In 1948, a war crimes tribunal in Japan sentenced former premier Hideki Tojo and six other World War ... succeeded the late Leonid Brezhnev as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.

Dec. 23 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1620, construction began on the first permanent European settlement in New England. It was one week after the Mayflower arrived at Plymouth Harbor in ...

The ashes of wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and six other Class-A war criminals ... The letter from General Headquarters in Tokyo where Gen. Douglas MacArthur reigned as supreme commander ...

Through Blewett’s voice, Hideki Tojo spoke for all the defendants ... At the meeting during which the General Staff presented its first war plans, “His Majesty was pleased to listen ...

Despite the lack of consensus, MacArthur lost no time, ordering the arrest of thirty-nine suspects -- most of them members of General Tojo's war cabinet -- on September 11, just over a week after ...

In 1947, the transistor was invented, leading to a revolution in communications and electronics. In 1948, former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were hanged in Tokyo ...