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History on the 6th of July

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06 Jul 1911 WW2 Henry Arnold recieved Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) pilot certificate No. 29. 
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06 Jul 1914 WW2 William Dimoline was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant and was assigned to 5th Battalion of King's Regiment (Liverpool). 
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06 Jul 1917 WW2 T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) with his Arab irregulars under Auda ibu Tayi captured the town of Aqaba, Ottoman Syria. 
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06 Jul 1918 WW2 US President Wilson approached the Japanese Government with a plan to rescue the Czech Legion (confining military operations to eastern Siberia only with no more than 12,000 Japanese troops to be employed). 
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06 Jul 1918 WW2 Friedrich Christiansen strafed British submarine HMS C25 in the Thames estuary in southern England, United Kingdom, killing its captain and five crewmen. 
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06 Jul 1918 WW2 Masafumi Arima returned to Japan. 
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06 Jul 1920 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt was nominated as a candidate for US Vice President. 
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06 Jul 1921 WW2 A truce was signed between the British Government and the IRA to allow negotiations to take place. The Nationalists wanted an independent Republic whilst the Lloyd George offered to create an Irish State with Dominion status under the king. As the weeks went by Lloyd George gradually won over the Irish delegates and finally obtained agreement (except for the status of Ulster) by an ultimatum - Peace or War. The Nationalists did not challenge it. 
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06 Jul 1932 WW2 Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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06 Jul 1935 WW2 HMS Amphion was commissioned into service. 
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06 Jul 1936 WW2 The British RAF Fighter Command was established. 
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06 Jul 1937 WW2 After the failure of the Spanish Nationalist attack upon Guadalajara the Spanish Republican troops around Madrid went on to the offensive. General José Miaja ordered two Republican Corps (led by Generals Juan Modesto and Enrique Jurado) to advance southwards from the El Escorial-Madrid road towards Brunette. Their aim was to cut off those Nationalist forces besieging Madrid from the west. At the start of the 20-day battle that ensued, the initial thrust captured Brunette and drove a 5 mile salient into the Nationalist front-line. The Nationalist armies, under the command of General José Varela, then rallied and mounted a counter-attack which forced the republicans almost all the way back to their start line. 
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06 Jul 1937 WW2 Japanese troops conducted a night-time exercise near the border of China and the Japanese-sponsored puppet nation of Manchukuo in northeastern China. The Japanese authorities failed to give the Chinese notice, thus the Chinese guards regarded the Japanese troops as invaders and fired a number of rifle shots at them. At 2300 hours, the Japanese troops fired back, but would very soon pull back. Japanese Major Kiyonao Ichiki reported one of his men was missing after the brief fire fight, suspecting that he was captured by the Chinese. Before midnight, demands for the return of the missing soldiers were being sent to Chinese military headquarters. 
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06 Jul 1938 WW2 Japanese minelayer Kamome struck a mine in the Yangtze River off Pengze, Jiangxi Province, China; she was towed away for repairs. 
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06 Jul 1939 WW2 The last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany were closed. 
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06 Jul 1939 WW2 HMS Edinburgh was commissioned into service and was assigned to the 18th Cruiser Squadron of the Home Fleet of the British Royal Navy. 
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06 Jul 1940 WW2 The first German U-boat base in France was opened at Lorient. 
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06 Jul 1940 WW2 German aircraft and minesweepers sank four British submarines (Narwhal, Spearfish, Shark, and Thames). 
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06 Jul 1940 WW2 Operation Lever: British Royal Navy Force H under Vice Admiral James Somerville returned to Mers-el-Kébir, Algeria. At dawn, Swordfish aircraft from carrier HMS Ark Royal scored several torpedo hits on French battleship Dunkerque, killing 154 and wounding 8. One torpedo hit patrol boat Terre Neuve, detonating depth charges, killing 8; shock waves from the explosion further damaged Dunkerque. 
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06 Jul 1940 WW2 British cruisers HMS Capetown and HMS Caledon and destroyers HMS Janus, HMS Juno, HMS Ilex, and HMS Imperial shelled Bardia, Libya near the Egyptian border at 0537 hours, sinking Italian ship Axum and damaged another merchant ship. Italian bombers arrived at 0820 hours, but caused no damage against the British warships. 
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06 Jul 1940 WW2 British submarine HMS Shark, damaged by attacks from German auxiliary minesweepers M1803 (trawler Spitzbergen), M1806 (trawler Cuxhaven), and M1807 (trawler Mulsum) in Boknafjord near Stavanger, Norway on the previous day, became captured by the Germans. She was in the process of being towed by the German ships when she suddenly sank, killing 3. The remaining 32 crew members were rescued and became prisoners of war. 
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06 Jul 1940 WW2 German radio stations played the song "Denn wir fahren gegen Engeland" for the first time. 
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06 Jul 1940 WW2 German submarine U-34 sank Estonian collier Vapper south of Cape Clear, Ireland; 1 was killed and 32 took to lifeboats; German submarine U-99, which had chased Vapper for the past 90 minutes, observed the sinking. To the south, U-30 sank Egyptian ship Angele Mabro west of Brest, France, killing all aboard. 
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06 Jul 1941 WW2 Lieutenant Roden Cutler won the Victoria Cross for clearing enemy positions in Syria. Wounded, he lay in the open for 26 hours before comrades could get to him, by which time his leg required amputation. 
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06 Jul 1941 WW2 After sundown, German bombers conducted a light attack on Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom. 
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06 Jul 1941 WW2 Douglas Bader shot down a German Bf 109 aircraft. 
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06 Jul 1941 WW2 Australian troops attacked French troops at El Atiqa and El Boum in Lebanon, capturing both positions by nightfall. 
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06 Jul 1941 WW2 The Military Collegium of the Soviet NKVD sentenced four teenagers to death for being the son and nephews of Nestor Lakoba, political enemy of Lavrentiy Beria (already killed in Dec 1936). 
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06 Jul 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Kendari, Celebes. 
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06 Jul 1942 WW2 Tirpitz arrived at Bogen near Narvik, Norway. 
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06 Jul 1942 WW2 Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse. 
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06 Jul 1942 WW2 The British RAF Coastal Command scored its first enemy vessel sunk with the newly equipped Wellington bombers. 
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06 Jul 1942 WW2 German submarine U-154 sank Panamanian fishing boat Lalita with shellfire 20 miles off the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico at 1837 hours. U-67 sank Norwegian ship Bayard 45 miles south of Pascagoula, Mississippi, United States at 1857 hours; 11 were killed, 21 survived. 
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06 Jul 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-10 sank Greek merchant ship Nymphe in the Mozambique Channel at 1615 hours. 
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06 Jul 1942 WW2 German submarine U-255 sank US ship John Witherspoon; 1 was killed, 49 survived. German aircraft sank US ship Pan Atlantic. Both ships were of Allied convoy PQ-17, traveling in the Barents Sea. 
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06 Jul 1942 WW2 German submarine U-375 sank Norwegian ship Hero 20 miles southwest of Haifa, Palestine at 0526 hours; 31 were killed, 13 survived. 
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06 Jul 1942 WW2 George Marshall asked Douglas MacArthur whether he would like to have George Kenney assigned to him to lead the air forces based in Australia. 
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06 Jul 1942 WW2 German submarine U-201 sank British ship Avila Star 90 miles east of the Azores islands at 0036 hours; 84 were killed, 112 survived. German submarine U-502 was sunk on the surface by a British RAF Wellington bomber with depth charges 250 miles west of France before dawn; all 52 aboard were killed. German submarine U-132 attacked Allied convoy QS-15 at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada, sinking Belgian ship Hainaut (at 0521 hours; 1 was killed, 44 survived), sinking Greek ship Anastassios Pateras (at 0521 hours; 3 were killed, 26 survived), and fatally damaging British ship Dinaric (at 0646 hours; 4 were killed); Canadian minesweeper HMCS Drummondville rammed (and missed) U-132 and dropped depth charges, causing minor damage to U-132. 
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06 Jul 1942 WW2 Japanese merchant ship Naruto Maru took on Australian nurses and 60 prisoners of war and departed Rabaul, New Britain, sailing for Yokohama, Japan. 
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06 Jul 1942 WW2 Kinryu Maru, another transport, and five destroyers arrived at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands from Truk, Caroline Islands, disembarking Japanese 11th Establishment Unit, 13th Establishment Unit, 100 trucks, 4 heavy tractors, 6 steam rollers, 2 generators, 2 locomotives with cars, and other equipment necessary for building an airfield. 
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06 Jul 1942 WW2 Tenryu escorted a convoy (containing an engineering battalion tasked with setting up an airfield) to Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 
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06 Jul 1942 WW2 Naka exited drydock at Maizuru, Japan. 
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06 Jul 1942 WW2 German 4th Panzer Army reached the outskirts of Voronezh, Russia and German 6th Army reached Ostrogozhsky 70 miles south of Voronezh, making the Soviets realize that the Germans were heading Caucasus region to the south rather than Moscow to the north. Joseph Stalin ordered Voronezh to be held at all costs in order to main control of the rail network linking the Caucasus region with the areas to the north. Stalin also allowed Semyon Timoshenko to withdraw east of the Don River. 
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06 Jul 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Kavieng, New Ireland departing later on the same day. 
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06 Jul 1943 WW2 American and Japanese ships engaged in the Battle of Kula Gulf. The Americans lost one light cruiser and the Japanese two destroyers. 
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06 Jul 1943 WW2 Troops of German 1st Mountain Division massacred 107 people of the village of Borova in Albania. 
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06 Jul 1943 WW2 Lieutenant Frederic Hargesheimer of US 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, who had survived the shot down of his aircraft over New Britain, was found by natives after spending a month in the jungle. 
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06 Jul 1943 WW2 During Battle of Kula Gulf northwest of New Georgia, USS Helena ambushed an incoming Japanese convoy at 0157 hours, but the many gun flashes in turn made her an attractive target for Japanese gunners. She was struck by a Japanese Type 93 torpedo at 0203 hours, followed by two more at 0205 hours. She would sink at 0225 hours. 
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06 Jul 1943 WW2 Irako arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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06 Jul 1943 WW2 French and Belgian prisoners of war began to be transferred out of the Oflag IV-C camp at Colditz Castle in Germany for the Oflag X-C camp in Lübeck; the transfer would continue until 12 Jul when the last French and Belgian prisoners were transferred out. 
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06 Jul 1943 WW2 Captain Franco Lucchini, Italian fighter ace with 26 victories, was shot down and killed by a Spitfire fighter over Sicily, Italy. 
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06 Jul 1943 WW2 Dwight Eisenhower arrived at Malta by B-17 aircraft. 
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06 Jul 1943 WW2 USS Permit sank a Japanese transport off Hokkaido, Japan, hitting her with 1 of 2 torpedoes fired. 
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06 Jul 1943 WW2 In Russia, in the north of the Kursk salient, on Central Front, Konstantin Rokossovsky launched a counter-attack, throwing in three tank corps. But it foundered on former Soviet minefields which the Germans had reinforced, and the Soviets instead took up fixed positions to act as a breakwater against a renewed German assault. 
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06 Jul 1944 WW2 USS Franklin arrived in the Mariana Islands area; she was to remain through 22 Jul 1944 to launch strikes against Japanese position on Rota and Guam islands. 
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06 Jul 1944 WW2 USS Tang sank the 39,100-ton Japanese transport Dori Maru off Dalian, China at about 0300 hours with two torpedoes. With this sinking, she obtained the record of the greatest total tonnage sunk by an American submarine during one war patrol. 
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06 Jul 1944 WW2 Soviet troops captured Kovel, Ukraine. 
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06 Jul 1944 WW2 Chaim Weizmann, the future Israeli president, messaged British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, requesting the rail lines leading to Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland to be bombed. 
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06 Jul 1944 WW2 Captain Yujiro Takarada was named the commanding officer of light carrier Hosho. 
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06 Jul 1944 WW2 Colonel (temporary Lieutenant General) George Patton, Jr. secretly flew into the Cotentin Peninsula in France. 
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06 Jul 1944 WW2 Wing Commamner Leonard Cheshire led a "Tallboy" attack on the V-3 gun structure at Mimoyecque. After this mission, the last of his fourth tour, he was ordered to rest (he never flew operations again) and two months later he was awarded the Victoria Cross. 
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06 Jul 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Sixteen men of WIMU (special ordinance project) arrived on board. Part of Air Group 22 arrived. 
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06 Jul 1944 WW2 British Eighth Army captured Osimo, Italy. 
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06 Jul 1944 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo committed suicide for his failure to hold Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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06 Jul 1944 WW2 Yoshitsugu Saito announced that he would fight to the death alongside his troops on Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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06 Jul 1944 WW2 USS Sunfish sank Soviet merchant ship Ob in the Kurile Islands, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired. 
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06 Jul 1944 WW2 Prisoners Edward Galinski and Mala Zimetbaum, escaped from Auschwitz Concentration Camp in occupied Poland in Jun 1944, were re-captured. They would later be executed for this attempt. 
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06 Jul 1944 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt met with Charles de Gaulle in Washington DC, United States. 
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06 Jul 1945 WW2 Norway declared war on Japan. On this date, there were over 800 Norwegians being held in Japanese prisoner of war camps. 
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06 Jul 1945 WW2 517 American B-29 bombers from the Mariana Islands dropped incendiary bombs on Japan. 
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06 Jul 1945 WW2 100 American P-51 and P-38 fighters attacked Japanese targets in Indochina. 
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06 Jul 1945 WW2 King Mihai I of Romania was awarded the Soviet Order of Victory for his leadership role in the ousting of Ion Antonescu, making him the only civilian recipient of this award. 
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06 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Tunny arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her ninth and final war patrol. 
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06 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Whale arrived at Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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06 Jul 1946 WW2 USS Tirante was decommissioned from service for the first time. 
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06 Jul 1946 WW2 USS Shamrock Bay was decommissioned from service. 
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06 Jul 1947 WW2 The AK-47 assault rifle entered production in the Soviet Union. 
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06 Jul 1947 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze was transferred to the Republic of China as war reparation. 
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06 Jul 1949 WW2 USS Charr arrived at Portland, Oregon, United States. 
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