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2011 Event - To avoid further fighting, Libya's Transitional Council extends the deadline to surrender for tribal leaders in Sirte

1994 Event - Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender after completion of his Seven Seals manuscript

1994 Event - Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender if taped statement is broadcasted, it is, but he doesn't

1991 Death - J[ames] G Devlin, actor (No Surrender), dies at 84

1988 Event - 5 gunmen who hijacked Soviet Aeroflot jet, surrender in Israel

1975 Event - 6 So Moluccan terrorists surrender, holding 23 hostages for 12 days

1973 Event - Indians holding SD hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrender

1960 Event - Extreme right-wing rebels in Algiers surrender

1954 Event - French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dien Bien Phu

1951 Event - Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing

1947 Birthday - Alan Greisman, Sally Field's husband/producer, Fletch, Surrender

1945 Event - Japanese surrender Taiwan to General Chiang Kai-shek

1945 Event - Japanese in S Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies

1945 Event - Japanese at Rioekioe-islands surrender

1945 Event - Japanese forces in Philippines surrender to Allies

1945 Event - V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri (WW II ends)

1945 Event - U.S. troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender

1945 Event - Japanese diplomats board Missouri to receive instructions on Japan's surrender at the end of WW II

1945 Event - Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito

1945 Event - Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies provided status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged

1945 Event - Japanese premier Suzuki disregards U.S. ultimatum to surrender

1945 Event - Declaration of Potsdam: US/Brit/China demands Japanese surrender

1945 Event - V-E Day; Germany signs unconditional surrender, WW II ends in Europe

1945 Event - Formal undertaking of complete German surrender

1945 Event - Nazi generals Jodl and Von Friedenburg surrender

1945 Event - German troops in Netherlands, Denmark and Norway surrender

1945 Event - Terms of surrender of German armies in Italy signed

1945 Event - German troops in Groningen surrender

1944 Event - Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium

1943 Event - General Eisenhower announce unconditional surrender of Italy in WW II

1943 Event - German and Italian forces in Africa surrender

1943 Event - Axis forces in North Africa surrender

1943 Event - German troops in Tunisia North Africa surrender

1943 Event - Battle of Stalingrad ends with final surrender of the German army

1942 Event - Colonel General Von Paul asks Hitler to surrender

1942 Event - Last Vichy-French troops in Algeria surrender

1942 Event - Corregidor and Philippines surrender to Japanese Armies

1942 Event - Dutch troops on Tarakan surrender

1942 Event - German troops in Bardia surrender

1941 Event - Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong

1941 Event - American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese

1941 Event - 20 divisions of Russian 6th/12th Army surrender at Oeman

1941 Event - British troop land in Iraq/Yugoslavia; surrender to nazis

1940 Event - France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II

1940 Event - Nazi bombs Rotterdam (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrender to Germany

1939 Event - Last Polish troops surrender

1939 Event - Soviet-German treaty agree on 4th partition of Poland (WW II) and gives Lithuania to U.S.S.R., last Polish troops surrender

1925 Event - Kurd rebels surrender to Turkish army

1898 Event - Spanish troops in Ponce, Puerto Rico, surrender

1898 Event - Spanish American War-Spaniards surrender to U.S. at Santiago Cuba

1885 Event - Canada's North-west Insurrection ends with surrender of Big Bear

1875 Event - Kiowa Indians under Lone Wolf (Guipago) surrender at Ft. Sill

1871 Event - Apaches in Arizona surrender to white and Mexican adventurers; 144 die

1866 Event - Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to U.S. forces

1865 Event - Battle of Galveston, Texas, surrender of Edmund Kirby Smith

1865 Event - Surrender of Sam Jones

1865 Event - Robert E. Lee and 26,765 troops, surrender to U.S. Grant at Appomattox

1863 Event - Battle of Salineville OH, John Hunt Morgan and 364 troops surrender

1862 Event - Rebels surrender Ft. Pulaski, Georgia-Rebels surrender

1862 Event - Ft. Donelson captured by General Grant (1,400 confederates surrender)

1861 Event - Battle of Rich Mountain, Virginia - Rosecrans forces rebels to surrender

1861 Event - Formal Union surrender of Ft. Sumter

1832 Event - Dutch troops in Antwerp surrender

1806 Event - Dutch in Capetown surrender to British

1799 Event - Bataafse fleet surrender to English

1777 Event - 1st national Thanksgiving Day, commemorating Burgoyne's surrender

1764 Event - Native Americans surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac

1759 Event - Battle of Quebec ends, French surrender to British

1673 Event - Dutch battle fleet of 23 ships demands surrender of New York City

1664 Event - Dutch surrender New Amsterdam (NY) to 300 English soldiers

1653 Event - Fronde-leaders surrender in Bordeaux

1602 Event - Spanish force in Ireland surrender to the English at Kinsdale

1601 Event - Spanish garrison of Meurs surrender to earl Mauritius

1587 Event - Deventer and Zutphen surrender to Spain

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