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History on the 5th of August

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05 Aug 1913 WW2 Haiqi arrived at Huangpu, Guangdong Province, China. 
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05 Aug 1914 WW1 Begin of Battle of Liege
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05 Aug 1914 WW1 Begin of Battle of the Frontiers
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05 Aug 1916 WW2 Major L. W. B. Rees RFC was awarded the Victoria Cross for valour whilst flying an Airco DH.2 fighter. 
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05 Aug 1917 WW2 Henry Arnold was promoted to the temporary rank of colonel. 
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05 Aug 1922 WW2 Adelaide was commissioned into service. 
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05 Aug 1922 WW2 Heinrich Himmler graduated from Universität München (Munich University) with an agriculture degree. 
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05 Aug 1929 WW2 In Russia a subsidiary law ensured that religious clerics did not become a financial burden on the State by removing all rights to welfare, pensions or health insurance. 
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05 Aug 1931 WW2 The Do X aircraft departed Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 
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05 Aug 1932 WW2 Adolf Hitler spoke with Kurt von Schleicher and demanded German Chancellorship. 
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05 Aug 1935 WW2 The popular Hollywood actor Will Rogers was killed along with the noted long-distance pilot, Wiley Post, when their floatplane crashed in the US Territory of Alaska. 
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05 Aug 1937 WW2 The Soviet military purge that began in the previous month expanded to most establishments in the Soviet Union. 
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05 Aug 1937 WW2 Emperor Showa ordered that Chinese prisoners of war would not receive the treatment demanded upon by international law. 
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05 Aug 1938 WW2 Maury was commissioned into service. 
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05 Aug 1938 WW2 Dong Zhao was named the commanding officer of the 16th Corps. 
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05 Aug 1938 WW2 In the morning, Japanese troops captured Huangdanao, Manashan, and Laohushan in Jiangxi Province, China. 
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05 Aug 1939 WW2 Belfast was commissioned into service. 
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05 Aug 1939 WW2 The United Kingdom and France dispatched a joint delegation by passenger ship to the Soviet Union for talks. The ship was not scheduled to arrive at Leningrad, Russia until 11 Aug. It was unknown why the delegation traveled by ship rather than by air, which would be much faster. 
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05 Aug 1939 WW2 US Navy awarded a US$15,505,000 contract to build a new naval air facilities in Hawaii, Midway, Johnston, and Palmyra Islands. 
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05 Aug 1940 WW2 The United Kingdom and Poland signed a military agreement. 
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05 Aug 1940 WW2 Churchill and de Gaulle agreed on Free French forces organization. 
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05 Aug 1940 WW2 Germany announced that all citizens will be required to carry a Certificate of Ancestry (Ahnenpass) that proves their Aryan purity dating back to 1800. 
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05 Aug 1940 WW2 During the night, British Hampden aircraft attacked battleship Tirpitz to little effect. 
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05 Aug 1940 WW2 Lieutenant General Bertoldi's Italian troops captured Zeila, British Somaliland, preventing forces in French Somaliland from reinforcing the British forces from the west. 
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05 Aug 1940 WW2 German submarine U-56 attacked British ship Boma at 2138 hours 20 miles north of Ireland; 3 were killed and 50 survived; Boma would sink on next day. British ship Cape St. George hit the wreck of Yugoslavian ship Rad off of the coast of Senegal in western Africa, which was sunk by German submarine U-A two days earlier; as Cape St. George sank, the crew of 65 were rescued by British ship Grodno, which was carrying the survivors of Rad. 
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05 Aug 1940 WW2 British minesweeping trawler HMT River Clyde hit a naval mine off Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England and sank, killing 12. 
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05 Aug 1940 WW2 The US Navy Chief of Naval Operations established general ground rules to govern the exchange of scientific and technical information with the British mission under Sir Henry Tizard. 
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05 Aug 1940 WW2 Heavy cruisers USS Wichita and USS Quincy departed Bahia, Brazil for Pernambuco, Brazil. 
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05 Aug 1940 WW2 HMS Hermes joined a South Africa-bound convoy in the South Atlantic. 
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05 Aug 1940 WW2 The Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic was officially incorporated into the Soviet Union. 
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05 Aug 1940 WW2 Large German Luftwaffe formations patrolled the Strait of Dover and attacked convoys off the east and southeast coast of England, United Kingdom; 4 German Bf 109 fighters and 1 British Spitfire fighter were shot down as RAF fighters rose to intercept. 
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05 Aug 1940 WW2 US Navy Rear Admiral John W. Greenslade and French Vice Admiral Georges A. M. J. Robert amicably discussed the presence of French warships (aircraft carrier Béarn, light cruiser Émile Bertin, training cruiser Jeanne d'Arc, and auxiliary cruisers Esterelle, Quercy, and Barfleur) and aircraft (44 SBC-4 dive bombers, 15 Hawk 75 fighters, and 6 Brewster fighters) in the western hemisphere. 
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05 Aug 1941 WW2 Thailand established diplomatic relationship with the Japanese-sponsored puppet state of Manchukuo. 
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05 Aug 1941 WW2 Romanian troops arrived in the vicinity of Odessa, Ukraine. 
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05 Aug 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Manila, Philippine Islands. 
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05 Aug 1942 WW2 Smolensk, Russia fell under German control with the surrender of Soviet Sixteenth and Twentieth Armies; 300,000 Soviet troops became prisoners of war. 
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05 Aug 1942 WW2 HMS Milfoil was launched. 
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05 Aug 1942 WW2 Edward Brooks was promoted to the rank of major general. 
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05 Aug 1942 WW2 Submarine ShCh-205 attacked German tanker Le Progrès northeast of Constanta, Romania; all three torpedoes missed. 
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05 Aug 1942 WW2 USS Greenling sank Japanese troopship Brasil Maru (more than 200 of the 600 aboard were killed) and freighter Palau Maru 450 miles southwest of Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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05 Aug 1942 WW2 German submarine U-155 forced the 16 crewmen of Dutch freighter Draco to abandon ship and then sank her with gunfire 325 miles east of Barbados at 1145 hours. At 1613 hours, U-458 sank British ship Arletta of Allied convoy ON-115 170 miles south of Newfoundland; 36 were killed, 5 survived. At 1848 hours, U-593 sank Dutch ship Spar of Allied convoy SC-94 500 miles east of Newfoundland; 3 were killed, 36 survived. 
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05 Aug 1942 WW2 George Kenney visited Mareeba airfield in Queensland, Australia. 
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05 Aug 1942 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze departed Truk Caroline Islands to escort cruiser Mogami and repair ship Akashi to Japan. 
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05 Aug 1942 WW2 Repair ship Akashi departed Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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05 Aug 1942 WW2 Tatsuta Maru arrived at Shanghai, China and embarked interned Allied personnel; she would depart later on the same day. 
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05 Aug 1942 WW2 Winston Churchill and Claude Auchinleck inspected the front lines at El Alamein, Egypt. 
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05 Aug 1942 WW2 In France, the ration on wine was decreased to two liters per person, per week. 
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05 Aug 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-30 arrived at Lorient, France, disembarking 3,300 pounds of mica, 1,452 pounds of shellac, and blueprints of the Type 91 aerial torpedo. 
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05 Aug 1942 WW2 Battleship Musashi was commissioned into service at Nagasaki, Japan; she was assigned to Combined Fleet Battleship Division 1. 
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05 Aug 1942 WW2 Soviet submarine S-7 sank Finnish freighter Pohjanlahti with her deck gun 10 miles off Pavilosta, Latvia; the captain was captured, and charts of German and Finnish minefields in the Baltic region were acquired by the Soviets. 
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05 Aug 1942 WW2 The Soviet STAVKA used elements of the Stalingrad Front to form a new Southwest Front. 
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05 Aug 1942 WW2 Troops of the German 1.Panzerarmee captured Voroshilovgrad, Ukraine. 
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05 Aug 1943 WW2 In Sicily, Italy, German forces withdrew from Troina, while British Eighth Army captured Catania. 
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05 Aug 1943 WW2 British trawler Gulland was launched. 
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05 Aug 1943 WW2 The Japanese Navy transferred the 12th Air Fleet from the Combined Fleet to the Northeast Area Fleet; it now had three air flotillas, one communication unit, and one weather observation unit. 
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05 Aug 1943 WW2 Minesweeper USS Alarm was transferred to the Soviet Union under the Lend-Lease act. 
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05 Aug 1943 WW2 US Navy Admiral Raymond Spruance, formerly the chief of staff of the Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Ocean Area, was named the commanding officer of the Central Pacific Area and the commanding officer of the Fifth Fleet. 
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05 Aug 1943 WW2 Gusztáv Jány stepped down as the commanding officer of Hungarian 2nd Army. 
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05 Aug 1943 WW2 USS Tunny departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her fourth war patrol. 
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05 Aug 1943 WW2 Soviet troops nearly the German garrison at Belgorod, Russia; German troops began evacuating the city after sundown. 
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05 Aug 1943 WW2 Konstantin Rokossovsky's Central Front liberated Orel, Russia and the Germans withdrew to the partly prepared Hagen line position at the base of the salient. 
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05 Aug 1944 WW2 The neutral Turkish ship, Mefkure, sailing from Romania to Istanbul, Turkey with 325 passengers, mainly Jews fleeing from Romania, Poland and Hungary, was torpedoed, shelled and sunk by an unidentified submarine, believed to be the Soviet submarine SC-215. The survivors were machine gunned in the water and only 11 escape. The dead include 37 children. 
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05 Aug 1944 WW2 USS Cero sank a Japanese tanker north of Dutch New Guinea, hitting her with 4 of 6 torpedoes fired. 
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05 Aug 1944 WW2 Karl von Le Suire was named the commanding officer of German XXXXIX. Gebirgskorps. 
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05 Aug 1944 WW2 USS Harder departed Fremantle, Australia for her sixth war patrol. 
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05 Aug 1944 WW2 USS Pollack again served on lifeguard station off Yap, Caroline Islands in support of air strikes in the region. 
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05 Aug 1944 WW2 Finding an unguarded track, Captain Denny of the 13/18th Hussars of the British Army led two troops of tanks to the summit of Mont Pinçon, the most formidable feature in Normandy, France. During the night his small force was reinforced by the battle-weary 4th Wiltshires (Lieutenant Colonel Luce) which on the following day then repulsed a rather half-hearted German counter-attack to regain the feature. Elsewhere, to the south, US XV Corps reached Mayenne, France. 
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05 Aug 1944 WW2 USS Parche arrived at Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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05 Aug 1944 WW2 Representatives from Belgium, Canada, Free France, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, the United Kingdom, and the United States signed an agreement on the control of merchant shipping in London, England, United Kingdom. 
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05 Aug 1944 WW2 Louis Mountbatten arrived in London, England, United Kingdom. 
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05 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Blenny reported sinking 11 small Japanese craft with the deck gun in the South China Sea off Malaya. 
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05 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Bugara sank 4 small enemy craft with her deck gun in the Gulf of Siam and South China Sea area during the day. 
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05 Aug 1945 WW2 The missing items from the Holy Roman Empire Imperial Regalia collection were found hidden under a school in Nürnberg, Germany. 
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05 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Chub attacked a Japanese convoy in the Java Sea, sinking one ship with a torpedo and sinking a tug and a patrol vessel with her deck gun; two torpedoes were expended in the attack. 
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05 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Ray sank 2 small Japanese vessels in the South China Sea with her deck gun. 
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05 Aug 1945 WW2 The US Twentieth Air Force's meteorological service predicted good weather, on the following day, over the four targets (Hiroshima, Kokura, Niigata and Nagasaki in Japan) selected for attack with atomic weapon "Little Boy". 
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05 Aug 1945 WW2 In southern China, Chinese troops captured Danzhu, Guangxi and Xingning County, Guangdong. In northeastern China, Dr. Junod of the International Committee of the Red Cross visited a prisoner of war camp in Mukden; he complained that camp doctors and prisoners were not allowed to speak to him, and that he found many undistributed Red Cross packages. 
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05 Aug 1945 WW2 I-400 developed a electrical power while east of Saipan, Mariana Islands, which quickly developed into an electrical fire that caused the submarine to sink nearly out of control. The repairs took 5 hours to complete. The crew thought that they had surfaced just in time before they ran out of oxygen. 
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05 Aug 1946 WW2 Anzio was decommissioned from service. 
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