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(''' MCMXLV ''') was a Common Year Starting On Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar).
- Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill leave to meet with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference .
- agrees to enter the Pacific Theatre conflict against Japan .
- Franklin D. Roosevelt , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin begin the Yalta Conference (ends February 11 )
- February 6 - French writer Robert Brasillach executed for Collaboration with the Germans
- returns to Manila
- February 9 - Walter Ulbricht becomes the leader of German Communists in Moscow
- sunk by the Soviet Submarine S-13 .
- forces capture Budapest , Hungary from the Nazis .
- bombs Dresden , Germany .
- February 14 - Chile , Ecuador , Paraguay and Peru join the United Nations .
- island in the Philippines .
- February 16 - American forces recapture the Bataan Peninsula
- - about 30,000 United States Marine s landed on Iwo Jima starting the battle.
- February 21 - Last launch of an A4-rocket at Peenemünde
- , a group of United States Marine s reach the top of Mount Surabachi on the island and are photographed raising the American Flag . The photo will later win a Pulitzer Prize .
- , Manila, is liberated by American forces.
- , city is liberated by Red Army and Polish forces.
- February 24 - Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.
- March 1 - Jesse Holman Jones starts his term of office as U.S. Secretary Of Commerce , serving under President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- March 2 - Launch of the Natter from Stetten Am Kalten Markt . The Natter was the first manned rocket and developed as anti-aircraft weapon. The launch failed and the pilot died.
- declares war on the Axis Powers .
- March 3 - A possible experimental atomic test blast occurs at the Nazis' Ohrdruf military testing area {Link without Title} .
- March 6 - Communist-led government formed in Romania
- at Remagen , Germany and begin to cross.
- March 8 - Josip Broz Tito forms a government in Yugoslavia
- bombers attack Japan with Incendiary Bomb s. Tokyo is Fire-bomb ed killing 100,000 citizens.
- ends but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist.
- city of Kobe is Fire-bomb ed by 331 B-29 bombers, killing over 8,000.
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- orders that all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany be destroyed.
- March 19 - Off the coast of Japan , bombers hit the Aircraft Carrier USS ''Franklin'' , killing 800 of her crew and crippling the ship.
- troops liberate Mandalay , Burma
- March 22 - The Arab League was formed with the adoption of a charter in Cairo , Egypt .
- and Bob Kurland duelled at Madison Square Garden . OSU defeats DePaul 52-44.
- forces invade Austria and take Vienna . Alger Hiss congratulated in Moscow for his part in bringing about the Western Betrayal at the Yalta Conference .
- From February 14 , 1936 , to March 1 , 1945, AG Weser launched a total of 162 U-boats .
- troops land on Okinawa in the last campaign of the war. The Battle Of Okinawa starts.
- Death Camp in Germany .
- is sunk 200 miles north of Okinawa while in-route to a suicide mission.
- April 7 - Kantaro Suzuki becomes the Prime Minister Of Japan
- April 9 - Abwehr conspirators Wilhelm Canaris , Hans Oster , and Hans Dohanyi are hanged at Flossenberg Concentration Camp along with pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer .
- April 10 - The Allied Forces liberated their first Nazi Concentration Camp , Buchenwald .
- April 12 - United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ( 1933 -1945) dies suddenly at Warm Springs, Georgia ; Vice President Harry S. Truman (1945- 1953 ) takes the Oath of Office.
- April 15 - Bergen-Belsen concentration camp liberated.
- April 16 - Singer Priscilla Paris , of the Paris Sisters, was born in San Francisco
- sunk by the Soviet Submarine L-3 .
- April 25 - Founding negotiations of United Nations in San Francisco
- , United States and Soviet troops link up at the Elbe River , cutting Germany in two
- April 26 - last "successful" german panzer-offensive in Bautzen , the city is recaptured
- April 27 - U.S. Ordinance troops find the coffins of Frederick Wilhelm I, Frederick the Great, Paul Von Hindenburg ,and his wife
- April 28 - Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci , are executed by Italian partisans as they attempt to flee the country. Their bodies are then hung by their heels in the public square of Milan .
- April 29 - Start of Operation Manna .
- April 30 - Adolf Hitler and his wife of one day, Eva Braun , Commit Suicide as Red Army approaches Führerbunker in Berlin . Karl Dönitz succeeds Hitler as President Of Germany . Joseph Goebbels succeeds Hitler as Chancellor Of Germany .
- May 1 - Joseph Goebbels and his wife commit suicide after killing their 6 children. Karl Dönitz appoints Count Lutz Schwerin Von Krosigk as the new Chancellor Of Germany .
- 4th Army together with Slovene 9th Corpus NOV enter Trieste .
- announces the Fall Of Berlin . Soviet soldiers hoist the Red Flag over the ''Reichstag'' Building .
- 2nd Division enter Trieste a day after the Yugoslavs . German Army in Trieste surrenders to the New Zealand Army .
- May 2 - The last postage stamp utilized by Manzhouguo is issued.
- Cap Arcona , Thielbek and Deutschland by the RAF in the Lübeck Bay.
- May 3 - Rocket scientist Wernher Von Braun and 120 members of his team surrender to US forces. They later help start the US space program.
- Neuengamme near Hamburg by the British army.
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- May 4 - World War II: Holland liberated by Canadian troops. {Link without Title}
- uprising against the Nazis.
- May 5 - Ezra Pound , poet and author, is arrested by American soldiers in Italy for treason.
- - including Simon Wiesenthal
- soldiers liberate the city of Amsterdam from Nazi occupation.
- orders all U-boat s to cease offensive operations and return to their bases.
- killed five children and a woman, Elsie Mitchell near Bly, Oregon , when it exploded as they dragged it from the woods. They were the only people killed by enemy attack on the United States mainland during World War II .
- delivers her last Propaganda broadcast to Allied troops (first was on December 11 , 1941 ).
- signs unconditional surrender terms at Reims , France , ending Germany 's participation in the war. The document will take effect the next day.
- (Victory in Europe, as Nazi Germany surrenders) commemorates the end of World War II in Europe .
- and Klagenfurt .
- May 8 - May 29 - In Algeria , thousands die as French troops and released Italian POW's brutally kill what is estimated as 45 thousand Algerian citizens (setif Rebellion) .in the biggest massacre in the world along with Hiroshima.
- is captured by the United States Army ; Norway arrests Vidkun Quisling ; Soviet Union marks V-E Day .
- enters Prague (capitulation of German occupation troops)
- Commander of German Army Group E near Topolšica , Slovenia , signs capitulation of German occupation troops.
- ends with the liberation by British troops. Alderney , annex of the Concentration Camp Neuengamme liberated.
- Army capitulates to the New Zealand Army , in Trieste and hands over the city.
- near Slovenj Gradec , Slovenia
- May 18 - The Death of the second KKK founder William Joseph Simmons . William died in Atlanta . He is survived by his wife.
- May 23 - President Of Germany Karl Dönitz and Chancellor Of Germany Count Lutz Schwerin Von Krosigk are arrested by British forces at Flensburg . They would respectively be the last German Head Of State and Head Of Government until 1949 .
- May 23 - Heinrich Himmler , the head of the Nazi Gestapo , commits suicide in British custody.
- May 25 - In Atlantic, ships can finally keep their lights lit. Leo Szilard begs Harry S. Truman not to use the bomb. {Link without Title}
- May 28 - William Joyce , known as " Lord Haw-Haw " is captured. He is later charged with high treason in London for his English-language wartime broadcasts on German radio. He is hanged in January of 1946.
- May 29 - Group of German communists, Ulbricht in the lead, arrive in Berlin
- May 30 - Iran ian government demands that Soviet and British troops leave the country
- July 1 - World War II : Germany is divided between Allied occupation forces
- declared.
- informed that Japan will talk peace if she can keep the Emperor. {Link without Title}
- July 9 - A Forest Fire breaks out in the Tillamook Burn , the third fire in that area since 1933.
- , the first test of an Atomic Bomb , using 6 kilograms of Plutonium , succeeds in detonating, unleashing an explosion equivalent to that of 19 kilotons of TNT.
- - At Potsdam , the three main Allied leaders begin their final summit of the war. The meeting will end on August 2 .
- approves order for atomic bombs to be used. {Link without Title}
- , who headed the Vichy Government during World War II goes on trial, charged with treason.
- July 26 - Winston Churchill resigns as Britain 's prime minister after his Conservative Party is soundly defeated by the Labour Party in the 1945 General Election . Clement Attlee becomes the new prime minister.
- July 26 - Potsdam Declaration demands Japan's unconditional surrender; Article 12 permitting Japan to retain the Emperor had been deleted by Truman. {Link without Title}
- July 28 - An Army Air Forces B-25 bomber accidentally crashes into the Empire State Building , killing 14 people.
- rejects Potsdam Declaration {Link without Title} .
- July 29 - The BBC Light Programme Radio Station was launched, aimed at Mainstream light entertainment and Music .
- is hit and sunk by the Japan ese submarine ''I 58''. Some 900 survivors jump into the sea and are adrift for 4 days. Nearly 600 die before help arrives. Captain Charles Butler MacVey III is later court-martialed.
- , fugitive former leader of Vichy France , surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
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- October 1 - to October 15 - Launch of three A4 Rocket s near Cuxhaven in order to show Allied forces the rocket with liquid fuel ( Operation Backfire )
- October 5 - A strike by the Set Decorator's Union in Hollywood results in Riot
- October 10 - Russian code clerk Igor Gouzenko defects to Canada . He helps the West gain an understanding of Soviet spy rings in North America .
- , Pierre Laval , is executed by Firing Squad for Treason .
- October 17 - Colonel Juan Peron stages a Coup D'état , becoming ruler of Argentina .
- October 18 - The first German War Crimes trial begins in Nuremberg .
- October 18 - Isaías Medina Angarita , president of Venezuela , is overthrown by a Military Coup .
- for the first time.
- October 23 - Jackie Robinson signs a contract with the Montreal Royals .
- October 24 - United Nations founded.
- October 24 - Norwegian Nazi leader, Vidkun Quisling , is shot by Firing Squad for Treason .
- October 27 - Indonesia n separatists riot and fight Dutch and British security forces.
- October 29 - Getulio Vargas , president of Brazil , resigns.
- October 29 - At Gimbels Department Store in New York City , the first Ballpoint Pen s go on sale at $12.50 each.
- Arthur C. Clarke puts forward the idea of a communications Satellite in a ''Wireless World'' magazine article.
- At the Mayo Clinic , Streptomycin is first used to treat Tuberculosis .
- Percy Spencer accidentally discovers that microwaves can heat food. Invention of the Microwave Oven follows.
- Grand Rapids, Michigan and Newburgh, New York become the first cities to Add Fluoride To Drinking Water .
- The first nuclear reactor outside of the U.S. is built in Chalk River , Ontario , Canada .
- High-altitude, west-to-east winds across the Pacific Ocean — discovered by the Japanese in 1942 and by Americans in 1944 — are dubbed the '' Jet Stream ''.
- Salvador Edward Luria and Alfred Day Hershey independently recognize that Virus es undergo Mutation s.
- The Herbicide 2,4-D is introduced; it is later used as a component of Agent Orange .
- A team led by Charles DuBois Coryell discovers Chemical Element 61, the only one still missing between 1 and 96 on the Periodic Table . The new element is called Promethium .
- Raymond Libby develops oral Penicillin .
- American Canamid discovers Folic Acid , a Vitamin abundent in green leafy vegetables, Liver , Kidney , and Yeast .
- The first Geothermal Milk Pasteurization occurs in Klamath Falls , Oregon , USA .
- January 3 - Victoria Principal , American actress
- January 3 - Stephen Stills , American singer and songwriter ( Crosby, Stills, Nash And Young )
- January 4 - Richard R. Schrock , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- January 10 - Rod Stewart , English singer
- January 15 - Princess Michael Of Kent
- January 26 - Jacqueline Du Pré , English cellist (d. 1987 )
- January 27 - Harold Cardinal , Cree political leader, writer, and lawyer (d. 2005 )
- January 29 - Jim Nicholson , Northern Irish politician
- January 29 - Tom Selleck , American actor
- January 30 - Michael Dorris , American author (d. 1997 )
- January 31 - Joseph Kosuth , American conceptual artist
- February 3 - Bob Griese , American football player
- February 5 - Charlotte Rampling , English actress
- February 6 - Bob Marley , Jamaican singer and musician (d. 1981 )
- February 7 - Gerald Davies , Welsh rugby player
- February 7 - Pete Postlethwaite , English actor
- February 9 - Mia Farrow , American actress
- February 14 - Prince Hans-Adam II Of Liechtenstein
- February 17 - Brenda Fricker , Irish actress
- February 27 - Carl Anderson , American singer and actor (d. 2004 )
- February 28 - Bubba Smith , American football player and actor
- March 1 - Dirk Benedict , American actor
- March 4 - Dieter Meier , Swiss singer and children book writer
- March 4 - Tommy Svensson , Swedish football manager and former player
- March 4 - Gary Williams , Head coach of the University of Maryland's Men's basketball team
- March 7 - John Heard , American actor
- March 8 - Jim Chapman , American politician
- March 8 - Micky Dolenz , American actor, director, and musician ( The Monkees )
- March 8 - Anselm Kiefer , German painter
- March 9 - Dennis Rader , American serial killer
- March 19 - Cem Karaca , Turkish musician
- March 26 - Mikhail Voronin , Russian gymnast (d. 2004 )
- March 29 - Walt Frazier , American basketball player
- March 30 - Eric Clapton , English guitarist
- April 2 - Linda Hunt , American actress
- April 4 - Daniel Cohn-Bendit , French activist
- April 9 - Peter Gammons , baseball sportswriter
- April 13 - Tony Dow , American actor, producer, and director
- April 13 - Lowell George , American musician ( Little Feat )
- April 13 - Bob Kalsu , American football player (d. 1970 )
- April 20 - Frank DiLeo , American actor
- April 25 - Björn Ulvaeus , Swedish songwriter ( ABBA )
- April 27 - August Wilson , American playwright
- May 1 - Rita Coolidge , American singer
- May 2 - Sarah Weddington , American attorney
- May 4 - Narasinham Ram , Indian journalist
- May 6 - Jimmie Dale Gilmore , American musician
- May 6 - Bob Seger , American singer
- May 8 - Keith Jarrett , American musician
- May 15 - Duarte Pio, Duke Of Braganza , heir to the Portuguese crown
- May 16 - Nicky Chinn , songwriter ( The Sweet , Suzi Quatro )
- May 17 - Tony Roche , Australian tennis player
- May 19 - Pete Townshend , English guitarist and lyricist
- May 21 - Ernst Messerschmid , German physicist and astronaut
- May 23 - Doris Mae Oulton , Canadian community developer
- May 24 - Priscilla Presley , American actress
- May 28 - John Fogerty , American singer
- May 28 - Gary Stewart , American singer (d. 2003 )
- May 31 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder , German film director
- June 1 - Frederica Von Stade , American mezzo-soprano
- June 12 - Pat Jennings , Northern Irish footballer
- June 17 - Frank Ashmore , American actor
- June 17 - Art Bell , American radio talk show host
- June 17 - Anupam Kher , Indian actor
- June 17 - Eddy Merckx , Belgian cyclist
- June 19 - Aung San Suu Kyi , Myanmar poet, politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- June 25 - Carly Simon , American singer and songwriter
- June 26 - Dwight York , American musician, fashion consultant, cult leader, and child molester
- July 1 - Debbie Harry , American singer ( Blondie )
- July 7 - Michael Ancram , British politician
- July 8 - Micheline Calmy-Rey , Swiss Federal Councilor
- July 9 - Dean R. Koontz , American writer
- July 15 - Jürgen Möllemann , German politician (d. 2003 )
- July 16 - Victor Sloan , Irish artist
- July 17 - Alexander, Crown Prince Of Yugoslavia
- July 24 - Azim Premji , Indian businessman
- July 28 - Jim Davis , American cartoonist
- July 28 - Richard Wright , English keyboardist ( Pink Floyd )
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