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1 Nov 1879

Pál Teleki was born.
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1 Nov 1909

Franklin Roosevelt's son Franklin Jr. passed away.
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1 Nov 1911

The first recorded aerial bombing occurred when Italian pilot Lieutenant Guilio Gavotti threw four 2kg grenades over the side of his Taube reconnaissance aircraft on a Turkish camp at Ain Zara, Libya at the altitude of 185 meters. He failed to cause any casualties.

1 Nov 1916

Boris Shaposhnikov was awarded the Order of St. Anna, 2nd Class.
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1 Nov 1918

Major General Toyoshi Ono was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea.

1 Nov 1919

Tenryu was commissioned into service.
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1 Nov 1923

The value of the German Mark decreased to the level that it now cost about 4,000,000,000 Marks to exchange for US$1.

1 Nov 1926

Joseph Goebbels was appointed the Nazi Party Gauleiter of Berlin, Germany.
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1 Nov 1929

Captain Isoroku Yamamoto was relieved as the commanding officer of Akagi; the successor was unknown.
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The conversion of a Tosa-class battleship hull to a fleet carrier completed at Sasebo Navy Yard, Japan. She was commissioned into Japanese Navy service as Kaga. In her original configuration, she sported three flight decks that form a series of ramps at the bow.
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1 Nov 1930

Arthur Greiser joined the Nazi Party.
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1 Nov 1932

Eva Braun attempted suicide by shooting herself in the chest with her father's pistol.
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1 Nov 1934

Rear Admiral Tsuyoshi Kobata was named the Chief of Staff of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan.
Cruiser Köln began two months of repairs at Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
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1 Nov 1935

Han Deqin was assigned to the Military Committee in Chongqing, China.
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Lieutenant Commander Wakita was named the commanding officer of destroyer Yuzuki.
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1 Nov 1936

Tetsuzo Iwamoto promoted to the rating of mechanic 1st class.
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1 Nov 1937

The Sihang Warehouse in Shanghai, stubbornly defended by the Chinese for four days, was evacuated between 0000 and 0200 hours. The 376 Chinese officers and men were allowed to evacuate into the international zone across the southern shore of the Suzhou River but were kept imprisoned until the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941.
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Hugo Sperrle was promoted to the rank of General der Flieger.
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Giosuè Carducci was commissioned into service.
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1 Nov 1938

German newspaper Kinzigwacht declared the town of Gelnhausen, Germany Judenfrei, "Free of Jews", after the town's synagogue closed its doors and the Jews forced to moved out.
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Quintin Brand was promoted to the rank of air commodore while commanding the No. 12 Group.
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Wilhelm Keitel was promoted to the rank of Generaloberst.
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The trial of the Partido Obrero de Unification Marxista (POUM) leaders in Barcelona, Spain was completed; two of the defendants were acquitted but four others were sentenced to imprisonment. The revolutionary anti-Stalinist Marxist POUM was formed in 1935 as the result of the merger of the Workers and Peasants Bloc (BOC), led by Joaquin Maurin, and Izquierda Comunista (Left Communist Party), led by Andres Nin.
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1 Nov 1939

Heinkel demonstrated the first jet aircraft He 178 to the German Air Ministry, but the German officials were not impressed.
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The German military complained that the Soviet Union purchases too much war materials from Germany, which was hampering with the German ability to prepare for a war against France; it was acknowledged, however, the import of Soviet oil was vital.
Captain Aritomo Goto was relived as the commanding officer of battleship Mutsu.
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Captain Shutoku Miyazato was named the chief equipping officer of repair ship Akashi. Miyazato would supervise the installation of five cranes and various tools and equipment aboard the ship.
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1 Nov 1940

11,000 Italian mountain troops marched for the pass at Metsovo, Greece but were trapped by 2,000 Greek troops, who knew the terrain far better than the Italians, in the Vovousa Valley 5 miles before they reached the pass. In southern Greece, British destroyers Ajax landed more troops at Suda Bay, Crete while under attack by Italian bombers. Meanwhile, Turkey declared neutrality in the Italo-Greek war.
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During this month, Japanese Navy began receiving the carrier version of the A6M Zero fighter.
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The British mined the Bay of Biscay off France.
German bombers attacked British shipping in the Thames Estuary in southern England, United Kingdom, sinking Letchworth (1 killed), sinking minesweeping trawler HMT Tilbury Ness (10 killed), and heavily damaging sloop HMS Pintail (10 killed, 3 wounded); one German bomber was shot down by the anti-aircraft ship Royal Eagle. On the same day, a force of around ten Italian BR.20 bombers escorted by forty CR.42 fighters set off to attack the docks at Harwich, England; eight of the bombers were claimed as destroyed by the RAF, which contributed to the Italian decision to withdraw from the Battle of Britain in the next few weeks.
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German submarine U-124 sank British ship Empire Bison 400 miles northwest of Ireland at 0706 hours, killing 30 crew and 1 gunner. 6,067 tons of scrap steel and 94 trucks, all from the United States, were lost with the ship. 4 survivors were rescued by Danish merchant ship Olga S.
British sloop HMS Black Swan was damaged by a mine in the Firth of Forth, Scotland. She would remain under repair until Apr 1941.
Adolf Galland was promoted to the rank of Oberstleutnant.
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The German Oflag IV-C prisoner of war camp at the Colditz Castle, until now a transit camp, was redesignated an actual holding camp as Polish prisoners of war were transferred there from nearby Oflag IV-A and Oflag VIII-B.
Rear Admiral Keizo Tanimoto replaced Rear Admiral Isamu Takeda as the chief of staff of Vice Admiral Boshiro Hosogaya (Ryojun Military Port, northeastern China).

1 Nov 1941

Troops of the German 11.Armee captured Simferopol, southern Ukraine. To the southwest in Sevastopol, the Soviet 30th Coastal Battery bombarded the German 132nd Infantry Division at 1230 hours near the village of Bazarchik, slowing its preparations for an assault.
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Roosevelt placed the US Coast Guard under the control of US Navy for the duration of national emergency.
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US Navy formed the Pacific Escort Force at Pearl Harbor to protect transports and certain merchant vessels carrying troops and valuable military cargoes between Hawaii and the Far East.
American PBY Catalina aircraft provided air cover for Atlantic convoy ON 30.
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Three US destroyers, screening Atlantic convoy HX 157, carried out depth charge attacks on sound contacts off St. John's, Newfoundland.
General der Gebirgstruppe Rudolf Konrad was named the commanding officer of the German 7th Mountain Division.
US Marine Corps established the 2nd Joint Training Force at Camp Elliot, California, United States under Major General Clayton B. Vogel. It was composed of the US Marine Corps 2nd Marine Division and the US Army 3rd Infantry Division.
After sundown, the Red Army evacuated the first group, 4,230 men, of the 28,000 men from the Hanko Peninsula, Finland to Leningrad, Russia via naval vessels. On the return trip to Hanko, Soviet minelayer Marti and minesweeper T-210 were damged by mines, and submarine Kalev was lost, probably to a mine as well.
German submarine U-68 sank British ship Bradford City 300 miles off German South-West Africa at 0654 hours; all 45 aboard survived in 2 lifeboats. U-68 accidentally collided with the sinking ship but did not suffer serious damage.
Zhao Chengshou began to distance himself from the Japanese and the Chinese collaborators.
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Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein was made the commanding officer of the 9th Squadron in the German Nachtjagdgeschwader 2 wing.
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Japanese Navy Captain Gihachi Takayanagi (former commanding officer of battleship ISE) relieved Rear Admiral Shutoku Miyazato as the Chief Equipping Officer of Battleship No. 1, as Miyazato was being transferred to become the Chief of Personnel for Kure Naval District.
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Drum was commissioned into service.
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1 Nov 1942

About 600 Dutch Jews and 977 German Jews from Berlin were gassed at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
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German III.Panzer Korps captured Alagir on the Terek River in the Caucasus in southern Russia.
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Hiroaki Abe was promoted to the rank of vice admiral.
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Rommel began to devise a plan to withdraw his forces at El Alamein, Egypt westward to Fuka, but he would not activate the plan yet.
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After sundown, men of the 2nd Battalion of US 7th Marine Regiment advanced east across the base of Koli Point to the Metapona River on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands to investigate reported Japanese activity.
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Aboard Yamato, a festive dinner was held for all captains stationed at Truk to celebrate the victory at the Battle of Santa Cruz.
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Captain Yoshio Kamei was named the commanding officer of submarine tender Taigei.
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Repair ship Akashi completed the repair work for cruiser Chikuma at Truk, Caroline Islands.
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1 Nov 1943

Koichi Shiozawa passed away.
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Men of the US 3rd Marine Division landed on the beaches of Empress Augusta Bay, Bougainville, Solomon Islands.
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German troops in the Crimea were cut off by land as Soviet troops made a landing across the Strait of Kerch in southern Ukraine.
The US 15th Air Force was formed commanded by Major General J. H. Doolittle with its headquarters in Tunis, Tunisia.
The town of Ota in Gunma Prefecture, Japan absorbed the nearby town of Shimanogo.
Lieutenant General Brehon Somervell received a report from front line engineers in Burma which requested more men and machinery but warned of unforeseen obstacles could significantly delay the project.
Chinese troops mounted a small offensive in northern Burma, but this attack would achieve little.
Lieutenant-General Philip Christison's XV (Indian) Corps comprising 5th and 7th Indian Divisions and the 81st (West African) Division, which had arrived in India in Aug 1943, assumed responsibility for the operational control of Arakan, Burma.
USS Scorpion began a reconnaissance mission of Farallon de Pajoras island, Mariana Islands.
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Light carrier Ryuho departed Sama (now Sanya), Hainan, China.
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1 Nov 1944

Jinwei Wang passed away.
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Commandos and Royal Marines landed on Walcheren Island in the Netherlands to aid clearing German troops from Scheldt Estuary, capturing the towns of Vlissingen and Westkapelle.
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In Gemrany, Buchenwald Concentration Camp's satellite camp Dora became an independent camp called Mittelbau-Dora; it was to become an underground aircraft and V-weapon production site. The gas chamber at Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland was used for the last time, killing 206 Jews.
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A German V-2 rocket hit Eglington Road in Woolwich, London, England, United Kingdom at 0210 hours, killing 7 people. At 0510 hours, another rocket hit Friern Road in Camberwell, London, killing 24 and injuring 17. A third rocket hit Shardeloes Road in Deptford, London at 1830 hours, killing 31, seriously injuring 62, and lightly injuring 90. Two other rockets hit London that day, though causing little damage.
Lord Gort was appointed the High Commissioner of the British Mandate of Palestine.
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The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Abner Read was sunk by a Japanese dive bomber attack in Leyte Gulf, Philippine Islands.
Vice Admiral Denshichi Okawachi was named the commanding officer of the Southwest Area Fleet and the 3rd Southern Expeditionary Fleet; Rear Admiral Kaoru Arima was named his chief of staff.
Japanese troops reached Guilin, China.
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USS Blackfin sank Japanese cargo ship Unkai Maru #12.
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USS Wake Island arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, United States.
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USS Dragonet departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol.
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1 Nov 1945

This date was the scheduled launch day for Operation Olympic, the invasion of Kyushu, Japan, which never took place.
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British Intelligence reported that Adolf Hitler most likely committed suicide on 30 Apr 1945 in Berlin after marrying Eva Braun.
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Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru departed Wake Island after embarking about 1,000 Japanese troops.
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Submarine S-31 was struck from the US Naval Vessels Register.
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Hamilton was decommissioned from service.
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Historical document written: Interrogation Nav 51, Commander Tadao Kuwahara
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Historical document written: Interrogation Nav 53, Commander Tadao Kuwahara
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Historical document written: Interrogation Nav 62, Captain Rokuemon Minami
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Historical document written: Interrogation Nav 63, Lieutenant Commander T. Okamoto
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Historical document written: Interrogation Nav 56, Lieutenant (jg) Y. Okuno
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Historical document written: Interrogation Nav 64, Rear Admiral Toshitane Takata
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Historical document written: Interrogation Nav 60, Captain Yasumi Toyama
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