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History on the 3rd of August

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03 Aug 1910 WW2 Richmond Turner married Harriet Sterling in Stockton, California, United States. 
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03 Aug 1914 WW2 Erwin Rommel, as a member of the 124th Infantry Regiment of the Wüttemberg Army, departed Germany for the Western Front. 
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03 Aug 1914 WW2 Germany declared war on France. 
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03 Aug 1916 WW2 Lieutenant William Leefe Robinson RFC, flying a BE.2c, destroyed the German airship Schütte-Lanz St.11. As a result of this victory, large scale airship raids on London, England, United Kingdom were effectively dissuaded, and Robinson would receive the Victoria Cross in the following month. 
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03 Aug 1916 WW1 Begin of Battle of Romani
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03 Aug 1918 WW2 The first elements of the Japanese 12th Infantry Division went ashore at Vladivostok, Russia. 
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03 Aug 1921 WW2 USS Arizona departed Callao, Peru. 
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03 Aug 1932 WW2 Zhang Jinghui was named the head of the Ministry of Defense of the puppet state of Manchukuo. 
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03 Aug 1937 WW2 A S-43 aircraft operated by Pan Am Grace Airways crashed into the sea 20 miles off Cristobal, Panama; all 14 aboard were killed. 
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03 Aug 1938 WW2 The 6th Division of the Japanese 11th Army Group captured Taihu County, Anhui, China. 
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03 Aug 1938 WW2 The United Kingdom dispatched a mediator to Czechoslovakia in an attempt to persuade the Czechoslovakian leadership to cede Sudetenland. 
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03 Aug 1939 WW2 30 Soviet-built I-16 fighters were delivered to the Chinese Air Force. 
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03 Aug 1939 WW2 Vyacheslav Molotov informed Joseph Stalin that Germany was requesting the Soviet Union to engage in talks over the future of Eastern Europe. While he did request permission to speak to the Germans on this topic, he expressed skeptism as Germany was concurrently pushing Poland to sign the Anti-Comintern Pact. 
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03 Aug 1940 WW2 Winston Churchill warned the British people against believing rumors that invasion threat is over. 
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03 Aug 1940 WW2 Japanese luxury ocean liner Hikawa Maru disembarked 82 Jewish refugees at Pier 89, Seattle, becoming the first Japanese ship to take on Jewish refugees to North America. 
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03 Aug 1940 WW2 German submarine U-57 sank Swedish ship Atos at 0810 hours north of Ireland; 1 was killed and 27 were rescued. German submarine U-A stopped Yugoslavian ship Rad at 1900 hours 300 miles off of the coast of Senegal in western Africa and later found out she was carrying chemicals from the United States for South Africa; the crew of 29 was put to lifeboats, and U-A sank Rad with a torpedo. 
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03 Aug 1940 WW2 Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic became a member nation of the Soviet Union. 
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03 Aug 1940 WW2 Rear Admiral H. Kent Hewitt was assigned the Commander Special Service Squadron aboard gunboat Erie, relieving Rear Admiral John W. Wilcox, Jr. 
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03 Aug 1940 WW2 Destroyers USS Walke and USS Wainwright departed Buenos Aires, Argentina for Santos, Brazil. 
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03 Aug 1940 WW2 A second batch of five Beaufighter IF fighters were handed over to the RAF for evaluation. 
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03 Aug 1940 WW2 Italian General Guglielmo Nasi led an invasion force of 25,000 troops into British Somaliland from Abyssinia. 
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03 Aug 1940 WW2 Heavy fog restricted the German Luftwaffe to conducting only a small number of raids on Britain during the day. Overnight, German bombers attacked Bradford, Liverpool, Crewe, and the Firth of Forth. 
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03 Aug 1940 WW2 Two Japanese businessmen were arrested in London, England, United Kingdom. In response to a protest by the Japanese Ambassador, the authorities denied that their arrest was a reprisal for the arrest of British citizens in Japan six days prior. 
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03 Aug 1941 WW2 The battle at Roslavl in Russia ended with 38,000 encircled Soviet soldiers being taken prisoner. 
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03 Aug 1941 WW2 Lieutenant Robert Everett RNVR of British No. 804 Squadron Fleet Air Arm became the first pilot launched from a CAM ship (HMS Maplin) to shoot down a German Focke-Wulf Condor aircraft which had sighted the Atlantic convoy SL81 en route from Sierre Leone, British West Africa. 
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03 Aug 1941 WW2 21 British Maryland bombers attacked Axis positions at Tobruk, Libya while fighters swept nearby airfields. 
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03 Aug 1941 WW2 General Nicolae Ciuperca's Romanian 4th Army crossed the Dniester River in Ukraine. 
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03 Aug 1942 WW2 USS Gudgeon sank Japanese passenger/cargo ship Naniwa Maru 80 miles west of Truk, Caroline Islands at 0400 hours; 31 were killed. 
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03 Aug 1942 WW2 Destroyer USS Tucker struck a friendly mine near Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides at 2145 hours; 6 were killed, 152 survived. 
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03 Aug 1942 WW2 German submarine U-552 detected Allied convoy ON-115 330 miles east of St. John's, Newfoundland, and submarines U-71, U-217, U-597, U-553, and U-704 moved in to attack in coordination; ships of the convoy became disarrayed as the convoy attempted to change course to evade the attack; U-552 sank British ship Lochkatrine (9 were killed, 81 survived) and damaged British tanker G. S. Walden (1 was killed) at 0305 hours; at 0401 hours, U-553 damaged Belgian ship Belgian Soldier. Further out in the North Atlantic, U-605 sank British trawler Bombay 190 miles southeast of Reykjavik, Iceland at 1654 hours, killing all 13 aboard. 
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03 Aug 1942 WW2 British submarine HMS Saracen sank German submarine U-335 300 kilometers northwest of Bergen, Norway at 2130 hours (43 were killed, 1 survived and captured by Saracen); 6 torpedoes were expended on this attack. 
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03 Aug 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-175 damaged Australian trawler Dureenbee with her deck gun and machine gun 20 miles off Moruya, Australia; 3 were killed and 9 survivors abandoned the burning wreck. 
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03 Aug 1942 WW2 George Brett was awarded the Silver Star medal by Douglas MacArthur in Australia. 
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03 Aug 1942 WW2 Saburo Sakai, along with the others of Japanese Navy Tainan Air Group, was relocated to Rabaul, New Britain. 
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03 Aug 1942 WW2 The Japanese discovered that a new US airfield was being built on the coast of Milne Bay in Australian Papua. 
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03 Aug 1942 WW2 The first training course, an artillery class, began at Ramgarh Training Center, India. 
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03 Aug 1942 WW2 German 1st Panzer Army captured Stavropol in southern Russia. 
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03 Aug 1942 WW2 Italian torpedo boats raided Sevastopol, Russia, damaging Soviet destroyer Kharkov. 
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03 Aug 1942 WW2 A German Do 217 medium bomber attacked Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom at 1308 hours, damaging the railway station, killing 8 civilians, and wounding 56. 
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03 Aug 1942 WW2 US Marine Corps Major General Clayton Vogel was made the commanding general of the Fleet Marine Force, San Diego Area in the US Navy 11th Naval District in southwestern United States. 
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03 Aug 1943 WW2 Shokaku sortied from Truk. 
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03 Aug 1943 WW2 Italian troops begin evacuation of Sicily, Italy. 
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03 Aug 1943 WW2 In southern Russia, the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts drove into German Armeegruppe Süd's flank, causing a retreat. 
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03 Aug 1943 WW2 George Patton visited a field hospital in Sicily, Italy and slapped Charles Kuhl for what he claimed as cowardice as Kuhl suffered no physical wounds. 
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03 Aug 1943 WW2 USS Finback sank a Japanese cargo ship in the South China Sea, hitting her with 2 of 5 torpedoes fired. 
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03 Aug 1943 WW2 Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein shot down three Soviet aircraft, increasing his victories to 50. 
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03 Aug 1943 WW2 Tanks of the US Marine Corps 9th Battalion joined the American offensive on New Georgia in the Solomon Islands. 
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03 Aug 1943 WW2 USS Seahorse departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. 
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03 Aug 1943 WW2 Troops of Soviet Voronezh Front and Steppe Front crossed the Vorskla River and penetrated German lines near Belgorod, Russia. 
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03 Aug 1943 WW2 Nikolai Melnikov was made the deputy of the Soviet NKVD Directorate for Prisoners of War and Interned Persons (UPVI) with personal command over its 2nd (Operational) Department. 
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03 Aug 1944 WW2 USS Cod sank a Japanese merchant ship. 
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03 Aug 1944 WW2 A two-month siege by US and Chinese forces at Myitkyina in Burma finally succeeded in capturing it. 
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03 Aug 1944 WW2 Hitler ordered a counterattack east of Avranches, France to regain the coast. 
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03 Aug 1944 WW2 The first Soviet attacks east of Warsaw, Poland were repulsed by the Germans. 
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03 Aug 1944 WW2 US 83rd Infantry Division became part of the US VIII Corps. 
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03 Aug 1944 WW2 King George VI of the United Kingdom gave Royal approval to R. A. Butler's Education Act which introduced wide ranging changes to secondary school education in England and Wales. 
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03 Aug 1944 WW2 USS Spot was commissioned into service with Commander William S. Post, Jr. in command. 
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03 Aug 1944 WW2 Submarine Springer was launched at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, sponsored by the wife of M. S. Tisdale. 
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03 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Blenny reported sinking two small Japanese craft with the deck gun in the South China Sea off Malaya. 
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03 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Bugara sank 2 small enemy craft with her deck gun in the Gulf of Siam and South China Sea area during the day. 
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03 Aug 1945 WW2 Destroyers USS Conner and USS Charrette intercepted and boarded Japanese hospital ship Tachibana Maru at 0658 hours in the Banda Sea in the Dutch East Indies. Upon finding mortar shells hidden in boxes marked medical supplies, Marines were ordered to board and take control of the Japanese ship. 
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03 Aug 1945 WW2 Six Japanese vessels hit naval mines laid by American aircraft in home waters; three of them were sunk. 
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03 Aug 1945 WW2 John "Jack" Lawson was appointed the UK Secretary of State for War in the Atlee Cabinet. 
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03 Aug 1945 WW2 The J7W Shinden fighter took its first flight. 
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03 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Ray sank 3 small Japanese vessels in the Gulf of Thailand with her deck gun. 
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03 Aug 1945 WW2 Arthur Coningham was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal of the United States. 
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03 Aug 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 13 arrived. 
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03 Aug 1945 WW2 100 American fighters based in Iwo Jima, Japan attacked targets Tokyo, Japan. 
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03 Aug 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Yokohama, Japan for repairs and maintenance. 
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