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History on the 6th of October

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06 Oct 1927 WW2 Entertainment company Warner Bros released "The Jazz Singer"; the first feature-length talking picture film. 
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06 Oct 1928 WW2 The United States government signed a contract with Goodyear-Zeppelin for the development of two rigid airships for the US Navy (USS Akron and USS Macon). Intended to operate with the ocean-going fleet and carrying three to four F9C Sparrowhawk aircraft each they would be the fastest airships ever built with a maximum speed of 84 miles per hour. 
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06 Oct 1931 WW2 In Germany a Sondergerichte (Special Court without the usual safeguards in legal procedure) was setup to deal with the many cases of political violence. 
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06 Oct 1933 WW2 Habibullah Tarzi became the first Afghan ambassador to Japan. 
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06 Oct 1934 WW2 In Barcelona, Spain, the Catalan Nationalist leaders proclaimed the establishment of the Catalan Republic from the balcony of the Generalidad but refrained from turning the 10,000 armed police against the workers' militias. 
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06 Oct 1934 WW2 Northrop Corporation delivered the militarized 2C variant of the Gamma aircraft design to the US Army Air Corps for evaluation. 
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06 Oct 1935 WW2 The Italian 2nd Army Corps entered Adowa, Abyssinia. 
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06 Oct 1936 WW2 Francisco Franco decided that the time was ripe for an attack on Madrid, Spain and entrusted the task to José Enrique Varela, the most dynamic Nationalist commander, who was fresh from his Toledo triumph. His force of 10,000 men was to be divided into four columns; two of which under Juan Yagué (now recovered from his "collapse with exhaustion") would advance along the Toledo-Madrid road, while Varela would take the other two columns along the Mérida-Madrid road. A subsidiary force of 5,000 men under General Valdes Cabanillas was ordered to make a diversionary attack from the west across the Sierra Guadarrama. 
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06 Oct 1936 WW2 Oswald Mosley married Diana Mitford in secret at the home of Joseph Goebbels in Berlin, Germany. Their guests included Adolf Hitler. 
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06 Oct 1937 WW2 Liu Cuigang, flying a Hawk III fighter, engaged in dogfights with Japanese A5M fighters, heavily damaging one A5M fighter (although he claimed it as a victory). Liu's fighter was then damaged by another A5M fighter; he was able to escape. 
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06 Oct 1938 WW2 Japanese troops resumed the offensive in the Dabie Mountains region of Hubei, China after being bogged down by Chinese troops for more than a month. 
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06 Oct 1939 WW2 Edmund Herring was named the commanding officer of Royal Artillery units within 6th Division of Second Australian Imperial Force; the appointment was made by Major General Thomas Blamey. 
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06 Oct 1939 WW2 Japanese troops called off the attack on Changsha, Hunan Province, China after suffering heavy casualties. 
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06 Oct 1939 WW2 In a speech at the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, Adolf Hitler noted that he did not wish to wage war against France and the United Kingdom, and it would not be worth the blood of British, French, and German soldiers for Poland, since it was created unjustly by the Versailles Treaty. He proposed a multi-power conference to achieve peace. 
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06 Oct 1939 WW2 The final Polish forces surrendered near Kock and Lublin after fighting both Germans and Soviets. 
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06 Oct 1940 WW2 German submarine U-123 sank British ship Benlawers 400 miles west of Ireland at 1304 hours; she was carrying military supplies from Britain to Egypt, including trucks; 23 crew members and 1 Royal Navy gunner were killed, and 27 were rescued by British ships Bengore Head and Forest. German submarine U-103 sank Norwegian tanker Nina Borthen west of Ireland at 2204 hours, killing the entire crew of 35. German submarine U-37 damaged British tanker British General with a torpedo west of Ireland at 1855 and then again at 2310 hours; U-37 could not surface to finish off the tanker with the deck gun because the British ship was armed. 
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06 Oct 1940 WW2 Italian submarine Tricheco sank Italian submarine Gemma 5 miles south of the Greek island of Karpathos in a case of mis-identification. 
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06 Oct 1940 WW2 Hauptmann Helmut Wick, the Gruppenkommandeur of 1/JG 2, was awarded Oak Leaves to his Knight's Cross, making him only the third German fighter pilot (after Mölders and Galland) to be so honoured. 
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06 Oct 1940 WW2 German Bf 109 and Bf 110 fighter-bombers conducted day time raids against British factories and RAF airfields, accompanied by a small number of medium bombers. On this day, the Germans lost one Do 17 bomber and the British lost one fighter with the pilot killed. Overnight, London, England, United Kingdom sustained a small raid. 
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06 Oct 1941 WW2 Eight Soviet Armies were encircled at Bryansk and Vyazma, Russia by a surprise maneuver conducted by German 17th Panzer Division. In less than two weeks, the Germans have taken nearly 700,000 prisoners and destroyed or captured 1,200 tanks and 5,000 heavy guns. 
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06 Oct 1941 WW2 German submarine U-129 transferred 119 rescued survivors of sunken German supply ship Klara to a Spanish tug. 
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06 Oct 1941 WW2 German bombers attacked shipping in the Gulf of Suez east of Egypt, sinking British ship Thistlegorm, which carry aboard, among other items, two steam locomotives; 9 were killed. Australian ship Salamaua, Norwegian tanker Norfold, and British ship Scalaria were also damaged during this attack. 
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06 Oct 1941 WW2 Heinz Guderian noted in his diary that he had observed snow for the first time in the campaign in the Soviet Union. 
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06 Oct 1941 WW2 The Jager Report (issued on 1 Dec 1941) noted that 213 adult male, 359 adult female, and 390 children, all Jews, were killed in Semiliski, Lithuania for a total of 962 people. 
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06 Oct 1941 WW2 U-576 began her first war patrol. 
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06 Oct 1941 WW2 In Russia, Georgy Zhukov departed Leningrad for Moscow to take command of Soviet Western Front. General Ivan Fedyuninsky assumed command at Leningrad. 
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06 Oct 1942 WW2 German III.Panzer Korps captured Malgobek on the Terek River in the Caucasus in southern Russia. Far to the west, German troops also captured Novorossiysk. 
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06 Oct 1942 WW2 British corvette HMS Crocus spotted German submarine U-333 running on the surface 60 miles off Freetown, South Africa and attacked by ramming and gunfire, heavily damaging U-333. U-333 was able to dive and eventually escape after sundown. 
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06 Oct 1942 WW2 Yekaterina Budanova shot down a Ju 88 bomber over Stalingrad, Russia. 
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06 Oct 1942 WW2 German Luftwaffe unit I./KG 100 (flying He 111 bombers) was transferred from Morozovskaya, Russia to Saki, Russia to support the Caucasus offensive. 
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06 Oct 1943 WW2 Soviet troops captured Nevel, Russia, which was on the boundary shared by German Armeegruppe North and German Armeegruppe Mitte. 
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06 Oct 1943 WW2 Louis Mountbatten arrived in Delhi, India. 
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06 Oct 1943 WW2 Lieutenant Kay Klages successfully conducted a photographic reconnaissance mission over Rabaul, New Britain. 
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06 Oct 1943 WW2 The first docking at the newly completed Dry Dock No. 4 at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, US Territory of Hawaii took place. 
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06 Oct 1943 WW2 US Fifth Army captured Capua and Caserta, Italy. The counterattack by German 16th Panzer Division near Termoli, Italy was repulsed by Canadian and British troops. 
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06 Oct 1943 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho departed Kure, Japan. 
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06 Oct 1943 WW2 USS Dorado departed New London, Connecticut, United States. 
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06 Oct 1944 WW2 Canadian 3rd Division assaulted the German pocket at Breskena, Belgium, south of the Scheldt Estuary. To the north, Allied troops captured Ossendrecht, the Netherlands. 
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06 Oct 1944 WW2 A German V-2 rocket hit Shotesham All Saints 5 miles south of Norwich, England, United Kingdom, slightly injuring 1 person while damaging 20 houses, 1 church, and 1 school. 
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06 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Pollack departed Brisbane, Australia for an exercise with HMAS Geelong. 
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06 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Cabrilla attacked a Japanese convoy in the South China Sea during the day, sinking an oiler and a transport, hitting them with 5 of 6 torpedoes fired. After sundown, she attacked a destroyer escort with 4 torpedoes, all of which missed. 
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06 Oct 1944 WW2 Feldwebel Viktor König of the German Kampfgeschwader 55 wing was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. 
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06 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Ray gave chase to a Japanese tanker in the South China Sea, damaging her with 1 torpedo hit (of 6 torpedoes fired) but did not sink her. 
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06 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Seahorse claimed the sinking of a Japanese destroyer off Taiwan with one torpedo hit of six torpedoes fired. 
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06 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Segundo was damaged by a bomb from a Japanese aircraft in the Surigao Strait in Philippine waters, damaging the deck gun, destroying an engine exhaust muffler, and cracking generator foundation mounts. 
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06 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Preston set sail with Task Force 38. 
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06 Oct 1944 WW2 Roza Shanina began keeping a combat diary against orders. 
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06 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Columbia departed Manus, Admiralty Islands. 
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06 Oct 1944 WW2 Japanese troops evacuated Tiddam, Burma. 
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06 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Cassin Young departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands with Task Group 38.3. 
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06 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Alabama departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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06 Oct 1944 WW2 Unryu departed Matsuyama, Japan and arrived at Yashiro-jima across the Inland Sea. 
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06 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Whale attacked a Japanese convoy as a part of a wolfpack in the South China Sea, sinking Japanese transport Akane Maru, hitting her with 5 of 6 torpedoes fired. 
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06 Oct 1945 WW2 Communist forces in China attacked US Marines. 
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06 Oct 1946 WW2 Per Albin Hansson passed away. 
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06 Oct 1949 WW2 Iva Toguri D'Aquino was sentenced to 10 years in prison and a fine of US$10,000 for taking part in Japanese propaganda efforts during the war. 
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