1945 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1945?
- January 25, 1945 – World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends.
- January 30, 1945 – World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: 126 American Rangers and Filipino resistance liberate 500 prisoners from the Cabanatuan POW camp.
- February 13, 1945 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- March 4, 1945 – Lapland War: Finland declares war on Nazi Germany.
- March 6, 1945 – Cologne is captured by American Troops.
- March 19, 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.
- March 21, 1945 – World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.
- March 22, 1945 – The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
- April 5, 1945 – Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip “Tito” Broz signs an agreement with the Soviet Union to allow “temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory”.
- April 9, 1945 – World War II: The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer is sunk.
- April 16, 1945 – The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz).
- April 29, 1945 – The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces.
- June 5, 1945 – The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
- July 23, 1945 – The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.
- August 8, 1945 – World War II: The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and begins the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation.
- August 15, 1945 – World War II: Japan surrenders to end the war.
- August 17, 1945 – Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta proclaim the independence of Indonesia, igniting the Indonesian National Revolution against the Dutch Empire.
- September 16, 1945 – World War II: The surrender of the Japanese troops in Hong Kong. The surrender is accepted by the Royal Navy Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt.
- October 17, 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.
- December 4, 1945 – By a vote of 65 to 7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations (the UN is established on October 24, 1945).
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