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Events on the year of 1945 in history

Events
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01 Jan 1945 France joins the UN
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01 Jan 1945 German air raid on allied airports at Eindhoven / Saint-Trond / Brussels
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01 Jan 1945 World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches Operation Bodenplatte, a massive, but failed attempt to knock out Allied air power in northern Europe in a single blow.
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01 Jan 1945 World War II: In retaliation for the Malmedy massacre, U.S. troops massacre 30 SS prisoners at Chenogne.
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02 Jan 1945 Allied air raid on Neurenberg
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02 Jan 1945 Kentucky begins 130 home basketball game win streak, ends in 1955
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02 Jan 1945 Radio Orange ends cooperation at Liese-Aktion
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02 Jan 1945 World War II: Nuremberg, Germany (in German, Nürnberg) is severely bombed by Allied forces.
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03 Jan 1945 Allies land on west coast of Burma, conquer Akyab
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03 Jan 1945 British Premier Winston Churchill visits France
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03 Jan 1945 Cato-Meridian School, NY, installs germicidal lamps in every room
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03 Jan 1945 Greek General Plastiras forms government
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03 Jan 1945 US aircraft carriers attack Okinawa
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03 Jan 1945 World War II: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is placed in command of all U.S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima and Okinawa in Japan.
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04 Jan 1945 Germans execute resistance fighters in Amsterdam
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04 Jan 1945 US jeep-aircraft carrier Ommaney Bay sinks after kamikaze attack
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05 Jan 1945 Pepe LePew debuts in Warner Bros cartoon "Odor-able Kitty"
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05 Jan 1945 Surprise attack on Liese-Aktion-office on Marnix St, Amsterdam
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05 Jan 1945 The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.
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06 Jan 1945 Future President George Bush marries Barbara Pierce in Rye, New York
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07 Jan 1945 Lord Haw-Haw reports total German victory at Ardennen
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07 Jan 1945 World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
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08 Jan 1945 "Youth for Christ" organizes
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08 Jan 1945 World War II: Philippine Commonwealth troops under the Philippine Commonwealth Army units enter the province of Ilocos Sur in Northern Luzon and attack Japanese Imperial forces.
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09 Jan 1945 US soldiers led by General Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines
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09 Jan 1945 World War II: The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines.
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10 Jan 1945 Baseball writers again fail to elect a new Hall of Famer
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10 Jan 1945 Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close
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11 Jan 1945 Greek Civil War: Last day of the Dekemvriana clashes in Athens, Greece.
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12 Jan 1945 US Task Force 38 destroys 41 Japanese ships in Battle of South China Sea
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12 Jan 1945 German forces in Belgium retreat in Battle of the Bulge
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13 Jan 1945 Prokofchev's 5th Symphony premieres in Moscow
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15 Jan 1945 "Make Mine Manhattan" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 429 performances
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15 Jan 1945 Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp
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15 Jan 1945 Every Amsterdammer gets 3 kg sugar beets
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15 Jan 1945 "Make Mine Manhattan" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City NY for 429 performances
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16 Jan 1945 Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
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16 Jan 1945 US 1st & 3rd army meet at Houffalise
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16 Jan 1945 Scottish 52nd land division/1st Commando brigade-assault at Heinsberg
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17 Jan 1945 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet custody while in Hungary; he is never publicly seen again.
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17 Jan 1945 The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.
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17 Jan 1945 World War II: Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw.
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17 Jan 1945 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by secret police in Hungary
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17 Jan 1945 Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation
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17 Jan 1945 Liberation of Warsaw by Soviet troops (end of Nazi occupation)
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17 Jan 1945 Gilbert Dodds, record miler (4 05.3), retires to do gospel work
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18 Jan 1945 Warsaw freed by Soviet army
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18 Jan 1945 World War II: Liberation of Kraków, Poland by the Red Army.
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18 Jan 1945 World War II: Liberation of the Budapest Ghetto by the Red Army.
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19 Jan 1945 World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź Ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation.
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20 Jan 1945 World War II: Germany begins the evacuation of 1.8 million people from East Prussia, a task which will take nearly two months.
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20 Jan 1945 World War II: The Miklós provisional government of Hungary agrees to an armistice with the Allies.
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20 Jan 1945 FDR sworn-in for an unprecedented 4th term as President
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21 Jan 1945 British troops land on Ramree, near coast of Burma
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22 Jan 1945 Burma highway reopens
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22 Jan 1945 Heavy US air raid on Okinawa
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23 Jan 1945 World War II: German admiral Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal.
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23 Jan 1945 Dutch Premier Gerbrandy, exiled in London, offers his resignation
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24 Jan 1945 Scottish 52nd Lowland division occupies Heinsberg
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25 Jan 1945 Grand Rapids, Michigan becomes 1st US city to fluoridate its water
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25 Jan 1945 New York Yankees sold by Ruppert estate to Larry MacPhail, Dan Topping
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25 Jan 1945 Dan Topping, Del Webb & Larry MacPhail purchase New York Yankees for $2.8 million
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25 Jan 1945 Japanese occupiers of Batavia arrest Indo-European youths
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25 Jan 1945 West Africa 82nd division occupies Myohaung, Burma
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26 Jan 1945 World War II: Audie Murphy in action for which he will be awarded the Medal of Honor.
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26 Jan 1945 World War II: The Red Army begins encircling the German Fourth Army near Heiligenbeil in East Prussia, which will end in destruction of the 4th Army two months later.
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26 Jan 1945 Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp
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27 Jan 1945 Wally van Hall, "banker in defiance, " arrested
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27 Jan 1945 World War II: The Red Army liberates the remained inmates of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp built by the Nazi Germans on the territory of Poland.
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27 Jan 1945 Nazi occupiers forbid food transport to West (The Netherlands)
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27 Jan 1945 Russia liberates Auschwitz & Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland)
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27 Jan 1945 S Romberg, H&D Fields' musical premieres in New York City NY
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27 Jan 1945 Wally van Hall, "banker in defiance", arrested
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28 Jan 1945 Gen "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell and truck convoy reopen Burma Road to China
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28 Jan 1945 World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
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28 Jan 1945 Dutch airplanes dump pamphlets on Java
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28 Jan 1945 Swedish ships bring food to starving Netherlands
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30 Jan 1945 "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 7,700 die
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30 Jan 1945 German ship "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed, 4,800 killed
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30 Jan 1945 World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: One hundred twenty-six American Rangers and Filipino resistance fighters liberate over 500 Allied prisoners from the Japanese-controlled Cabanatuan POW camp.
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30 Jan 1945 World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with German refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, killing approximately 9,500 people in what is the deadliest known maritime disaster.
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30 Jan 1945 German ship "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 7,700 die
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31 Jan 1945 World War II: The end of fighting in the Battle of Hill 170 during the Burma Campaign, in which the British 3 Commando Brigade repulsed a Japanese counterattack on their positions and precipitated a general retirement from the Arakan Peninsula.
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31 Jan 1945 World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed.
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31 Jan 1945 US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.
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31 Jan 1945 Eddie Slovik, 1st American executed for desertion since Civil War
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31 Jan 1945 US 4th Infantry division occupies Elcherrath
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01 Feb 1945 US Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie
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02 Feb 1945 Escape attempt at Mauthausen concentration camp
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03 Feb 1945 Almost 1000 Flying Fortresses drop 3000 ton bombs on Berlin
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03 Feb 1945 World War II: The United States and the Philippine Commonwealth begin a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan.
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03 Feb 1945 World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin, a raid which kills between 2,500 to 3,000 and dehouses another 120,000.
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04 Feb 1945 FDR, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta
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04 Feb 1945 World War II: The British Indian Army and Imperial Japanese Army begin a series of battles known as the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations.
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04 Feb 1945 World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea.
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04 Feb 1945 World War II: Santo Tomas Internment Camp is liberated from Japanese authority.
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05 Feb 1945 Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69t.6 km/h (440 yd / 20.8 s)
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05 Feb 1945 British Premier Churchill arrives in Yalta, the Krim
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05 Feb 1945 US troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla
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05 Feb 1945 World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
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06 Feb 1945 8th Air Force bombs Magdeburg / Chemnitz
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06 Feb 1945 Russian Red Army crosses the river Oder
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07 Feb 1945 General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila
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07 Feb 1945 President Truman appoints Irwin C Mollison judge of US Customs Court
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07 Feb 1945 US 76th / 5th Infantry divisions begin crossing Sauer
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08 Feb 1945 Allied air attack on Goch / Kleef / Kalkar / Reichswald
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08 Feb 1945 World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada commence Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine.
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09 Feb 1945 WAAF-corporal flies along the tail of a Spitfire
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09 Feb 1945 World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attacked a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway.
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09 Feb 1945 World War II: The Battle of the Atlantic – HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
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10 Feb 1945 "Rum & Coca Cola" by Andrews Sisters hits #1
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10 Feb 1945 "Rum & Coca Cola" by Andrews Sisters hits #1
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11 Feb 1945 1st gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey, California
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11 Feb 1945 Yalta agreement signed by FDR, Churchill & Stalin
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12 Feb 1945 San Francisco selected for site of the UN Conference
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13 Feb 1945 Gerbrandy British government refuses Dutch Jewish right to buy
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13 Feb 1945 World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment.
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13 Feb 1945 World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army.
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13 Feb 1945 Allied planes bomb Dresden Germany; 135,000 die
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13 Feb 1945 USSR captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany; 159,000 die
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14 Feb 1945 President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially beginning U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relations.
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14 Feb 1945 World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans.
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14 Feb 1945 World War II: Navigational error leads to the mistaken bombing of Prague, Czechoslovakia by an American squadron of B-17s assisting in the Soviet's Vistula–Oder Offensive.
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14 Feb 1945 World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony.
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14 Feb 1945 Per
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14 Feb 1945 8th Air Force bombs Dresden
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15 Feb 1945 World War II: Third day of bombing in Dresden.
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16 Feb 1945 World War II: American forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines.
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16 Feb 1945 US forces land on Corregidor, complete conquest on March 3
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16 Feb 1945 Venezuela declares war on Nazi-Germany
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19 Feb 1945 30,000 US Marines land on Iwo Jima
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19 Feb 1945 World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima: About 30,000 United States Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima.
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19 Feb 1945 900 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days
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19 Feb 1945 Brotherhood Day-1st celebrated
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19 Feb 1945 US 5th Fleet (30,000 US Marines) launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese
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21 Feb 1945 World War II: Japanese kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea and damage the USS Saratoga.
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21 Feb 1945 Archbishop De Jong calls for help with war casualties
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21 Feb 1945 British Army captures Goch
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21 Feb 1945 US 10th Armour division overthrows Orscholz line
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22 Feb 1945 Arab League forms (Cairo)
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22 Feb 1945 British troops take Ramree Island, Burma
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22 Feb 1945 Canadian 3rd Division occupies Moyland
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23 Feb 1945 World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is annihilated in a raid by 379 British bombers.
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23 Feb 1945 World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań. The city is liberated by Soviet and Polish forces.
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23 Feb 1945 World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by combined Filipino and American forces.
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23 Feb 1945 World War II: The 11th Airborne Division, with Filipino guerrillas, free the captives of the Los Baños internment camp.
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23 Feb 1945 World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a commonly forgotten U.S. Navy Corpsman, reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag.
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23 Feb 1945 US Marines raise flag on Iwo Jima, famous photo & statue
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23 Feb 1945 2nd Dutch government of Gerbrandy forms in London
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23 Feb 1945 Canadian troops occupy Kalkar
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23 Feb 1945 Operation Grenade General Simpson's 9th Army crosses Ruhr
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24 Feb 1945 Egyptian Premier Ahmad Mahir Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.
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24 Feb 1945 Egypt & Syria declares war on Nazi-Germany
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24 Feb 1945 Manila freed from Japanese
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24 Feb 1945 Nazi occupiers begin state of siege
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25 Feb 1945 World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
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25 Feb 1945 US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo
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26 Feb 1945 Very heavy bombing on Berlin by 8th US Air Force
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27 Feb 1945 Battle of US 94 Infantry
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01 Mar 1945 British 43rd Division under General Essame occupies Xanten
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01 Mar 1945 Chinese 30th division occupies Hsenwi
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01 Mar 1945 FDR announces success of Yalta Conference
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01 Mar 1945 Field Marshal Kesselring succeeds von Rundstedt as commander
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02 Mar 1945 King Michael of Romania gives in to Communist government
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03 Mar 1945 RAF bombing error hits The Hague killing 511
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03 Mar 1945 Roermond / Venlo Neth, freed
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03 Mar 1945 US and Philippine forces recaptures Corregidor
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03 Mar 1945 US 7th Army occupies last part of Westwall
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03 Mar 1945 World War II: The RAF accidentally bombs the Bezuidenhout neighbourhood in The Hague, Netherlands, killing 511 people.
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03 Mar 1945 World War II: A former Armia Krajowa unit massacres at least 150 Ukrainian civilians in Pawłokoma, Poland.
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03 Mar 1945 World War II: American and Filipino troops recapture Manila in the Philippines.
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04 Mar 1945 Lapland War: Finland declares war on Nazi Germany.
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05 Mar 1945 Allies bombs The Hague, Netherlands
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05 Mar 1945 Generals Eisenhower, Patton and Patch meet in Luneville
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05 Mar 1945 US 7th Army Corps captures Cologne
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05 Mar 1945 US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
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06 Mar 1945 117 SD-prisoners executed at Savage Farm
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06 Mar 1945 Chinese 38th division occupies Lashio
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06 Mar 1945 Erich Honnecker and Erich Hanke flee Nazis
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06 Mar 1945 World War II: Cologne is captured by American Troops.
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07 Mar 1945 Cologne taken by allied armies
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07 Mar 1945 US 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany, crosses Rhine
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07 Mar 1945 Yugoslavia government of Tito forms
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07 Mar 1945 World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine river at Remagen.
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08 Mar 1945 "Kiss Me Kate" opens in Britain
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08 Mar 1945 53 Amsterdammers executed by Nazi occupiers
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08 Mar 1945 Phyllis M Daley is 1st black nurse sworn-in as US Navy ensign
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09 Mar 1945 334 US B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bomb
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09 Mar 1945 Japanese proclaim "independence" of Indo-China
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09 Mar 1945 World War II: A coup d'état by Japanese forces in French Indochina removes the French from power.
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09 Mar 1945 The Bombing of Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces begin, one of the most destructive bombing raids in history.
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10 Mar 1945 The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting conflagration kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
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10 Mar 1945 Germany blows-up Wessel Bridge on Rhine
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10 Mar 1945 Japan declares Vietnam Independence
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10 Mar 1945 Patton's 3rd Army makes contact with Hodge's 1st Army
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10 Mar 1945 Tokyo in fire after night time B-29 bombing
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10 Mar 1945 US troops lands on Mindanao
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11 Mar 1945 World War II: The Empire of Vietnam, a short-lived Japanese puppet state, is established with Bảo Đại as its ruler.
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11 Mar 1945 World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2.
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11 Mar 1945 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs
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11 Mar 1945 Flemish Nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death
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12 Mar 1945 30 Amsterdammers executed by Nazi occupiers
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12 Mar 1945 Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy
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12 Mar 1945 New York is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race & creed in employment
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12 Mar 1945 The British Empire celebrates its 1st British Empire Day
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12 Mar 1945 USSR returns Transylvania to Romania
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13 Mar 1945 Queen Wilhelmina returns to the Netherlands
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13 Mar 1945 Sicherheitsdienst arrest Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman
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14 Mar 1945 World War II: The R.A.F.'s first operational use of the Grand Slam bomb, Bielefeld, Germany.
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14 Mar 1945 RAF bomb cuts railway link Hannover-Hamm
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15 Mar 1945 17th Academy Awards - "Going my Way, " Bing Cosby and Ingrid Bergman win
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15 Mar 1945 Dodgers open spring training at Bear Mountain, New York
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15 Mar 1945 World War II: Soviet forces begin an offensive to push Germans from Upper Silesia.
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15 Mar 1945 Bert Shepard (1 legged WWII veteran) tries out as a pitcher for Senators
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15 Mar 1945 Billboard publishes its 1st album chart (King Cole Trio is #1)
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15 Mar 1945 Catholic University of Nijmegen reopens
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16 Mar 1945 Allies secure Iwo Jima
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16 Mar 1945 Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers. 5,000 are killed.
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16 Mar 1945 World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ended, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persisted.
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16 Mar 1945 US defeats Japan at Iwo Jima
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17 Mar 1945 The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany, collapses, ten days after its capture.
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17 Mar 1945 Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra
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18 Mar 1945 Maurice "Rocket" Richard becomes the 1st NHLer to score 50 goals
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18 Mar 1945 1,250 US bombers attacks Berlin
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18 Mar 1945 US Task Force 58 attacks targets on Kiushu
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19 Mar 1945 Hitler orders all German factories destroyed
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19 Mar 1945 World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.
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19 Mar 1945 World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing 724 of her crew. Badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under her own power.
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19 Mar 1945 800 killed as Kamikaze attacked USS Franklin off Japan
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19 Mar 1945 Adolf Hitler issues Nero Decree: destruction of German facilities
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19 Mar 1945 British 36th division conquers Mogok (ruby mine)
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19 Mar 1945 US Task Force 58 attacks ships near Kobe/Kure
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20 Mar 1945 US 70th Infantry division/7th Armour division attack Saar
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21 Mar 1945 World War II: Bulgaria and the Soviet Union successfully complete their defense of the north bank of the Drava River as the Battle of the Transdanubian Hills concludes.
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21 Mar 1945 World War II: Operation Carthage: Royal Air Force planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also hit a school and 125 civilians are killed.
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21 Mar 1945 World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.
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21 Mar 1945 1st Japanese flying bombs (ochas) attack Okinawa
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21 Mar 1945 During WWII Allied bombers begin 4-day raid over Germany
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21 Mar 1945 Dutch Resistance fighter Hannie Schaft arrested by Nazi police
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22 Mar 1945 The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
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22 Mar 1945 Arab League forms with adoption of a charter in Cairo Egypt
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22 Mar 1945 US 3rd Army crosses Rhine at Nierstein
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23 Mar 1945 British 7th Black Watch crosses the Rhine
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23 Mar 1945 Largest operation in Pacific war, 1,500 US Navy ships bomb Okinawa
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23 Mar 1945 Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Straelen
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24 Mar 1945 General Eisenhower, Montgomery & Bradley discuss advance in Germany
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24 Mar 1945 Largest one-day airborne drop, 600 transports & 1300 gliders
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24 Mar 1945 Operation Varsity: British, US & Canadian airborne landings East of Rhine
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24 Mar 1945 US minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa
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25 Mar 1945 US 1st army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen
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25 Mar 1945 US 4th Armored division arrives at Hanau & Aschaffenburg
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25 Mar 1945 US Northern Tractor Flotilla departs Ulithi to Okinawa
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26 Mar 1945 Generals Eisenhower / Bradley / Patton attack at Remagen the Rhine
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26 Mar 1945 World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends as the island is officially secured by American forces.
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26 Mar 1945 British premier Churchill looks over at the Rhine (near Ginsberg)
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26 Mar 1945 De Paul wins NIT basketball championship, George Mikan scores 34
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26 Mar 1945 Japanese resistance ends on Iwo Jima
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26 Mar 1945 Kamikazes attack US battle fleet near Kerama Retto
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26 Mar 1945 US 7th Army crosses Rhine at Worms
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26 Mar 1945 Venray soccer team forms
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27 Mar 1945 World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war on the Axis Powers.
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27 Mar 1945 7th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Oklahoma State beats NYU 49-44
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27 Mar 1945 British premier Churchill sails to eastern banks of Rhine
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27 Mar 1945 DePaul beats Bowling Green for NIT title
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27 Mar 1945 Ella Fitzgerald & Delta Rhythm Boys record "It's Only a Paper Moon"
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27 Mar 1945 General Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken
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27 Mar 1945 Iwo Jima occupied, after 22,000 Japanese & 6,000 US killed
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27 Mar 1945 US 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden
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28 Mar 1945 Last German V-1 (buzz bomb) attack on London
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29 Mar 1945 World War II: The German 4th Army is almost destroyed by the Soviet Red Army.
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29 Mar 1945 World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England.
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30 Mar 1945 World War II: Soviet forces invade Austria and capture Vienna; Polish and Soviet forces liberate Danzig.
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30 Mar 1945 289 anti-fascists murdered by Nazis in Rombergpark Dortmund
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30 Mar 1945 USSR invades Austria during WWII
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31 Mar 1945 World War II: A defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands.
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31 Mar 1945 3rd Algerian division crosses the Rhine
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31 Mar 1945 Sicherheitsdienst murders 10 political prisoners in Zutphen
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31 Mar 1945 Tennessee Williams' "Glass Menagerie" premieres in New York NY
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31 Mar 1945 US artillery lands on Keise Shima/begins firing on Okinawa
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01 Apr 1945 1st edition of Indonesia Merdeka publishes
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01 Apr 1945 Canadian troop free Doetinchem, Enschede, Borculo and Eibergen
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01 Apr 1945 Ruhrgebied sealed off by US 1st and 9th army
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01 Apr 1945 Sons of Elburger Soccer team forms in Elburg
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01 Apr 1945 US forces invade Okinawa during WWII
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01 Apr 1945 World War II: Operation Iceberg: United States troops land on Okinawa in the last major campaign of the war.
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02 Apr 1945 1st US units reach east coast of Okinawa
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02 Apr 1945 Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Brazil are established.
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03 Apr 1945 Hengelo freed from Nazi control by Canadian army
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03 Apr 1945 US 1st army conquers Hofgeismar
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04 Apr 1945 Hungary liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)
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04 Apr 1945 US forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany
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04 Apr 1945 US tanks / infantry conquer Bielefeld
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04 Apr 1945 World War II: Soviet troops liberate Hungary from German occupation and occupy the country itself.
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04 Apr 1945 World War II: American troops capture Kassel.
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04 Apr 1945 World War II: American troops liberate Ohrdruf forced labor camp in Germany.
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05 Apr 1945 Almelo Netherlands freed
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05 Apr 1945 Kuniaki Koiso resigns as Prime Minister of Japan; replaced by Kantaro Suzuki
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05 Apr 1945 Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito signs an agreement with the Soviet Union to allow "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory".
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06 Apr 1945 Coevorden freed from Nazis
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06 Apr 1945 Japanese giant battleship Yamato heads to Okinawa
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06 Apr 1945 Massive kamikaze-attack on US battle fleet near Okinawa
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06 Apr 1945 US marines explore Tsugen Shima near Okinawa
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06 Apr 1945 World War II: The Battle of Slater's Knoll on Bougainville comes to an end.
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06 Apr 1945 World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.
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07 Apr 1945 1st and last assault of German Rammkommando on US bombers
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07 Apr 1945 US planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide superbattleship Yamato and four destroyers were sunk
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07 Apr 1945 World War II: Visoko is liberated by the 7th, 9th, and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces.
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07 Apr 1945 World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk by American planes 200 miles north of Okinawa while en route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go.
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08 Apr 1945 Nazi occupiers executed, Nazi general Christiansen flees Netherlands
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08 Apr 1945 World War II: After an air raid accidentally destroys a train carrying about 4,000 Nazi concentration camp internees in Prussian Hanover, the survivors are massacred by Nazis.
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09 Apr 1945 Battleship Admiral Scheer sinks British aircraft carrier
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09 Apr 1945 Liberty ship at Bari Italy carrying aerial bombs explodes, kills 360
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09 Apr 1945 NFL requires players to wear long stockings
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09 Apr 1945 The United States Atomic Energy Commission is formed.
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09 Apr 1945 World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ends.
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09 Apr 1945 World War II: The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer is sunk by the Royal Air Force
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10 Apr 1945 Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald (Czech)
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10 Apr 1945 General Blaskowitz becomes Nazi leader of "Fort Holland"
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10 Apr 1945 US troops liberate Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany
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10 Apr 1945 William Schuman and Antony Tudors ballet premieres in New York City
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10 Apr 1945 NFL's Boston Yanks & Brooklyn Tigers merge
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10 Apr 1945 Canadian troops conquer Deventer
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10 Apr 1945 German troops attack Ijsselbrug
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10 Apr 1945 US troops land on Tsugen Shima Okinawa
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10 Apr 1945 William Schuman & Antony Tudors ballet "Undertow" premieres in NYC
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11 Apr 1945 Allied troops liberate Basket-Compascuum
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11 Apr 1945 US soldiers liberate Nazi concentration camp "Buchenwald"
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11 Apr 1945 World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
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11 Apr 1945 Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald, Germany
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11 Apr 1945 SS burns & shoots 1,100 at Gardelegen
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11 Apr 1945 US captures Tsugen Shima
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11 Apr 1945 US troops conquers M
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12 Apr 1945 Richard Strauss completes his "Metamorphosis"
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12 Apr 1945 US liberates Buchenwald concentration camp
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12 Apr 1945 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office; Vice President Harry Truman, becomes President upon Roosevelt's death.
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12 Apr 1945 Canadian troops liberate Nazi concentration camp Westerbork, Netherlands
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12 Apr 1945 Harry Truman sworn in as 33rd US President
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13 Apr 1945 Canadian army liberates Teuge and Assen (Netherlands) from Nazis
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13 Apr 1945 Red Army occupy Wien (Vienna)
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13 Apr 1945 World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna, Austria.
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13 Apr 1945 World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany.
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13 Apr 1945 Allies occupy Wien (Vienna)
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13 Apr 1945 US marines conquer Minna Shima off Okinawa
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14 Apr 1945 American planes bombed Tokyo and damaged the Imperial Palace
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14 Apr 1945 US 7th Army and allies forces captured Nuremberg and Stuttgart in Germany
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14 Apr 1945 Osijek, Croatia, is liberated from fascist occupation.
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14 Apr 1945 American B-29 incendiary raids on Tokyo & damage the Imperial Palace
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14 Apr 1945 Arnhem/Zwolle freed from Nazis
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14 Apr 1945 US forces conquer Motobu peninsula on Okinawa
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14 Apr 1945 US marines attack Yae Take on Okinawa
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15 Apr 1945 The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.
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15 Apr 1945 FDR buried on grounds of Hyde Park home
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15 Apr 1945 British & Canadian troops liberate Nazi camp of Bergen-Belsen
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15 Apr 1945 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Communium interpretes dolorum
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15 Apr 1945 US troops occupy concentration camp Colditz
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16 Apr 1945 US troops enter Nuremberg, Germany, during WWII
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16 Apr 1945 More than 7,000 die when the German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine.
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16 Apr 1945 The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz).
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16 Apr 1945 World War II: The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin, with nearly one million troops fighting in the Battle of the Seelow Heights.
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16 Apr 1945 German troops in Groningen surrender
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16 Apr 1945 Red Army begins Battle of Berlin
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16 Apr 1945 US troops land on He Shima Okinawa
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17 Apr 1945 World War II: Brazilian forces liberate the town of Montese, Italy, from Nazi forces.
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17 Apr 1945 8th Air Force bombs Dresden
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17 Apr 1945 German occupiers flood Wieringermeer Netherlands
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17 Apr 1945 Mussolini flees from Sal
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17 Apr 1945 US troops lands in Mindanao
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18 Apr 1945 Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany.
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18 Apr 1945 Clandestine Radio 1212, after broadcasting pro-nazi propoganda for months used their influence to trap 350,000 German army group B troops
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18 Apr 1945 1 armed outfielder, St Louis Brown Pete Gray, 1st game he goes 1 for 4
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18 Apr 1945 Epe freed (by corporal G van Aken)
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19 Apr 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Carousel" opens on Broadway
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19 Apr 1945 US offensive against Shuri-barrier on Okinawa
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19 Apr 1945 49th Boston Marathon won by John A Kelley of Massachusetts in 2:30:40.2
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19 Apr 1945 US aircraft carrier Franklin is heavily damaged in Japanese air raid
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20 Apr 1945 Cleveland Browns organization formed by Arthur "Mickey" McBride
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20 Apr 1945 US 7th army captured German city of Nuremberg
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20 Apr 1945 Twenty Jewish children used in medical experiments at Neuengamme are killed in the basement of the Bullenhuser Damm school.
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20 Apr 1945 World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
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20 Apr 1945 World War II: US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
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20 Apr 1945 Soviet troops enter Berlin
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20 Apr 1945 US 7th Army & allies forces capture Nuremberg & Stuttgart in Germany
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20 Apr 1945 German occupiers flood Beemster & Fencer
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20 Apr 1945 US forces conquer Motobu peninsula on Okinawa
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21 Apr 1945 He Shima Okinawa conquered in 5 days, 5,000 die
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21 Apr 1945 World War II: Soviet forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the German High Command headquarters.
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21 Apr 1945 Allied troops occupy German nuclear laboratory
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21 Apr 1945 Ivor Nivello's "Perchance to Dream", premieres in London
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21 Apr 1945 Russian army arrives at outskirts of Berlin
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21 Apr 1945 US 7th Army occupies Neurenberg
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22 Apr 1945 World War II: Führerbunker: After learning that Soviet forces have taken Eberswalde without a fight, Adolf Hitler admits defeat in his underground bunker and states that suicide is his only recourse.
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22 Apr 1945 World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp revolt. Five hundred twenty are killed and 80 escape.
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22 Apr 1945 Concentration Camp at Sachsenhausen liberated
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22 Apr 1945 Stanley Cup Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 3
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23 Apr 1945 World War II: Adolf Hitler's designated successor Hermann Göring sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of the Third Reich, which causes Hitler to replace him with Joseph Goebbels and Karl Dönitz.
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23 Apr 1945 Concentration camp Flossenburg liberated
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23 Apr 1945 US troops in Italy cross river Po
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24 Apr 1945 Albert B "Happy" Chandler is named 2nd baseball commissioner
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24 Apr 1945 Delegates of 46 countries gather in SF (to discuss UN)
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25 Apr 1945 The last German troops retreat from Finland's soil in Lapland, ending the Lapland War. Military acts of Second World War end in Finland.
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25 Apr 1945 Fifty nations gather in San Francisco to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organization.
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25 Apr 1945 Liberation Day (Italy): The Nazi occupation army surrenders and leaves Northern Italy after a general partisan insurrection by the Italian resistance movement; the puppet fascist regime dissolves and Benito Mussolini is captured after trying to escape. This day was set as a public holiday to celebrate the Liberation of Italy.
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25 Apr 1945 Elbe Day: United States and Soviet troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe.
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25 Apr 1945 46 countries convene United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco CA
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25 Apr 1945 Clandestine Radio 1212, used to hoax Nazi Germany's final transmission
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25 Apr 1945 Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany
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25 Apr 1945 US & Soviet forces meet at Torgau Germany on Elbe River
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25 Apr 1945 Allied air raid on Surabaja Java
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25 Apr 1945 British troops reach Grebbe line Netherlands
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25 Apr 1945 Red army completely surrounds Berlin
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26 Apr 1945 World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army are liberated in Baguio City and they fight against the Japanese forces under General Tomoyuki Yamashita.
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26 Apr 1945 World War II: Battle of Bautzen: Last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
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26 Apr 1945 Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, leader of France's Vichy collaborationist regime during WWII, arrested for treason
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27 Apr 1945 World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.
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27 Apr 1945 World War II: German troops are finally expelled from Finnish Lapland.
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27 Apr 1945 2nd Republic of Austria forms
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27 Apr 1945 Italian partisans capture Mussolini prisoner
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27 Apr 1945 US 5th army enters Genua
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28 Apr 1945 Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement.
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28 Apr 1945 British commands attack Elbe & occupies Lauenburg
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28 Apr 1945 US 5th army reaches Swiss border
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29 Apr 1945 Venice and Mestre were captured by the Allies
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29 Apr 1945 The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces.
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29 Apr 1945 The Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.
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29 Apr 1945 World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor. Both Hitler and Braun commit suicide the following day.
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29 Apr 1945 World War II: The Captain-class frigate HMS Goodall (K479) is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet becoming the last ship of the Royal Navy sunk in the European theatre of World War II.
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29 Apr 1945 World War II: Start of Operation Manna.
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29 Apr 1945 World War II: The German army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies.
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29 Apr 1945 1st food drop by RAF above nazi-occupied Holland (operation Manna)
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29 Apr 1945 Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun
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29 Apr 1945 Japanese army evacuates Rangoon
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29 Apr 1945 Terms of surrender of German armies in Italy signed
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29 Apr 1945 US liberates 31,601 in Nazi concentration camp in Dachau Germany
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30 Apr 1945 "Arthur Godfrey Time" begins a 27 year run on CBS radio
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30 Apr 1945 World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for less than 40 hours. Soviet soldiers raise the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building.
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30 Apr 1945 Concentration camp M
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30 Apr 1945 Lord Haw-Haw calls for crusade against the bolsheviks
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30 Apr 1945 Red Army occupies Demmin
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30 Apr 1945 Red Army opens attack on German Reichstag building in Berlin
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30 Apr 1945 Russian Army frees Ravensbr
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30 Apr 1945 US troops attack the Elbe
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01 May 1945 900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren, commit suicide
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01 May 1945 Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government
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01 May 1945 Australian and Dutch troops lands on Tarakan
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01 May 1945 General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms
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01 May 1945 Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WWII
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01 May 1945 Seys-Inquart flees to Flensburg
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01 May 1945 Soviet army reach Rostock
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01 May 1945 World War II: Yugoslav Partisans free Trieste.
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01 May 1945 World War II: Up to 2,500 people die in a mass suicide in Demmin following the advance of the Red Army.
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01 May 1945 World War II: Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda commit suicide in the Reich Garden outside the Führerbunker. Their children are also killed by having cyanide pills inserted into their mouths by their mother, Magda.
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01 May 1945 World War II: A German newsreader officially announces that Adolf Hitler has "fallen at his command post in the Reich Chancellery fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism and for Germany". The Soviet flag is raised over the Reich Chancellery, by order of Stalin.
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02 May 1945 Allies occupy Wismar
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02 May 1945 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina and Princess Juliana reach Gilze-Rijen
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02 May 1945 German Army in Italy surrenders
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02 May 1945 Russia takes Berlin; General Weidling surrenders
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02 May 1945 Yugoslav troops occupy Trieste
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02 May 1945 World War II: The US 82nd Airborne Division liberates Wöbbelin concentration camp finding 1000 dead prisoners, most of whom starved to death.
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02 May 1945 World War II: Italian Campaign: General Heinrich von Vietinghoff signs the official instrument of surrender of all Wehrmacht forces in Italy.
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02 May 1945 World War II: Fall of Berlin: The Soviet Union announces the capture of Berlin and Soviet soldiers hoist their red flag over the Reichstag building.
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03 May 1945 1st Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen
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03 May 1945 Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg
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03 May 1945 British troop join in Rangoon
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03 May 1945 German ship "Cap Arcona" sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed
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03 May 1945 World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the Royal Air Force in Lübeck Bay.
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04 May 1945 German troops in the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway surrender
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04 May 1945 World War II: Denmark is granted liberation, when Germany was forced withdraw from Denmark thus ending five years of occupation.
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04 May 1945 World War II: German surrender at Lüneburg Heath, the North German Army surrenders to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
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04 May 1945 World War II: Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is liberated by the British Army.
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05 May 1945 Netherlands and Denmark liberated from Nazi control
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05 May 1945 Premier Gerbrandy on Radio Orange tells Dutch they are liberated
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05 May 1945 Uprising against SS-occupying troops in Prague
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05 May 1945 World War II: The Prague uprising begins as an attempt by the Czech resistance to free the city from German occupation.
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05 May 1945 World War II: Canadian and British troops liberate the Netherlands and Denmark from German occupation when Wehrmacht troops capitulate.
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06 May 1945 Gen J Blaskowitz surrenders German troops in the Netherlands
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06 May 1945 World War II: The Prague Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front, begins.
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06 May 1945 World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops.
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07 May 1945 Branch Rickey announces formation of the US Negro Baseball League
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07 May 1945 British troops pull into Utrecht Neth
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07 May 1945 Formal undertaking of complete German surrender
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07 May 1945 Nazi generals Jodl and Von Friedenburg surrender
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07 May 1945 Princess Irene Brigade moves into the Hague Neth
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07 May 1945 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Hersey (Bell for Adano)
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07 May 1945 SS open fire on crowd in Amsterdam, killing 22
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08 May 1945 Canadian troops move into Amsterdam
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08 May 1945 Chinese counter attack at Tsjangte, supports by 14th air fleet
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08 May 1945 Gen Von Keitel surrenders to Marshal Zhukov
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08 May 1945 V-E Day; Germany signs unconditional surrender, WWII ends in Europe
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08 May 1945 The Halifax Riot starts when thousands of civilians and servicemen rampage through Halifax.
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08 May 1945 End of the Prague uprising, celebrated now as a national holiday in the Czech Republic.
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08 May 1945 World War II: V-E Day, combat ends in Europe. German forces agree in Reims, France, to an unconditional surrender.
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08 May 1945 Hundreds of Algerian civilians are killed by French Army soldiers in the Sétif massacre.
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09 May 1945 Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)
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09 May 1945 Jersey liberated from Nazis
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09 May 1945 Nazi propagandist Max Blokzijl arrested
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09 May 1945 New balata ball used in baseball, 50% livilier
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09 May 1945 Norwegian Nazi collaborators Vidkun Quisling arrested
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09 May 1945 Victory celebration at Red Square
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09 May 1945 World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation.
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09 May 1945 World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhower's deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.
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10 May 1945 Allies capture Rangoon from the Japanese
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10 May 1945 Russian troops occupy Prague
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11 May 1945 World War II: Off the coast of Okinawa, the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill is hit by two kamikazes, killing 346 of its crew. Although badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under its own power.
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11 May 1945 US marines conquer Awatsha Draw Okinawa
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12 May 1945 Argentinian labour leader José Peter declares the Federación Obrera de la Industria de la Carne dissolved.
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13 May 1945 US troops conquer Dakeshi Okinawa
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14 May 1945 Kamikaze-Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Enterprise
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14 May 1945 US offensive on Okinawa, Sugar Loaf conquered
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15 May 1945 World War II: The Battle of Poljana, the final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia.
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16 May 1945 Violent battles around Sugar Loaf/Half Moon Okinawa
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17 May 1945 2 US P-47 Thunderbolts bomb Kiushu
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18 May 1945 Tigers & A's both have 7 straight games postponed due to rain
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19 May 1945 Start of the 1st Victory Test Cricket between England & Australia Services
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20 May 1945 Keith Miller scores 105 in the 1st Victory Test Cricket at Lord's
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21 May 1945 Australia Services win 1st Victory Test Cricket at Lord's by 6 wickets
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21 May 1945 German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured
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21 May 1945 Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart wed
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22 May 1945 Operation Paperclip: United States Army Major Robert B. Staver recommends that the U.S. evacuate German scientists and engineers to help in the development of rocket technology.
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22 May 1945 6th Marine division reaches suburbs of Naha Okinawa
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22 May 1945 NSB-F
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23 May 1945 Winston Churchill resigns as British Prime Minister
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23 May 1945 World War II: Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Schutzstaffel, commits suicide while in Allied custody.
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23 May 1945 World War II: The Flensburg Government under Reichspräsident Karl Dönitz is dissolved when its members are captured and arrested by British forces at Flensburg in Northern Germany.
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23 May 1945 British military police arrest Admiral Karl Doenitz
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23 May 1945 German island of Helgoland in North Sea surrenders to British
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23 May 1945 Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi leader & Chief of Police, committed suicide
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23 May 1945 Lord Haw-Haw arrested at Danish boundary
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25 May 1945 Arther C Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit
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26 May 1945 US drop fire bombs on Tokyo
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29 May 1945 First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
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29 May 1945 US 1st Marine division conquerors Shuri-castle Okinawa
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01 Jun 1945 WLB-AM in Minneapolis Minn changes call letters to KUOM
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04 Jun 1945 6th Marine division occupies Orokoe Peninsula Okinawa
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04 Jun 1945 US, Russia, England and France agree to split occupied Germany
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05 Jun 1945 Opera "Peter Grimes of Benjamin Britten, " premieres in London
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05 Jun 1945 USA, UK, USSR, France declare supreme authority over Germany
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05 Jun 1945 The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
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06 Jun 1945 "Free People" premieres in Amsterdam
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09 Jun 1945 "Gruesome Twosome, " premieres in USA
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09 Jun 1945 71st Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Hoop Jr wins in 2:07
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09 Jun 1945 Following an 8-7 win over the Phils, Brooklyn manager Leo Durocher is arrested on a complaint by a fan that Durocher slugged him
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10 Jun 1945 US destroyer William D Porter ("Willie Dee") sunk by kamikaze
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10 Jun 1945 Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.
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12 Jun 1945 US 7th Marine regiment conquer summit of Kunishi Ridge, Okinawa
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13 Jun 1945 Heerjansdam soccer team forms
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13 Jun 1945 Orokoe peninsula Okinawa captured, with 6,000 dead
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14 Jun 1945 World War II: Filipino troops of the 15th, 66th and 121st Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL liberate the captured in Ilocos Sur and start the Battle of Bessang Pass in Northern Luzon.
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14 Jun 1945 Rod Argent, rocker (The Zombies-Never Even Thought)
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15 Jun 1945 ANJV established in Concert building, Amsterdam
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15 Jun 1945 Dutch political party ANJV forms
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15 Jun 1945 The General Dutch Youth League (ANJV) is founded in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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16 Jun 1945 71st Preakness: Wayne D Wright aboard Polynesian wins in 1:58.8
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16 Jun 1945 Boo Ferriss loses to Yanks 3-2 after starting his career with 8 wins
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17 Jun 1945 Day of Unity in West Germany (National Day)
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18 Jun 1945 William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) British radio traitor charged with treason
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18 Jun 1945 William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") is charged with treason for his pro-German propaganda broadcasting during World War II.
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20 Jun 1945 The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to America.
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21 Jun 1945 US defeat Japanese forces on Okinawa during WWII
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21 Jun 1945 World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when the organized resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island.
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21 Jun 1945 Japanese forces on Okinawa surrender to US during WW II
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22 Jun 1945 The Battle of Okinawa comes to an end.
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23 Jun 1945 77th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Pavot wins in 2:30.2
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23 Jun 1945 Last organized Japanese defiance broken (Tarakan)
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24 Jun 1945 Schermerhorn government forms
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25 Jun 1945 Allied landing at Ternate Molukkas
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25 Jun 1945 Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo announce fall of Okinawa
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26 Jun 1945 UN Charter signed by 50 nations in San Francisco
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26 Jun 1945 The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
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27 Jun 1945 Foundation 1940-45 established
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28 Jun 1945 Polish Provisional Government of National Unity set up by Soviets
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28 Jun 1945 Poland's Soviet-allied Provisional Government of National Unity is formed over a month after V-E Day.
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29 Jun 1945 20.6 cm rainfall at Litchville North Dakota (state record)
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29 Jun 1945 Carpathian Ruthenia is annexed by the Soviet Union.
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29 Jun 1945 Ruthenia, formerly in Czechoslovakia, becomes part of Ukrainian SSR
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30 Jun 1945 17-day newspaper strike in New York begins
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01 Jul 1945 1st of the superstars returns from the WWII, Hank Greenberg homers
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01 Jul 1945 55th Postmaster General: Robert E Hannegan of Mo takes office
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01 Jul 1945 Allies troop land on Balikpapan
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05 Jul 1945 Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
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05 Jul 1945 World War II: The liberation of the Philippines is declared.
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06 Jul 1945 Nicaragua becomes 1st nation to formally accept UN Charter
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06 Jul 1945 President Truman signs executive order establishing Medal of Freedom
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06 Jul 1945 Washingston Senator Rick Ferrell catches a record 1,722 games
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10 Jul 1945 Lieutenant Admiral Marc Mitscher named chief of US Navy staff
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12 Jul 1945 Cubs stop Braves Tommy Holmes modern-day NL hitting streak at 37 games
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13 Jul 1945 1st atom bomb explodes in New Mexico
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14 Jul 1945 Battleship USS South Dakota is 1st US ship to bombard Japan
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15 Jul 1945 27th PGA Championship: Byron Nelson at Morraine Country Club - Dayton Ohio
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16 Jul 1945 Cruiser Indianapolis leaves SF with atom bomb
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16 Jul 1945 World War II: The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island.
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16 Jul 1945 Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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16 Jul 1945 1st atomic bomb detonated, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico
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17 Jul 1945 World War II: The main three leaders of the Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.
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17 Jul 1945 Potsdam Conference (FDR, Stalin, Churchill) holds 1st meeting
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19 Jul 1945 Edwin Schlossberg, husband of Carolyn Kennedy
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19 Jul 1945 USS Cod saves 51 sailors from Dutch sub in only sub-to-sub rescue
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21 Jul 1945 Detroit Tigers and Philadelphia Athletics play 24 inning 1-1 tie
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21 Jul 1945 Detroit Tigers & Phila A's play 24 inning 1-1 tie
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23 Jul 1945 The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.
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24 Jul 1945 US destroyer Underhill torpedoed West of Guam
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26 Jul 1945 After Labour landslide in general election, Clement Attlee becomes Prime Minister
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26 Jul 1945 Declaration of Potsdam: US / Britain / China demands Japanese surrender
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26 Jul 1945 Japanese government disregards US ultimatum
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26 Jul 1945 US cruiser Indianapolis reaches Tinian with atom bomb
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26 Jul 1945 The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.
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26 Jul 1945 The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany.
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26 Jul 1945 HMS Vestal is the last British Royal Navy ship to be sunk in the Second World War
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26 Jul 1945 The US Navy cruiser USS Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with parts of the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
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26 Jul 1945 Churchill resigns as Britain's PM
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27 Jul 1945 Cubs purchase pitcher Hank Borowy from New York Yankees
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27 Jul 1945 US Communist Party forms
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28 Jul 1945 Japanese Premier Suzuki disregards US ultimatum to surrender
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28 Jul 1945 US Army bomber crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Bldg, 14 die
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28 Jul 1945 US Senate ratifies UN charter 89-2
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29 Jul 1945 After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine
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29 Jul 1945 The BBC Light Programme radio station is launched for mainstream light entertainment and music.
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30 Jul 1945 Philippines Sea: US cruiser Indianapolis torpedoed / sinks, 880 die
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30 Jul 1945 World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen.
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31 Jul 1945 Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
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01 Aug 1945 Mel Ott is 1st in NL to hit 500th HR (joins Babe Ruth & Jimmy Foxx)
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01 Aug 1945 SVBO soccer team forms in Barger-Oosterveld
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02 Aug 1945 Potsdam Conference ended, with Stalin, Truman and Churchill
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02 Aug 1945 World War II: End of the Potsdam Conference.
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04 Aug 1945 Golfer Byron Nelson records most tournament wins (18) in a season
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04 Aug 1945 Red Sox Tom McBride is 3rd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (4th)
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05 Aug 1945 Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (August 6th in Japan)
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06 Aug 1945 Hiroshima Peace Day-atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by "Enola Gay"
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06 Aug 1945 World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.
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08 Aug 1945 England and Aust Services draw 4th Victory Test
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08 Aug 1945 President Harry S Truman signs UN Charter
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08 Aug 1945 US, USSR, England and France sign Treaty of London
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08 Aug 1945 USSR declares war against Japan in WWII
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08 Aug 1945 USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea
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09 Aug 1945 US drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki
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09 Aug 1945 World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. 35,000 people are killed outright, including 23,200-28,200 Japanese war workers, 2,000 Korean forced workers, and 150 Japanese soldiers.
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09 Aug 1945 The Red Army invades Japanese-occupied Manchuria.
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10 Aug 1945 Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies provided the status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged
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11 Aug 1945 Poles in Kraków engage in a pogrom against Jews in the city, killing one and wounding five.
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11 Aug 1945 Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito
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13 Aug 1945 35 Jews sacrifice their lives to blow up Nazi rubber plant in Silesia
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14 Aug 1945 Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender (August 15 in Japan Standard Time).
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14 Aug 1945 The Viet Minh launches August Revolution amid the political confusion and power vacuum engulfing Vietnam.
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14 Aug 1945 V-J Day; Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II
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15 Aug 1945 A riot ensued in SF while the city was celebrating the end of WWII
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15 Aug 1945 Chandler sells World Series radio rights for $150,000 to Gillette, Ford had been World Series sponsor since 1934, pay $100,000 annually
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15 Aug 1945 South Korea liberated from Japanese rule
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15 Aug 1945 US wartime rationing of gasoline & fuel oil ends
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16 Aug 1945 An assassination attempt is made on Japan's prime minister, Kantarō Suzuki.
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16 Aug 1945 Puyi, the last Chinese emperor and ruler of Manchukuo, is captured by Soviet troops.
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16 Aug 1945 The National Representatives' Congress, the precursor of the current National Assembly of Vietnam, convenes in Sơn Dương.
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17 Aug 1945 Indonesia (Dutch E Indies) declares independence from Netherlands
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17 Aug 1945 Koreas divided on 38th parallel with US occupying the southern area
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17 Aug 1945 Indonesia declares independence from Netherlands (National Day)
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18 Aug 1945 Scheduled demonstrations at Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field to end segregation in organized baseball are called off
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19 Aug 1945 Phillies Jimmie Foxx, 37, pitches 1st 7 innings vs. Reds andwins
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20 Aug 1945 Dodgers Tommy Brown, 17, is youngest player to hit a HR
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20 Aug 1945 Robert Hamilton wins PGA golf tournament
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20 Aug 1945 Russian troops occupy Harbin and Mukden
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20 Aug 1945 Tommy Brown, Brooklyn Dodger becomes youngest HR hitter (17)
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21 Aug 1945 President Truman ends Lend-Lease program
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22 Aug 1945 Bob Cristofani scores 110 for Aust Services at Old Trafford
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22 Aug 1945 Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup
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24 Aug 1945 Cleveland ace Bob Feller returns from Navy and strike out 12
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25 Aug 1945 Jewish immigrants are permitted to leave Mauritius for Palestine
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27 Aug 1945 US troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender
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29 Aug 1945 British liberate Hong Kong from Japan
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29 Aug 1945 Gen MacArthur named Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in Japan
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30 Aug 1945 12th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 19, All-Stars 7 (92,753)
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30 Aug 1945 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 9th Symphony
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30 Aug 1945 Gen MacArthur lands in Japan
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30 Aug 1945 Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
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30 Aug 1945 The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
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30 Aug 1945 The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
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30 Aug 1945 The August Revolution ends as Emperor Bảo Đại abdicates, ending the Nguyễn dynasty.
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30 Aug 1945 Hong Kong liberated from Japan
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31 Aug 1945 The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies.
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01 Sep 1945 Japan surrenders ending WWII (US date, 9 / 2 in Japan)
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01 Sep 1945 Phillies Vince DiMaggio ties NL record with 4th grand slam of season
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02 Sep 1945 59th US Womens Tennis: Sarah P Cooke beats Pauline Betz (36 86 64)
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02 Sep 1945 Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independence from France (National Day)
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02 Sep 1945 V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri (WWII ends)
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02 Sep 1945 World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater: the Instrument of Surrender of Japan is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
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02 Sep 1945 Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
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03 Sep 1945 65th US Mens Tennis: Sgt Frank A Parker beats Wm Talbert (14-12 61 62)
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03 Sep 1945 Japanese forces in Philippines surrender to Allies
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03 Sep 1945 A three-day celebration begins in China, following the Victory over Japan Day on September 2.
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04 Sep 1945 Ruben Fine wins 4 simultaneous rapid chess games blindfolded
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04 Sep 1945 US regains possession of Wake Island from Japan
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05 Sep 1945 Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.
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05 Sep 1945 Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
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07 Sep 1945 Japanese at Rioekioe-islands surrender
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07 Sep 1945 Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.
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08 Sep 1945 Hideki Tojo, Japanese Prime Minister during most of WWII, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal attempt fails, later he is hanged
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08 Sep 1945 US invades Japanese-held Korea
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08 Sep 1945 Cold War: United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.
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09 Sep 1945 1st "bug" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweasers from a relay and taped into the log
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09 Sep 1945 Japanese in South Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies
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09 Sep 1945 Jimmie Foxx hits his 534th and final HR
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09 Sep 1945 Philadelphia Athletics Dick Fowler no-hits St. Louis Brown, 1-0
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09 Sep 1945 Second Sino-Japanese War: The Empire of Japan formally surrenders to China.
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10 Sep 1945 KLS-AM in Oakland Ca changes call letters to KWBR (now KDIA)
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10 Sep 1945 Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis
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11 Sep 1945 World War II: Australian 9th Division forces liberate the Japanese-run Batu Lintang camp, a POW and civilian internment camp on the island of Borneo.
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15 Sep 1945 A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond.
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16 Sep 1945 Barometric pressure at 856 mb (25.55") off Okinawa (record low)
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16 Sep 1945 World War II: The surrender of the Japanese troops in Hong Kong is accepted by Royal Navy Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt.
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18 Sep 1945 General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.
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18 Sep 1945 1000 whites walk out of Gary Ind schools to protest integration
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19 Sep 1945 Kim Il Sung arrives in harbor of Wonsan, Korea
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19 Sep 1945 Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) is sentenced to death in London.
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20 Sep 1945 German rocket engineers begin work in US
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22 Sep 1945 Stan Musial gets 5 hits off 5 pitchers on 5 consecutive pitches
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26 Sep 1945 All old Dutch banknotes declared invalid
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28 Sep 1945 "Mildred Price" starring Joan Crawford opens at Strand
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28 Sep 1945 Robert T Duncan appears as Tonio in "I Pagliacci"
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29 Sep 1945 Cubs clinch NL pennant
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30 Sep 1945 The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43
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30 Sep 1945 Hank Greenberg's final day HR wins the pennant for the Tigers
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01 Oct 1945 Heavyweight champ Joe Louis is discharged from army
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01 Oct 1945 US Office of Strategic Serbia (OSS) disbands
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03 Oct 1945 Tigers and Cubs meet in World Series for 4th time
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03 Oct 1945 World Federation of Trade Unions forms; CIO a member
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05 Oct 1945 "Meet the Press" premieres on radio
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05 Oct 1945 Indonesian army forms
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05 Oct 1945 Queen Wilhelmina visits Rotterdam
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05 Oct 1945 Hollywood Black Friday: A six-month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers' studios.
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06 Oct 1945 Memorial for executed unveiled in Terbregge
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06 Oct 1945 Tavern owner "Billy Goat" Sianis buys seat for his goat for Game 4 of World Series and is escorted out, he casts goat curse on Cubs
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06 Oct 1945 Baseball: Billy Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series.
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08 Oct 1945 Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada
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09 Oct 1945 British troops occupy Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal
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09 Oct 1945 Parade in NYC for Fleet Admiral Nimitz and 13 USN/USMC Medal of Honor recipients
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10 Oct 1945 The Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang signed a principle agreement in Chongqing about the future of post-war China. Later, the pact is commonly referred to as the Double Tenth Agreement.
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10 Oct 1945 Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 3 in 42nd World Series
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11 Oct 1945 JPL WAC Corporal Launch (1st Man-Made Object to escape Atmosphere)
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11 Oct 1945 Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-Shek vs Mao Tse-Tung
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12 Oct 1945 World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.
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14 Oct 1945 Chicago Cardinals end a record 29-game losing streak, beat Bears
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15 Oct 1945 Baseball Attendance hits record 10.28 million (Tigers 1.28 is highest)
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15 Oct 1945 World War II: The former premier of Vichy France Pierre Laval is shot by a firing squad for treason.
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16 Oct 1945 The Food and Agriculture Organization is founded in Quebec City, Canada.
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16 Oct 1945 UN's Food & Agriculture Organization comes into existence
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17 Oct 1945 A massive number of people, headed by CGT, gather in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, Argentina to demand Juan Perón's release. It calls "el día de la lealtad peronista" (peronista loyalty day)
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17 Oct 1945 Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens becomes Prime Minister of Greece between the pull-out of the German occupation force in 1944 and the return of King Georgios II to Greece.
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17 Oct 1945 Juan Per
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18 Oct 1945 Nazi war crime trial opens in Nuremberg
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18 Oct 1945 Paul Robeson wins Spingarn Medal for singing and acting achievements
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18 Oct 1945 The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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18 Oct 1945 A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, stages a coup d'état against president Isaías Medina Angarita, who is overthrown by the end of the day.
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18 Oct 1945 Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón marries actress Eva "Evita" Duarte.
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20 Oct 1945 Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Lawrence opens trial of Neurenberg
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21 Oct 1945 Women's suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time.
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21 Oct 1945 Women in France allowed to vote for 1st time
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23 Oct 1945 Jackie Robinson signs Montr
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24 Oct 1945 Charter of United Nations of force became
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24 Oct 1945 France (PC / PS / MRP win parliamentary election (25 / 24 / 23%)
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24 Oct 1945 UN charter comes into effect
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24 Oct 1945 Founding of the United Nations.
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24 Oct 1945 United Nations Charter becomes effective
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25 Oct 1945 Japanese surrender Taiwan to General Chiang Kai-shek
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25 Oct 1945 The Republic of China takes over administration of Taiwan following Japan's surrender to the Allies.
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27 Oct 1945 "Carib Song" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 36 performances
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27 Oct 1945 1st edition of Elseviers Weekly newspaper (Elseviers Magazine)
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29 Oct 1945 Happy Chandler, resigns as US Senator, remains as baseball commish
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29 Oct 1945 Getúlio Vargas, president of Brazil, resigns.
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29 Oct 1945 1st ball point pen goes on sale, 57 years after it was patented
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30 Oct 1945 Branch Rickey signs Jackie Robinson to a Montreal Royals
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30 Oct 1945 Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.
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30 Oct 1945 US government announces end of shoe rationing
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01 Nov 1945 1st issue of Ebony magazine published by John H Johnson
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01 Nov 1945 The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro.
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01 Nov 1945 Australia joins the United Nations.
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05 Nov 1945 Colombia joins the United Nations.
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06 Nov 1945 HUAC begins investigation of 7 radio commentators
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08 Nov 1945 "Girl from Nantucket" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 12 performances
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08 Nov 1945 Riverboat sinks off Hong Kong; kills 1,550
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10 Nov 1945 "Are You with It?" opens at Century Theater NYC for 264 performances
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10 Nov 1945 Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald liberated by US
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10 Nov 1945 College football's #1 Army beats #2 Notre Dame 48-0
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10 Nov 1945 General Enver Hoxha becomes leader of Albania
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12 Nov 1945 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN)
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13 Nov 1945 Australian Services draw 1st Victory Test against India
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14 Nov 1945 Java: Sutan Sjahrir appointed as forming government
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15 Nov 1945 The rules are revised for election of modern players to the Hall of
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16 Nov 1945 Yeshiva College (University), chartered in NY, 1st US Jewish College
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17 Nov 1945 "Girl from Nantucket" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 12 performances
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17 Nov 1945 New world air speed record 606 mph (975 kph) set by HJ Wilson of RAF
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20 Nov 1945 Queen Wilhelmina opens parliament in Hague
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20 Nov 1945 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany
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21 Nov 1945 General Motors workers go on strike
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22 Nov 1945 "Day before Spring" opens at National Theater NYC for 167 performances
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22 Nov 1945 Jim Benton, Cleveland end, gains 303 yards (NFL record)
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23 Nov 1945 Most US wartime rationing of foods, including meat and butter, ends
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26 Nov 1945 During snow storm, school bus crashes, killing 15 (Washington)
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27 Nov 1945 Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft re-buried in presence of Queen Wilhelmina
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27 Nov 1945 Hannie Buy buried in presence of Queen Wilhelmina
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27 Nov 1945 Trial against NSB-leader Mussert begins
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27 Nov 1945 Gen George C Marshall named special US envoy to China
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29 Nov 1945 Yugoslavian Socialist Republic proclaimed
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29 Nov 1945 The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia is declared.
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29 Nov 1945 Monarchy abolished as Yugoslavia proclaims it's republic
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30 Nov 1945 33rd CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 35-0
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01 Dec 1945 CFL Grey Cup: Toronto beats Winnipeg, 35-0 at Toronto
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04 Dec 1945 11th Heisman Trophy Award: Doc Blanchard, Army (FB)
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04 Dec 1945 Senate approves US participation in UN
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04 Dec 1945 By a vote of 65 to 7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations. (The UN had been established on October 24, 1945.)
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05 Dec 1945 "Lost Squadron" crashes east of Florida (Bermuda Triangle)
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05 Dec 1945 Special Council of Annulment affirms death sentence of Max Blokzijl
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05 Dec 1945 Flight 19 is lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
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07 Dec 1945 Microwave oven patented
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10 Dec 1945 Australian Services lose 3rd Victory Test Cricket to India by 6 wickets
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10 Dec 1945 Preston Tucker reveals plan to produce the Torpedo, a new 150 MPH car
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11 Dec 1945 Het Parool publishes 1st Captain Rob-strip
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12 Dec 1945 Special Court of justice convicts NSB-leader Mussert to death
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14 Dec 1945 Elmer Rice's "Dream Girl" premieres in New York NY
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15 Dec 1945 Occupation of Japan: General Douglas MacArthur orders that Shinto be abolished as the state religion of Japan.
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15 Dec 1945 John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, ordained as a priest
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16 Dec 1945 Cleveland Rams win NFL championship
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18 Dec 1945 Uruguay joins UN
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18 Dec 1945 Uruguay joins the United Nations
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19 Dec 1945 Austrian Republic re-establishes
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19 Dec 1945 Jean Giraudoux' "La Folle de Chaillot" premieres in Paris
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20 Dec 1945 Rationing of auto tires ends in US
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21 Dec 1945 "Billion Dollar Baby" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 219 performances
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21 Dec 1945 Gould/Comden/Green's "Billion Dollar Baby" premieres at Alvin Theater NYC for 219 performances
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22 Dec 1945 Utrecht: Catholic People's party (KVP) established
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23 Dec 1945 Frederick Astons "Cinderella" premieres in London
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23 Dec 1945 Pope Pius XII encyclical Orientals omnes, about Rutheense church
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27 Dec 1945 The World Bank and International Monetary Fund are created with the signing of an agreement by 29 nations.
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27 Dec 1945 International Monetary Fund established - World Bank founded
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27 Dec 1945 Arthur Laurent's "Home of the Brave" premieres in New York NY
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28 Dec 1945 Congress officially recognizes "Pledge of Allegiance"
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31 Dec 1945 Ratification of the UN Charter completed
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31 Dec 1945 Bradman scores 112, his 1st post-War century, South Africa vs Australia Services
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