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... be Rommel's HQ at Breda Littoria in the Jebel Akhdar in Libya, fails when it is found to be only a logistical HQ and that Rommel is away on a visit to Rome. Also, the SAS raid on axis airfields fails when the transport aircraft are blown off course by a sandstorm.
1941: Chiang Kai-shek urges the western democracies to take urgent action against Japan.
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... Eighth Army's offensive to relieve Tobruk begins. Rommel, who arrives back from Rome that day, is caught by surprise, allowing the British XXX Corps to advance 50-miles and capture the axis airfield 10 miles south of Sidi Rezegh. The Germans, believing that the British are about to encircle Bardia, send the Afrika Korps on a wild goose chase in that direction.
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| ... which are located about 200 miles north of Hawaii. At 7:50, 43 fighters, 51 dive-bombers, 70 torpedo-bombers and 50 ordinary bombers arrive over Hawaii. They launch attacks against the airfields at Wheeler, Kaneohe, Ewa and Hickham and against the American warships anchored at ‘Battleship Row'. Surprise was complete and within a few minutes 5 battleships and 2 light cr... |
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December 8.
1596. december 8. Mexikóban kivégzik Luis de Carabajalt, Luis de Carvajal Nuevo Leon mexikói tartomány konvertita kormányzójának unokaöccsét, aki az inkvizíció vallatóinak 116 hitehagyott (a zsidó vallásra visszatért) fajtársa kilétét fedte fel, köztük saját anyját és 23 nővérét, akiket vasgallérral megfojtottak.
1596 December 8, MEXICO
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December 9.
1666 December 9, EXCOMMUNICATION OF NATHAN OF GAZA (Constantinople)
Shabbetai Zevi's foremost "prophet" was excommunicated by the rabbinical council in Constantinople.
1804. december 9. A Belorussziában és a nyugati kormányzóságokban ismétlődő éhínségek okának tisztázására és a megoldási módok előterjesztésére a helyszínre küldött G. R. Gye... |
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... Wandsworth Prison.
1941: British forces that had pushed into southern Thailand begin to fall back along with those from northern Malaya after the Japanese capture Kota Bharu airfield.
1941: Due to the RAF's heavy losses, the British Battleships Prince of Wales and Repulse are attacked and sunk of the north eastern coast of Malaya by Japanese aircraft flying f... |
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... since blackout started than by enemy action.
1942: The Japanese begin their invasion of Burma from Thailand, attacking up the Kra Isthmus. They quickly capture the British airfields around Tenasserim, enabling Japanese fighters to now escort bomber attacks against Rangoon.
1942: Army Group Centre evacuates the Kaluga sector and takes up winter positions 20 ... |
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... annihilation of the Jews."
1942: The 4th Indian Division continues to withdraw along the coast road towards Derna.
1942: The Japanese capture Moulmein and its airfield in Burma as the British forces evacuate and withdraw across the river Salween.
1942: Japanese forces capture the important naval base of Amboina between Celebes and New Guin... |
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... lose 40 tanks, 40 field guns and 1,400 troops. This was a disaster for the Allies in more ways than one. Now the Allied convoys to Malta must pass between Axis occupied Crete and Axis airfields in Benghazi.
Ethyl Corporation Ad - February 1943
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... public at large.
1945: Germans counter attacks wipe out the Russian Hron bridgehead over the Danube to the northwest of Budapest.
1945: U.S. Marines capture a second airfield on Iwo Jima.
1945. február 24. Angol-amerikai bombatámadás éri Pforzheimet, amelynek következtében elpusztul a város lakosságának egyharmada, mintegy húszezer ember.
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... Front captures Neustettin. The Red Army suspends all further offensive operations against the lines of Army Group Courland.
1945: The British Indian 4th Corps take Meiktila airfield in central Burma after an eight-day push from the Irrawaddy.
1945: U.S. Marines take Motoyama on Iwo Jima after a bloody battle.
1945: Corregidor is reported as clea... |
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Április 1.
73 April, MASADA (Eretz Israel)
Roman General Flavius Silva succeeded in breeching the Judean desert stronghold held by Elazar ben Yair. Of the 960 people who took refuge on Masada, only two women and five children survived. The rest chose suicide rather than slavery.
140 USHA (Eretz Israel)
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... out of action for a year.
1940: King Haakon of Norway appeals to all Norwegians to fight. RAF raid Stavanger airfield on Norway's west coast.
1941: U.S. begins neutrality patrols in the Atlantic.
1941: German bombers blitz Conventry, England.
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Április 30.
1563. április 30. IX. Károly király rendeletére kiűzik a zsidókat Franciaországból.
1806. április 30. ,,A zsidókkal sajátságos népként kell bánnunk. Államot alkotnak az államban. (...) A zsidók a modern kor rablómesterei, az emberiség dögkeselyűi... Politikai, nem pedig emberi igazságot kell velük szemben érvényesíteni", mondja Napóleon az Államtan... |
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... Auschwitz.
1941: The Luftwaffe begins a series of 8 consecutive night raids against Liverpool.
1941: Dissident forces in Iraq, led by Raschid Ali, surround the RAF airfield at Habbaniya and order the RAF to cease flying. Meanwhile in Greece, the evacuation of some 43,000 troops and civilians to Crete is completed. A total of 14 Hurricanes and 7 Royal Navy a... |
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... Berlin.
1944: 300,000 Japanese troops begin their preliminary moves prior to an offensive from the Canton and Hankow area in eastern China, with the aim of capturing allied airfields.
Florida Citrus Commission Ad - May 1944
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1944: Allied air forces begin a campaign of large scale raids against German airfields and rail communications in France in preparation for D-Day.
1944: The Russians capture Sevastopol as Hitler finally changes his mind a... |
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| ... of the Western Front! The battle which is beginning today will decide the fate of the German nation for the next thousand years. Go forward now and do your duty!" Airborne troops seize airfields and strategic bridges near Amsterdam and Rotterdam in Holland. The Luftwaffe, using hundreds of level and dive bombers, attacks Allied airfields, troop assembly areas and rear communicatio... |
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... With a raid by 111 German aircraft on Birmingham, the Night Blitz campaign against England comes to an end. Most Luftwaffe bomber formations in France and Belgium are being transferred to airfields in eastern Germany and occupied Poland. The RAF launch a night raid on Cologne.
1941: The Afrika Korps counter-attack against the British and retake Sollum and Capuzzo, alth... |
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1944: Eden tells the House of Commons that 47 RAF officers were shot while 'escaping' from Stalag Luft III.
1944: British troops capture Aquino airfield in the Liri valley, to the South East of ... |
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