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History on the 6th of June

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06 Jun 1911 WW2 A decree confirmed the name change for aristocratic Silesian soldier of the German Empire Nikolaus Jastrzembski to Nikolaus von Falkenhorst. 
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06 Jun 1915 WW2 The first airship to be destroyed in air combat was the Zeppelin LZ 37 which was attacked by British Flight Sub-Lietenant R. A. J. Warneford (No. 1 Squadron RNAS) in a Morane-Saulnier monoplane. Warneford, flying above the airship, dropped six 20-lb Hales bombs, the last of which exploded on the Zeppelin, causing it to crash near Ghent, Belgium. 
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06 Jun 1918 WW1 Begin of Battle of Belleau Wood
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06 Jun 1919 WW2 Marcel-Bruno Gensoul was promoted to the rank of capitaine de corvette. 
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06 Jun 1919 WW2 Arthur Coningham was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross medal. 
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06 Jun 1920 WW2 Edward Brooks' son Edward, Jr. was born. 
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06 Jun 1922 WW2 In the Soviet Union, the Main Administration for Literary and Publishing Affairs (generally known as Glavlit) was formally established with the role of preventing anything from being published that undermined state secrecy, encouraged sedition, inspired national or religious fanaticism or moral degeneration. 
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06 Jun 1924 WW2 Light carrier Hosho entered Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan for post-commissioning modification work. 
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06 Jun 1931 WW2 Lorraine's refitting was completed. 
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06 Jun 1933 WW2 The French Army issued an order to Renault for the production of AMR 33 light tanks. 
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06 Jun 1934 WW2 Prince Albert (later King Albert II) of Belgium was born at Stuyvenberg Castle on the outskirts of Brussels, Belgium. 
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06 Jun 1935 WW2 The keel of submarine Permit was laid down by the Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut, United States. 
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06 Jun 1938 WW2 Germany enacted laws to exclude Jews from commercial and industrial jobs. 
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06 Jun 1938 WW2 Nashville was commissioned into service. 
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06 Jun 1939 WW2 Werner Mölders was awarded the German Spanish Cross in Gold with Swords and Diamonds. 
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06 Jun 1939 WW2 Korvettenkapitän Hans-Georg von Friedeburg was named the commanding officer of U-27, replacing Korvettenkapitän Johannes Franz. 
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06 Jun 1940 WW2 German 5th and 7th Panzer Divisions bypassed the strongpoints on the French Weygand defensive line, penetrating near Abeville, Amiens, and Petonne. Nevertheless, the French hedgehog defense along the Weygand Line inflicted German tank losses, with the obsolete 75mm field guns performing surprisingly well as anti-tank guns. 
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06 Jun 1940 WW2 All Austrian and German citizens in the United Kingdom were ordered to turn in privately-owned radios. 
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06 Jun 1940 WW2 The British government banned the manufacture of a large number of household goods. 
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06 Jun 1940 WW2 German submarine U-46 sank the British armed merchant cruiser Carinthia off the coast of Ireland. 
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06 Jun 1940 WW2 5,100 Allied personnel were transported to troop transports hiding in fjords near Narvik, Norway over the previous night. They then departed the area with about 15,000 troops aboard, escorted by destroyer HMS Arrow and sloop HMS Stork for the first phase of their trip back to Britain. 
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06 Jun 1940 WW2 German submarine U-46 torpedoed British armed merchant cruiser HMS Carinthia west of Galway Bay, Ireland. Carinthia would remain afloat for another 30 hours before sinking. 
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06 Jun 1940 WW2 Adolf Galland was appointed Gruppenkommandeur III/JG 26. 
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06 Jun 1940 WW2 Adolf Hitler arrived at the Wolfsschlucht headquarters at Brûly-de-Pesche, Belgium. 
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06 Jun 1940 WW2 Japanese Army aircraft attacked Baishi Yi airfield near Chongqing, China; one of the I-15bis fighters of Chinese 21st Pursuit Squadron claimed one Japanese Ki-21 bomber shot down. 
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06 Jun 1940 WW2 The Kremlin issued an ultimatum to Latvia, demanding it the allow Soviet occupation. 
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06 Jun 1941 WW2 Hitler implemented the Kommissarbefehl, or Commissar Order, which would bring about the summary execution of any captured Soviet political commissars; this order would be ignored by most German Army commanders. 
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06 Jun 1941 WW2 The British Air Ministry issued a contract to Avro for the supply of 454 Lancaster Mk I heavy bombers powered by four Merlin XX engines, plus two prototype Lancaster Mk II fitted with four Bristol Hercules VI engines. 
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06 Jun 1941 WW2 Italian submarine Marconi sank British ship Baron Lovat (the entire crew survived) and Swedish ship Taberg (15 killed) 350 miles west of Gibraltar. 
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06 Jun 1941 WW2 German submarine U-106 sank British ship Sacramento Valley 250 miles west of Cape Verde Islands at 0503 hours; 3 were killed, 39 survived. 
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06 Jun 1941 WW2 German submarine U-43 sank Dutch ship Yselhaven 930 miles northwest of the Azores at 2024 hours; 24 were killed, 10 survived. Three hours later at 2325 hours, 630 miles northwest of the Azores, U-48 sank British ship Tregarthen, killing all 45 aboard. 
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06 Jun 1941 WW2 Aircraft from HMS Eagle sank German blockade runner Elbe in the South Atlantic. 
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06 Jun 1941 WW2 RAF fighters shot down a French 167F bomber over Palestine. 
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06 Jun 1942 WW2 In North Africa the RAF deployed its "secret" Hurricane IID Tank Buster Squadron which had been training to deliver low-level attacks on enemy tank formations using Hurricane fighters fitted with dual 40mm cannon. Within ten days the squadron would make 37 sorties, damaging 31 enemy tanks (although very few were completely destroyed). 
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06 Jun 1942 WW2 John Winant spoke to a group of British coal miners in Durham, England, United Kingdom and persuaded them from striking. 
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06 Jun 1942 WW2 General Lewis Brereton, commander of the US 10th Air Force in the China-Burma-India theater, was transferred to Egypt. 
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06 Jun 1942 WW2 Speedboat Esau from German armed merchant cruiser Michel damaged US liberty ship George Clymer with a torpedo in the South Atlantic at 0200 hours. Near the Equator in the Central Atlantic, German armed merchant cruiser Stier sank Panamanian tanker Stanvac Calcutta with gunfire (12 were killed, 36 survived and were captured); Stier suffered two hits when Stanvac Calcutta returned fire with her 4-inch gun. 
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06 Jun 1942 WW2 German submarine U-68 sank Panamanian tanker C. O. Stillman 60 miles southwest of Puerto Rico at 0307 hours; 3 were killed, 55 survived. 
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06 Jun 1942 WW2 Nachi provided support for the landings at Attu, Aleutian Islands. 
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06 Jun 1942 WW2 233 British bombers (124 Wellington, 40 Stirling, 27 Halifax, 20 Lancaster, 15 Hampden, 7 Manchester) attacked Emden, Germany, destroying 300 houses, killing 17 civilians, and wounding 49; 9 bombers were lost on this mission. 
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06 Jun 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-16 sank Yugoslavian freighter Susak with her deck gun just off the coast of Portuguese Overseas Province of Mozambique. 
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06 Jun 1942 WW2 Axis troops routed 3 Indian infantry battalions and 4 artillery regiments that failed to flee as the Operation Aberdeen offensive was called off on the previous day in Libya. With victory secured at this battle, Erwin Rommel moved the German 90th Light Division to reinforce the siege on Free French-held fort of Bir Hakeim. 
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06 Jun 1942 WW2 In Libya, Kittybombers repeatedly attacked Axis armor formations near the Knightsbridge box during the Battle of Gazala. 
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06 Jun 1942 WW2 Aircraft from USS Enterprise and USS Hornet attacked, damaging destroyer Arashio (37 were killed), destroyer Asashio (22 were killed), and cruiser Mogami (81 killed) and causing fatal damage to cruiser Mikuma, which would sink later in the day (650 killed, 240 survived). As US Navy Task Force 16 sailed eastward to refuel, thus breaking contact with the Japanese fleet, the Battle of Midway drew to a close. 
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06 Jun 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-168 successfully navigated past American destroyers at 0430 hours north of Midway Atoll and closed in on the damaged carrier USS Yorktown at 1331 hours, firing 4 torpedoes. Destroyer USS Hammann was struck, sinking her immediately (84 were killed, 104 survived). Yorktown was also hit, but it would remain afloat despite the additional damage. 
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06 Jun 1942 WW2 While assisting damage control efforts aboard USS Yorktown, USS Hammann was struck by a torpedo from I-168, breaking her in half. She sank very quickly, then suffered a underwater explosion, most likely from her own depth charges, which killed many survivors in the water. 80 men were killed in the sinking. 
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06 Jun 1942 WW2 German troops continued the bombardment of Sevastopol, Russia with large caliber weapons. 
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06 Jun 1942 WW2 German bombers attacked Canterbury, England, United Kingdom. 
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06 Jun 1942 WW2 Clarence Tinker led a flight of B-24 Liberator bombers from Midway Atoll. 
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06 Jun 1943 WW2 USS Tunny arrived off Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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06 Jun 1943 WW2 8 Japanese light bombers escorted by 14 fighters attacked Liangshan Airfield in Chongqing, China, destroying 12 P-40 fighters and 1 other aircraft on the ground. Captain Chow Chin-kai, who had just landed in a P-40 fighters, commandeered a P-66 Vanguard fighter parked nearby and shot down 3 bombers. Chow was later awarded the Order of Blue Sky and White Sun for this action. 
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06 Jun 1943 WW2 Fresh troops of the Chinese 74th Corps arrived in the Hubei-Hunan border region in China, wiping out two brigades of the Japanese 17th Independent Mixed Regiment. 
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06 Jun 1943 WW2 The Shirakawa Prisoners of War Camp in southern Taiwan was opened at the site of a former Japanese Army base. 
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06 Jun 1944 WW2 130,000 to 150,000 Allied troops, roughly half American and half British and Commonwealth, invaded the beaches of Normandy, France; it was the largest amphibious operation. 
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06 Jun 1944 WW2 Allied bombers conducted a raid on Belgrade, Yugoslavia. 
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06 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Pintado ten torpedoes against a Japanese convoy in the Philippine Sea, sinking Havre Maru and Kashimasan Maru. 
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06 Jun 1944 WW2 British Company Sergeant-Major Stanley Hollis, using a PIAT launcher, took down several German pillboxes and a field gun during the Normandy invasion in France and was credited for saving the lives of many men. He was awarded the Victoria Cross, the only awarded for actions on the initial day of the invasion. 
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06 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Gabilan arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending first war patrol. 
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06 Jun 1944 WW2 French troops captured Tivoli, Italy. 
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06 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Harder attempted to attack a Japanese convoy in the Sibutu Passage between Tawi-Tawi of Philippine Islands and Borneo, but was in turn targeted by two destroyers. Submerging and sailing away from the convoy, Harder fired three torpedoes out of her stern torpedo tubes, hitting destroyer Minazuki twice, sinking her. She fired another spread of torpedoes at the second destroyer shortly after; all six torpedoes missed. 
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06 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Wasp was assigned to US Navy Task Group 58.2. 
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06 Jun 1944 WW2 The Davao Penal Colony on Mindanao, Philippine Islands was closed; the American and Filipino prisoners were transferred to Cebu island. 
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06 Jun 1944 WW2 Submarine Sennet was launched at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, United States, sponsored by the wife of Roscoe W. Downs. 
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06 Jun 1944 WW2 Robert Johnson returned to the United States. 
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06 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island returned to her front line position off Okinawa, Japan. 
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06 Jun 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 33 arrived. 
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06 Jun 1945 WW2 Japanese Submarine Squadron 1 began joint submarine-seaplane exercises in Nanao Bay, Japan. 
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06 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Capitaine fired four torpedoes at a small Japanese patrol craft in the South China Sea; all torpedoes missed. 
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06 Jun 1946 WW2 Fearing the United States would scale back aid if he did not comply, Chiang Kaishek accepted George Marshall's request for the Nationalists to halt their so far successful offensive against the Chinese Communists in northeastern China by announcing a 15-day truce. In the mean time, Marshall would naively attempt to engage with the Communists in peace negotiations. 
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06 Jun 1949 WW2 He Yingqin stepped down from his position as the head of the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China and as the chairman of the US aid committee. 
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