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History on the 3rd of November

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03 Nov 1910 WW2 Verne Skjonsby was born in North Dakota, United States. 
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03 Nov 1914 WW1 Begin of Battle of Tanga
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03 Nov 1918 WW2 Bob Feller was born in Van Meter, Iowa, United States. 
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03 Nov 1923 WW2 Concord was commissioned into service. 
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03 Nov 1923 WW2 German Social Democrat Interior Minister Wilhelm Sollmann, Justice Minister Gustav Radbruch and Vice Chancellor Robert Schmidt resigned from the German coalition government, thus bringing about its collapse within weeks. 
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03 Nov 1930 WW2 The Do X aircraft departed Friedrichshafen, Germany under the command of Friedrich Christiansen for the ultimate destination of New York, United States. 
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03 Nov 1931 WW2 HMS Hermes rescued 9 crewmen of Japanese merchant vessel Ryinjin Maru, which had run aground on the Tan Rocks on the coast of the Taiwan Strait. 
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03 Nov 1933 WW2 Heinrich Himmler, Karl Maria Wiligut, and other SS figures visited Schloß Wewelsburg in Büren, Germany. 
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03 Nov 1935 WW2 Test pilot George Bulman began familiarizing himself with the prototype Hurricane fighter at Brooklands in Surrey, England, United Kingdom. 
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03 Nov 1936 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt was re-elected US President. 
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03 Nov 1938 WW2 Werner Mölders scored his final aerial victory in the Spanish Civil War. 
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03 Nov 1939 WW2 Franz Halder sent a message to Ludwig Beck telling him to be ready to move against Adolf Hitler on or shortly after 5 Nov 1939, which was the date the plans for the invasion of France, was supposed to be made known to top German military leaders. 
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03 Nov 1939 WW2 Hunted by Royal Navy destroyers, the German-captured US freighter City of Flint entered the harbour of Haugesund, Norway where she was boarded and seized by sailors from the Norwegian minesweeper Tryggvason. 
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03 Nov 1939 WW2 The British government reduced the nightly blackout regulations by an hour. 
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03 Nov 1939 WW2 The Cash and Carry clause was introduced in US Statute of Neutrality. 
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03 Nov 1940 WW2 In the Pindus Mountains in northern Greece, Greek Pindus detachment counterattacked against Italian Julia Division, recapturing the villages of Samarina and Vovousa. Further west, Italian tanks were brought up to attack the Greek defenses on the Kalamas River, but the terrain was poorly suited for mobile operations. Far to the south, British troops began arriving on mainland Greece. 
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03 Nov 1940 WW2 British submarine HMS Sturgeon sank Danish ship Sigrun in the Oslofjord, Norway. 
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03 Nov 1940 WW2 German submarine U-99 sank British ship Casanare 150 miles west of Ireland at 2140 hours, killing 9. Casanare sent out a distress signal prior to her sinking, which brought British armed merchant cruisers HMS Laurentic and HMS Patroclus to the area; U-99 disabled HMS Laurentic after hitting her with torpedoes at 2250 hours, 2310 hours, and 2330 hours, killing 49; 368 survivors abandoned the ship and were rescued by Patroclus. 
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03 Nov 1940 WW2 The British capital of London experienced the first night in 57 nights without seeing any bombing. 
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03 Nov 1941 WW2 German submarine U-202 sank British ships Flynderborg (3 were killed, 21 survived) and Gretavale (38 were killed, 6 survived) of Allied convoy SC-52 200 miles northeast of Newfoundland at 0500 hours. At 1828 hours, U-203 attacked the same convoy, sinking British ships Everoja (all 41 aboard survived) and Empire Gemsbuck (all 43 aboard survived). 
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03 Nov 1941 WW2 In Russia, German Panzer Army 2 attacked Tula while other German units captured Kursk 180 miles to the southwest to protect the southern flank of the assault toward Moscow. 
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03 Nov 1941 WW2 American PBY Catalina aircraft provided air cover for Atlantic convoy ON 31. 
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03 Nov 1941 WW2 American destroyer Upshur, escorting convoy HX 157, depth charged sound contact. 
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03 Nov 1941 WW2 Chief of the Japanese Naval General Staff Admiral Osami Nagano approved the draft plan for the attack on Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. On the other side of the international date line, Joseph Rochefort's cryptanalytic team of the US Navy in Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii was realizing that the Japanese were inflating the amount of radio traffic. 
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03 Nov 1941 WW2 Heinz Guderian noted in his diary that the first cold wave had hit Russia, bringing temperature to the freezing point. 
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03 Nov 1941 WW2 The Japanese plan to occupy Rabaul, Bismarck Islands and to transform it into a forward base was presented to Emperor Showa. 
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03 Nov 1941 WW2 Soviet submarine ShCh-214 sank Turkish schooner Kaynakdere with gunfire in the Black Sea. 
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03 Nov 1941 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille was awarded the silver Honor Cup (Ehrenpokal) in Germany. 
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03 Nov 1941 WW2 Allied convoy QP-2 departed Arkhangelsk, Russia. 
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03 Nov 1942 WW2 British Ventura aircraft flew their first combat mission against a factory in Hengelo in the Netherlands. 
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03 Nov 1942 WW2 US government demanded Finland to cease hostilities against the Soviet Union. 
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03 Nov 1942 WW2 After sun down, Allies launched renewed attacks at the weakened Axis defensive positions near El Alamein, Egypt. 
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03 Nov 1942 WW2 Three US Marine battalions attacked Japanese positions west of Point Cruz on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 
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03 Nov 1942 WW2 Chiang Kaishek met with Joseph Stilwell regarding the planned offensive into Burma, pledging 15 divisions by 15 Feb 1943. 
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03 Nov 1942 WW2 USS Finback sank a small vessel east of Taiwan with gunfire. 
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03 Nov 1942 WW2 USS Plunger attacked Tenryu off Santa Isabel Island, Solomon Islands; both torpedoes missed. 
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03 Nov 1942 WW2 Tenryu arrived at Shortland Island, Solomon Islands. 
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03 Nov 1942 WW2 British freighter Daldorch departed Iceland in Operation FB. 
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03 Nov 1942 WW2 Irako sailed south from Fukajima, Japan with minelayer Nasami in escort. 
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03 Nov 1942 WW2 Polish political prisoner Heinz Radomski was caught while attempting to escape from sector BIb of the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp. He was later executed on 24 Jul 1943 in the washroom of Block 11. 
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03 Nov 1943 WW2 B. Coy, US 100th Infantry Battalion, securing the left flank of 34th Division, conducted the first recorded bayonet charge by American forces in Italy. The attack was a complete success with all the German positions being overrun. The 100th Battalion was unique in being made up from men from two Hawaii Infantry Regiments already in uniform at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, including many Nisei who had been serving in the Hawaii National Guard. 
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03 Nov 1943 WW2 Overnight, 400 US bombers, escorted by 600 fighters, bombed Wilhelmshaven, Germany. Later in the same night, the RAF bombed Düsseldorf, Germany. 
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03 Nov 1943 WW2 Soviet troops launched a massive breakout attack from their bridgehead north of Kiev, Ukraine. 
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03 Nov 1943 WW2 USS Scorpion arrived off Maug Islands of the Mariana Islands. 
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03 Nov 1943 WW2 British Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris wrote a treatise addressed to Winston Churchill in which he outlined British RAF Bomber Command's past achievements and its future objectives; Berlin, Germany would become the priority target with Leipzig, Chemnitz, Dresden, Bremen and other cities listed as secondary targets. He remarked disparagingly of recent American lack of co-ordination, their disastrous diversions such as the Ploiesti raid in Romania, and the siting of the recently formed US 15th Air Force in Southern Italy, far from the centres of German war production. 
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03 Nov 1943 WW2 Naka was slightly damaged by near misses by B-24 Liberator bombers 111 kilometers north of Kavieng, New Ireland at 1129 hours; 7 were killed, 20 were wounded. 
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03 Nov 1943 WW2 During the German Aktion Erntefest, Jewish prisoners were beginning to be massacred at Trawniki, Poniatowa, and Majdanek Concentration Camps; when the aktion was completed on the following day, 42,000 would be dead. 
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03 Nov 1943 WW2 Captured Australian coast watcher Captain John Murphy was delivered to Rabaul, New Britain. 
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03 Nov 1943 WW2 US Task Force 38 refueled in the Indispensable Reefs anchorage south of Rennell Island, Solomon Islands from the 21,000-ton tanker Kankakee. 
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03 Nov 1943 WW2 The Japanese Autumn Mop-up Operation in Hebei, Shandong, and Henan Provinces in China was completed; many Chinese Communist guerrillas were killed. 
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03 Nov 1943 WW2 Günther Altenburg stepped down as the Reich Plenipotentiary for Greece. 
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03 Nov 1943 WW2 British 78th Infantry Division reached San Salvo north of the Trigno River in Italy. 
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03 Nov 1943 WW2 Tomokazu Kasai was assigned to a training fighter squadron in Japan. 
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03 Nov 1943 WW2 Jewish ghettos at Riga, Latvia were liquidated. 
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03 Nov 1943 WW2 Robert Johnson shot down a German Bf 109G fighter over Ameland, the Netherlands. 
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03 Nov 1943 WW2 A transport of 1,203 Jews arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp from a slave camp from Szopienice in southern Poland. 284 men and 23 women were registered into the camp; the remaining 896 were sent to a gas chamber. 
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03 Nov 1943 WW2 USS S-31 completed training services at San Diego, California, United States. 
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03 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Gar began her fourteenth war patrol. 
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03 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Snook rescued a downed American airman in the Pacific Ocean. 
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03 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Pintado fired six torpedoes at a Japanese carrier off the Philippine Islands, but hit escorting destroyer Akikaze instead, damaging but not failing to sink the destroyer. 
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03 Nov 1944 WW2 Filipp Golikov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the third time. 
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03 Nov 1944 WW2 Aleksandr Vasilevsky was awarded the Order of Red Banner for the first time. 
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03 Nov 1944 WW2 Off Akmenrags, Latvia, ShCh-307 attacked a merchant ship at 2157 hours and another at 2213 hours; all four torpedoes missed. 
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03 Nov 1944 WW2 Halsey personally inspected USS Franklin at Ulithi, Caroline Islands; she was the first major American ship to be damaged by "kamikaze" special attacks. 
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03 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Alabama departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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03 Nov 1944 WW2 Slovakian resistance leaders Rudolf Viest and Ján Golian were captured in Pohronsky Bukovec, Czechoslovakia. 
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03 Nov 1944 WW2 Test pilot Erich Klöckner manned the prototype BP20 M1 for a successful gliding test at Neuburg an der Donau, Germany. 
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03 Nov 1944 WW2 The Japanese commenced the Fu-Go (balloon bomb) campaign against the continental United States. The balloons employed an altitude-keeping device which kept them in the prevailing west-east wind along the 40th parallel. A timing device caused the balloon to crash on arrival over the US where its small bombload would then detonate. 
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03 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Cero disembarked 15 tons of supplies and 16 troops north of Manila, Philippine Islands and took on four evacuees. 
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03 Nov 1944 WW2 Boris Shaposhnikov was awarded his second Order of the Red Banner. 
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03 Nov 1944 WW2 Semyon Timoshenko was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the fourth time. 
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03 Nov 1944 WW2 Georgy Zhukov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the second time. 
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03 Nov 1944 WW2 Kliment Voroshilov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the fifth time. 
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03 Nov 1945 WW2 Light carrier Hosho arrived at Uraga, Japan and disembarked 1,011 Japanese military servicemen returned from the Marshall Islands. 
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03 Nov 1945 WW2 USS Cod arrived at New London, Connecticut, United States. 
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03 Nov 1946 WW2 Yoshio Nishina was awarded the Order of Culture by Emperor Showa. 
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03 Nov 1947 WW2 Pohl Trial in Nuremberg ended; out of 17 defendants, 2 were acquitted while the other 15 former SS men were found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, largely for their role in the atrocities committed against concentration camp victims. 
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03 Nov 1947 WW2 John Winant committed suicide in his home in Concord, New Hampshire, United States. 
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