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History on the 4th of November

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04 Nov 1911 WW2 The Treaty of Fez was signed following protracted negotiations between the French and German governments. Germany accepted France's position in Morocco and ceded territory in part of Chad, in return for territory in the French Congo and Togoland. 
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04 Nov 1914 WW2 The Indian Expeditionary Force fought its way into Tanga in German East Africa but the single German company stationed there put up only a token resistance before slipping away into the bush. 
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04 Nov 1914 WW2 Valiant was launched at Govan, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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04 Nov 1916 WW2 John Basilone was born. 
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04 Nov 1918 WW2 After nightfall, the US 42nd Division launched an offensive on Sedan, France. During the confusion of battle, Douglas MacArthur was mistaken for a German general and was captured by men of the US 1st Division. 
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04 Nov 1918 WW2 Settsu completed her duty as the host to Emperor Taisho. 
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04 Nov 1922 WW2 Omar Bradley was reverted to the permanent rank of captain. 
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04 Nov 1923 WW2 On this German Memorial Day (Volkstrauertag), the Nazi Party planned to begin a national revolution in Munich, Germany, but due to a unexpectedly heavy police presence at the planned parade routes, the action was canceled in the last minute. 
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04 Nov 1926 WW2 Prince Leopold of Belgium married Princess Astrid of Sweden in a civil ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden. 
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04 Nov 1930 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt was re-elected the governor of the state of New York, United States. 
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04 Nov 1931 WW2 Chinese forces under General Ma Zhanshan of Heilongjiang Province attacked a group of Japanese troops at Nenjiang Bridge. Despite numerical advantage, Japanese artillery and light tanks drove off the Chinese attacks by inflicting heavy casualties. 
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04 Nov 1935 WW2 Hawker engineers informed test pilot George Bulman that the engine of the prototype Hurricane fighter failed the 50-hour endurance test; Bulman ordered a careful evaluation of the engine, but refused to cancel the maiden flight scheduled for two days later. 
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04 Nov 1936 WW2 The Spanish Nationalists captured Getafe near Madrid, Spain. 
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04 Nov 1936 WW2 U-36 was commissioned into service. 
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04 Nov 1936 WW2 I-15 fighters first saw action in Spain, with pilots flying these aircraft shooting down two Ju 52 and two CR.32 aircraft over Madrid, Spain without any losses. 
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04 Nov 1937 WW2 The keel of Battleship No. 1 was laid down at the Kure Naval Arsenal in Japan. 
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04 Nov 1938 WW2 The Nazi German censorship office, the Prüfungskommission, banned all maps defining ethnic or cultural regions within German territory. 
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04 Nov 1939 WW2 Colonel Stewart Menzies became head of British intelligence agency MI6 when Rear Admiral Hugh Sinclair died of cancer. 
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04 Nov 1939 WW2 The Neutrality Act of 1939, which repealed the arms embargo of 1937, became a law in the United States. It allowed the US to sell arms to the Allies. 
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04 Nov 1939 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York, United States. 
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04 Nov 1940 WW2 German submarine U-99 attacked British armed merchant cruiser HMS Patroclus 150 miles west of Ireland while she was rescuing survivors of HMS Laurentic, which was disabled by U-99 at the end of the previous day. U-99 fired torpedoes at 0022 hours, 0044 hours, and 0118 hours from the surface, and then dove to avoid attacks. At 0435 hours, U-99 resurfaced, sinking HMS Laurentic with a torpedo which detonated Laurentic's depth charges. Patroclus was sunk at 0525 hours, killing 56. British destroyers HMS Hesperus arrived and chased away U-99 with depth charges. 
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04 Nov 1940 WW2 The Italian Julia Division continued to be trapped in the Vovousa valley in northern Greece, incurring heavy casualties as Greek troops mounted repeated attacks in an attempt to eliminate this pocket. Further west, Italian troops established a bridgehead across the Kalamas River, but failed at their first attempt to break out. 
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04 Nov 1940 WW2 Adolf Hitler met with his top military leaders in Berlin, Germany to explore the possibility of attacking Gibraltar, Azores Islands, Madeira, and Portugal as means to block the British Royal Navy from entering the Mediterranean Sea. 
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04 Nov 1941 WW2 Before dawn, Soviet destroyers Smetlivy and Surovy evacuated troops from the naval base at Hanko in southern Finland; Smetlivy was damaged by coastal artillery during the process and would sink en route to Leningrad, Russia, killing several hundred passengers. At the end of the day, Finnish troops recaptured Hanko. 
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04 Nov 1941 WW2 German 170th Division captured Feodosiya, Ukraine. 
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04 Nov 1941 WW2 American cruisers Omaha and Memphis, accompanied by three destroyers, sortied to hunt for German surface raiders. 
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04 Nov 1941 WW2 The repair work on light cruiser Voroshilov, damaged two days prior by German aircraft, began. 
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04 Nov 1941 WW2 Soviet submarine M-34 was lost somewhere off Constanza, Romania in the Black Sea; she was presumed to have struck a mine. 
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04 Nov 1942 WW2 Axis forces slowly fell back to the west toward Fuka, Egypt, but the rear guard continued to cause heavy casualties against the pursuing Allied troops. Seeing victory was now impossible, Rommel disobeyed Hitler's orders and gave the orders for a general withdraw toward the Egyptian-Libyan border. 
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04 Nov 1942 WW2 The Americans divided the areas of Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands under their control into two sectors, with US Marine Corps Brigadier General William Rupertus overseeing the East Sector and US Army Brigadier General Edmund Sebree overseeing the West Sector. On the same day, US Army 164th Infantry Regiment and US Marine 2nd Raider Battalion marched toward Koli Point to reinforce the 7th Marine Regiment. 
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04 Nov 1942 WW2 All German offensive operations in the Caucasus region of southern Russia was suspended. 
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04 Nov 1942 WW2 German submarine U-354 damaged US Liberty ship William Clark of Operation FB off Jan Mayen island, Norway at 1333 hours; at 1400 hours, U-354 struck again and sank William Clark (31 were killed, 61 survived). Russian freighter Dekabrist, also of Operation FB, was attacked by German Ju 88 aircraft, suffering fatal damage (she would sink shortly after east of Spitzbergen, Norway). During the day, British freighter Briarwood departed Iceland in Operation FB. 
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04 Nov 1942 WW2 Japanese troops executed Australian aviator Allan Norman and his crew by decapitation at the Tavurvur crater near Rabaul, New Britain. 
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04 Nov 1942 WW2 Tenryu departed Shortland Islands, Solomon Islands with supplies for troops fighting on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 
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04 Nov 1942 WW2 Workers at Dock No. 4 at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, US Territory of Hawaii began cutting piles using an underwater circular saw. 
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04 Nov 1942 WW2 USS Grayback damaged a Japanese transport in the Solomon Sea, hitting her with 1 of 2 torpedoes. 
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04 Nov 1942 WW2 A transport of 954 Jewish men, women, and children from Westerbork Concentration Camp in occupied Netherlands arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp. 50 women were registered in the camp and 904 people were killed in the gas chambers. 
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04 Nov 1942 WW2 The United States Marine Corps established the Marine Corps Air Station, El Toro, California, United States under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Millard. 
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04 Nov 1942 WW2 The United States Congress officially approved the award of a Medal of Honor to aviator Harl Pease. 
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04 Nov 1943 WW2 Naka received 166 troops and anti-tank guns from transport Kiyosumi Maru and then disembarked them at Kavieng, New Ireland at 1700 hours. 
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04 Nov 1943 WW2 Chokai departed Rabaul, New Britain. 
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04 Nov 1943 WW2 William Halsey ordered US Task Force 38, currently refueling in the Indispensable Reefs anchorage south of Rennell Island of the Solomon Islands from the 21,000-ton tanker Kankakee, to attack Japanese Cruiser Division 4, which was approaching Rabaul, New Britain. 
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04 Nov 1943 WW2 USS Corvina departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first and only war patrol. 
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04 Nov 1943 WW2 In Italy, US Fifth Army captured Isernia and joined with British Eighth Army moving up from Foggia. 
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04 Nov 1943 WW2 Commander Junio Valerio Borghese was named the Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff of the Italian Navy, in charge of operations. 
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04 Nov 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. 
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04 Nov 1943 WW2 The ground echelon of USAAF 354th Fighter Group arrived in England, United Kingdom; their P-51B Mustang fighters were still in transit. 
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04 Nov 1944 WW2 Field Marshall Sir John Dill, the senior British representative on the Combined Chiefs of Staff, died from an illness at Walter Reed General Hospital, Washington, DC, United States. He was subsequently buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, United States. 
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04 Nov 1944 WW2 Bombers of the No. 550 Squadron RAF attacked Bochum, Germany. Airman John Riley Bryne noted in his diary that "the target was a blazing inferno". 
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04 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Guitarro and USS Bream shared the credit for the sinking of Japanese cargo ship Kagu Maru off Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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04 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Ray spotted Japanese cargo ship Kagu Maru, already burning from an attack by USS Bream, in the Philippine Islands; Ray fired two torpedoes at Kagu Maru, hitting her with one of them, blowing off her bow and sinking her. 
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04 Nov 1944 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit the golf course at Ilford, London, England, United Kingdom without causing any injuries. 
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04 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Kete refueled at Midway. 
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04 Nov 1945 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Kusaie, Caroline Islands and embarked Japanese personnel. 
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04 Nov 1946 WW2 San Diego was decommissioned from service. 
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04 Nov 1946 WW2 Lieutenant Commander William J. Pendola was named the commanding officer of USS Ticonderoga. 
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