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History on the 2nd of July

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02 Jul 1925 WW2 HMS Effingham was commissioned into service. 
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02 Jul 1925 WW2 The installation of a hydraulically-operated crash barrier was completed on light carrier Hosho. 
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02 Jul 1926 WW2 Under the Air Corps Act, the US Army Air Service (USAAS) became the US Army Air Corps (USAAC). 
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02 Jul 1927 WW2 Marcel-Bruno Gensoul was promoted to the rank of capitaine de vaisseau. 
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02 Jul 1932 WW2 At Chicago, Illinois, United States, Franklin Roosevelt accepted to be the Democratic Party's candidate for the US Presidency. 
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02 Jul 1934 WW2 German President Paul von Hindenburg expressed appreciation for Adolf Hitler's decisiveness in executing the measures to put down the putsch by the Nazi Party SA organization before it took shape. 
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02 Jul 1936 WW2 Heinrich Himmler celebrated the 1,000th anniversary of the passing of King Heinrich I at the Quedlinburg Dom (also known as the Collegiate Church of St. Servatius) at Quedlinburg, Germany. 
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02 Jul 1937 WW2 Sunfish (S-class) was commissioned into service. 
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02 Jul 1937 WW2 The British Air Ministry reported Japanese activity on Spratly and Itu Aba in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. 
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02 Jul 1939 WW2 Crown Prince Yi Un inspected troops in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China. 
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02 Jul 1939 WW2 The southern prong of the Japanese offensive in Mongolia Area of China commenced. 
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02 Jul 1940 WW2 The British government canceled the Aug 1940 bank holiday. 
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02 Jul 1940 WW2 The US Congress passed the Export Control Act, giving the US President the power to control the export of military equipment whenever he thought it was "necessary in the interest of national defense". 
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02 Jul 1940 WW2 German submarine U-47 sank the British liner Arandora Star off the coast of Ireland; the liner was carrying 1,500 Italian and German prisoners of war to Canada. 
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02 Jul 1940 WW2 Adolf Hitler ordered the planning to begin for Operation Sealion, the invasion of Britain. 
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02 Jul 1940 WW2 German troops traveled from Guernsey to the islands of Alderney and Sark in the Channel Islands, meeting no opposition. 
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02 Jul 1941 WW2 While in the dock at Brest, France, Prinz Eugen was hit by a bomb during an Allied air raid. 
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02 Jul 1941 WW2 Romanian Third Army, Romanian Fourth Army, and German Eleventh Armies attacked out of Moldavia towards Vinnitsa and Odessa, Ukraine. To the north, 4.Panzergruppe breaks through near Ostrov, Russia. 
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02 Jul 1941 WW2 The Japanese Army ordered a conscription of one million men. 
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02 Jul 1941 WW2 RAF bombed the German cities of Bremen and Köln overnight. 
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02 Jul 1941 WW2 The British Military Application of Uranium Detonation (MAUD) Committee assigned the responsibility of writing its final draft of the report of its findings on the development of atomic weapons to James Chadwick. 
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02 Jul 1941 WW2 While flying against a formation of British Blenheim bombers, Adolf Galland's fighter was damaged by 20-millimeter shells fired by an escorting British Spitfire fighter. Though injured, his life was saved by a recently-installed armor plating in the cockpit. 
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02 Jul 1941 WW2 Douglas Bader was awarded the Bar to his Distinguished Service Order. Later on the same day, he claimed one Bf 109 fighter destroyed and another damaged. 
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02 Jul 1941 WW2 French Lieutenant Pierre Mairesse Lebrun, a prisoner of war at Oflag IV-C at Colditz Castle, Germany, escaped the camp by leaping the wire fence and scaling outer brick wall. He would eventually successfully make it to Switzerland. 
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02 Jul 1941 WW2 The local police in Riga, Latvia was organized by a German commander to murder 400 Jews and burn down all Riga's synagogues. 
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02 Jul 1941 WW2 Riots broke out in Lvov, Ukraine against racist laws. 
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02 Jul 1942 WW2 A German BV 138 seaplane shadowed Allied convoy PQ-17 in the Barents Sea from a distance, reporting in the convoy's position throughout the day. Seven He 115 seaplanes made a unsuccessful torpedo attack on the convoy, while German battleship Tirpitz, cruiser Admiral Hipper, four destroyers, and two torpedo boats departed Trondheim, Norway to intercept (Operation Rösselsprung). The German ships were spotted by Soviet submarine K21, which attacked and reported a hit, but in actuality the torpedo had missed. 
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02 Jul 1942 WW2 US Joint Chiefs issued the Joint Directives for Offensive Operation in Southwest Pacific Area, calling for invasions of the general New Britain-New Ireland-New Guinea region; invasions for Santa Cruz and Tulagi were scheduled to be on 1 Aug 1942. 
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02 Jul 1942 WW2 Churchill easily passed a "no confidence" vote in the House of Commons; there were 475 votes in his favor compared to 25 against. 
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02 Jul 1942 WW2 Large numbers of Soviet units were surrounded in the link-up of 4.Panzerarmee and 2.Armee near the city of Stary Oskol in Russia, but many of them manage to escape across the Don River. 
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02 Jul 1942 WW2 Generaloberst Alexander Löhr was named the commanding officer of the German 12th Army. 
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02 Jul 1942 WW2 The US 1st Marine Division's intelligence officer departed Wellington, New Zealand for Australia as part of the preparation efforts for the upcoming Guadalcanal-Tulagi landings in the Solomon Islands. 
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02 Jul 1942 WW2 Benito Mussolini cabled Adolf Hitler in regards to the future administration of Egypt, in which he recommended Erwin Rommel as the military governor and a yet-unnamed Italian as the civilian administrator. 
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02 Jul 1942 WW2 German submarine U-129 sank Norwegian ship Gundersen in the Gulf of Mexico at 0617 hours; 1 was killed, 25 survived. 
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02 Jul 1942 WW2 USS Plunger sank Japanese transport ship Unyo Maru No. 3 80 miles east of Shanghai, China. 
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02 Jul 1942 WW2 6 German aircraft attacked Allied convoy PQ-17 but was driven off without causing any damage. 
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02 Jul 1942 WW2 A group of Jews from Berlin, Germany were sent to Theresienstadt concentration camp in occupied Czechoslovakia. 
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02 Jul 1942 WW2 Erwin Rommel abandoned the southward tank sweep to have the tanks assist on the direct assault of El Alamein, Egypt, but not until the southern drive had already lost 2,000 men and 30 field guns. 
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02 Jul 1942 WW2 German aircraft sank Soviet destroyers Bditelny and Tashkent and damaged cruiser Komintern and two other destroyers at Novorossiysk, Russia. 
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02 Jul 1942 WW2 325 British bombers (175 Wellington, 53 Lancaster, 35 Halifax, 34 Stirling, and 28 Hampden) attacked Bremen, Germany, damaging 1,000 houses and 4 small industrial facilities, damaging 3 cranes in the port area, damaging 7 ships, and sinking transport ship Marieborg. The Germans suffered 5 deaths and 4 wounded while the British lost 13 bombers. 
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02 Jul 1942 WW2 Submarine S-7 departed Moshchny Island near Leningrad, Russia. 
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02 Jul 1942 WW2 The New York Times reported via the London Daily Telegraph that over 1,000,000 Jews had already been killed by Nazis. 
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02 Jul 1943 WW2 Japanese physicist Yoshio Nishina met his with army liaison officer Major General Nobuji and reported that he expected to be successful with the nuclear research project. He noted that 10 kilograms of uranium-235 of at least 50% purity to create an atomic bomb, but he needed a large cyclotron to conduct experiments to confirm this theory. Nobuji promised further funding. 
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02 Jul 1943 WW2 Greek guerrillas were placed under direct operational control of Allied Middle Eastern Command. 
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02 Jul 1943 WW2 Subhash Chandra Bose arrived in Singapore. 
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02 Jul 1943 WW2 USS Flying Fish sank a Japanese cargo ship off Taiwan, hitting her with 3 of 4 torpedoes fired. 
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02 Jul 1943 WW2 USS S-35 was ordered to sail to waters off Paramushiro, Hokkaido, Japan. 
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02 Jul 1943 WW2 Major General Noboru Sasaki assumed sole command of all Japanese garrisons on New Georgia, Solomon Islands. 
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02 Jul 1943 WW2 Troops of US Army 43rd Division began to move from Rendova to New Georgia in the Solomon Islands, covered by gunfire from US Marines 9th Defense Battalion and US Army 192nd Field Artillery aimed at Munda Airfield; Japanese bombers attempted to interfere by attacking supply dumps on Rendova, causing heavy casualties. 
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02 Jul 1943 WW2 The Italian 1st Air Force Assault Regiment "Amedeo d'Aosta" was effectively disbanded; after this date it would be consisted only with a small number of officers. 
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02 Jul 1944 WW2 Feldmarschal Günther von Kluge replaced Gerd von Rundstedt as the commanding officer of the German forces in the West (Oberbefehlshaber West). 
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02 Jul 1944 WW2 Submarine Bugara was launched, sponsored by the wife of US Navy Captain Lyman S. Perry. 
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02 Jul 1944 WW2 A TBM Avenger aircraft from USS Wake Island sank German submarine U-543 between the Canary and Cape Verde Islands. 
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02 Jul 1944 WW2 General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson (Supreme Commander, Mediterranean) received orders from London, England, United Kingdom to organize the invasion of Provence, France. The name of this operation was changed by British Prime Minister Churchill to "Dragoon". 
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02 Jul 1944 WW2 The US coastal minesweeper YMS-350 struck a mine and sank off Utah Beach, Normandy, France. 
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02 Jul 1944 WW2 Soviet 63rd Division and Soviet 30th Armored Brigade were ordered to attack Ihantala, Finland (now Petrovka, Russia) on the following day. This message was intercepted by the Finns. 
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02 Jul 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of CASU-43 departed. 
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02 Jul 1944 WW2 Germans evacuated Siena, Italy. 
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02 Jul 1944 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze arrived at Kure, Japan. 
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02 Jul 1945 WW2 Okinawa, Japan was declared secure. 
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02 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Barb launched rockets on Japanese shore installations; she was the first American submarine to fire rockets in combat. 
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02 Jul 1945 WW2 Jürgen Stroop admitted his real identity to his US captors. 
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02 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Columbia provided naval gunfire support for Australian troops fighting on Borneo. 
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02 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Saint Paul departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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02 Jul 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Commander WC King relieved Captain Erl CB Gould as Commanding Officer of this station. Photographic Squadron 3 (VD-3) departed. 
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02 Jul 1946 WW2 Émile Bertin was relieved of her duty as the French flagship at Indochina. 
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02 Jul 1946 WW2 Prosecutors of Allied nations cross-examined witnesses in Nürnberg, Germany regarding the Katyn massacre. 
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