Events in History in 1945 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 400 of 546

• Apr 2 Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Brazil are established
• Apr 3 World War II: Dutch city of Hengelo freed from Nazi control by the Canadian Army

• Apr 4 The Holocaust: US forces liberate the Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany, the first such camp to be liberated by the US Army
• Apr 4 World War II: Soviet forces liberate Hungary from German occupation, establishing their own communist satellite state. This was celebrated as Liberation Day until 1989.
• Apr 4 World War II: US Army occupies Bielefeld in north-eastern Germany
• Apr 5 World War II: Dutch city of Almelo is freed by the Second Canadian Corps
• Apr 6 Battle of Okinawa: Giant Japanese battleship Yamato heads to Okinawa with orders to beach herself and be destroyed defending the island
• Apr 6 The Holocaust: Nazis begin evacuating prisoners from Buchenwald concentration camp
• Apr 6 World War II: Dutch city of Coevorden freed from German occupation by Canadian forces
• Apr 7 Battle of Okinawa: Massive kamikaze attack of around 110 Japanese aircraft damages three US battleships off Okinawa island
• Apr 7 Battle of Okinawa: US planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide mission, super battleship Yamato and four destroyers are sunk
• Apr 7 Kuniaki Koiso resigns as Prime Minister of Japan after the US invasion of Okinawa; he is replaced by Kantaro Suzuki
• Apr 7 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
• Apr 8 Dutch Nazi occupiers executed, Nazi general Christiansen flees Netherlands
• Apr 9 Battleship Admiral Scheer sunk by RAF bombing in Kiel
• Apr 9 Liberty ship at Bari Italy carrying aerial bombs explodes, kills 360

• Apr 9 World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, East Prussia, ends.
• Apr 10 Canadian troops conquer Deventer
• Apr 10 General Blaskowitz becomes nazi leader of "Fort Holland"
• Apr 10 German troops attack Ijsselbrug
• Apr 10 US troops land on Tsugen Shima Okinawa
• Apr 10 William Schuman & Antony Tudor's ballet premieres in NYC
• Apr 11 Allied troops liberate Basket-Compascuum
• Apr 11 Four soldiers in the Sixth Armored Division of the US Third Army liberate the Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald
• Apr 11 SS burns & shoots 1,100 at Gardelegen
• Apr 11 US captures Tsugen Shima
• Apr 11 US troops conquers Mulheim, Oberhausen, Bochum, Unna, Essen
• Apr 12 Canadian troops liberate Nazi concentration camp Westerbork, Netherlands

• Apr 13 Canadian soldier Léo Major single-handedly liberates Dutch town of Zwolle by fooling Germans into thinking a raid had begun
• Apr 13 WWII: Canadian army liberates Teuge & Assen, Netherlands, from Nazis
• Apr 13 WWII: Russian Red Army occupies Vienna, Austria
• Apr 13 WWII: US Marines conquer Minna Shima off Okinawa, Japan
• Apr 14 American planes bomb Tokyo & damage the Imperial Palace
• Apr 14 US Marines attack Yae-Take, the tallest mountain on Okinawa's Motobu Peninsula
• Apr 14 World War II: US 7th Army & allies forces capture Nuremberg & Stuttgart in Germany
• Apr 15 British Army liberates Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen

• Apr 15 US troops occupy concentration camp Colditz

• Apr 16 Battle of Okinawa: US troops land and seize the Ie Shima Airfield on Ie Shima island near Okinawa [1]
• Apr 16 Colditz Castle, the high-security prisoner of war camp in Germany, is liberated by American troops
• Apr 16 German troops in Groningen surrender
• Apr 16 US troops enter Nuremberg, Germany
• Apr 16 World War II: Dutch town of Arnhem, site of failed Operation Market Garden, is freed by British and Canadian forces
• Apr 17 8th Air Force bombs Dresden

• Apr 17 German occupiers flood Wieringermeer, Netherlands
• Apr 17 US troops land in central Mindanao, Philippines during Battle of Mindanao
• Apr 18 Clandestine Radio 1212, after broadcasting pro-nazi propaganda for months used their influence to trap 350,000 German army group B troops
• Apr 18 Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Bolivia established
• Apr 18 Epe freed (by corporal G van Aken)
• Apr 19 Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Guatemala are established
• Apr 19 US aircraft carrier Franklin heavy damaged in Japanese air raid
• Apr 19 US offensive against Shuri-barrier on Okinawa
• Apr 20 German occupiers flood Beemster & Fencer
• Apr 20 Soviet artillery begins shelling Berlin
• Apr 20 US 7th army captured German city of Nuremberg
• Apr 20 US forces conquer Motobu peninsula on Okinawa
• Apr 21 Allied troops occupy German nuclear laboratory
• Apr 21 He Shima Okinawa conquered in 5 days, 5,000 die
• Apr 21 Ivor Novello's "Perchance to Dream" premieres in London
• Apr 21 Soviet army arrives at outskirts of Berlin
• Apr 21 US 7th Army reaches Nuremberg

• Apr 22 Concentration Camp at Sachsenhausen liberated

• Apr 23 Concentration camp Flossenburg liberated
• Apr 23 US troops in Italy cross river Po
• Apr 25 "Elbe Day" - US and Soviet forces meet at Torgau, Germany on the Elbe River during the invasion of Germany in WWII
• Apr 25 45 countries convene UN Conference on Intl Organization in San Francisco
• Apr 25 Allied air raid on Surabaja, Java
• Apr 25 British troops reach Grebbe line Neth
• Apr 25 Clandestine Radio 1212, used to hoax Nazi Germany's final transmission
• Apr 25 Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany
• Apr 25 Soviet forces complete their encirclement of Berlin, cutting off all access points west of the German capital

• Apr 26 World War II: Battle of Bautzen - last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht
• Apr 27 2nd Republic of Austria forms
• Apr 27 Italian partisans capture Benito Mussolini at Dongo (Lake Como)
• Apr 27 US 5th army enters Genoa
• Apr 27 World War II: The Völkischer Beobachter, the newspaper of the Nazi Party, ceases publication
• Apr 28 British commandos attack Elbe & occupy Lauenburg
• Apr 28 US 5th army reaches Swiss border
• Apr 29 First food drop by RAF above Nazi-occupied Holland (Operation Manna)
• Apr 29 German armies in Italy sign an unconditional surrender to the Western Allies to be carried out on 2 May
• Apr 29 Japanese army evacuates Rangoon, British Burma
• Apr 29 US Army liberates 31,601 people from the Dachau Nazi concentration camp in Germany
• Apr 29 Venice and Mestre captured by the Allies
• Apr 30 Adolf Hitler commits suicide along with his new wife Eva Braun in the Fuhrerbunker in Berlin as the Red Army captures the city
• Apr 30 Concentration camp Munchen-Allag freed

• Apr 30 Record 48 U-boats sunk by the Allies this month
• Apr 30 Red Army occupies Demmin
• Apr 30 Red Army opens attack on German Reichstag building in Berlin
• Apr 30 Soviet Army frees Ravensbruck concentration camp
• Apr 30 US troops attack the Elbe
• May 1 About 1,000 citizens of Demmin in Germany, commit suicide provoked by occupation by Soviet Red Army
• May 1 Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government
• 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 World War II: Battle of Berlin ends as Soviet army takes Berlin forcing German commander of the city general Helmuth Weidling to surrender
• May 2 Yugoslav troops occupy Trieste, Italy
• May 3 1st Polish Armoured Division of the Polish Armed Forces in the West occupies Wilhelmshafen in Germany

• 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 Premier Gerbrandy on Radio Orange tells Dutch they are liberated
• May 5 Uprising against occupying SS troops in Prague

• 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 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 7 World War II: British troops enter Utrecht, Netherlands

• 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 Channel Islands are formally liberated by the British
• May 9 World War II: The Soviet Union marks Victory Day
• 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 21 Nazi SS-Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler captured
• May 22 6th US Marine division reaches suburbs of Naha Okinawa
• May 22 NSB-Fuhrer Rost van Tonningen makes failed suicide attempt
• May 23 German island of Helgoland in the North Sea surrenders to British
• May 23 Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) arrested at Danish boundary
• May 23 The Allies arrest the members of the Nazi Flensburg government, including Admiral Karl Dönitz, formally dissolving Nazi Germany
• 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 19 El Teniente Mine accident [Smoke Tragedy] 355 men die from smoke inhalation from a fire in the Andes, Chile

• 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 23 Marshal Philippe Pétain, leader of the French Vichy collaborationist regime during World War II goes on trial
• Jul 24 US destroyer Underhill torpedoed West of Guam

• Previous
• 1
• 2
• 3
• Next