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History on the 6th of March

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06 Mar 1913 WW2 Aleksandr Pokryshkin was born. 
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06 Mar 1918 WW2 British Admiral Kemp, with the full approval of the Murmansk Soviet (and it could be argued with that of Trotsky himself) put 130 Royal Marines ashore, the first Allied troops to set foot on Russian soil. Amidst considerable ceremony the Marines marched through the town to their barracks. Kemps flagship HMS Glory fired a salute to the Red Banner; the salute being cordially returned by a gunnery detail aboard the Russian battleship Chesma. 
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06 Mar 1924 WW2 Lewis Puller was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant. 
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06 Mar 1932 WW2 China agreed to the League of Nations demand to stop fighting in and near Shanghai, but Japanese forces continued to attack Chinese positions. 
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06 Mar 1933 WW2 Battle of the Great Wall: Troops of the Chinese 620th and 621st Regiments ambushed Japanese troops, slowing the advance but failing to stop it. 
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06 Mar 1933 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt mandated a bank holiday, originally planned for four working days, to ease the run on US banks. 
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06 Mar 1936 WW2 General Jiro Minami stepped down as the Governor-General of Kwantung Leased Territory and the commanding officer of the Japanese Kwantung Army in northeastern China. 
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06 Mar 1936 WW2 Kenkichi Ueda was made the Governor-General of Kwantung Leased Territory and the commanding officer of the Japanese Kwantung Army. 
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06 Mar 1938 WW2 Japanese troops reached the Yellow River in China. 
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06 Mar 1938 WW2 The modern Spanish Nationalist cruiser Baleares, which was escorting a convoy of merchant ships off the Mediterranean coast near Cartagena, Spain, was sunk by torpedoes launched by Spanish Republican destroyers during the Battle of Cape Palos. 
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06 Mar 1939 WW2 Czechoslovakian President Emil Hácha dismissed the Ruthenian government in an attempt to quell nationalist sentiments that was breaking apart his country. 
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06 Mar 1940 WW2 Based on a compromise of the original plan, modifications to the German invasion plan of the west were approved by Hitler. 
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06 Mar 1940 WW2 British cruiser HMS Berwick intercepted German freighter Uruguay northeast of Iceland. Just as the boarding began, Uruguay's crew set the ship on fire. Berwick sank Uruguay with gunfire after withdrawing the boarding party and bringing the German crew on board. 
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06 Mar 1940 WW2 Fighting between Finnish and Soviet forces continued south, east, and west of Viipuri, Finland. 
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06 Mar 1940 WW2 Dutch submarines O9, O10, and O11 departed from Den Helder Naval Base. Before they left the harbor, O11 collided with the armored tug BV3; 3 men were killed as they were trapped in O11 while she sank. 
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06 Mar 1940 WW2 The French battleship Jean Bart was launched. 
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06 Mar 1940 WW2 Major General Wilhelm S¸ssmann stepped down as the commanding officer of the German Kampfgeschwader 55 wing. 
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06 Mar 1940 WW2 Simo Häyhä was shot in the lower left jaw by a Soviet soldier in combat in Finland. 
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06 Mar 1940 WW2 Finnish diplomats arrived in Moscow, Russia. 
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06 Mar 1941 WW2 Two British convoys departed from Alexandria, Egypt for Greece; the first convoy, consisted of British cruisers HMS York, HMS Bonaventure, and HMS Gloucester departed with troops to reinforce Greece; the second, consisted of freighters Clan Macauley and Cingalese escorted by destroyers, departed with tanks and equipment. At 0715 hours, an empty convoy returning from Greece to Egypt was attacked by Italian submarine Anfitrite east of Crete; Anfitrite was counterattacked and forced to the surface and was scuttled by her own crew. 
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06 Mar 1941 WW2 British minesweeping trawler HMT Keryado hit a mine and sank in the English Channel, killing 9. 
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06 Mar 1941 WW2 New German laws decreed that Polish farm workers were not to complain, were denied from any cultural events, and were forbidden to have sexual intercourse. 
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06 Mar 1941 WW2 Battleship Bismarck departed Hamburg, Germany. 
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06 Mar 1941 WW2 Tatsuta Maru departed Yokohama, Japan with new skipper Captain Toichi Takahata. 
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06 Mar 1942 WW2 USS Lexington made rendezvous with USS Yorktown and sailed for a raid on Rabaul, New Britain. 
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06 Mar 1942 WW2 USS Yorktown made rendezvous with USS Lexington and sailed for a raid on Rabaul, New Britain. 
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06 Mar 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Palau. 
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06 Mar 1942 WW2 Commander Gerald D. Linke was named the commanding officer of USS Helena, relieving Captain Robert Henry English, Jr. 
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06 Mar 1942 WW2 HMS Indomitable launched the Hurricane fighters of No. 30 Squadron for Colombo, Ceylon. 
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06 Mar 1942 WW2 German submarine U-505 sank Norwegian tanker Sydhav off Sierra Leone, British West Africa at 1131 hours; 12 were killed, 24 survived. Also in that morning, Italian submarine Tazzoli sank Dutch freighter Astrea in the Central Atlantic. Tazzoli struck again at 2215 hours, sinking Norwegian ship Tønsberg Fjord; all 33 aboard survived. At 2306 hours, 150 miles south of Iceland, U-701 sank British fishing trawler Rononia, killing all 11 aboard. Italian submarine Finzi sank French tanker Melpomene; all 49 aboard survived. Finally, 50 miles south of Newfoundland, German submarine U-587 sank Greenland merchant ship Hans Egede, killing all 23 aboard. 
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06 Mar 1942 WW2 Merchant ship El Occidente and Soviet anti-submarine whaler Stefa fell out of Allied convoy PQ-12 in poor weather. 
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06 Mar 1942 WW2 Anglo-Indian and Japanese troops clashed at various roadblocks near Rangoon, Burma. 
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06 Mar 1942 WW2 Japanese aircraft attacked Surabaya, Java, Dutch East Indies, damaging Dutch minesweeper Jan van Amstel, killing 23. Dutch sailors scuttled minesweepers C and Pieter de Bitter, also at Surabaya, to prevent capture. 
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06 Mar 1942 WW2 The first conference on the plan to sterilize persons of mixed blood in Germany was held. 
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06 Mar 1942 WW2 Joseph Rochefort's cryptanalytic team at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii began noticing a target location code named AF appearing in Japanese Navy radio messages, and that this target might be struck within a short time. 
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06 Mar 1942 WW2 German battleship Tirpitz and 4 destroyers departed Trondheim, Norway to intercept Allied convoys PQ-12 and QP-8, which departed from Reykjavik in Iceland for Murmansk in Russia and from Murmansk in Russia for Hvalfjörður in Iceland, respectively. The British Royal Navy learned of this departure via Ultra decryption and dispatched a fleet centered around battleships HMS Duke of York, HMS King George V, and HMS Renown to attack. 
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06 Mar 1943 WW2 Axis forces launched a failed pre-emptive strike, Operation Capri, in southeastern Tunisia near Medenine. The operation was canceled by the evening as Rommel concluded that his forces did not have the initiative of battle. 
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06 Mar 1943 WW2 German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels called off a round of deportation of Jews from Berlin because of public protests at a Jewish home for the aged. He secretly ordered the deportations to resume after a few weeks when public sentiments would have eased off a little. 
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06 Mar 1943 WW2 Croatian Catholic Archbishop Stepinac protested the killing of Jews married to Christians to little effect. 
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06 Mar 1943 WW2 George Patton was named the commanding officer of the US II Corps. 
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06 Mar 1943 WW2 Destroyer Yuzuki rescued survivors of sunken Kiriha Maru and assisted Mitto Maru, which was damaged in the same attack. 
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06 Mar 1943 WW2 The German 71st Werfer Regiment went into action in support of Field Marshal Rommel's disastrous tank attack on the Eighth Army at Medenine in Tunisia. Personally brought forward by Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant Colonel) Count Claus von Stauffenberg, later organizer of the 1944 bomb plot against Hitler, the regiment's three batteries were rapidly knocked out by Allied fighter bombers-the dust thrown up by the launching of the Nebelwerfer rockets having revealed their camouflaged positions. 
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06 Mar 1943 WW2 The Chindits reached Wuntho-Indaw railway in Burma near Nankan and Pinlebu. They fought off the Japanese units guarding key points of the railway and proceeded to destroy tracks, blasted cliffs to cause rocks to fall onto tracks, mined rail bridges, and destroyed other rail bridges. 
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06 Mar 1943 WW2 Light cruiser Astoria was launched. 
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06 Mar 1943 WW2 Joseph Stalin was created a Marshal of the Soviet Union. 
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06 Mar 1943 WW2 Kanichi Kashimura was shot down by a F4F fighter over the Russell Islands in the Solomon Islands. 
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06 Mar 1943 WW2 The headquarters of USAAF 49th Fighter Group was transferred from Port Moresby to Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua. 
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06 Mar 1943 WW2 Japanese aircraft attacked American positions at the Russell Islands in the Solomon Islands for the first time; these positions were manned by the US Marine Corps 11th Defense Battalion. Meanwhile, US warship bombarded the Vila-Munda area in New Georgia. 
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06 Mar 1943 WW2 Repair ship Akashi completed the repair work for destroyers Maikaze and Hamakaze and began repairing destroyer Kawakaze at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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06 Mar 1943 WW2 USS Pollack departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her sixth war patrol. 
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06 Mar 1943 WW2 USS Sunfish hit a Japanese ship in the East China Sea with 3 of 7 torpedoes fired; she was lightly damaged by the subsequent depth charging.27,122.5 
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06 Mar 1943 WW2 Destroyer Luce was launched at Bethlehem Mariners Harbor, Staten Island, New York, United States. She was sponsored by the wife of Stephen B. Luce, Jr., who was the grandson of Rear Admiral Stephen B. Luce, who in turn was the namesake of the ship. 
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06 Mar 1944 WW2 The RAF Bomber Command began a major offensive over France to prepare for the Normandy invasion. 
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06 Mar 1944 WW2 HMCS Fennel and HMCS Chilliwack shared in the sinking of the German submarine U-744 in the Atlantic Ocean. 
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06 Mar 1944 WW2 USS Finback completed refitting at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii and departed for her eighth war patrol. 
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06 Mar 1944 WW2 Louis Mountbatten arrived at Taihpa, Burma by transport aircraft escorted by 16 fighters to inspect Joseph Stilwell's headquarters; Stilwell privately complained that Mountbatten had used enough fuel on this trip for Stilwell to mount an offensive. Mountbatten would also visit the Walawbum battlefield 25 kilometers to the south. 
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06 Mar 1944 WW2 USS Dragonet was commissioned into service with Commander Jack Hayden Lewis in command. 
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06 Mar 1944 WW2 Major General Masatake Kimihira noted in his diary that "more than half of the city has been reduced to ashes", referring to Rabaul, New Britain. 
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06 Mar 1944 WW2 Further glider operations brought in more men to join Operation Thursday at the Chowringhee site in Burma. 
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06 Mar 1944 WW2 Aircraft of US Navy Task Force 38 conducted a reconnaissance mission over Kagi Airfield in Kagi (now Chiayi), Taiwan. 
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06 Mar 1944 WW2 The US 8th Army Air Force journeyed all the way to Berlin, Germany for the first time. In all 474 bombers and their Mustang escort fighters flew to the German capital, facing a barrage of heavy flak and many Luftwaffe fighters. A total of 53 B-17 bombers and 16 fighters were lost. 
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06 Mar 1944 WW2 Robert Johnson shot down a German Bf 110 aircraft over Dümmer Lake, Germany. 
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06 Mar 1944 WW2 USS Snook arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her fifth war patrol. 
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06 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Franklin crossed the International Date Line. 
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06 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Sea Cat claimed sinking of a 2,000-ton Japanese ship; the credit was removed after the war. 
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06 Mar 1945 WW2 US Third Army reached the Rhine River near Koblenz, Germany, while US First Army captured Köln. 
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06 Mar 1945 WW2 A German V-2 rocket hit Raveningham 13 miles southeast of Norwich, England, United Kingdom, causing little harm. It was the last rocket to hit the Norwich area in the war. 
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06 Mar 1945 WW2 Communist-dominated government under Petru Groza assumed power in Romania. 
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06 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Segundo fired 4 torpedoes at a small Japanese ship in the East China Sea off Korea; all torpedoes missed. 
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06 Mar 1945 WW2 Operation Gen No. 2 was canceled by the Japanese; it was a new campaign against the American fleet using Kaiten special attack submarines. 
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06 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Puffer fired 3 torpedoes at a Japanese submarine off Taiwan; all 3 torpedoes missed. 
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06 Mar 1945 WW2 ShCh-307 and her crew received the Red Banner Award, and the commanding officer, M. S. Kainin, received the honorable rank of the Hero of the Soviet Union. 
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06 Mar 1945 WW2 Major-General Hellmuth Reymann, on Adolf Hitler's direct orders, became the military commander of Berlin, Germany. 
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06 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Hoe arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her eighth and final war patrol. 
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06 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Hackleback departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. 
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06 Mar 1945 WW2 German 2.Panzerarmee and 6.SS-Panzerarmee launched a counterattack toward Budapest, Hungary to relieve the city and to destroy the Hungarian oil supplies nearby to prevent Soviet use. 
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06 Mar 1945 WW2 28 American P-51 Mustang and 12 P-61 Black Widow aircraft landed on Iwo Jima, Japan. 
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06 Mar 1945 WW2 US fighters based in the Philippine Islands conducted a fighter sweep mission over Koshun Airfield, Takao Prefecture, Taiwan. 
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06 Mar 1946 WW2 Ho Chi Minh signed an agreement with France which recognized Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union. 
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06 Mar 1946 WW2 USS Pintado was decommissioned from service. 
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06 Mar 1949 WW2 Milwaukee was decommissioned from service. 
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