Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda became the last Japanese soldier to surrender, 29 years after WWII ended.
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The United States Air Force firebombed Tokyo, Japan, killing over 100,000 civilians.
Naples, Italy, banned kissing in public.
The Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 9 was launched into orbit.
A five-day blizzard started in the south of England and killed 200 people.
