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History on the 7th of July

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07 Jul 1911 WW2 The German ambassador in Paris, France informed the French Government that Germany had no territorial aspirations in Morocco and would negotiate for a French protectorate. 
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07 Jul 1911 WW2 Henry Arnold set an altitude record of 990 meters, or 3,260 feet. 
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07 Jul 1920 WW2 Finland recognized the Republic of Estonia. 
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07 Jul 1922 WW2 In the Soviet Union, the OO (Special Department, a military intelligence service) was divided into two departments, the OO for military counterintelligence and the KRO (Counterintelligence Department) for domestic counterintelligence. 
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07 Jul 1927 WW2 The county of Shanghai in China was raise to a city status. 
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07 Jul 1931 WW2 US Navy issued an order from Consolidated Aircraft for 23 P2Y-3 aircraft. 
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07 Jul 1932 WW2 Dupleix was commissioned into service. 
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07 Jul 1934 WW2 German SS official Theodor Eicke was appointed the Inspector of Concentration Camps and of SS Guard Associations. 
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07 Jul 1937 WW2 The USAAC placed an order for 210 Curtiss P-36A fighters, which was the largest US peacetime contract ever awarded for fighter aircraft up to that date. 
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07 Jul 1937 WW2 Even though the missing Japanese soldier suspected to have been captured by the Chinese near Beiping turned up, none of the Japanese officers at the regimental level were informed. 
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07 Jul 1937 WW2 Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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07 Jul 1938 WW2 Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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07 Jul 1940 WW2 Italy granted France permission to keep her Mediterranean bases armed. 
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07 Jul 1940 WW2 Kanalkampf: Six British fighters were shot down during aerial battles with German aircraft, killing four. 
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07 Jul 1940 WW2 German submarine U-99 sank British ship Sea Glory at the very start of the day, killing the entire crew of 29. Toward the end of the day, U-99 struck again, sinking Swedish ship Bissen 80 miles south of Cape Clear, Ireland; the entire crew of 20 survived. Also on this date, U-34 sank Dutch tanker Lucrecia 100 miles west of Land's End in southwestern England, United Kingdom, killing 2; 30 survivors were later rescued by Portuguese ship Alfarrarede. 
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07 Jul 1940 WW2 René-Émile Godfroy agreed to keep the French Navy Force X at Alexandra, Egypt, which included the battleship Lorraine and four cruisers, according to British demands. Godfroy secured Andrew Cunningham's pledge that the ships would remain under Godfroy's command and that the sailors would be repatriated. 
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07 Jul 1940 WW2 Operation Catapult: British Swordfish torpedo bombers from carrier HMS Hermes attacked the French battleship Richelieu in dock at Dakar, French West Africa. A torpedo hit caused a 40-foot hole, bringing her to the bottom of the harbor (the harbor was shallow enough for her to be refloated shortly after). 
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07 Jul 1940 WW2 After dark, a boat from HMS Hermes attempted to drop depth charges underneath French battleship Richelieu in Dakar, French West Africa; the attack was not successful. 
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07 Jul 1940 WW2 British submarine HMS H43 landed Lieutenant Hubert Nicolle on the Channel Island of Guernsey during the night to collect intelligence for the planned commando raid code named Operation Ambassador. 
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07 Jul 1940 WW2 US President Franklin Roosevelt informed the US Congress that he intended to deploy a US Marine Corps brigade to Iceland. 
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07 Jul 1941 WW2 Stalin replaced top army commanders, putting Marshal Kliment Voroshilov in command of the Northern Front, Marshal Semyon Timoshenko in the Central Front, and Marshal Semyon Budyonny on the Southern Front. On the same day, the German 4.Panzergruppe captured Pskov, Russia as it moved towards Leningrad. 
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07 Jul 1941 WW2 Reversing former statements, Maxim Litvinov broadcasted from Moscow in English that the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom must work together against Germany. 
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07 Jul 1941 WW2 US Marine Corps organized Marine Air Group 1. 
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07 Jul 1941 WW2 With one of his engines on fire, second pilot Sergeant James Ward tied a rope around himself and climbed out onto the wing of his Wellington bomber to extinguish the flames. Although he was badly burned, the aircraft made it home. The New Zealander is awarded the Victoria Cross but never received the medal, being killed on a raid two months later. 
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07 Jul 1941 WW2 Occupied Yugoslavia was carved up between Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria, with Croatia becoming an independent state. 
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07 Jul 1941 WW2 British bombers attacked Münster, Germany. 
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07 Jul 1941 WW2 After sundown, German bombers attacked Southampton, England, United Kingdom. 
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07 Jul 1941 WW2 Jürgen Stroop was assigned to the infantry regiment of German 3rd SS Division Totenkopf. 
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07 Jul 1941 WW2 German 20th Panzer Division crossed the Daugava River (Western Dvina), threatening to outflank the Polotsk Fortified Region in Byelorussia. 
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07 Jul 1941 WW2 Australian troops outflanked French positions at Damour, Lebanon. 
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07 Jul 1941 WW2 Iceland, coerced by the United Kingdom, allowed the United States to oversee the defense of the island. US 1st Marine Brigade arrived later on the same day and began to relieve the British garrison. 
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07 Jul 1941 WW2 General Seishiro Itagaki was named the commanding officer of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea, relieving Kotaro Nakamura. 
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07 Jul 1941 WW2 The US Marine Corps established the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing at Quantico, Virgina, United States under Lieutenant Colonel Louis E. Woods. 
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07 Jul 1942 WW2 German submarine U-571 sank British ship Umtata, in tow by US tug Edmund J. Moran, 10 miles off Miami, Florida, United States at 0900 hours; all 92 aboard survived. US Army Hudson aircraft sank German submarine U-701 with 3 depth charges (2 hits) 20 kilometers southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, United States at 1500 hours; 29 were killed, 17 survived. 
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07 Jul 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Kendari, Celebes. 
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07 Jul 1942 WW2 Weather caused further postponement of Dieppe raid. 
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07 Jul 1942 WW2 As units of the German 4.Panzerarmee entered Voronezh, Russia, the Soviet Stavka created the Voronezh Front under General Konstantin Rokossovsky to fill the gap between the Southwest Front and the Bryansk Front. Elsewhere, the German Armeegruppe A began its drive to the Donets Basin in eastern Ukraine. 
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07 Jul 1942 WW2 Saratoga departed Pearl Harbor for the South Pacific. 
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07 Jul 1942 WW2 In an effort to make more new B-29 bombers available for operational use for the US Army, the US Navy canceled its orders for such aircraft for research purposes. Instead, the US Navy will received a number of existing B-24, B-25, and B-34 aircraft from the US Army. 
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07 Jul 1942 WW2 British Royal Navy Commander Anthony C.C. Miers was awarded the Victoria Cross for valour when commanding HM submarine Torbay in a daring and successful raid on shipping in an enemy harbour in Greece. 
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07 Jul 1942 WW2 Norwegian tanker Herborg, captured by German armed merchant cruiser Thor off the western coast of Australia on 19 Jun 1942 and renamed Hohenfriedberg, arrived at Japan with a prize crew. 
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07 Jul 1942 WW2 German submarine U-457 sank abandoned British fleet oiler RFA Alderdale of Allied convoy PQ-17 with her deck gun in the Barents Sea. In the same area, U-355 sank British ship Hartlebury (8 were killed, 52 survived, but only 20 would remain alive before being rescued) also of PQ-17. U-255 also attacked PQ-17 ships, sinking US ship Alcoa Ranger (all 40 aboard survived). Finally, Allied convoy QP-13 arrived at Reykjavík, Iceland. 
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07 Jul 1942 WW2 USS S-31 departed Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska for her third war patrol. 
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07 Jul 1942 WW2 Heinrich Himmler authorized sterilization experiments to take place at Auschwitz Concentration Camp. 
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07 Jul 1942 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group from USS Saratoga arrived 
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07 Jul 1942 WW2 Captain Ryuji Nakazato was named the commanding officer of Naka while the ship was at Maizuru, Japan. 
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07 Jul 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Rabaul and then Kavieng, departing later in the same day. 
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07 Jul 1943 WW2 At Wolf's Lair, German rocket research team leader Walter Dornberger presented his research to Hitler and successfully convinced him to give rocket research and production a high priority. 
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07 Jul 1943 WW2 German submarine U-759 sank Dutch cargo ship Poelau Roebiah of Allied convoy TAG-70 east of Jamaica; 2 were killed and 68 survived. 
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07 Jul 1943 WW2 Joseph Stilwell presented Chiang Kaishek and He Yingqin the Legion of Merit medals. 
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07 Jul 1943 WW2 The broken-off bow of USS Helena sank in Kula Gulf northwest of New Georgia. A US Navy PB4Y-1 Liberator aircraft dropped lifejackets and four rubber lifeboats to survivors in the area of the bow. 
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07 Jul 1943 WW2 At the Wolfsschanze headquarters in Rastenburg, Germany, Werhner von Braun and Walter Dornberger presented Adolf Hitler a film of a V-2 rocket launch. 
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07 Jul 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Second commanding officer, Capt DS MacMahan USN, assumed command. Five splinter-proof shelters on beach completed. 
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07 Jul 1943 WW2 USS Permit sank Banshu Maru No. 33 off Hokkaido, Japan, hitting her with 1 of 2 torpedoes fired; another transport was damaged with 2 of 2 torpdoes fired. 
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07 Jul 1943 WW2 Soviet Il-2M aircraft, attacking in huge numbers, destroyed some seventy tanks of the German 9th Panzer Division in just twenty minutes during the Battle of Kursk. German aircraft also saw much action, with He 111 tactical bombers alone flew 178 sorties. 
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07 Jul 1943 WW2 General Henri Giraud arrived in Washington DC, United States for conferences with President Franklin Roosevelt. 
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07 Jul 1943 WW2 USS Harder arrived at Midway Atoll, ending her first war patrol. 
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07 Jul 1944 WW2 American attacks near Carentan, France were held off by German counterattacks. In support of ground troops and to prepare for a new offensive to be launched on the next day, RAF bombers dropped 2,300 tons of explosives on the Germans in and around Caen, France. 
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07 Jul 1944 WW2 USS Mingo attacked a Japanese convoy off Luzon, Philippine Islands during the night, sinking destroyer Tamanami by hitting her with 3 of 8 torpedoes fired. 
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07 Jul 1944 WW2 Miklós Horthy suspended the deportation of Hungarian Jews to concentration camps. 
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07 Jul 1944 WW2 Raoul Wallenberg departed for Berlin, Germany. 
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07 Jul 1944 WW2 John Basilone and Lena Mae Riggi completed the application for a marriage certificate. 
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07 Jul 1944 WW2 USS Becuna detected a hostile submarine in the Atlantic Ocean and fired four torpedoes at the target; all torpedoes missed and contact with the enemy submarine was lost. 
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07 Jul 1944 WW2 Ivan Bagramyan was made a Hero of the Soviet Union for the first time. 
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07 Jul 1944 WW2 Adolf Hitler attended an inspection of newly designed uniforms at Schloss Klessheim at Wals-Siezenheim, Austria. 
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07 Jul 1944 WW2 A large raid to attack targets in the Leipzig, Germany area by the US 8th Air Force with 1,129 B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator bombers and more than 700 escorts was met by a Gefechtsverband, led by Major Walther Dahl. Among the total of about ninety Luftwaffe fighters committed was the newly raised IV (Sturm)/JG3, an elite unit of volunteer pilots flying Fw 190A-8 aircraft armed with 30mm cannon, firing high explosive shells, and with additional armour protection to enable them to get within close range of their target. The Fw 190 fighters would attack the rear of the bomber bomber stream while two Bf 109 Gruppen kept the American fighters at bay. The tactic proved successful with eleven B-24 bombers of the low squadron destroyed within a minute and, by the end of the day, the 2nd Air Division had suffered 28 Liberators lost at a cost of nine IV/JG3 fighters shot down and three damaged. 
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07 Jul 1944 WW2 Lieutenant General Kotoku Sato was relieved for the defeat at Kohima, India. 
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07 Jul 1944 WW2 USS Sunfish sank 13 Japanese sampans and a small patrol vessel with her deck gun in the Kurile Islands. 
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07 Jul 1944 WW2 Six trains carrying 14,846 Hungarian Jews (3,077 from Sopron, 2,793 from Pápa, 1,072 from Paks, 3,549 from Monor, 3,151 from Óbuda, and 2,204 from Sárvár) acrossed into occupied Poland, destined for the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. 
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07 Jul 1944 WW2 Southampton, England, United Kingdom was attacked by a V-1 flying bomb air-launched from a Heinkel He.111 aircraft but causing little damage. 
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07 Jul 1944 WW2 USS Wisconsin departed Norfolk, Virginia, United States for Trinidad in the British West Indies. 
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07 Jul 1944 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt had dinner with Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, Ana Roosevelt Boettiger, and John Boettiger in Washington DC, United States. 
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07 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Trepang sank Japanese freighter Koun Maru Number Two; the subsequent attack by depth charges from an aircraft resulted in no damage to the submarine. 
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07 Jul 1945 WW2 The J8M Shusui/Ki-200 fighter took its first flight; the aircraft stalled in flight and was destroyed after a unsuccessful crash landing. 
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07 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Gabilan detected a hostile submarine south of Japan and attacked with 6 torpedoes; all torpedoes missed. 
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07 Jul 1945 WW2 Four of the ten sections of USS ABSD-1 began to be towed from Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. 
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07 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Hackleback fired 73 shells against Japanese positions on Koto Sho (now Lanyu "Orchid" Island), Taiwan. 
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07 Jul 1945 WW2 US B-24 bombers attacked Matsuyama Airfield in Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan. 
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07 Jul 1945 WW2 USS R-1 departed Groton, Connecticut, United States for the Fleet Sonar School at Key West, Florida, United States. 
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07 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Whale departed Guam, Mariana Islands to conduct lifeguard patrols. 
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07 Jul 1946 WW2 The trial against Arthur Greiser at the Supreme National Tribunal of Poland ended. 
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07 Jul 1948 WW2 Sable was sold to H. H. Buncher Company for scrapping. 
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