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History on the 2nd of April

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02 Apr 1914 WW2 Alec Guinness de Cuffe was born in Paddington, London, England, United Kingdom. 
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02 Apr 1935 WW2 He Yingqin was promoted to the rank of general first class. 
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02 Apr 1935 WW2 Robert Watson-Watt received a patent to develop a device to detect aircraft. 
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02 Apr 1936 WW2 J2F Duck aircraft took its first flight; deliveries were made to the United States Navy later on the same day. 
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02 Apr 1939 WW2 Japanese troops captured Gao'an, Jiangxi Province, China. 
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02 Apr 1940 WW2 Germans attacked Scapa Flow and North Sea convoys. 
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02 Apr 1940 WW2 In the afternoon, Adolf Hitler issued the directive for the invasion of Denmark and Norway, with the planned launch date to be 9 Apr 1940. Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop was made aware of the invasion for the first time so that his office could help develop excuses for the invasion. Meanwhile, Dutch border guards were placed on full alert due to the detected German deployments. 
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02 Apr 1940 WW2 German submarine U-38 sank Finnish steamer Signe of convoy HN-23A at 0021 hours, killing the entire crew of 19. 
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02 Apr 1940 WW2 British submarines began to patrol waters that Vice Admiral Max Horton suspected to be routes of German invasion of Norway. For example, HMS Unity patrolled the Heligoland Bight while HMS Sunfish patrolled the Kattegat between Denmark and Sweden. 
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02 Apr 1940 WW2 Werner Mölders shot down Flight Lieutenant C. D. Palmer's Hurricane fighter of No. 1 Squadron RAF. On this date, he also received the Iron Cross 1st Class award. 
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02 Apr 1941 WW2 German troops captured Agedabia and Zuetania in North Africa. 
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02 Apr 1941 WW2 Battleship Bismarck received two aircraft. 
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02 Apr 1941 WW2 German submarine U-48 sank British ship Beaverdale with one torpedo and deck gun 300 miles southwest of Iceland at 0150 hours; 21 were killed and 58 survived. 
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02 Apr 1941 WW2 Canadian armed merchant cruiser Prince Henry intercepted two German merchant ships off Peru; the German ships were scuttled by their own crews to prevent capture. 
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02 Apr 1941 WW2 German bombers attacked Allied convoy AS23 25 miles south of Crete, Greece, sinking 2 freighters and damaging 2 others. 
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02 Apr 1941 WW2 Allied convoy SC-26 ran into a patrol line formed by eight German submarines 460 miles southwest of Iceland. Overnight, German submarines U-46, U-69, U-73, and U-74 sank 6 merchant ships, damaged 1 merchant ship, and damaged the escorting British armed merchant cruiser HMS Worcestershire; 110 men were killed. 
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02 Apr 1941 WW2 Subhash Chandra Bose arrived in Berlin, Germany. 
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02 Apr 1941 WW2 USS Astoria departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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02 Apr 1941 WW2 In Eritrea, Italian East Africa, British troops offered surrender terms to Italian Admiral Mario Bonetti's fleet which had sortied out of Massawa on the previous day; Bonetti chose to press on with his planned attack on Port Sudan in British Sudan. British armored cars under Colonel Bernard Fletcher cut off the Italian retreat from Eritrea at Adigrat. Finally, in Abyssinia, 22nd East African Brigade of the British 11th African Division reached the Awash River. 
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02 Apr 1941 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille shot down a Hurricane fighter near Tobruk, Libya at 1250 hours. 
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02 Apr 1942 WW2 USAAF B-17 bombers attacked the Japanese fleet at the Andaman Islands. 
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02 Apr 1942 WW2 Submarine USS Searaven departed with ammunition for Corregidor, Philippine Islands, but she would be unable to deliver the cargo before the American garrison surrendered. 
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02 Apr 1942 WW2 The first flight echelon of US Marine Aircraft Group 13 arrived at Tutuila, American Samoa. 
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02 Apr 1942 WW2 USS Astoria departed from Nouméa, New Caledonia. 
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02 Apr 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-6 sank British ship Clan Ross 350 miles west of India; 11 were killed, 38 survived. 
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02 Apr 1942 WW2 German submarine U-123 damaged US tanker Liebre with her deck gun 17 miles off Cape Fear, North Carolina, United States at 0718 hours; 9 were killed, 25 survived. After British motor torpedo boat MTB-332 chased off U-123, Liebre would be towed back to port for repairs. 
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02 Apr 1942 WW2 Three B-17 bombers of US 10th Air Force based in Calcutta, India attacked Japanese shipping in the Andaman Islands, claiming hits on one cruiser and one transport. 
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02 Apr 1942 WW2 Tenryu arrived at Kavieng, New Ireland. 
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02 Apr 1942 WW2 Japanese troops drove Indian 17th Division out of Prome, Burma. 
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02 Apr 1942 WW2 Natori towed Naka toward Bantam Bay, Java, Dutch East Indies. 
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02 Apr 1942 WW2 Finnish forces occupied the strategic island of Tytärsaari (Russian: Bolshoy Tyuters) in the Gulf of Finland. 
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02 Apr 1942 WW2 40 British Wellington and 10 Stirling bombers attacked the Ford factory at Poissy, France. 
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02 Apr 1942 WW2 Light cruiser Voroshilov bombarded Axis troop positions Feodossiya, Russia. 
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02 Apr 1942 WW2 German bombers attacked Dover and Weymouth, England, United Kingdom. 
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02 Apr 1942 WW2 USS Hornet departed Naval Air Station Alameda near San Francisco, California with James Doolittle and his 16 US Army B-25 bombers on board. 
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02 Apr 1943 WW2 HMS Black Swan and HMS Stonecrop sank German submarine U-124 in the Atlantic Ocean. 
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02 Apr 1943 WW2 The Italian Semovente 105/25 tank destroyer design entered production. 
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02 Apr 1943 WW2 USS S-31 crossed the equator in the Pacific Ocean. 
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02 Apr 1943 WW2 USS Gar ended her sixth war patrol. 
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02 Apr 1943 WW2 Near El Guettar, Tunisia, US 9th Infantry Division was moved to attack Hill 772; its original objective of Hill 369 was now left to US 1st Infantry Division to capture. 
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02 Apr 1943 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze made a troop transport run to Rekata, Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands. 
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02 Apr 1943 WW2 Hauptmann Philipp Müller of the German Kampfgeschwader 55 wing was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. 
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02 Apr 1943 WW2 In the later afternoon, USS Tunny made radar contact with Japanese transport Toyo Maru Number 2 off Alet Island, Caroline Islands. She fired three torpedoes at the distance of 880 meters and observed a hit on the transport before diving to avoid attack by the escorting Momo-class destroyer; depth charges caused minor damage. 
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02 Apr 1943 WW2 Robert von Greim was awarded Oak Leaves to his Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross medal. 
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02 Apr 1943 WW2 Allied bombers conducted raids across Italy, hitting Messina, Crotone, Villa San Giovanni, Naples, Augusta, and Palermo. Some of the missions were aborted due to cloud cover. 
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02 Apr 1943 WW2 The Tamazato Prisoners of War Camp in eastern Taiwan was opened for the purpose of showing Red Cross representatives a model camp. 
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02 Apr 1943 WW2 USS Alabama departed the United States for Britain. 
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02 Apr 1944 WW2 Troops of the German 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend" massacred 86 Belgians in retaliation of the bombing of their train by resistance fighters. 
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02 Apr 1944 WW2 Soviet troops entered Romania. 
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02 Apr 1944 WW2 Soviets threaten to shoot one third of all German prisoners of war if the German 1.Panzerarmee's 18 divisions would not surrender. 
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02 Apr 1944 WW2 USS Tunny departed Palau Islands. 
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02 Apr 1944 WW2 The first B-29 bomber of US 58th Bomb Wing landed at Chakulia, near Calcutta to start working up for a new strategic bomber force equipped with B-29 bombers in India with advance bases in China from which targets in northeastern China (Manchuria) and Kyushu, Japan could be attacked. 
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02 Apr 1944 WW2 Nachi began a period of guard ship duty at Ominato Guard District, Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. 
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02 Apr 1944 WW2 USS Guitarro departed Balboa, Panama Canal Zone. 
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02 Apr 1944 WW2 Roza Shanina was made the commander of the all-female 1st Sniper Platoon of the Soviet 184th Rifle Division. 
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02 Apr 1944 WW2 General Rikichi Ando was named the governor-general of Taiwan. 
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02 Apr 1945 WW2 With assistance from Bulgarian units, Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front captured the main Hungarian oil production area near Nagykanizsa. 
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02 Apr 1945 WW2 Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front captured the Hungarian industrial zone of Mosonmagyarovar. 
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02 Apr 1945 WW2 Martin Bormann ordered Germany to fight until victorious or until death. 
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02 Apr 1945 WW2 US troops landed on Sanga Sanga, Sulu, Philippine Islands without resistance; Filipino guerrilla fighters had already secured the island prior to the landing. 
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02 Apr 1945 WW2 American B-24 bombers conducted a raid on Hong Kong. 
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02 Apr 1945 WW2 American B-24 bombers conducted a raid on Marcus Island. 
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02 Apr 1945 WW2 The American Mk II and Mk IIA1 hand grenades were redesignated Mk 2 and Mk 2A1, respectively. 
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02 Apr 1945 WW2 Soviet troops captured Wiener Neustadt, Eisenstadt, Neunkirchen, and Gloggnitz in southern Germany, thus now threatening Vienna. 
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02 Apr 1945 WW2 Louis Mountbatten announced that the planning for Operation Dracula against Rangoon, Burma was to be resumed, with a target execution date of 5 May 1945 at the latest. 
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02 Apr 1945 WW2 Folke Bernadotte met Heinrich Himmler at the SS Hohenlychen sanatorium in Lychen, Germany; Himmler was unsuccessful in convincing Bernadotte to help seek a peace between Germany and the Western Allies. 
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02 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Sennet completed refitting from USS Apollo at Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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02 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Gar departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for the Mariana Islands. 
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02 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Dragonet arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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02 Apr 1945 WW2 In Japan, 100 American B-29 bombers conducted a raid on the Nakajima aircraft factory near Tokyo, while 15 B-29 bombers mined waters off Kure and Hiroshima. 
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02 Apr 1945 WW2 18 US A-20 bombers from Luzon, Philippine Islands attacked the rail marshaling yards at Shinei District (now Xinying District), Takao (now Kaohsiung), Taiwan. 
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02 Apr 1945 WW2 HMS Glory was commissioned into service. 
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02 Apr 1946 WW2 Pierre Charles Cournarie stepped down as the Governor-General of French West Africa. 
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02 Apr 1947 WW2 Rudolf Höss was sentenced to death by Polish authorities. 
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02 Apr 1948 WW2 Benjamin Kelsey was promoted to the rank of colonel. 
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