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History on the 9th of May

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09 May 1910 WW2 Andrew McNaughton was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. 
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09 May 1915 WW2 Donald Bennett was born. 
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09 May 1933 WW2 Ryujo was commissioned into service. 
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09 May 1933 WW2 Émile Bertin was launched at Saint-Nazaire, France. 
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09 May 1934 WW2 Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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09 May 1936 WW2 Chiang Kaishek proclaimed that Japan was waging war in China without a declaration of war. 
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09 May 1936 WW2 Mussolini disbanded the Blackshirt legions in Italy. 
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09 May 1936 WW2 Italy annexed Abyssinia and formed the colony of Italian East Africa by combining Abyssinia, Eritrea, and Italian Somaliland. 
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09 May 1938 WW2 Leader of the Sudeten Nazi Party Konrad Henlein cut off communications with the Czechoslovakian government. 
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09 May 1939 WW2 Chinese leadership called off the offensive toward Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China. 
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09 May 1939 WW2 The French ambassador in Berlin, Germany dispatched another warning to French leadership, noting that he had reasons to believe that Adolf Hitler was presenting or was about to present a plan to Joseph Stalin for the partition of Poland. 
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09 May 1940 WW2 Conscription maximum age in the United Kingdom was raised again to 36. 
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09 May 1940 WW2 German submarine U-9 torpedoed and sank the French submarine Doris 40 miles off of the Dutch coast at 0014 hours, killing 45 French and 3 British sailors. 
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09 May 1940 WW2 British Prime Minister Chamberlain offered to form a coalition government with the opposition Labour Party, but the attempt was unsuccessful. In the afternoon, Chamberlain began to discuss with Halifax and Churchill, the two leading contenders to be his successor, about the possibility of his resignation. 
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09 May 1940 WW2 Four Polish battalions arrived at Narvik, Norway. 
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09 May 1940 WW2 British destroyer HMS Kelly with Lord Louis Mountbatten aboard went on patrol in the Skagerrak between Sweden and Germany, escorted by cruiser HMS Birmingham and destroyers HMS Kandahar, HMS Bulldog, HMS Kimberley, and HMS Hasty. Five German torpedo boats attacked this fleet in the evening. Torpedo boat S-31 damaged HMS Kelly with one torpedo, killing 27; she would require HMS Bulldog to tow her back to port. 
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09 May 1940 WW2 British troops occupied Iceland. 
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09 May 1940 WW2 Adolf Hitler and his staff arrived at the Felsennest headquarters in the Westwall fortifications on the German-French border. 
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09 May 1940 WW2 Belgium declared a state of emergency and placed the army on alert for the possible German invasion. 
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09 May 1940 WW2 Adolf Hitler issued the order to commence the invasion of France and the Low Countries at dawn on the following day. At noon German meteorologists made a firm forecast of clear skies on the following morning; Adolf Hitler gave the meteorology officer a medal on the spot. In the afternoon, Hitler departed Berlin, Germany for this temporary forward headquarters codenamed Felsennest near Bad Münsereifel in the Rhineland region of Germany to observe the coming invasion. 
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09 May 1940 WW2 HMS Eagle completed her repairs at Singapore and departed for Colombo, Ceylon. 
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09 May 1940 WW2 The first Vultee Model 48 Vanguard prototype aircraft collided with a Sirius aircraft at Vultee Field in Downey, California, United States. 
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09 May 1941 WW2 German submarine U-110 and U-201 attacked Allied convoy OB-318, sinking 3 British freighters. U-201 was damaged by 99 depth charges but was able to return to her home port for repairs. U-110 was forced to surface by 10 depth charges from British corvette HMS Aubretia, then shelled by destroyers HMS Bulldog and HMS Broadway. The German crew thought the submarine had already been fatally damaged and sinking, and abandoned ship. Recognizing the opportunity to capture the ship, the commanding officer of HMS Bulldog quickly rescued many of the German crew and put them belowdecks so they could not observe (but submarine commander Lemp died in the water, possibly shot as he attempted to swim back to the submarine), and sent a boarding party to capture her. The capture was completed at 1245 hours, yielding an Enigma cipher machine and code book. 
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09 May 1941 WW2 Adolf Hitler disembarked battleship Bismarck. 
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09 May 1941 WW2 German intelligence intercepted a British radio transmission containing weather information in the Libyan-Egyptian border region; this gave suspicion that an offensive was about to be taken place. 
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09 May 1941 WW2 British transport ship Empire Song hit two mines and sank in off Malta; in addition to the 18 men killed, 57 tanks aboard were also lost. 
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09 May 1941 WW2 After nightfall, Australian destroyer HMAS Vendetta departed Alexandria, Egypt and arrived in Tobruk, Libya to embark wounded troops. 
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09 May 1941 WW2 German submarine U-103 sank British ship City of Winchester 700 miles west of Sierra Leone, British West Africa at 2309 hours; 6 were killed, 92 survived. In the same area, Italian submarine Tazzoli sank Norwegian tanker Alfred Olsen; the entire crew survived. 
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09 May 1941 WW2 The Soviet Union declared that it no longer recognised the diplomatic standing of Belgium, Norway and Yugoslavia. 
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09 May 1941 WW2 A peace treaty was signed between Thailand and France in Tokyo, Japan, officially ending the Franco-Thai War; the French was coerced by the Japanese to relinquish their hold on the disputed border territories. 
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09 May 1941 WW2 At RAF Waddington in Waddington, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, a direct hit by a German bomb on the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI) station and a nearby air-raid shelter killed three airmen and seven women who worked in the NAAFI, including Mrs. Raven, the manageress. 
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09 May 1942 WW2 Zuikaku was ordered to pursue any American ships remaining in the Coral Sea area. 
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09 May 1942 WW2 German submarine U-352 attacked United States Coast Guard Cutter Icarus 50 kilometers east of Wilmington, North Carolina, United States; both torpedoes missed; Icarus' counterattack damaged U-352, forcing her to surface for the crew to scuttle the submarine; 15 were killed, 33 survived. German submarine U-564 attacked Panamanian tanker Lubrafol 3 miles east of Hillsboro Inlet, Florida, United States, detonating the oil she was carrying, though she would burn for two days before sinking; 13 were killed, 31 survived. German submarine U-162 sank Canadian ship Mont Louis 50 miles north of Anna Regina, British Guiana; 13 were killed, 8 survived. 
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09 May 1942 WW2 HMS King George V arrived at the Gladstone Dock in Liverpool, England, United Kingdom to repair the damage caused by the 1 May 1942 collision with HMS Punjabi. 
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09 May 1942 WW2 US Marine Observation Squadron 151 arrived at American Samoa from Norfolk, Virginia, United States. 
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09 May 1942 WW2 By this date, most troops of the Burma Corps had withdrew west of the Chindwin River. 
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09 May 1942 WW2 German submarine U-125 sank Canadian tanker Calgarolite 50 miles west of Grand Cayman island; all 45 aboard survived. 
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09 May 1942 WW2 German minesweepers M-533 and R-45 collided and sank in the English Channel. 
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09 May 1942 WW2 Joseph Rochefort's cryptanalytic team in Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii intercepted a Japanese Navy radio message ordering carrier Akagi to make rendezvous with another fleet at Sasebo, Japan on 20 May 1942. 
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09 May 1942 WW2 USS Wasp and HMS Eagle launched 47 and 17 Spitfire fighters, respectively, for Malta; 61 of them would arrive safely to reinforce the island. Meanwhile, to the west, British minelayer HMS Welshman, carrying 240 tons of supplies for Malta and disguised as a French destroyer, encountered Axis aircraft but her disguise kept her safe. 
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09 May 1942 WW2 Shokaku was reassigned to Carrier Division 5, 1st Air Fleet. She was detached to proceed immediately to Japan at top speed, starting a dramatic dash past a cordon of American submarines alerted to intercept the cripple. 
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09 May 1942 WW2 Troops of the Japanese Kawamura Detachment wiped out American and Filipino troops under Brigadier General William Sharp near Dalig on Mindanao, Philippine Islands. 
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09 May 1942 WW2 Semyon Timoshenko's 28th Army (Lieutenant-General D. I. Ryabyshev), reinforced to 16 infantry and three cavalry divisions supported by six armouired brigades, launched an offensive in the Volchansk sector near Kharkov, Ukraine, but were checked after pushing out a salient of some 20 miles into the enemy lines. 
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09 May 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Saipan, departing later on the same day. 
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09 May 1943 WW2 The entire community at Skalat, Ukraine was wiped out by the Germans. 
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09 May 1943 WW2 The German occupation government in the Netherlands declared martial law. 
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09 May 1943 WW2 USS Gar sank Japanese freighter Aso Maru south of the Negros, Philippine Islands in daylight with two of four torpedoes fired. 
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09 May 1943 WW2 89th 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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09 May 1943 WW2 In Hunan Province, China, Japanese troops captured Nan County and advanced toward Zhijiang and Yangxi. On the same day, also in Hunan Province, the Japanese began a three-day massacre of civilians in Changjiao; 30,000 were estimated to be killed. 
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09 May 1943 WW2 I-168 arrived at Yokosuka, Japan and was transferred to Submarine Squadron 3. 
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09 May 1943 WW2 USS Wahoo sank Japanese transport Takao Maru and transport Jinmu Maru east of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, hitting them with 2 of 6 torpedoes. 
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09 May 1943 WW2 The "San Marco" naval infantry regiment of Italian Navy surrendered at Bizerte, Tunisia. 
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09 May 1943 WW2 Oberleutnant Heinrich Schmitt of 10/NJG3 defected to the United Kingdom in the new Junkers Ju 88R nightfighter to the delight of Professor Reginald V. Jones, the British electronics expert, whose team is now able to examine the German FuG 202 Lichtenstein BC radar equipment. 
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09 May 1943 WW2 USS Corvina was launched at Groton, Connecticut, United States, sponsored by Mrs. R. W. Christie. 
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09 May 1943 WW2 USS Whale arrived at Midway Atoll and received repairs to her hydraulic system and her air search radar. 
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09 May 1944 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Ambon, Molucca Islands and departed later on the same day. 
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09 May 1944 WW2 108 prisoners of the Pithiviers Transit Camp in France were sent to La Rochelle, France to build fortifications at the mouth of the Gironde River on the Atlantic coast. 
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09 May 1944 WW2 The Allies began an aerial campaign against airfields and rail lines in France in preparation for the cross-Channel invasion. 
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09 May 1944 WW2 USS Mingo arrived at Brisbane, Australia, ending her third war patrol. 
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09 May 1944 WW2 USS Makin Island was commissioned into service at Astoria, Oregon, United States with Commander William B. Whaley in command. 
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09 May 1944 WW2 USS Segundo was commissioned into service with Lieutenant Commander James D. Fulp, Jr. in command. 
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09 May 1944 WW2 Rudolf Höss returned to Auschwitz Concentration Camp and ordered the expansion of the rail platforms, the activation of Crematorium V, the reactivation of Bunker 2 (gas chamber), the digging of five pits, among other items, in preparation for the arrival of Hungarian Jews at Auschwitz. 
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09 May 1944 WW2 Red Army recaptured Sevastopol, Russia. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 Feldmarschall Kesselring is captured near Saalfelden, Austria. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 The United States lifted its war time ban on horse racing. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 German cruiser Prinz Eugen surrendered to the Allied forces in Copenhagen, Denmark. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 German Reich Commissar for Norway, Josef Turboven, committed suicide in Oslo, Norway. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 Vidkun Quisling, Norway's pro-Nazi Prime Minister, was captured by the underground. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 In New Guinea, the Australians continued to make gains. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 Soviet troops captured Stutthof Concentration Camp near Danzig, Germany (now Gdansk, Poland) and reached Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in occupied Czechoslovakia. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 William Slim indicated to his senior staff at the British 14th Army that he might soon be sacked by Oliver Leese. The senior staff officers leaked out the news. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 The German garrisons in the Channel Islands surrendered. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 USS Missouri arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 USS Alabama departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 Soviet troops entered Prague, Czechoslovakia. A large number of German troops, fleeing Prague, reached the area between villages Milín, Slivice, and Cimelice near the US-USSR demarcation line. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 The German garrisons at Dunkerque (12,000 men), La Rochelle, Lorient, and Saint-Nazaire surrendered. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 Nazi German leader Hermann Göring surrendered to US troops in southern Germany. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 Soviet SMERSH agents arrested Käthe Heusermann, chief assistant to Adolf Hitler's dentist Dr. Hugo Blaschke, to assist in the identification of the body retrieved in Berlin, Germany which was suspected to be that of Hitler's. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 The 20,000-strong German garrison in the Greek islands surrendered. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 German forces on Guernsey surrendered to the British. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 USS Carbonero arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Composite Squadron 63 (VC-63) arrived on board. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 Japanese special attack aircraft damaged two destroyer escorts off Okinawa, Japan and two British carriers (Victorious and Formidable) off Taiwan. On land, the Americans still engaged in vicious close quarter fighting on Okinawa. The Japanese defenders resorted to turning themselves into human bombs, loading themselves with explosives to charge US positions; prisoners were a rarity as the US Marines fired on anything that moved. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 German forces on Jersey surrendered to the British. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 Armeegruppe Kurland surrendered in Latvia. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 Victory was celebrated in Moscow, Russia where two million people watched a parade and firework display. 
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09 May 1945 WW2 Alexander Löhr surrendered to Yugolsavian partisans at Topolsica in the Slovenia region of Yugoslavia. On the same day, he was mentioned in the German Wehrmachtbericht daily radio report. 
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09 May 1947 WW2 Hancock was decommissioned from service. 
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