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History on the 5th of June

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05 Jun 1911 WW2 The Spanish occupied Larache and Ksar-el-Kebir, Morocco. 
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05 Jun 1916 WW2 British Secretary of State for War, Field Marshal Lord Kitchener, was drowned when the ship in which he was travelling to on a diplomatic mission to Russia (HMS Hampshire) hit a mine laid by the German U-boat U-75. 
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05 Jun 1919 WW2 Richard O'Connor was Mentioned in Despatches. 
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05 Jun 1920 WW2 Tak Kyonghyong was born in Gyeongsangnam Province, Korea. 
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05 Jun 1925 WW2 S-46 was commissioned into service. 
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05 Jun 1931 WW2 The Do X aircraft arrived in the Cape Verde islands. 
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05 Jun 1932 WW2 German Chancellor Franz von Papen lifted the ban on Nazi Party's SA organization. 
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05 Jun 1934 WW2 As the flagship of Rear Admiral Wang Shouting, with a training crew, Ninghai arrived at Yokohama, Japan to attend the funeral of Admiral Heihachiro Togo. Upon the completion of the funeral, she set sail for Harima, Japan for an overhaul. 
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05 Jun 1936 WW2 The United States Social Security Board decided to issue nine-digit identification numbers to Americans which would later be known as Social Security Numbers, and to establish 89 district offices and 469 branch offices. 
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05 Jun 1936 WW2 Esterwegen Concentration Camp in Germany was closed to be converted to be a punishment camp; prisoners of Esterwegen were ordered to build the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. 
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05 Jun 1938 WW2 Ernst Udet claimed the 100-km closed-circuit landplane speed record flying the Heinkel He 100 V2 aircraft. 
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05 Jun 1939 WW2 Japanese bombers attacked Chongqing, China for three hours during the day; 4,400 people died of asphyxiation in a collapsed air raid tunnel during this bombing. 
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05 Jun 1939 WW2 Corps commander Lieutenant General Georgy Zhukov arrived in the Mongolia Area of China, bringing reinforcement of armored cars, light tanks, and aircraft. 
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05 Jun 1940 WW2 Germany began the second phase of the invasion of France, Fall Rot. 130 infantry divisions and 10 armored divisions attacked cross the Somme and Aisne Rivers. 66 French divisions attempted to hold the Weygand Line. Across the English Channel, the Allies transported French troops recently evacuated from Dunkirk back into France via ports still under French control; additionally, the Canadian 1st Infantry Division, elements of British 1st Armored Division, and the British 51st Highland Division were also sent to France. 
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05 Jun 1940 WW2 French General de Gaulle was appointed the Undersecretary of State for War by Prime Minister Reynaud. 
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05 Jun 1940 WW2 Small groups of mobile armed men called Ironsides, after the Home Defense Commander, were formed in the United Kingdom to protect against enemy parachutists. 
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05 Jun 1940 WW2 Werner Mölders was shot down by French pilot René Pomier-Layrargues near Compiègne, France; he bailed out to safety but was captured by the French. He would be released later upon the French armistice. 
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05 Jun 1940 WW2 4,900 Allied troops boarded transport ships at Narvik, Norway during the evacuation operation. 
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05 Jun 1940 WW2 German submarine U-48 shelled and sank British armed merchant ship Stancor 80 miles northwest of Scotland at 1118 hours. The entire crew of 19 survived. 
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05 Jun 1940 WW2 In a BBC radio broadcast the noted author J. B. Priestley berated the British Establishment for its lack of planning and amateurish attitudes. 
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05 Jun 1940 WW2 US President Franklin Roosevelt ordered US Navy Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Harold Stark to prepare a US Marine Corps brigade for future deployment to Iceland. 
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05 Jun 1941 WW2 Germany announced that 15,000 British and Commonwealth prisoners of war were captured at Crete, Greece. 
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05 Jun 1941 WW2 Japanese luxury ocean liner Hikawa Maru departed Yokohama for Vancouver, with some Jewish refugees on board. 
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05 Jun 1941 WW2 German submarine U-48 sank British ship Wellfield 670 miles north of the Azores at 0131 hours; 8 were killed, 30 survived. 
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05 Jun 1941 WW2 The German Kriegsmarine issued orders for 102 new submarines to be constructed. 
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05 Jun 1941 WW2 British submarine HMS Triumph sank Italian gunboat Valoroso and two small transports, Frieda and Trio Frassinetti, off the coast of Libya with her deck gun. 
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05 Jun 1941 WW2 British cruiser HMS London and destroyer HMS Brilliant, using Ultra intercepts, intercepted and attacked German tanker Egerland 700 miles southwest of Cape Verde islands. Egerland's crew scuttled the ship; all 94 aboard survived. 
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05 Jun 1941 WW2 Before dawn, German bombers attacked Birmingham, England, United Kingdom in the early hours of the day; the bombs mostly missed their targets and fell outside the city. 
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05 Jun 1941 WW2 Japanese aircraft flew more than 20 sorties against Chongqing, China over a 3-hour period, dropping bombs on civilian sections of the city. In the Jiaochangkou air raid shelter tunnel, more than 1,000 Chinese died from asphyxiation. 
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05 Jun 1942 WW2 Kurt Daluege was named Deputy Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. 
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05 Jun 1942 WW2 The Nazi SS organization reported that 97,000 people had been killed in mobile gas vans. 
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05 Jun 1942 WW2 US President Roosevelt threatened the use of poison gas against Japan if Japanese troops were to deploy poison gas in China. 
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05 Jun 1942 WW2 US Navy Task Force 1 with 6 battleships and carrier Long Island made rendezvous west of San Francisco, California. 
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05 Jun 1942 WW2 Unternehmen Vogellied (Operation Birdsong): In the Roslavl and Bryansk region in Russia, 5,000 German security troops tracked down a destroyed a 2,500-strong partisan group. 
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05 Jun 1942 WW2 United States declared war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania. 
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05 Jun 1942 WW2 Joichi Tomonaga passed away. 
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05 Jun 1942 WW2 Tamon Yamaguchi went down with the sinking carrier Hiryu. He was promoted to the rank of vice admiral posthumously. 
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05 Jun 1942 WW2 Ryusaku Yanagimoto passed away. 
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05 Jun 1942 WW2 Tomeo Kaku passed away. 
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05 Jun 1942 WW2 German submarine U-172 sank US ship Delfina 120 miles north of Puerto Rico at 0608 hours; 4 were killed, 27 survived. At 2210 hours, U-94 sank Portuguese sailing ship Maria da Glória with her deck gun 650 miles east of St. John's Newfoundland; 2 were killed, 42 survived, but only 8 of the survivors would be rescued. 
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05 Jun 1942 WW2 German submarine U-158 sank US ship Velma Lykes 15 miles off Cancún, Mexico at 0332 hours; 15 were killed, 17 survived. 85 miles south of the Dominican Republic, U-159 sank Brazilian sail Paracury with her deck gun at 0527 hours. At 2010 hours, U-159 attacked again in the same area, sinking Honduran sailing vessel Sally with her deck. At 2049 hours, U-68 sank US tanker LJ Drake with 3 torpedoes off the Dominican Republic; all 40 aboard were killed. 
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05 Jun 1942 WW2 Free French submarine Rubis laid mines in the Bay of Biscay; they would later sink Vichy French ship Quand Meme, German minesweeper M-4212, and German minesweeper M-4448 in the weeks to come. 
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05 Jun 1942 WW2 Clarence Tinker led a group of B-24 Liberator bombers from Hawaii Islands to Midway Atoll. 
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05 Jun 1942 WW2 Japanese merchant raiders Aikoku Maru and Hokoku Maru sank British passenger liner Elysia 350 miles off Durban, South Africa. To the north on the same day, off Portuguese Overseas Province of Mozambique, Japanese submarine I-10 sank Panamanian ship Atlantic Gulf at 0231 hours, I-10 sank US freighter Melvin H Baker at 1044 hours, and I-20 sank Panamanian ship Johnstown. 
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05 Jun 1942 WW2 Captain Shinpei Asano was named the commanding officer of Tenryu while the ship was undergoing upgrades at Maizuro Naval Arsenal, Japan. 
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05 Jun 1942 WW2 British troops mounted a large counter offensive south of Tobruk, Libya in Operation Aberdeen; it was met with initial success, but it was halted after German tanks penetrated into the area between British divisional field headquarters and disrupted communications. 
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05 Jun 1942 WW2 Akagi was scuttled by direct order of Combined Fleet chief Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. At 0520 hours, she sank bow first after two or three torpedo hits out of four fired into her starboard side by Arashio, Hagikaze, Maikaze and Nowaki. She sank in position 30-30 N, 178-40 W. More than 1,070 survivors were rescued, including her skipper Taijiro Aoki, who had replaced Hasegawa in the spring, though he had to be ordered off the ship. Only 263 petty officers and men were lost. Survivors were subsequently transferred from destroyers to Mutsu, one of the battleships in Yamamoto's Main Body. Akagi became the first Japanese capital ship to be scuttled by own ships in the Pacific War. 
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05 Jun 1942 WW2 At 0015 hours, Yamamoto ordered the night engagement at Midway to be canceled; at 0255 hours, he ordered the entire Operation MI to be canceled. In the battle zone, heavily damaged Japanese carriers Akagi and Hiryu were scuttled. To the west, heavy cruisers Mogami and Mikuma suffered a collision as they attempted to avoid submarine USS Tambor; Mogami suffered 92 killed and heavy damage in the collision. Far to the north, in the Aleutian Islands, aircraft from Japanese carriers Ryujo and Junyo attacked Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska as Japanese troops occupied Attu. 
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05 Jun 1942 WW2 German troops continued the aerial and artillery bombardment of Sevastopol, Russia, using weapons including the 800mm railway gun Schwerer Gustav. 
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05 Jun 1942 WW2 The keel of submarine Bluefish was laid down by the Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut, United States. 
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05 Jun 1942 WW2 I-168 surfaced 1,100 yards southwest of Midway at 1024 hours and fired 6 shots with her 10-centimeter deck gun, inflicting no damage. When she was caught by American searchlights, she submerged and evaded American return-fire. She survived two subsequent attacks, one by a patrol vessel and another by PBY Catalina aircraft, incurring no damage. 
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05 Jun 1943 WW2 German submarine U-217 was attacked and sunk by a TBF Avenger torpedo bomber assisted by a Wildcat fighter from escort carrier USS Bogue. 
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05 Jun 1943 WW2 F-5A reconnaissance aircraft "Eager Beaver" flown by pilot Lieutenant Frederic Hargesheimer detected a new Japanese aircraft under construction at Ubili, New Britain. His aircraft was in turn spotted by the Japanese and was shot down; Hargesheimer survived the attack and would spend the next eight months in the jungle. 
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05 Jun 1943 WW2 A full state funeral was given for Isoroku Yamamoto. The funeral procession slowly moved from Tokyo, Japan to Hibiya Park in nearby city of Chiyoda. At 1050 hours, many Japanese citizens across the entire country bowed their heads toward Tokyo in honor of Yamamoto. During the ceremony, Hideki Tojo made an address regarding Yamamoto's contributions to Japan, while Yamamoto was posthumously promoted to the rank of fleet admiral (or, literally, naval marshal) and was given the Order of the Chrysanthemum 1st Class and the German Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords. 
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05 Jun 1943 WW2 USS Whale damaged a Japanese seaplane tender in the Mariana Islands, hitting her with 3 of 4 torpedoes fired. 
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05 Jun 1943 WW2 77 American B-29 bombers attacked Bangkok, Thailand; it was the first USAAF B-29 bombing mission. 
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05 Jun 1944 WW2 The first B-29 combat mission was flown from Kharagpur, British India to Bangkok, Thailand; the worst problem was an unexpected tropical storm. 
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05 Jun 1944 WW2 Józef Beck passed away. 
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05 Jun 1944 WW2 Erwin Rommel noted to Gerd von Rundstedt that there was no sign of an Allied invasion on the French coast. 
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05 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Puffer sank Japanese tankers Ashizuri and Takasaki in the South China Sea, hitting them all 7 of the torpedoes fired. 
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05 Jun 1944 WW2 The British government issued a protest to the Japanese Foreign Ministry, via the Swiss Foreign Ministry, over the brutal treatment by Japanese submariners toward survivors of their conquests. The British demanded "immediate instructions to prevent the repetition of similar atrocities and to take disciplinary action against those responsible". 
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05 Jun 1945 WW2 Field Marshal Montgomery and General Eisenhower were awarded the Order of Victory, the Soviet Union's highest award. 
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05 Jun 1945 WW2 473 American B-29 bombers destroyed 11 square kilometers of urban areas at Kobe, Japan. 
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05 Jun 1945 WW2 Brazil declared war on Japan. 
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05 Jun 1945 WW2 More than 30 American ships were damaged by a typhoon near Okinawa, Japan. 
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05 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Tunny passed through the Korea Strait. 
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05 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Croaker arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her fifth war patrol. 
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05 Jun 1945 WW2 The Supreme Commanders of the four occupying powers in Germany signed the Berlin Declaration which formally abolished any German government over the nation. Germany was divided into four zones, each ruled by an occupational government. 
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05 Jun 1945 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Seletar, Singapore. 
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05 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Alabama suffered minor damage from a typhoon. 
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05 Jun 1947 WW2 The Marshall Plan was proposed. 
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