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History on the 7th of October

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07 Oct 1910 WW2 The keel of protected cruiser Zhaohe was laid down by Armstrong-Whitworth at Elswick, England, United Kingdom. 
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07 Oct 1914 WW2 Josef Frantisek was born in Otaslavice, Austria-Hungary (later Czechoslovakia). 
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07 Oct 1919 WW2 Joseph Rochefort reported for duty aboard tanker Cuyama as her assistant engineering officer; the ship was based out of San Diego, California, United States. 
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07 Oct 1920 WW2 Masafumi Arima married Fumiko Toya. 
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07 Oct 1935 WW2 The League of Nations branded Mussolini a covenant-breaker and aggressor. 
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07 Oct 1937 WW2 Kaga arrived off Guangdong Province, China. 
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07 Oct 1938 WW2 Chinese troops launched a counteroffensive in Jiangxi Province, China and enveloped elements of the Japanese 101st and 106th Divisions. 
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07 Oct 1939 WW2 HMS Hermes made rendezvous with French battleship Strasbourg in the Atlantic Ocean. 
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07 Oct 1939 WW2 French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier rejected Adolf Hitler's proposal for a multi-power conference for peace on the previous day. 
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07 Oct 1939 WW2 Adolf Hitler appointed Heinrich Himmler as Reich Commissar for the protection of the German Race and issued a decree empowering Himmler to deport all Jews from Greater Germany to the east, where they would be resettled together with almost 2 million Polish Jews now under German rule. 
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07 Oct 1939 WW2 The German Army reported to Adolf Hitler that there was a general shortage of steel, ammunition, and other war materials necessary to wage war against Britain and France. 
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07 Oct 1940 WW2 Operation Lucid: British tankers War Nizam and War African, filled with oil and fuel and to be used as fire ships, departed for French channel ports to attack German invasion barges. The mission was once again canceled, this time after destroyer HMS Hambledon hit a mine off the coast near Folkestone, Kent, England. 
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07 Oct 1940 WW2 In the morning, Hermann Göring presented Wolfgang Falck the Knight Cross medal, which was officially awarded to Falck six days prior; the medal was placed around Falck's neck by Major Bernd von Brauchitsch, son of the army chief of staff and Göring's adjutant. During the lunch after the award ceremony, Falck asked Erhard Milch to consider changing the Luftwaffe rule which stated that the family of servicemen who died with less than 10 years of service received no pension. 
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07 Oct 1940 WW2 German submarine U-59 sank Norwegian ship Touraine 50 miles northwest of Ireland at 1600 hours; 1 was killed and 34 survived in 3 lifeboats. German submarine U-37 hit British tanker British General with two torpedoes 400 miles west of Ireland at 2000 hours after already damaging her with two torpedoes on the previous day; British General sank with all 47 hands lost. 
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07 Oct 1940 WW2 German armed merchant cruiser Pinguin stopped Norwegian tanker Storstad 500 miles northwest of Australia. With 12,000 tons of diesel oil on board, Storstad was taken as a prize ship and sent back to Germany; she would later be commissioned into German Navy service as Passat. 25 of Storstad's crew became captives aboard Pinguin, while 5 of them chose to serve the Germans aboard Storstad/Passat. 
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07 Oct 1940 WW2 German Luftwaffe dispatched large raids of 50 to 100 aircraft against southern England, United Kingdom, with fighters being 66% to 75% of each wave. On this day, 21 German fighters and 6 bombers were shot down, while the British lost 16 fighters with 6 pilots killed. Overnight, London, Bristol, Liverpool, Firth of Forth, and other locations were bombed. 
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07 Oct 1940 WW2 James Lacey claimed a probable kill on a German Bf 109 fighter over Britain. 
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07 Oct 1941 WW2 In an effort to boost morale in the Soviet Union, Stalin lifted the ban on religion. 
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07 Oct 1941 WW2 The United Kingdom demanded Finland to stop fighting the Soviet Union; the demand was ignored. 
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07 Oct 1941 WW2 German submarine U-502 damaged British whaling ship Svend Foyn 100 miles south of Iceland at 1617 hours; Svend Foyn was to be towed to Liverpool, England, United Kingdom for repairs. 
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07 Oct 1941 WW2 German 10th Panzer Division captured Vyasma, Russia at 1030 hours, surrounding 5 Soviet Armies. Georgy Zhukov, who had been recalled from Leningrad, Russia and sent to report on the situation on the West Front, arrived at Ivan Konev's headquarters to discover that there was no information concerning the Vyasma encirclement. He was forced to report to Joseph Stalin that there was no longer a continuous front in the west, and the large gaps could not be closed because the command had run out of reserves. 
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07 Oct 1942 WW2 USS Copahee departed Nouméa, New Caledonia with 20 US Marine Corps aircraft for Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 
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07 Oct 1942 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt announced his intentions to try the "ringleaders responsible for the organized murder", referring to the Holocaust, as war criminals. 
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07 Oct 1942 WW2 Units from US 2nd, 5th, and 7th Marine Regiment crossed the Matanikau River in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands to raid Japanese positions. 
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07 Oct 1942 WW2 Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein was presented the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross by General Josef Kammhuber. 
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07 Oct 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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07 Oct 1942 WW2 Vice Admiral Jinichi Kusaka arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands and met with the staff of the Combined Fleet. 
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07 Oct 1942 WW2 USAAF 57th Fighter Group, flying P-40 fighters and located at Landing Ground 174 airfield east of El Alamein in Egypt, gained full operational status. 
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07 Oct 1942 WW2 A group of seven British and Canadian commandos (captured at Glomfjord, Norway) were transferred to Oflag IV-C prisoners of war camp at Colditz Castle in Germany. Later, they would all be executed at Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp per Adolf Hitler's Commando Order. 
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07 Oct 1942 WW2 USS Wahoo departed Caroline Islands waters. 
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07 Oct 1943 WW2 98 captured Americans were executed on Wake Island on the orders of Rear Admiral Shigematsu Sakaibara as reprisal to a 5 Oct air raid. 
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07 Oct 1943 WW2 RAF aircraft bombed Stuttgart, Germany. 
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07 Oct 1943 WW2 The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Chevalier was sunk by a torpedo fired from the USS La Vallette following severe damage inflicted during an engagement with Japanese destroyers fought on the previous day off Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands. 
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07 Oct 1943 WW2 Joseph Stilwell met with the newly arrived Louis Mountbatten in Delhi, India. 
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07 Oct 1943 WW2 German submarine U-703 rescued survivors of sunken Russian freighter Dekabrist. 
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07 Oct 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Nine officers and 108 men of ACORN-16 on board. Eight officers and 131 men of ACORN-16 on board. 
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07 Oct 1943 WW2 German defenses halted US Fifth Army on the Volturno River, Italy. 
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07 Oct 1943 WW2 Air Commodore Andrew James Wray Geddes, a First World War RFC pilot who was now in command of the three airfields in 12 Base, made the first Lancaster bomber landing at the newly built RAF Kelstern in Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. A week later No. 625 Squadron (formed from C-flight of No. 100 Squadron) relocated from nearby RAF Grimsby. 
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07 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Cod damaged a Japanese tanker. 
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07 Oct 1944 WW2 British troops captured Nauplion and the island of Samos in Greece. 
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07 Oct 1944 WW2 German 20.Gebirgsarmee began a fighting-withdrawal from Finland toward Norway. 
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07 Oct 1944 WW2 In the United Kingdom, the Cabinet decided to continue the censorship of reports of rocket attacks. 
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07 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Hoe fired 7 torpedoes at a Japanese convoy, scoring 3 hits on 2 freighters, sinking 1 of them. 
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07 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Baya sank a Japanese transport in the South China Sea, hitting her with 2 of 6 torpedoes fired. 
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07 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Cabrilla sank a Japanese transport in the South China Sea, hitting her with 3 of 4 torpedoes fired. 
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07 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Hawkbill detected a Japanese carrier in the South China Sea, but was driven off by destroyers. 
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07 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Ray attacked the same Japanese tanker she had been chasing since the previous day in the Southe China Sea, hitting her with another 3 torpedo hits (of 6 torpedoes fired), but could not determine whether she had been sunk. 
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07 Oct 1944 WW2 From his headquarters in Chongqing, China, Milton Miles sent US Navy Pacific Fleet Command a daily weather map of China; for the first time, the map covered the entire Chinese coast and 500 miles out into the sea. 
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07 Oct 1944 WW2 General Rudolf Viest was made the commander of the Slovak National Uprising; previous commander, General Ján Golian, stepped down to become Viest's deputy. 
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07 Oct 1944 WW2 1st Lieutenant Elmer Taylor and 1st Lieutenant Willard Erfkamp of USAAF 364th Fighter Group, flying P-51 fighters, together shot down the German Me 163 rocket fighter piloted by Husser; Husser would survive the subsequent crash landing. 
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07 Oct 1944 WW2 Major Richard Conner of USAAF 78th Fighter Group, flying a P-47 fighter, shot down a Me 262 jet aircraft over Osnabrück, Germany; the German pilot was observed to have bailed out before the jet crashed. 
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07 Oct 1944 WW2 1st Lieutenant Urban Drew, flying a P-51 fighter, shot down two Me 262 fighters (flown by Oberfeldwebel Heinz Arnold and Leutnant Gerhard Kobert) as they were taking off from Achmer Airfield. The only witness to the town victories, his wingman 2nd Lieutenant Robert McCandliss, was shot down by anti-aircraft fire and captured before the end of the mission, so Drew did not receive credit for these two downings until after the war when McCandliss was released from captivity. This was the first and only time in the war a pilot scored two jet victories in one mission. 
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07 Oct 1944 WW2 British 8th Army resumed attacks on the Gothic Line in Italy. 
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07 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Whale received orders to move to waters northwest of Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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07 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Wasp made rendezvous with Task Force 38 in the Philippine Sea in the evening. 
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07 Oct 1944 WW2 Takijiro Onishi arrived in Manila, Philippine Islands. 
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07 Oct 1944 WW2 Jewish prisoners of the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz II-Birkenau Concentration Camp organized a large revolt and escape. Crematorium IV was set on fire, while SS guards came under attack. During the havoc, some of the prisoners were successful in cutting through the perimeter fencing and got outside, but the SS guard responded and successfully rounded up all escapees and killed them all. After the revolt was put down in the camp, about 250 prisoners, including leader Zalmen Gradowski and Józef Deresinski, were dead. Three SS men were also killed; ten were wounded. Four Jewish women who had stolen the explosives from their workplace at the Union-Werke armaments factory, which were used during this revolt, were later hanged. 
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07 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Astoria arrived at San Francisco, California, United States and entered the Mare Island Naval Shipyard to repair the damaged turbine. 
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07 Oct 1945 WW2 George Patton handed control of the US 3rd Army to Lucian Truscott. 
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07 Oct 1945 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Uraga, Japan and disembarked troops. 
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