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History on the 7th of June

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07 Jun 1917 WW1 Begin of Battle of Messines
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07 Jun 1918 WW2 In Siberia, Russia, the Czech Legion captured Omsk. 
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07 Jun 1918 WW2 While in France, George Brett was promoted to the temporary rank of major. 
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07 Jun 1924 WW2 HMS Eagle was assigned to the British Mediterranean Fleet. 
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07 Jun 1929 WW2 Oswald Mosley was made the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. 
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07 Jun 1934 WW2 Nazi Party SA leader Ernst Röhm went on leave upon learning of a potential political attack on him. 
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07 Jun 1934 WW2 At a large British Union of Fascists rally, attended by 15,000 people who had come to hear Oswald Mosley speak, including some 2,000 Blackshirts acting as stewards, at the Olympia Stadium in London, England, United Kingdom a couple of thousand communist infiltrators heckled to the point where open mass brawling broke out when hecklers were removed by the stewards. This resulted in such bad publicity that the party lost support from many of its influential supporters, who defected away in protest of Mosley's ever more radical and authoritarian methods. 
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07 Jun 1935 WW2 Pierre Laval became the 112th Prime Minister of France. 
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07 Jun 1936 WW2 Cruiser Köln began operations off Spain. 
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07 Jun 1936 WW2 Ira Eaker completed the first blind flight from New York to Los Angeles, making this the first North American transcontinental flight using only instruments. 
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07 Jun 1937 WW2 USS Pollack departed Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, United States, starting her shakedown cruise in the Caribbean Sea. 
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07 Jun 1939 WW2 In the German capital of Berlin, Germany signed separate non-aggression pacts with Latvia and Estonia. The documents were signed for Germany by Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop; Foreign Minister Vilhelms Munters signed for Latvia, and Foreign Minister Karl Selter signed for Estonia. 
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07 Jun 1940 WW2 French armed merchant cruiser Ville D'Oran arrived at Casablanca in French Morocco with 212 tons of gold from the French reserves. 
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07 Jun 1940 WW2 Rommel's troops marched down the French coast toward Rouen, while Kleist's troops were held up by French defensive lines between Amiens and Péronne. 
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07 Jun 1940 WW2 Between midnight and 0330 hours, at about 10 miles north of Ireland, German submarine U-48 sank British ship Francis Massey (killing 33 and sinking 7,500 tons of iron ore) and damaged British ship Eros (no deaths). 
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07 Jun 1940 WW2 The French Air Force bombed Berlin, Germany. 
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07 Jun 1940 WW2 King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav, and members of the Norwegian government departed Tromsø in Northern Norway at 2000 hours aboard British cruiser HMS Devonshire. They were headed for Britain. 
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07 Jun 1940 WW2 The troop transports of British Group II arrived at Narvik, Norway and embarked 5,200 men overnight. Nearby, British pilots without proper carrier landing training safely land 10 Gladiator and 8 Hurricane aircraft aboard HMS Glorious, completing the evacuation of 46 and 263 Squadrons RAF from Norway. Out at sea, troop transports of Group I which had departed Narvik on the previous day were spotted by German aircraft, but they were mis-identified as empty supply ships heading back to Britain, thus spared from attack. 
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07 Jun 1941 WW2 British Operation Battleaxe, an offensive against Axis positions in Libya, was delayed. 
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07 Jun 1941 WW2 Polish physician Zygmunt Klukowski's diary entry for this date noted his observation of heavy German military traffic moving east. 
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07 Jun 1941 WW2 US President Roosevelt learned that Germany was unlikely to invade the Iberian Peninsula, and suspended the planning for the occupation of the Portuguese Azores islands. 
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07 Jun 1941 WW2 Soviet Armaments Commissar Boris Vannikov was arrested. 
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07 Jun 1942 WW2 Japanese troops occupied Kiska, Aleutian Islands, US Territory of Alaska. On the same day, the American newspaper Chicago Tribune reported the Battle of Midway victory, hinting that the US Navy had knowledge of Japanese strengths prior to the engagement; this would later, in Aug 1942, trigger a Federal investigation. 
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07 Jun 1942 WW2 USS Saratoga transferred aircraft to Enterprise and Hornet so that they could sail north to reinforce the Aleutian Islands. 
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07 Jun 1942 WW2 All Jews over the age of six were forced to wear the Star of David in occupied France. 
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07 Jun 1942 WW2 Tatsuta Maru arrived at Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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07 Jun 1942 WW2 The B-24 Liberator bomber flown by Clarence Tinker plunged into the Pacific Ocean; no rescue mission was launched, and Tinker and eight other aboard were presumed lost. 
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07 Jun 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-26 sank US freighter Coast Trader 35 miles west of Washington, United States; 1 was killed, 55 survived. 
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07 Jun 1942 WW2 German submarine U-107 sank Honduran ship Castilla 75 miles south of the western tip of Cuba at 0408 hours; 24 were killed, 35 survived. 50 miles north of the western tip of Cuba, U-158 sank Panamanian ship Hermis; 1 was killed, 46 survived. At 2224 hours, U-159 sank US ship Edith 200 miles southeast of Jamaica; 2 were killed, 29 survived. 
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07 Jun 1942 WW2 German submarine U-653 sank destroyer USS Gannet 240 miles north of Bermuda at 0742 hours; 14 were killed, 62 survived. US liberty ship George Clymer, damaged on the previous day by speedboat Esau launched by German armed merchant cruiser Michel, was scuttled by British armed merchant cruiser HMS Alcantara in the South Atlantic; Michel approached to attack HMS Alcantara during the rescue operation, but would arrive far too late. 700 miles southwest of Freetown, British West Africa, Italian submarine Da Vinci sank Danish ship Chile; 5 were killed, 39 survived. 
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07 Jun 1942 WW2 British PBY Catalina flying boats sank Italian submarine Veniero off Palma, Majorca, Spain. 
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07 Jun 1942 WW2 Lieutenant Charles Conway Hartigan Jr. was made the commanding officer of the suvivors of sunken USS Hammann. 
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07 Jun 1942 WW2 German engineers penetrated the minefield outside of Bir Hakeim, Libya, but the attack was repulsed by Free French fighters with British air support. 
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07 Jun 1942 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille shot down the P-40 fighter piloted by South African Lieutenant Frewen over El Adem, Libya at 1610 hours. Three minutes later, he shot down the P-40 fighter piloted by South African Lieutenant Leonard James Peter Berragé. These were his 76th and 77th kills. 
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07 Jun 1942 WW2 I-168 successfully evaded the hunt by American submarines and escaped the Midway area on only two engines to conserve fuel. 
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07 Jun 1942 WW2 USS Yorktown, having already been abandoned for hours, slowly rolled over to her side and sank north of Midway Atoll at 0458 hours. Destroyers that remained near her wreck lowered her flags to half mast as she sank beneath the sea. 
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07 Jun 1942 WW2 Troops of German 11th Army began a 2-pronged assault on the city of Sevastopol in Russia, capturing Belbek at 1715 hours but also suffering 2,357 casualties. 
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07 Jun 1942 WW2 Italian submarine Torelli was damaged by radar-equiped British aircraft in the Bay of Biscay. Her captain beached her in northern Spain to prevent sinking, and the crew performed enough repairs for her to get on her way again, but only to be discovered and attacked by British aircraft again (1 was killed, 2 wounded). She was beached again (near Santander, Spain), and this time the temporary repairs would take until 14 Jun 1942. 
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07 Jun 1943 WW2 USS Tunny was attacked by a Japanese float biplane and later by a destroyer; none caused any damage. 
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07 Jun 1943 WW2 The Japanese began a renewed air offensive against Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 
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07 Jun 1943 WW2 Chinese 3rd Division wiped out the headquarters element of the Japanese 13th Division in the Hubei-Hunan border region in China. 
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07 Jun 1943 WW2 Dutch prisoners of war were transferred out of the Oflag IV-C camp at Colditz Castle in Germany for the camp at Stanislau in Ukraine; it had been decided in the previous month at Oflag IV-C was to house US and British prisoners only. 
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07 Jun 1943 WW2 USS Harder departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. 
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07 Jun 1943 WW2 Joseph Rochefort was ordered to travel from San Francisco, California, United States to Washington DC, United States for a new assignment. 
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07 Jun 1944 WW2 British Air Vice Marshal W. Elliot took over command of the new Balkan Air Force tasked with providing air support to Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia. 
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07 Jun 1944 WW2 British troops captured Bayeux, France. 
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07 Jun 1944 WW2 British Flying Officers McIntosh and Shepherd, the rear-gunner and mid-upper gunner respectively in Wing Commander John Grey's Lancaster bomber, combined to shoot down three German night-fighters during the course of a mission to Normandy, France. They would both be awarded the Distinguished Flying Crosses for this almost unique achievement. McIntosh would survive the war with eight confirmed and one probable kills to his credit. 
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07 Jun 1944 WW2 HMS Rodney collided with LCT 427 off Normandie, France, killing 13 British Royal Navy personnel. 
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07 Jun 1944 WW2 On the morning after the D-day landings, police raid a brothel that French prostitutes had established in a wrecked landing craft. 
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07 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Pollack arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her tenth war patrol. 
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07 Jun 1944 WW2 Anglo-Indian and Japanese troops engaged in a bloody clash at Ninthoukgong, India. 
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07 Jun 1944 WW2 US troops captured Civitavecchia, Italy. 
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07 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Whale attacked a Japanese convoy in the Pacific Ocean, damaging two transports, hitting them with 3 of 6 torpedoes fired. 
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07 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Harder was detected by a Japanese aircraft in the Celebes Sea, which called in destroyer Hayanami to attack. Harder fired three torpedoes at Hayanami, two of which hit, sinking her. 
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07 Jun 1944 WW2 The administration of the crematoriums in Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp ordered four sieves from the manufacturing firm Deutsche Ausrüstungswerke (DAW) to sift through human ashes. The sieves were to be equipped with an iron frame and the openings of the sieve screens were to be 10 millimeters in size. 
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07 Jun 1944 WW2 Henry Arnold arrived in London, England, United Kingdom. 
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07 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Sea Cat sank a 400-ton Japanese schooner with her deck gun. 
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07 Jun 1945 WW2 King Haakon returned to Norway on the fifth anniversary of his departure. 
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07 Jun 1945 WW2 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visited the liberated Channel Islands. 
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07 Jun 1945 WW2 400 American B-29 bombers attacked Osaka, Japan. 
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07 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Segundo sank a Japanese ship with her deck gun. 
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07 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Flying Fish entered the Sea of Japan. 
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07 Jun 1945 WW2 The Western Allies made German citizens in their occupation zones watch films about the Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camps. 
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