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History on the 4th of August

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04 Aug 1911 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo enrolled at the mine warfare school. 
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04 Aug 1912 WW2 Raoul Wallenberg was born in Kappsta, Lidingö, Sweden. 
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04 Aug 1914 WW2 The United Kingdom declared war on Germany. 
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04 Aug 1920 WW2 The keel of Marblehead was laid down by William Cramp and Sons in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. 
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04 Aug 1922 WW2 The keel of Duguay-Trouin was laid down at Arsenal de Brest, France. 
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04 Aug 1926 WW2 Lorraine's refitting was completed. 
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04 Aug 1932 WW2 Adolf Hitler arrived in Berlin, Germany. 
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04 Aug 1933 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo was assigned to the committee establishing a training program for naval aviation. 
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04 Aug 1935 WW2 ShCh-307 was commissioned into service. 
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04 Aug 1936 WW2 Ioannis Metaxas declared the 4th of August Regime; he took on the title of Arkhigos. 
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04 Aug 1937 WW2 The US Marine Corps League, officially formed in 1923, was finally chartered by US Congress. 
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04 Aug 1937 WW2 The Chinese 29th Brigade under General Liu Ruzhen withdrew from Beiping, China. 
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04 Aug 1938 WW2 The first Spitfire fighter deployed into service went to No. 19 Squadron RAF. The squadron reported good performance, but the fighter had leaks and the engine was difficult to start. 
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04 Aug 1938 WW2 The Catholicate of Echmiatsin of Armenia was closed on the order of the Soviet government. 
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04 Aug 1938 WW2 Japanese and Chinese troops clashed at Jinjiashan, Maanshan, and Datianshan south of Jiujiang in Jiangxi Province, China. 
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04 Aug 1939 WW2 Polish customs officials on the Danzig border began carrying arms, which alerted the Germans. 
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04 Aug 1939 WW2 The German expedition team consisting of Ernst Schäfer, Bruno Beger, Karl Wienert, Ernst Krause, and others, having departed Lhasa, Tibet in Aug 1939, arrived in Berlin, Germany. 
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04 Aug 1940 WW2 Italian troops marched in three columns toward Berbera, British Somaliland. The main column marched along the main road through Hargeisa, while two smaller columns flanked to the east and west. 
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04 Aug 1940 WW2 German submarine U-58 sank Greek ship Pindos with two torpedoes 10 miles from the Irish coast at 2120 hours; 3 were killed and 29 took to lifeboats. 300 miles northwest of Ireland, German submarine U-52 sank three transports in convoy HX-60: Geraldine Mary (3 killed, 48 survived), Gogovale (all 37 survived), and King Alfred (7 killed, 34 survived); U-52 was depth charged by Royal Navy escort vessels, causing significant damage, but she was able to escape and sail to Kiel, Germany for repairs; she would be out of action until 17 Nov 1940. 
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04 Aug 1940 WW2 British submarine HMS Sealion sank Norwegian ship Torun off of the Norwegian southern coast. 
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04 Aug 1940 WW2 After sundown, German armed merchant cruiser Widder stopped Norwegian tanker Beaulieu with one shot from her gun in the Atlantic Ocean about 1,700 miles east of Florida, United States, killing 4 in the process. 28 survivors were taken to lifeboats and abandoned; they would be rescued by British tanker Cymbeline on 13 Aug 1940. Beaulieu was sunk by scuttling charges. 
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04 Aug 1940 WW2 Three British minesweeping trawlers hit German naval mines on this date at different locations on the British coast and were all destroyed: HMT Drummer (2 killed), HMT Marsona (11 killed), and Oswaldian (12 killed, 7 survived). 
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04 Aug 1940 WW2 German anti-submarine trawler Perseus (UJ-175) hit a naval mine and sank off Ameland Island off northwestern Netherlands. 
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04 Aug 1940 WW2 Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weißenfeld was transferred to the Nachtjagdgeschwader 1 wing based in Gütersloh, Germany. 
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04 Aug 1941 WW2 Adolf Hitler visited Fedor von Bock's Army Group Center headquarters in the Soviet Union. The anti-Nazi officer plotted to arrest Adolf Hitler upon arrival, but failed to do so as he had under-estimated Hitler's personal guards. 
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04 Aug 1941 WW2 Adolf Hitler ordered Hermann Hoth's 3rd Panzer Group to aid Wilhelm von Leeb in the north and Heinz Guderian's 2nd Panzer Group to assist Paul von Kleist in the south. 
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04 Aug 1941 WW2 Tatsuta Maru departed San Francisco, California, United States with US$2,500,000 worth of raw silk and 85,589 gallons of oil, both which was only allowed after Captain Toichi Takahata fought hard for due to the recently passed executive order to freeze Japanese assets in the United States. 
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04 Aug 1942 WW2 Deportation of Belgian Jews to Auschwitz Concentration Camp began. 
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04 Aug 1942 WW2 The first P-38 Lightning kill in the Pacific Theatre occurred when a pair of Kawanishi flying-boats were shot down off the Aleutian Islands. 
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04 Aug 1942 WW2 Destroyer USS Tucker, damaged from hitting a mine on the previous day, sank while under tow near Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. 
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04 Aug 1942 WW2 German submarine U-160 sank Norwegian tanker Havsten 200 miles east of Trinidad at 0159 hours; 2 were killed, 31 survived but 2 were captured by U-160. At 0229 hours, German submarine U-607 sank already-damaged Belgian ship Belgian Soldier of Allied convoy ON-115 330 miles east of St. John's, Newfoundland; 21 were killed, 39 survived. At 1558 hours, U-176 sank British ship Richmond Castle 1,100 miles southeast of Newfoundland; 14 were killed, 50 survived. At 1615 hours, U-155 sank British ship Empire Arnold 600 miles east of Trinidad; 9 were killed, 48 survived but the captain was captured by U-155. 
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04 Aug 1942 WW2 German submarine U-372 was detected by a British Wellington bomber 50 miles southwest of Haifa, Palestine; while British destroyers HMS Sikh, HMS Zulu, HMS Croome, and HMS Tetcott closed in on the location, the bomber's depth charges forced U-372 to surface, and the crew abandoned the submarine before the destroyers arrived; the entire crew of 48 survived and were captured by the destroyers. 
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04 Aug 1942 WW2 George Brett departed Australia for the United States aboard B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft "Swoose". 
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04 Aug 1942 WW2 General George C. Kenney assumed command of Southwest Pacific Air Force in Australia. 
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04 Aug 1942 WW2 Winston Churchill arrived at Cairo, Egypt. 
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04 Aug 1942 WW2 The first infantry training course began at Ramgarh Training Center, India. 
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04 Aug 1942 WW2 Elements of German 4.Panzerarmee crossed the Aksay River en route to Stalingrad, Russia. 
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04 Aug 1942 WW2 Soviet 20th Army and 31st Army attacked Rzhev, Russia from the south while 29th Army and 30th Army attacked from the north. 
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04 Aug 1942 WW2 At the Department of Justice Building in Washington DC, United States, a special military commission sentenced the 8 German saboteurs captured during the failed Operation Pastorius to death by electric chair, including George Dasch, the defector who contributed to the capture of the 7 others. 
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04 Aug 1942 WW2 USS Whale departed San Francisco, California, United States. 
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04 Aug 1943 WW2 German 9.Armee retreated, allowing Red Army to move into Orel, Russia. 
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04 Aug 1943 WW2 The US advance in Sicily, Italy was halted at Troina and the Furiano River. 
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04 Aug 1943 WW2 US Marine Corps squadron VMF-214, flying Corsair fighters, provided top cover for another squadron's strafing mission against the Japanese anchorage at Faisi, Shortland Islands, Solomon Islands. VMF-214 pilots claimed 3 Japanese aircraft shot down plus 2 probables. 
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04 Aug 1943 WW2 In Operation BG 7, Italian auxiliary ship Olterra launched three manned torpedoes against Gibraltar, sinking three cargo ships. 
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04 Aug 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Sewage treatment plant turned over to station. 
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04 Aug 1943 WW2 Allied bombers attacked Naples, Italy, killing many civilians. 
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04 Aug 1943 WW2 Otto Skorzeny learned from the German Police Attaché that Benito Mussolini had been transported in an ambulance from the Royal Palace in Rome, Italy to one of the carabinieri barracks in Rome back on 25 Jul 1943. 
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04 Aug 1943 WW2 Captain Shinshiro Soma was named the commanding officer of Settsu. 
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04 Aug 1943 WW2 Orde Wingate arrived in London, England, United Kingdom and was told that he would accompany Winston Churchill to Canada. 
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04 Aug 1944 WW2 Anne Frank and her family were arrested in Amsterdam, the Netherlands by the Gestapo. 
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04 Aug 1944 WW2 Allies captured Rennes, France. 
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04 Aug 1944 WW2 Soviet forces gained another bridgehead over the Vistula River in Poland near Baranov. 
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04 Aug 1944 WW2 Harold Alexander met with Oliver Leese, who convinced Alexander to attack the Gothic Line in Italy by a thrust along the coast of the Adriatic Sea. 
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04 Aug 1944 WW2 Colonel Charles Hunter was relieved of his command and returned to the United States by ship. Morale among the "Marauders" (most of whom were recovering from their ordeal in hospital beds) collapsed completely as a consequence, and soon after the entire force was despicably disbanded. Back in the United States, the obnoxious Stilwell's treatment of Hunter's "Marauders" had become a public scandal eventually leading to a full inquiry. 
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04 Aug 1944 WW2 An extensively modified Thunderbolt fighter (XP-47J) became the first airscrew driven aircraft to exceed 500 mph in level flight with a recorded speed of 504 mph. However the P-47J did not go into production as the Republic development team chose to concentrate on the more advanced XP-72 project. 
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04 Aug 1944 WW2 HMS Gairsay was sunk by a German explosive motor boat off the coast of Normandy, France. 
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04 Aug 1944 WW2 Lieutenant General Brian Horrocks assumed command of the British XXX Corps in France. 
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04 Aug 1944 WW2 USS Ray sank Japanese cargo ship Koshu Maru at the southern opening of the Makassar Strait between Borneo and Celebes in the Dutch East Indies, hitting her with 3 of 4 torpedoes fired. 
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04 Aug 1944 WW2 The USAAF launched two "babies" against V-1 sites. Both missions ended in failure. One went out off control and into a spin; the crew baled out but the pilot was killed. The second made it across the English Channel, but was lost during the descent and crashed some distance short of the target. 
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04 Aug 1944 WW2 USS Pollack served on lifeguard station off Yap, Caroline Islands in support of air strikes in the region. 
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04 Aug 1944 WW2 USS Tunny departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her seventh war patrol with the wolfpack "Ed's Eradicators". 
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04 Aug 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Parts of Night Air Group 102 on board. 
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04 Aug 1944 WW2 Germans evacuated Florence, Italy. 
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04 Aug 1944 WW2 USS Sterlet fired four torpedoes at a Japanese convoy in the Pacific Ocean, sinking a transport with three hits. 
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04 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Blenny reported sinking a small Japanese craft with the deck gun in the South China Sea off Malaya. 
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04 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Macabi arrived at Apra Harbor, Guam, Mariana Islands for repairs. 
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04 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Bugara sank 3 small enemy craft with her deck gun in the Gulf of Siam and South China Sea area during the day. 
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04 Aug 1945 WW2 Japanese guards executed seven captured American airmen in Singapore. 
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04 Aug 1945 WW2 US Army B-25 bombers based on Okinawa, Japan attacked Takanabe, Kyushu, Japan, damaging or destroying warehouses, factories, railways, and a rail marshaling yard. 
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04 Aug 1945 WW2 In a public statement, Douglas MacArthur announced that "a mighty invasion force is being forged", referring to the seemingly impending invasion of the Japanese home islands. 
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04 Aug 1945 WW2 US bombers attacked Japanese positions at Surabaya, Java, Dutch East Indies. 
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04 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Carbonero departed the Philippine Islands for her second war patrol. 
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04 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Ray sank 3 small Japanese vessels in the Gulf of Thailand and 2 small Japanese vessels in the South China Sea with her deck gun. 
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04 Aug 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 52 departed. 
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04 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Whale arrived off Bungo Channel between Japanese islands of Kyushu and Shikoku. 
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04 Aug 1945 WW2 German prisoner of war Kurt Rossmeisl escaped from imprisonment in North Carolina, United States and evaded the immediate search. He would later board a train for Chicago, Illinois, United States, established a false identity as "Frank Ellis", and remained at large until 1959. 
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04 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Bergall arrived at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, United States. 
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