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History on the 10th of April

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10 Apr 1816 RELIGIOUS In Philadelphia, church reformer Richard Allen, 56, was elected the first bishop of the newly-created African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. (Previously, in 1799, Allen had been the first black ordained to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church.)
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10 Apr 1838 RELIGIOUS Birth of Edward Kremser, German chorister. Included among his numerous vocal and instrumental works is the enduring hymn tune KREMSER ("We Gather Together").
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10 Apr 1913 WW2 Henry Arnold was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant. 
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10 Apr 1922 WW2 Representatives from 34 countries convened at Genoa Conference to discuss post-WW1 economy. 
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10 Apr 1923 WW2 Daimler Airways inaugurated the first scheduled air-service between London, England, United Kingdom and Berlin, Germany, with intermediate stops at Bremen, Germany and Hamburg, Germany. 
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10 Apr 1923 WW2 USS R-1 arrived at San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, United States. 
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10 Apr 1927 WW2 He Yingqin led troops in an anti-communist purge in Nanjing, China. 
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10 Apr 1932 WW2 A second re-election took place in Germany between Paul von Hindenburg and Adolf Hitler as none of them received the required 50% of votes in the previous election; Hindenburg won presidency after receiving 53% of votes in the second election, while Hitler received 36.8%. 
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10 Apr 1933 RELIGIOUS Death of Henry Van Dyke, 81, an American Presbyterian clergyman and author. He is still remembered for two writings: a book, "The Story of the Other Wise Man" (1896), and a hymn, "Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee" (1908).
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10 Apr 1935 WW2 Reichminister Hermann Göring married his second wife, Emmy Sonnemann. His devotion to his first wife, Countess Carin von Kantzow and Emmy was accounted a weakness by the Nazis. 
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10 Apr 1935 WW2 Submarine ShCh-324 was launched at Gorkiy, Russia. 
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10 Apr 1936 WW2 Quintin Brand was made a supernumerary member of the headquarters of the No. 6 (Auxiliary) Group RAF. 
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10 Apr 1938 WW2 At the Reichstag elections a single ballot paper also required voters to approve the union with Austria. There was much vote rigging by local Party officials to ensure Hitler got the result he wanted. 
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10 Apr 1939 WW2 German Gestapo report published on this date noted that, between 1933 and 1939, a total of 162,734 prisoners were placed in protective custody, of which most of them were categorized as political prisoners. 
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10 Apr 1939 WW2 USS Skipjack arrived at New London, Connecticut, United States. 
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10 Apr 1940 WW2 German submarine U-4 sank HMS Thistle at Stavanger, Norway at 0213 hours, killing the entire crew of 53. 
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10 Apr 1940 WW2 British submarine HMS Tarpon attacked a German armed merchant vessel with torpedoes 50 miles off of the Danish coast, which fought back with depth charges. Tarpon was sunk during the counterattack, killing the entire crew of 53. 
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10 Apr 1940 WW2 German submarine U-37 torpedoed Swedish motor tanker Sveaborg 10 miles north of the Faroe Islands between Scotland and Iceland at 0215 hours, killing 5. Norwegian merchant vessel Tosca arrived to rescue the 29 survivors on and around the burning Sveaborg. At 0323 hours, U-37 returned and sank Tosca with one torpedo, killing 2. Survivors from both ships were later rescued by British armed boarding vessel HMS Northern Chief. 
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10 Apr 1940 WW2 Henry Tizard established the Military Application of Uranium Detonation (MAUD) Committee in the United Kingdom to investigate the feasibility of an atomic weapon. 
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10 Apr 1940 WW2 Nikolaus von Falkenhorst was mentioned in the Wehrmachtbericht daily radio report. 
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10 Apr 1940 WW2 Fleet Air Arm Skua dive bombers sank the German cruiser Königsberg in Bergen harbour in Norway. She was the first major warship to be sunk by dive bombing in the war. 
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10 Apr 1940 WW2 The Icelanic parliament, Althing, granted full powers of government to the Icelandic cabinet, thus effectively declaring independence from Denmark, which was then under German occupation. 
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10 Apr 1940 WW2 At the First Battle of Narvik, 10 German destroyers were attacked in the Ofot fjord by 5 British destroyers. 2 German destroyers, 11 merchant ships, and 1 supply ship were sunk. 2 British destroyers were lost. Both commanding officers, British Captain Bernard Warburton-Lee and German Commodore Friedrich Bonte, were killed in the action. Warburton-Lee was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross and Bonte the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. 
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10 Apr 1941 WW2 The Germany Navy, Kriegsmarine, ordered the construction of 60 submarines. 
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10 Apr 1941 WW2 In Yugoslavia, German troops capture the Croatian capital of Zagreb; Croatian Fascist chief Ante Pavelic returned from exile to proclaim the independent state of Croatia. Further South, German 9th Panzer Division and Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler Regiment moved through the Monastir Gap, moved across the Greek border, and captured the town of Florina. British troops fell back from the Aliakmon Line southwest of Salonika, Greece. 
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10 Apr 1941 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt approved the transfer of 10 Lake-class Coast Guard Cutters to the British Royal Navy; the transfers were completed between 30 Apr and 30 May 1941. 
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10 Apr 1941 WW2 Seiichi Ito was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet. 
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10 Apr 1941 WW2 206 Luftwaffe aircraft attacked Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, dropping 246 tons of high explosive bombs and 1,183 incendiary bombs. 
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10 Apr 1941 WW2 Overnight, RAF aircraft attacked German battlecruisers in Brest, France, hitting Gneisenau with 4 bombs and causing extensive damage. 
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10 Apr 1941 WW2 The German 15th Panzer Division under General Heinrich von Prittwitz und Gaffron attacked Tobruk, Libya from the west. Prittwitz was killed while personally leading a reconnaissance mission by armored cars. 
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10 Apr 1941 WW2 German submarine U-107 sank British tanker Duffield at 0345 hours; 25 were killed, 28 survived. 
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10 Apr 1941 WW2 German submarine U-52 sank Dutch ship Saleier 500 miles southwest of Iceland at 1955 hours. The entire crew of 63 abandoned ship in 3 lifeboats and were rescued by American destroyer USS Niblack. 
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10 Apr 1941 WW2 American destroyer USS USS Niblack attacked a German submarine off Iceland; the submarine escaped without being damaged. It was the first shot fired between the US and Germany. 
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10 Apr 1941 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo was named the commanding officer of the First Air Fleet. 
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10 Apr 1941 WW2 Nigerian troops of the British 11th African Division marched from Addis Ababa toward Jimma in Abyssinia, while Indian 5th Division marched from Massawa, Eritrea toward Amara, Abyssinia. At Assab, Eritrea, Italians scutled 7 freighters to prevent capture. 
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10 Apr 1941 WW2 Teiichi Yoshimoto was named the chief of staff of Kenkichi Ueda (Japanese Kwantung Army in northeastern China). 
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10 Apr 1941 WW2 Overnight, RAF aircraft attacked Berlin, Germany, destroying the historical Opera House. It would be restored by 1943, but would again be bombed in Feb 1945. 
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10 Apr 1941 WW2 Paul von Kleist was mentioned in the Wehrmachtbericht daily radio report. 
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10 Apr 1941 WW2 Akagi became the flagship of the newly organized First Air Fleet and assigned to Carrier Division 1. She spent the next few weeks in and around Yokosuka, Japan and off Kyushu. 
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10 Apr 1941 WW2 Kaga was assigned to Carrier Division 1 of the Japanese Navy First Air Fleet. 
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10 Apr 1941 WW2 Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weißenfeld shot down a British Wellington bomber shortly after 0000 hours over the IJsselmeer in the Netherlands. 
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10 Apr 1942 WW2 Norwegian Lutheran Bishop Eivind Berggrav, having been arrested by the German occupation administration in Norway for resistance on the previous day, was sent to the Bredtvet Concentration Camp. 
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10 Apr 1942 WW2 German submarine U-654 sank British ship Empire Prairie in the middle of the North Atlantic at 0220 hours, killing all 49 aboard. 20 miles off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, United States, U-203 sank British tanker San Delfino with 7 torpedoes at 0508 hours; 28 were killed, 22 survived. In the same area, U-552 sank US tanker Tamaulipas at 0627 hours; 2 were killed, 35 survived. In the middle of the South Atlantic, German raider Thor stopped British vessel Kirkpool; Kirkpool's crew suffered no losses during the attack, but 16 would drown as the men abandoned ship; Thor rescued 30 survivors. Finally, Norwegian ship Chr. Knudsen disappeared some time during this day with her crew of 33; she was presumably sunk by German submarine U-85. 
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10 Apr 1942 WW2 Destroyer Yuzuki was assigned to Destroyer Squadron 6 of the Fourth Fleet. 
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10 Apr 1942 WW2 Submarine Carbonero was ordered. 
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10 Apr 1942 WW2 The order to build submarine Becuna was issued. 
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10 Apr 1942 WW2 Japanese and Chinese troops clashed at Szuwa River, Burma. 
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10 Apr 1942 WW2 Light cruiser Voroshilov received light damage from German Ju 88 aircraft. 
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10 Apr 1942 WW2 USS Thresher sank a Japanese merchant ship 6 miles north of Oshima Island, Japan. 
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10 Apr 1942 WW2 Allied convoy PQ-14 found itself scattered shortly after dawn after a stormy night; 16 ships decided to return to Iceland while 8 ships sailed on for Russia. On the same day, Allied convoy QP-10 departed Murmansk, Russia; it was consisted of 16 merchant ships, escorted by 5 destroyers, 3 corvettes, 1 minesweeper, and 2 trawlers; QP-10 was almost immediately detected by German aircraft. Far to the west, PQ-15 departed Oban, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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10 Apr 1942 WW2 USS Grayback completed her first war patrol. 
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10 Apr 1942 WW2 Tenryu arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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10 Apr 1942 WW2 Tatsuta Maru departed Balikpapan, Dutch Borneo. 
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10 Apr 1942 WW2 254 British bombers (167 Wellington, 43 Hampden, 18 Stirling, 10 Manchester, 8 Halifax, and 8 Lancaster) attacked Essen, Germany; most bombs fell on the nearby residential areas instead, destroying 12 houses, killing 7 civilians, and wounding a further 30. During this attack, an 8,000-pound bomb was used for the first time, dropped by a Halifax bomber of No. 76 Squadron. 7 Wellington, 5 Hampden, 1 Halifax, and 1 Manchester aircraft were lost. 
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10 Apr 1942 WW2 Naka arrived at Seletar Naval Base, Singapore. 
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10 Apr 1942 WW2 The Japanese, overwhelmed with 76,000 captives at Bataan on the main Philippine island of Luzon, decided to march the prisoners 25 miles to Balanga for further transport. Without food, water, or medical supplies and facing brutal treatment by the Japanese, the prisoners of war would die in large numbers, and this march would soon be named the Bataan Death March. Just off Luzon, minesweeper USS Finch, damaged by Japanese air attacks on the previous day, was scuttled by her crew. Elsewhere in the Philippine Islands, 12,000 Japanese troops landed on Cebu on three invasion beaches; the 6,500 defenders at Cebu City evacuated the capital and moved inland; Australia-based B-17 bombers attacked the invasion force to little effect. 
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10 Apr 1943 WW2 The Allied continued Operation Flax offensives over the waters between Sicily, Italy and Tunisia, Italian North Africa, destroying many Axis transport aircraft and fighters. On the ground, British troops captured Sfax, Tunisia. 
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10 Apr 1943 WW2 84 American B-24 bombers attacked Sardinia, Italy, sinking one cruiser and damaging another. 
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10 Apr 1943 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze made a troop transport run to Finschhafen, New Guinea, Dutch East Indies; the mission was aborted due to US air attacks. 
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10 Apr 1943 WW2 8th Bomb Squadron (flying A-20 aircraft) of USAAF 3rd Bombardment Group was transferred from Port Moresby to Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua. 
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10 Apr 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: More portions of British Fighter Squadrons 882, 896, and 898 departed. Link Trainer building turned over to station. 
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10 Apr 1943 WW2 Italian Air Force Assault Engineer Battalion was made independent of 1st Air Force Assault Regiment. 
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10 Apr 1943 WW2 The first modified Lancaster bomber was moved to RAF Manston, England, United Kingdom to conduct dropping trials for attacks on German dams. 
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10 Apr 1943 WW2 USS Copahee departed San Diego, California, United States. 
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10 Apr 1944 WW2 Cruiser Köln began a three-month refit. 
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10 Apr 1944 WW2 Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, who had escaped from Auschwitz Concentration Camp three days prior, arrived in Slovakia. They would later revealing information about the camp to outside world via the Papal Nuncio in Slovakia. 
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10 Apr 1944 WW2 Soviet troops entered Odessa, Ukraine. 
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10 Apr 1944 WW2 Aleksandr Vasilevsky was awarded the Order of Victory for the first time. 
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10 Apr 1944 WW2 Rockets and aerial depth charges from USS Guadalcanal's anti-submarine hunter-killer group TBM Avenger aircraft sank German Type IXC submarine U-68 650 miles off Casablanca. There was one survivor. 
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10 Apr 1944 WW2 672nd Bomb Squadron and 675th Bomb Squadron (both flying A-20 aircraft) of USAAF 417th Bomb Group were transferred from Dobodura Airfield to Saidor Airfield, Australian Papua. 
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10 Apr 1944 WW2 USS Pompon arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her fourth war patrol. 
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10 Apr 1944 WW2 German Großdeutschland Division counterattacked westward from Podu Iloaiei toward Târgu Frumos, Romania. To the south of Târgu Frumos, Romanian 1st Guard Division and Romanian 7th Infantry Division attacked in concert. Soviet troops withdrew from Târgu Frumos by 2200 hours. 
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10 Apr 1944 WW2 Georgy Zhukov was awarded the Order of Victory for the first time; this was the very first Order of Victory given out by the Soviet Union. 
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10 Apr 1944 WW2 The US Joint Chiefs of Staff formally approved Operation Matterhorn, the name allocated to the B-29 bomber offensive against Japanese cities. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 American bombers conducted a raid on Japanese positions in the Kurile Islands. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 1,224 Allied heavy bombers were dispatched to attack German aircraft facilities; about 60 German jets were launched to intercept. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 German 6.SS-Panzerarmee defended against strong Soviet attacks against Wiener Neustadt and Baden in occupied Austria. Meanwhile, heavy fighting continued in the central districts of Vienna. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 Canadian First Army captured Deventer, the Netherlands. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 In Germany, British Second Army captured Wildenhausen and US Ninth Army captured Hannover. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 Prime Minister Churchill announced that, to date, Britain suffered 1,126,802 total casualties. Of the 306,984 killed, 34,161 were from the merchant navy and 59,793 were civilian. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 In the Philippine Islands, US troops captured Jolo in Sulu and Lamon Bay at Luzon. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 General Walther Wenck was named the commanding officer of the German 12th Army. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Charr sank a Japanese freighter with her deck gun in the Java Sea. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 Wilkinson Sword Limited's contract for producing Fairbairn-Sykes commando daggers ended. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Mingo arrived in the Mariana Islands, ending her seventh war patrol. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 A reconnaissance flight over Scotland, United Kingdom by an Arado jet was the last operational sortie over Britain by a Luftwaffe aircraft. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 Otto Skorzeny visited Field Marshal Ferdinand Schörner's headquarters in Silesia in occupied Poland. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island arrived at Apra Harbor, Guam, Mariana Islands for repairs. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 Adolf Hitler sent his servants ahead of him to Berchtesgaden, Germany to prepare for his arrival scheduled for 20 Apr 1945. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 Adolf Galland met Hermann Göring for the last time at Obersalzberg in München-Oberbayern, Germany. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Alabama arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 New Zealand troops reached Santerno River in northern Italy. After sundown, British V Corps launched Operation Impact Plain toward Argenta, Italy. 850 heavy bombers and 700 medium bombers were used to support the Allied attacks that took place on this day. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 Ten Seiran seaplanes performed a practice flight over Fukuyama, Japan to familiarize the crews with flights over densely populated areas in case they were to receive an order to attack US cities. After the exercise, Second Lieutenant Ichiyoshi's aircraft crashed on water landing; Ichiyoshi was killed, and the observer survived the crash. 
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10 Apr 1945 WW2 US B-24 bombers based in the Philippine Islands attacked the town of Koshun, Takao Prefecture, Taiwan. 
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10 Apr 1945 RELIGIOUS U.S. Armed forces liberated the prison camp at Buchenwald, Germany. It was estimated that nearly 57,000 prisoners (mostly Jews) perished in the gas chambers of Buchenwald during its eight-year existence as a Nazi concentration camp.
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10 Apr 1946 WW2 USS Missouri arrived at Piraeus, Greece. 
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10 Apr 1947 WW2 Rudolf Höss wrote a letter to the state prosecutor who had worked against him during his trial, noting that he realized he had sinned and was ready to receive the punishment of death. 
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10 Apr 1970 RELIGIOUS The Russian Orthodox Church in America was granted autocephalic independence by its Mother organization, the Russian Orthodox Church. Headquartered today in Syosset, New York, membership in this religious body currently numbers approximately one million.
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