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History on the 5th of October

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05 Oct 1910 WW2 The exiled Mexican opposition leader, Francisco I. Madero, issued a letter calling for an uprising to depose the unpopular Mexican President Porfirio Díaz. 
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05 Oct 1918 WW2 Edward Brooks was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for actions at Montfaucon, France. 
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05 Oct 1930 WW2 The British airship R101 crashed in France, killing 38 people. The crash of R101 effectively ended British use of rigid airships. 
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05 Oct 1931 WW2 Yi Geon married Yoshiko Matsudaira in Tokyo, Japan. 
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05 Oct 1933 WW2 Douglas Bader married Thelma Edwards. 
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05 Oct 1934 WW2 In Spain, about 200 mine workers from Mieres, a small and dismal village twenty miles south of Oviedo, armed with revolvers and dynamite, formed the first company of this resistance movement. Three companies of soldiers and policemen were sent against them but, after several hours of fighting, the better armed government troops were beaten. The news of this stirred up a widespread anti-government rebellion throughout the Asturias region in northern Spain. 
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05 Oct 1936 WW2 Submarine Permit was launched at Groton, Connecticut, United States, sponsored by the wife of Harold G. Bowen. 
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05 Oct 1937 WW2 Korvettenkapitän Johannes Franz was named the commanding officer of U-27, replacing Korvettenkapitän Hans Ibbeken. 
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05 Oct 1937 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt called for a "quarantine" of aggressor nations in a speech at Chicago, Illinois, United States. 
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05 Oct 1938 WW2 Japanese troops captured Ruoxi, Jiangxi, China. 
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05 Oct 1938 WW2 Edvard Beneš stepped down as the President of Czechoslovakia. 
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05 Oct 1938 WW2 Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weißenfeld was awarded the Luftwaffe Pilot's Badget. 
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05 Oct 1938 WW2 Germany revoked passports belonging to Jews and made re-issuance of new passports more difficult; the new passports were stamped "J" to signify Jewish ownership. 
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05 Oct 1939 WW2 HMS Eagle made rendezvous with light cruiser Liverpool. 
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05 Oct 1939 WW2 In a downed aircraft, Chinese troops discovered General Yasuji Okamura's order calling off the offensive on Changsha, Hunan Province, China. Nearby, Chinese 23rd Division attacked a Japanese Navy anchorage at Yingtian (now Miluo), damaging several vessels. 
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05 Oct 1939 WW2 US Navy formed the Hawaiian Detachment and based it at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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05 Oct 1939 WW2 Joseph Rochefort arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii with the US Navy Scouting Force. 
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05 Oct 1939 WW2 Soviet Union forced Latvia to agree to allow Red Navy units to base in her Baltic harbors. 
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05 Oct 1939 WW2 Hitler visited Warsaw, Poland and held a victory parade. 
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05 Oct 1939 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt spoke to Winston Churchill for the first time over the telephone. Roosevelt, who initiated the call, engaged Churchill in a discussion on the German attempt to attack American shipping as an attempt to sabotage British-American relations; such an effort would later found to be a mere rumor. 
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05 Oct 1940 WW2 British submarine HMS Regent sank Italian ship Maria Grazia 10 miles off of Bari, Italy by ramming. 
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05 Oct 1940 WW2 Italian submarine Nani sank British trawler HMT Kingston Sapphire 20 miles south of Cádiz, Spain; 3 were killed and the remaining rescued by a Spanish trawler. British submarine HMS Tigris attacked an Italian submarine (possibly submersible torpedo boat Otario) in the Bay of Biscay without success. 
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05 Oct 1940 WW2 US Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox ordered all organized reserve divisions and aviation squadrons of the US Marine Corps to be on call for active duty. 
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05 Oct 1940 WW2 The US Marine Corps organized the Air Detachment, Marine Barracks, Parris Island in South Carolina, United States; it would later be renamed Marine Corps Air Station, Parris Island. 
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05 Oct 1940 WW2 Hauptmann Helmut Wick, the Gruppenkommandeur of 1/JG 2, claimed the destruction of five RAF fighters in one day. This took his overall total to 41. 
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05 Oct 1940 WW2 Communist Chinese New 4th Army counterattacked and defeated Nationalist Chinese troops at Huangqiao ("Yellow Bridge"), Jiangsu Province, China, capturing great quantities of weapons and ammunition. 
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05 Oct 1940 WW2 Between 0930 and 1600 hours, 4 German raids of mainly fighters attacked southern England, United Kingdom. At 2035 hours, the Royal Navy base at Portland was bombed. The Germans lost 2 bombers and 20 fighters, while the British lost 9 fighters with 2 pilots killed. Overnight, London suffered a heavy raid which started a large fire at the West India Dock on the River Thames in the East End area of the city. 
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05 Oct 1940 WW2 Henry Arnold submitted a proposal for the reorganization of US Army air units to US Army Chief of Staff George Marshall; the proposal called for a separate staff for air apart from the ground and supply units. 
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05 Oct 1941 WW2 US and UK naval commanders met in Singapore. 
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05 Oct 1941 WW2 Field Marshal Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist was named the commander of German 1.Panzerarmee. 
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05 Oct 1941 WW2 The German Second Panzer Group was reorganized as the Second Panzer Army; Heinz Guderian remained the unit's commanding officer. 
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05 Oct 1941 WW2 A Blenheim bomber of No. 1404 Meteorological Flight of British RAF Coastal Command attacked German submarines U-563 and U-565 in the Bay of Biscay; a 250-lb bomb missed U-563 at about 1030 hours, and another 250-lb bomb hit the conning tower of U-565 at 1102 hours but it failed to explode. 
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05 Oct 1941 WW2 Allied convoy SC-48 departed Sydney, Australia for the United States. 
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05 Oct 1941 WW2 Swordfish torpedo bombers of British No. 830 Squadron Fleet Air Arm based in Malta attacked an Italian convoy en route from Naples, Italy to Tripoli, Libya 67 miles north of Misrata, Libya, sinking tanker Rialto; the 145 survivors were rescued by Italian destroyer Gioberti. 
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05 Oct 1941 WW2 The leading German formations reported that they were only about 100 kilometers from Moscow, Russia. On the same day, Moscow-based Soviet fighters discovered German vehicles as close as 50 kilometers from Moscow; when Moscow Military District's Air Force Fighter Command chief Nikolai Sbytov reported this to his supeiors, he was investigated by the NKVD for disseminating false rumors, but he was lucky that Joseph Stalin believed him. For precaution, Stalin ordered the Soviet Western Front to withdraw to Vyazma to form a new defensive line under a new commanding officer, Georgy Zhukov, replacing Ivan Konev. 
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05 Oct 1942 WW2 USS Hornet launched an attack on Bougainville, Solomon Islands. 
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05 Oct 1942 WW2 George Kenney ordered Kenneth Walker to stop personally participating on missions. This order would be disobeyed. 
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05 Oct 1942 WW2 6 B-17 Flying Fortress bombers of US 30th Bomb Squadron from Port Moresby, Australian Papua attacked Vunakanau airfield at Rabaul, New Britain. Simultaneously, 8 B-17 bombers of 28th Bomb Squadron attacked nearby Lakunai airfield. The attacks caused very minor damage. 
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05 Oct 1942 WW2 Heinrich Himmler ordered that all Jews in concentration camps in Germany were to be transferred to Auschwitz or Majdanek concentration camps. 
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05 Oct 1942 WW2 USS Wahoo sighted a Japanese carrier and mis-identified her to be Ryujo. Lieutenant Commander Marvin Kennedy took a conservative attack approach that ultimately failed to intercept the carrier. 
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05 Oct 1942 WW2 The Soviet STAVKA arrested Major General Ivan Rukhle, recent deputy chief of the headquarters of the Stalingrad Front, and falsely charged him with treason. Rukhle would be kept at the Lubyanka prison near Moscow, Russia until 1952. 
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05 Oct 1943 WW2 USS S-28 traveled through the Onekotan Strait in the northern Kurile Islands. 
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05 Oct 1943 WW2 Germans completed their evacuation of Corsica, France. 
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05 Oct 1943 WW2 American aircraft bombed Wake Island. 
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05 Oct 1943 WW2 Remy Van Lierde shot down a German Ju 88 heavy fighter (his fifth kill) and destroyed another aircraft on the ground. 
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05 Oct 1943 WW2 Manila Bay was commissioned into service. 
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05 Oct 1943 WW2 Submarine U-869 was launched. 
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05 Oct 1943 WW2 Joseph Stilwell ordered Sun Liren to launch an offensive in northern Burma, but Sun hesitated. 
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05 Oct 1943 WW2 Minesweeper USS Assail was transferred to the Soviet Union under the Lend-Lease Act. 
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05 Oct 1943 WW2 Ensign Robert W. Duncan of US Navy Squadron VF-5 became the first F6F Hellcat fighter pilot to shoot down two Japanese Zero fighters in a single engagement. 
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05 Oct 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Fifteen officers and 78 men of ARGUS-10 on board. 
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05 Oct 1943 WW2 German 16th Panzer Division nearly wiped out the British bridgehead on the Biferno River near Termoli, Italy; the British bridgehead was saved by the arrival of Canadian and British tanks. 
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05 Oct 1943 WW2 USS Wahoo sank freighter Konron Maru in the Sea of Japan off Tsushima, Japan, killing 544. 
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05 Oct 1943 WW2 USS Ray departed the Panama Canal Zone. 
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05 Oct 1943 WW2 1,196 Polish Jewish children originally from the liquidated Bialystok ghetto in Poland were transferred from Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in occupied Czechoslovakia to Auschwitz Concentration Camp in occupied Poland. 
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05 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Cod sank a Japanese cargo ship. 
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05 Oct 1944 WW2 The Germans lost 36 Linsen boats - small motorboats packed with explosives - attempting to disrupt traffic in the Scheldt estuary controlling the approach to the port of Antwerp, Belgium. On the same day, Canadian forces entered the Netherlands, capturing Kerkrade. 
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05 Oct 1944 WW2 A German V-2 rocket hit Acle near Norwich, England, United Kingdom, temporarily causing blockage to a road. Another rocket hit Surlingham, downing several telephone lines. 
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05 Oct 1944 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt told Chiang Kaishek that Joseph Stilwell was to be relieved as Chiang's chief of staff and as the Lend-Lease director, but he would remain in China as the commanding officer of American troops in China and Burma. 
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05 Oct 1944 WW2 US II Corps, with British troops in support, launched a new attack toward Bologna, Italy. To the east, Indian 10th Infantry Division crossed the Fiumicino River, forcing German 10th Army to pull back toward Bologna. 
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05 Oct 1944 WW2 Soviet First Baltic Front resumed the offensive toward Memel (now Klaipeda, Lithuania) to cut off German Armeegruppe Nord. 
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05 Oct 1944 WW2 Allied convoy RA-60 arrived at Loch Ewe, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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05 Oct 1945 WW2 Yukikaze was decommissioned from service. 
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05 Oct 1945 WW2 Lieutenant General Kuzma Derevyanko reported to Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Lavrentiy Beria, and Georgy Malenkov on his observations of destroyed cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. 
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05 Oct 1945 WW2 Thomas Dodd interrogated Wilhelm Keitel for several hours in the afternoon in Nürnberg, Germany, and the session was observed by Soviet representatives. During this session, Keitel showed scorn for the Soviets, admitted issuing the order to execute captured Soviet commissars, and discussed the torture of Soviet prisoners of war. 
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05 Oct 1945 WW2 Light carrier Hosho was removed from the Japanese Navy List. On the same day, she departed Kure, Japan for the Marshall Islands in an effort to repatriot Japanese military servicemen. 
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05 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Ticonderoga arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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05 Oct 1945 WW2 A parade was held in Washington DC, United States in honor of Chester Nimitz. 
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05 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Ray arrived at New London, Connecticut, United States. 
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05 Oct 1946 WW2 Hungarian Count István Bethlen passed away in the Butyrka Prison Hospital in Moscow, Russia. 
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