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History on the 6th of September

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06 Sep 1911 WW2 Prince Kotohito was made the commanding officer of Imperial Guard Division. 
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06 Sep 1914 WW1 Begin of First Battle of the Marne
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06 Sep 1918 WW2 Argus was commissioned into service. 
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06 Sep 1923 WW2 Petar II was born. 
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06 Sep 1923 WW2 Kakichi Uchida was named the governor-general of Taiwan. 
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06 Sep 1929 WW2 Joseph Rochefort, his wife, and his son boarded the passenger ship President Adams at San Francisco, California, United States, bound for Kobe, Japan. 
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06 Sep 1936 WW2 Italian aircraft arrived in Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain and set up bases from which to bomb Spanish Republican positions. 
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06 Sep 1937 WW2 Liu Cuigang, flying a Hawk III fighter, attacked Japanese warships off Shanghai, China with 500-pound bombs. 
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06 Sep 1938 WW2 HMS Zulu (L18) was commissioned into service with Commander J. S. Crawford in command. 
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06 Sep 1938 WW2 The Imperial Regalia of the Holy Roman Empire was put on public display at Nürnberg, Germany. Adolf Hitler, who spoke at the revealing of the artifacts, hinted that the possession of them would allow the Germans another 1,000-year empire. 
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06 Sep 1938 WW2 Elements of the Japanese 2nd Army Group captured Liuan, Hubei, China. 
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06 Sep 1938 WW2 HMAS Albatross arrived at Devonport, England, United Kingdom with a crew to man the cruiser soon-to-be transferred to Australia as HMAS Hobart. 
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06 Sep 1939 WW2 Garland arrived at Alexandria, Egypt. 
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06 Sep 1939 WW2 German troops captured the Upper Silesian industrial area in Poland. 
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06 Sep 1939 WW2 South Africa declared war on Germany after tough Cabinet battle. 
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06 Sep 1939 WW2 German aircraft attacked Great Britain for the first time. 
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06 Sep 1939 WW2 The first Royal Air Force fighter pilot to be killed during the war lost his life when two Hurricane fighters were shot down in error by two Spitfire fighters. 
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06 Sep 1940 WW2 US military issued contracts for the construction of B-29 and B-32 prototype bombers. 
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06 Sep 1940 WW2 British submarine HMS Tribune attacked German submarine U-56 40 miles west of Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland; all torpedoes fired missed. 
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06 Sep 1940 WW2 All French colonies supporting General de Gaulle had the British naval blockade lifted. 
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06 Sep 1940 WW2 British troop ship Dunera arrived in Australia with 200 Italian prisoners of war, 251 German prisoners of war, 55 British Nazi sympathizers, and 2,036 civilians from Germany (mostly Jewish refugees). They were robbed and abused by British guards in the past 57 days, and those who committed the abuse were later court-martialed. These "enemy aliens", as they were categorized, were to be trained to the town of Hay, New South Wales, Australia. 
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06 Sep 1940 WW2 German aircraft damaged British merchant ship Melbourne Star 180 miles west of Ireland and Greek ship Aegeon 30 miles southeast of Dublin. 
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06 Sep 1940 WW2 HMS Argus launched 30 Hurricane fighters for Takoradi in the British Colony of the Gold Coast. They would later be flown to RAF Abu Sueir in Egypt to participate in the Desert War against the Italians. 
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06 Sep 1940 WW2 Erich Raeder met with Adolf Hitler in regards to the invasion of Britain. 
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06 Sep 1940 WW2 Rudolf von Schmettow was made the military governor of the Channel Islands, succeeding Albrecht Lanz. 
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06 Sep 1940 WW2 A Nationalist Chinese brigade was wiped out by Communist Chinese forces near Yingxi, Jiangsu Province, China. 
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06 Sep 1940 WW2 British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, battleship HMS Barham, battleship HMS Resolution, and 10 destroyers departed Gibraltar for Dakar. 
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06 Sep 1940 WW2 A German paratrooper dressed in civilian clothes with a Swedish passport was dropped in Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom at 0300 hours to report damage to airfields; he was injured upon landing and would be captured at 1720 hours. At 0900, 1300, and 1800 hours, German bombers flew up the Thames Estuary and bombed RAF airfields at Heston, Kenley, and Biggin Hill, as well as the Hawker factories at Brooklands (only minor damage) and the oil storage tanks at Thameshaven (caused large fires). The Germans lost 37 fighters and 7 bombers on this day, while the British lost 22 fighters. Overnight, German bombers attacked London. 
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06 Sep 1940 WW2 A Vultee Model 48C Vanguard aircraft, the first of the batch ordered by Sweden, took flight. 
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06 Sep 1941 WW2 Hitler issued Directive 35 for Operation Typhoon, which he intended should destroy in a swift blow any remaining Soviet resistance. 
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06 Sep 1941 WW2 HMS Brora was wrecked off the Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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06 Sep 1941 WW2 The keel of hull number 533 was laid down for the future USS Wilkes-Barre. 
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06 Sep 1941 WW2 The Red Army newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda ("Red Star") noted that it was a shame to become captured by the enemy. 
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06 Sep 1941 WW2 The hospital ship, RFA Maine, was badly damaged during an air raid on Alexandria, Egypt. Four of her crew, including a Medical Officer, were killed, but fortunately none of thew patients sustained injury. 
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06 Sep 1941 WW2 Emperor Showa of Japan agreed with the proposal that, unless peace could be achieved by 10 Oct 1941, Japan was to prepare for war. 
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06 Sep 1941 WW2 The Vilna Ghetto was established in Lithuania, containing 40,000 Jews. 
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06 Sep 1941 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt arrived at Hyde Park, New York, United States to see his ailing mother Sara Roosevelt. 
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06 Sep 1942 WW2 German submarine U-164 sank Canadian ship John A. Holloway 150 miles northwest of Aruba at 2227 hours; 1 was killed, 23 survived. 
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06 Sep 1942 WW2 German submarine U-514 sank British sailing vessel Helen Forsey by gunfire 500 miles east of Bermuda at 1100 hours; 2 were killed, 4 survived. At 2323 hours, U-109 sank British passenger-cargo ship Tuscan Star 300 miles southwest of Cape Palmas, Liberia, 51 were killed, 63 survived but 1 of them would be taken prisoner. 
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06 Sep 1942 WW2 U-375 sank Egyptian sailing vessel Turkian with her deck gun 20 miles off of Khan Yunis, Palestine at 1008 hours, in range of British coastal guns (which failed to hit the submarine); all 19 aboard survived. 
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06 Sep 1942 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille shot down five P-40 fighters and one Spitfire fighter over El Alamein, Egypt, bringing his score up to 142 kills. In the evening, he received personal congratulations on being awarded Diamonds to his Knight's Cross medal from Albert Kesselring, Erwin Rommel, Hermann Göring, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Joseph Goebbels, and Erhard Milch, but his spirits remained low because he had lost fellow pilot Hans-Arnold Stahlschmidt, whom he considered a close friend, in combat in the afternoon. 
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06 Sep 1942 WW2 Australian troops attacked the Japanese beachhead at Waga Waga on the coast of Milne Bay, Australian Papua, which the Japanese had already been evacuating. Further inland, Australian 2/27th Battalion arrived at Efogi along the Kokoda Track to reinforce the two battered battalions that had fled to this position recently; meanwhile, US aircraft bombed Japanese positions near Efogi. After dark, Japanese cruiser Tatsuta bombarded Gili Gili on the coast of Milne Bay, sinking Australian merchant ship Anshun. 
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06 Sep 1942 WW2 Tenryu embarked surviving Special Naval Landing Force troops at Milne Bay, Australian Papua. 
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06 Sep 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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06 Sep 1942 WW2 B-17E bombers of US Eighth Air Force attacked an aircraft factory near Méaulte, France, without fighter escort because the fighters had failed to make the rendezvous. The raid caused no damage on the French aircraft production ; two US bombers were shot down. 
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06 Sep 1942 WW2 German submarine U-261 departed Kiel, Germany. 
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06 Sep 1942 WW2 Joseph Stilwell departed Delhi, India for Chongqing, China. 
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06 Sep 1942 WW2 USS Wahoo attacked an unescorted Japanese freighter in the Pacific Ocean; all three torpedoes missed. The freighter turned around; fearing a ramming attempt, Wahoo dove and withdrew. 
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06 Sep 1942 WW2 The German 4.Gebirgsjäger Division of 17.Armee captured the naval base at Novorossiysk on the Black Sea in southern Russia. 
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06 Sep 1943 WW2 Operation Sizilien: Tirpitz, Scharnhorst, and 9 destroyers departed Kåfjord, Norway for an attack on the Allied base on Spitzbergen. 
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06 Sep 1943 WW2 Operation Sizilien: Tirpitz, Scharnhorst, and 9 destroyers departed Kåfjord, Norway for an attack on the Allied base on Spitzbergen. 
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06 Sep 1943 WW2 Red Army succeeded in rupturing the line between German Armeegruppe Mitte and German Armeegruppe Süd. 
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06 Sep 1943 WW2 Major Egon Mayer of the German Geschwaderkommodore of JG2 "Richthofen" shot down three B-17 bombers in the space of just 19 minutes. 
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06 Sep 1943 WW2 The minesweeper USS Arch was transferred to the Soviet Union under the Lend-Lease act. 
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06 Sep 1943 WW2 John Basilone began a bond tour in the New York City region of the United States. 
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06 Sep 1943 WW2 USS Seahorse sank a Japanese transport in the Palau Islands, hitting her with three of four torpedoes fired. The subsequent depth charge counterattack caused severe leaks. 
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06 Sep 1943 WW2 German units in the southwestern tip of Italy began falling back toward Castrovillari. 
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06 Sep 1943 WW2 Nachi departed Ominato Guard District, Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. After dark, about 50 miles northeast of Ominato, she was detected by US submarine USS Halibut (which mis-identified Nachi as a destroyer) and was struck by one of Halibut's spread of four torpedoes; the torpedo failed to detonate. 
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06 Sep 1943 WW2 Reginald McKenna passed away in London, England, United Kingdom. He had been Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith's Home Secretary, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, during the early part of the Great War, before becoming the Chairman of the Midland Bank in 1918. 
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06 Sep 1944 WW2 The German garrison in Calais, France became surrounded by Canadian troops. 
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06 Sep 1944 WW2 Hans Speidel visited Erwin Rommel at Rommel's home in Herrlingen, Germany. 
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06 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Columbia departed Port Purvis, Nggela Islands (Florida Islands), Solomon Islands. 
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06 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Franklin launched strikes against Yap Island and Ulithi Atoll through 8 Sep 1944. 
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06 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Gar bombarded Japanese positions at Yap, Caroline Islands for the following two days. 
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06 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Wasp's aircraft attacked Japanese positions in the Palau Islands. 
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06 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Alabama escorted US carriers as carrier aircraft attacked Japanese positions in the Caroline Islands. 
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06 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Preston guarded carriers while the carriers launched strikes against Palau Islands. 
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06 Sep 1944 WW2 Red Army units captured Turnu-Severin, Romania on the Danube River and advanced toward the Yugoslavian border. 
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06 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Puffer entered Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States for a scheduled overhaul. 
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06 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Copahee embarked on her first Operation Magic Carpet run. 
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06 Sep 1945 WW2 John McCain passed away. 
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06 Sep 1945 WW2 Carrier HMS Glory and her task force arrived off Rabaul, New Britain in the morning. At 0900 hours, sloop HMS Hart picked up Hitoshi Imamura and Jinichi Kusaka at Kabanga Bay, who would sign the surrender documents aboard HMS Glory at 1127 hours which surrendered 139,000 remaining personnel at Rabaul plus all forces in Australian territory in the South Pacific. 
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06 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Sterlet departed Midway. 
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06 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Ticonderoga arrived at Tokyo Bay, Japan. 
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06 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Missouri departed Tokyo Bay, Japan. 
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06 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Preston departed Okinawa, Japan. 
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06 Sep 1945 WW2 The Churon Temporary Prisoners of War Camp in northern Taiwan was closed. Former prisoners of the Oka Prisoners of War Camp in northern Taiwan and the Maruyama Temporary Prisoners of War Camp in Taihoku were evacuated by US and British ships via Keelung. 
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06 Sep 1945 WW2 The Taihoku Prisoners of War Camp No. 6 near Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan was closed. 
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06 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Mero began her shakedown cruise on Lake Michigan in northern United States. 
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06 Sep 1945 WW2 USS R-5 arrived at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States. 
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06 Sep 1946 WW2 Arthur Coningham was awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the Phoenix of Greece. 
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06 Sep 1946 WW2 William Dimoline was promoted to the rank of major general. 
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06 Sep 1948 WW2 A De Havilland DH 108 research aircraft exceeded Mach 1 in a dive to become the first supersonic British aircraft. 
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06 Sep 1949 WW2 Lu Han hosted Chiang Kaishek for lunch at his home in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China; Chiang met with several high ranking officials at Lu's home before departing for Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. 
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