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History on the 9th of July

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09 Jul 1917 WW2 The Vickers-built Dreadnought HMS Vanguard was lost through an internal explosion at Scapa Flow, Scotland, United Kingdom with the loss of 804 crew. 
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09 Jul 1918 WW2 Quintin Brand was appointed the commanding officer of No. 151 Squadron RAF. 
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09 Jul 1918 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt departed Washington Naval Shipyard in Washington DC, United States aboard USS Dyer. 
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09 Jul 1919 WW2 Settsu hosted Emperor Taisho during a naval review off Yokohama, Japan. 
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09 Jul 1921 WW2 USS Arizona departed New York City, New York, United States. 
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09 Jul 1924 WW2 Whitehall was commissioned into service. 
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09 Jul 1932 WW2 Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, United States and disembarked athletes participating in the 1932 Olympics. 
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09 Jul 1935 WW2 Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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09 Jul 1939 WW2 A Soviet counterattack defeated the southern prong of the Japanese offensive in the Mongolia Area of China. 
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09 Jul 1940 WW2 RAF considered this date the official start of their night bombing campaign against Germany. 
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09 Jul 1940 WW2 British submarine HMS Salmon was lost 60 miles off of Stavanger, Norway; the entire crew of 39 was never heard from again. She was presumed to have hit a naval mine. 
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09 Jul 1940 WW2 The German raider Komet left Bergen, Norway for operations in the Pacific Ocean via the Northern Sea Route in the Arctic Ocean assisted by Russian icebreakers. 
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09 Jul 1940 WW2 British government implemented rationing on tea: each person was allowed 2 ounces of tea per week. 
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09 Jul 1940 WW2 British House of Commons passed a £1,000,000,000 war credit. 
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09 Jul 1940 WW2 During the night, 11 British Hampden aircraft (out of 14 dispatched) attacked battleship Tirpitz to little effect. 
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09 Jul 1940 WW2 German Luftwaffe aircraft attacked shipping in the English Channel and off the British coast. 
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09 Jul 1940 WW2 USS O'Brien arrived at Pará, Brazil. 
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09 Jul 1940 WW2 German Nachtjagdgeshchwader 1 wing scored its first kill. 
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09 Jul 1940 WW2 German submarine U-34 sank Estonian ship Tiiu southwest of Ireland at 1232 hours; the crew of 20 were rescued by a British trawler. In the same general area, at 2119 hours, German submarine U-43 sank British ship Aylesbury; the crew of 35 were rescued by destroyers HMS Harvester and HMS Havelock. 
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09 Jul 1940 WW2 Battle of Calabria: At 1515 hours, 50 miles south of Italy, heavily escorted Italian convoy for Benghazi, Libya ran into an equally powerful British convoy for Malta. British battleship HMS Warspite hit Italian battleship Giulio Cesare at the range of 24 kilometers, making it one of the longest naval gun hits of the war. Although Italian ships withdrew first, Italian aircraft forced the British ships back by 1700 hours. 
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09 Jul 1940 WW2 Douglas Bader's No. 242 Squadron RAF, based at RAF Coltishall at Norwich, England, United Kingdom, was declared fully operational. 
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09 Jul 1940 WW2 HMS Dianthus was launched at Leith, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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09 Jul 1940 WW2 King George VI made a royal visit to RAF Digby during which he presented a Distinguished Flying Cross to Flying Officer Guy Gibson, the future leader of the Dambusters Squadron. 
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09 Jul 1940 WW2 US Coast Guard cutter Campbell arrived at Boston, Massachusetts, United States with US Consul to Greenland James K. Penfield, Governor of North Greenland E. Brun, and a group of Danish officials on board. They came to Boston to discuss commerce and trade of Greenland as an independent entity due to the German occupation of Denmark. 
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09 Jul 1940 WW2 US Marine Corps Captain Kenneth W. Benner was ordered to continue the survey of Midway Atoll with another officer, 8 enlisted Marines, and 2 US Navy corpsmen. He was to relieve Captain Samuel G. Taxis who had been been there since early Jun 1940 on the same mission. 
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09 Jul 1941 WW2 The US Congress authorized the funding of $14,990,000 for the construction of Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point over 32 square-kilometers of land in North Carolina, United States. 
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09 Jul 1941 WW2 Troops of the German 3.Panzergruppe captured Vitebsk, Byelorussia. 
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09 Jul 1941 WW2 The British Air Ministry instructed Bomber Command to concentrate its efforts against the German transportation system and breaking the morale of the civilian population. At about 0130 hours, British bombers attacked Münster, Germany; the reading room of the state archive, warehouse of the state theater, the post office at the Domplatz, and the eastern wall of the cathedral were destroyed. 
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09 Jul 1941 WW2 The head of Gosplan, the young economist Nikolai Voznesensky, was given responsibility for drafting a new war production plan for the whole Soviet economy. 
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09 Jul 1941 WW2 A British report noted that, for the week ending at 0600 hours on 9 Jul 1941, an estimated 78 people were killed by German bombing while an estimated 67 people had been seriously injured. 
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09 Jul 1941 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt announced that American troops were to relieve British troops in the occupation of Iceland. Adolf Hitler responded by publicly noting that it was a clear act of aggression against Germany; however, when Erich Raeder asked Hitler whether it was time for the German Navy to deliberately attack American vessels, Hitler still rejected the request. 
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09 Jul 1941 WW2 The French High Commissioner in Syria, General Henri Dentz, applied to the British authorities for discussions to begin which would lead to an armistice. 
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09 Jul 1941 WW2 Douglas Bader claimed one probable German aircraft shot down and another damaged. 
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09 Jul 1941 WW2 Soviet aircraft engineers met to compile a report on their rocket-powered fighter development, which was to be forwarded to Joseph Stalin. 
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09 Jul 1941 WW2 Submarine Flying Fish was launched at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, United States, sponsored by the wife of US Navy Admiral Husband Kimmel. 
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09 Jul 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Ambon, Molucca Islands. 
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09 Jul 1942 WW2 Cruiser Köln departed for Oslo, Norway, laying mines en route. 
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09 Jul 1942 WW2 The submarine that would later be named USS Blenny was ordered. 
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09 Jul 1942 WW2 U-575 sank British ship Empire Explorer 100 kilometers east of Grenada at 0247 hours; 3 were killed, 75 survived. U-571 sank Honduran ship Nicholas Cuneo with her deck gun 50 miles north of Havana, Cuba at 1601 hours; 1 was killed, 19 survived. Again 100 kilometers east of Grenada, at 2305 hours, U-203 sank British ship Cape Verde; 2 were killed, 40 survived. 
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09 Jul 1942 WW2 Italian submarine Perla attacked British corvette HMS Hyacinth with torpedoes off Beirut, Lebanon. After all torpedoes missed, Hyacinth counterattacked with depth charges, forcing Perla to dive, but mechanical failures forced the submarine to surface and become captured. Perla would later be pressed into British and then Greek service. 
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09 Jul 1942 WW2 German 4th Panzer Army captured Voronezh, Russia while German 6th Army reached Rossosh 100 miles to the south. Iin Ukraine, German 1st Panzer Army crossed the Donets River. The German advances made in the past few days forced Joseph Stalin to allow the Soviet Southwest and Southern Fronts to fall back. 
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09 Jul 1942 WW2 Soviet submarine S-7 attacked Swedish coastal freighter Noreg 10 miles off Sweden in the Baltic Sea at 1617 hours; all torpedoes missed. At 1958 hours, she attacked and sank Swedish coastal freighter Margareta in the same area, killing 14. 
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09 Jul 1942 WW2 German Ju 88 bombers attacked Allied convoy PQ-17 in the Barents Sea at 2000 hours, damaging Panamanian freighter El Capitan (all 67 aboard survived), US freighter Hoosier (all 53 aboard survived), US Liberty Ship Samuel Chase, and rescue ship Zamalck; 4 German aircraft were shot down in the attack. 
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09 Jul 1942 WW2 Seven German torpedo boats attacked Allied convoy WP-183 south of Lyme Bay, England, United Kingdom at 0100 hours. S67 sank British tanker Pomella; S48, S109, and S70 sank Norwegian freighters Kongshaug (8 were killed), Røsten (5 were killed), and Bokn (12 were killed); S50 sank Dutch ship Reggestrom; and S63 sank British armed trawler HMT Manor (19 were killed, 1 survived). German bombers arrived to conduct a follow-up attack, sinking British ship Gripfast (7 were killed). 
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09 Jul 1942 WW2 Submarine S-7 attacked Swedish transport Noreg east of Arkösund, Sweden at 1617 hours; the torpedo missed. At 1958 hours, she sank Swedish transport margareta in the same area. 
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09 Jul 1942 WW2 Finnish forces attacked the Soviet beachhead on the island of Someri, Finland, while Finnish and German vessels sank four Soviet torpedo boats off the coast. At about noon time, after suffering 126 deaths, the remaining 149 Soviet troops surrendered. 
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09 Jul 1942 WW2 Lieutenant General Junjiro Ihara was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea. 
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09 Jul 1942 WW2 USS Thresher sank Japanese torpedo recovery vessel Shinsho Maru off Kwajalein, Marshall Islands. 
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09 Jul 1942 WW2 Survivors of German submarine U-701, sunk by a US Hudson aircraft two days prior off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, United States, were rescued by a US Navy flying boat; they were delivered to the naval hospital at Portsmouth, Virginia, United States for treatment. In the North Atlantic, U-172 sank US ship Santa Rita at 1624 hours; 4 were killed, 59 survived. In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean between Florida, United States and Morocco, U-66 sank Yugoslavian ship Triglav at 2042 hours; 24 were killed, 19 survived. 
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09 Jul 1942 WW2 The US Navy issued an order for the future submarine Spot. 
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09 Jul 1943 WW2 In the Solomon Islands, the US New Georgia Occupation Force advanced westward in the Munda-Barike region, toward the airfield at Munda. Nearby, 1st Raider Battalion attacked the island of Enogai. To reinforce New Georgia, the Japanese 13th Regiment began transferring 3,700 men from Kolombangara to Bairoko on the northwestern shore of New Georgia; this reinforcement would be conducted over the following 3 days. 
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09 Jul 1943 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze escorted a troop transport run to Kolombangara, New Georgia, Solomon Islands. 
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09 Jul 1943 WW2 Shokaku departed Kure, Japan for Truk, Caroline Islands where she was to join her sister ship Zuikaku. 
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09 Jul 1943 WW2 A. A. Avseevich stepped down as GUKR SMERSH's chief in the Northwestern Front. 
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09 Jul 1944 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Palau and departed later on the same day. 
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09 Jul 1944 WW2 British and Canadian forces entered the rubble that was Caen, France. Meanwhile, US XIX Corps began advancing toward Saint-Lô, France. 
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09 Jul 1944 WW2 Aiming to cut off German Armeegruppe Nord, Soviet 2nd Byelorussian Front attacked from Vitebsk, Byelorussia, Soviet 3rd Byelorussian Front attacked from Psovsk, and the Soviet Leningrad Front attacked toward Narva, Estonia. 
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09 Jul 1944 WW2 Raoul Wallenberg boarded the 1721 train from Berlin, Germany for Budapest, Hungary, arriving later that night. 
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09 Jul 1944 WW2 Major Frank Blaker of the British Royal Gurkha Rifles regiment won the Victoria Cross at Taunghi, Burma. Charging Japanese positions he was hit three times but continued to urge his men forward even as he lays dying. 
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09 Jul 1944 WW2 British Royal Navy Captain F. J. Walker of the Second Escort Group died of a stroke brought on by heavy strain and overwork. 
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09 Jul 1944 WW2 Adolf Hitler departed the Wolfsschlucht II headquarters in Margival, France for the Wolfsschanze headquarters in East Prussia, Germany. 
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09 Jul 1944 WW2 A message was sent to USS Golet, but the submarine did not respond. 
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09 Jul 1944 WW2 USS Ray departed Fremantle, Australia for her fifth war patrol. 
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09 Jul 1944 WW2 Finnish troops withdrew from the Äyräpää ridge near Vuosalmi, Finland. On the Soviet side, a number of formations began to be withdrawn from the nearby Tali-Ihantala region for the campaign in Estonia. 
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09 Jul 1944 WW2 The British The North Staffordshire Regiment captured the fortified village of Malan, Italy. Facing dug-in Tiger tanks, the Staffords suffer 25% casualties in the battle. 
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09 Jul 1944 WW2 USS Sunfish sank Japanese cargo ship Taihei Maru in the Kurile Islands, hitting her with 4 of 6 torpedoes fired. 
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09 Jul 1944 WW2 USS Segundo departed Balboa, Panama Canal Zone. 
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09 Jul 1944 WW2 Five trains carrying 14,212 Hungarian Jews (3,065 from Monor, 3,072 from Óbuda, 3,072 from Budakalász, 3,079 from Monor, and 1,924 from Békesmegyer) acrossed the border into occupied Poland, destined for Auschwitz Concentration Camp. 
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09 Jul 1944 WW2 Torpedo Squadron 80 aboard USS Ticonderoga resumed flight training off Trinidad. 
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09 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Cod rescued the crew of the grounded Dutch submarine O-19. Upon completion, she scuttled the grounded boat by gunfire. 
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09 Jul 1945 WW2 The Brazilian cruiser Bahia exploded and sank in the North Atlantic, with the loss of nearly 300 men. Whilst most likely an accident a theory persisted that she had been torpedoed by a German U-boats fleeing to South America. 
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09 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Sea Robin sank a small Japanese patrol craft with one torpedo in the East China Sea and took on one survivor. 
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09 Jul 1945 WW2 The US Coastal minesweeper YMS-84 struck a mine and sank off Balikpapan, Borneo. 
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09 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Dragonet departed Guam, Mariana Islands for her third war patrol.  
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09 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Macabi departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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09 Jul 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Lieut. Comdr. Holt assumed duty as Acting Executive Officer of station, relieving Commander Allan Lowrey. 
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09 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Spot sank two Japanese boats with her deck gun in the Yellow Sea. 
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09 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Gunnel attacked a Japanese submarine south of Japan; all 4 torpedoes missed. 
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09 Jul 1946 WW2 Joseph Rochefort's request for retirement was approved by the US Navy. 
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