1945 TIMELINE
Unsorted 1945 Events [Bottom]
JANUARY
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06 - |WW II ?| Soviets liberate Budapest.
14 - |WW II| Invasion of eastern Germany by Soviet troops.
17 - |WW II| Liberation of Warsaw by the Soviets.
18 - |Holocaust ?+| Nazis evacuate 66,000 from Auschwitz.
27 - |Holocaust| Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz. By this time, an estimated 2,000,000 persons, including 1,500,000 Jews, have been murdered there.
FEBRUARY
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11 - Yalta Conference ends
13 - Fire bombing of Dresden by 244 English bombers droppiung over 650,000 bombs.
14 - American bombers continue attack on Dresden.
19 - Fight for Iwo Jima begins.
APRIL
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00 - Mihailovic returns to Serbia and starts anti-communist resistance
movement
04 - |Holocaust ?+| Ohrdruf
camp is liberated, later visited by General Eisenhower.
10 - |WW II ?| Allies
liberate Buchenwald.
12 - |WW II| Yugoslav army breaks
through Srem front
12 - United States President
[1933-1945]
Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies in office. Vice President Harry S Truman
[1945-1953] takes the Oath of Office.
15 - |Holocaust| Approximately
40,000 prisoners freed at Bergen-Belsen by the British, who report "both inside and outside
the huts was a carpet of dead bodies, human excreta, rags and filth."
23 - |WW II| Berlin reached by Soviet troops.
29 - |Holocaust| U.S. 7th Army liberates Dachau.
30 - Adolf Hitler ?+ commits suicide in his Berlin bunker.
30 - |Holocaust| Americans free
33,000 inmates from concentration camps.
MAY
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02 - Theresienstadt taken over by the Red Cross.
05 - |WW II ?| Mauthausen
liberated.
07 - |WW II| Unconditional German
surrender signed by Gen. Jodl at Reims.
08 - Official surrender of Nazi Germany, V-E Day
09 - |WW II| Hermann Göring
captured by members of U.S. 7th Army.
15 - |WW II| German forces
remaining in Yugoslavia recognize Yugoslav army and
surrender arms
23 - SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler + commits suicide.
JUNE
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26 - The United Nations charter is signed.
27 - |USA ?
|radio ?+| FCC moves FM service to
VHF band, expands noncommercial FM reservation to 20 channels (88-92 MHz) of the total 100
FM channels.
JULY
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16 - In Alamogordo, New Mexico The Trinity Test, the first test of an atomic
bomb, using 6
kilograms of plutonium, succeeds in detonating, unleashing an explosion equivalent to
that of 20 kilotons of TNT.
28 - A US bomber accidentally crashes into the Empire State Building
AUGUST
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06 - Atom bomb 'Little Boy' dropped on Hiroshima
09 - Atom bomb 'Fat Man' dropped on Nagasaki
SEPTEMBER
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02 - V-J Day. Surrender of Japan; World War II ? ends
03 - People's Assembly of Serbia establishes the Autonomous Region of
Kosovo-Metohija
NOVEMBER
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20 - Opening of the Nuremberg International Military
Tribunal.
29 - First meeting of Constituent Assembly declares dissolution of Yugoslav monarchy and the establishment of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia
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