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History on the 8th of June

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08 Jun 1913 WW2 British Suffragette Emily Davison died of her injuries incurred when she stepped out in front of the King's horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby in southern England, United Kingdom four days earlier. 
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08 Jun 1918 WW2 Edward Brooks was promoted to the rank of captain. 
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08 Jun 1918 WW2 Carrier Eagle was launched at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, United Kingdom. 
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08 Jun 1920 WW2 The highest scoring Allied fighter ace of World War II, Ivan Kozhedub, was born at the village of Obrazheyevska in the Sumy region of the Ukraine. 
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08 Jun 1921 WW2 HMS Effingham was launched. 
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08 Jun 1921 WW2 Edmund Herring signed the roll of counsel of the Victorian Bar. 
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08 Jun 1929 WW2 Miss Margaret Grace Bondfield (born 1873) became the first woman to hold a (minor) British government post as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Labour in the Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald. 
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08 Jun 1934 WW2 Cuttlefish was commissioned into service. 
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08 Jun 1936 WW2 Hawker Aviation issued fuselage manufacturing drawings of the soon-to-be-named Hurricane design to its production shops. 
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08 Jun 1937 WW2 The Tribal-class destroyer HMS Afridi was launched by Lady Foster at Vickers-Armstrong’s High Walker Yard on the Tyne in England, United Kingdom. 
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08 Jun 1937 WW2 Major General Ben H. Fuller, who had been the 15th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, passed away in Washington DC, United States. 
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08 Jun 1938 WW2 US Ambassador to Tokyo Joseph Grew issued a protest to the Japanese government for the bombing of Lingnan University in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China; the French government also issued a protest for recent attacks on a French hospital in Guangzhou. In Shanghai, China, Rear Admiral Noda Kiyoshi, who was in charge of Japanese Navy's public relations, announced that "our aviators are doing their best to avoid hitting non-combatants." 
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08 Jun 1938 WW2 German businessman John Rabe sent a letter, a detailed report, and a roll of film (shot by US missionary George Fitch) to Adolf Hitler in the hopes that Germany would be able to influence Japan to cease the brutal treatment of the Chinese population. Rabe was unexpected threatened by the Gestapo several days later, warning him to remain quiet on this topic. 
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08 Jun 1940 WW2 French and Polish troops left dummies on the front lines to trick their German foes and fell back into Narvik, Norway for evacuation. British Group II troop transports took on the final 4,600 Allied troops and departed Narvik, escorted by carrier HMS Ark Royal, cruisers HMS Southampton and HMS Coventry, and 11 destroyers. German aircraft conducted nearly continuous attacks on the convoy, while German troops on land quickly realized the situation and moved into Narvik. 
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08 Jun 1940 WW2 During Operation Juno, German cruiser Admiral Hipper sank British tanker Oil Pioneer and escorting armed trawler HMS Juniper; 20 were killed and 29 survivors were captured by the crew of Admiral Hipper. Admiral Hipper moved on to sink troop transport Orama; 19 were killed and 280 survivors were captured by German destroyers. When Admiral Hipper encountered hospital ship Atlantis, she allowed her to departed unsolicited. 
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08 Jun 1940 WW2 German 5th and 7th Panzer Divisions crossed the Seine River in France, and the troops of the 5th Panzer Division captured the city of Rouen. To the east, the 14th Panzer Corps broke through at Amiens, but the 16th Panzer Corps continued to be held down in Péronne by hedgehogs manned by troops of the French 7th Army. 
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08 Jun 1940 WW2 Captain Guy D'Oyly Huges of HMS Glorious failed to launch scouting aircraft as the carrier sailed for Britain, thus was caught unprepared when German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau (amidst Operation Juno) intercepted the group 170 miles off of the Norwegian coast. At 1630 hours, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau opened fire at the distance of 24 kilometers, scoring at least one hit at that long distance. Escoring destroyer HMS Ardent was destroyed by gunfire at 1720 hours, killing 151. Aircraft aboard Glorious could not be launched to participate in the battle due to flight deck damage, and all aircraft were lost when the carrier sank at 1910 hours; 1,162 sailors and 59 RAF personnel were killed. Escorting destroyer HMS Acasta hit Scharnhorst with one torpedo but was sunk by gunfire at 1920 hours, killing 161. German Navy Admiral Wilhelm Marschall ordered his flagship Gneisenau's flag to be lowered to half mast to honor the crew of the British destroyers who attempted to fight off the attack despite being outgunned. 
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08 Jun 1941 WW2 Germany experienced the largest RAF bombing raid thus far. 
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08 Jun 1941 WW2 Commonwealth and Free French forces in northern Palestine crossed the border into southern French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon; the Free French promised the counties full independence for their co-operation. Troops of the British No. 11 (Scottish) Commando was to conduct an amphibious raid in an attempt to secure a crossing on the Litani River for the Australian troops, but bad weather delayed their arrival by sea. 
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08 Jun 1941 WW2 After two German air raids on Alexandria, Egypt, which had killed 400 people, 40,000 residents were evacuated from the city. 
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08 Jun 1942 WW2 Tatsuta Maru departed Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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08 Jun 1942 WW2 USS Gar arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her second war patrol. 
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08 Jun 1942 WW2 Douglas MacArthur proposed to the Army Chief of Staff a limited offensive to regain positions in the Bismarck Archipelago. 
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08 Jun 1942 WW2 USS Astoria was relieved of her duty as Rear Admiral Frank Fletcher's flagship. 
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08 Jun 1942 WW2 German submarine U-107 sank US ship Suwied 100 miles east of Cozumel, Mexico at 0119 hours; 6 were killed, 27 survived. At 0500 hours, U-172 sank US ship Sicilien 10 miles south of Cape Beata, Dominican Republic; 44 were killed, 31 survived. At 0700 hours, U-504 sank Huondran ship Tela with two torpedoes 100 miles southeast of Cozumel; 11 were killed, 43 survived. At 1800 hours, U-504 struck again, sinking British ship Rosenborg with her deck gun; 4 were killed, 23 survived. 
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08 Jun 1942 WW2 German submarine U-135 sank Norwegian ship Pleasantville 225 miles northwest of Bermuda at 0316 hours; 2 were killed, 45 survived. German submarine U-128 sank Norwegian tanker South Africa 400 miles east of Trinidad at 1419 hours; 6 were killed, 36 survived. 
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08 Jun 1942 WW2 German submarine U-83 sank Egyptian ship Said with her deck gun 15 miles southwest of Jaffa, British Palestine at 0511 hours; 5 were killed, 9 survived. At 2330 hours, U-83 struck again, sinking Palestinian sail boat Esther with her deck gun 10 miles off Sidon, Syria-Lebanon. 
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08 Jun 1942 WW2 Italian submarine Alagi sank Italian destroyer Antoniotto Usodimare with a torpedo 100 miles north of Cape Bon, Tunisia in a case of mis-identification. 
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08 Jun 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-24 fired 10 shells at the Sydney Harbor Bridge in Sydney, Australia shortly after 0000 hours, scoring no hits on the bridge but destroyed one house nearby. At 0215 hours, I-21 surfaced near Newcastle, Australia and fired 34 shells, damaging a house near the BHP steelworks; as the coastal guns at Fort Scratchley fired at I-21 (which caused no damage), this became the only time where Australian land-based guns would fire at a Japanese ship in the war. 
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08 Jun 1942 WW2 Men of the Japanese Kure No. 3 Special Naval Landing Force raided Simberi, New Ireland in search of coast watcher Cornelius Page; Page went into hiding. 
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08 Jun 1942 WW2 170 British bombers (92 Wellington, 42 Halifax, 14 Stirling, 13 Lancaster, 9 Hampden) attacked Essen, Germany, killing 13 and wounding 42; 19 bombers were lost on this mission. 
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08 Jun 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-10 sank British ship King Lud in the Mozambique Channel at 0953 hours with torpedoes, killing all aboard. In the same area, I-16 sank Greek ship Aghios Georgios IV with her deck gun and I-18 sank Norwegian ship Wilford with her deck gun. In the middle of the Indian Ocean, I-20 sank Greek ship Christos Markettos. 
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08 Jun 1942 WW2 Thick fog allowed an Allied supply convoy to supply French troops at Bir Hakeim, Libya; meanwhile, the same fog also allowed the Axis build-up to be completed without being detected, which led to the start of what would be the final assault on the fort; this final assault would be personally led by Erwin Rommel. In the evening, French General Pierre Kœnig decided the fort would be abandoned on 11 Jun 1942. 
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08 Jun 1942 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille became the permanent commanding officer of the squadron 3 Staffel I./JG-27. 
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08 Jun 1942 WW2 2 battleships, 1 escort carrier, and 2 heavy cruisers broke off from the retiring Japanese Navy Midway invasion fleet to reinforce the Aleutian Islands. 
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08 Jun 1942 WW2 Naka arrived at Mako, Pescaore islands. 
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08 Jun 1943 WW2 Mutsu suffered an explosion due to unknown cause at 1213 hours about three kilometers north of Oshima Island in Japan. 1,121 men were killed; several hundred survivors were treated at military hospitals in Japan and then shipped off to various garrisons in order to maintain secrecy of this accidental explosion. 
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08 Jun 1943 WW2 USS Finback attacked a Japanese convoy east of Philippine Islands and claimed two transports sunk and another ship damaged, hitting them with 4 of 8 torpedoes fired. 
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08 Jun 1943 WW2 Brigadier General Paul Wursmith of US V Fighter Command landed a P-40 fighter at Marilinan, about 40 kilometers west of Lae, Australian Papua, to evaluate the general area for the possible construction of a new fighter airstrip. 
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08 Jun 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of Photographic Squadron 3 (VD-3) on board. Brig turned over to station. 
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08 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Tunny made rendezvous with USS Pilotfish and USS Pintado and formed a wolfpack; the group was nicknamed Blair Blasters. 
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08 Jun 1944 WW2 Former Chinese light cruiser Ninghai, now in Japanese service, was renamed Ioshima. 
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08 Jun 1944 WW2 Edward Brooks arrived in Normandy, France ahead of his US 2nd Armored Division. 
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08 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Tang departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, starting her third war patrol in the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea. 
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08 Jun 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of CASU-43 arrived on board. 
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08 Jun 1944 WW2 US Fifth Army captured Civita Castellana, Italy. 
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08 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Harder boarded six British coast watcher on the coast of North Borneo. 
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08 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Sea Cat attacked a Japanese merchant ship with two torpedoes, both of which missed their target. 
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08 Jun 1945 WW2 Jozef Tiso was arrested. 
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08 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Missouri bombarded Kyushu, Japan. 
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08 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Boarfish arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her third war patrol. 
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08 Jun 1945 WW2 The fleet minesweeper USS Salute was sunk by a Japanese mine whilst covering landings at Brunei Bay. 
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08 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Guitarro arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her fifth and final war patrol. 
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08 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Saint Paul conducted training operations in waters off Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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08 Jun 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Rear Admiral CP Mason made an inspection of the station. 
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08 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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08 Jun 1946 WW2 Myoko was decommissioned from service. 
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08 Jun 1946 WW2 USS Cero was decommissioned from service at New London, Connecticut, United States and was placed in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. 
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08 Jun 1948 WW2 General Lucious Clay, US military governor of Germany, reduced Josias' life imprisonment term to 12 years. 
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08 Jun 1948 WW2 Ilse Koch's life sentence was reduced to four years. 
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