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1945 Historical Event(s)
February 9, 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.
February 13, 1945
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rooster in Chinese astrology.
February 23, 1945
– World War II: The 11th Airborne Division, with Filipino guerrillas, free the captives of the Los Baños internment camp.
March 9, 1945
– The Bombing of Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces began, one of the most destructive bombing raids in history.
March 11, 1945
– World War II: The Empire of Vietnam, a short-lived puppet state, is established with Bảo Đại as its ruler.
March 31, 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.
April 15, 1945
– The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.
May 8, 1945
– World War II: V-E Day, combat ends in Europe. German forces agree in Rheims, France, to an unconditional surrender.
July 31, 1945
– Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
December 15, 1945
– Occupation of Japan: General Douglas MacArthur orders that Shinto be abolished as the state religion of Japan.
Who Were Born On 1945?
April 9, 1945
– Steve Gadd, American session drummer
April 24, 1945
– Doug Riley, Canadian musician (d. 2007)
June 9, 1945
– Luis Ocaña, Spanish cyclist (d. 1994)
June 28, 1945
– David Knights, English bassist (Procol Harum)
August 22, 1945
– Erol Gelenbe, Turkish computer scientist and mathematician
September 10, 1945
– Mike Mullane, American astronaut
September 17, 1945
– Phil Jackson, American basketball player and NBA head coach
September 23, 1945
– Igor Ivanov, Russian politician