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History on the 3rd of June

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03 Jun 1918 WW2 US President Wilson consented to the sending of US troops to Russia if circumstances made it imperative to do so. 
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03 Jun 1918 WW2 The Japanese Government gave its approval to a plan for joint intervention in Siberia, Russia. 
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03 Jun 1918 WW1 Begin of Battle of Chateau-Thierry
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03 Jun 1920 WW2 Captain Hisashi Yoko was named the commanding officer of Settsu while the ship was undergoing overhaul at Kure, Japan. 
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03 Jun 1930 WW2 General Jotaro Watanabe was named the commanding officer of the Taiwan Army. 
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03 Jun 1936 WW2 The British Air Ministry placed an order for 310 Spitfire fighters at £4,500 each. 
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03 Jun 1936 WW2 Ira Eaker took off from New York, United States on an attempt of the blind flight across North America. 
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03 Jun 1936 WW2 In Germany, General Walther Wever, Chief of Staff of the Luftwaffe, was killed when the Heinkel He 70 in which he was flying to Berlin crashed shortly after taking off from Dresden. 
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03 Jun 1937 WW2 Spanish Nationalist General Emilio Mola y Vidal was killed in an air crash and was replaced by General Fidel Dávila Arrondo. 
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03 Jun 1938 WW2 Seishiro Itagaki was appointed the War Minister of Japan. 
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03 Jun 1938 WW2 Ludwig Beck sent a message to German Army chief Walther von Brauchitsch, noting his concern that an invasion of Czechoslovakia would trigger military reaction by the western powers, which would spell doom for Germany. 
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03 Jun 1940 WW2 After nightfall, the Allies began to evacuate Narvik, Norway. Through the night and the following day's daybreak, British destroyers and Norwegian fishing boats ferried Allied personnel to six troops transports in various fjords nearby. 
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03 Jun 1940 WW2 The last group of British troops at Dunkirk, France was evacuated before the break of dawn. At 1050 hours, Royal Navy Captain William Tennant signaled the completion of Operation Dynamo, but he was overruled by this superiors as there were still some French troops in Dunkirk. During the day, the British Admiralty acknowledged that 222 British naval vessels and 665 other craft were employed for the Dunkirk evacuation; 6 destroyers, 24 small armed vessels, and 226 other ships were lost. British ships returned to Dunkirk after night fall. By this time, German troops were only 2 miles away. 
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03 Jun 1940 WW2 The British government banned aliens and stateless persons in Britain from leaving home between 2230 hours and 0600 hours. 
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03 Jun 1940 WW2 French armed merchant cruiser Ville D'Oran, with 212 tons of gold from the French reserves, departed from Pauillac, France. 
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03 Jun 1940 WW2 German submarine U-37 sank Finnish ship Snabb with the deck gun 300 miles west of Cape Finisterre, Spain, killing 1. Greek ship Kyriakoula rescued 20 survivors. 
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03 Jun 1940 WW2 The Oak Leaves to the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross award was established in Germany. 
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03 Jun 1940 WW2 Roberts Dunstan enlisted in the Second Australian Imperial Force. 
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03 Jun 1940 WW2 Luftwaffe bombed Paris, France, killing 254 civilians. 
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03 Jun 1940 WW2 Soviet troops began the preparation for the invasion of the Baltic States of Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania. 
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03 Jun 1940 WW2 Winston Churchill ordered the formation of commando units for raiding occupied Europe. 
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03 Jun 1941 WW2 The Attlee memorandum approved by 2,430,000 to 19,000 at Labour Party conference in Britain. 
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03 Jun 1941 WW2 A German He 111 bomber encountered a British de Havilland Dragon aircraft en route back to France and shot it down. The aircraft turned out to be a civilian joy-riding aircraft from St Mary's island of the Isles of Scilly off the tip of southwestern England, United Kingdom. The pilot and all 5 passengers were killed. 
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03 Jun 1941 WW2 British cruisers HMS Aurora and HMS Kenya attacked German tanker Belchen 80 miles southwest of Greenland as the tanker refueled submarine U-93. U-93 escaped, but Belchen was damaged by shellfire and a torpedo from Aurora; her crew scuttled the ship. 5 were killed during the attack; U-93 later returned and picked up 50 survivors. The attack on Belchen was enabled by Ultra intercepts. To the south, U-48 and U-75 attacked Allied convoy OB-327 950 miles west of Brest, France, sinking Dutch ship Eibergen (4 killed; 35 survived) and British tanker Inversuir (45 survived). 
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03 Jun 1941 WW2 British passenger liner Mamari, modified to look like carrier HMS Hermes, was attacked by German aircraft off Cromer, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom. She became stuck on the wreck of tanker Ahamo while evading the attack. After sundown, German E-boats arrived and hit Mamari with torpedoes. 
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03 Jun 1941 WW2 Before dawn, German bombers attacked Hull and Tweedmouth in England, United Kingdom in the early hours of the day. 
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03 Jun 1942 WW2 German submarine U-156 sank British schooner Lillian with her deck gun; 3 were killed, 22 survived. 
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03 Jun 1942 WW2 German General Rommel sent French General Kœnig a hand-written note, urging the surrender of Bir Hakeim in Libya to avoid needless bloodshed: "To the troops of Bir Hakeim. Further resistance will only lead to pointless loss of life. You will suffer the same fate as the two Brigades which were at Got el Ualeg and which were exterminated the day before yesterday - we will cease fighting as soon as you show the white flag and come towards us unarmed". Kœnig ignored the request. 
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03 Jun 1942 WW2 Rear Admiral James L. Kauffman was named the commanding officer of the US Navy Gulf Sea Frontier. 
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03 Jun 1942 WW2 A new British government plan for the coal industry was submitted to parliament in a White Paper, and Major Gwilym Lloyd George was appointed Minister of fuel, light and power. 
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03 Jun 1942 WW2 HMS Eagle launched 31 Spitfire fighters for Malta. 
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03 Jun 1942 WW2 German submarine U-172 sank US ship City of Alma 400 miles northeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico at 0410 hours; 29 were killed, 10 survived. At 1000 hours, U-404 sank Swedish ship Anna 245 miles northwest of Bermuda after 5 hours of pursuit; all 17 aboard survived. 40 miles west of Nova Scotia, Canada, U-432 forced the occupants of two small US fishing boats to abandon the vessels before sinking them with her deck gun at 2100 hours. To the south, German submarine U-126 gave Norwegian tanker Høegh Giant east of Guyana. 
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03 Jun 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-24 attacked Australian coastal freighter Age with her deck gun and a torpedo 35 miles east of Sydney, Australia at dusk; Age was able to escape. 90 minutes later, I-24 came across Australian ship Iron Chiefton and sank her with a torpedo; 12 were killed. 
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03 Jun 1942 WW2 USS S-35 spotted Japanese aircraft en route to raid Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska. 
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03 Jun 1942 WW2 Joseph Stilwell arrived in Chongqing, China. Later on the same day, Stilwell met with Chiang Kaishek who urged for more Lend-Lease supplies; in the same meeting, Stilwell asked Chiang to purge the Chinese officer corps of those responsible for the recent poor performance in Burma. 
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03 Jun 1942 WW2 170 British bombers attacked Bremen, Germany, killing 83 at the cost of 11 bombers lost. 
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03 Jun 1942 WW2 Tenryu entered drydock No. 3 at Maizuru Naval Arsenal, Japan for the installation of additional anti-aircraft weaponry and armor. 
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03 Jun 1942 WW2 Nachi departed Paramushiro (Paramushir) Kurile Islands. 
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03 Jun 1942 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille engaged in the longest single aerial battle of his career over Bir Hacheim, Libya, shooting down six P-40 fighters (at 1222 hours, 1225 hours, 1227 hours, 1228 hours, 1229 hours, and 1233 hours), pushing his score up to 75. He used up only 12 cannon rounds and about 360 machine gun rounds in this fight. 
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03 Jun 1942 WW2 Naka departed Singapore. 
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03 Jun 1942 WW2 In the morning, US PBY Catalina aircraft discovered the location of the Japanese transports west of Midway Atoll. At 1230 hours, nine Midway-based B-17 bombers launched from Midway, reaching and attacking Japanese transports 660 miles to west at 1830 hours, inflicting no damage; meanwhile, US Navy Task Forces 16 and 17 changed course in an attempt to gain a more favorable battle for the upcoming battle. On the Japanese side, submarines arrived to form a cordon to detect American warship movements from the Hawaii Islands toward Midway Atoll; they did not realize that the American carriers had already passed. Far to the north, aircraft from Japanese carriers Ryujo and Junyo bombed Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska; one of the Zero fighters sustained damage and unsuccessfully crash-landed on Akutan Island. In response, US Navy dispatched a task force of 5 cruisers and 4 destroyers to counter the Japanese attacks in the Aleutian Islands. 
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03 Jun 1942 WW2 Light carrier Hosho sailed ahead of the Southern Force into the Midway area. 
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03 Jun 1942 WW2 German aircraft continued to attack Sevastopol, Russia. 
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03 Jun 1942 WW2 German bombers attacked Poole, England, United Kingdom. 
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03 Jun 1942 WW2 I-168 circled Midway Atoll to provide weather data and other observations to the headquarters of the Combined Fleet. 
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03 Jun 1943 WW2 The first fruits of victory reached British shops in the form of Algerian wine. 
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03 Jun 1943 WW2 German forces discovered 150 Jews hiding in a bunker in the Warsaw ghetto in Poland. They went on to destroy the bunker and killed all people within. 
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03 Jun 1943 WW2 Operation Cottbus: German forces attacked partisans in Barysaw (Borisov), Byelorussia. 
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03 Jun 1943 WW2 French Resistance saboteurs destroyed 300 tons of tires in the Michelin factory at Clermont-Ferrant. 
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03 Jun 1943 WW2 The US South Pacific command published Operation Plan 14-43 for the capture of Japanese-held islands in the central Solomon Islands. US Navy Rear Admiral Richmond Turner was named the overall commanding officer, and the largest contingent under his command would be the US Army 43rd Division. 
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03 Jun 1943 WW2 All Japanese resistance on Attu, Aleutian Islands ceased. 
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03 Jun 1943 WW2 Operation Toenails: The Allies invaded New Georgia, Solomon Islands. 
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03 Jun 1943 WW2 USS S-35 departed Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, United States. 
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03 Jun 1944 WW2 RAF aircraft conducted raids in the Pas-de-Calais and Cherbourg areas of France. 
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03 Jun 1944 WW2 US XIII Bomber Command established its headquarters at Momote Airfield, Los Negros Island, Admiralty Islands. 
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03 Jun 1944 WW2 Engineers at Curtiss-Wright published an internal memorandum noting the defects of the current generation of SB2C Helldiver aircraft (bell cranks might break during high speed dives) but the company failed to address the issue even for the aircraft built but not yet delivered to the US Navy. A number of aviators would be killed or injured due to this defect for the next month to come or perhaps longer due to this defect. 
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03 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Cabrilla sank a Japanese coastal patrol boat with her deck gun off Borneo. 
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03 Jun 1944 WW2 Louis Mountbatten received the latest orders from the Anglo-American combined chiefs; to his disappointment, there was not to be any amphibious operations in Burma, and instead focus was to be placed on China. Mountbatten would decide to disobey the orders and instead planned on ground offensives from India into Burma. 
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03 Jun 1944 WW2 Albert Kesselring declared Rome, Italy an open city. 
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03 Jun 1944 WW2 Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp's electric fence, which had previously been turned off during the daylight hours to save energy, was now on throughout the entire day in response to the numerous escape attempts by Hungarian Jews. On the same day, four transports brought 11,569 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz (2,937 from Nagyszölös (Vinogradov), 2,499 from Kassa Kosice, 2,972 from Nagyvárad (Oradea), and 3,161 from Szilágysomló (Simleu Silvaniei)). 
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03 Jun 1945 WW2 French forces reluctantly left Damascus, French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon, leaving the British in control. 
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03 Jun 1945 WW2 The US began preparing for the transit of 200,000 US troops from Europe to the Pacific via Marseilles, France. 
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03 Jun 1945 WW2 American carrier aircraft of Task Force 38 attacked airfields in southern Kyushu, Japan for the second day in a row. On the same day, 7 Japanese ships were sunk or damaged by naval mines in Japanese waters. 
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03 Jun 1945 WW2 US Marines landed on Iheya Jima, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. 
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03 Jun 1945 WW2 Operation Kikusui No. 9 was launched off Okinawa, Japan, participated by about 20 Japanese Navy and 30 Japanese Army special attack and escorting aircraft. 
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03 Jun 1945 WW2 Air Group 87 aircraft from USS Ticonderoga struck airfields on Kyushu, Japan in an attempt to stop special attack aircraft from taking off. 
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03 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Segundo sank a Japanese sail in the East China Sea with her deck gun. 
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03 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Sterlet fired six torpedoes at a Japanese transport in the Sea of Okhotsk; all torpedoes missed. The transport then revealed herself to be an armed Q-ship, which gave chase to the American submarine. Sterlet was able to escape the counterattack. 
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03 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Macabi departed Balboa, Panama Canal Zone. 
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03 Jun 1946 WW2 Mikhail Kalinin passed away. 
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03 Jun 1946 WW2 Gongbo Chen passed away. 
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03 Jun 1948 WW2 He Yingqin was named the Minister of Defense. 
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03 Jun 1948 WW2 Newfoundland held a referendum to determine its future as an independent dominion, as a British colony, or as a part of Canada; the results were inconclusive. 
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