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History on the 3rd of December

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03 Dec 1912 WW2 Britain, fearful that a Russo-Austria war would lead to a German attack on France, warned the Germans that if that happened Britain "would not accept a French defeat". 
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03 Dec 1914 WW1 Begin of Battle of Qurna
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03 Dec 1915 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo was assigned to destroyer Sugi. 
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03 Dec 1917 WW2 Dukhonin released Generals Denikin, Lekomsky, Romanovsky, Markov, Kormnilov, and Krasnov from Bykhov prison. It was soon learnt that these commanders were making their way southwards to link up with General Kaledin's Cossack Union of the Don. Lenin's new commander-in-chief Krylenko arrived at Mogilev, Russia at the head of a contingent or armed sailors to receive Dukhonin's surrender; one of the sailors shoot Dukhonin dead before Krylenko can intervene. 
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03 Dec 1917 WW2 Russian and German delegates began formal armistice talks at Brest-Litovsk, Russia. 
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03 Dec 1917 WW2 The British Cabinet decided to support Anti-Bolshevik elements in Russia. 
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03 Dec 1918 WW2 Quintin Brand was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross award. 
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03 Dec 1927 WW2 The keel for ship numbered 451 was laid down at Mitsubishi Shipbuilding's yard at Nagakaki, Japan. 
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03 Dec 1932 WW2 The former German Defence Minister and recently named German Chancellor General Kurt von Schleicher offered Gregor Strasser (the Organization leader of the NSDAP) the post of vice-chancellor in a coalition government. Hitler, sensing it was a move by Schleicher to split the Nazi Party, ordered Strasser to stop any further negotiations with the Government. 
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03 Dec 1934 WW2 The Soviet Politburo approved a new law drafted by Stalin following Kirov's assassination. The new law provided that acts of terrorism were to be investigated for no more than ten days; that there would be no prosecution or defence attorneys; no appeals; and sentences of those convicted of terrorist acts were to be carried out within twenty-four hours. Whilst torture of prisoners was not officially sanctioned by the law, the interrogators were generally free to mistreat their prisoners in order to extract confessions. 
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03 Dec 1935 WW2 Douglas MacArthur's mother, Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur, passed away in Manila, Philippine Islands. 
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03 Dec 1936 WW2 Mongolian and Chinese irregulars loyal to the Japanese-sponsored puppet state Mengjiang launched a failed attack against Chinese positions at Bailingmiao, Suiyuan Province, China. 
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03 Dec 1937 WW2 Japanese 16th Division and 9th Division began an attack on Chinese 83rd Corps and 66th Corps east of Nanjing, China. 
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03 Dec 1937 WW2 Japanese troops captured the coastal battery near Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, China. 
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03 Dec 1937 WW2 Lieutenant Yue Yiqin of the 22nd Pursuit Squadron of the Chinese 4th Pursuit Group, flying Hawk III biplane fighter designated IV-1, attempted to attack a group of Japanese Army bombers escorted by Japanese Navy A5M carrier fighters, but was in turn heavily damaged by one of the A5M fighters. He was killed when his parachute failed to open after bailing out near Nanjing, China. 
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03 Dec 1938 WW2 German government revoked driver's licenses held by Jews. 
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03 Dec 1939 WW2 Finnish units withdrew to the Mannerheim Line. 
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03 Dec 1940 WW2 Allied convoy HX-90 was attacked by German submarine U-99 (which sank the damaged and abandoned British ship Conch at 1058 hours), a German Fw 200 aircraft (which sank British ship W. Hendrik, killing 5), and German submarine U-140 (which sank British ship Victoria City at 2142 hours, killing the entire crew of 43). 
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03 Dec 1940 WW2 Greek troops pushed Italian troops back 15 miles, capturing Sarandë, Albania. To the far south, Italian torpedo bombers attacked the British naval base at Suda Bay, Crete, Greece at 1540 hours, damaging British cruiser HMS Glasgow with two torpedoes (3 killed, 3 wounded). 
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03 Dec 1940 WW2 British destroyer HMS Campbeltown collided with British tanker Conus off Liverpool, England, United Kingdom; she would be out of commission for repairs until 28 Mar 1941. 
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03 Dec 1940 WW2 German armed merchant cruiser Kormoran departed Gotenhafen, German (Gdynia, Poland) to raid Allied shipping, carrying supplies for 12 months, 280 naval mines, 40 land mines, and spare parts and torpedoes to supply submarines. 
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03 Dec 1940 WW2 51 German aircraft bombed Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, dropping 55 tons of high explosive bombs and 448 incendiary bombs. 
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03 Dec 1941 WW2 US Navy yacht Isabel set sail for the coast of Indochina on Roosevelt's orders; she was planned to be one of three vessels that would attempt to draw first fire from Japanese warships should hostilities become unavoidable. 
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03 Dec 1941 WW2 The Japanese carrier fleet tasked with the Pearl Harbor attack turned south after refueling on the previous day, approaching the Hawaii Islands with increased speed. At Pearl Harbor, the American intelligence report on the location of Japanese Navy warships had "no information on submarines or carriers". Elsewhere in Hawaii, Consul-General Nagao Kita received orders to burn code ciphers and important papers; this was noticed by the Americans, who also received intelligence that several Japanese embassies around the world were doing the same. 
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03 Dec 1941 WW2 US PBY Catalina patrol aircraft reported 30 Japanese transports congregating in Cam Ranh Bay off Indochina, 10 more than the previous day. Meanwhile, a Japanese fleet departed Hainan Island in southern China for Thailand. 
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03 Dec 1941 WW2 German submarine U-124 sank the unarmed US freighter Sagadahoc in the South Atlantic with torpedoes. 
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03 Dec 1941 WW2 Japanese Navy issued the order to its senior admirals that hostilities against United States, Britain, and the Netherlands would begin on 8 Dec 1941 (Tokyo time). 
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03 Dec 1941 WW2 Japanese submarines began forming lines in Central and East Pacific. 
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03 Dec 1941 WW2 Carrier USS Enterprise began to launch F4F Wildcat fighters of the US Marine Corps for Wake Island. 
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03 Dec 1941 WW2 Hitler issued a decree on "Simplification and Increased Efficiency in our Armaments Production" (commonly known as the "Rationalization Decree") in which he chided German firms for failing to adopt the practice of large factories and simple production methods, and ordered the military to simplify and standardize the design of all weapons to make possible "mass production on modern principles". 
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03 Dec 1941 WW2 Japan asked Italy to declare war on the United States should Japan and US enter a state of war. 
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03 Dec 1941 WW2 The Soviet evacuation convoy that had departed Hanko, Finland on the previous day sailed into the Corbetha minefield in the Gulf of Finland. One minesweeper was sunk and several other vessels were damaged. The passengers and crew aboard troop ship Iosif Stalin, which was seriously damaged by a mine, abandoned ship; about 4,000 of the nearly 6,000 that went overboard died in the water. 
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03 Dec 1941 WW2 German 4th Army was halted at Naro-Fominsk west of Moscow, Russia, thus exposing the flank of the German 2nd Panzer Army, which was assaulting the Tula region south of Moscow. 
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03 Dec 1941 WW2 The Axis attempt to reach Bardia in Libya and Sollum and Halfaya Pass in Egypt failed to breach the Allied positions that stood in the way. 
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03 Dec 1941 WW2 German submarine U-124 sank US ship Sagadahoc 1,250 west of South Africa at 2147 hours; 1 was killed, 34 survived. She was to be the last American merchant ship to be lost to the German Navy before the US officially entered the war. 
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03 Dec 1941 WW2 Dispersed ships of Allied convoy QP-3 began to arrive in Allied waters. 
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03 Dec 1941 WW2 Scirè departed La Spezia, Italy for Alexandria, Egypt with three manned torpedoes on board. 
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03 Dec 1941 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille returned to his unit at Ain el Gazala, Libya after duties in Germany. 
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03 Dec 1941 WW2 American submarine USS Argonaut began a "simulated war patrol" off Midway. 
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03 Dec 1941 WW2 USS Gar reached the Pacific Ocean via the Panama Canal. 
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03 Dec 1941 WW2 The two crematoria of Auschwitz Concentration Camp that was inactivated on 20 Nov for service were reactivated. 
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03 Dec 1941 WW2 President Franklin Roosevelt announced that Lend-Lease aid would be given to Turkey, as the safety of that country was considered vital to American defence. 
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03 Dec 1942 WW2 Adolf Hitler approved the plan to convert the captured and incomplete French cruiser De Grasse into a light aircraft carrier. 
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03 Dec 1942 WW2 Approximately 300 Jewish prisoners from the Sonderkommando who dug up and burned the 107,000 bodies buried in mass graves were taken from Auschwitz II-Birkenau to the main camp by SS guards. They were led to the gas chamber in Crematorium I and killed. 
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03 Dec 1942 WW2 In southern Russia, German Armeegruppe Don received several divisions from Western Europe in preparation for the relief operation against Stalingrad, Russia, Operation Winter Tempest. 
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03 Dec 1942 WW2 British 2nd Parachute Battalion reached Ksar Tyr, Tunisia. 
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03 Dec 1942 WW2 All remaining ships of Allied convoy QP-15 arrived at Loch Ewe, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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03 Dec 1943 WW2 527 RAF aircraft (307 Lancaster and 220 Halifax) attacked Leipzig, Germany. 
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03 Dec 1943 WW2 General Shunroku Hata, commander-in-chief of the Japanese formation China Expeditionary Army, received a message from the Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan that the Japanese leadership was disturbed by the American air strike on Taiwan on 25 Nov 1943. 
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03 Dec 1943 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho arrived at Singapore. 
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03 Dec 1943 WW2 New Zealand troops attacked Orsogna, Italy on the Gustav Line. 
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03 Dec 1943 WW2 Allied convoy JW-54B arrived at Arkhangelsk, Russia. 
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03 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Sea Cat claimed sinking of a 10,000-ton Japanese ship; the credit was removed after the war. 
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03 Dec 1944 WW2 US Third Army armored units penetrated the German Westwall defenses near Saarlautern, Germany. Meanwhile, the British 2nd Army mopped up the last German resistance west of the River Maas. 
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03 Dec 1944 WW2 Communist-controlled National Liberation Front (EAM) party in Greece staged a large demonstration in Athens, which broke out in violence; 28 were killed and 148 were injured. EAM forces attempted further attacks on government forces, but they were largely defeated jointly by British and Greek government forces by Jan 1945. This was to be a prelude episode to the 1946-1949 Greek civil war. 
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03 Dec 1944 WW2 The British Home Guard was ordered to stand down. 
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03 Dec 1944 WW2 Allied troops captured Blerick, the Netherlands. 
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03 Dec 1944 WW2 The Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer USS Cooper was torpedoed and sunk by the Japanese destroyer Take in the Leyte Gulf, Philippine Islands. 
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03 Dec 1944 WW2 Indian 20th Division crossed the Chindwin River into Burma. 
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03 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Springer departed San Diego, California, United States. 
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