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History on the 9th of August

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09 Aug 1921 WW2 While sailing with his family in the Bay of Fundy off eastern Canada, Franklin Roosevelt fell into the cold waters. 
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09 Aug 1924 WW2 The US airship Shenandoah proved that dirigibles could operate at sea by mooring to a mast on the USS Patoka while the ship was under way off the east coast of the United States. It remained docked for nearly 24 hours. Later in the month, Shenandoah carried out the first fleet operation by an American rigid airship, locating an "enemy" force 200 miles out to sea. 
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09 Aug 1929 WW2 Quintin Brand was appointed Senior Engineering Officer, RAF Depot, Middle East. 
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09 Aug 1935 WW2 The Headquarters of the Fleet Marine Force of the US Marine Corps was transferred from Quantico, Virginia, United States to San Diego, California, United States. 
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09 Aug 1936 WW2 A Spanish Republican expeditionary force of Catalan and Valencian troops, commanded by Air Force Captain Alberto Bayo and Guardia Civil Captain Manuel Uribarri, landed on the iland of Ibiza, Spain in the Mediterranean Sea. With the help of local people the expeditionary force quickly overcame the Nationalist garrison, and the island returned to Republican rule. 
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09 Aug 1936 WW2 During the Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany, Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal, becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympiad. Owens commented that Adolf Hitler, although biased against people of African descent, rose and waved at him as he paraded with other medal winners before the German leader; Franklin Roosevelt, however, "didn't even send me a telegram." 
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09 Aug 1937 WW2 Chinese Peace Preservation Corps troops shot and killed Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces Lieutenant Isao Oyama as he attempted to enter Hongqiao Airport, Shanghai, China without authorization. 
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09 Aug 1937 WW2 A special national assembly was called at Nanjing, China, with representatives of both Nationalist and Communist Parties present, to discuss the war with Japan. 
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09 Aug 1938 WW2 Soviet troops drove Japanese out of the Lake Khasan region on the northeastern Chinese border. 
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09 Aug 1939 WW2 Germany sent a message to Poland noting that its uncooperativeness to work with Germany, ie. its refusal of German demands to annex Danzig, might lead to war, and Germany would not hold the responsibility for starting an armed conflict. 
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09 Aug 1940 WW2 Hermann Göring believed Luftwaffe had control of the air having successfully attacked many convoys and excluded Royal Navy ships from the English Channel during daylight. Overestimated downed RAF planes and underestimated Luftwaffe losses further convinced him the RAF was almost beaten; in reality, RAF was stronger than a month ago, with losses (84 fighters) less that half the Luftwaffe's (227 aircraft). Göring ordered new tactics to destroy RAF's fighting capacity by attacking their airfields, control centers and radar. These tactics could not be put into effect, however, as cloudy weather allowed only reconnaissance patrols; 1 He 111 aircraft was shot down. At 1645 hours, R. D. Ritchie of No. 605 Squadron crashed his Hurricane fighter into the sea and died off Dunbar on the east coast of Scotland. 
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09 Aug 1940 WW2 Orion was ordered to make rendezvous with supply ship Regensburg in the Marshall Islands. 
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09 Aug 1940 WW2 Heavy cruisers USS Wichita and USS Quincy arrived at Pernambuco, Brazil. 
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09 Aug 1940 WW2 Destroyers USS Walke and USS Wainwright departed Santos, Brazil for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 
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09 Aug 1940 WW2 The Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic was officially incorporated into the Soviet Union. 
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09 Aug 1940 WW2 Friederich Schumacher was named the civilian administrator of the Channel Islands. 
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09 Aug 1940 WW2 German submarine U-30 sank Swedish merchant ship Canton 70 miles west of Ireland at 2032 hours; 16 were killed and 16 survived. Canton was carrying 7,900 tons of cargo (including iron) from India and South Africa to Britain. 
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09 Aug 1940 WW2 Gunboat USS Erie, with Rear Admiral H. Kent Hewitt aboard, departed from the Panama Canal Zone for Ecuador. 
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09 Aug 1941 WW2 Atlantic Charter Conference began between US and UK leadership. 
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09 Aug 1941 WW2 The Soviet Shchuka-class submarine ShCh-307 (Treska) commanded by N. I. Petrov torpedoed and sank the German submarine U-144 west of Hiiumaa Island in the Baltic Sea. 
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09 Aug 1941 WW2 Battle of Britain ace Wing Commander Douglas Bader was involved in a mid-air collision with a German Bf 109 fighter over northern France. He parachuted from his crippled aircraft by releasing and leaving behind in his Spitfire fighter one of his two artificial legs. 
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09 Aug 1941 WW2 Romanian 30th Dorobanti Regiment captured the village of Ponyatovka, Ukraine while other Romanian units captured the railway town of Razdelnaya. 
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09 Aug 1942 WW2 USS Hornet patrolled waters near US Territory of Hawaii. 
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09 Aug 1942 WW2 Armed resistance was met by the Germans during the liquidation of the Mir ghetto in western Byelorussia. 
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09 Aug 1942 WW2 Mahatma Gandhi was arrested in Bombay, India by British forces for launching the Quit India Movement. 
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09 Aug 1942 WW2 US Navy Admiral Richmond Turner put the HQ 2nd Marines ashore on Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides. Unfortunately the rest of the regiment was on Tulagi and Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. To make matters worse the Marines then forgot all about them until the 29 Oct 1942 when a boat was sent to collect them. 
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09 Aug 1942 WW2 The United States Navy retreated from the Guadalcanal area due to Japanese air attacks without being able to unload all supplies for the Marines on shore. 
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09 Aug 1942 WW2 Mutsu was assigned to Japanese Navy Second Fleet. 
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09 Aug 1942 WW2 German submarine U-155 sank British tanker San Emiliano 450 miles east of Trinidad at 0324 hours; 40 were killed, 8 survived. At 0649 hours, U-176 sank the already-abandoned British merchant ship Radchurch of Allied convoy SC-94 485 hours southeast of the southern tip of Greenland. German submarine U-752 sank Dutch ship Mendanau 400 miles southwest of Freetown, British West Africa at 2113 hours; 69 were killed, 16 survived. At 2237 hours, 750 miles west of Free town, U-130 sank Norwegian tanker Malmanger; 2 were killed, 32 survived but 2 were taken prisoner. ALso on this day, German armed merchant cruiser Stier attacked British freighter Dalhousie with gunfire; all 37 aboard were captured before Stier scuttled Dalhousie with torpedoes. 
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09 Aug 1942 WW2 USS Astoria was sunk at 1216 hours from damage sustained during the Battle of Savo Island. 
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09 Aug 1942 WW2 James Johnson shot down a German Bf 109 fighter. 
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09 Aug 1942 WW2 In the Solomon Islands, damaged US destroyer USS Jarvis was sunk by Japanese torpedo bombers from Rabaul, New Britain at 1300 hours; all 233 aboard were killed. 
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09 Aug 1942 WW2 George Marshall gave George Kenney his permission to create an all-American numbered air force in Australia. 
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09 Aug 1942 WW2 6 US B-17 Flying Fortress bombers attacked Rabaul, New Britain, causing little damage; 2 bombers were lost on this mission. 
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09 Aug 1942 WW2 Japanese troops recaptured Kokoda airfield in Australian Papua from Australian troops. 
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09 Aug 1942 WW2 Tatsuta Maru arrived at Saigon, Indochina and embarked interned Allied personnel. 
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09 Aug 1942 WW2 192 British bombers (91 Wellington, 42 Lancaster, 40 Stirling, and 19 Halifax) attacked Osnabrück, Germany, destroying 206 houses, killing 62, and wounding 107; 6 bombers were lost on this mission. 
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09 Aug 1942 WW2 Irako transited the Bungo Strait between Shikoku and Kyushu, Japan. 
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09 Aug 1942 WW2 German tanker Rossbach, formerly Norwegian tanker Madrono captured by German armed merchant cruiser Thor in the Indian Ocean on 4 Jul 1942, arrived in Japan. 
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09 Aug 1942 WW2 Troops of the German 17.Armee captured Krasnodar on the Kuban River in southern Russia. Nearby, troops of the 1.Panzerarmee reached the Maikop oil fields, though most of the fuel stores were burned before capture. Meanwhile, Soviet cruiser Krasny Krym and destroyer Nezamozhnik evacuated troops from Novorossiysk, Russia. 
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09 Aug 1942 WW2 German 4.Panzerarmee reached the eastern shore of the Don River bend west of Stalingrad, Russia, threatening to envelope Soviet 62nd Army and 64th Army on the western shore. 
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09 Aug 1943 WW2 Winston Churchill arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada aboard the passenger liner Queen Mary. 
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09 Aug 1943 WW2 German officer Georg Jantschi voluntarily surrendered to the Soviets. 
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09 Aug 1943 WW2 A party of German officers departed Rabaul, New Britain. They had inspected Japanese facilities and spoke to American prisoners of war prior to their departure. 
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09 Aug 1943 WW2 The main body of the Japanese Southeast Detached Force was moved to Kolombangara, New Georgia, Solomon Islands. Elsewhere on New Georgia, the two groups of the American New Georgia Occupation Force (Northern Landing Group and Southern Landing Group) made contact at a roadblock southwest of Triri. Also on New Georgia, a light anti-aircraft artillery battery of the US Marine Corps 11th Defense Battalion arrived at Enogai. 
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09 Aug 1943 WW2 Dong Zhao was named the Deputy Commander of the Border Region of Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Suiyuan under General Deng Baoshan. 
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09 Aug 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of Fighting Squadron 23 (VF-23; Model F6F-3) on board. SBD-5's and TBF-1's of Air Group 23 on board. 
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09 Aug 1943 WW2 Nobutake Kondo was appointed to the Japanese Supreme War Council. 
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09 Aug 1943 WW2 USS Alabama arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, United States. 
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09 Aug 1943 WW2 USS Tunny arrived at Midway Atoll. 
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09 Aug 1944 WW2 USS Tirante was launched. 
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09 Aug 1944 WW2 Eisenhower moved his headquarters to France. 
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09 Aug 1944 WW2 US President Roosevelt informed MacArthur that MacArthur's plan to invade the Philippine Islands had been approved, which necessarily meant that Nimitz's plan to land on Taiwan, thus bypassing the Philippine Islands, was rejected. 
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09 Aug 1944 WW2 The Vyborg-Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest Soviet offensive against Finland, ended in a strategic stalemate. 
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09 Aug 1944 WW2 The US Forest Service and the US Wartime Advertising Council released posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time. 
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09 Aug 1944 WW2 USS Pollack attacked a Japanese destroyer with four torpedoes west of the Caroline Islands; all torpedoes missed. 
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09 Aug 1944 WW2 USS Barbero departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of for her first war patrol. 
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09 Aug 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of 125th Construction Battalion (125th SeaBees) departed. 
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09 Aug 1944 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt assigned Patrick Hurley to as an intermediary between Chiang Kaishek and Joseph Stilwell. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Blenny reported sinking three small Japanese craft with the deck gun in the South China Sea off Malaya. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 258 British Avenger, Corsair, Hellcat, Firefly, and Seafire carrier aircraft of Task Force 37 expended more than 120 tons of bombs and cannon shells on targets in and near the Japanese home islands. Meanwhile, American battleships USS South Dakota, USS Indiana, and USS Massachusetts bombarded Kamaishi, Iwate, Japan. 850 16-inch shells from battleships, 1,440 8-inch shells from cruisers, and 2,500 5-inch shells from destroyers were fired. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 At one minute after midnight, Soviet troops crossed the border into northeastern China, which was administered by the Japanese-sponsored puppet state of Manchukuo. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 Canadian Lieutenant Robert Hampton Gray won the last Victoria Cross of the war (posthumously) when his Corsair fighter-bomber was shot down in flames off the Japanese mainland during an attack on the destroyer, Amakusa, which he sank. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Hawkbill arrived at Borneo, Dutch East Indies and destroyed the Japanese radio station at Tambelan. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Sennet ended her fuorth war patrol. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Chub sank a small Japanese vessel in the Java Sea with her deck gun. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 Medical staff aboard USS Alabama visited destroyers USS Ault and USS Borie to provide medical assistance. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 Du Yuming arrived at Chongqing, China to meet with Chiang Kaishek, planning for a campaign against General Long Yun of Yunnan Province, China. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Sunfish arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 Air Group 87 aircraft from USS Ticonderoga struck Honshu, Japan. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 B-29 bomber Bockscar dropped the atomic bomb "Fat Man" on the city of Nagasaki, Japan, killing 40,000 to 75,000 immediately. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Whale made rendezvous with USS Blackfish in the Pacific Ocean and received 16 rescued aviators. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Wasp was nearly hit by a Japanese special attack aircraft off Japan. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 On Mindanao in the Philippines, captured Japanese Army officer Minoru Wada flew with US Marine Mitchell bombers to guide them to the Japanese Army 100th Infantry Division headquarters. The complex was destroyed and the fighting on Mindanao ended. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 US B-24 bombers attacked Matsuyama Airfield in Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Sargent Bay arrived at San Pedro, Los Angeles, California for overhaul. 
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09 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Mingo completed her overhaul at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States. 
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