At 10:20 p.m. on September 18, 1931, the Japanese Kwantung Army blew up a section of track on th…

At 10:20 p.m. on September 18, 1931, the Japanese Kwantung Army blew up a section of track on the South Manchuria Railway near Liutiaohu and falsely accused the Chinese army of destroying the railway. It then launched an attack on the Chinese army's Beidaying garrison and the city of Shenyang, engineering the "September 18th Incident" that shocked China and the rest of the world. From that point on, the Japanese aggressors began a fourteen-year war of aggression against China.