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•  February 13, 1945 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rooster in Chinese astrology.
•  March 18, 1945 – World War II: 1,250 American bombers attack Berlin.
•  March 27, 1945 – World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan’s ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war to the Axis Powers.
•  April 6, 1945 – World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.
•  April 12, 1945 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office; vice-president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President.
•  April 17, 1945 – Brazilian forces liberate the town of Montese, Italy, from German Nazi forces.
•  June 22, 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.
•  August 16, 1945 – Puyi, the last Chinese emperor and ruler of Manchukuo, is captured by Soviet troops.
•  October 6, 1945 – Baseball: Billy Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series (see Curse of the Billy Goat).
•  October 17, 1945 – A massive number of people, headed by CGT and Evita, gather in the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina to demand Juan Peron’s release. It calls “el día de la lealtad peronista” (peronista loyalty day)

•  January 16, 1945 – Wim Suurbier, Dutch footballer
•  January 20, 1945 – Robert Olen Butler, American writer
•  March 4, 1945 – Frank Novak, American actor
•  March 9, 1945 – Robert Calvert, English singer (Hawkwind) (d. 1988)
•  July 6, 1945 – Burt Ward, American actor
•  July 26, 1945 – Betty Davis, American funk, rock and soul singer
•  September 10, 1945 – Gerard Henderson, Australian public affairs columnist and commentator
•  September 27, 1945 – Bob Spiers, British television director (d. 2008)
•  December 9, 1945 – Matti Mäntylä, Finnish actor
•  December 26, 1945 – John Walsh, American talk show host