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History on the 9th of November

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09 Nov 1918 WW2 Communist revolutionary Karl Liebknecht, a forty-seven-year-old lawyer and one time member of the German Reichstag, and Rosa Luxemburg, an intellectual theorist raised the Red Flag over the Imperial Palace in Berlin, Germany and proclaimed the establishment of the Spartakusbund (Spartakus Gruppe) to oppose Ebert's new Socialist government. 
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09 Nov 1920 WW2 Poland agreed not to enter any international agreements involving the soon-to-be-formed Free City of Danzig without Danzig's approval. 
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09 Nov 1923 WW2 The Nazi Party's attempt to seize power in Germany, the Beer Hall Putsch, ended ignominiously. 
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09 Nov 1932 WW2 Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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09 Nov 1937 WW2 Japanese troops began the occupation of Shanghai, China. 
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09 Nov 1938 WW2 Ernst vom Rath passed away. 
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09 Nov 1938 WW2 Rudolf Höss was promoted to the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer. 
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09 Nov 1938 WW2 Kristallnacht began in Germany; Jewish shops and synagogues were smashed, looted, burned, and destroyed throughout the country. 
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09 Nov 1939 WW2 Adolf Hitler again postponed the invasion of France; the next date for decision was to be 13 Nov 1939 for a possible invasion date of 19 Nov 1939. 
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09 Nov 1939 WW2 German newspapers noted that the attempted assassination on Adolf Hitler which took place on the previous day in Munich, Germany was the work of British secret service agents. In actuality, it was a plot by Hitler to elevate his own standing. 
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09 Nov 1939 WW2 Adolf Hitler issued directive No. 9 which called for German aircraft and submarines to attack British shipping and port facilities. 
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09 Nov 1939 WW2 In Moscow, Russia at 1800 hours, Finnish diplomats Paasikivi and Tanner met with Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov in the final attempt to avoid war. They did not reach an agreeable conclusion. 
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09 Nov 1939 WW2 Joseph Rochefort was evaluated for promotion, but a promotion was not granted; it was speculated that he had made too many political enemies. 
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09 Nov 1940 WW2 Neville Chamberlain passed away of cancer. 
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09 Nov 1940 WW2 Free French froces entered Libreville, Gabon, French Equatorial Africa, engaging in street fighting with Vichy French forces. Off Libreville, Free French sloop Savorgnan de Brazza sunk Vichy sloop Bougainville by gunfire (they two were sister ships of the same class), while Free French sloop Commandant Domine prevented Vichy armed merchant cruiser Cap Des Palmes' crew from scuttling the ship and captured her. 
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09 Nov 1940 WW2 Sebastiano Visconti Prasca was relieved as commander of Italian operations in Greece for the failures to breakthrough Greek defense lines in northern Greece. He was replaced by General Ubaldo Soddu. 
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09 Nov 1940 WW2 German armed merchant cruiser Atlantis, disguised as British auxiliary cruiser HMS Antenor in the darkness before dawn, closed in on Norwegian tanker Teddy in the Bay of Bengal and captured the ship with a boarding party without firing a shot. Atlantis refueled from Teddy's cargo of 10,000 tons of fuel oil and captured the crew of 32. 
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09 Nov 1940 WW2 Swedish ship Vingaland, damaged on the previous day by German bombers west of Ireland, was sunk by Italian submarine Marconi; the 19 survivors were picked up by British ship Danae II. 
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09 Nov 1940 WW2 American ship City Of Rayville hit a naval mine (laid by German ship Passat) and sank 20 miles off Cape Otway, South Australia, Australia; 1 was killed and 39 survived. 
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09 Nov 1941 WW2 Heinrich Müller ordered that all Soviet prisoners of war bound to be executed who were not fit to travel to the places of execution were to be killed at their places of imprisonment. This was to avoid allowing civilians the see these malnourished and diseased prisoners as it could damage morale. 
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09 Nov 1941 WW2 The Jager Report (issued on 1 Dec 1941) noted that 76 adult male, 77 adult female, and 18 children, all Jews, were killed in Vilnius, Lithuania for a total of 171 people. 
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09 Nov 1941 WW2 Hungarian freighter Ungvar struck a mine (previously laid by Soviet submarine L-4) and sank in the Black Sea. Nearby Romanian torpedo boats Viforul and Vijelia were also destroyed in the explosion. 
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09 Nov 1941 WW2 Shokaku arrived at Kure, Japan. 
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09 Nov 1941 WW2 Zuikaku arrived at Kure, Japan. 
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09 Nov 1941 WW2 Akagi arrived at Sasebo, Japan. 
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09 Nov 1941 WW2 At 0100 hours, British cruiser HMS Aurora, cruiser HMS Penelope, destroyer HMS Lance, and destroyer HMS Lively, which had sailed from Malta late on the previous day, intercepted their target, an Axis convoy that was bound for Libya. All five freighters (German freighters Duisburg and San Marco; Italian freighters Maria, Sagitta, and Rina Corrado; and Italian tankers Conte di Misurata and Minatitlan) and Italian destroyer Fulmine were sunk with radar gunnery, while damaging destroyers Grecale and Maestrale. At 0640 hours, British submarine HMS Upholder attacked Italian destroyer Libeccio, which was busy rescuing survivors of the night time battle; an attempt was made to tow her back to port for repairs, but Libeccio would sink en route. 
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09 Nov 1941 WW2 The 19,894-strong Soviet Independent Coastal Army, with 10 T-26 tanks and 152 guns, arrived in Sevastopol, Russia from Odessa, Ukraine, significantly bolstering the city's defenses. 40 kilometers east of Sevastopol, German troops captured Yalta. 
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09 Nov 1941 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt had dinner with Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd in Washington DC, United States. 
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09 Nov 1942 WW2 Vichy French government broke off diplomatic relations with the United States. 
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09 Nov 1942 WW2 American troops continued to attack the French fort of Kasbah, French Morocco. Meanwhile, in French Algeria, the French garrison at Oran surrendered in the face of overwhelming British naval power and American airborne attack in its rear. French Admiral Darlan signed an armistice with American General Dwight Eisenhower, but fighting would continue for two more days. 
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09 Nov 1942 WW2 Allied troops captured Sidi Barrani, Egypt. 
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09 Nov 1942 WW2 Lieutenant General Kenneth Anderson was named the commanding officer of the British First Army in North Africa. 
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09 Nov 1942 WW2 HMS Gardenia (Lieutenant M. M. Firth) sank in a collision with the minesweeping trawler HMS Fluellen off Oran, Algeria. 
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09 Nov 1942 WW2 The US 7th Marine Regiment and the 2nd Brigade of the US Army 164th Infantry Regiment began an attack on the Japanese troops at Gavaga Creek, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 
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09 Nov 1942 WW2 Adolf Hitler informed Italy, via Galeazzo Ciano, that he intended to occupy Vichy France soon. 
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09 Nov 1942 WW2 Tenryu arrived at Shortland Island, Solomon Islands. 
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09 Nov 1942 WW2 Repair ship Akashi began repairing destroyer Ariake at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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09 Nov 1942 WW2 Workers at Dock No. 4 at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, US Territory of Hawaii began placing rocks, mostly 3-inch quarry waste, at the bottom of the dock. 
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09 Nov 1942 WW2 German Luftwaffe combat aircraft consisting of 27 Bf 109G fighters from 1/JG53 and 24 Ju 87D Stuka dive bombers of II.StG 3 were transferred to Tunisia from Sicily, Italy. The Tunis airfields were found to be in good condition with concrete runways and revetments. Once a ground organisation had been created, relays of Ju 52/3m aircraft would commence the movement of ground troops into the region. On the front lines, Axis troops under Walter Nehring attacked Vichy French positions as Vichy French forces in North Africa were apparently switching sides to aide the Allies. 
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09 Nov 1942 WW2 USS Columbia departed Norfolk, Virginia, United States. 
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09 Nov 1943 WW2 Major General Roy Geiger became the commanding general of I Amphibious Corps following the death of Major General Charles Barrett in the previous month. 
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09 Nov 1943 WW2 Naka arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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09 Nov 1943 WW2 While in China, Milton Miles received a cable from William Donovan informing him that Miles was to be removed from his position in the OSS. 
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09 Nov 1943 WW2 Jürgen Stroop was made the commander of SS-Oberabschnitt Rhein-Westmark in Wiesbaden, Germany. 
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09 Nov 1944 WW2 German troops on Walcheren Island, the Netherlands surrendered. Nearby, German troops withdrew from the Moerdijk bridgehead in the Netherlands across the Meuse River. 
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09 Nov 1944 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze departed Brunei to escort a task force into the Sulu Sea. 
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09 Nov 1944 WW2 Allied troops crossed the Montone River in Italy. 
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09 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Ticonderoga set sail for Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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09 Nov 1944 WW2 The Inrin Temporary Prisoners of War Camp and the Toroku Prisoners of War Camp, both in central Taiwan, were opened; Inrin was established at the site of a former school. 
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09 Nov 1944 WW2 Allied convoy RA-61 arrived at Loch Ewe, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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09 Nov 1945 WW2 USS Marlin was decommissioned from service at the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, United States. 
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09 Nov 1946 WW2 San Juan was decommissioned from service. 
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09 Nov 1946 WW2 USS Brill arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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09 Nov 1948 WW2 Du Yuming arrived in Nanjing, China. 
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