8 Jan 1935
China
China
- Cavalrymen of the separatist Mongolian People's Army clashed with a patrol consisted Japanese troops and Manchukuoan puppet troops at Khalkhyn Temple northeast of Buir Lake in Xing'an Province, China. A Japanese officer was killed in the engagement. ww2dbase [Xing'an | CPC]
- The Gestapo prison Columbia-Haus in Berlin, Germany became a concentration camp. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Berlin | CPC]
- USS New York departed Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. ww2dbase [Puget Sound Navy Yard | New York | Bremerton, Washington | DS]
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