Historical Events in 1945 (Part 3)

Events 401 - 600 of 636

• Jun 9 -10] Australian troops land in Brunei Bay, North Borneo

• Jun 9 Warner Bros cartoon "A Gruesome Twosome" starring Tweety premieres in USA
• Jun 10 US destroyer William D Porter ("Willie Dee") sunk by kamikaze
• Jun 12 US 7th Marine regiment conquer summit of Kunishi Ridge, Okinawa
• Jun 13 Heerjansdam soccer team forms
• Jun 13 Orokoe peninsula Okinawa captured, with 6,000 dead
• Jun 15 Dutch political party ANJV established in Concert building, Amsterdam
• Jun 16 Boo Ferriss loses to Yanks 3-2 after starting his career with 8 wins
• Jun 17 Day of Unity in West Germany (National Day)

• Jun 19 El Teniente Mine accident [Smoke Tragedy] 355 men die from smoke inhalation from a fire in the Andes, Chile

• Jun 21 US defeat Japanese forces on Okinawa
• Jun 23 Last organized Japanese defiance broken (Tarakan)
• Jun 24 Schermerhorn government forms in the Netherlands
• Jun 24 The Moscow Victory Parade takes place
• Jun 25 Allied landing at Ternate, capital of the Maluku Islands in modern day Indonesia
• Jun 25 Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo announce fall of Okinawa
• Jun 26 England win the second Victory test cricket at Bramall Lane by 41 runs

• Jun 27 Foundation 1940-45 established
• Jun 28 Polish Provisional government of National Unity set up by Soviets
• Jun 29 20.6 cm rainfall at Litchville North Dakota (state record)
• Jun 29 Ruthenia, formerly in Czechoslovakia, annexed by Soviet Union, becomes Ukrainian SSR
• Jun 30 17-day newspaper strike in NY begins
• Jul 1 55th Postmaster General: Robert E Hannegan of Mo takes office
• Jul 1 Allies troop land on Balikpapan

• Jul 4 Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson gives Britain's agreement to use the atomic bomb against Japan at the Combined Policy Committee in Washington D. C.

• Jul 5 World War II: Liberation of the Philippines declared

• Jul 6 Nicaragua becomes 1st nation to ratify the Charter of the United Nations
• Jul 6 US President Harry Truman signs executive order establishing Medal of Freedom

• Jul 10 Admiral Marc Mitscher named chief of US Navy staff
• Jul 12 Chicago Cubs beat Boston, 6-1 to halt Braves outfielder Tommy Holmes' modern-day record NL hitting streak at 37 games
• Jul 14 Battleship USS South Dakota is 1st US ship to bombard Japan

• Jul 16 Australian Services win 3rd Victory Test Cricket by 4 wickets
• Jul 16 Cruiser Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with atom bomb

• Jul 19 USS Cod saves 51 sailors from Dutch sub in only sub-to-sub rescue
• Jul 21 Detroit Tigers and Philadelphia A's play 24 inning 1-1 tie

• Jul 24 WWII: Suicide attack by Japanese Kaiten manned torpedo sinks US Navy destroyer USS Underhill west of Guam; nearly half of the 234 crew was killed
• Jul 26 After Labour landslide in general election, Clement Attlee becomes British Prime Minister

• Jul 26 Japanese government disregards US ultimatum

• Jul 26 US cruiser Indianapolis reaches Tinian with atom bomb

• Jul 27 Cubs purchase pitcher Hank Borowy from NY Yankees
• Jul 27 US Communist Party forms
• Jul 28 "Elevator girl" Betty Lou Oliver survives falling 75 stories after fog causes a US bomber plane to crash into the Empire State Building, breaking the cables supporting the elevator she was operating. This remains a world record for the longest survived elevator fall
• Jul 28 Japanese premier Suzuki disregards US ultimatum to surrender

• Jul 28 US Army B-25 crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Bldg, 14 die
• Jul 28 US Senate ratifies United Nations charter 89-2

• Aug 1 Japanese city Toyama destroyed by B-29's

• Aug 2 After 3½ days suffering exhaustion, lack of water and shark attacks in the Philippine Sea, the surviving crew of USS Indianapolis are spotted by Wilbur “Chuck” Gwinn, a PV-1 Ventura pilot on a routine sector search. 316 had survived.

• Aug 4 Red Sox outfielder Tom McBride drives in MLB record tying 6 runs in an inning (4th) during 15-4 win v Washington

• Aug 8 England & Australian Services draw 4th Victory Test

• Aug 8 USSR declares war against Japan in WW II
• Aug 8 USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea
• Aug 9 US drops second atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Nagasaki, Japan, destroying part of the city

• Aug 11 Allies refuse Japan's offer to surrender on the condition that Emperor Hirohito retains his status
• Aug 12 Emperor Hirohito of Japan informs the imperial family that he has decided to surrender

• Aug 14 Japan's government notifies the Allies that it has accepted the Potsdam Declaration

• Aug 15 A riot ensues in San Francisco while the city is celebrating the end of WW II
• Aug 15 US wartime rationing of gasoline and fuel oil ends
• Aug 15 Victory over Japan Day, Surrender of Japan marks the end of World War II (August 14 in the Americas due to the time zone difference)
• Aug 15 World War II: Korean Liberation Day
• Aug 16 Puyi, the last Chinese Emperor and ruler of Manchukuo is captured by Soviet troops
• Aug 17 Korea is divided into North and South Korea along the 38th parallel

• Aug 18 Scheduled demonstrations at Polo Grounds & Ebbets Field to end segregation in organized baseball are called off
• Aug 18 Sukarno elected 1st President of Indonesia by the Preparatory Committee for Indonesian Independence (PPKI)

• Aug 20 17-year-old Dodgers utility Tommy Brown becomes youngest player to hit a MLB home run in Brooklyn's 11-1 rout of Pittsburgh Pirates at Ebbets Field
• Aug 20 Soviet troops occupy Harbin & Mukden
• Aug 21 US President Harry Truman ends Lend-Lease program
• Aug 22 Bob Cristofani scores 110 for Aust Services at Old Trafford

• Aug 22 Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup

• Aug 25 Jewish immigrants are permitted to leave Mauritius for Palestine
• Aug 26 Japanese diplomats board USS Missouri to receive instructions on Japan's surrender at the end of WWII
• Aug 27 US troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender
• Aug 29 British liberate Hong Kong from Japan

• Aug 30 12th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 19, All-Stars 7 (92,753)

• Aug 30 Hong Kong liberated from Japanese control
• Aug 30 US General Douglas MacArthur lands in Japan

• Sep 1 Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Vince DiMaggio smashes his 4th grand slam of season, tying NL record, in an 8-3 win v Boston Braves
• Sep 2 Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independent from France (National Day)

• Sep 3 World War II: Japanese forces in the Philippines surrender to the Allies
• Sep 4 American chess grandmaster Reuben Fine wins 4 simultaneous rapid (10 seconds per move) games blindfolded in New York City
• Sep 4 US regains possession of Wake Island from Japan
• Sep 6 A's catcher Greek George punches umpire Joe Rue gets suspended
• Sep 7 Joe Kuhel hits inside-the-park HR, only HR hit by a Senator all season at Washington's Griffith Stadium
• Sep 8 US invades Japanese-held Korea

• Sep 9 Japanese in South Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies
• Sep 9 Jimmie Foxx hits his 534th & final HR
• Sep 9 Philadelphia A's Dick Fowler no-hits St Louis Browns, 1-0
• Sep 10 KLS-AM in Oakland, California changes call letters to KWBR (now KDIA)

• Sep 11 Physician Willem J. Kolff performs the first successful kidney dialysis using his artificial kidney machine in the Netherlands
• Sep 15 A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond
• Sep 16 Barometric pressure at 856 mb (25.55") off Okinawa (record low)
• Sep 18 1000 whites walk out of Gary, Indiana, schools to protest integration

• Sep 19 Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London
• Sep 20 German rocket engineers begin work in US

• Sep 26 All old Dutch banknotes declared invalid

• Sep 28 Canadian football's Calgary Bronks changes its name to Stampeders
• Sep 28 Robert T Duncan appears as Tonio in "I Pagliacci"
• Sep 29 Chicago Cubs clinch NL pennant with record of 98–56
• Sep 30 Bourne End rail crash, Hertfordshire, England killed 43
• Sep 30 Detroit's future Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman Hank Greenberg smacks an AL pennant-winning grand slam on the final day of the season as the Tigers beat St. Louis Browns, 6-3
• Oct 1 US Office of Strategic Services (OSS), precursor to the CIA, disbands

• Oct 3 World Federation of Trade Unions forms; CIO a member
• Oct 5 "Meet the Press" premieres on radio
• Oct 5 Hollywood Black Friday: A six month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers' studios.
• Oct 5 Indonesian army forms

• Oct 6 Memorial for executed unveiled in Terbregge
• Oct 6 Tavern owner "Billy Goat" Sianis buys seat for his goat for Game 4 of Baseball World Series, is escorted out and casts goat curse on Chicago Cubs

• Oct 7 Dutch author A M de Jong's murderer Ton van Gog escapes
• Oct 8 Microwave oven patented by US inventor Percy Spencer
• Oct 8 US President Harry Truman announces atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada
• Oct 9 British troops occupy Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal

• Oct 11 First man-made object to escape the atmosphere (WAC Corporal) is fired from White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, reaching 235,000 feet
• Oct 14 Chicago Cardinals end a record 29-game losing streak, beat Bears
• Oct 15 Baseball Attendance hits record 10.28 million (Tigers 1.28 is highest)
• Oct 16 UN's Food & Agriculture Organization comes into existence

• Oct 21 Women in France allowed to vote for 1st time

• Oct 24 Charter of United Nations comes into effect
• Oct 24 In France PC/PS/MRP win parliamentary election (25/24/23%)

• Oct 27 1st edition of Elseviers Weekly newspaper (Elseviers Magazine)
• Oct 29 First ballpoint pen goes on sale, manufactured by Reynolds in the US (just beating biro)

• Oct 29 Happy Chandler resigns as US Senator, remains as baseball commissioner
• Oct 30 Branch Rickey signs Jackie Robinson to a contract with the Montreal Royals, the top minor league affiliate of the Brooklyn Dodgers
• Oct 30 US government announces end of shoe rationing
• Nov 1 First issue of Ebony magazine published by John H. Johnson
• Nov 3 Australian Test cricket batsman Lindsay Hassett is 124 not out as Australian Services draws with Prince's XI at Delhi; follows his 187 in 1st innings
• Nov 3 Dmitri Shostakovich's 9th Symphony premieres in 25th season opening concert of the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, under Yevgeny Mravinsky
• Nov 5 Colombia joins the United Nations.
• Nov 6 House Committee on Un-American Activities begins investigation of 7 radio commentators
• Nov 6 The first landing of a jet on a carrier takes place on USS Wake Island when an FR-1 Fireball touches down
• Nov 8 Riverboat sinks off Hong Kong; kills 1,550
• Nov 10 College football's #1 Army beats #2 Notre Dame 48-0
• Nov 10 Heavy battle in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).
• Nov 12 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to American politician Cordell Hull (for establishing the UN)
• Nov 13 Australian Services draw 1st Victory Test against India
• Nov 14 H Lindsay and R Crouse's "State of the Union" premieres in NYC
• Nov 14 Java: Sutan Sjahrir appointed to form a government as Indonesia's first Prime Minister

• Nov 15 Rules revised for election of modern players to the Baseball Hall of Fame
• Nov 16 Founding of UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
• Nov 16 Two new elements discovered by Glenn Seaborg, James, Morgan and Albert Ghiorso were are announced: americium (atomic number 95) and curium (atomic number 96)
• Nov 16 Yeshiva College (University), chartered in NY, 1st US Jewish College
• Nov 17 New world air speed record 606 mph (975 kph) set by HJ Wilson of RAF

• Nov 20 Queen Wilhelmina opens Dutch parliament in Hague

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