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History on the 6th of December

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06 Dec 1911 WW2 Rear Admiral Yoshimoto Shoji replaced Rear Admiral Sukeshiro Hanabusa as the chief of staff of Vice Admiral Hikohachi Yamada (Ryojun Naval District, northeastern China). 
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06 Dec 1916 WW2 Yekaterina Budanova was born in Konoplanka, Smolensk, Russia. 
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06 Dec 1917 WW2 The Destroyer USS Jacob Jones was lost after being torpedoed by a German submarine off the Scillies off the southwestern tip of the Cornish peninsula of England, United Kingdom. 
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06 Dec 1920 WW2 Heinrich Sahm became the first President of the Senate of Danzig. 
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06 Dec 1921 WW2 A treaty was signed between the British Government and the Irish Nationalists, and the Irish Free State came into existence. 
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06 Dec 1928 WW2 Duquesne was commissioned into service. 
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06 Dec 1928 WW2 Masafumi Arima completed his studies at the Naval War College. 
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06 Dec 1935 WW2 Rolls-Royce issued a certificate of air worthiness for the newly developed Merlin C engine. 
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06 Dec 1936 WW2 Spanish Nationalist aircraft bombed Barcelona, Spain. 
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06 Dec 1937 WW2 Lord Gort was made a general, appointed to the Army Council, and appointed the Chief of the Imperial General Staff. 
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06 Dec 1938 WW2 Werner Mölders was assigned to the 1st Group of the Jagdgeschwader 133. 
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06 Dec 1938 WW2 France and Germany signed a pact which purported to guarantee the existing frontiers between the two countries. 
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06 Dec 1938 WW2 Seishiro Itagaki, as one of the Five Minister Council under the leadership of Prime Minister Konoe Fumimaro, declared that the deportation of Jews in Japan, including occupied territories in China and Korea, was prohibited. 
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06 Dec 1938 WW2 The K-2 airship took its first flight over Akron, Ohio, United States. 
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06 Dec 1939 WW2 Finns held off heavy Soviet attacks on the Mannerheim Line, inflicting heavy casualties. 
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06 Dec 1939 WW2 First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill honored the officers and crew of Rawalpindi, "hose glorious fight against overwhelming odds deserves the respect and honour of the House and of the nation". 
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06 Dec 1940 WW2 Santi Quaranta, Albania was taken by Greek forces. 
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06 Dec 1940 WW2 Italian General Cavallero replaced Marshal Badoglio who had resigned at his own request. 
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06 Dec 1940 WW2 Vichy France held a War Guilt trial, indicting Blum, Daladier, La Chambre, and Gamelin. 
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06 Dec 1940 WW2 German armed merchant cruisers Komet and Orion stopped freighter Triona with gunfire 200 miles south of Nauru, killing 3 in the process. 54 crew and 7 passengers were taken off the ship before Orion sank Triona with a torpedo. German Navy admirals would later criticize this use of torpedo as a waste. 
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06 Dec 1940 WW2 Captured (by German armed merchant cruiser Atlantis on 10 Nov) Norwegian tanker Ole Jacob arrived in Japan, carrying aviation fuel and the captured crew of tanks Ole Jacob and Teddy. 
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06 Dec 1940 WW2 British submarine HMS Regulus hit a mine and sank in the Strait of Otranto between Italy and Albania; the entire crew of 55 were killed. 
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06 Dec 1940 WW2 British submarine HMS Triton attacked and damaged Italian ship Olimpia 40 miles off Brindisi, Italy. Italian torpedo boats Altair and Andromeda counterattacked, but HMS Triton was able to escape unharmed. 
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06 Dec 1940 WW2 German submarine U-43 sank Norwegian ship Skrim 400 miles west of Ireland at 2248 hours; the entire crew of 23 was killed. 
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06 Dec 1940 WW2 German bombers attacked Bristol, England, United Kingdom overnight. 
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06 Dec 1940 WW2 British 7th Armoured Division, British 16th Infantry Brigade, and Indian 4th Infantry Division began preparing for Operation Compass in Egypt. 
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06 Dec 1940 WW2 The keel of submarine Flying Fish was laid down by the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, United States. 
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06 Dec 1941 WW2 Tatsuta Maru was in the Pacific en route for San Francisco, California, United States; her planned passenger list after arriving in the United States now included employees of the Japanese Raw Silk Intelligence Bureau, the Silk Department of Mitsui and Company, Gunze Corporation, Asahi Corporation, Japanese Cotton and Silk Trading Company, Hara and Company, Katakura and Company, Morimura and Company, Arai and Company, and Shinyai and Company. 
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06 Dec 1941 WW2 The United Kingdom declared war on Finland, Hungary, and Romania. 
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06 Dec 1941 WW2 US Navy yacht Isabel was detected by a floatplane from Japanese seaplane carrier Kamikawa Maru off Indochina; Isabel was later ordered to abort her current mission as bait for first fire and to sail for Manila, Philippine Islands. Shortly after, nearby, a Japanese Zero fighter covering the Malaya invasion force found and shot down a British PBY Catalina patrol aircraft. 
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06 Dec 1941 WW2 Soviet troops launched a counteroffensive in the Moscow region in Russia at 0600 hours. Georg Hans Reinhardt ordered his 3rd Panzer Army to fall back to Klin, while Heinz Guderian's 2nd Panzer Army held the areas near Tula south of Moscow. Field Marshal Fedor von Bock had not yet realized that he was now facing an all-out Soviet counteroffensive. 
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06 Dec 1941 WW2 Japanese carrier fleet reached the rendezvous point at 34 degrees north, 158 degrees west, and then began a high speed approach for Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. At the same time, the 30 Japanese submarines in the Hawaii area began to tighten the ring around the islands; I-74 spotted USS Lexington, but no action was taken. At Pearl Harbor, Admiral Husband Kimmel told a reporter from the news agency Christian Science Monitor that the chance of a war in the Pacific Ocean involving the United States was slim. Nearby, Vice Admiral William Pye told Kimmel (via intelligence officer Edwin Layton) that war with Japan was inevitable, although Pearl Harbor was not a likely target, thus there was no need to send the battleships out to sea as a precaution. Finally, at Honolulu, Hawaii, Consul-General Nagao Kita sent a cable to Japan that he observed no barrage balloons over Pearl Harbor and he did not believe there were torpedo nets around the battleships. 
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06 Dec 1941 WW2 US President Roosevelt sent a personal message to Emperor Showa, attempting to calm situation in Indochina. 
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06 Dec 1941 WW2 USS Enterprise encountered heavy weather which delayed her refueling operation for destroyers and delayed the arrival at Pearl Harbor. 
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06 Dec 1941 WW2 Destroyer US Decatur, escorting convoy ONS 39, depth charged suspicious contacts in the North Atlantic off Iceland. 
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06 Dec 1941 WW2 USS Arizona began receiving maintenance work by the crew of repair ship USS Vestal. 
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06 Dec 1941 WW2 Vannevar Bush and Arthur Compton assigned Harold Urey to develop research into gaseous diffusion as a uranium enrichment method and Ernest Lawrence to investigate electromagnetic separation methods. 
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06 Dec 1941 WW2 The official wedding ceremony between King Leopold III of Belgium and Lilian Baels was held; they had already secretly wed on 11 Sep 1941. 
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06 Dec 1941 WW2 Oberst Adolf Galland was appointed General der Jagdflieger. 
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06 Dec 1941 WW2 Japanese Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo ordered Ambassador Hiroshi Oshima to continue to press Germany to formally agree to declare war on the United States should Japan and US enter a state of war. Oshima was also ordered to avoid any German demands on a Japanese-Soviet war. 
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06 Dec 1941 WW2 The log road between Zabor'ye and Lake Ladoga near Leningrad, Russia was completed. Thousands of civilians, pressed into service as forced laborers, had died during the construction of this road in the past month. This opened another way to bring supplies into the besieged city. 
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06 Dec 1941 WW2 Ryujo departed Palau Islands for the Philippine Islands. 
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06 Dec 1941 WW2 German submarine U-131 sank British ship Scottish Trader with 6 torpedoes south of Iceland, killing all 43 aboard. 
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06 Dec 1941 WW2 British submarine HMS Perseus struck an Italian mine while recharging her batteries on the surface 2 miles off Kefalonia, Greece. She sank, killing 60. 
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06 Dec 1941 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze departed the Palau Islands. 
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06 Dec 1941 WW2 Repair ship Akashi arrived at Palau Islands. 
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06 Dec 1941 WW2 Soviet submarine ShCh-204 was sunk by Bulgarian aircraft in the Black Sea 24 miles south of Varna, Bulgaria. 
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06 Dec 1941 WW2 Nachi departed Palau Islands. 
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06 Dec 1941 WW2 Japanese spy Yoshikawa reported US ship locations in Pearl Harbor; the message was decrypted aboard Japanese carrier Akagi 36 minutes later. 
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06 Dec 1941 WW2 Battleships USS Oklahoma arrived at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Islands. 
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06 Dec 1941 WW2 Battleships USS Nevada arrived at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Islands. 
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06 Dec 1941 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille shot down two Hurricane fighters, his 27th and 28th kills, over El Adem, Libya at 1210 and 1225 hours. 
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06 Dec 1941 WW2 27 Japanese troop transports departed from Taiwan, sailing for the Philippine Islands; 400 Japanese pilots stationed at Taiwan were briefed of the attacks to be commenced on the next day. Elsewhere, a Japanese invasion fleet boarded and scuttled a Norwegian freighter. 
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06 Dec 1941 WW2 The US Navy leadership in Washington DC, United States was warned of the burning of papers at the nearby Japanese embassy. 
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06 Dec 1942 WW2 47 British Ventura aircraft bombed Eindhoven, the Netherlands; 9 bombers were lost. 
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06 Dec 1942 WW2 USS Hoe was commissioned into service with Lieutenant Commander B. C. Folger in command. 
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06 Dec 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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06 Dec 1942 WW2 Two transports arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Of the 811 Jews from the Netherlands, 16 were registered in the camp and 795 were gassed. Of the about 2,500 Jews from the Mlawa ghetto, 406 were registered in the camp and around 2,094 were gassed. 
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06 Dec 1942 WW2 58th Fighter Squadron of USAAF 33rd Fighter Group, flying P-40 fighters, was ordered to go to Telepte, Tunisia. It would become the first US squadron in Tunisia in the war. 
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06 Dec 1943 WW2 The Italian royal government in Southern Italy disbanded the Milizia Volontaria Sicurezza Nazionale (National Security Volunteer Militia), an organization formed by the previous government under Mussolini. 
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06 Dec 1943 WW2 Soviet troops reached Yeysk in southern Russia on the Sea of Rostov, cutting off German Armeegruppe A. 
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06 Dec 1943 WW2 John Basilone arrived in New York, New York, United States and prepared for the bond drive event that was to take place on the following day, which was the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack. 
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06 Dec 1943 WW2 USS Wake Island departed waters off Bremerton, Washington, United States. 
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06 Dec 1943 WW2 Joseph Stilwell met with Franklin Roosevelt in Cairo, Egypt and discussed the war in China. Stilwell noted that he was growing sick of Roosevelt's politicking. 
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06 Dec 1943 WW2 Major-General George Philip Bradley Roberts assumed command of British 11th Armoured Division, superseding Major-General Brocas Burrows who had moved to General Officer West Africa Command. 
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06 Dec 1943 WW2 Milton Miles was fired from the OSS by William Donovan in person in Chongqing, China. 
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06 Dec 1943 WW2 William Donovan arrived in Chongqing, China and met with Dai Li, informing Dai that OSS agents would operate in China with or without Dai's cooperation. 
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06 Dec 1943 WW2 US Fifth Army captured Monte Carnino, Italy. Canadian troops attacked San Leonardo and San Donato, Italy, but would fail to take the town. 
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06 Dec 1943 WW2 The last of the German operatives working with Chechen rebels was captured by Soviet troops. 
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06 Dec 1943 WW2 USS Wahoo was struck from the US Navy Register. 
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06 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Trepang reached the Philippine Islands area off Luzon; in the evening, she attacked a Japanese convoy and sank three freighters. 
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06 Dec 1944 WW2 The British 2nd Army was denied the prize of Arnhem in the Netherlands when the Germans demolished dykes and flooded the area between Arnhem and Nijmegen. 
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06 Dec 1944 WW2 Heinkel's He 162 jet fighter made its maiden flight. Manufacture of the He 162 was protected from Allied air attack by being built in an underground factory in a former salt mine at Tarthun near Magdeburg, Germany. 
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06 Dec 1944 WW2 Submarines USS Segundo, USS Trepang, and USS Razorback sank all ships in a 7-ship Japanese convoy, escorted by destroyer Kuretake and submarine chaser CH-33, in the South China Sea. Segundo was credited with damaging Yasukuni Maru (later scuttled) and sinking a unidentified ammunition ship. 
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06 Dec 1944 WW2 Kaganovich was commissioned into service. 
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06 Dec 1944 WW2 Leutnant Erich Herkner of the German Kampfgeschwader 55 wing was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. 
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06 Dec 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 33 arrived on board. 
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06 Dec 1944 WW2 The Taihoku Prisoners of War Camp No. 5 near Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan was closed. 
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06 Dec 1944 WW2 F-14A jet reconnaissance aircraft took its first flight with Lockheed test pilot Perry E. Claypool, Jr. in the cockpit. 
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06 Dec 1945 WW2 Leutze was decommissioned from service. 
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06 Dec 1945 WW2 Guavina was decommissioned from service. 
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06 Dec 1945 WW2 USS Guitarro was decommissioned from service at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States. 
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06 Dec 1945 WW2 USS Mero departed New Orleans, Louisiana, United States for the Panama Canal Zone. 
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06 Dec 1947 WW2 Tadashige Daigo passed away. 
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06 Dec 1947 WW2 USS Sterlet departed Brisbane, Australia. 
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