Ministry of Defense headquarters: Formerly GHQ of the Imperial Japanese Army; following World War II, the building became the headquarters for the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Eastern Army.
This is the place where Yukio Mishima commited suicide by seppuku on November 25, 1970.
Seppuku is a form of Japanese ritual suicide, originally reserved only for samurai, used voluntarily to die with honor rather than fall into the hands of their enemies, as a form of capital punishment for samurai who have committed serious offenses, and for reasons that shamed them. Seppuku is performed by plunging a sword into the abdomen and moving the sword left to right in a slicing motion.
It became internationally notorious when, on November 18, 1978, 918 people died in the settlement as well as in a nearby airstrip and in Georgetown, Guyana's capital. 909 Temple members died in Jonestown, all but two from apparent cyanide poisoning, in an event termed "revolutionary suicide".
The canal is 192 km and it was opened on November 1869. The excavation took some 10 years. Over 30,000 people were working on the canal at any given period, that altogether more than 1.5 million people from various countries were employed and that thousands of laborers died on the project.
A railway track in the forest was the site of two armistices. The treaty between the Allies and Germany at the end of hostilities on the Western Front (World War I), November 11, 1918 also known as the Armistice with Germany.
The treaty between Nazi Germany and France during World War II on June 22, 1940, also known as the Armistice with France.
Fort Hood is a US Army post located in Texas. As of the census of 2000, there were 33,711 people, 5,819 households, and 5,679 families residing in the CDP.
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