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History on the 3rd of October

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03 Oct 1910 WW2 WW2 RAF fighter ace Adolf Malan was born at Wellington, South Africa. 
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03 Oct 1924 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt visited Warm Springs, Georgia, United States for the first time; the warm waters there were said to have healing powers. 
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03 Oct 1929 WW2 German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann passed away from a stroke in Berlin, Germany. The strongest figure in the Weimar government, Stresemann had negotiated the reduction in reparations and the treaty of Locarno, as well as getting Germany a seat in the League of Nations. In 1926 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. As Foreign Minister he believed that Germany was destined eventually to dominate Europe, but meanwhile should remain conciliatory with the British, French and Americans. His death left the Weimar government considerably weakened. 
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03 Oct 1932 WW2 Japanese luxury ocean liner Hikawa Maru departed Kobe for Seattle, her 13th round trip across the Pacific. 
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03 Oct 1934 WW2 The Fascists of Gil Robles entered the Spanish government sparking four days of violence by the workers in Barcelona and Asturias. 
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03 Oct 1935 WW2 100,000 Italian troops and Askari mercenaries headed by Emilio De Bono attacked from Eritrea into Abyssinia without declaration of war. 
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03 Oct 1937 WW2 Japanese aircraft sank Chinese torpedo boat Hue. 
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03 Oct 1937 WW2 Light carrier Hosho arrived off Shanghai, China. 
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03 Oct 1937 WW2 Japanese aircraft sank Chinese torpedo boat Hupeng at Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, China. 
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03 Oct 1937 WW2 Ryujo arrived at Shanghai, China. 
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03 Oct 1938 WW2 Phoenix was commissioned into service. 
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03 Oct 1938 WW2 The German ambassador in Moscow, Russia began to discuss with Soviet representatives regarding a potential Soviet-German trade agreement. 
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03 Oct 1939 WW2 The Declaration of Panama, signed by the United States and several countries in the Americas, was established. It established a zone of neutrality within 300 to 1,000 nautical miles of the coast of the Americas. 
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03 Oct 1939 WW2 Seeing that the Japanese assault on Changsha, Hunan Province, China was beginning to falter, an order for general counter offensive was given. Chinese troops pushed Japanese troops to Jinjing and Fulinpu, while Chinese aircraft bombed the Japanese airfield at Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. 
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03 Oct 1939 WW2 Hans Frank ordered a "ruthless exploitation" of occupied Poland. 
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03 Oct 1939 WW2 Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, the British ambassador in Ankara, Turkey, telegraphed London with the main points that Adolf Hitler intended to cover in a speech dealing with his peace proposals. His source was the Dutch ambassador in Ankara who, in turn, was quoting a rumour started by the Geerman ambassador, Franz von Papen. 
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03 Oct 1940 WW2 British politician Neville Chamberlain resigned as Lord President of the Council for health reasons. 
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03 Oct 1940 WW2 Vichy France passed anti-Semitic laws that excluded Jews from positions in the army, government, commerce, industries, and the press. The law was signed by Philippe Pétain, Pierre Laval, Raphaël Alibert, Marcel Peyrouton, Paul Baudouin, Yves Bouthillier, Charles Huntzinger, and François Darlan. 
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03 Oct 1940 WW2 Prince Kotohito stepped down as the Chief of the Japanese Army General Staff. 
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03 Oct 1940 WW2 London, Worcester, Birmingham, and Wellingborough in England, United Kingdom were attacked by single-bomber raids. The British suffered damage at the De Havilland aircraft factory at Hatfield, while the Germans lost one Ju 88 bomber to ground-based anti-aircraft fire. Overnight, London was the target to several small German raids. 
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03 Oct 1941 WW2 The official copy of the British Military Application of Uranium Detonation (MAUD) Committee Report, written by James Chadwick, reached Vannevar Bush. 
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03 Oct 1941 WW2 In Russia, Panzergruppe 2 of the German Armeeguppe Mitte captured Orel 220 miles south-southwest of the Soviet capital in Moscow. Elsewhere, German troops attempted to encircle the Soviet Bryansk Front. 
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03 Oct 1941 WW2 The number of deaths in motor vehicle accidents in Britain during this second year of war had increased by 65% when compared to pre-war figures. 
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03 Oct 1941 WW2 British submarine HMS Talisman sank the already beached German ship Yalova south of Naples, Italy. 
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03 Oct 1941 WW2 At about 0001 hours, German submarine U-431 sank British ship Hatasu 650 miles east of Newfoundland; 40 were killed, 7 survived. 
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03 Oct 1941 WW2 German bombers attacked and damaged British destroyer HMS Vivacious in the North Sea. 
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03 Oct 1941 WW2 British motor torpedo boat MTB56 sank Norwegian tanker Borgny off Bergen, Norway. 
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03 Oct 1941 WW2 A British Walrus reconnaissance aircraft from British cruiser HMS Kenya spotted German supply ship Klara 300 miles northeast of the Azores islands. HMS Kenya closed in and sank Klara, but did not stop to pick up survivors due to the presence of German submarine U-129. 
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03 Oct 1941 WW2 Dutch submarine O.21 sank Vichy French ship Oued Yquem off Sardinia, Italy. 
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03 Oct 1941 WW2 At the Berliner Sportpalast in the German capital, Adolf Hitler announced during a rally that the Germans had captured 2,500,000 Soviet prisoners of war, destroyed or captured 22,000 guns, destroyed or captured 18,000 tanks, destroyed 14,500 aircraft, and since 1939 had expanded Germany by an area four times as large as Britain. He stressed that the Soviet Union had been broken and would never rise again. 
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03 Oct 1942 WW2 American SBD and TBF aircraft from Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands attacked and damaged seaplane carrier Nisshin. 
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03 Oct 1942 WW2 The US Army established the War Dog Reception and Training Center at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, United States. 
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03 Oct 1942 WW2 Kiyoshi Ito's fighter crashed into the water in the Solomon Islands due to fuel system issues; he drifted in the ocean for five to six hours before being rescued by a destroyer. 
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03 Oct 1942 WW2 Heavy losses were incurred on both sides as the German 6.Armee pushed the Soviet 62nd Army back to the Volga River at Stalingrad, Russia. 
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03 Oct 1942 WW2 Boris Shaposhnikov was awarded his second Order of Lenin. 
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03 Oct 1943 WW2 Germans invaded Kos Island under a heavy air umbrella. 
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03 Oct 1943 WW2 433rd Fighter Squadron (flying P-38 aicraft) of USAAF 475th Fighter Group was out of Dobodura No. 11 airstrip of Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua. 
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03 Oct 1943 WW2 Naka arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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03 Oct 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Surabaya, Java. Upon arrival, she was damaged by a mine. 
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03 Oct 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Officers and men of ACORN-14 arrived on board. 
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03 Oct 1943 WW2 Troops of 11th Brigade of British 78th Infantry Division crossed the Biferno River near Termoli, Italy, linking up with British Commandos that had already landed by sea. 
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03 Oct 1944 WW2 The United Kingdom stood down the Home Guard. 
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03 Oct 1944 WW2 A 60-hour truce began in Dunkirk, France between Allied and German troops to allow the evacuation of civilians. Elsewhere in France, US Third Army began a 10-day attack on Fort Driant, Metz. 
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03 Oct 1944 WW2 A German V-2 rocket hit the Hellesdon Golf Course near Norwich, England, United Kingdom at 1950 hours, injuring 1 person and damaging a glasshouse, 5 farm buildings/barns, several haystacks, and 1 acre of sugar beet. 
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03 Oct 1944 WW2 Katsuragi was commissioned into service. 
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03 Oct 1944 WW2 Sanborn was commissioned into service. 
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03 Oct 1944 WW2 The first Messerschmitt Me 262 fighter unit was established at Achmer and Hesepe near Osnabrück, Germany under the command of Austrian-born ace Major Walter Nowotny. The unit had 30 aircraft distributed among two squadrons and was given the task of intercepting USAAF day bomber raids on the heart of Germany. 
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03 Oct 1944 WW2 The US submarine Seawolf was sunk by depth charges fired from the destroyer escort USS Richard M. Rowell off Morotai, Maluku Islands, Dutch East Indies. 
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03 Oct 1944 WW2 Japanese troops evacuated Tiddim, Burma. 
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03 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Bergall attacked a small vessel east of French Indochina with her deck gun, causing no damage. 
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03 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Astoria arrived at San Diego, California, United States. 
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03 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Intensity was decommissioned from service. 
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03 Oct 1947 WW2 Capitaine de vaisseau Cabanier was named the commanding officer of Jeanne d'Arc. 
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