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The call for unconditional surrender was rejected by the Japanese government which believed it would be capable of negotiating for more favourable surrender terms in early August the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Between the two bombings the Soviets pursuant to the Yalta agreement invaded Japanese-held Manchuria and quickly defeated the Kwantung Army which was the largest Japanese fighting force thereby persuading previously adamant Imperial Army leaders to accept surrender terms the Red Army also captured the southern part of Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Islands on 15 August 1945 Japan surrendered with the surrender documents finally signed at Tokyo Bay on the deck of the American battleship USS Missouri on 2 September 1945 ending the war, Top publicly traded companies, The Brazos River straddles some of Houston's extreme western and southwestern suburbs particularly Sugar Land and Rosenberg! Main article: Battle of Gonzales U.S Decennial Census Cities (multiple counties) The Texas Medical Center in Houston holds the world's largest concentration of research and healthcare institutions with 47 member institutions. Texas Medical Center performs the most heart transplants in the world the University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center in Houston is a highly regarded academic institution that centers around cancer patient care research education and prevention. ; On October 15 1986 the Astros and the visiting New York Mets played Game 6 of the 1986 NLCS the 16-inning contest was at the time the longest game in MLB post season history the Mets would take a 7-4 lead into the bottom of the 16th inning and hold on for a 7-6 victory over the Astros Ironically the record was broken in Houston 19 years later at Minute Maid Park during the 2005 NLDS when the Astros won an 18-inning game against the Atlanta Braves. . . Employment The University of Texas at Austin, 4.1 Caribbean South America Mexico and Central America colonization, One Shell Plaza. The mass-bombing of cities in Europe and Asia has often been called a war crime although no positive or specific customary international humanitarian law with respect to aerial warfare existed before or during World War II the USAAF firebombed a total of 67 Japanese cities killing 393,000 civilians and destroying 65% of built-up areas, Two or more races: 2.7 percent, South Houston In 1973 the Astros installed an all-AstroTurf infield except for dirt cutouts around the bases This "sliding pit" configuration was introduced by Cincinnati with the opening of Riverfront Stadium on June 30 1970 it was then installed in the new stadiums in Philadelphia in 1971 and Kansas City in 1973 the artificial turf fields of Pittsburgh St Louis and San Francisco all installed in 1970 were traditionally configured like the Astrodome and later changed to sliding pits San Francisco converted in 1971 Pittsburgh in 1973 and St Louis in 1978 Rogers Centre in Toronto was the last park in the majors that had sliding pits; it opened in 1989 and switched to a traditional dirt skin infield in 2016!

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