1915 German-British sea battle at Dogger Bank & Helgoland.
1916 The Military Service Bill, calling for conscription of men for war services, passes in the British House of Commons.
1943 Adolf Hitler orders German troops at Stalingrad to fight to the death.
1943 Jewish patients, nurses and doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
1962 Brian Epstein signs management contract with the Beatles.
1968 Operation Coburg, an Australian and New Zealand military action during the Vietnam War, begins.
1972 Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.
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