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History on the 4th of October

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04 Oct 1912 WW2 Prince Hiroyasu's sixth child, Princess Tomoko, was born. 
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04 Oct 1922 WW2 USS S-31 was decommissioned from service while receiving engine alterations at the Electric Boat Company yards in New London, Connecticut, United States. 
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04 Oct 1932 WW2 Joseph Rochefort and his family boarded passenger ship President Coolidge at Yokohama, Japan, bound for the United States. 
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04 Oct 1933 WW2 In Germany, the "Law for Literary Leaders" dictated the content of what could now be written. A section of the law excluded Jews from the press, while another required all editors to be Aryans. 
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04 Oct 1936 WW2 Battle of Cable Street: In Britain, Sir Oswald Ernald, 6th Baronet, Mosley, led around 2,000 BUF members in uniform in a march through the East End (an area of London known to have a high proportion of Jewish residents and much poverty) in an attempt designed to intimidate local Jews and rally fascist sympathisers. This was a fatal mistake, for waiting for him in Cable Street were around 100,000 counter-demonstrators who had overturned a lorry and piled up bricks as a barricade. The police seeing what was about to happen ordered Moseley and his men to turn away. They did. The police then turned on the anti-fascist demonstrators and in the ensuing fracas more than a hundred people were injured and eighty arrested. This confrontation was just as disastrous to the BUF as the Olympia rally had been. Moderates deserted in droves. 
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04 Oct 1937 WW2 After a 10-day rest period, the US 4th Marine Regiment returned to police duties in the international zone in Shanghai, China. 
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04 Oct 1937 WW2 Jiang Dingwen was named the commanding officer of the Chinese 4th Army. 
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04 Oct 1937 WW2 Hitler issued a comprehensive law for "the reconstruction of German cities", with priority being given to the rebuilding of Berlin. 
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04 Oct 1937 WW2 Kaga departed Sasebo, Japan. 
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04 Oct 1939 WW2 Chinese troops captured Miluo and Xinshi near Changsha, Hunan Province, China. 
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04 Oct 1940 WW2 The British Admiralty announced the sinking of seven German submarines. 
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04 Oct 1940 WW2 British submarine HMS Rainbow collided with Italian ship Antonietta Costa and sank in the Adriatic Sea 20 miles north of Brindisi, Italy. All 55 aboard were lost. 
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04 Oct 1940 WW2 British submarine HMS Triton attacked various targets at Vado Ligure and Savona, near Genoa, Italy with her deck gun, damaging shore installations and sinking ship Franca Fassio. 
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04 Oct 1940 WW2 British submarine HMS Tetrarch attacked an Italian merchant ship west of Italy without success. 
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04 Oct 1940 WW2 General Charles de Gaulle arrived in Douala, French Cameroon via British cruiser HMS Devonshire to organize the invasion of Gabon, which was controlled by Vichy French forces. 
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04 Oct 1940 WW2 Operation Lucid: British tankers War Nizam and War African, filled with oil and gasoline and to be used as fire ships, departed Sheerness and Harwich with 11 destroyers, 6 minesweepers, and a number of torpedo boats in escort. They were dispatched to destroy ports on the English coast that housed German invasion barges, but rough seas caused the mission to be canceled shortly after commencing. 
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04 Oct 1940 WW2 6 Hawk 75 fighters of the Chinese 18th Squadron were in transit when they came across 27 Japanese G3M bombers escorted by 8 A6M Zero fighters, en route to attack Chengdu, Sichuan, China. The Zero fighters shot down 1 and forcing 2 to crash land. 
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04 Oct 1940 WW2 Nationalist Chinese troops launched an attack on Communist Chinese New 4th Army in Huangqiao ("Yellow Bridge"), Jiangsu Province, China, nearly taking the town. 
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04 Oct 1940 WW2 Adolf Hitler met Benito Mussolini in the Brenner Pass on the Italian-Austrian border. Benito Mussolini was happy to notice that Adolf Hitler seemed to have given up on any talks of invading Britain. 
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04 Oct 1940 WW2 In Britain, German bombers attacked Kent in southern England and the area near London, damaging homes, farms, and factories. The Germans lost 2 Ju 88 bombers and the British lost 3 fighters with 1 pilot killed. Overnight, London was bombed between 1900 and 2100 hours. 
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04 Oct 1940 WW2 Sir Cyril Newall retired as British Chief of Air Staff and was replaced by Sir Charles Portal. 
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04 Oct 1940 WW2 Sir Richard Peirse became Commander-in-Chief of the British RAF Bomber Command. 
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04 Oct 1941 WW2 German submarine U-129 picked up 119 survivors of German supply ship Klara, sunken by British cruiser HMS Kenya on the previous day, 300 miles northeast of the Azores islands. 
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04 Oct 1941 WW2 British anti-submarine trawler HMS Lady Shirley forced German submarine U-111 to the surface with depth charges 225 miles west of Tenerife, Canary Islands. U-111's crew scuttled the submarine after a brief gunfire exchange; U-111 suffered 8 killed and 44 captured, while HMS Lady Shirley suffered 1 killed. 
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04 Oct 1941 WW2 British anti-submarine trawler HMS Whippet was sunk by German bombing 30 miles north of Bardia, Libya, killing 1. 
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04 Oct 1941 WW2 British submarine HMS Talisman sank French ship Theophile Gautier in a convoy from Crete to the Greek mainland. 
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04 Oct 1941 WW2 The Jager Report (issued on 1 Dec 1941) noted that 432 adult male, 1,115 adult female, and 436 children, all Jews, were killed in Vilnius, Lithuania for a total of 1,983 people. 
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04 Oct 1941 WW2 Friedrich Knackfuss was named the civilian administrator of the Channel Islands. 
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04 Oct 1941 WW2 US Navy awarded a contract to build Dock No. 4 and a 20,000-kilowatt bomb-proof power plant at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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04 Oct 1941 WW2 German Panzergruppe 3 and Panzergruppe 4 began to surround rear elements of the Soviet Western Front in Russia, capturing Kirov and Spa-Demensk in the process. The German troops continued to advance toward Vyasma to complete the envelopment. 
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04 Oct 1941 WW2 British motor torpedo boat MTB56 and Norwegian destroyer Draug arrived at the Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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04 Oct 1942 WW2 The US Marine Corps 9th Defense Battalion departed Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for the Panama Canal Zone. 
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04 Oct 1942 WW2 Repair ship Akashi completed the repair work for escort carrier Taiyo at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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04 Oct 1942 WW2 The British commando raid on Sark in the Channel Islands resulted in one prisoner. 
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04 Oct 1942 WW2 The Headquarters Squadron, Marine Aircraft Wing, Pacific of the United States Marine Corps arrived at Ewa Marine Corps Air Station near Honolulu, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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04 Oct 1942 WW2 German XIV Panzer Korps attacked the Stalingrad Tractor Factory in Stalingrad, Russia. 
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04 Oct 1942 WW2 Ivan Isakov was seriously injured by German air raid in Tuapse, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, which resulted in the amputation of his foot. 
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04 Oct 1943 WW2 Construction began for the first nuclear reactor at the Hanford Site of the Manhattan Project in Washington, United States. 
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04 Oct 1943 WW2 German forces captured Kos in the Dodecanese Islands. 
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04 Oct 1943 WW2 The French occupation of Corsica was completed. 
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04 Oct 1943 WW2 Heinrich Himmler talked openly about the Final Solution at a meeting in Posen, Reichsgau Wartheland, Germany (now Poznan, Poland), noting that he cared little about the livelihood of Czechoslovakians, Russians, and other peoples in occupied Eastern Europe since the conquered people were mere slaves to Germany. He warned his lieutenant, however, that this task would not be written in history despite its importance in German history. 
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04 Oct 1943 WW2 Gregory Boyington led 8 US Marine Corps squadron VMF-214 F4U fighters to escort USAAF bombers over Kahili Airfield on Bougainville island; US Army Air Forces also launched P-38 fighters for escort duty. Boyington claimed 3 Japanese shot down while the USAAF claimed 4 more. Japanese records would later reveal that only 1 fighter was shot down and 2 were written off from heavy damage. 
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04 Oct 1943 WW2 USS Flying Fish departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her seventh war patrol with Lieutenant Commander Glynn Donaho in command.  
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04 Oct 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Officers and men of ACORN-14 arrived on board. Ten men of ARGUS-12 arrived on board. 
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04 Oct 1943 WW2 German 16th Panzer Division attacked the newly gained bridgehead on the Biferno River near Termoli, Italy on the eastern end of the Volturno Line. 
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04 Oct 1943 WW2 Irako departed Yokosuka, Japan as a part of convoy No. 3002 with Tokyo Maru, escorted by destroyer Shiratsuyu. 
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04 Oct 1943 WW2 USS Harder arrived at Midway Atoll. 
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04 Oct 1944 WW2 British 2nd Airborne Brigade landed at Patras, Greece as well as Crete and other Greek islands in the Aegean Sea. 
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04 Oct 1944 WW2 A German V-2 rocket hit Rockland St Mary 6 miles southeast of Norwich, England, United Kingdom. It hit the village school directly, injuring 2 adults and 34 children, and the blast damaged 23 houses nearby. It was the worst attack on the Norwich region during the war. 
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04 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Snook completed her repairs at Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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04 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Marcus Island arrived at Manus, Admiralty Islands. 
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04 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Wasp departed Manus, Admiralty Islands. 
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04 Oct 1944 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze arrived at Lingga, Dutch East Indies. 
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04 Oct 1944 WW2 K. L. Prokhorenko stepped down as GUKR SMERSH's chief in the 1st Ukrainian Front. 
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04 Oct 1945 WW2 Du Yuming and Long Yun arrived at Chongqing, China. 
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04 Oct 1945 WW2 He Yingqin arrived at Hanoi, French Indochina to meet with Lu Han. 
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04 Oct 1946 WW2 USS Charr departed San Francisco, California, United States for a simulated war patrol. 
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