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History on the 5th of December

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05 Dec 1915 WW2 Some members of the crew of Yingrui mutinied in support of Yuan Shikai's faction; the mutiny was suppressed and Yingrui remained under Nationalist control. 
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05 Dec 1921 WW2 Satoru Anabuki was born in the village of Yamada (now in the town of Ayagawa), Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. 
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05 Dec 1929 WW2 The Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic was formed. 
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05 Dec 1932 WW2 Adolf Hitler and Gregor Strasser argued over whether Nazi Party should work with the new German Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher. 
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05 Dec 1934 WW2 Representatives of Italy and Abyssinia disputed over the prior month's border incident at Walwal. 
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05 Dec 1935 WW2 Lincoln Ellsworth and Herbert Hollick-Kenyon failed to fly Gamma 2B "Polar Star" across Antarctica, running out of fuel merely 25 miles (40 kilometers) short of their destination of the camp Little America on the Ross Ice Shelf. 
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05 Dec 1936 WW2 The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic became an independent state in the Soviet Union. 
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05 Dec 1936 WW2 The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic was created as a republic of the Soviet Union. 
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05 Dec 1936 WW2 Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic was established. 
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05 Dec 1937 WW2 Japanese Prince Yasuhiko of Asaka departed Tokyo, Japan for the front lines in China. 
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05 Dec 1938 WW2 Werner Mölders returned to Germany from Spain. 
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05 Dec 1938 WW2 HMS Maori (L24) was commissioned into service with Commander G. N. Brewer in command. 
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05 Dec 1938 WW2 Viktor Abakumov was named acting head of the UNKVD Directorate of Rostov Oblast, Russia. 
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05 Dec 1939 WW2 Heavy fighting took place between Soviet Army and Finnish Army in the Karelia region in southern Finland. 
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05 Dec 1940 WW2 Scottish Independent Labour Party politician John McGovern's peace amendment was rejected by the British House of Commons, 341 votes against the amendment to 4 votes in favor. 
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05 Dec 1940 WW2 Battleship Bismarck completed her trials in the Baltic Sea and set sail for Hamburg, Germany. 
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05 Dec 1940 WW2 British destroyer HMS Cameron was damaged by German aircraft while in drydock at Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom, killing 14. As the drydock flooded, she capsized, and would remain so until Feb 1941. 
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05 Dec 1940 WW2 German armed merchant cruiser Thor and British armed merchant cruiser HMS Carnarvon Castle exchange 6-inch shells 300 miles south of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. HMS Carnarvon Castle was hit 27 times (4 killed, 32 wounded) while Thor was able to disengage unharmed. HMS Carnarvon Castle would soon receive temporary repairs at Montevideo, Uruguay, using steel plates salvaged from the scuttled German pocket battleship Graf Spee. 
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05 Dec 1940 WW2 British submarine HMS Sunfish sank Finnish ship Oscar Midling off the Stadlandet peninsula, Norway, killing all aboard. 
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05 Dec 1940 WW2 British motor torpedo boats MTB.32, MTB.29, and MTB.31 patrolled the coast of the Netherlands near the mouth of River Scheldt, sinking German ship Paranagua. 
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05 Dec 1940 WW2 Italian submarine Argo sank British ship Silverpine 250 miles west of Ireland, killing 35. 
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05 Dec 1940 WW2 Italian torpedo boat Calipso hit a mine and sank 6 miles off Cape Misurata, Libya. 
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05 Dec 1940 WW2 Hitler received the military plans for an invasion of the USSR. He duly approved them all, and proposed a timetable for invasion in May of the following year. 
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05 Dec 1941 WW2 Japanese invasion fleet boarded a Norwegian freighter and destroyed her radio. 
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05 Dec 1941 WW2 Japanese submarines surrounded Hawaii Islands. 
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05 Dec 1941 WW2 Japan announced that recent troop movements in Indochina were merely precautionary. 
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05 Dec 1941 WW2 The Germans canceled Operation Typhoon on this date during which the lowest temperature dropped to -36 degrees Fahrenheit (-38 degrees Celsius). Meanwhile, Soviet General Zhukov launched Konev's Kalinin Front against German forces northwest of Moscow, Russia at 0300 hours, meeting strong resistance. From Germany, Adolf Hitler ordered the transfer of the German 2nd Air Corps from Russia to the Mediterranean Sea region. 
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05 Dec 1941 WW2 British 4th Armoured Brigade remained in the Libyan-Egyptian border region despite observing the withdrawing of Axis troops, unsure of Erwin Rommel's intentions. Meanwhile, German tanks attacked positions held by the Indian 11th Brigade near Tobruk, Libya. On the same day, Rommel was advised that supply situation would turn badly soon, and he considered withdrawing to the Gazala Line. 
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05 Dec 1941 WW2 U-175 was commissioned into service. 
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05 Dec 1941 WW2 Joachim von Ribbentrop gave Japanese ambassador Hiroshi Oshima a draft document which noted that Germany would declare war on the United States should Japan and the US enter a state of war. 
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05 Dec 1941 WW2 Australian pilot Clive Caldwell, in a Tomahawk fighter, shot down five Stuka dive bombers in Libya. 
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05 Dec 1941 WW2 Soviet General Meretskov launched a final assault on German positions in Tikhvin, Russia, which was 110 miles east of Leningrad. 
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05 Dec 1941 WW2 The E15K floatplane took its maiden flight. 
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05 Dec 1941 WW2 The Germans captured the damaged and abandoned troop ship Iosif Stalin near the Estonian coast with 2,000 survivors still on board. 
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05 Dec 1941 WW2 USS Lexington departed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Islands to ferry US Marine Corps SB2U Vindicator dive bombers to Midway Atoll. 
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05 Dec 1941 WW2 USS Arizona arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii and was moored at Ford Island. 
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05 Dec 1941 WW2 USS Astoria departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii to join Task Force 12. 
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05 Dec 1941 WW2 Irako was commissioned into Japanese Navy service with Captain Eisaku Tsuji in command. She departed Kobe, Japan. 
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05 Dec 1941 WW2 Crown Prince Yi Un toured Keijo (now Seoul), Korea. 
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05 Dec 1941 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille shot down a British Hurricane fighter while escorting Ju 87 Stuka dive bombers south of Bir el Gubi Libya at 1525 hours. It was his 26th kill. 
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05 Dec 1941 WW2 Japanese aircraft conducted reconnaissance flights over the coasts of Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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05 Dec 1942 WW2 Renshaw was commissioned into service. 
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05 Dec 1942 WW2 HMS Canna was destroyed by a fire at Lagos, Nigeria, British West Africa. 
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05 Dec 1942 WW2 Executive Order No. 9-27 was issued in the United States, placing all services under the provisions of the Selective Service Act. 
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05 Dec 1942 WW2 Captain Mitsuharu Ueda was named the commanding officer of Tenryu. 
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05 Dec 1942 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze departed Truk, Caroline Islands to escort carrier Hiyo to Japan. 
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05 Dec 1942 WW2 Graf Zeppelin was towed to Kiel, Germany. 
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05 Dec 1942 WW2 The SS authorities organized a general selection among the prisoners of the female camp BIa in Auschwitz II-Birkenau Concentration Camp, which lasted all day, after which 2,000 young, healthy and fit to work women prisoners were killed in gas chambers. 
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05 Dec 1942 WW2 Despite heavy fog, 17 He 111 and about 50 Ju 52/3m aircraft were able to fly 150 tons of supplies into Stalingrad, Russia. 
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05 Dec 1943 WW2 Operation Buccaneer, which planned to assault a large number of Japanese targets in the Burma region, was canceled during the Second Cairo Conference. 
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05 Dec 1943 WW2 Irako departed Truk, Caroline Islands as a part of convoy No. 4205A. 
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05 Dec 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: More of GROPAC-4 arrived on board. Planes of Composite Squadron 41 (VC-41) and Composite Squadron 33 (VC-33) on board. 
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05 Dec 1943 WW2 Canadian 1st Infantry Division and Indian 8th Infantry Division attacked across the Moro River, capturing Villa Rogatti before dawn, but a subsequent German counterattack forced the Canadians to abandon the town and withdraw back across the river. Later in the day, Canadian troops attacked San Leonardo. 
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05 Dec 1943 WW2 German forces began a week-long operation to deport Jews from Bialystok, Poland. While about 10,000 were deported, unknown thousands of Jews were able to hide. 700 were killed while resisting. Most of those deported were sent to Treblinka, Majdanek, or Auschwitz Concentration Camps. 
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05 Dec 1943 WW2 USS Rock departed New Orleans, Louisiana, United States for the Panama Canal Zone. 
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05 Dec 1944 WW2 The Japanese Navy 12th Air Fleet was reorganized to contain two air groups and one base force. 
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05 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Wake Island arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii and disembarked the aircraft she was ferrying. 
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05 Dec 1944 WW2 Two Soviet Armies under General Malinovsky advanced 60 miles in Romania and Hungary in 8 days. 
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05 Dec 1944 WW2 The Brazilian Expeditionary Force was given the order to capture Monte Della Torraca southwest of Bologna, Italy. 
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05 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Cero entered Mare Island Navy Shipyard in Vallejo, California, United States for a scheduled overhaul. 
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05 Dec 1945 WW2 Light carrier Hosho entered the drydocks at Hidachi Innoshima shipyard in Japan to receive repairs and to remove the forward portions of the flight deck to improve visibility from the bridge. 
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05 Dec 1945 WW2 USS Columbia arrived at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States for scheduled overhaul. 
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05 Dec 1946 WW2 Argus was decommissioned from service. 
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05 Dec 1949 WW2 Dong Zhao departed Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province, China. 
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