Events Date 1945 P 4 | History by KabAstro

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Brief Encounter

Nov 26 "Brief Encounter", based on Noël Coward's one-act play "Still Life", directed by David Lean and starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard is released

Playwright, Director and Singer Noël Coward

Greatest Jazz Session Ever

Nov 26 Charlie "Bird" Parker leads recording session for the Savoy label marketed as the "greatest Jazz session ever" with Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis

Jazz Saxophonist and Composer Charlie "Bird" Parker

Nov 26 During snow storm, school bus crashes, kills 15 (Washington)

Hannie Schaft

Nov 27 Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft re-buried in presence of Queen Wilhelmina

Queen of the Netherlands Wilhelmina of the Netherlands

Nov 27 General George Marshall named special US envoy to China
Nov 27 Trial against Dutch Fascist NSB leader Anton Mussert begins (later convicted and executed by firing squad)
Nov 28 Australian Services draw second Victory Test Cricket v India at Calcutta

The Lost Weekend

Nov 29 "The Lost Weekend", based on Charles R. Jackson's novel, directed by Billy Wilder and starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman premieres in Los Angeles (Academy Awards Best Picture 1946)

Nov 29 Yugoslavian Socialist Republic proclaimed
Dec 4 11th Heisman Trophy Award: Doc Blanchard, Army (FB)
Dec 4 Senate approves US participation in United Nations
Dec 5 Dutch Special Council of Annulment affirms death sentence of radio presenter Max Blokzijl for broadcasting Nazi propaganda
Dec 5 Flight 19 the "Lost Squadron" of 5 torpedo bombers and 14 airmen is lost east of Florida in the supposed Bermuda Triangle
Dec 10 Aust Services lose 3rd Victory Test Cricket to India by 6 wkts
Dec 10 Preston Tucker reveals plan to produce the Torpedo, a new 150 MPH car
Dec 11 Het Parool publishes 1st Captain Rob-strip
Dec 12 Special Court of justice convicts Dutch Nazi leader Mussert to death

Dream Girl

Dec 14 Elmer Rice's play "Dream Girl" premieres in NYC

Dec 15 John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, ordained as a priest
Dec 18 Uruguay joins the United Nations
Dec 19 Austrian Republic re-establishes
Dec 19 Jean Giraudoux' "La Folle de Chaillot" premieres in Paris
Dec 20 Rationing of auto tires ends in US
Dec 22 Utrecht: Catholic People's party (KVP) established

Orientals Omne

Dec 23 Pope Pius XII encyclical Orientals omnes, about Rutheense church

Dec 26 CFP franc and CFA franc created
Dec 27 Arthur Laurent's "Home of the Brave" premieres in NYC

International Monetary Fund

Dec 27 International Monetary Fund formally established by 29 member countries based on ideas of Harry Dexter White and John Maynard Keynes

Dec 27 The World Bank was created with the signing of an agreement by 28 nations.
Dec 28 Congress officially recognizes "Pledge of Allegiance"

Maurice Richards Fastest to 100

Dec 29 Montreal right wing Maurice Richard scores twice in Canadiens' 5-4 loss to Chicago Black Hawks to record his 100th NHL career goal; reaches mark in 145 games, then fastest in history; since broken by Mike Bossy, 100 goals in 129 games

Bradman's 1st Post-war Century

Dec 31 Before the biggest Adelaide Oval crowd of the season, batting maestro Don Bradman scores his first post-WWII century; 112 for South Australia v Australian Services