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History on the 20th of July 1945

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20 Jul 1945 WW2 The US Army Air Force began launching B-29 bomber raids, each with very few planes, against Japanese cities. The goal of such missions was to make such small raids a frequent occurrence to increase the success rate of the planned atomic bomb missions. 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Sea Robin fired a torpedo at a Japanese ship in the East China Sea; the torpedo missed. 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Baya attacked a Japanese patrol craft in the South China Sea with her deck gun. 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 Achille Van Acker recommended abdication for King Leopold III of Belgium. 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 Canadian corvette HMCS Oakville was decommissioned off Sorel, Quebec, Canada. 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 Canadian corvette HMCS Prescott was decommissioned off Sorel, Quebec, Canada. 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 Canadian corvette HMCS St. Lambert was decommissioned off Sorel, Quebec, Canada. 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 Canadian patrol vessel HMCS Ambler was decommissioned off Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 Canadian patrol vessel HMCS Reindeer was decommissioned off Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 Canadian patrol vessel HMCS Caribou was decommissioned off Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 Canadian patrol vessel HMCS Moose was decommissioned off Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 Canadian motor launch HMC ML 078 was decommissioned off Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 British carrier HMS Reaper departed Cherbourg, France with a captured German Ar 234 aircraft aboard. 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 At Potsdam, Germany, Harry Truman declared that the Allies would demand no territory upon victory. 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Ticonderoga re-joined Task Group 38.3; Air Group 87 aircraft struck Nagoya, Osaka, and Miko in Japan. 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 HMS Indefatigable joined UK Task Force 37 and US Task Force 38.2 for an attack on the Japanese home islands. On the same day, an US Army B-29 bomber failed to attack the Imperial Palace in Tokyo with a large "Pumpkin bomb". 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 US 11th Air Force launched 8 B-24 bombers against Matsuwa Airfield, Matsuwa, Hokkaido, Japan in the Kurile Islands. Meanwhile, 94 Iwo Jima-based US P-51 fighters strafed airfields at Kamezaki, Meiji, Okazaki, Nagoya, Kagamigahara, Hamamatsu, and Komaki; 3 fighters were lost. 
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20 Jul 1945 WW2 The US Congress ratified the Bretton Woods monetary agreement. 
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