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History on the 7th of September

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07 Sep 1912 WW2 Mariana Dragescu was born in Craiova, Romania. 
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07 Sep 1917 WW2 The future Group Captain Leonard Cheshire, VC, the highly decorated WW2 pilot and later founder of the Cheshire Homes for the disabled, was born at Chester, England, United Kingdom. 
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07 Sep 1920 WW2 Tenryu arrived at Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan. 
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07 Sep 1924 WW2 Daniel Inouye was born in Honolulu, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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07 Sep 1930 WW2 Prince Baudouin (later King Baudouin I) of Belgium was born at Stuyvenberg on the outskirts of Brussels, Belgium. 
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07 Sep 1934 WW2 Franz von Papen arrived at Nürnberg, Germany for the 4th Nazi Party rally. 
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07 Sep 1936 WW2 The first autonomous Basque Government, led by Jose Antonio Aguirre, was formed in Spain. 
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07 Sep 1936 WW2 Pierre Barjot was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander. 
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07 Sep 1936 WW2 Shigure was launched at Uraga, Japan. 
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07 Sep 1937 WW2 Nationalist Chinese 36th Division commanding officer Ma Hushan deserted his troops in Xinjiang, China and fled to India. 
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07 Sep 1938 WW2 The newspaper Times of London published an editorial suggesting that Czechoslovakia had much to gain in terms of achieving ethnic homogeneity should it allowed Sudetenland to secede. Once again, leader of the Sudeten Nazi Party Konrad Henlein announced that he would cut off communications with the Czechoslovakian government. 
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07 Sep 1939 WW2 General Yoshijiro Umezu succeeded General Kenkichi Ueda as the Governor-General of Kwantung Leased Territory in northeastern China. Jo Iimura was named Umezu's chief of staff. 
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07 Sep 1939 WW2 Kenkichi Ueda stepped down as the commander of the Kwantung Army in northeastern China and was attached to the Army General Staff. 
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07 Sep 1939 WW2 French Army entered the Saarland region of Germany, but made no move on the Westwall. 
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07 Sep 1939 WW2 Adolf Hitler ordered Erich Raeder to hold back German Navy from attacking British and French vessels. 
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07 Sep 1939 WW2 Lieutenant General Yakutaira Kato was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea. 
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07 Sep 1939 WW2 German troops captured Kraków, Poland. 
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07 Sep 1939 WW2 The BBC began broadcasts in Polish. 
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07 Sep 1939 WW2 King George VI of the United Kingdom provided approval to the National Registration Bill, which gave control of labor to the government as well as requiring identity cards for citizens. 
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07 Sep 1940 WW2 German submarine U-47 sank British ship Neptunian (killing all 36), British ship José de Larrinaga (killing all 40), and Norwegian ship Gro (killing 11; 21 survived) 300 miles northwest of Ireland between 0400 and 0533 hours. 
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07 Sep 1940 WW2 Douglas Bader shot down two German Bf 110 heavy fighters; his Hurricane fighters was heavily damaged in a subsequent encounter by a Bf 109 fighter, but was able to return to base despite the damage. 
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07 Sep 1940 WW2 Ignoring the RAF airfields, German bombers instead attacked London, England, United Kingdom as the new Operation Loge commenced; Göring rode his personal train Asia to Pas-de-Calais, France in a freshly made uniform to personally oversee the first night of the operation. At 1600 hours, 300 bombers and 200 Bf 110 fighter-bombers escorted by 600 Bf 109 fighters. British fighters expected the attacking force to split up to attack airfields, thus were unprepared when they flew straight for East End, London. By the time the British fighters arrived, the bombers had already unloaded their bombs. However, as the Bf 109 fighters had already left due to low fuel levels, German bombers became easy prey. During the day, 53 German bombers were shot down, as was 21 Bf 109 fighters; the British lost 27 fighters. Overnight, German bombers continued to attack East End, which saw 490 killed and 1,200 wounded on this day. This would mark the first of 57 consecutive nights of German bombings on the British capital. 
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07 Sep 1941 WW2 The German 6.Armee broke through near Konotop, Ukraine. 
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07 Sep 1941 WW2 The autonomous Volga German Republic was formally abolished; all German males were formed into construction brigades working as forced labourers wherever the regime directed them in conditions littler different from the Gulag camps. 
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07 Sep 1941 WW2 German motor torpedo boats S.48, S.49, S.50, S.52, and S.107 attacked an Allie convoy off the coast of Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, sinking British ship Duncarron (9 killed) and Norwegian ship Eikhaug (15 killed, 4 survived). 
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07 Sep 1941 WW2 British submarine HMS Thunderbolt attacked an Axis convoy and sank Italian ship Sirena 50 miles west of Benghazi, Libya. 
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07 Sep 1941 WW2 British cruisers HMS Nigeria and HMS Aurora attacked a German convoy in Hammerfjord in northern Norway at 0130 hours, sinking German gunnery ship Bremse; HMS Nigeria was damaged in the bow and was sent back to Britain for repairs. Elsewhere, British Albacore aircraft from HMS Victorious searched for German shipping off Tromsø, Norway. 
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07 Sep 1941 WW2 HMS Argus delivered Hurricane fighters of No. 81 Squadron RAF and No. 134 Squadron RAF to Vaenga near Murmansk, Russia. 
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07 Sep 1941 WW2 Sara Roosevelt, mother of the US President, passed away at Hyde Park, New York, United States shortly before 1200 hours.  
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07 Sep 1942 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt asked the United States Congress for the power to control prices of various goods in the civilian market, adding that, if not given the authority by the lawmakers by 1 Oct 1942, he would do so anyway. 
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07 Sep 1942 WW2 German submarine U-517 attacked Allied convoy QS-33 at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River, Canada at 2300 hours, sinking Greek ship Mount Pindus (2 were killed, 35 survived), Greek ship Mount Taygetus (2 were killed, 26 survived), and Canadian collier Oakton (3 were killed, 17 survived). 40 miles south of Iceland, U-617 sank Faroese trawler Tor II; 18 were killed, 3 survived. 
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07 Sep 1942 WW2 Troops of 3rd Battalion of Japanese 144th Regiment, supported by 6 mountain guns, attacked Australian positions at Efogi along the Kokoda Track in Australian Papua, causing heavy casualties among the Australian 2/27th Battalion; after sundown, 2nd Battalion of the same regiment infiltrated into the jungle in an attempt to flank the Australians. Under the cover of darkness, a Japanese cruiser and a destroyer bombarded Australian positions at Gili Gili on the coast of Milne Bay. 
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07 Sep 1942 WW2 Joseph Stilwell arrived in Chongqing, China; later on the same day he met with Song Meiling. 
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07 Sep 1942 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille shot down two P-40 fighters over El Alamein, Egypt. 
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07 Sep 1942 WW2 German Luftwaffe ace Hans-Arnold "Fifi" Stahlschmidt, a close friend of Hans-Joachim Marseille was reported as missing in action after being bounced by a formation of Spitfire fighters south-east of El Alamein, Egypt. At the time of his loss he had recorded 59 kills and earned the Knight's Cross. 
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07 Sep 1942 WW2 The German 6.Armee units began advancing through Stalingrad, Russia to the Volga shores. 
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07 Sep 1942 WW2 The Takao Prisoners of War Camp near Takao (now Kaohsiung), Taiwan was opened. 
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07 Sep 1942 WW2 USS Growler sank Japanese freighter Kashino Taika Maru 25 miles northwest of Keelung, Taiwan. 
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07 Sep 1943 WW2 Japanese Navy Captain Takeji Ono relieved Rear Admiral Chiaki Matsuda as the commanding officer of battleship Yamato; Matsuda was reassigned to the Imperial General Staff. 
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07 Sep 1943 WW2 German 17.Armee began evacuating the Kuban bridgehead in southern Russia, while other non-Army organizations began removing their rear echelon units. 
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07 Sep 1943 WW2 RAF aircraft bombed V-1 rocket launch sites on the French coast. 
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07 Sep 1943 WW2 USS Puffer departed Fremantle, Australia for her first war patrol in the Makassar Strait-Celebes Sea area in the Dutch East Indies. 
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07 Sep 1943 WW2 Willy Messerschmitt met with Adolf Hitler. During the meeting, Messerschmitt pushed for further support for the Me 209 fighter project at the expense of the Me 262 fighter project. Furthermore, he agreed with Hitler's notion that Me 262 jet aircraft should be redesigned to carry bombs, thus making it a high speed bomber. 
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07 Sep 1943 WW2 USS Whale arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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07 Sep 1943 WW2 British and Canadian troops engaged with troops of German Krüger Battle Group in southwestern Italy. 
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07 Sep 1944 WW2 British 11th Armoured Division crossed the Albert Canal in Belgium. 
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07 Sep 1944 WW2 US Third Army crossed Moselle River. 
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07 Sep 1944 WW2 Hans Speidel was arrested. 
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07 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Wasp's aircraft attacked Japanese positions in the Palau Islands. 
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07 Sep 1944 WW2 Chiang Kaishek met with Joseph Stilwell, Patrick Hurley, and Donald Nelson in Chongqing, China. 
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07 Sep 1944 WW2 A Soviet military mission was established under Major Ivan Skripka in Slovakia to aid the Slovak National Uprising. 
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07 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Flying Fish reported a new Japanese airfield at Celebes, Dutch East Indies and reported this discovery. 
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07 Sep 1944 WW2 The first two German V-2 rockets were fired against the Allies by German 444 and 485 Mobile Artillery Detachments at 1030 and 1140 hours, respectively. They both targeted Paris, France, but both crashed immediately after launch. 
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07 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Alabama escorted US carriers as carrier aircraft attacked Japanese positions in the Caroline Islands. 
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07 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Barbero attacked a Japanese trawler east of the Philippine Islands; the torpedo missed. 
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07 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Miami escorted aircraft carriers while the carrier aircraft struck Peleliu and Angaur of the Palau Islands. 
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07 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Preston guarded carriers while the carriers launched strikes against Palau Islands. 
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07 Sep 1944 WW2 Romania declared war on Hungary. 
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07 Sep 1944 WW2 British Member of Parliament Duncan Sandys, Winston Churchill's son-in-law who had been made responsible for coordinating the defences against the V-1 flying bombs, confidently predicted that "Except fot a few shots, the Battle for London is over". It was not within a day the V-2s (the second of Adolf Hitler's secret weapons) would begin to fall on the British capital. 
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07 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Sea Cat arrived at Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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07 Sep 1945 WW2 The Allies held a victory parade was held in Berlin, Germany. 
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07 Sep 1945 WW2 Australia ratified the United Nations Charter. 
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07 Sep 1945 WW2 Allied prisoners of war at Rabaul, New Britain, technically freed on 16 Aug 1945 but still remained under Japanese care, were liberated by men under Royal Australian Navy Captain P. Brice Morris. 
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07 Sep 1945 WW2 A Monetary Agreement was signed by the governments of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands in London, England, United Kingdom. 
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07 Sep 1946 WW2 Lieutenant General Pyotr Fedotov was made a deputy in the Soviet Ministry for State Security (MGB) under Viktor Abakumov. 
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07 Sep 1947 WW2 USS Missouri arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, United States, disembarking US President Harry Truman. 
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