Imperial Japanese Army Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda formally in the Philippines. He had been recently informed by his former commanding officer, Major Yoshimi Taniguchi, that the war was over.
Originally part of a party of four such soldiers, one who abandoned the group in 1949 to surrender, they carried out guerilla raids which ultimately reduced Onoda to the sole survivor. Their ongoing obstinacy was frankly irrational as well as deadly.
He found post-war Japan disappointing and became a cattle rancher in Brazil.
Contrary to popular belief, he was not the last Japanese soldier still holding out. At least one more, Teruo Nakamura, who was Taiwanese, was in Indonesia. He was actually a private and of native Taiwanese background, with a poor command of Japanese and Chinese. He'd be captured in December 1974. Another, Fumio Nakahara, may have been holding out in the Philippines as late as 1980, although that has never been determined.
A ceasefire between Iraq and the Kurdish Democratic Party was subject to an ultimatum, which provided that Kurdistan could be autonomous. The offer would expire without acceptance, and a renewed war resumed.
The United Kingdom tended its Oil Embargo related state of emergency.
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