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History on the 15th of July 1940

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15 Jul 1940 WW2 Italians captured British territories in Kenya. 
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15 Jul 1940 WW2 Unemployment figure in Britain increased by 60,431 to 827,266 in Jun 1940 when compared to the previous month, but it was still drastically lower than the level one year prior. 
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15 Jul 1940 WW2 The British Home Office banned fireworks, flying kites, and flying balloons. 
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15 Jul 1940 WW2 German submarine U-34 sank Greek ship Evdoxia 40 miles southwest of Ireland at 0321 hours; 1 was killed and 22 survived. 
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15 Jul 1940 WW2 The YO-49 Vigilant prototype aircraft took its first flight with pilot Al Schramm. 
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15 Jul 1940 WW2 Richelieu was commissioned into service. 
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15 Jul 1940 WW2 The rector of Old Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom was sentenced to four weeks in prison for ringing his church bell, which violated the 14 Jun 1940 restriction. 
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15 Jul 1940 WW2 Corvette HMS Godetia was commissioned into service. 
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15 Jul 1940 WW2 The keel of British corvette Mignonette was laid down. 
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15 Jul 1940 WW2 The keel of British destroyer HMS Panther was laid down. 
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15 Jul 1940 WW2 Germany demanded unrestricted access through French North Africa. 
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15 Jul 1940 WW2 German submarine U-108 was launched. 
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15 Jul 1940 WW2 The Soviet Union announced that recently held plebiscites in Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia revealed that the three Baltic States show near-unanimous support for joining the Soviet Union. 
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15 Jul 1940 WW2 Captain Shutoku Miyazato was relieved as the commanding officer of repair ship Akashi. 
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15 Jul 1940 WW2 German aircraft bombed and sank Estonian ship Merisaar off Cobh, County Cork, Ireland. The bombers failed to realize that the ship had been captured by the German Navy back on 12 Jul. The German crew survived the sinking, but would be rescued by the British and would become prisoners of war. 
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15 Jul 1940 WW2 Operation Ambassador: Destroyers HMS Scimitar and HMS Saladin delivered 140 British commandos to the Channel Island of Guernsey. 40 men from the No. 3 Commando reached the shore on launches, but found their target barracks actually not used by Germans; 37 men returned to the destroyers, leaving 3 who could not swim behind to later become prisoners of war. Elsewhere, some of the launches landed at the Channel Island of Sark by mistake. 
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15 Jul 1940 WW2 Erich Mußfeldt was assigned to Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland. 
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15 Jul 1940 WW2 USS Trenton departed Lisbon, Portugal with members of the royal family of the Duchy of Luxembourg aboard. 
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15 Jul 1940 WW2 Low cloud and rain kept most aircraft grounded, but small formations of German bombers still ventured into British air space. The attack along the Scottish coast was unfruitful, and the raid on the Westland Aircraft factory at Yeovil, Somerset, England, United Kingdom damaged one runway and one hangar. German bombers were also sent to attack the convoy code named Pilot, but British fighters drove off the bombers before they reached the convoy. 
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15 Jul 1940 WW2 The United States Marine Corps established the Marine Detachment, London in Britain, consisted of the 12th Marine Company. 
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15 Jul 1940 WW2 Hampden bombers from RAF Hemswell in England, United Kingdom were sent, in one of the most daring attacks of the war, to raid Wilhelmshaven, Germany in an attempt to cripple the Tirpitz and Admiral Scheer. Six aircraft were detailed to attack Tirpitz and two to attack Admiral Scheer. Other aircraft were detailed to carry out diversionary raids. The raid was not a success. Four bombers were shot down and most of the survivors damaged (one was found to have 150 holes on its return). No damage was incurred by the German warships. 
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