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History on the 4th of December

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04 Dec 1918 WW2 Richard O'Connor was Mentioned in Despatches. 
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04 Dec 1918 WW2 US President Woodrow Wilson departed the United States for the post-WW1 peace talks at Versailles, France, becoming the first US president to travel to Europe while in office. 
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04 Dec 1919 WW2 USS R-1 departed New London, Connecticut, United States for Norfolk, Virginia, United States. 
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04 Dec 1919 WW2 USS R-5 departed for Norfolk, Virginia, United States. 
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04 Dec 1922 WW2 Lorraine's year-long refitting was completed. 
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04 Dec 1928 WW2 Nachi attended Emperor Showa's Coronation Naval Review at Yokohama, Japan. 
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04 Dec 1930 WW2 Chiang Kaishek was made the Premier of the Republic of China. 
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04 Dec 1934 WW2 The keel of submarine ShCh-313 was laid down by Baltiyskiy Zavod at Leningrad, Russia. 
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04 Dec 1936 WW2 Mongolian and Chinese irregulars loyal to the Japanese-sponsored puppet state Mengjiang called off their offensive toward Bailingmiao, Suiyuan Province, China. 
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04 Dec 1936 WW2 The keel of RMS Queen Elizabeth was laid down by the John Brown and Company at Clydebank, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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04 Dec 1937 WW2 Air Vice Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory became the commanding officer of the No. 12 Group RAF. 
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04 Dec 1939 WW2 En route to Basis Nord in northern Russia, U-36 was sunk by British submarine HMS Salmon with the loss of all hands. 
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04 Dec 1939 WW2 King George VI arrived in France to inspect British Army and RAF units and to view the French Maginot Line. 
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04 Dec 1939 WW2 Lorraine departed Casablanca, French Morocco. 
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04 Dec 1940 WW2 F4F-3 Wildcat fighters entered service with the US Navy; VF-41 received the first of these aircraft. 
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04 Dec 1940 WW2 Greek forces captured Përmet (capturing 500 Italians), Pogradec, and Sarande in Albania. 
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04 Dec 1940 WW2 German submarine U-37 sank Swedish ship Daphne 15 miles southwest of Cabo Espichel, Portugal at 0457 hours; 18 were killed, 1 survived. 
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04 Dec 1940 WW2 62 German bombers dropped 77 tons of high explosive bombs and 184 incendiary bombs on Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. 
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04 Dec 1941 WW2 Carrier USS Enterprise completed launching F4F Wildcat fighters of the US Marine Corps for Wake Island and set sail for Hawaii Islands, scheduling to arrive on 6 Dec 1941. 
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04 Dec 1941 WW2 Schedule of Pearl Harbor attack was transmitted to the Japanese submarine fleet along with the latest intelligence and weather information. 
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04 Dec 1941 WW2 Japanese invasion fleets departed from various locations for their destinations in Malaya and Thailand. Later this day, American PBY Catalina patrol aircraft reported that the 30 Japanese transports detected on the previous day in Cam Ranh Bay off Indochina were no longer there. 
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04 Dec 1941 WW2 12 F4F-3 fighters of US Marine Fighter Squadron 211 arrived at Wake Island, delivered by USS Enterprise; they began daily patrols immediately. Meanwhile, Japanese aircraft scouted Wake Island undetected. 
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04 Dec 1941 WW2 On the Eastern Front of the European War, temperature dropped to -31 degrees Fahrenheit (-37 degrees Celsius). In this cold weather, Günther von Kluge ordered German Army Group Center to fall to defensive positions. 
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04 Dec 1941 WW2 American river gunboats Luzon and Oahu, submarine rescue vessel Pigeon, and minesweeper Finch reached Manila, Philippine Islands from China. 
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04 Dec 1941 WW2 American river gunboat Mindanao set sail from Hong Kong for Manila, Philippine Islands. 
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04 Dec 1941 WW2 Keith Park was made a companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. 
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04 Dec 1941 WW2 USS Arizona conducted a night gunnery exercise. 
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04 Dec 1941 WW2 Destroyer Yuzuki departed Haha Jima, Japan with Destroyer Division 23, escorting the invasion fleet for Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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04 Dec 1941 WW2 Curtiss-Wright Corporation opened a new factory complex in Columbus, Ohio, United States. 
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04 Dec 1941 WW2 The British 4th Armoured Brigade moved east to counter the Axis advance toward Bardia, Libya and Sollum, Egypt. Erwin Rommel responded by pulling back the advances toward Bardia and Sollum for a concentrated attack toward Tobruk. 
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04 Dec 1941 WW2 British submarine HMS Perseus sank Italian freighter Eridano 6 miles off Lefkada, Greece. 
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04 Dec 1941 WW2 American river gunboats Wake and Tutuila remained near Shanghai and Chongqing, respectively, to maintain communications with American diplomatic offices in China. 
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04 Dec 1941 WW2 Adolf Eichmann appointed Jacob Edelstein, originally from Prague, the chairperson of the Council of Jewish Elders of Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in occupied Czechoslovakia. 
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04 Dec 1941 WW2 At an event at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Joseph Stalin noted to Aleksandr Vasilevsky his surprise that Vasilevsky only had a single Order of the Red Star and a medal on Vasilevsky's uniform; the Soviet leader had expected the general to be better decorated. 
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04 Dec 1942 WW2 In Warsaw, Poland, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz set up the Zegota anti-German resistance organization. 
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04 Dec 1942 WW2 US 2nd Marine Raider Battalion's "Carlson's Patrol" came to a conclusion at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 
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04 Dec 1942 WW2 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt closed down the Works Progress Administration, because of the high levels of wartime employment in the United States. 
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04 Dec 1942 WW2 Nine Blenheim bombers attacking Tunisian airfields were jumped by 50 German Bf.109 fighters. All nine were destroyed, the last to fall being flown by the leader, Wing Commander Hugh Malcolm, aged 25, who was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross. 
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04 Dec 1942 WW2 USS Flying Fish attacked a Japanese destroyer in the Pacific Ocean, hitting her with 1 of 6 torpedoes fired and claimed a sinking. 
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04 Dec 1942 WW2 B-24 bombers of US 15th Air Force bombed Naples, Italy; they were the first American aircraft to operate against Italy. The Church of Santa Chiara was damaged in the attack, damaging much of the interior decorations put in between 1742 and 1762. 
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04 Dec 1942 WW2 British 2nd Parachute Battalion linked up with US troops near Medjez-el-Bab in northern Tunisia. 
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04 Dec 1943 WW2 9 RAF Mosquito aircraft attacked Duisburg, Germany. 
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04 Dec 1943 WW2 Squadron Leader Noel Quinn, commanding officer of No. 8 Squadron RAAF, hit an unidentified object while flying his Beaufort aircraft at the altitude of 150 feet. The entire crew of four survived the crash in Saint George's Channel between New Britain and New Ireland, but only Quinn and Flying Officer Ross O'Loghlen would survive the wounds. Both captured by the Japanese, Quinn would later be sent to Japan, while O'Loghlen would remain at the prisoner of war compound in Rabaul, New Britain until the end of the war. 
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04 Dec 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: One officer and 16 men of Task Group 19.19 arrived. 
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04 Dec 1943 WW2 USS Gunnel sank Japanese passenger-cargo ship Hiyoshi Maru in the Pacific Ocean, hitting her with 4 of 4 torpedoes. 
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04 Dec 1943 WW2 German 11.Armee attempted to crush the Soviet bridgehead at Kerch, Russia, but the attack was halted after it suffered 10,000 killed and 3,000 captured. 
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04 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Sea Cat claimed partial credit in the sinking of a 5,000-ton Japanese ship; the credit was removed after the war. 
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04 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Gar began her fifteenth war patrol. 
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04 Dec 1944 WW2 Song Ziwen was named the acting chief of the Executive Yuan. 
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04 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Spot departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. 
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04 Dec 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: First overall of Mk 13 torpedo completed at the newly upgraded torpedo shop. 
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04 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Whale arrived in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. 
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04 Dec 1944 WW2 The US publication Time reported that Tito had announced a provisional socialist Yugoslavian government from Moscow, Russia. 
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04 Dec 1945 WW2 By a vote of 65 to 7, the United States Senate approved US participation in the United Nations, which was established on 24 Oct 1945. 
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04 Dec 1948 WW2 USS Bergall began a tour of the Far East. 
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