On the day the Japanese surrender, ending World War II, the decomposed body of a young woman is discovered stuffed in the back of a Tokyo air raid shelter.
The surrender ended a 13-day circus that the police say began when he tossed his wife out of their house and made threats while attempting to find her.
The Taliban's surrender ended two decades of exile for the Karzais, whose fate, perhaps more than any other Afghan family's, has been intimately tied to the ups and downs of Afghanistan's tumultuous history.
"We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart," Abraham Lincoln told a crowd that had gathered to serenade him on April 11 , 1865 just after Robert E. Lee's surrender ended the Civil War.
The surrender ended, at least for now, the biggest test yet facing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh, who was elected by a landslide last December after two years of army-backed emergency rule.
The growing dissatisfaction of intellectuals with the Nationalist government in Chongqing surfaced dramatically during the civil war that raged throughout China following Japan's surrender, ending with the Nationalists' retreat to Taiwan and the establishment in October 1949 of the People's Republic of China.
NAIROBI, Kenya — Speculation has increased in recent days that the elusive rebel commander Joseph Kony might negotiate his surrender, ending a long, murderous rampage Mr. Kony, who has been indicted on war crimes charges by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, has been hiding in jungles in the Central Africa for years with a band of child soldiers and a harem of child brides.
In 404 BC, following a defeat at the Battle of Aegospotami, Athens was forced to surrender, ending the Peloponnesian War.
However, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the Japanese surrender, ended the war and changed British plans.
The day after, Vercingetorix, "King of the Gauls", is brought before Julius Caesar and made to surrender, ending the eight-year-long Gallic Wars.
