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                  A JAPANESE SOLDIER SURVIVED FOR 27 YEARS HIDING ALONE IN A CAVE AFTER WW-II                        Shichi Yokoi,former lance corporal in the Japanese army during world war– II , was discovered in 1972,hiding in the jungleds of Guam in an underground shelter with the firm belief that his fellow soldiers would return for him one day.        When Yokoi returned to Tokyo in February 1972,two weeks after being discovered,he was met with a hero’s welcome.          Shoichi Yokoi (31 March,1915 ---- 22 September,1997) was a sergeant in the Imperial Japanese   Army (IJA) during second world war-2 and was among the last three Japanese holdouts to be found after the end of hostilities in 1945.He was discovered in the jungles of Guam on 24 January,1972 almost 28 years after US forces had regained control   of the island in 1944.            In 1943   he was transferred to the 38 th regiment in the mariana islands and

             INDIAN PLANE HIJACK IN KANADAHAR                                                                                                                                           ( Atal Bihari Vajpayee)                     Almost a decade before the Mumbai attacks of November 2008 and a couple of years before the parliament attack of  13 th   December, 2001, the Kanadahar haijack was a watershed in India’s fight against terrorism.Indian  airlines flight 814 took off from Kathmandu on December 24 th ,1999 and was taken over by terroists soon after entering Indian airspace.The aircraft ended up in Kanadahar after touching down in Amritsar,Lahor and Dubai.         Date :- 24 December,1999   to   31 December,1999     In 1999 at that time Indian prime minister   was Sri Atal Bihari Vajpayee.The three terrorists Maulana Masood,Omar Sheikh & Mushtaq ahmed Zarger were arrested for terrorist activities in Kashmir.