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History on the 8th of November

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08 Nov 1910 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt was elected to New York State Senate in the United States, representing Dutchess, Columbia, and Putnam counties. 
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08 Nov 1917 WW2 Vladimir Lenin and his Council of People's Commissars proclaimed a Government of Workers and Peasants. Leon Trotsky was installed as Commissar for Foreign Affairs and Josef Stalin, at that time a minor figure in the Bolshevik Party, as Commissar for the Nationalities. 
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08 Nov 1923 WW2 The Nazi Party attempted to seize power in Germany with the Beer Hall Putsch in München, Germany. 
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08 Nov 1926 WW2 In München, Germany, the National Socialist Party faithful gathered for the first annual day to honour the fallen martyrs who died on 9 Nov 1923 during Adolf Hitler's failed Putsch. 
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08 Nov 1932 WW2 Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected the President of the United States. 
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08 Nov 1936 WW2 The Spanish Nationalists were now poised to make an all-out attack on Madrid in the hope of capturing the Spanish capital and thus ending the war. General Emilio Mola ordered Colonel José Varela to attack the north-west flank of the Spanish Republican defences. Most of the Nationalist troops involved being drawn from the Army of Africa. 
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08 Nov 1937 WW2 Chinese troops began to retreat from Shanghai, China. 
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08 Nov 1938 WW2 William Dimoline was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. 
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08 Nov 1939 WW2 Belgian King Leopold III revealed to Dutch Queen Wilhelmina that Belgium was aware of a German plan to invade the Low Countries, and it could be launched as soon as within a few days. 
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08 Nov 1939 WW2 Finland refused a Russian demand for territorial exchange. 
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08 Nov 1939 WW2 An assassination attempt on Hitler by German carpenter Georg Elser failed at the annual commemoration of the Beer Hall Putsch in München, Germany. Ostensibly, Hitler and other top Nazi leaders escaped death because Hitler had ended his speech early and left the building eight minutes before the bomb planted by Elser detonated (which killed 8 and wounded 65). In actuality, however, it had been planned by Hitler to elevate his own standing in Germany and to create a situation where he could blame the western powers for an assassination attempt. 
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08 Nov 1939 WW2 Hans Frank was appointed the head of General Government in Poland. 
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08 Nov 1940 WW2 After failing to expand from the Kalamas River bridgehead in western Greece, Italian troops in that region began to pull back. In the Pindus Mountains in northern Greece, the enveloped Italian Julia Division also began to attempt to break out for a retreat. 
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08 Nov 1940 WW2 RAF bombed Munich, Germany, narrowly missing Hitler. 
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08 Nov 1940 WW2 French Legionnaires and colonial troops from Senegal and Cameroun landed north and south of Vichy-French-held Libreville, French Equitorial Africa. Heavy fighting began immediately. 
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08 Nov 1940 WW2 Operation Crack: Aircraft of British carrier HMS Ark Royal attacked the seaplane base at Elmas near Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. 
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08 Nov 1940 WW2 British tug HMS Muria hit a mine and sank off the Isle of Thanet near Dover, England, United Kingdom, killing the entire crew. 
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08 Nov 1940 WW2 German bombers attacked a convoy in the Thames Estuary in southern England, United Kingdom, sinking or damaging several merchant ships. Two Ju 87 Stuka dive bombers were shot down by destroyer HMS Winchester, which soon hit a mine and was damaged. 
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08 Nov 1940 WW2 German bombers damaged Swedish ship Vingaland 300 miles west of Ireland. 
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08 Nov 1940 WW2 Dutch submarine O-22 disappeared in the North Sea 40 miles southwest of Norway; 42 Dutch and 3 British sailors were missing and were presumed dead. 
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08 Nov 1940 WW2 RAF Station Takali was officially operational on Malta. 
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08 Nov 1941 WW2 Troops of the German Armeegruppe Nord captured Tikhvin near Leningrad, Russia. 
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08 Nov 1941 WW2 Per the Great Army Instruction No. 992, the Japanese Army and Navy were ordered to coordinate their plans for the opening phases of the Pacific War. 
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08 Nov 1941 WW2 At the annual Beer Hall Putsch speech, Adolf Hitler claimed that the war with Soviet Union was effectively won, citing 3.6 million prisoners taken, and by conjecture the Soviet forces must had suffered eight to ten million casualties thus far. In regards to the United States, Hitler noted that the aggressive US President Franklin Roosevelt had ordered American ships to deliberately attack any German submarines they crossed, while Hitler continued to order restraint for German submarine captains; nevertheless, he noted that the submarines would fight back fiercely should they be fired upon. 
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08 Nov 1941 WW2 Soviet submarine M-59 struck a mine and sank off Constanza, Romania in the Black Sea; all men aboard were killed. 
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08 Nov 1941 WW2 British cruisers HMS Aurora and HMS Penelope and destroyers HMS Lance and HMS Lively were dispatched from Malta to intercept an Axis convoy (intelligence gained through Ultra; a Maryland aircraft was dispatched to create the illusion that the convoy was spotted) that had just departed from Italy consisted of German freighters Duisburg and San Marco; Italian freighters Maria, Sagitta, and Rina Corrado; and Italian tankers Conte di Misurata and Minatitlan. This convoy carried 223 troops, 389 vehicles, 34,473 tons of supplies, and 17,281 tons of fuel. The convoy was escorted by 2 Italian cruisers and 7 Italian destroyers. 
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08 Nov 1941 WW2 USAAF 12th Bombardment Squadron began anti-submarine operations from St. Croix Airfield in the US Virgin Islands. 
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08 Nov 1942 WW2 Allied forces attacked French ports of Casablanca, Oran, and Algeria in North Africa during Operation Torch. The French garrison at Safi, near Casablanca, surrendered to the Americans; meanwhile, Algiers surrendered at 1800 hours. 
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08 Nov 1942 WW2 Axis defenses in Egypt fell back to Sidi Barrani. 
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08 Nov 1942 WW2 US 152nd Infantry Regiment departed Nouméa, New Caledonia for Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 
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08 Nov 1942 WW2 William Halsey inspected Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. Staying overnight, he personally experienced a Japanese naval bombardment which he later admitted filled him with fright. 
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08 Nov 1942 WW2 The 164th Infantry Regiment and the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the US 7th Marine Regiment moved east toward Koli Point on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands in an attempt to envelope the Japanese forces in that area. 
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08 Nov 1942 WW2 The first combat victory by the new Seafire naval fighter occurred when a New Zealander, Sub-Lieutenant A. S. Long, shot down a Vichy French Martin 167 bomber over Mers-el-Kébir harbour in French Algeria. 
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08 Nov 1942 WW2 USS Gunnel used infra-red signals to guide ships to a invasion beach in Operation Torch. 
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08 Nov 1942 WW2 USS S-31 arrived at Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska, ending her fifth war patrol. 
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08 Nov 1942 WW2 Tenryu arrived at Tassafaronga Point, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands and disembarked supplies. On her return voyage to Shortland Island, Solomon Islands, she was attacked by US motor torpedo boats PT-37, PT-39, and PT-61, but they failed to cause any damage. 
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08 Nov 1942 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 11 came on board 
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08 Nov 1942 WW2 USS Wahoo departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her second war patrol. 
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08 Nov 1942 WW2 USS Grayback attacked a Japanese convoy in the Solomon Sea; all torpedoes missed. 
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08 Nov 1942 WW2 25 Jewish professional watchmakers were transferred from Majdanek Concentration Camp to Auschwitz Concentration Camp; they were later transferred to Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp where they would work in a workshop to sort and repair watches stolen from killed Jews for use by German troops. 
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08 Nov 1942 WW2 Many units of the German Luftflotte 4 were transferred from Stalingrad, Russia to North Africa. 
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08 Nov 1943 WW2 The British began an inquiry to see if intelligence collected really suggested the existence of German rockets. 
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08 Nov 1943 WW2 USS Scorpion unsuccessfully attacked a Japanese Q-ship with three torpedoes in the Mariana Islands. 
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08 Nov 1943 WW2 Lebanon gained independence from France. 
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08 Nov 1943 WW2 Aichi held the first test flight of the submarine-borne attack aircraft M6A1 Seiran over Ise Bay. Lieutenant Commander Tadashi Funada was the chief test pilot. The test was a failure due to a non-responsive horizontal tail stabilizer, but it nevertheless generated much interest with the Japanese naval leadership. 
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08 Nov 1943 WW2 USS Bluefish attacked a Japanese convoy in the South China Sea, sinking two tankers and damaging several other ships; she expended 18 torpedoes in this series of attacks, 13 of which made hits. 
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08 Nov 1944 WW2 For the first time, Hitler did not appear at the celebration of the Beer Hall Putsch anniversary; instead, he had Himmler read his speech for him. 
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08 Nov 1944 WW2 At 1419 hours, German radio revealed the on-going V-2 rocket campaign against Britain to the world for the first time. The message was picked up by the BBC in Britain shortly after. 
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08 Nov 1944 WW2 25,000 Jews were forced to walk over 100 miles in rain and snow from Budapest, Hungary to the Austrian border, followed by a second forced march of 50,000 persons, ending at Mauthausen Concentration Camp. 
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08 Nov 1944 WW2 US 83rd Infantry Division became part of the Third Army of the US 12th Army Group. 
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08 Nov 1944 WW2 Allied troops captured Veere and Koudekerke in the Netherlands. 
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08 Nov 1944 WW2 The first Operation Gen mission featuring special attack Kaiten submarines was launched from Otsujima in Tokuyama Bay in southwestern Honshu, Japan. This mission was launched more than a month behind schedule. Submarines I-36, I-37, and I-47 eached carried four Kaiten submarines for this mission. 
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08 Nov 1944 WW2 The US submarine Growler was lost, presumed sunk by Japanese escort vessels, whilst attacking a Japanese convoy west of the Philippine Islands. 
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08 Nov 1944 WW2 Louis Mountbatten freed William Slim the responsibility in the Arakan region of Burma so he could focus on northern Burma. Additionally, Slim was also given the Indian 25th Division and the West African 2nd Division. 
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08 Nov 1944 WW2 Viktor Abakumov and Lavrentiy Tsanava reported to Lavrentiy Beria that 1,200 Polish Home Army and other partisan troops were captured in Poland by this date. 1,030 of them were sent to the NKVD-run Ostashkov Special Camp in Tver Oblast, Russia by a special train on the previous day. 
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08 Nov 1944 WW2 German Luftwaffe ace Major Walter Nowotny claimed his 258th victory as he shot down a B-24 Liberator bomber over Hesepe near Osnabrück, Germany. Moments later, his Me 262 jet fighter was hit by a US P-51 fighter, possibly the one piloted by 1st Lieutenant Richard Stevens. Nowotny's final words were reported to be "my god, I'm burning!" His subsequent crash and explosion was witnessed by his commanding officer Adolf Galland and other officers, who immediately rushed to the crash site; they failed to find Nowotny's remains, only able to locate broken pieces of the pilot's Knight's Cross medal. 
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08 Nov 1944 WW2 Adolf Galland monitored the progress of the operation "Big Blow" from the radio shack at Achmer Airfield, Germany. 
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08 Nov 1944 WW2 US pilot 1st Lieutenant Warren Corwin, flying a P-51 fighter, shot down the Me 262 A-1a jet fighter flown by Oberleutnant Franz Schall; Schall survived the engagement by bailing out. Corwin's fellow pilot 1st Lieutenant James Kenney also shot down a Me 262 fighter, while 1st Lieutenant Ernest Fiebelkorn, Jr. and 1st Lieutenant Edward Haydon shared the credit for yet another Me 262 victory. 
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08 Nov 1944 WW2 Oliver Leese arrived in Delhi, India. 
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08 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Gunnel sank Japanese motor torpedo boat Sagi in the South China Sea, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired. 
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08 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Barbero sank Japanese tanker Shimotsu Maru in the South China Sea, hitting her with 3 of 11 torpedoes fired. 
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08 Nov 1945 WW2 Chinese Nationalist troops launched an offensive in Liaoning Province, China against communist positions. 
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08 Nov 1947 WW2 Constantin Sănătescu passed away. 
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08 Nov 1948 WW2 Du Yuming arrived in Beiping, China. 
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