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History on the 8th of March

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08 Mar 1915 WW2 Warspite was commissioned into service. 
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08 Mar 1916 WW1 Begin of Battle of Dujaila
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08 Mar 1917 WW2 In Russia women textile workers took to the streets demanding bread. By the afternoon they had been joined by metal-workers from the war industries whose protests were aimed at the Government and the war. Within two days 200,000 workers would be on strike. 
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08 Mar 1919 WW2 The Egyptian nationalist leader Saad Zaghloul went into exile in Malta. 
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08 Mar 1923 WW2 USS S-31 was recommissioned into service upon completion of engine alternations. 
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08 Mar 1932 WW2 Fighting ceased in Shanghai, China, thus ending the First Battle of Shanghai. 
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08 Mar 1932 WW2 Zheng Xiaoxu arrived at Xinjing, puppet state of Manchukuo (now Changchun, Jilin Province, China) by train. 
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08 Mar 1933 WW2 The French Army cavalry command issued a preliminary order for 45 AMR 33 light tanks.  
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08 Mar 1937 WW2 Spanish Nationalist forces threatening Madrid, Spain were ordered to attack around the northeast of the city in an attempt to cut it off from the rest of the Republic. Two Nationalist armies advanced towards Guadalajara, which was 34 miles from Madrid, and pushed back the inexperienced Republican troops which faced them. 
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08 Mar 1940 WW2 As Soviet troops entered the suburbs of Viipuri, Finnish diplomats in Moscow sought an immediate ceasefire while negotiations were still proceeding, but were refused as Soviet troops were on the verge of taking Viipuri. 
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08 Mar 1940 WW2 British cruiser HMS Dunedin and Canadian destroyer HMCS Assiniboine captured German steamer Hanover near Jamaica. Hannover would later be converted into escort aircraft carrier HMS Audacity. 
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08 Mar 1940 WW2 British steamer Counsellor, flagship of Rear Admiral Franklin of convoy HX-22 convoy, struck a mine in Liverpool Bay, England. The Admiral, his 7 naval staff, and the entire crew of 70 were rescued by destroyer HMS Walpole and landed at Liverpool. The mines were laid on 6 Jan 1940 by German submarine U-30; these mines had claimed 6 ships totaling 33,000 tons. 
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08 Mar 1941 WW2 Battleship Bismarck exited the Kiel Canal and entered Dock C of Deutsche Werke Kiel. 
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08 Mar 1941 WW2 The Panzer Regiment of German 5th Light Division departed Naples, Italy aboard freighters Alicante, Arcturus, Wachtfels, and Rialto bound for Tripoli, Libya in two convoys. 
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08 Mar 1941 WW2 British freighters Clan Macauley and Cingalese, escorted by destroyers HMS Nubian, HMS Mohawk, and HMS Wryneck Prince arrived in Piraeus, Greece with tanks and equipment from North Africa. 
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08 Mar 1941 WW2 German submarine U-A sank British ship Dunaff Head of Allied convoy OB-293 150 miles south of Iceland at 0119 hours; 5 were killed and 38 survived. Destroyer HMS Wolverine counterattacked and damaged U-A. 
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08 Mar 1941 WW2 Off Western Africa, German submarines U-105, U-106, and U-124 received sighting reports of Allied convoy SL-67 from surface ships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. They searched for the escorting battleship HMS Malaya in failure; instead, U-105 sank British ship Harmodius at 0341 hours and U-124 sank four ships between 0547 and 0608 hours. U-105 received damage from depth charges as she was counterattacked. A total of 62 British sailors were killed; 300 survivors were picked up. 
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08 Mar 1941 WW2 Erich Raeder warned Adolf Hitler of a possible American landing in northwest Africa should the United States enter the war. 
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08 Mar 1942 WW2 Construction for the Alaska-Canadian Highway began by the US Army. 
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08 Mar 1942 WW2 US Army troops relieved the US 1st Marine Brigade (Provisional) at Reykjavik, Iceland. 
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08 Mar 1942 WW2 The first two sections of submarine Puffer was joined together. 
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08 Mar 1942 WW2 200th Division of the Chinese 5th Army arrived at Taungoo, Burma to assist the British defense. 
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08 Mar 1942 WW2 German submarine U-701 sank British anti-submarine trawler Notts County 113 miles southwest of Iceland at 0039 hours, killing all 41 aboard. Off the Grand Banks, Newfoundland, U-587 sank British anti-submarine trawler HMS Northern Princess, killing all 38 aboard. 
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08 Mar 1942 WW2 German battleship Tirpitz and escorting destroyers got as close as 60 miles from Allied convoy PQ-12 but poor weather prevented the Germans from realizing this fact. German destroyer Friedrich Ihn, however, did catch sight of old Russian coal-burning merchant ship Izhora (commanded by Vasily Belov), a straggler of the convoy, and promptly sank her at 1715 hours; only 1 person survived this sinking. In the evening, Admiral Otto Ciliax turned his fleet back toward its home port. 
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08 Mar 1942 WW2 The first batch of Kittyhawk fighters were transferred to the Royal Australian Air Force in Australia. No. 75 Squadron RAAF would be first to receive these aircraft, while No. 76 Squadron and No. 77 Squadron would be similarly equipped in the following few days. 
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08 Mar 1942 WW2 At dawn, Japanese warships bombarded the invasion beaches at Lae and Salamaua on eastern New Guinea island; the few defending Australian troops of the New Guinea Volunteer Rifles fled into the jungle without putting up an opposition to the subsequent troop landing. At 1200 hours, 5 Hudson bombers attacked Japanese shipping in Huon harbor, lightly damaging transport Yokohama Maru. Later on the same day, B-17 bombers from Horn Island at the tip of Queensland, Australia attacked Japanese positions at Lae and Salamaua, damaging two hangars at the airstrip at the latter location. 
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08 Mar 1942 WW2 Tenryu provided cover for the landings at Lae and Salamaua, Australian New Guinea. 
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08 Mar 1942 WW2 A He 111 bomber of German Luftwaffe group I./KG 100 claimed the sinking of a Soviet submarine south of Yalta, Russia. 
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08 Mar 1942 WW2 Dutch troops at Bandoeng, Java, Dutch East Indies surrendered at the Isola Hotel in Lembang at 1000 hours between Dutch General Jacob J. Pesman and Japanese Colonel Toshishige Shoji. In the afternoon, Dutch Governor Tjarda Van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, General Hein Ter Poorten, and Major General Jacob Pesman surrendered all Dutch forces on Java to Japanese General Hitoshi Imamura. 
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08 Mar 1942 WW2 Naka departed Kragan, Java, Dutch East Indies. 
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08 Mar 1942 WW2 The British Royal Air Force dispatched 211 bombers to attack Essen, Germany, some equipped with the new GEE navigational system. The results were less than hoped for as only a few homes and a church were destroyed, killing 29 civilians, while the industrial centers, the primary targets, were untouched. 
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08 Mar 1942 WW2 Warrant Officer Nobuo Fujita, flying in a submarine-based (submarine I-25) E14Y aircraft, conducted a photographic reconnaissance mission over Wellington harbor in New Zealand. 
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08 Mar 1942 WW2 An annoyed Winston Churchill, not satisfied with Cairo's reasons for not attacking at Gazala, summoned the British C-in-C Middle East back to London, England, United Kingdom to "confer with him about the situation". 
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08 Mar 1943 WW2 American forces were attacked by Japanese troops on Hill 700 in Bougainville, Solomon Islands. 
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08 Mar 1943 WW2 The American ban on sliced bread, originally intended on saving wrapping paper but was found to be ineffective, was lifted. 
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08 Mar 1943 WW2 In Germany, over 1,000 non-Jewish wives of deported Jewish men continued to protest in Berlin. Propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels released 1,500 Jewish men to stabilize the situation. 
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08 Mar 1943 WW2 Allied forces pursuing the retreating Operation Capri forces gave up the chase due to poor weather in southeastern Tunisia. 
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08 Mar 1943 WW2 General Henry Arnold agreed to give Claire Chennault an air force independent from the USAAF, but maintained Chennault's position underneath Joseph Stilwell. 
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08 Mar 1943 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze arrived at Shortland Islands, Solomon Islands. 
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08 Mar 1943 WW2 A lone Catalina flying boat of the US 53rd Patrol Squadron returning from a patrol spotted the German submarine U-156 east of Barbados. The submarine was on the surface with her crew sunbathing and fishing on deck, and with hatches open. The lookouts failed to spot the aircraft as it delivered its attack at sea level. Three bombs straddled the submarine which could soon be seen to be sinking fast. A rubber dinghy was dropped but when rescuers arrived no trace could be found of survivors. 
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08 Mar 1943 WW2 US bombers escorted by RAF Spitfires attacked the U-Boat supply centre of Rennes and Rouen in France. The accompanying Spitfire fighters claimed the destruction of 25 enemy fighters. 
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08 Mar 1943 WW2 USS Permit attacked a Japanese convoy between Honshu island and Hokkaido island consisted of nine merchant ships and two escort vessels, sinking merchant ship Hisashima Maru, hitting her with 2 of 3 torpedoes fired. 
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08 Mar 1943 WW2 Henry Arnold arrived in Kansas, United States. 
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08 Mar 1944 WW2 Battle of Hill 700: Japanese troops began a 5-day offensive against US positions at Bougainville. 
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08 Mar 1944 WW2 Japanese troops launched a major offensive across the Chindwin River in Burma toward Imphal, India. Meanwhile, another regiment from the Japanese 33rd Division crossed the Manipur River in Burma toward the Burmese-Indian border toward Tiddim, Burma. 
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08 Mar 1944 WW2 Orde Wingate personally visited the Chowringhee site of Operation Thursday in Burma. 
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08 Mar 1944 WW2 USAAF bombers attacked Berlin, Germany. 
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08 Mar 1944 WW2 Robert Johnson participated in a large aerial battle over Steinhude Lake, Germany during which the Germans shot down 34 American bombers, but Johnson was able to claim two Bf 109 kills. 
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08 Mar 1944 WW2 USS Alabama was relieved as the flagship of Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher of the US Navy Fast Carrier Task Force at Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands. 
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08 Mar 1944 WW2 3,791 Czech Jews were gassed at Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in occupied Poland. The men were killed in Crematorium III and the women and children in Crematorium II. 
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08 Mar 1944 WW2 The keel of submarine Sennet was laid down at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, United States. 
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08 Mar 1945 WW2 In Germany, US troops entered Bonn while British and Canadian troops entered Xanten. 
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08 Mar 1945 WW2 The Soviet Union announced that Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was likely killed in early 1945 by German occupation troops in Hungary or by Hungarian Arrow Cross Party members. 
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08 Mar 1945 WW2 1,200 Allied heavy bombers struck 6 benzol plants in Germany. 
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08 Mar 1945 WW2 US intelligence first detected the new Ohka aircraft at Konoike airfield, Japan and nicknamed them "Viper". 
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08 Mar 1945 WW2 Richard "Dick" Winters was promoted to the rank of major. 
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08 Mar 1945 WW2 Indian 19th Division began attacking Mandalay Hill near Mandalay, Burma. 
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08 Mar 1945 WW2 Ding Delong was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. 
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08 Mar 1945 WW2 Between 1,070 and 1,150 Hungarian Jews arrived at the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in occupied Czechoslovakia. They were originally deported to the Austrian border in 1944. 
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08 Mar 1945 WW2 Soviet troops reached the suburbs of Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland). 
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08 Mar 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 91 arrived on board. 
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08 Mar 1945 WW2 Highly secret negotiations began in Switzerland between Allan Dulles of the US Office of Strategic Services, Colonel General Heinrich von Vietinghoff of the German Army, and Obergruppenführer Karl Wolff of the German SS for the possible early surrender of German troops in Italy. 
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08 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Segundo pursued a Japanese convoy consisted of 2 freighters and 2 escort vessels in the East China Sea; she was chased away by the escorts before she could attack. 
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08 Mar 1945 WW2 Private Karl Hulten, who had deserted from the US 501st Airborne Regiment and subsequently committed a series of crimes in Britain, was hanged at Pentonville Prison. 
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