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History on the 7th of November

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07 Nov 1911 WW2 Yolande Unternahrer was born in Paris, France. 
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07 Nov 1914 WW2 Settsu departed waters off Qingdao, China. 
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07 Nov 1917 WW2 Erwin Rommel led a small force across the Piave River and set a trap that captured 8,000 Italian soldiers at Longarone, Italy. 
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07 Nov 1917 WW2 Edward Brooks married Beatrice Aurora Leavitt. 
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07 Nov 1917 WW2 The Bolshevik revolt overthrew Czar Nicholas and seized Petrograd, Russia. The Provisional Government fell and Prime Alexander Minister Kerensky fled the country. The "Ten days that shook the world" had begun and communist forces began to gain control over Russia. 
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07 Nov 1920 WW2 Bruce Fraser arrived at Tiflis, Georgia by rail under captivity. 
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07 Nov 1921 WW2 The Fasci di combattiment (Fighting Fascists) organization in Italy was transformed into the Partito Nazionale Fascista (Fascist National Party). 
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07 Nov 1931 WW2 Mao Zedong proclaimed the Chinese Soviet Republic in China at Ruijin, Jiangxi Province, China. 
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07 Nov 1931 WW2 HMS Hermes arrived at Hong Kong. 
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07 Nov 1937 WW2 The Japanese Army combined the Shanghai Expeditionary Force and the Japanese 10th Army to form the new Central China Area Army. The new army was placed under the command of Iwane Matsui. 
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07 Nov 1938 WW2 Italy organized the Milizia Artiglieria Contraerea, which were anti-aircraft and coastal artillery militia units. 
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07 Nov 1938 WW2 French Jew Herschel Grynszpan, whose parents were recently expelled from Germany into Poland, assassinated German consular aide Ernst Vom Rath in Paris. 
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07 Nov 1938 WW2 German diplomat Ernst vom Rath was shot three times with a revolver by Herschel Grynszpan in Paris, France. 
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07 Nov 1938 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille was accepted into flight training and was given the rank of Flieger. 
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07 Nov 1939 WW2 Belgium and Dutch Crowns stated their neutrality and offer to act as negotiators for peace, which was rejected by Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. 
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07 Nov 1939 WW2 Adolf Hitler postponed the decision for the western invasion; the next date of decision was to be 9 Nov 1939. 
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07 Nov 1939 WW2 Hermann Göring met with American journalists at the Soviet embassy in Berlin, Germany and mocked the quality and quantity of the US-built aircraft that would soon arrive in Britain. 
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07 Nov 1939 WW2 German plans for the Western Offensive were passed to the Czechoslovakian government-in-exile in Britain by a double agent. 
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07 Nov 1940 WW2 Krupp factories were bombed again by the RAF. 
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07 Nov 1940 WW2 Vichy French submarine Poncelet fired a torpedo at the Allied invasion fleet sailing for Libreville, French Equitorial Africa 50 miles southwest of Libreville, hitting sloop HMS Milford, but the torpedo failed to explode. Poncelet was forced to surface by Milford's depth charges, and then was damaged by bombs from two Walrus biplanes of HMS Devonshire. All but one of Poncelet's complement of 61 surrendered after scuttling the ship; commanding officer Commander de Saussine decided to go down with the ship. 
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07 Nov 1940 WW2 British minesweeping trawler HMT William Wesney hit a mine and sank in the North Sea 13 miles east of Harwich, England, United Kingdom; 5 were killed and 7 survived. 
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07 Nov 1940 WW2 Free French minesweeping trawler Poulmic hit a mine and sank off Plymouth, England, United Kingdom; 11 were killed and 7 survived. 
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07 Nov 1940 WW2 British submarine HMS Swordfish hit a mine and sank 7 miles south of the Isle of Wight, England, United Kingdom, killing the entire crew of 39. 
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07 Nov 1940 WW2 Seven German torpedo boats were dispatched from Trondheim, Norway to attack an Allied convoy off northern Scotland, United Kingdom. Torpedo boat T.6 hit a mine in a unexpected minefield and sink 40 miles north of the convoy, forcing the entire attack party to return to Trondheim without carrying out their mission. 
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07 Nov 1940 WW2 British ship Cambridge hit a naval mine laid by German ship Passat and sank 6 miles off Wilson's Promontory, South Australia; 1 was killed and 57 were rescued by Australian auxiliary minesweeper Orara. 
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07 Nov 1940 WW2 Rammed by British destroyer HMS Encounter in an episode of misidentification on the previous day, the damaged British submarine HMS Utmost reached Gibraltar, where she would remain for repairs until 23 Nov 1940. 
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07 Nov 1940 WW2 Submarine Gar was launched, sponsored by the wife of Rear Admiral George Pettengill. 
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07 Nov 1941 WW2 Japanese Navy conducted a carrier exercise. 
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07 Nov 1941 WW2 Three American destroyers escorting Atlantic convoy ON 30 made depth charge attacks on sound contact. 
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07 Nov 1941 WW2 Soviet hospital ship Armenia departed Yalta, Ukraine at 0800 hours with 7,000 civilians and wounded troops aboard, against orders forbidding sailing during daylight hours. At 1129 hours, despite the red cross marking, she was attacked and sunk by a He 111 bomber of German KG26. Only 8 people survived. 
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07 Nov 1941 WW2 British merchant ship Nottingham, on her maiden voyage, spotted German submarine U-74 in the North Atlantic and attempted to ram her. At 2234 hours U-74 counterattacked, sinking Nottingham. All 62 aboard escaped in lifeboats, but they were never seen again. 
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07 Nov 1941 WW2 Heinz Guderian noted in his diary that his troops were beginning to suffer severe frostbite in Russia. 
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07 Nov 1941 WW2 After dark, 160 British RAF bombers attacked Berlin, Germany. 20 bombers were shot down. The Germans reported minimal damage. 
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07 Nov 1941 WW2 Joseph Stalin made a speech during the October Revolution anniversary celebration predicting that even though German troops were less than 100 miles from Moscow, they were facing disaster. Meanwhile, in Berlin, the German Army High Command (OKH) was determined to continue the advance on Moscow in spite of up to 80 Soviet Army divisions in front of them. 
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07 Nov 1942 WW2 In the morning, British 7th Armoured Division clashed with the German 21st Panzer Division about 24 kilometers southwest of Sidi Haneish, Egypt. British tanks won the engagement, destroying many tanks and guns, but failed to prevent the Germans from withdrawing to Mersa Matruh. 
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07 Nov 1942 WW2 Vichy French General Antoine Béthouart attempted a failed coup d'etat in North Africa, which alarmed defenses. 
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07 Nov 1942 WW2 USS Gar ended her fourth war patrol. 
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07 Nov 1942 WW2 The US Marine Corps chief Major General Thomas Holcomb approved the establishment of a women's reserve. 
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07 Nov 1942 WW2 US Marine Corps Brigadier General Louis Woods relieved US Marine Corps Brigadier General Roy Geiger as the commander of air operations at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 
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07 Nov 1942 WW2 German destroyer Z27 sank Soviet ship Donbass; 49 were kiled, 16 survived and captured by the Germans. 
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07 Nov 1942 WW2 Tenryu departed Shortland Island, Solomon Islands with supplies for troops fighting on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 
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07 Nov 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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07 Nov 1942 WW2 Adolf Hitler departed the Wolfsschanze headquarters at Rastenburg, Ostpreußen, Germany (now Ketrzyn, Poland) for München, traveling aboard his private train Amerika. 
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07 Nov 1942 WW2 A transport of 465 Jews arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland from the Westerbork Concentration Camp in the Netherlands. During the selection all of them were said to be unable to work, thus were all sent for one of the two provisional gas chambers. 
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07 Nov 1943 WW2 Soviet troops recaptured Kiev, Ukraine. 
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07 Nov 1943 WW2 USS Scorpion arrived off Agrihan Island, Mariana Islands. 
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07 Nov 1943 WW2 USS Wake Island was commissioned into service with Captain Hames R. Tague in command. 
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07 Nov 1943 WW2 Alfred Jodl met with Nazi party Gauleiters in Munich, Germany; he noted that the Allied terror raids on German cities must be stopped, otherwise morale of the German people would be overly damaged, and it would be fertile grounds for subversive activities. 
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07 Nov 1943 WW2 Submarine Manta was launched, sponsored by the wife of Michael J. Bradley. 
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07 Nov 1943 WW2 26 B-24 bombers with P-38 fighters in escort attacked Rapopo Airfield at Rabaul, New Britain; 58 Japanese fighters rose in defense. The Americans lost 5 P-38 fighters. 
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07 Nov 1943 WW2 USS Alabama arrived at Fiji. 
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07 Nov 1944 WW2 Captain L. E. Gehres relieved Captain J. M. Shoemaker as the commanding officer of USS Franklin. 
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07 Nov 1944 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt was re-elected to serve his fourth term as the President of the United States. 
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07 Nov 1944 WW2 Vice Admiral Naosaburo Irifune was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Navy 11th Air Fleet. 
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07 Nov 1944 WW2 Adolf Galland inspected the newly created Jagdgeschwader 7 wing at Achmer Airfield in Germany, which was equipped with Me 262 jet fighters. He repeated his orders for Walter Nowotny to keep a cover of Fw 190 fighters above the airfield when the jet fighters were taking off or landing, in order to prevent the situation that took place on the previous day. 
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07 Nov 1944 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho departed Otake, Japan and arrived at Kure, Japan later on the same day. Upon arrival at Kure, she was made the flagship of Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa. 
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07 Nov 1944 WW2 Unryu was relieved as the flagship of the Mobile Fleet. 
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07 Nov 1944 WW2 1,030 arrested Polish Home Army and other partisan fighters were placed on a special train at Bialystok, Poland for the NKVD-run Ostashkov Special Camp in Tver Oblast, Russia. 
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07 Nov 1944 WW2 Colonel Otto Hatz, Hungarian military attaché to Ankara, Turkey, defected to the Soviets, bringing with him documents about the Hungarian Army and fortifications on the Danube River. In retaliation the Germans would put his parents and brother in a concentration camp, where his mother would die. 
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07 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Hackleback was commissioned into service with Lieutenant Commander Frederick E. Janney in command. 
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07 Nov 1945 WW2 USS Sable was decommissioned from service. 
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07 Nov 1945 WW2 USS Wolverine was decommissioned from service. 
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07 Nov 1949 WW2 USS Sea Cat arrived at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States for upgrades. 
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