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• Reinhard Heydrich received instructions from Hermann Göring to prepare the implementation of the Final Solution to the Jewish question, Endlösung. ww2dbase [Reinhard Heydrich | TH]
• Reichskommissar Josef Terboven declared Norway under a state of emergency. ww2dbase [TH]
• Romanian leader Ion Antonescu formally accepted German leader Adolf Hitler's request for Romanian troops to conquer and occupy the Ukrainian territory between Dniester and Bug Rivers. ww2dbase [Siege of Odessa | CPC]
• Soviet destroyer Sokrushitelny made rendezvous with British minelayer HMS Adventure near the Gorodetski lighthouse at the entrance to the White Sea in northern Russia. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | CPC]

• Alessandro Malaspina sighted a freighter in the Atlantic Ocean at 0945 hours at the distance of 4,000 meters. Short on fuel and believing that this was a ship of a neutral nation, the Italian submarine did not give chase. ww2dbase [Alessandro Malaspina | CPC]

• Tenente di Vascello Giorgio Viani was made the commanding officer of Maggiore Baracca, relieving Capitano di Corvetta Enrico Bertarelli. ww2dbase [Maggiore Baracca | Bordeaux, Aquitaine | CPC]

• USS Astoria arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Astoria (New Orleans-class) | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

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