In one month of 1974 a soldier who had ignored the end of the war for 29 years gave up, and an army that had waited 2,200 years was found: Onoda surrendered on 10 March, the Terracotta Army turned up on 29 March.
The events
- Hiroo Onoda surrenders 29 years late1974 · Lubang Island, Philippines. Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda dismissed leaflets and family letters saying the war was over and fought on in the jungles of Lubang. He agreed to surrender only in March 1974, when his former commander, by then a bookseller, flew in from Japan to give the order in person: 10,416 days after Japan's surrender.
- Terracotta Army210 BC · Mount Li. Qin Shi Huang died in 210 BC and was buried in a vast mausoleum at Mount Li. It is guarded by thousands of life-size clay warriors with horses and chariots, discovered by farmers in 1974.
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