedoed and sank German passenger liner General Steuben, killing 3,500 people. Most of the passengers on board were wounded military personnel and civilians being evacuated from East Prussia, Germany. 
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10 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Mingo survived a typhoon, which caused some damage and caused 2 men to be lost. 
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10 Feb 1945 WW2 The Nakajima aircraft plant at Ota, Gunma Prefecture, Japan was seriously damaged by American bombing. 
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10 Feb 1945 WW2 The Japanese Navy 5th Air Fleet was formed with the strength of eight air groups with Vice Admiral Matome Ugaki in command and Captain Toshiyuki Yokoi as his chief of staff; it was attached to the Combined Fleet. 
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10 Feb 1945 WW2 Starting from this date, Soviet counterintelligence chiefs of each front were required to provide daily reports on the progress of the deportation of German males (for use as forced laborers within the Soviet Union). 
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10 Feb 1945 WW2 Indian 114th Brigade captured Pakkoku 20 kilometers southwest of the Chindwin-Irrawaddy confluence in Burma. 
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10 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Hancock departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands as part of Task Group 58.2. 
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10 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands with Task Group 52.2. 
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10 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Astoria departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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10 Feb 1945 WW2 Jean de Lattre de Tassigny was awarded the Grand Croix of the Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur. 
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10 Feb 1945 WW2 Fierce German counter attacks near Neustettin, Germany (now Szczecinek, Poland) halted the advance of the Soviet 2nd Byelorussian Front. Nevertheless, some of the troops of the Soviet 2nd Byelorussian Front were withdrawn from the East Prussian Offensive and diverted to the fighting in Pomerania, Germany. 
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10 Feb 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Catapult and Arresting Gear facilities turned over to station as usably complete. 
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10 Feb 1945 WW2 A breakout attempt by the remaining 16,000 Axis troops in Budapest, Hungary failed, with most of the men being captured or killed. 
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10 Feb 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit Silvertown in North Woolwich, London, England, United Kingdom just across the River Thames from the Harland and Wolff shipyard offices; many workers at Harland and Wolff were injured. Another rocket scored a direct hit on the Bascule Bridge in Woolwich at 1115 hours. 
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10 Feb 1947 WW2 Italy ceded most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia. 
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10 Feb 1947 WW2 Minneapolis was decommissioned from service. 
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10 Feb 1947 WW2 As Jan Smuts affixed his signature to the Paris Peace Treaty in France, he became the only person to have signed the documents officially ending WW1 and WW2. 
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10 Feb 1947 RELIGIOUS U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall prayed: 'Save Thy servants from the tyranny of the nonessential. Give them the courage to say "No" to everything that makes it more difficult to say "Yes" to Thee.'
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10 Feb 1948 WW2 USS Baya was recommissioned into service. 
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