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1945 Calendar

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•  January 9, 1945 – World War II: The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines.
•  January 31, 1945 – US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.
•  February 4, 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.
•  February 13, 1945 – World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment.
•  March 11, 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.
•  March 21, 1945 – World War II: Operation Carthage – British planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also hit a school and 125 civilians are killed.
•  April 4, 1945 – World War II: Soviet Army takes control of Hungary.
•  April 20, 1945 – World War II: US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
•  April 25, 1945 – Fifty nations gather in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organizations.

•  January 5, 1945 – Roger Spottiswoode, Canadian-born film director
•  February 12, 1945 – Maud Adams, Swedish actress
•  April 5, 1945 – Tommy Smith, English footballer
•  June 2, 1945 – Jon Peters, American film producer and hairdresser
•  June 9, 1945 – Nike Wagner, German art festival director
•  August 29, 1945 – Wyomia Tyus, American athlete
•  September 26, 1945 – Louise Beaudoin, French-Canadian politician
•  October 1, 1945 – Ellen McIlwaine, American singer/songwriter
•  October 15, 1945 – Jim Palmer, American baseball player
•  October 25, 1945 – Peter Ledger, Australian artist (d. 1994)