November 1945 in History

Events in History

Nov 10 General Enver Hoxha becomes leader of Albania

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 Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral becomes the first Latin American to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature

Nov 15 The rules are revised for election of modern players to the 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

Nov 20 The Nuremberg war trials begin as 24 Nazi leaders are put on trial before judges representing the victorious Allied powers

Nov 21 General Motors workers go on strike
Nov 23 Most US wartime rationing of foods, including meat & butter, ends
Nov 26 During snow storm, school bus crashes, kills 15 (Washington)
Nov 27 Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft re-buried in presence of Queen Wilhelmina

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 29 Yugoslavian Socialist Republic proclaimed

Nov 5 Aleka Papariga, Greek politician (General Secretary of Communist Party of Greece 1991-2013), born in Athens, Greece
Nov 5 Peter Pace, 16th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, born in NYC, New York
Nov 6 Robert J. Mrazek, American politician (Rep-D-NY, 1983-93), born in Newport, Rhode Island
Nov 8 David Jessel, British radio and TV reporter, justice advocate, and author, born in Abingdon, Berkshire, England

Nov 11 Nicaraguan politician (President of Nicaragua, 1985-90, 2007-), born in La Libertad, Nicaragua

Nov 12 Michael Bishop, American sci-fi author (Nebula, Stolen Faces), born in Lincoln, Nebraska
Nov 12 Tracy Kidder, American journalist and author (The Soul of a New Machine), born in New York City
Nov 13 John B. Craig, American diplomat, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Nov 14 Stella Obasanjo, Nigerian First Lady (d. 2005)
Nov 17 Jeremy Hanley, British Lower house member
Nov 17 Roland Joffe, director (City of Joy, Mission, Killing Fields)
Nov 18 (Percy) Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lankan politician (Prime Minister, 2018-2022; President, 2005-15}, born in Weeraketiya, British Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
Nov 18 Wilma Mankiller, Native American activist, 1st woman chief of the Cherokee Nation, born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma (d. 2010)
Nov 20 Rachid Mimouni, Algerian author, born in Boudouaou, Algeria (d. 1995)
Nov 23 Dennis Nilsen, Scottish serial killer, born in Fraserburgh, Scotland (d. 2018)
Nov 23 Jerry Harris, American sculptor, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 2016)
Nov 25 Patrick Nagel, American artist (d. 1984)
Nov 26 Björn von Sydow, Swedish politician (Minister for Defence), born in Solna, Stockholm, Sweden
Nov 30 Michael Joyce, Irish stage manager and theatre director, born in Galway, Ireland (d. 1994)

Nov 2 Princess Thyra, daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1880)
Nov 8 August von Mackensen, German field marshal, dies at 95
Nov 16 Kaarlo Sarkia, Finnish poet (Kohtalon Vaaka), dies of tuberculosis at 43
Nov 17 Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, dies at 63
Nov 20 Francis William Aston, British chemist and physicist who won a Nobel laureate for his work with isotopes and the whole number rule, dies at 68