1945 in History (Part 4)

Events in History

Events 301 - 400 of 547

• May 1 Australian & Dutch troops land on Tarakan
• May 1 General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms

• May 1 Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WW II
• May 1 Seys-Inquart flees to Flensburg
• May 1 Soviet army reaches Rostock
• May 2 Allies occupy Wismar, Northern Germany

• May 2 More than 1,000,000 German soldiers officially surrender to the Western Allies in Italy and Austria

• May 2 Yugoslav troops occupy Trieste
• May 3 1st Polish Armoured Division of the Polish Armed Forces in the West occupies Wilhelmshafen in Germany
• May 3 Allies arrest German physicist Werner Heisenberg
• May 3 British troop join in Rangoon
• May 3 World War II: German ship "Cap Arcona" laden with prisoners sunk by Royal Air Force in East Sea, 5,800 killed - one of largest maritime losses of life

• May 4 German forces in Bavaria surrender unconditionally to American commander Jacob L. Devers


• May 5 Mauthausen Concentration camp in Austria liberated by US forces from 41st Reconnaissance Squadron
• May 5 Netherlands & Denmark liberated from Nazi control
• May 5 Uprising against occupying SS troops in Prague
• May 5 Premier Gerbrandy on Radio Orange tells Dutch they are liberated

• May 6 General Johannes Blaskowitz surrenders German troops in Netherlands
• May 6 World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops (first was on December 11, 1941).
• May 7 World War II: British troops enter Utrecht, Netherlands

• May 7 Princess Irene Brigade moves into The Hague, Netherlands
• May 7 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Hersey (Bell for Adano)
• May 7 SS open fire on crowd in Amsterdam, killing 22
• May 8 Canadian troops move into Amsterdam
• May 8 Chinese counter attack at Tsjangte, supports by 14th air fleet

• May 8 V-E Day: World War II ends in Europe after Germany signs an unconditional surrender
• May 9 Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)
• May 9 Nazi propagandist Max Blokzijl arrested

• May 9 Victory celebration at Red Square


• May 9 World War II: Partisans liberate Ljubljana.

• May 9 World War II: The Soviet Union marks Victory Day
• May 9 World War II: The Channel Islands are formally liberated by the British
• May 10 Allies capture Rangoon from the Japanese
• May 10 Soviet troops occupied Prague
• May 11 US Marines conquer Awatsha Draw, Okinawa
• May 13 US troops conquer Dakeshi Okinawa
• May 14 Kamikaze Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Enterprise
• May 14 US offensive on Okinawa, Sugar Loaf conquered

• May 15 World War II: The final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia
• May 16 Violent battles around Sugar Loaf and Half Moon, Okinawa
• May 17 2 US P-47 Thunderbolts bomb Kiushu
• May 18 Tigers & A's both have 7 straight games postponed due to rain

• May 22 6th US Marine division reaches suburbs of Naha Okinawa
• May 22 NSB-Fuhrer Rost van Tonningen makes failed suicide attempt
• May 23 The Allies arrest the members of the Nazi Flensburg government, including Admiral Karl Donitz, formally dissolving Nazi Germany
• May 23 German island of Helgoland in the North Sea surrenders to British

• May 25 Arthur C Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit
• May 26 US drop fire bombs on Tokyo
• May 29 US 1st Marine division conquers Shuri Castle, Okinawa
• Jun 1 WLB-AM in Minneapolis Minn changes call letters to KUOM
• Jun 4 6th US Marine division occupies Orokoe Peninsula Okinawa
• Jun 4 US, Soviet Union, Britain and France agree to divide up occupied Germany
• Jun 5 USA, UK, USSR, France declare supreme authority over Germany
• Jun 6 "Free People" premieres in Amsterdam
• Jun 9 -10] Australian troops land in Brunei Bay, North Borneo
• Jun 10 US destroyer William D Porter ("Willie Dee") sunk by kamikaze
• Jun 12 US 7th Marine regiment conquer summit of Kunishi Ridge, Okinawa
• Jun 13 Orokoe peninsula Okinawa captured, with 6,000 dead
• Jun 15 Dutch political party ANJV established in Concert building, Amsterdam
• Jun 17 Day of Unity in West Germany (National Day)
• Jun 18 William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) charged with treason
• Jun 21 US defeat Japanese forces on Okinawa
• Jun 23 Last organized Japanese defiance broken (Tarakan)
• Jun 24 Schermerhorn government forms in the Netherlands
• Jun 24 The Moscow Victory Parade takes place
• Jun 25 Allied landing at Ternate, capital of the Maluku Islands in modern day Indonesia
• Jun 25 Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo announce fall of Okinawa

• Jun 27 Foundation 1940-45 established
• Jun 28 Polish Provisional government of National Unity set up by Soviets
• Jun 29 20.6 cm rainfall at Litchville North Dakota (state record)
• Jun 29 Ruthenia, formerly in Czechoslovakia, annexed by Soviet Union, becomes Ukrainian SSR
• Jun 30 17-day newspaper strike in NY begins
• Jul 1 55th Postmaster General: Robert E Hannegan of Mo takes office
• Jul 1 Allies troop land on Balikpapan

• Jul 4 Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson gives Britain's agreement to use the atomic bomb against Japan at the Combined Policy Committee in Washington D. C.

• Jul 5 World War II: Liberation of the Philippines declared
• Jul 6 Nicaragua becomes 1st nation to ratify the Charter of the United Nations
• Jul 6 US President Harry Truman signs executive order establishing Medal of Freedom
• Jul 10 Admiral Marc Mitscher named chief of US Navy staff
• Jul 14 Battleship USS South Dakota is 1st US ship to bombard Japan

• Jul 16 Cruiser Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with atom bomb

• Jul 19 USS Cod saves 51 sailors from Dutch sub in only sub-to-sub rescue

• Jul 24 US destroyer Underhill torpedoed West of Guam

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