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History on the 6th of November

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06 Nov 1915 WW2 Piloted by Lieutenant Commander Henry Mustin, a Curtiss AB-2 aircraft made the first US catapult launch from USS North Carolina whilst the vessel was underway. 
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06 Nov 1919 WW2 Settsu was placed in reserve. 
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06 Nov 1922 WW2 Iwane Matsui was attached to the Kwangtung Army as the head of the Harbin Special Services Agency in northeastern China. 
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06 Nov 1922 WW2 Kenkichi Ueda was attached to the training branch of the Japanese Army. 
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06 Nov 1923 WW2 Vice Admiral Tadatsugu Tajiri was named the commanding officer of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan. 
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06 Nov 1925 WW2 Kliment Voroshilov was named the People's Commissar for Defense of the Soviet Union. 
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06 Nov 1928 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt was elected the governor of the state of New York, United States. 
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06 Nov 1929 WW2 Karlsruhe was commissioned into service. 
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06 Nov 1932 WW2 The Nazi Party lost a few seats in the latest Reichstag elections in Germany. 
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06 Nov 1933 WW2 The keel of submarine ShCh-307 was laid down by Baltiyskiy Zavod at Leningrad, Russia. 
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06 Nov 1934 WW2 Submarine ShCh-205 was launched at the Shipyard Named After 61 Communards at Nikolaev, Ukraine. 
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06 Nov 1935 WW2 The League of Nations decided to accept the principle of an oil embargo on Italy, but left it up to the delegates to discuss the proposal with their own governments. 
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06 Nov 1935 WW2 The prototype Hawker Hurricane fighter made its maiden flight over Brooklands near Weybridge, Surrey, England, United Kingdom, with George Bulman at the cockpit. Bulman failed to file an official report of the flight, but in his casual notes he expressed minor concern with the engine running at high temperatures, minor concerns with the creaking and flexing of the canopy, and general satisfaction with this new aircraft design. Hurricane fighters would later become the first RAF monoplane with enclosed cockpit, eight guns, and retractable landing gear, and the first to exceed 300 mph. 
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06 Nov 1936 WW2 Expecting Madrid to fall at any moment, the Spanish Republican Government moved to Valencia, Spain. A defence Junta under the leadership of General Jose Miaja was organised for the last-ditch defence of the capital. 
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06 Nov 1936 WW2 Submarine Iride was commissioned into service. 
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06 Nov 1937 WW2 Italy joined the Anti-Comintern Pact. 
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06 Nov 1939 WW2 With her German prize crew interned by the Norwegians, the captured US freighter City of Flint was handed back to her Master, Captain Gainard, and sailed under ballast to return to the United States. 
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06 Nov 1939 WW2 German occupation forces in Poland arrested the professors of University of Krakow. 
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06 Nov 1940 WW2 The British promise of financial aid to Greece was cemented with an advance of £5,000,000. 
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06 Nov 1940 WW2 The British Under-Secretary for War announced measures to provide the Home Guard better equipment without altering its 'local and friendly character'. 
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06 Nov 1940 WW2 Italian submarine Comandante Faà Di Bruno attacked British ship Melrose Abbey 200 miles northwest of Ireland with her deck gun. As Canadian destroyer HMCS Ottawa and British destroyer HMS Harvester approached with guns firing, Comandante Faà Di Bruno dove under the surface. The subsequent depth charging by the destroyers successfully destroyed the Italian submarine, killing the entire crew of 57. 
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06 Nov 1940 WW2 British destroyer HMS Encounter misidentified British submarine HMS Utmost for an enemy submarine and rammed her off Cape St. Vincent, Portugal at 1225 hours. HMS Utmost sustained damage, but did not sink. 
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06 Nov 1940 WW2 British minesweeping whaler HMS Sevra hit a mine and sank off Falmouth, England, United Kingdom without any casualties. 
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06 Nov 1940 WW2 The Greek 2nd Army Corps mounted another attack on the enveloped Italian Julia Division in the Pindus Mountains region in northern Greece. To the west, Italian forces at the Kalamas River continued their attempt to break out of the bridgehead. 
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06 Nov 1940 WW2 Three Canadian prisoners of war who had previously served in the British Royal Air Force arrived at the Oflag IV-C camp at the Colditz Castle. The men were Donald Middleton, Keith Milne, and Howard Wardle. They were transferred from Oflag IX-A/H. 
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06 Nov 1941 WW2 American light cruiser Omaha and destroyer Somers captured German blockade runner Odenwald, which was disguised as the American freighter Willmoto, off Permanbuco, Brazil. Odenwald was transporting rubber from Japan to Germany. 
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06 Nov 1941 WW2 Frostbite began to make its appearance among German troops fighting in the Soviet Union. 
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06 Nov 1941 WW2 The Finnish advance into Russia was halted. 
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06 Nov 1941 WW2 American destroyer Madison, escorting convoy ON 39, depth charged contacts. 
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06 Nov 1941 WW2 British minesweeping trawler HMS Flotta was lost when she foundered off the east coast of Scotland, United Kingdom. She was damaged running aground on 29 Oct 1941. 
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06 Nov 1941 WW2 A small number of Wellington bombers based in Malta conducted an attack on Naples, Italy after dark. 
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06 Nov 1941 WW2 The Jager Report (issued on 1 Dec 1941) noted that 340 adult male, 749 adult female, and 252 children, all Jews, were killed in Vilnius, Lithuania for a total of 1,341 people. 
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06 Nov 1941 WW2 Ivan Bagramyan was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the first time. 
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06 Nov 1941 WW2 Clarence Tinker was named the commanding officer of the US 3rd Fighter Command. 
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06 Nov 1941 WW2 The Japanese military mobilized for war. 
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06 Nov 1941 WW2 Joseph Rochefort's cryptanalytic team in US Territory of Hawaii continued to encounter a great deal of dummy radio traffic being sent by the Japanese Navy. 
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06 Nov 1941 WW2 General Rikichi Ando was named the commanding officer of the Taiwan Army. 
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06 Nov 1941 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt had dinner with Princess Märtha of Sweden (Crown Princess of Norway) at the White House in Washington DC, United States. 
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06 Nov 1942 WW2 Joseph Stalin spoke to the Congress of Soviet Deputies, warning the US and UK that a failure to open a second front might well end badly for all freedom-loving countries. 
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06 Nov 1942 WW2 The US 7th Marine Regiment crossed the Nalimbiu River near Koli Point on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, attacking eastward. 
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06 Nov 1942 WW2 Lieutenant Commander Neil Israel was named the commanding officer of HMS Dianthus. 
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06 Nov 1942 WW2 British freighter Chulmleigh of Operation FB, stuck on a reef off Norway, was abandoned by her crew at 0400 hours; at 1558 hours, German submarine U-625 found Chulmleigh and destroyed her with gunfire. At 2224 hours, U-625 found British freighter Empire Sky, also of Operation FB, and sank her south of Spitzbergen, Norway at 2224 hours, killing all 60 aboard. 
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06 Nov 1942 WW2 USS Gunnel conducted reconnaissance in Fedhala Roads off French North Africa. 
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06 Nov 1942 WW2 About 600 British prisoners of war arrived at Kokopo, New Britain as slave laborers. Most of them would soon be sent to Ballale island in the Solomon Islands to build an airfield. 
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06 Nov 1942 WW2 Tenryu arrived at Shortland Island, Solomon Islands. 
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06 Nov 1942 WW2 Lieutenant General Dwight Eisenhower flew from London, England, United Kingdom to his headquarters in Gibraltar from where he would direct Operation Torch. 
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06 Nov 1942 WW2 Shokaku arrived at Yokosuka, Japan and entered the navy yard immediately for a long period of extensive repairs and refit. 
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06 Nov 1942 WW2 Nachi arrived at Ominato Guard District, Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. 
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06 Nov 1942 WW2 The Davao Penal Colony on Mindanao, Philippine Islands took in its second group of American and Filipino prisoners, numbered at about 1,000. 
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06 Nov 1942 WW2 Groves and Oppenheimer visited Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States and agreed that it was suitable as the location for Site Y for the Manhattan Project. 
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06 Nov 1943 WW2 Quintin Brand retired from the Royal Air Force. 
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06 Nov 1943 WW2 USS Corvina received fuel at Johnston Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. 
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06 Nov 1943 WW2 German 4.Panzerarmee was split into smaller groups near Kiev, Ukraine, but it prevented Soviet troops from breaking the rail link with Army Group Center. 
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06 Nov 1943 WW2 The colonial government of India officially accepted US help with railway defense and operations. 
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06 Nov 1943 WW2 Naka departed Rabaul, New Britain. 
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06 Nov 1943 WW2 Atago departed Rabaul, New Britain for Truk, Caroline Islands to receive temporary repairs. 
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06 Nov 1943 WW2 Mogami departed Rabaul, New Britain for Truk, Caroline Islands to receive temporary repairs. 
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06 Nov 1943 WW2 Takao departed Rabaul, New Britain for Truk, Caroline Islands to receive temporary repairs. 
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06 Nov 1943 WW2 Louis Mountbatten met with Chiang Kaishek in Chongqing, China. 
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06 Nov 1943 WW2 Escort carrier Kanalku Bay, still under construction at Vancouver, Washington, United States, was renamed Marcus Island. 
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06 Nov 1943 WW2 USS Flying Fish arrived at Midway Atoll, ending her seventh war patrol. 
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06 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Sargent Bay departed to deliver aircraft to Philippine Islands area. 
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06 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Tirante was commissioned into service with Lieutenant Commander George L. Street III in command. 
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06 Nov 1944 WW2 The German garrison at Middelburg, the Netherlands surrendered to the Allies. 
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06 Nov 1944 WW2 Bombers of the No. 550 Squadron RAF attacked Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Airman John Riley Bryne noted in his diary that "t was really wonderful experience to see hundreds of kite's attacking the hun". 
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06 Nov 1944 WW2 The wolfpack consisted of submarines USS Batfish, USS Guitarro, USS Bream, USS Raton, and USS Ray attacked Japanese convoy Ma-Ta 31 off Luzon, Philippine Islands. USS Guitarro scored three torpedo hits (nine torpedoes were expended) on Kumano while USS Ray's attack disabled the light cruiser. 
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06 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Skipjack damaged a Japanese transport east of Hokkaido, Japan, hitting her with one of four torpedoes fired. 
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06 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Ray attacked a Japanese convoy escorted by two cruiser, escorting vessels, and aircraft in the Philippine Islands; she fired four torpedoes, one damaging cruiser Kumano. When diving to escape the counterattack, she hit ground, causing flooding in the torpedo room. When she rose to periscope depth and observed Kumano being towed away. 
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06 Nov 1944 WW2 Jewish terrorists murdered Lord Moyne in Cairo, Egypt. 
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06 Nov 1944 WW2 US pilot 1st Lieutenant William Quinn, flying a P-47 fighter, shot down a German Me 262 jet fighter. 
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06 Nov 1944 WW2 Captain Charles Yeager of USAAF 357th Fighter Group shot down a German Me 262 fighter while it was landing at Achmer Airfield in Germany; the German pilot, Oberfeldwebel Freutzer, survived the crash caused by the wing being shot off by Yeager. 
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06 Nov 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Observation Fighting Squadron 1 (VOF-1) on board. 
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06 Nov 1944 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho departed Kure, Japan, arriving at Otake, Japan later on the same day. 
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06 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Ticonderoga launched Air Group 80 aircraft for strikes on Manila and surrounding targets on Luzon, Philippine Islands, destroying 35 Japanese aircraft. 
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06 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Wasp's aircraft attacked Japanese airfields on Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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06 Nov 1944 WW2 Allied convoy JW-61A arrived at Murmansk, Russia. 
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06 Nov 1944 WW2 A German V-2 rocket fired from the Hague, the Netherlands intended for London, England, United Kingdom went astray, hitting Biscot Road, Luton 32 miles north of London instead. It killed 19 people and injured 196, while destroying 17 houses and damaging 1,500 others. 
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06 Nov 1944 WW2 Yugoslav partisans captured Monastir, Yugoslavia (now Bitola, Macedonia) which gave them complete control over the Greco-Yugoslav border. 
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06 Nov 1945 WW2 The Soviet Union announced that it would soon have its own atomic bomb. 
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06 Nov 1945 WW2 The American FR-1 Fireball jet fighter became the first jet aircraft to land on a carrier. 
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06 Nov 1945 WW2 Ivan Bagramyan was awarded the Order of Lenin for the second time. 
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06 Nov 1945 WW2 A FR Fireball piston-jet mix-powered fighter became the first aircraft to land on an aircraft carrier (USS Wake Island) while using jet power. 
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06 Nov 1945 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru departed Kusaie, Caroline Islands. 
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06 Nov 1947 WW2 Semyon Timoshenko was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the fifth time. 
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