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History on the 5th of December 1940

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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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