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History on the 5th of May

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05 May 1910 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo was assigned to armored cruiser Asama. 
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05 May 1919 WW2 Joseph Rochefort received a fitness report from his commanding officer aboard passenger ship Koningin der Nederlanden; the evaluation was mixed, noting that he was not ready to be promoted to become an officer. The United States Navy would soon promote him despite of this report. 
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05 May 1932 WW2 Japan and China signed the Shanghai Ceasefire Agreement, which made Shanghai off-limits for Chinese troops while it allowed some Japanese units to remain in the city. 
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05 May 1933 WW2 The First Battle of Shangai officially ended with the signing of the Shanghai Ceasefire Agreement. 
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05 May 1934 WW2 The Hero of the Soviet Union award was established by the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union. 
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05 May 1936 WW2 Italian forces captured Addis Ababa, Abyssinia, bringing an end to Abyssinian resistance. During this campaign the Italian air force had used modern weapons, including poison gas, against natives armed with little more than primitive weapons. 
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05 May 1939 WW2 Polish Foreign Minister Józef Beck spoke to the Polish Parliament, noting that the German-Polish relationship was rapidly deteriorating due to Germany's bullying tactics. 
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05 May 1939 WW2 Harry Dimoline was promoted to the rank of colonel. 
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05 May 1939 WW2 Troops of the Chinese 26th Division broke through to the Xinlong airfield at Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China, destroying three Japanese aircraft. 
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05 May 1939 WW2 Capitaine de vaisseau Rouyer was named the commanding officer of Jeanne d'Arc. 
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05 May 1940 WW2 Adolf Hitler pushed the decision date for the invasion of France to the following day. 
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05 May 1940 WW2 German aircraft attacked the surfaced HMS Seal, heavily damaged after hitting a mine on the previous day, at 0230 hours in the Kattegat. The British submarine surrendered with a white table cloth. The crew of 60 were captured at around 0530 hours after failing to scuttle the ship. The submarine would later be towed to Frederikshavn, Denmark, repaired, and commissioned into German service. 
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05 May 1940 WW2 After a 25-day battle, the Norwegian fortress of Hegra surrendered at 0525 hours. The 190 men were the last Norwegian troops actively resisting German invasion in southern Norway. Civilian nurse Anne Margrethe Bang was also captured. They would all be released within the next two months by the order of Adolf Hitler in recognition of their bravery during the defense. 
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05 May 1940 WW2 Norway established a government-in-exile in London, England, United Kingdom. 
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05 May 1941 WW2 Major General Bernard Freyberg was appointed the commander of British and Commonwealth forces at Crete, Greece. 
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05 May 1941 WW2 A shipment of US flour arrived in Vichy France. 
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05 May 1941 WW2 Adolf Hitler, Wilhelm Keitel, and Günther Lütjens embarked battleship Bismarck. 
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05 May 1941 WW2 Adolf Hitler visited the German naval yard at Gdynia and inspected battleships Bismarck and Tirpitz. 
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05 May 1941 WW2 German submarine U-38 sank British ship Queen Maud 200 miles off Sierra Leone, British West Africa at 1117 hours; 1 was killed, 43 survived. 
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05 May 1941 WW2 In the United Kingdom, German aircraft bombed naval facilities at Belfast in Northern Ireland (carrier HMS Furious, seaplane tender HMS Pegasus, destroyer HMS Volunteer, and corvettes HMS Bryony, HMS Buttercup, and HMS La Malouine suffered minor damage), Liverpool in England (bombed consecutively since 1 May 1941), and the Clyde Estuary in Scotland (HMS Marksman, submarine HMS Traveller, and submarine HMS Trooper suffered damage). 
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05 May 1941 WW2 Operation Tiger: British freighters, with 295 tanks destined for Egypt, passed through the Strait of Gibraltar. 
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05 May 1941 WW2 Australian destroyers HMAS Voyager and HMAS Waterhen entered Tobruk, Libya, becoming the first ships to bring in supplies since the city became besieged. 
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05 May 1941 WW2 British submarine HMS Taku sank Italian ship Cagliari off the east coast of Italy. 
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05 May 1941 WW2 Stalin announced at a passing-out ceremony for military cadets that there did exist a threat from Germany for which the Red Army had to prepare itself rapidly. 
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05 May 1941 WW2 3/2nd Punjab Battalion advanced toward the Italian stronghold at Amba Alagi, Abyssinia at 0415 hours. They were pinned down by 12 Italian machine guns for the most of the day. The attack was called off at dusk. 
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05 May 1941 WW2 Abyssinian Emperor Haile Selassie returned to his capital Addis Ababa. He had fled the city exactly five years during the Italian invasion. 
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05 May 1942 WW2 German government ruled that deaths of concentration camp prisoners no longer had to be reported to the next of kin. 
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05 May 1942 WW2 USS Yorktown made rendezvous with USS Lexington south of Tulagi, Solomon Islands. 
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05 May 1942 WW2 USS Lexington made rendezvous with USS Yorktown south of Tulagi, Solomon Islands. 
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05 May 1942 WW2 British troops invaded French Madagascar in Operation Ironclad, landing in Courrier Bay at 0430 hours and Ambararata Bay shortly after. French and British troops clashed at Antsirane and Diego-Suárez. From the sea, carrier aircraft from HMS Indomitable and HMS Illustrious attacked the airfield and the port of Diego-Suárez, sinking French submarine Bévéziers, armed merchant cruiser Bougainville, and colonial sloop D'Entrecasteaux. British corvette HMS Auricula struck a mine in the entrance to Diego-Suárez Bay, suffering heavy damage. 
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05 May 1942 WW2 German submarine U-108 sank US freighter Afoundria between Cuba and Haiti. Off Bermuda, U-106 sank Canadian passenger ship Lady Drake (12 were killed, 256 survived) and U-103 sank British ship Stanbank. 
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05 May 1942 WW2 German submarine U-125 sank US ship Green Island and British ship Empire Buffalo off the Cayman Islands. 
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05 May 1942 WW2 USS Permit departed Fremantle, Australia, starting her fifth war patrol. 
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05 May 1942 WW2 A B-25 Mitchell bomber spotted Shoho during the day. After dark, 3 B-17 Flying Fortress bombers were brought up from Australia to Port Moresby, Australian Papua and were loaded up with 600-pound bombs for an attack on Shoho. 
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05 May 1942 WW2 Tenryu arrived at Deboyne Islands 200 kilometers east of the tip of Australian Papua. 
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05 May 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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05 May 1942 WW2 British bombers attacked Stuttgart, Germany for the second consecutive night. 
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05 May 1942 WW2 Tatsuta Maru arrived at Yokohama, Japan. 
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05 May 1942 WW2 After a final bombardment with 16,000 shells, 2,000 Japanese troops landed on the eastern coast of Corregidor, Philippine Islands at about 2345 hours, delivered by 15 barges. 
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05 May 1942 WW2 The German 16th Army broke through to Kholm, Russia, relieving the survivors of Gruppe Scherer which had been surrounded since 23 Jan 1942. 
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05 May 1942 WW2 Soviet patrol ship Rubin, Soviet patrol ship Brilliant, British minesweeper Harrier, British minesweeper Niger, and British minesweeper Gossamer set sail from Polyarny, Russia; they made rendezvous with Allied convoy PQ-15 in the Kola Inlet at 2300 hours. 
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05 May 1942 WW2 Garland completed her refitting at Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom. 
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05 May 1942 WW2 Ira Eaker was made the commanding officer of US Eight Bomber Command in Britain. 
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05 May 1942 WW2 Lieutenant General Carl Spaatz was made the commanding officer of US Eighth Air Force in Britain. 
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05 May 1942 WW2 Brigadier General Frank Hunter was made the commanding officer of US Eighth Fighter Command in Britain. 
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05 May 1943 WW2 Lieutenant General F. M. Andrews, Commander of US Forces in Europe, was killed in a plane crash in Iceland. 
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05 May 1943 WW2 Soviet troops captured Krymsk in southern Russia. 
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05 May 1943 WW2 German submarines continued to attack Allied convoy ONS 5 in the North Atlantic, sinking British freighter Dolius and US freighter West Makadet during the day; German submarine U-358 was damaged during the attacks. After dark, German submarines lost contact with the convoy, sinking British freighters Selvistan and Gharinda and Norwegian freighter Bonde, but the radar-equipped Allied escorts continued to fight back, sinking U-638, U-125, and U-531. 
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05 May 1943 WW2 In the afternoon, USS Snook began stalking two Japanese freighters Kinko Maru (hitting with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired) and Daifuku Maru (hitting with 1 of 5 torpedoes fired) departing Dalian, China. She sank them with torpedoes after dark. 
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05 May 1943 WW2 Lydia Litvyak shot down a German Bf 109 fighter while flying a Yak-1 fighter. 
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05 May 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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05 May 1943 WW2 The Japanese launched an attack into the region between Wuhan and Yichang in China, aiming gain control of this section of the Yangtze River. 
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05 May 1943 WW2 USS Whale departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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05 May 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of Marine Fighting Squadron 222 (VMF-222) arrived on board. 
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05 May 1943 WW2 I-174 departed Kure, Japan. 
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05 May 1943 WW2 USS Permit damaged a Japanese transport in the Mariana Islands, hitting her with 1 of 4 torpedoes fired. 
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05 May 1944 WW2 Spain ceased export of Tungsten to Germany in exchange for American oil. 
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05 May 1944 WW2 The Japanese Navy 14th Air Fleet was reorganized to contain only one seaplane tender. 
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05 May 1944 WW2 The order for food transport ship Kusumi, the planned sister ship to Irako, was canceled. 
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05 May 1944 WW2 Six US Marine Corps PBJ bombers attacked Tobera, New Britain; one bomber was shot down by anti-aircraft fire. 
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05 May 1944 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Balikpapan, Dutch Borneo. 
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05 May 1944 WW2 Harold Alexander ordered for the preparation of Operation Buffalo, which called for an assault on Cisterna, Italy; Mark Clark, however, would modify this plan so that he could strike at Rome, Italy. 
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05 May 1944 WW2 Settsu was assigned to the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet. 
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05 May 1944 WW2 Soviet Army began its assault on Sevastopol, Russia destroying German 17.Armee and taking 36,000 prisoners. 
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05 May 1944 WW2 Lavrentiy Beria was named the deputy chairman of the Soviet State Defense Committee (GKO) and the chairman of the Operational Bureau of the GKO. 
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05 May 1944 WW2 USS Franklin departed Norfolk, Virginia, United States. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 Oberleutnant Heinz Schäffer of U-977 decided to head for Argentina instead of returning home per President Karl Dönitz's orders. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 German General Blaskowitz surrendered all German forces in the Netherlands at the Hotel de Wereld in Wageningen to Canadian General Charles Foulkes. In Denmark, the German occupation forces surrendered. In Italy, German Armeegruppe C surrendered. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 Japanese balloon bombs floated across the Pacific Ocean, landing and detonating in Oregon in the United States, killing 6. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 US 11th Armored Division entered Mauthausen Concentration Camp in occupied Austria region of Germany. The Council of Jewish Elders at Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in Czechoslovakia, operating under Commandant Rahm, met with the commandant for the last time. The council was dissolved after that meeting. Later that day, Rahm fled the camp ahead of the advancing Soviet troops. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 Soviet Army launches a final assault in Moravia region of Czechoslovakia against what remains of German Armeegruppe Mitte. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 400 American B-17 bombers dropped food and other supplies over the Netherlands. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 German submarine U-853 torpedoed and sank American collier Black Point Off Block Island, Rhode Island, United States, killing 12, 34 were later rescued; Black Point was the last American merchant ship to be lost in WW2. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 Allied aircraft conducted raids across Borneo in preparation of the Australian invasion. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 Walter Krupinski was captured by the Americans. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 USS Missouri departed Okinawa, Japan. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 USS Hawkbill departed Fremantle, Australia for her fourth war patrol. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 At a meeting attended by SS-Obergruppenführer von Herff and representatives of the Gestapo and SD, Heinrich Himmler outlined his plans to establish an SS government in Schleswig-Holstein which would conduct independent peace negotiations with the western powers. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 Lavrentiy Beria removed Viktor Abakumov from his position as the head counterintelligence chief of Soviet 3rd Byelorussian Front. Three generals were named to replace Abakumov: Colonel General Arkadii Apolonov, Lieutenant General Ivan Gorbatyuk, and Lieutenant General Fyodor Tutushkin. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 Nazi German Gauleiter Karl Hanke escaped Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland) via a Storch aircraft. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 Edward Brooks accepted the surrender of the German 19th and 24th Armies in Innsbruck, Austria. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 Motoki Yamazaki was named the President of the South Manchuria Railway. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 US Third Army captured Karlsbad and Pilsen in occupied Czechoslovakia. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 Czech resistance leaders made a radio broadcast, asking all resistance groups in Czechoslovakia to rise up against the Germans. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 SMERSH agents attached to Soviet 3rd Shock Army found two burned bodies in a bomb crater near the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany and buried them without much thinking. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 USS Marcus Island departed Guam, Mariana Islands with damaged aircraft on board. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 The Hiro Naval Arsenal in Kure, Japan was destroyed by US B-29 Superfortress bombers. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 Yukio Araki along with the rest of the 72nd Shinbu Squadron was ordered to relocate from the current base at Heijo (now Pyongyang), Korea to Metabaru Airfield in Saga Prefecture, Japan. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 US B-25 bombers attacked Matsuyama Airfield in Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan. 
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05 May 1945 WW2 US B-24 bombers based in the Philippine Islands struck Shinchiku Airfield (now Hsinchu), Taiwan. 
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05 May 1946 WW2 Dong Zhao was awarded the Order of Victory of Resistance against Aggression. 
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05 May 1948 WW2 VF-17 became the first US Navy squadron to be qualified to fly jets from an aircraft carrier. Three days of operations aboard the USS Saipan saw the squadron's pilots checked out on a minimum of eight take-offs and landings each. 
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05 May 1948 WW2 German prisoner of war Georg Jantschi made a unsuccessful suicide attempt while in Soviet captivity at the Lefortovo Prison in Moscow, Russia. 
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05 May 1948 WW2 Curtiss XP-87 Blackhawk prototype jet fighter took its first flight. 
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