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History on the 5th of September

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05 Sep 1914 WW2 In late Aug 1914 five German armies surged forward into France from Amiens to Verdun, starting Battle of the Marne. They were confronted by French forces and the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). After the French withdrew to defend Paris, the Allies retreated to a line south of the Seine. 
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05 Sep 1915 WW2 Tsar Nicholas II, a notoriously inept military leader and tactician, assumed personal command of the Russian Armies. 
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05 Sep 1929 WW2 Masafumi Arima stepped down as the Vice Chief Gunnery Office of battleship Haruna and was assigned to the gunnery department of Sasebo Naval District in Japan. 
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05 Sep 1931 WW2 HMS Hermes arrived at Hankou, Hubei Province, China. 
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05 Sep 1933 WW2 Irina Cioc began flight lessons in Romania. 
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05 Sep 1934 WW2 Mutsu entered Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan for a reconstruction. 
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05 Sep 1936 WW2 The Spanish Nationalists closed the border between the Basque Provinces in Spain and France when Irun was captured by troops led by Colonel Alfonso Beorlegui. 
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05 Sep 1937 WW2 Spanish Nationalist troops captured the city of Llanes, Spain. 
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05 Sep 1937 WW2 Yubari and Destroyer Squadron 5 was ordered to blockade the coast of Guangdong, China. 
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05 Sep 1937 WW2 Deng Xihou gave a patriotic speech in Chengdu, Sichuan, China before leading troops to eastern China to engage the Japanese. 
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05 Sep 1937 WW2 Ryujo departed Sasebo, Japan. 
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05 Sep 1937 WW2 Hosho departed Sasebo, Japan. 
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05 Sep 1939 WW2 France aimed limited offensive at Saarbrücken. 
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05 Sep 1939 WW2 In a private conversation, Franz Halder and Walther von Brauchitsch both agreed that the war against Poland was effectively won. 
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05 Sep 1939 WW2 An Avro Anson aircraft of No. 500 Squadron RAF made the first attack of the war on an enemy submarine. 
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05 Sep 1939 WW2 Heinz Guderian was awarded Clasp to his Iron Cross Second Class. 
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05 Sep 1939 WW2 German Army units crossed the Vistula River in Poland. Meanwhile, Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov responded to the German invitation to jointly invade Poland in the positive, but noted that the Soviet forces would need several days to prepare; he also warned the Germans not to cross the previously agreed upon line separating German and Soviet spheres of influence. 
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05 Sep 1939 WW2 Wolfgang Falck shot down one Polish two-seater aircraft. 
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05 Sep 1939 WW2 Jan Smuts became the 4th Prime Minister of South Africa. 
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05 Sep 1939 WW2 The United States publicly declared neutrality in the war. 
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05 Sep 1939 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt put the arms embargo in place in response to the start of the European War as required by law, but he would soon approach the United States Congress in attempt to remove the ban. 
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05 Sep 1940 WW2 Japanese troops crossed the border into Indochina without French permission; French negotiator Maurice Martin suspended all talks in protest. 
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05 Sep 1940 WW2 Hungarian troops entered Northern Transylvania, territory that German and Italy forced Romania to cede to Hungary. 
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05 Sep 1940 WW2 6 Blenheim IV bombers and 6 Hurricane fighters arrived in crates at Takoradi at the British Colony of the Gold Coast. These aircraft would soon be assembled and flown to RAF Abu Sueir, Egypt near the Suez Canal for the war against Italy in North Africa. 
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05 Sep 1940 WW2 German armed merchant cruiser Komet completed its voyage across the Northern Sea Route and entered the Pacific Ocean via the Bering Strait. 
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05 Sep 1940 WW2 Matrosenobergefreiter Heinrich Mantyk fell overboard from German submarine U-47 300 miles northwest of Ireland while operating the deck gun. He was lost. 
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05 Sep 1940 WW2 Akagi departed Yokosuka, Japan. 
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05 Sep 1940 WW2 Koichi Shiozawa was named the commanding officer of the Yokosuka Naval District, Japan. 
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05 Sep 1940 WW2 In the morning, German bombers attacked RAF airfields at Eastchurch, Lympne, North Weald, Kenley, and Biggin Hill in England, United Kingdom; in the afternoon, German bombers attacked RAF airfields at Detling and Biggin Hill, as well as the Hawker factories at Brooklands and oil storage tanks at Thameshaven. Eastchurch and Biggin Hill were placed out of action after sustaining heavy damage, while the fires at Thameshaven could be seen from London. When Churchill spoke to the House of Commons on this day, he promised compensation for families who had lost homes due to German attacks. On this day, 23 German aircraft were lost, as were 20 RAF fighters. Overnight, London, Manchester, and Liverpool were bombed by German bombers. 
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05 Sep 1940 WW2 James Lacey shot down two German Bf 109 fighters over Britain. 
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05 Sep 1941 WW2 Japanese Navy Captain Shutoku Miyazato (former commanding officer of Naka) was posted as the Chief Equipping Officer of Battleship No. 1. 
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05 Sep 1941 WW2 British bombers attacked chemical works at Hüls, Germany. 
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05 Sep 1941 WW2 British 1st Parachute Brigade was founded with Brigadier Richard Gale in command. 
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05 Sep 1941 WW2 Remy Van Lierde joined the British Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. 
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05 Sep 1941 WW2 Captain Karou Umetani was named the commanding officer of light carrier Hosho; Hosho was relieved the duty of being Carrier Division 3's flagship. 
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05 Sep 1941 WW2 Joseph Rochefort's cryptanalytic team detected sudden increase in Japanese naval radio traffic. 
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05 Sep 1941 WW2 The exhibition "Le Juif et la France" ("The Jews and France") opened in Paris, France based on the work of the anti-Semitic French Professor George Montandon with the urging of the Nazi German occupation. 
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05 Sep 1941 WW2 A song in mourning of Prince Nagahisa was released in Japan. The music was composed by Yuji Koseki, the lyrics were written by Count Yoshinori Futara, and it was performed by popular singer Akiko Futaba and veteran Takeo Ito. 
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05 Sep 1942 WW2 Captain J. A. L. Timpson, commander of the G1 Patrol of the British Long Range Desert Group, was injured in an accident en route to raid Barce, Libya; Sergeant Jack Dennis would assume of the role of acting commanding officer for the duration of the raid as Timpson was evacuated for treatment. 
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05 Sep 1942 WW2 Destroyer Yuzuki arrived at Jaluit Atoll, Marshall Islands. 
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05 Sep 1942 WW2 Admiral Chester Nimitz requested the Marine Aircraft Wings, Pacific to be relocated from San Diego, California, United States to Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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05 Sep 1942 WW2 US 8th Air Force bombers attacked the Rouen marshalling yards in France, but bombs dropped wide by the inexperienced American crews caused the deaths of 140 French civilians. 
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05 Sep 1942 WW2 German submarine U-506 sank British merchant ship Myrmidon 200 miles south of Cape Palmas, Liberia at 0233 hours; all 245 aboard survived. German submarine U-513 sank British ship Saganaga (30 were killed, 14 survived) and Canadian ship Lord Strathcona (all 44 aboard survived) at Wabana, Bell Island, Newfoundland at 1615 hours. 
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05 Sep 1942 WW2 British submarine HMS Traveller sank Italian freighter Albachiara 25 miles off Derna, Libya. 
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05 Sep 1942 WW2 Australian 2/16th and 2/14th Battalions fell back to Efogi along the Kokoda Track in Australian Papua on the southern side of the Owen Stanley Gap. 
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05 Sep 1942 WW2 Tenryu embarked surviving Special Naval Landing Force troops at Milne Bay, Australian Papua. 
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05 Sep 1942 WW2 Japanese destroyers Yudachi, Hatsuyuki, and Murakumo, having just disembarked 1,000 troops at Taivu, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands before midnight on the previous day, shelled Henderson Field. As a US Navy PBY Catalina aircraft dropped flares to illuminate the battlefield, Yudachi took advantage of the lighting, spotted destroyer-transports USS Gregory and USS Little in Save Sound, and prompty sank both of them with gunfire off Lunga Point; 22 were killed aboard USS Gregory, 62 were killed aboard USS Little. Afer dawn, US aircraft based in Henderson Field sank Japanese barges attempting to bring heavy equipment onto Guadalcanal. 
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05 Sep 1942 WW2 Shokaku arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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05 Sep 1942 WW2 Axis troops returned to the positions west of El Alamein, Egypt from which they began the failed offensive on 30 Aug. 
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05 Sep 1942 WW2 15 commandos of "N" (swimmer) battalion of the "San Marco" naval infantry regiment destroyed a section of rail behind British lines at El Alamein, Egypt; all commandos would be captured after the mission. 
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05 Sep 1942 WW2 USS Seal damaged Japanese passenger-cargo ship Kanju Maru 20 miles off the coast of French Indochina in the South China Sea. 
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05 Sep 1942 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille shot down two Hurricane fighters and two Spitfire fighters between Ruweisat and El Taqua in Libya. His score stood at 136 kills. 
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05 Sep 1942 WW2 Soviet 24th Army and 66th Army organized a counter attack against German XIV Panzer Corps at Stalingrad, Russia. Launched in the morning, it was called off around noon time; 30 of the 120 tanks committed to this attack were destroyed, nearly all of which to German Luftwaffe aircraft. 
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05 Sep 1942 WW2 The front lines of the Soviet Volkhov Front offensive reached within 3.5 miles from the Leningrad Front on the other side, nearly breaking the German siege on Leningrad, Russia, but the offensive would soon peter out. 
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05 Sep 1942 WW2 USS Copahee departed Alameda, California, United States. 
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05 Sep 1943 WW2 USS Columbia set sail for Sydney, Australia. 
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05 Sep 1943 WW2 British Eighth Army captured San Stefano, Italy. 
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05 Sep 1943 WW2 USS Luce departed New York, New York, United States. 
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05 Sep 1944 WW2 US Third Army crossed the Meuse River while the British forces reached Ghent, Belgium. 
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05 Sep 1944 WW2 Jewish ghettos at Lodz, Poland were evacuated by German authorities. 
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05 Sep 1944 WW2 US 83rd Infantry Division became part of the VIII Corps of the Ninth Army of the US 12th Army Group. 
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05 Sep 1944 WW2 Ján Golian was given the rank of general and was given responsibility to direct the Slovak National Uprising. 
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05 Sep 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of Night Air Group 104 on board. 
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05 Sep 1944 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Kure, Japan. 
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05 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Whale departed Tanapag Harbor, Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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05 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Kete arrived at the Panama Canal Zone. 
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05 Sep 1944 WW2 Soviet forces repulsed a German-Hungarian counter attack near Klausenberg, Romania. 
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05 Sep 1944 WW2 Allied convoy RA-59A arrived at Loch Ewe, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 British and Indian troops re-entered Singapore where they liberated 33,000 prisoners of war. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Blackfin arrived at Apra, Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 Iva Toguri D'Aquino was arrested in Yokohama, Japan. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Missouri was relieved of duty as Admiral William Halsey's flagship. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 Soviet Politburo approved the formation of "The Commission on the Guidance of Preparation of Indictment Materials and Activity of Soviet Representatives at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg", or "Governmental Commission on Nuremberg Trials" for short, with foreign ministry deputy commissar Andrei Vyshinsky at its helm, to provide direction to the Soviet prosecutors. The members of the commission included Vsevolod Merkulov, Bogdan Kobulov, Viktor Abakumov, Konstantin Gorshenin, Ivan Golyakov, and Nikolai Safonov. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 Destroyer HMAS Vendetta entered Simpson Harbor, New Britain in preparation of the surrender ceremony. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 Nobutake Kondo was transferred to the Japanese Navy Reserve. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Wisconsin arrived in Tokyo Bay, Japan. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Alabama entered Tokyo Bay, Japan. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 Marquis Hironobu was promoted to the rank of captain. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Boarfish departed Subic Bay, Philippine Islands. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 Governor Manuel de Abreu Ferreira de Carvalho received the transfer of power over Portuguese Timor from Japan. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 USMC Major Dick Johnson, flying a TBM-3 Avenger aircraft, landed at Matsuyama Airfield in Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan. He was the first US airman to arrive on Taiwan after the cease of hostilities. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Blenny arrived at San Diego, California, United States. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Macabi arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Pintado arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Springer arrived at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States. 
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05 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Sunfish arrived at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States. 
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05 Sep 1946 WW2 The trial against Amon Göth at the Supreme National Tribunal of Poland ended. 
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