World War Two History (Part 3)

Events 201 - 300 of 329

• 1945-02-07 London, Washington and Moscow discuss final phase of World War II
• 1945-02-14 World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans.

• 1945-02-25 WWII: Turkey declares war on Germany
• 1945-03-05 World War II: The Battle of the Ruhr begins.
• 1945-03-15 As a symbol of wartime baseball, Bert Shepard (one-legged WWII veteran) begins a successful tryout as a pitcher for the Washington Senators
• 1945-03-21 During WW II Allied bombers begin 4-day raid over Germany

• 1945-03-27 World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins.
• 1945-03-29 World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England
• 1945-03-30 World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1 to Americans
• 1945-04-01 Battle of Okinawa: US ground forces invade Okinawa during World War II in the largest amphibious assault of the Pacific theatre
• 1945-04-01 World War II: Canadian troops free the Dutch cities of Doetinchem, Enschede, Borculo and Eibergen
• 1945-04-01 World War II: The Ruhr Pocket of German forces are encircled by the US Ninth Army and US First Army, eventually leading to the capture of 317,000 German troops
• 1945-04-03 World War II: Dutch city of Hengelo freed from Nazi control by the Canadian Army
• 1945-04-04 World War II: Soviet forces liberate Hungary from German occupation, establishing their own communist satellite state. This was celebrated as Liberation Day until 1989.
• 1945-04-04 World War II: US Army occupies Bielefeld in north-eastern Germany
• 1945-04-05 World War II: Dutch city of Almelo is freed by the Second Canadian Corps
• 1945-04-06 World War II: Dutch city of Coevorden freed from German occupation by Canadian forces
• 1945-04-07 Sonderkommando Elbe, special Luftwaffe units designed to destroy Allied planes by ramming them mid-air, are sent on their first and only mission of World War II
• 1945-04-09 World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, East Prussia, ends.
• 1945-04-14 World War II: US 7th Army & allies forces capture Nuremberg & Stuttgart in Germany
• 1945-04-16 US troops enter Nuremberg, Germany
• 1945-04-16 World War II: Dutch town of Arnhem, site of failed Operation Market Garden, is freed by British and Canadian forces

• 1945-04-25 "Elbe Day" - US and Soviet forces meet at Torgau, Germany on the Elbe River during the invasion of Germany in World War II

• 1945-04-26 World War II: Battle of Bautzen - last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht
• 1945-04-27 World War II: The Völkischer Beobachter, the newspaper of the Nazi Party, ceases publication
• 1945-05-01 Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WW II
• 1945-05-02 Battle of Berlin ends as the Soviet army storms the capital, forcing German commander of the city general Helmuth Weidling to surrender
• 1945-05-03 German ocean liner SS Cap Arcona, laden with prisoners is sunk by the Royal Air Force in the western Baltic Sea, killing 5,800. One of the largest maritime losses of life in World War II.

• 1945-05-06 World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops (first was on December 11, 1941).

• 1945-05-07 World War II: British troops enter Utrecht, Netherlands
• 1945-05-08 V-E Day: World War II ends in Europe after Germany signs an unconditional surrender
• 1945-05-09 The Soviet Union celebrates Victory Day in World War II

• 1945-05-09 World War II: Partisans liberate Ljubljana.
• 1945-05-09 World War II: The Channel Islands are formally liberated by the British
• 1945-05-15 World War II: The final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia
• 1945-06-21 US defeat Japanese forces on Okinawa

• 1945-07-05 World War II: Liberation of the Philippines declared

• 1945-07-23 Marshal Philippe Pétain, leader of the French Vichy collaborationist regime during World War II goes on trial

• 1945-08-08 USSR declares war against Japan in WW II

• 1945-08-15 A riot ensues in San Francisco while the city is celebrating the end of WW II
• 1945-08-15 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)
• 1945-08-15 World War II: Korean Liberation Day
• 1945-08-26 Japanese diplomats board USS Missouri to receive instructions on Japan's surrender at the end of WWII

• 1945-09-03 World War II: Japanese forces in the Philippines surrender to the Allies

• 1945-11-10 Heavy battle in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).
• 1946-02-11 World War II: The Royal Navy's Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 116 of 156 captured German U-boats
• 1946-03-31 First election is held in Greece after World War II
• 1946-04-05 100th Grand National: Capt. Robert Petre wins aboard 25/1 shot Lovely Cottage; first true GN since 1940 due to World War II; last on a Friday

• 1946-05-30 Indianapolis 500: Race resumes after WWII hiatus, George Robson wins by 44 seconds ahead of rookie Jimmy Jackson

• 1947-02-10 WW II peace treaties signed
• 1947-04-25 Trial against WW II mayor of Amsterdam Edward Voete begins
• 1947-06-01 OPA, which issued WW II rationing coupons, disbands
• 1947-06-11 WW II sugar rationing finally ends in US (began May 28, 1942)
• 1947-08-23 8th Venice Film Festival opens (first since the start of World War II)
• 1947-11-02 Ryder Cup Golf, Portland GC: US wins first post WWII event, 11-1; Ben Hogan American captain; Henry Cotton GB skipper

• 1948-09-05 In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister, As such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II.
• 1948-09-24 Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally), an American broadcaster employed by the Third Reich in Nazi Germany to proliferate propaganda during World War II, pleads not guilty to eight chargs of treason in Washington, D.C.
• 1949-06-29 US troops withdraw from Korea after WW II
• 1952-04-28 WW II Pacific peace treaty takes effect
• 1953-02-05 Sweet rationing imposed in WWII ends in Britain
• 1954-07-04 Meat and all other food rationing officially ends in Britain, nine years after the end of World War II
• 1955-07-27 Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation since WWII
• 1955-10-03 Soviet battleship "Novorossiisk" strikes WW II mine in Baltic Sea
• 1955-11-05 The rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens after it was destroyed in World War II, with Ludwig van Beethoven's "Fidelio"
• 1956-12-06 German WWII prisoner of war Helmut Bantz and Soviet gymnast Valentin Muratov tie for the vault gold medal with 18.85 points at the Melbourne Olympics
• 1958-05-30 Unidentified soldiers killed in WW II & Korean War buried in Arlington

• 1965-09-17 CBS premiere of WWII sitcom "Hogan's Heroes"
• 1966-06-24 Period of relative peace following WW II exceeds that following WW I
• 1967-02-22 25,000 US and South Vietnamese troops launch Operation Junction City against the Viet Cong. Largest US airborne assault since World War II.
• 1969-12-01 US government holds its 1st draft lottery since WW II
• 1972-01-24 Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.
• 1972-02-26 Ireland-Wales Five Nations Rugby match scheduled for Lansdowne Road, Dublin is cancelled because of escalating political situation; Championship not completed for first time since World War II

• 1974-04-11 WW II war criminal JP Philippa arrested
• 1975-08-15 Miki Takeo makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II
• 1977-08-15 Herbert Kappler, head of Nazi police and security services (SS) in Rome during WWII, escapes from prison hospital in Rome
• 1983-02-02 CBS' premiere of fact based WW2 drama "The Scarlet and the Black", based on the life of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty
• 1983-02-24 A special commission of the U.S. Congress releases a report that condemns the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.
• 1985-03-04 WWII veterans return to the "Bridge over the River Kwai"

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Deaths 201 - 210 of 210

• 2014-12-21 Sonia d’Artois, British Canadian WWII resistance agent, dies at 90
• 2015-08-04 Les Munro, New Zealand WWII pilot (Dambusters Raid), dies at 96
• 2016-08-08 Doris Bohrer [Sharrar], American WWII spy, dies at 93
• 2016-12-08 Florence Finch, Filipino-American war hero who fought against the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II, dies at 101 [1]

• 2017-04-22 Norman T. Hatch, American oscar-winning marine cinematographer during WWII (With the Marines at Tarawa), dies at 96
• 2017-09-27 Zuzana Ruzickova, Czech harpsichordist and Holocaust survivor, dies of pneumonia at 90
• 2018-12-28 Georges Loinger, French resistance fighter (WWII), dies at 108
• 2019-11-03 Yvette Lundy, French resistance fighter during WWII, dies at 103
• 2020-05-23 Saturn, American-born alligator that escaped Berlin Zoo during WWII, dies at about 84 in Moscow Zoo (Moscow, Russia)

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