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History on the 24th of October 1941

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24 Oct 1941 WW2 German troops captured Belgorod, Russia. 
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24 Oct 1941 WW2 German troops captured Kharkov, Ukraine. 
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24 Oct 1941 WW2 Elements of the German 4th Panzer Division moved from Mtsensk, Russia northward toward Moscow, reaching Chern 20 kilometers away. 
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24 Oct 1941 WW2 Romanian troops massacred Ukranian civilians in the village of Dalnik near Odessa, setting fire to warehouses full of people. 
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24 Oct 1941 WW2 German submarines U-563 attacked Allied convoy HG-75 300 miles west of Gibraltar at 0038 hours, damaging British destroyer HMS Cossack with a torpedo; 159 were killed, 60 survived. At 0636 hours, U-564 joined in on the attack, sinking British ships Carsbreck, Ariosto, and Alhama; 30 were killed, 96 survived. 
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24 Oct 1941 WW2 British minesweeping trawlers HMS Lucienne Jeanne and HMT Emilion struck naval mines and sank in the Thames Estuary in southern England, United Kingdom. 
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24 Oct 1941 WW2 50 communists were executed by the Germans at Camp Souge, France in retaliation for the killing of German occupation administrator Hans-Gottfried Reimers three days prior. 
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24 Oct 1941 WW2 After sundown, British minelaying cruiser HMS Abdiel and destroyers HMS Kandahar, HMS Kingston, and HMS Griffin departed Alexandria, Egypt with troops and supplies for Tobruk, Libya, returning with troops of Australian 9th Division early in the next day. 
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24 Oct 1941 WW2 Tatsuta Maru departed Honolulu, US Territory of Hawaii for San Francisco, California, United States. 
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24 Oct 1941 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt hosted Princess Märtha of Sweden (Crown Princess of Norway) at his home in Hyde Park, New York, United States. 
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