Historical Events in September 1945

Surrender of Japan

Sep 1 V-J Day, formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri marks the end of WW II (US date, 2nd September in Japan)
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*Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender to formally end World War II*

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Sep 2 Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independent from France (National Day)

Vietnamese Communist Revolutionary Ho Chi Minh — Vietnamese Communist Revolutionary
Ho Chi Minh

Sep 2 V-J Day, formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri marks the end of WW II (Japanese date, 1st September in US)
Sep 3 World War II: Japanese forces in the Philippines surrender to the Allies
Sep 3 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills: American Frank Parker successfully defends title; beats William Talbert 14-12, 6-1, 6-2
Sep 3 US Women's National Tennis Championship, Forest Hills: Sarah Palfrey Cooke wins second US title; beats Pauline Betz Addie 3-6, 8-6, 6-4
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 Japanese at Rioekioe-islands surrender
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 Brown, 1-0

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Sep 9 1st "bug" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweezers from a relay & taped into the log

Computer Scientist and Admiral Grace Hopper — Computer Scientist and Admiral
Grace Hopper

Sep 10 KLS-AM in Oakland Ca changes call letters to KWBR (now KDIA)
Sep 10 Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis

Miracle Mike!

Sep 10 Mike the Headless Chicken is decapitated in Fruita, Colorado; he survives for another 18 months before choking to death.
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Sep 11 Hideki Tojo, Japanese Prime Minister during most of World War II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal but fails - later he is hanged

Prime Minister of Japan during WW II Hideki Tojo — Prime Minister of Japan during WW II
Hideki Tojo

Sep 11 Physician Willem J Kolff performs the first successful kidney dialysis using his artificial kidney machine, 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