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History on the 2nd of August

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02 Aug 1914 WW2 German troops crossed the frontier into France. 
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02 Aug 1914 WW2 In France, the Law of Siege gave the army the power to requisition goods, to control the press, and to apply military law to civilians. It even subordinated the police to military control. 
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02 Aug 1917 WW2 British Squadron Commander E. H. Dunning achieved the first RNAS landing on a ship under way at sea when, in a Sopwith Pup, he touched down on the deck of the aircraft carrier HMS Furious. 
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02 Aug 1918 WW2 Major General F. C. Poole, Allied Commander in Chief in north Russia, landed at Archangel with a force of 870 French Colonial Infantry. 
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02 Aug 1918 WW2 The Japanese government informed US President Wilson that Japan had no intention of helping to create a new Eastern Front. 
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02 Aug 1920 WW2 François Flohic was born in Ploubazlanec, Bretagne, France. 
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02 Aug 1920 WW2 Józef Pilsudski's Polish Army withdrew to Warsaw, Poland. Meanwhile Mikhail Tukhachevsky announced his intention that the Red Army would occupy the Polish capital on 12 Aug 1920. 
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02 Aug 1933 WW2 Irina Cioc took a flight from Bucharest to Constanta, Romania and became interested in aviation. 
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02 Aug 1934 WW2 German President Paul von Hindenburg died; Hitler seized dictatorial powers as Führer, which was the combination of president, chancellor, and chief of armed forces. 
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02 Aug 1934 WW2 Hitler changed the military oath so that German servicemen now swore allegiance to Hitler rather than the country. 
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02 Aug 1935 WW2 Yosuke Matsuoka was named the President of the South Manchuria Railway. 
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02 Aug 1937 WW2 Naka received a new commanding officer. 
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02 Aug 1937 WW2 Crown Prince Yi Un was made the commandant of the Japanese Army Preparatory Academy. 
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02 Aug 1937 WW2 Captain Koso Abe was named the commanding officer of Tenryu. 
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02 Aug 1937 WW2 Lieutenant General Mikio Tsutsumi was named the commanding officer of the Taiwan Army. 
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02 Aug 1938 WW2 Soviet reinforcements arrived in the Lake Khasan region where Soviet and Japanese troops had engaged in battle for the few days. 
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02 Aug 1939 WW2 Prince Morihiro was transferred back to Japan. 
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02 Aug 1939 WW2 In a letter written by Leó Szilárd and signed by Albert Einstein, the two physicists urged US President Franklin Roosevelt to allocate funding for atomic weapons research. 
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02 Aug 1940 WW2 Lord Beaverbrook was appointed to the British War Cabinet. 
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02 Aug 1940 WW2 French military court sentenced General de Gaulle to death in absentia. 
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02 Aug 1940 WW2 Overnight, British submarine HMS Thames hit a mine and sank southwest of Stavanger, Norway, killing the entire crew of 62. 
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02 Aug 1940 WW2 German Ju 87 aircraft attacked German submarine U-60 with bombs by mistake off Hagesund, Norway; U-60 was able to escape without damage. 
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02 Aug 1940 WW2 German submarine U-99 torpedoed British merchant ship Alexia, British merchant ship Lucerna, and Norwegian merchant ship Strinda of convoy OB-191. All three were damaged but none of them sank. No men were killed as the result of the attack. 
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02 Aug 1940 WW2 US President Roosevelt and his cabinet discussed the methods to which the transferring 50 or 60 destroyers to the United Kingdom could be conducted. 
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02 Aug 1940 WW2 Hulbert was commissioned into service. 
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02 Aug 1940 WW2 Operation Hurry: 12 British Hurricane fighters were launched from carrier HMS Argus southwest of Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea and flew about 300 miles to Malta; they were to form the new No. 261 Squadron. The escorting surface warships turned back for Gibraltar and England, while the escorting carriers (escorted by battlecruiser HMS Hood, cruiser HMS Enterprise, and 4 destroyers) launched an attack consisted of 8 Swordfish torpedo bombers on the Italian airfield at Cagliari, Sardinia, destroying several aircraft and deploying several mines. 
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02 Aug 1940 WW2 Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic was formed. 
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02 Aug 1940 WW2 Before dawn, two German He 115 seaplanes attacked British ship Highlander of convoy FN.239 20 miles south of Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom; one of the aircraft was shot down by sloop HMS Weston, while the other crashed onto Highlander's poop deck after clipping the mast. During the day, German aircraft attacked convoys in the English Channel and along the east coast of Britain, sinking anti-submarine trawler HMT Cape Finesterre off Harwich, Essex, England, United Kingdom, killing 1. 
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02 Aug 1940 WW2 Josef Frantisek joined the British Royal Air Force and was assigned to No. 303 Squadron based at RAF Northolt in South Ruislip near London, England, United Kingdom. 
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02 Aug 1941 WW2 All civilian radios in Norway were confiscated by the German occupation. 
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02 Aug 1941 WW2 Two Australian companies attacked Italian positions near Tobruk, Libya with the support of over 60 field guns. The attacks were repulsed after suffering heavy casualties. This particular attack represented the last Australian attempt to regain positions lost in early May 1941. 
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02 Aug 1941 WW2 German dive bombers attacked an Allied convoys off Libya, but they were driven away by British fighters; about 3 German aircraft were shot down at a loss of 3 British Hurricane fighters. 
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02 Aug 1941 WW2 The Soviet submarines M99 and S11 were sunk by German mines in the Baltic Sea. 
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02 Aug 1941 WW2 Croatia established diplomatic relationship with the Japanese-sponsored puppet state of Manchukuo. 
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02 Aug 1941 WW2 Soviet NKVD operatives were ordered to arrest those who injure themselves on the front lines just as they would arrest deserters. 
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02 Aug 1941 WW2 The keel of light cruiser Miami was laid down by William Cramp and Sons in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. 
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02 Aug 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Manila, Philippine Islands. 
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02 Aug 1942 WW2 Italian torpedo boats and German He 111 torpedo bombers attacked Soviet cruiser Molotov off Feodossiya, Ukraine, scoring one hit, killing 18, and put the ship out of commission until 31 Jul 1943. 
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02 Aug 1942 WW2 USS Long Island departed from Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii with aircraft for the Solomon Islands. 
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02 Aug 1942 WW2 Aircraft of US Marine Observation Squadron 251 began to arrive at the newly completed airfield at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. 
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02 Aug 1942 WW2 German submarine U-510 misidentified Uruguay ship Maldonado and sank her 250 miles southeast of Bermuda at 0545 hours; all 49 board survived but the captain would be taken prisoner. At 0927 hours, U-254 sank British ship Flora II 145 miles southeast of Reykjavik, Iceland; all 30 aboard survived. At 1818 hours, U-160 sank British ship Treminnard 200 miles east of Trinidad; all 39 aboard sur4vived but the captain would be taken prisoner. 
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02 Aug 1942 WW2 Dutch submarine O 23 attacked a Japanese convoy 55 miles west of Penang, British Malaya at 0842 hours, fatally damaging Japanese Army transport ship Zenyo Maru (27 were killed) and sinking freighter Ohio Maru. 
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02 Aug 1942 WW2 George Kenney arrived at Townsville, Australia and immediately departed for Brisbane by air. 
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02 Aug 1942 WW2 5 B-17 bombers attacked Japanese shipping near Buna, Australian Papua; 9 Zero fighters of the Tainan Air Group intercepted the attackers, forcing the bombers to release their bombs before reaching their targets; 1 bomber was lost on this mission. 
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02 Aug 1942 WW2 Nachi departed Yokosuka, Japan. 
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02 Aug 1942 WW2 German 4th Panzer Army captured Kotelnikovo, Russia. 
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02 Aug 1942 WW2 US Navy approved the new name Wolverine for the fresh water aircraft carrier recently converted from excursion steamer Seeandbee. 
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02 Aug 1943 WW2 In spite of Hitler's "stand fast" order, Manstein implemented a flexible defense, which allowed the Germans to repel heavy Soviet attacks near Izyum and along the Mius River in Ukraine. 
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02 Aug 1943 WW2 US Navy torpedo boat PT-109, commanded by Lieutenant (jg) John F. Kennedy, was rammed by a Japanese destroyer Amagiri in the Blackett Strait between Kolombangara and Arundel in the Solomon Islands. 
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02 Aug 1943 WW2 Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weißenfeld was awarded Oak Leaves to his Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. 
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02 Aug 1943 WW2 Overnight, Hamburg, Germany suffered its ninth and final raid in eight days as 740 RAF bombers attacked; 30 of the bombers were shot down. By this time Hamburg had lost as many civilians as Britain had in the entire air war. 
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02 Aug 1943 WW2 USS Wahoo departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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02 Aug 1943 WW2 The P.119 prototype fighter was damaged in a landing accident. 
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02 Aug 1943 WW2 Auschwitz Concentration Camp's special camp for Roma people was liquidated; 2,897 prisoners were gassed. 
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02 Aug 1943 WW2 200 Jews revolted in Treblinka concentration camp in Poland, burning down several buildings, and attempted to escape; camp guards found and killed most of them. 
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02 Aug 1943 WW2 USS Gunnel began a period of overhaul at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States. 
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02 Aug 1944 WW2 US VIII Corps moved west along Brittany coast from Avranches, France. 
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02 Aug 1944 WW2 Turkey severed diplomatic relations with Germany. 
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02 Aug 1944 WW2 The Soviet-sponsored 1st Polish Army established a bridgehead over the Vistula River south of Warsaw, Poland. 
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02 Aug 1944 WW2 German submarine U-804 sank American destroyer escort USS Fiske with torpedoes in the central Atlantic. 
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02 Aug 1944 WW2 USS Flier departed Fremantle, Australia for her second war patrol. 
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02 Aug 1944 WW2 Leutnant Erich Sommer flew an Ar 234 V7 prototype aircraft over the Allied Normandy beachheads in France while the two Rb 50/30 cameras on board took a photograph every 11 seconds. This was the first jet aircraft reconnaissance mission in aviation history. 
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02 Aug 1944 WW2 Nachi arrived at Kure Naval Arsenal, Japan. 
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02 Aug 1944 WW2 USS Wasp arrived at Eniwetok, Marshall Islands. 
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02 Aug 1944 WW2 Zigeunernacht ("Gypsy Night"): 4,000 Roma were killed and cremated at Auschwitz Concentration Camp. 
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02 Aug 1945 WW2 On the island of Sado, off Honshu, Japan, 387 allied prisoners working as slave labourers in an ore mine were deliberately entombed and left to suffocate below ground when the Japanese blew up the facility and tried to obliterate any trace of the camp before the Allies inevitably arrive. 
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02 Aug 1945 WW2 Bernard Montgomery was awarded the Order of the Elephant of Denmark. 
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02 Aug 1945 WW2 Divers from USS Chanticleer discovered the wreck of destroyer Yuzuki under 70 feet of water near Cebu, Philippine Islands. Inspection operations by divers would last until 4 Aug 1945 to recover decoding machines in the radio shack. 
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02 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Bugara sank 1 small enemy craft with her deck gun in the Gulf of Siam and South China Sea area before dawn, and 5 more during the day. 
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02 Aug 1945 WW2 A number of survivors of cruiser USS Indianapolis, which was sunk 4 days prior, were found. 
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02 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Ray sank a small Japanese vessel in the Gulf of Thailand with her deck gun. 
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02 Aug 1945 WW2 Four of the ten sections of USS ABSD-1 arrived at Manicani Bay, Samar, Philippine Islands. 
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02 Aug 1945 WW2 King George VI met with President Harry Truman on board HMS Renown in Plymouth Sound. The US President had flown from Germany to an airport in Devon, England, United Kingdom, and had toured the city of Plymouth. 
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02 Aug 1946 WW2 General Andrey Vlasov was executed by the Soviets for treason. 
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02 Aug 1946 WW2 Nikolaus von Falkenhorst was sentenced to death; the sentence would later be commuted to an imprisonment term. 
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02 Aug 1949 WW2 USS Manta was recommissioned into service with Lieutenant E. H. Edwards, Jr. in command. Her designation changed from SS-299 to ESS-299. 
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