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History on the 7th of March

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07 Mar 1918 WW2 The cruiser HMS Cochrane arrived at Murmansk, Russia to reinforce Admiral Kemp's Squadron. 
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07 Mar 1933 WW2 Battle of the Great Wall: Troops of 16th Brigade of Japanese 8th Division attacked Gubeikou Pass of the Great Wall, but the attack was repulsed by the Chinese 67th Corps. 
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07 Mar 1936 WW2 Werner Mölders flew missions over the Rhineland region of Germany. 
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07 Mar 1936 WW2 Upon the success of the Rhineland reoccupation in western Germany, Adolf Hitler dissolved the Reichstag and called for re-elections, which saw overwhelming approval for the action. 
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07 Mar 1936 WW2 Hiroshi Nemoto was named the commanding officer of 27th Infantry Regiment. 
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07 Mar 1937 WW2 Benito Mussolini's Blackshirts, now formed into two divisions and supported by 250 light tanks and 180 guns, their right flank supported by a mixed brigade of regulares, Requetés and Falangists began their advance aiming for Guadalajara, Spain to the northeast of Madrid, Spain on the main Madrid-Saragossa highway which was allotted as their main approach axis. 
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07 Mar 1938 WW2 American surgeon Robert O. Wilson of the American-administered University Hospital in the Safety Zone in Nanjing, China wrote to his family, noting that "a conservative estimate of people slaughtered in cold blood is somewhere about 100,000, including of course thousands of soldiers that had thrown down their arms". 
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07 Mar 1940 WW2 The British boarded 9 Italian ships from Rotterdam carrying German coal in the English Channel and detained all ships at The Downs, off Deal, Kent, England. The Italians believed that it was an attempt for the British to force the Italians to sell them weapons. 
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07 Mar 1940 WW2 Soviet troops began to break through the final defense line at Viipuri, Finland. Meanwhile, Finnish Prime Minister Ryti and his diplomatic party arrived in Moscow, Russia in an attempt to negotiate peace. In the United Kingdom, British Chief of the Imperial General Staff Edmund Ironside offered military assistance to Carl Mannerheim of Finland. 
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07 Mar 1940 WW2 Adolf Hitler allocated 8 divisions for the invasion of Norway and Denmark. 
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07 Mar 1940 WW2 Oberst Alois Stoeckl was named the commanding officer of the German Kampfgeschwader 55 wing. 
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07 Mar 1940 WW2 RMS Queen Elizabeth arrived at New York, New York, United States. 
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07 Mar 1941 WW2 Battleship Bismarck entered the Kiel Canal. 
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07 Mar 1941 WW2 Günther Prien passed away. 
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07 Mar 1941 WW2 German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau sighted an Allied convoy near Azores, but did not attack due to the presence of British battleship HMS Malaya. 
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07 Mar 1941 WW2 German submarines U-47, U-70, U-90, and U-A attacked Allied convoy OB-293 320 miles northwest of Scotland, United Kingdom. British whaling factory ship Terje Viken (largest in the world) and British tanker Athelbeach were sunk, while two others were damaged. U-47 was lost with all 48 on board to unknown causes on the same day. U-70 was rammed by Dutch tanker Mijdrecht, then suffered a four-hour depth charging by corvettes HMS Camellia and HMS Arbutus, killing 20; the 25 survivors eventually surrendered. 
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07 Mar 1941 WW2 German submarine U-37 sank Greek ship Mentor in the North Atlantic. 
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07 Mar 1941 WW2 12 German motor torpedo boats attacked British ships of convoys FN.426 and FS.429 off East Anglia, England, United Kingdom, sinking 5 ships, damaging 1 ship, and killing 59. 
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07 Mar 1941 WW2 German Jews began to be pressed into forced labor. 
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07 Mar 1941 WW2 British cruisers HMS York, HMS Bonaventure, and HMS Gloucester arrived at Piraeus, Greece, disembarking troops from North Africa. 
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07 Mar 1942 WW2 German submarine U-126 sank US freighters Barbara and Cardonia between Cuba and Haiti. Far to the north, U-155 sank Brazilian ship Arbabutan 50 kilometers off North Carolina, United States. Toward the end of the day, at 2314 hours, U-701 sank Danish fishing trawler Nyggjaberg from the Faroe Islands, killing all 21 aboard. 
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07 Mar 1942 WW2 HMS Indomitable launched the Hurricane fighters of No. 261 Squadron for Colombo, Ceylon, then sailed for Aden. 
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07 Mar 1942 WW2 USS Grenadier attacked Japanese transport Asahisan Maru 82 miles northeast of Tokyo, Japan at 1500 hours, hitting her with four torpedoes but only one detonated; Asahisan Maru was damaged but was able to return to Yokohama, Japan for repairs. 
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07 Mar 1942 WW2 HMS Eagle launched 15 Spitfire fighters to reinforce Malta. 
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07 Mar 1942 WW2 RAAF Hudson aircraft detected Japanese transports 55 miles north of the coast of New Guinea. 
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07 Mar 1942 WW2 £11,000,000 worth of oil installations of Burmah Oil Company in southern Burma near Rangoon were destroyed as British retreated from the city, preventing Japanese capture; this destruction would result in 20 years of High Court litigation after the war. Also destroyed were 972 unassembled Lend-Lease trucks and 5,000 tires. From Rangoon, 800 civilians departed aboard transports for Calcutta, India. The Anglo-Indian troops in the Rangoon region were held up by a Japanese roadblock at Taukkyan, which was assaulted repeatedly without success. 
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07 Mar 1942 WW2 British and Indian troops on Christmas Island mistake the latest heavy naval bombardment as a precursor to an invasion and hoisted white flags to indicate surrender. The warships would depart, however, and the troops lowered the white flags and sent British flags back up poles. 
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07 Mar 1942 WW2 Japanese troops reached Tjilatjap, Java, Dutch East Indies during the day and captured Lembang in the evening, which overlooked Bandoeng. Dutch sailors scuttled minelayer Gouden Leeuw at Surabaya, Java to prevent capture. 
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07 Mar 1942 WW2 A number of Go 242 glider transports arrived at Faßberg, Germany and joined German Luftwaffe III./KG 4. 
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07 Mar 1942 WW2 Shokaku departed Yokosuka, Japan. 
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07 Mar 1942 WW2 The 3rd Battalion of the "San Marco" naval infantry regiment of Italian Navy was transferred from Antelat to Benghazi in Libya for coastal defense duty. 
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07 Mar 1943 WW2 Douglas MacArthur issued a communiqué to USAAF squadrons in the South Pacific to congratulate them for the overwhelming success at the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. 
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07 Mar 1943 WW2 US Liberty Ship J. L. M. Curry of Allied convoy RA-53 broke in two in a storm. 
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07 Mar 1943 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze departed Rabaul, New Britain, Bismarck Islands. 
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07 Mar 1943 WW2 USS Runner arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her first war patrol. 
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07 Mar 1943 WW2 Nachi departed Kashiwabara, Paramushiro (Paramushir), Kurile Islands to escort a convoy to Attu, Aleutian Islands. 
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07 Mar 1943 WW2 USS Permit sank a Japanese sampan off Hakkaido, Japan with her deck gun. 
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07 Mar 1943 WW2 Roma and Sinti people from occupied Poland and Soviet Union began arriving at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland. 
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07 Mar 1943 WW2 Rearguard of the retreating Operation Capri forces engaged pursuing Allied forces in small-scale combat south of the Mareth Line in Tunisia. 
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07 Mar 1943 WW2 US Navy 10th Construction Battalion arrived at Canton, Phoenix Islands. 
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07 Mar 1943 WW2 4,500 Croatian Jews were arrested; they would be deported to Auschwitz Concentration Camp in occupied Poland between 7 and 13 Mar 1943. 
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07 Mar 1944 WW2 German Gauleiter Arthur Greiser, governor of the Wartheland in occupied Poland, reported to Heinrich Himmler that the Jewish population of Warthegau had nearly been wiped out. 
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07 Mar 1944 WW2 The United Nations War Crimes Commission organized a subcommittee to study the possibility of war criminals claiming that they were simply following orders in post-war trials. 
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07 Mar 1944 WW2 The Fascist government in northern Italy issued another order protecting Jews above the age of 70 and those with mixed ethnicities. Nevertheless, Germans in northern Italy continued to deport those within these two groups. 
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07 Mar 1944 WW2 Germans arrested Jewish hospices at Turin, Italy and sent them to the Fossoli transit camp. Many of them would be sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in Poland later in the month. 
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07 Mar 1944 WW2 Taiho was commissioned into service. 
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07 Mar 1944 WW2 Orde Wingate personally visited the Broadway site of Operation Thursday in Burma. 
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07 Mar 1944 WW2 A regiment from the Japanese 33rd Division crossed the Manipur River in Burma toward the Burmese-Indian border toward Tiddim, Burma. 
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07 Mar 1944 WW2 While traveling in a jeep in northern Burma, Louis Mountbatten was accidentally struck by fragments of a bamboo plant that rendered him temporarily blind due to internal haemorrhage. 
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07 Mar 1944 WW2 The 69th transport from Drancy Concentration Camp in Paris, France departed for Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland with 1,501 prisoners. It would arrive at Auschwitz on 10 Mar and 1,311 of them would be gassed upon arrival. 
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07 Mar 1944 WW2 Allied aircraft bombed the wreck of Algérie at Toulon, France, causing it to sink again; prior to the bombing the Italians had attempted to raise the wreck in sections. 
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07 Mar 1944 WW2 Heinrich Himmler informed officials from the Security Police, the Security Service, and the SS Central Office for Economy and Administration that no prisoners were allowed to be released from the Mauthausen Concentration Camp during the war. 
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07 Mar 1944 WW2 USS Skipjack arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her ninth war patrol. 
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07 Mar 1944 WW2 USS Sunfish arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her sixth war patrol. 
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07 Mar 1944 WW2 38 Jews hiding at 84 Grojecka Street, Warsaw, Poland were arrested. The 6 Polish non-Jews who provided them food and shelter were also arrested. Historian Emmanuel Ringelblum, among those arrested, was executed within the next few days. 
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07 Mar 1945 WW2 US 9th Armored Division unexpectedly captured Rhine River bridge and formed a bridgehead on the east side of the river at Remagen, Germany. 
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07 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Rock departed Fremantle, Australia for her sixth war patrol. 
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07 Mar 1945 WW2 US First Army captured Köln (Cologne), Germany. 
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07 Mar 1945 WW2 Soviet troops captured Rügenwalde, Germany (now Darlowo, Poland). 
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07 Mar 1945 WW2 Anglo-Indian troops reached Mandalay, Burma. 
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07 Mar 1945 WW2 In Burma, Allied Y-Force under Sun Liren captured Lashio while Allied X-Force under Daniel Sultant captured Hsipaw. 
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07 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Cod arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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07 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Segundo sank Japanese freighter Shori Maru in the East China Sea, hitting her with 2 of 4 torpedoes fired. 
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07 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Marcus Island completed a 4-day period of training in Leyte Gulf, Philippine Islands. 
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07 Mar 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit Trundleys Road at Folkestone Gardens, London, England, United Kingdom at 0300 hours, killing 52 and seriously injuring 32. Two blocks of homes were destroyed. 
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07 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Capitaine departed New London, Connecticut, United States. 
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07 Mar 1947 WW2 Robert Saundby was made a Commander of the Legion of Merit by the United States. 
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07 Mar 1947 WW2 Canberra (Baltimore-class) was decommissioned from service. 
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