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History on the 9th of October

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09 Oct 1919 WW2 Settsu began her preparations to host Emperor Taisho. 
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09 Oct 1923 WW2 Marblehead was launched in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, sponsored by the wife of Joseph Evans. 
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09 Oct 1926 WW2 Mussolini was declared the commander-in-chief of the Milizia Volontaria Sicurezza Nazionale (National Security Volunteer Militia). 
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09 Oct 1929 WW2 Roger Backhouse was promoted to the rank of vice admiral. 
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09 Oct 1930 WW2 Dupleix was launched at Brest, France. 
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09 Oct 1931 WW2 Tenryu was ordered to patrol waters off the mouth of the Yangtze River in China as a part of Japanese 3rd Fleet. 
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09 Oct 1936 WW2 The French Army issued the third and final order of AMR 35 light tanks. 
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09 Oct 1938 WW2 The Spanish Republican submarine C1 was sunk by Spanish Nationalist aircraft at Barcelona, Spain. 
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09 Oct 1939 WW2 British Prime Minister Chamberlain announced a committee of ministers to coordinate the war time economy. 
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09 Oct 1939 WW2 The Finnish military mobilized. 
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09 Oct 1940 WW2 German submarine U-103 attacked Allied convoy SC-6, sinking Greek ships Zannes Gounaris (1 killed) and Delphin (all survived) and damaging British ship Graigwen (7 killed, 27 survived). U-103 was subjected to a depth charge attack, but escaped unharmed. 
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09 Oct 1940 WW2 British minesweeping trawler HMS Sea King hit a mine and sank 28 miles east of Grimsby, England, United Kingdom; 14 were killed. 
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09 Oct 1940 WW2 British Albacore biplanes of No. 829 Squadron from Royal Navy station HMS Peregrine attacked Brest, France overnight, damaging German destroyers Eckholdt, Lody, and Riedel with near misses. 1 Albacore aircraft was shot down with its three crew captured, including squadron commander Lieutenant Commander Stevinson. 
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09 Oct 1940 WW2 British submarine HMS Regent hit Italian merchant ship Antonietta Costa 20 miles west of Durrës, Albania with a torpedo; Antonietta Costa did not sink but went aground and was lost 10 miles off the coast near Durrës. 
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09 Oct 1940 WW2 The occupation government in the Netherlands banned Jews and half-Jews from public employment. 
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09 Oct 1940 WW2 German troops began to secure oil fields in Romania, which was vital for the German war effort. 
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09 Oct 1940 WW2 Winston Churchill became the head of British Conservative Party. 
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09 Oct 1940 WW2 German fighter-bombers dropped bombs in London, Maidstone, Hastings, Falmouth, and other British towns. 3 German fighters and 1 German Ju 88 bomber was shot down, while the British lost 1 fighter with the pilot unhurt. Overnight, London, Liverpool, and Manchester were bombed; St. Paul's Cathedral in London was hit, destroying choir stalls and the High Altar but the building was not structurally damaged. 
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09 Oct 1941 WW2 Hitler publicly announced that the war against the Soviet Union is all but over. 
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09 Oct 1941 WW2 Georg von Bismarck was named the commanding officer of the 20th Panzer Division. 
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09 Oct 1941 WW2 Vannevar Bush took the British Military Application of Uranium Detonation (MAUD) Committee Report to US President Franklin Roosevelt, who agreed to work together with the British to develop atomic weapons. 
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09 Oct 1941 WW2 The keel of trawler Anticosti was laid down. 
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09 Oct 1941 WW2 The Jager Report (issued on 1 Dec 1941) noted that 1,169 adult male, 1,840 adult female, and 717 children, all Jews, were killed in Svenciany, Lithuania for a total of 3,726 people. 
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09 Oct 1941 WW2 A trade agreement was signed between Turkey and Germany under which the latter would get no deliveries of chrome until 1943. 
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09 Oct 1941 WW2 No. 601 Squadron RAF mounted a mission with four P-39 Airacobra aircraft, strafing German barges near Dunkerque, France. This was to be the final Airacobra mission with the RAF. 
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09 Oct 1941 WW2 A detachment of Soviet NKVD troops prevented a company of German Brandenburg 800 Division saboteurs from destroying the Istra Water Reservoir near Moscow, Russia. 
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09 Oct 1941 WW2 Allied convoy QP-1 arrived at Scapa Flow, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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09 Oct 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Rabaul. 
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09 Oct 1942 WW2 Alois Brunner declared Vienna, Austria Judenfrei, "Free of Jews". 
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09 Oct 1942 WW2 The Soviet Union eliminated the Political Commissar position from the army, leaving only one military commander in each of its units. 
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09 Oct 1942 WW2 US 164th Infantry Regiment set sail from Nouméa, New Caledonia for Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 
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09 Oct 1942 WW2 US Marine Fighter Squadron 121 and the rear echelon of the 2nd Marine Regiment of the US 2nd Marine Division arrived at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 
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09 Oct 1942 WW2 Galeazzo Ciano noted in his diary that Italian intelligence had learned that the Allies were planning on invading North Africa, and it concerned him as a successful Allied campaign there would put Italy in danger. 
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09 Oct 1942 WW2 B-17 Flying Fortress bombers attacked Rabaul, New Britain at 0400 hours, causing little damage. 
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09 Oct 1942 WW2 USAAF 57th Fighter Group achieved its first aerial victory when six P-40F fighters of 64th Fighter Squadron, escorting 18 Boston bombers en route to El Daba, Egypt, was attacked by German Bf 109 fighters, and one of the German fighters was shot down by 1st Lieutenant William J. Mount. 
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09 Oct 1942 WW2 USS Whale departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, starting her first war patrol. 
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09 Oct 1943 WW2 US bombers attacked Mariensburg, Germany. 
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09 Oct 1943 WW2 USS Hoe searched for down American airmen in the Wake Island area. 
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09 Oct 1943 WW2 The American destroyer USS Buck was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-616 off Salerno, Italy. 
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09 Oct 1943 WW2 USS Puffer damaged a Japanese transport east of Borneo, Dutch East Indies, hitting her with 2 of 4 torpedoes fired. 
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09 Oct 1943 WW2 Oberfeldwebel Johann Boos and Oberleutnant Robert Seib of the German Kampfgeschwader 55 wing were awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. 
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09 Oct 1943 WW2 US 8th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron successfully took photos of Rabaul, New Britain. 
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09 Oct 1943 WW2 Japanese aircraft attacked the Dobodura Airfield in Australian Papua, setting oil dumps on fire. On the same day, 2nd Bomb Squadron (flying B-25 and B-26 aircraft) of USAAF 22nd Bomb Group was transferred to Dobodura. 
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09 Oct 1943 WW2 Paul von Kleist was mentioned in the Wehrmachtbericht daily radio report. 
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09 Oct 1943 WW2 German submarine U-703 arrived at Harstad, Norway and dropped off two survivors of Russian freighter Dekabrist. 
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09 Oct 1943 WW2 Kuban, Russia was under complete Soviet control as the last German and Romanian units had evacuated to Crimea. 
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09 Oct 1943 WW2 Semyon Timoshenko was awarded the Order of Suvorov 1st Class for the first time. 
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09 Oct 1944 WW2 The US surrender ultimatum to the garrison at Aachen, Germany was rejected. 
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09 Oct 1944 WW2 Canadian troops used amphibious vehicles to enter the Breskens Pocket in the Netherlands. 
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09 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Gar arrived at Brisbane, Australia, ending her thirteenth war patrol. 
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09 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Croaker sank a Japanese freighter with 4 of 4 torpedoes fired. 
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09 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Becuna attacked a Japanese convoy in the South China Sea, claiming two sunk and two damaged; ten torpedoes were expended, seven of them made contact. 
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09 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Hawkbill attacked a Japanese convoy in the South China sea with USS Becuna, damaging several ships with her torpedoes. 
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09 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Bergall sank a Japanese transport off the coast of French Indochina, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes. 
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09 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Pintado departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her third war patrol. 
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09 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Dragonet arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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09 Oct 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of Night Air Group 106 on board. 
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09 Oct 1944 WW2 Submarine I-369 was completed at the Yokosuka Navy Yard, Japan as a Type D1 Tei-gata transport submarine. She was commissioned into service under the command of Lieutenant Shigeo Matsushima. 
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09 Oct 1944 WW2 Japanese submarine I-8 arrived at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan. 
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09 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Sterlet sank a Japanese fishing boat off the eastern coast of Okinawa, Japan with her deck gun. 
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09 Oct 1944 WW2 Bulgarian 1st Army attacked Nis, Yugoslavia. 
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09 Oct 1945 WW2 Communist forces in China occupied northern Shandong Province. 
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09 Oct 1945 WW2 S-30 was decommissioned from service. 
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09 Oct 1945 WW2 Drayton was decommissioned from service. 
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09 Oct 1945 WW2 The submarine chaser USS SC.636 foundered during Typhoon Louise off the coast of Okinawa, Japan. 
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09 Oct 1945 WW2 USS Bluefish arrived at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States. 
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