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History on the 4th of March

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04 Mar 1913 WW2 The United States Congress authorized the construction of battleship Arizona, named after a state that was created little over one year prior. 
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04 Mar 1913 WW2 Henry Stimson stepped down from his position as the United States Secretary of War. 
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04 Mar 1927 WW2 Destroyer No. 34 was launched. 
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04 Mar 1929 WW2 He Yingqin stepped down as a member of the budget committee. 
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04 Mar 1931 WW2 Colbert was commissioned into service. 
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04 Mar 1932 WW2 The League of Nations demanded a ceasefire between Japanese and Chinese forces in China. 
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04 Mar 1933 WW2 Battle of the Great Wall: Troops of the 139th Division of Chinese 32nd Corps repulsed a Japanese attack on the Lengkou Pass of the Great Wall. Elsewhere, the provincial capital of Rehe Province, Chengde, was captured by Japanese troops without opposition. 
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04 Mar 1933 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt was inaugurated as the thirty-second President of the United States. 
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04 Mar 1933 WW2 Henry Stimson stepped down from his position as the United States Secretary of State. 
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04 Mar 1936 WW2 The German Zeppelin derigible, LZ 129 Hindenburg, made its maiden flight. Together with its sister airship, LZ130 Deutschland, these were (at 803.8 feet length) the largest rigid airships ever constructed. 
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04 Mar 1938 WW2 Members of the Austrian Social Democratic Party offered help against German threat if the Austrian government would lift the ban on their party activities. Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg granted the request, but it was largely too late to make a difference. 
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04 Mar 1939 WW2 The failure of Dr. Negrin's Communist Government to sue for peace resulted in a civil war within a civil war on the streets of Madrid, Spain. The National Defence Council, led by Colonel Casada, triumphed in the struggle for control of the Republic and tried to negotiate peace terms with General Franco. In the meantime Dr. Negrin, accompanied by his Cabinet and Russian advisers, flew out of Madrid to safety. 
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04 Mar 1939 WW2 Corazziere was commissioned into service. 
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04 Mar 1940 WW2 French steamer S.N.A.1 collided with British ship Thurston 30 miles north of Land's End in southwestern England at about 0000 hours. S.N.A.1 sank, with 30 survivors rescued by Thurston. At 0523 hours, however, German submarine U-29 sank Thurston, killing 64. 3 British and 1 French were subsequently rescued. 
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04 Mar 1940 WW2 German submarine U-29 sank British ship Pacific Reliance at 1239 hours, destroying the cargo of aircraft parts. The entire crew of 53 were rescued by British merchant ship Macville and delivered to Newlyn, Cornwall, England. 
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04 Mar 1940 WW2 Soviet and Finnish troops continued to fight near Viipuri, Finland, particularly near the Vuoksi River near Äyräpää church. 
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04 Mar 1940 WW2 The Chief Executive Officer of the American firm General Motors James Mooney, holder of the German Grand Cross of the German Eagle medal for his services to Germany, met with Adolf Hitler in an attempt to dissuade Hitler from escalating the war. 
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04 Mar 1940 WW2 US Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles departed Berlin, Germany. 
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04 Mar 1941 WW2 Prince Paul, Regent of Yugoslavia, arrived in Berchtesgaden in Germany where Hitler applied further pressure for Yugoslavia to join Tripartite Pact. Hitler offered to cede Salonika and part of Macedonia to Yugoslavia in return for allowing German troops to transit into Greece. 
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04 Mar 1941 WW2 Four British freighters departed Alexandria and Port Said, Egypt with men and equipment, escorted by destroyers HMS Hereward and HMS Stuart, for Greece; it was codenamed Operation Lustre. Meanwhile, British General Wilson arrived in Athens, Greece to take command of all Allied ground forces; he discovered the Greek troops were still manning the Metaxas Line on the Bulgarian-Greek border rather than the agreed upon Aliakmon Line. From the sea, Italian warships bombarded Greek coastal positions in Albania. 
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04 Mar 1941 WW2 Australian Walrus seaplane of HMAS Canberra spotted German ship Coburg and captured Norwegian tanker Ketty Brøvig, which was being used to supply German armed merchant cruisers. The German ships escaped HMAS Canberra's interception attempt. 
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04 Mar 1941 WW2 Richard O'Connor was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath. 
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04 Mar 1941 WW2 HMS Hermes arrived at Colombo, Ceylon. 
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04 Mar 1941 WW2 British landing ships HMS Queen Emma and HMS Princess Beatrix, escorted by five destroyers, landed 500 British Commandos, Royal Engineers, and Free Norwegian troops at four ports in the Loftoten Islands, off Narvik, Norway at dawn. Operation Claymore, the first large scale commando raid of the war, saw the destruction of fish oil factories (along with 3,600 tons of fish oil, used for high explosives) and nine merchant ships. An unexpected bonus was the discovery of coding rotors for the Enigma cryptographic sysyem found aboard German trawler Krebs. The raiders withdrew without a single casualty along with 228 German captives. 
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04 Mar 1942 WW2 USS Enterprise launched aircraft against Marcus Island. 
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04 Mar 1942 WW2 Harold Alexander arrived in Burma. 
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04 Mar 1942 WW2 Australian sloop HMAS Yarra was sunk by Japanese cruisers 300 miles south of Java, Dutch East Indies at 0800 hours whilst attempting to protect a convoy of vessels withdrawing to Australia; 158 were killed, 13 survived. The other three ships in the small convoy (minesweeper MMS-51, depot ship Anking, and tanker Francol) were sunk during the same attack. 
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04 Mar 1942 WW2 HMS Edinburgh completed her refitting at Tyne, England, United Kingdom. 
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04 Mar 1942 WW2 USS Grampus sank Japanese tanker Kaijo Maru in the Pacific Ocean, killing all 90 aboard. 
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04 Mar 1942 WW2 USS Narwhal sank Japanese Army cargo ship Taki Maru 200 miles south of Japan in the Pacific Ocean. 
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04 Mar 1942 WW2 US 7th Pursuit Squadron, flying P-40 fighters, was sent to Horn Island off Queensland, Australia. 
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04 Mar 1942 WW2 In Burma, Japanese troops enveloped Chinese troops at Toungoo while British 7th Queen's Own Hussars regiment clashed with Japanese troops at Pegu. 
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04 Mar 1942 WW2 All Dutch troops evacuated Batavia and Leuwiliang, Java, Dutch East Indies after sundown for Bandoeng 70 miles to the southeast. 
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04 Mar 1942 WW2 USS S-4 damaged Japanese fleet oiler Erimo in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra in the Dutch East Indies, killing 4; Erimo would be beached to prevent sinking. 
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04 Mar 1942 WW2 At 0000 hours, US radar operators detected two signals approaching Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii; they were two H8K flying boats from Wotje, Marshall Islands via French Frigate Shoals (where they took on fuel from submarines I-15 and I-19). At 0130 hours, five PBY Catalina aircraft were launched, armed with torpedoes, to search for the carriers that the Americans thought where the flying boats must have launched from; at the same time, five US Army fighters were launched to attack the flying boats. At 0210 hours and 0230 hours, the two flying boats dropped their payloads uncontested, although the first bombs fell harmlessly in the mountains 10 miles from Pearl Harbor and the second bombs landed in the water just outside of Pearl Harbor. The two aircraft flew back to Wotje unscathed. 
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04 Mar 1942 WW2 Sir William Jowitt was appointed Paymaster-General of the United Kingdom with special responsibility for post-war reconstruction. 
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04 Mar 1943 WW2 Richard Saul became the head of the British Air Headquarters Air Defences Eastern Mediterranean. 
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04 Mar 1943 WW2 The Battle of the Bismarck Sea continued as US bombers sank already fatally damaged and abandoned destroyer Tokitsukaze and sank 6 landing barges that had arrived to rescue survivors of ships sunk on the previous day. After expending their bomb loads, American air crews strafed Japanese survivors floating in the sea. 
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04 Mar 1943 WW2 The Bulgarian government, in an attempt to protect Bulgarian Jews, fulfilled German pressure by deporting about 4,000 Greek Jews from the occupied territory of Thrace. These Greek Jews were eventually sent to concentration camps in Poland. 
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04 Mar 1943 WW2 Bell was commissioned into service. 
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04 Mar 1943 WW2 USS S-28 departed Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska for Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada. 
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04 Mar 1943 WW2 George Kenney departed Australia for Washington DC, United States. 
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04 Mar 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Post Office turned over to station. British Fighter Squadrons 882, 896, and 898 from HMS Victorious ("USS Robin"), arrived on board. 
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04 Mar 1943 WW2 Nachi arrived at Paramushiro (Paramushir), Kurile Islands. 
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04 Mar 1943 WW2 USS Permit damaged a Japanese transport off Iwate, Japan, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired. 
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04 Mar 1943 WW2 USS Sunfish sanked a Japanese ships in the East China Sea, hitting her with 3 torpedoes. 
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04 Mar 1943 WW2 Colonel William Scobey, executive to the US Assistant Secretary of War, visited Jerome War Relocation Center in Arkansas, United States to recruit volunteers among the Japanese-American internees for combat duty. Of 1,579 eligible men, only 31 volunteered. 
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04 Mar 1944 WW2 Zhukov's attack against Armeegruppe Süd in Ukraine was resumed. 
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04 Mar 1944 WW2 750 Jews from the Lodz ghetto were sent to the Hugo Schneider AG factories in Czestochowa, Poland as forced laborers. 
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04 Mar 1944 WW2 The Japanese Navy formed the 14th Air Fleet under the command of Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo with Rear Admiral Hideo Yano as his chief of staff; the fleet had the sgrenth of two air flotillas and one seaplane tender. 
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04 Mar 1944 WW2 About 31 prisoners of war were led out of their cells in Rabaul, New Britain and they were never to be seen again. After the war, the Japanese claimed that they were led to the Talili Bay area where a direct hit by a US bomber killed them all on 5 Mar 1944. A later study of US records showed that no missions were conducted in that region during the campaign, however. No conclusion had ever been reached on the fates of these prisoners of war, although many historians would venture that they were executed by their guards. 
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04 Mar 1944 WW2 USAAF launched its first major bombing raid on Berlin, Germany. 
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04 Mar 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Composite Squadron 30 (VC-30) and Composite Squadron 25 (VC-25) on board. 
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04 Mar 1944 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. 
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04 Mar 1944 WW2 Nachi refueled from oiler Teiyo Maru in Mutsu Bay, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. 
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04 Mar 1944 WW2 USS Bluefish sank a Japanese oiler in the South China Sea, hitting her with 3 of 3 torpedoes fired. 
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04 Mar 1944 WW2 Viktor Abakumov was awarded the Order of Suvorov 2nd Class. 
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04 Mar 1944 WW2 Lavrentiy Beria was awarded the Order of Suvorov 1st Class. 
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04 Mar 1944 WW2 Vsevolod Merkulov was awarded the Order of Kutuzov 1st Class. 
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04 Mar 1944 WW2 Sterlet was commissioned into service with Commander O. C. Robbins in command. 
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04 Mar 1945 WW2 After breaking through near Stargard, Soviet 1st Byelorussian Front heads toward Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland). 
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04 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Baya fired six torpedoes at a Japanese convoy in the South China Sea, hitting a transport and an oil with 2 torpedoes each and sinking both. 
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04 Mar 1945 WW2 German troops encircled the spearhead of Soviet 3rd Guards Tank Army in Silesia, Germany (now Poland) during Operation Gemse. 
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04 Mar 1945 WW2 Rifleman Bhanbhagta Gurung won the Victoria Cross for advancing alone to clear Japanese positions near Mandalay, Burma ahead of General Slim's British 14th Army. 
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04 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Hancock arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands; Air Group 6 relieved Air Group 80. 
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04 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Wasp arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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04 Mar 1945 WW2 Soviet and Polish troops attacked Kolberg, Germany (now Kolobrzeg, Poland). 
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04 Mar 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Single day maximum of arrested landings (69). 
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04 Mar 1945 WW2 159 American B-29 bombers attacked the urban areas of Tokyo, Japan. 
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04 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Marcus Island began a 4-day period of training in Leyte Gulf, Philippine Islands. 
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04 Mar 1945 WW2 Allied bombers attacked Basel and Zürich by mistake. 
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04 Mar 1945 WW2 The United States adopted a policy of carpet bombing Japanese cities as opposed to precision strikes. 
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04 Mar 1946 WW2 Eirik Labonne was made the Resident-General of French Morocco, replacing Gabriel Puaux. 
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