Notable Historical Events - 1945
1945 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
France joins the UN |
Jan 1 |
German air raid on allied airports at Eindhoven/Saint-Trond/Brussels |
Jan 2 |
Allied air raid on Nuremberg |
Jan 2 |
Kentucky begins 130 home basketball game win streak, ends in 1955 |
Jan 2 |
Radio Orange ends cooperation at Liese-Aktion |
Jan 3 |
Allies land on west coast of Burma, conquer Akyab |
Jan 3 |
British Premier Winston Churchill visits France |
Jan 3 |
Cato-Meridian School, NY, installs germicidal lamps in every room |
Jan 3 |
Greek General Plastiras forms government |
Jan 3 |
John Patrick's "Hasty Heart," premieres in NYC |
Jan 3 |
US aircraft carriers attack Okinawa |
Jan 4 |
Germans execute resistance fighters in Amsterdam |
Jan 4 |
US jeep-aircraft carrier Ommaney Bay sinks after Japanese kamikaze attack |
Jan 5 |
Pepe LePew debuts in Warner Bros cartoon "Odor-able Kitty" |
Jan 5 |
Surprise attack on Liese-Aktion-office on Marnix St, Amsterdam |
Jan 7 |
Lord Haw-Haw reports total German victory in the Ardennes |
Jan 7 |
The last surface engagement between Allies and Japanese in the Pacific campaign, World War II |
Jan 8 |
"Youth for Christ" organizes |
Jan 9 |
US soldiers led by Gen Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines |
Jan 10 |
LA Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close |
Jan 10 |
No one is elected to baseball's Hall of Fame |
Jan 12 |
German forces in Belgium retreat in Battle of Bulge |
Jan 12 |
US Task Force 38 destroys 41 Jap ships in Battle of South China Sea |
Jan 12 |
The Soviets begin a large offensive against the Nazis in Eastern Europe |
Jan 13 |
Prokofchev's 5th Symphony premieres in Moscow |
Jan 14 |
In Greece, Communists and the British agree to a cease-fire in the struggle to control Athens (and with it Greece) |
Jan 15 |
"Make Mine Manhattan" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 429 perfs |
Jan 15 |
Every Amsterdammer gets 3 kg of sugar beets |
Jan 15 |
Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp |
Jan 15 |
The Manhattan Project's G-5 Group, headed by Physicist's Donald Kerst and Seth Neddermeyer, take their first betatron pictures of a nuclear implosion at the Los Alamos Laboratory |
Jan 16 |
Scottish 52nd land division/1st Commando brigade-assault at Heinsberg |
Jan 16 |
US 1st & 3rd army meet at Houffalise |
Jan 17 |
Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation |
Jan 17 |
Gilbert Dodds, record miler (4:05.3), retires to do gospel work |
Jan 17 |
The devastated city of Warsaw is cleared of German resistance by the Russians and a Polish unit fighting with them |
Jan 17 |
Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by secret police in Hungary |
Jan 18 |
Warsaw freed by Soviet army |
Jan 20 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt sworn-in for an unprecedented 4th term as US President |
Jan 20 |
The Hungarian Provisional Government concludes an armistice with the USSR, US, and Britain, agree to pay reparations and to join the war against Germany |
Jan 21 |
British troops land on Ramree, near coast of Burma |
Jan 22 |
Burma highway reopens |
Jan 22 |
Heavy US air raid on Okinawa |
Jan 23 |
Dutch Premier Gerbrandy, exiled in London, offers his resignation |
Jan 23 |
World War II: Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal. |
Jan 24 |
Scottish 52nd Lowland division occupies Heinsberg |
Jan 25 |
Dan Topping, Del Webb & Larry MacPhail purchase NY Yanks for $2.8 mil |
Jan 25 |
Grand Rapids, Michigan becomes 1st US city to fluoridate its water |
Jan 25 |
Japanese occupiers of Batavia arrest Indo-European youths |
Jan 25 |
NY Yankees sold by Ruppert estate to construction magnate Del Webb and partners Dan Topping and Larry MacPhail for $2.8 million |
Jan 25 |
West Africa 82nd division occupies Myohaung, Burma |
Jan 26 |
Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp |
Jan 27 |
Nazi occupiers forbid food transport to West (The Netherlands) |
Jan 27 |
Russia liberates Auschwitz & Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland) |
Jan 27 |
S Romberg, H&D Fields' musical premieres in NYC |
Jan 27 |
Wally van Hall, "banker in defiance," arrested |
Jan 28 |
Dutch airplanes dump pamphlets on Java |
Jan 28 |
Gen "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell & truck convoy reopen Burma Road to China |
Jan 28 |
Swedish ships bring food to starving Netherlands |
Jan 30 |
"Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 9,400 die |
Jan 31 |
US 4th Infantry division occupies Elcherrath |
Jan 31 |
Russian troops reach the Oder River, less that 50 miles from Berlin |
Feb 1 |
US Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie |
Feb 2 |
Escape attempt at Mauthausen concentration camp |
Feb 3 |
Almost 1,000 Flying Fortresses drop 3,000 tons of bombs on Berlin |
Feb 3 |
Walt Disney's "3 Caballeros" released |
Feb 4 |
Roosevelt, Churchill & Stalin meet at Yalta in the Crimea to discuss the final phase of the war |
Feb 5 |
Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69t.6 kph (440 yd/20.8 s) |
Feb 5 |
British premier Churchill arrives in Yalta, the Crimea |
Feb 5 |
US troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla |
Feb 6 |
US 8th Air Force bombs Magdeburg/Chemnitz |
Feb 6 |
Russian Red Army crosses the river Oder |
Feb 7 |
General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila |
Feb 7 |
Harry Truman appoints Irwin C Mollison judge of US Customs Court |
Feb 7 |
US 76th/5th Infantry divisions begin crossing Sauer |
Feb 8 |
Allied air attack on Goch/Kleef/Kalkar/Reichswald |
Feb 8 |
Paul Brown agrees to coach the new American football expansion team in Cleveland, which would later be named the Cleveland Browns after their coach |
Feb 9 |
-Feb 10] Germany destroys Ruhrdammen |
Feb 9 |
WAAF-corporal flies along the tail of a Spitfire |
Feb 9 |
The Battle of the Atlantic the HMS Venturer sinking U-Boat 864 off the coast of Norway. |
Feb 10 |
"Rum & Coca Cola" by Andrews Sisters hits #1 |
Feb 11 |
1st gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey, CA |
Feb 11 |
Yalta agreement signed by FDR, Churchill & Stalin |
Feb 12 |
SF selected for site of UN Conference |
Feb 13 |
Allied planes bomb Dresden Germany; 135,000 die |
Feb 13 |
Gerbrandy Dutch government refuses Dutch Jewish right to buy |
Feb 13 |
USSR captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany; 159,000 die |
Feb 14 |
US 8th Air Force bombs Dresden |
Feb 14 |
Peru, Paraguay, Chile & Ecuador joins UN |
Feb 14 |
World War II: Prague is bombed probably due to a mistake in the orientation of the pilots bombing Dresden. |
Feb 14 |
World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans. |
Feb 16 |
US forces land on Corregidor, complete conquest on March 3 |
Feb 16 |
Venezuela declares war on Nazi Germany |
Feb 19 |
980 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days on Ramree Island, Burma |
Feb 19 |
Brotherhood Day-1st celebrated |
Feb 19 |
US 5th Fleet launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese with 30,000 US Marines |
Feb 21 |
Archbishop De Jong calls for help with war casualties |
Feb 21 |
British Army captures Goch |
Feb 21 |
US 10th Armour division overthrows Orscholz line |
Feb 22 |
Arab League forms (Cairo) |
Feb 22 |
British troops take Ramree Island, Burma |
Feb 22 |
Canadian 3rd Division occupies Moyland |
Feb 23 |
2nd Dutch government of Gerbrandy forms in London |
Feb 23 |
Canadian troops occupy Kalkar |
Feb 23 |
Operation Grenade: Gen Simpsons 9th Army crosses Ruhr |
Feb 23 |
US Marines raise flag on Iwo Jima, famous photo & statue |
Feb 24 |
Egypt & Syria declares war on nazi-Germany |
Feb 24 |
Manila freed from Japanese |
Feb 24 |
Nazi occupiers begin state of siege |
Feb 24 |
Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree. |
Feb 25 |
US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo |
Feb 25 |
World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany. |
Feb 26 |
Very heavy bombing on Berlin by 8th US Air Force |
Feb 27 |
Battle of US 94 Infantry |
Mar 1 |
British 43rd Division under Gen Essame occupies Xanten |
Mar 1 |
Chinese 30th division occupies Hsenwi |
Mar 1 |
FDR announces success of Yalta Conference |
Mar 1 |
Fieldmarshal Kesselring succeeds von Rundstedt as commander |
Mar 1 |
US infantry regiment captures Mönchengladbach |
Mar 2 |
8th Air Force bombs Dresden |
Mar 2 |
King Michael of Romania gives in to Communist government |
Mar 3 |
Winston Churchill visits Field Marshal Montgomery's headquarters |
Mar 3 |
RAF bombing error hits The Hague killing 511 |
Mar 3 |
Roermond/Venlo Neth, freed |
Mar 3 |
US & Philippine forces recaptures Corregidor |
Mar 3 |
US 7th Army occupies last part of Westwall |
Mar 4 |
Finland declares war on nazi-Germany |
Mar 4 |
In the United Kingdom, Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, joins the British Auxiliary Transport Service as a driver. |
Mar 5 |
Allies bombs The Hague, Netherlands |
Mar 5 |
Generals Eisenhower, Patton & Patch meet in Luneville |
Mar 5 |
US 7th Army Corps captures Cologne |
Mar 5 |
US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill |
Mar 5 |
World War II: The Battle of the Ruhr begins. |
Mar 6 |
117 SD-prisoners executed at Savage Farm |
Mar 6 |
Chinese 38th division occupies Lashio |
Mar 6 |
Erich Honnecker & Erich Hanke flee nazis |
Mar 6 |
Federico Garcia Lorca's "La Casa" premieres in Buenos Aires |
Mar 7 |
Attack on car of Netherlands SS Police Chief Hans Rauter by Dutch resistance, Rauter injured |
Mar 7 |
Cologne taken by allied armies |
Mar 7 |
US 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany, crosses Rhine |
Mar 7 |
Yugoslavia government of Tito forms |
Mar 8 |
"Kiss Me Kate" opens in Britain |
Mar 8 |
53 Amsterdammers executed by nazi occupiers |
Mar 8 |
International Women's Day is 1st observed |
Mar 8 |
Phyllis M Daley is 1st black nurse sworn-in as US Navy ensign |
Mar 9 |
334 US B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bomb |
Mar 9 |
Japanese proclaim "independence" of Indo-China |
Mar 10 |
Germany blows-up Wessel Bridge on Rhine |
Mar 10 |
Japan declares Vietnam Independence |
Mar 10 |
Patton's 3rd Army makes contact with Hodge's 1st Army |
Mar 10 |
Tokyo in fire after night time B-29 bombing |
Mar 10 |
US troops lands on Mindanao |
Mar 10 |
US Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting firestorm kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians. |
Mar 11 |
1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs |
Mar 11 |
Flemish nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death |
Mar 12 |
30 Amsterdammers executed by nazi occupiers |
Mar 12 |
Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy |
Mar 12 |
NY is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race & creed in employment |
Mar 12 |
USSR returns Transylvania to Romania |
Mar 13 |
Queen Wilhelmina returns to Netherlands |
Mar 13 |
Sicherheitsdienst arrest Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman |
Mar 14 |
RAF bomb cuts railway link Hannover-Hamm |
Mar 15 |
17th Academy Awards - "Going my Way", Bing Cosby & Ingrid Bergman win |
Mar 15 |
Bert Shepard (1 legged WW II vet) tries out as a pitcher for Senators |
Mar 15 |
Billboard publishes its 1st album chart (King Cole Trio is #1) |
Mar 15 |
Catholic University of Nijmegen reopens |
Mar 15 |
Dodgers open spring training at Bear Mountain NY |
Mar 16 |
Allies secure Iwo Jima |
Mar 16 |
Würzburg, Germany is 90% destroyed, with 5,000 dead, in only 20 minutes by British bombers. |
Mar 17 |
Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra |
Mar 18 |
1,250 US bombers attacks Berlin |
Mar 18 |
Maurice "Rocket" Richard becomes the 1st NHLer to score 50 goals |
Mar 18 |
US Task Force 58 attacks targets on Kiushu |
Mar 19 |
800 killed as Kamikaze attacked USS Franklin off Japan |
Mar 19 |
Adolf Hitler issues "Nero Decree" to destroy all German factories |
Mar 19 |
British 36th division conquers Mogok (ruby mine) |
Mar 19 |
US Task Force 58 attacks ships near Kobe/Kure |
Mar 20 |
US 70th Infantry division/7th Armour division attack Saar |
Mar 21 |
1st Japanese flying bombs (ochas) attack Okinawa |
Mar 21 |
During WW II Allied bombers begin 4-day raid over Germany |
Mar 21 |
Dutch Resistance fighter Hannie Schaft arrested by Nazi police |
Mar 22 |
Arab League forms with adoption of a charter in Cairo Egypt |
Mar 22 |
US 3rd Army crosses Rhine at Nierstein |
Mar 23 |
British 7th Black Watch crosses the Rhine |
Mar 23 |
Largest operation in Pacific War (WWII), 1,500 US Navy ships bomb Japanese island of Okinawa |
Mar 23 |
Premier Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Straelen |
Mar 24 |
Generals Eisenhower, Montgomery & Bradley discuss advance in Germany |
Mar 24 |
Largest one-day airborne drop, 600 transports & 1300 gliders |
Mar 24 |
Operation Varsity: British, US & Canadian airborne landings east of the Rhine |
Mar 24 |
US minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa |
Mar 25 |
US 1st army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen |
Mar 25 |
US 4th Armored div arrives at Hanau & Aschaffenburg |
Mar 25 |
US Northern Tractor Flotilla departs Ulithi to Okinawa |
Mar 26 |
British premier Winston Churchill looks over at the Rhine (near Ginsberg) |
Mar 26 |
De Paul wins NIT basketball championship, George Mikan scores 34 |
Mar 26 |
Generals Eisenhower/Bradley/Patton attack at Remagen the Rhine |
Mar 26 |
Japanese resistance ends on Iwo Jima |
Mar 26 |
Kamikaze attack on US battle fleet near Kerama Retto |
Mar 26 |
US 7th Army crosses Rhine at Worms |
Mar 26 |
Venray soccer team forms |
Mar 27 |
7th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Oklahoma State beats NYU 49-44 |
Mar 27 |
British premier Churchill sails to eastern banks of Rhine |
Mar 27 |
DePaul beats Bowling Green for NIT title |
Mar 27 |
Ella Fitzgerald & Delta Rhythm Boys record "It's Only a Paper Moon" |
Mar 27 |
Gen Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken |
Mar 27 |
Iwo Jima occupied, after 22,000 Japanese & 6,000 Americans killed |
Mar 27 |
US 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden |
Mar 27 |
World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. |
Mar 28 |
Last German V-1 (buzz bomb) attack on London |
Mar 29 |
World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England. |
Mar 29 |
Movie star Jimmy Stewart is promoted to full colonel, one of the few Americans to rise from private to colonel in four years |
Mar 30 |
289 anti-fascists murdered by nazis in Rombergpark Dortmund |
Mar 30 |
USSR invades Austria |
Mar 30 |
World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1 to Americans. |
Mar 31 |
3rd Algerian division crosses the Rhine |
Mar 31 |
Sicherheitsdienst murders 10 political prisoners in Zutphen |
Mar 31 |
Tennessee Williams' "Glass Menagerie" premieres in NYC |
Mar 31 |
US artillery lands on Keise Shima/begins firing on Okinawa |
Apr 1 |
1st edition of Indonesia Merdeka publishes |
Apr 1 |
Canadian troops free Doetinchem, Enschede, Borculo & Eibergen |
Apr 1 |
Ruhrgebied sealed off by US 1st & 9th army |
Apr 1 |
Sons of Elburger Soccer team forms in Elburg |
Apr 1 |
US forces invade Okinawa during WW II |
Apr 2 |
1st US units reach east coast of Okinawa |
Apr 2 |
Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Brazil are established. |
Apr 3 |
Hengelo freed from Nazi control by Canadian army |
Apr 3 |
Nazis begin evacuation of camp Buchenwald |
Apr 3 |
US 1st army conquers Hofgeismar |
Apr 4 |
Hungary liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day) |
Apr 4 |
US forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany |
Apr 4 |
US tanks/infantry conquer Bielefeld |
Apr 5 |
Almelo Netherlands freed |
Apr 5 |
Kuniaki Koiso resigns as PM of Japan; replaced by Kantaro Suzuki |
Apr 6 |
Coevorden freed from Nazis |
Apr 6 |
Japanese giant battleship Yamato heads to Okinawa |
Apr 6 |
Massive kamikaze attack on US battle fleet near Okinawa |
Apr 6 |
US marines explore Tsugen Shima near Okinawa |
Apr 7 |
1st & last assault of German Rammkommando on US bombers |
Apr 7 |
US B-17s bombs range at Luneburg |
Apr 7 |
US planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide superbattleship Yamato & four destroyers were sunk |
Apr 8 |
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 |
NFL requires players to wear long stockings |
Apr 9 |
World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, East Prussia, ends. |
Apr 10 |
Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald (Czech) |
Apr 10 |
Canadian troops conquer Deventer |
Apr 10 |
General Blaskowitz becomes nazi leader of "Fort Holland" |
Apr 10 |
German troops attack Ijsselbrug |
Apr 10 |
NFL's Boston Yanks & Brooklyn Tigers merge |
Apr 10 |
US troops land on Tsugen Shima Okinawa |
Apr 10 |
William Schuman & Antony Tudors ballet premieres in NYC |
Apr 11 |
Allied troops liberate Basket-Compascuum |
Apr 11 |
SS burns & shoots 1,100 at Gardelegen |
Apr 11 |
US captures Tsugen Shima |
Apr 11 |
US soldiers liberate Nazi concentration camp "Buchenwald" |
Apr 11 |
US troops conquers Mulheim, Oberhausen, Bochum, Unna, Essen |
Apr 12 |
Canadian troops liberate Nazi concentration camp Westerbork, Netherlands |
Apr 12 |
Harry Truman sworn in as 33rd pres |
Apr 12 |
Richard Strauss completes his "Metamorphosis" |
Apr 13 |
Canadian army liberates Teuge & Assen Neth from Nazis |
Apr 13 |
Red Army occupies Vienna |
Apr 13 |
US Marines conquer Minna Shima off Okinawa |
Apr 14 |
American planes bomb Tokyo & damage the Imperial Palace |
Apr 14 |
Arnhem/Zwolle freed from Nazis |
Apr 14 |
WWII: US 7th Army & allies forces capture Nuremberg & Stuttgart in Germany |
Apr 14 |
US forces conquered Motobu peninsula on Okinawa |
Apr 14 |
US marines attack Yae Take on Okinawa |
Apr 15 |
British Army liberates Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen |
Apr 15 |
FDR buried on grounds of Hyde Park home |
Apr 15 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Communium interpretes dolorum |
Apr 15 |
US troops occupy concentration camp Colditz |
Apr 16 |
German troops in Groningen surrender |
Apr 16 |
Red Army begins Battle of Berlin |
Apr 16 |
US troops enter Nuremberg, Germany, during WW II |
Apr 16 |
US troops land on He Shima, Okinawa |
Apr 16 |
Colditz Castle, the high-security prisoner of war camp in Germany, is liberated by American troops. |
Apr 17 |
8th Air Force bombs Dresden |
Apr 17 |
German occupiers flood Wieringermeer Neth |
Apr 17 |
Benito Mussolini flees from Salò to Milan |
Apr 17 |
US troops lands in Mindanao |
Apr 18 |
1 armed outfielder, St L Brown Pete Gray, 1st game he goes 1 for 4 |
Apr 18 |
Epe freed (by corporal G van Aken) |
Apr 18 |
Clandestine Radio 1212, after broadcasting pro-nazi propoganda for months used their influence to trap 350,000 German army group B troops |
Apr 18 |
Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Bolivia are established. |
Apr 19 |
49th Boston Marathon won by John A Kelley of Mass in 2:30:40.2 |
Apr 19 |
Rodgers & Hammerstein musical "Carousel" opens on Broadway |
Apr 19 |
US aircraft carrier Franklin heavy damaged in Japanese air raid |
Apr 19 |
US offensive against Shuri-barrier on Okinawa |
Apr 19 |
The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Guatemala are established. |
Apr 20 |
Cleveland Browns organization formed by Arthur "Mickey" McBride |
Apr 20 |
German occupiers flood Beemster & Fencer |
Apr 20 |
Soviet troops enter 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 |
Russian army arrives at outskirts of Berlin |
Apr 21 |
US 7th Army reaches Nuremberg |
Apr 22 |
Concentration Camp at Sachsenhausen liberated |
Apr 22 |
Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 3 |
Apr 23 |
Concentration camp Flossenburg liberated |
Apr 23 |
US troops in Italy cross river Po |
Apr 24 |
Albert B "Happy" Chandler is named 2nd baseball commissioner |
Apr 24 |
Delegates of 46 countries gather in SF (to discuss UN) |
Apr 25 |
45 countries convene UN Conference on Intl Organization in SF |
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 |
Red army completely surrounds Berlin |
Apr 25 |
"Elbe Day" - US & Soviet forces meet at Torgau Germany on Elbe River during WWII invasion of Germany |
Apr 26 |
Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, leader of France's Vichy collaborationist regime during WW II, arrested for treason |
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 Genua |
Apr 27 |
World War II: The Völkischer Beobachter, the newspaper of the Nazi Party, ceases publication. |
Apr 28 |
British commandos attack Elbe & occupies Lauenburg |
Apr 28 |
US 5th army reaches Swiss border |
Apr 29 |
1st food drop by RAF above Nazi-occupied Holland (operation Manna) |
Apr 29 |
Japanese army evacuates Rangoon |
Apr 29 |
Terms of surrender of German armies in Italy signed |
Apr 29 |
US liberates 31,601 in Nazi concentration camp in Dachau Germany |
Apr 29 |
Venice & Mestre were captured by the Allies |
Apr 30 |
"Arthur Godfrey Time" begins a 27 year run on CBS radio |
Apr 30 |
Concentration camp Munchen-Allag freed |
Apr 30 |
"Lord Haw-Haw" calls for crusade against the bolsheviks |
Apr 30 |
Red Army occupies Demmin |
Apr 30 |
Red Army opens attack on German Reichstag building in Berlin |
Apr 30 |
Russian 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 lands 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 |
May 2 |
Dutch Queen Wilhelmina & Princess Juliana reach Gilze-Rijen |
May 2 |
German Army in Italy surrenders |
May 2 |
WWII: Battle of Berlin end as Russian army takes Berlin; General Weidling surrenders |
May 2 |
Yugoslav troops occupy Trieste |
May 3 |
1st Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen |
May 3 |
Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg |
May 3 |
British troop join in Rangoon |
May 3 |
WWII: 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 troops in Netherlands, Denmark & Norway surrender |
May 5 |
Mauthausen Concentration camp liberated |
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 5 |
World War II: Admiral Karl Dönitz, leader of Germany after Hitler's death, orders all U-boats to cease offensive operations and return to their bases. |
May 6 |
Gen J 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 |
Branch Rickey announces formation of the US Negro Baseball League |
May 7 |
WWII: British troops enter Utrecht, Netherlands |
May 7 |
WWII: unconditional German surrender to the Allies signed by General Alfred Jodl at Rheims |
May 7 |
Mauthausen Concentration Camp liberated |
May 7 |
Princess Irene Brigade moves into the Hague Neth |
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 |
German General Von Keitel formally surrenders to Marshal Zhukov and the Soviets in Berlin |
May 8 |
V-E Day; after Germany signs unconditional surrender it is announced WWII has ended in Europe |
May 9 |
Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (Natl Day) |
May 9 |
Nazi propagandist Max Blokzijl arrested |
May 9 |
New balata ball used in baseball, 50% livilier |
May 9 |
Norwegian nazi collaborators Vidkun Quisling arrested |
May 9 |
Victory celebration at Red Square |
May 9 |
World War II: Partisans liberate Ljubljana. |
May 9 |
World War II: Hermann Göring is captured by the United States Army. |
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 |
Russian 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 14 |
Physician Joseph Hamilton injects misdiagnosed cancer patient Albert Stevens (CAL-1) with 131 kBq (3.55 µCi) of plutonium without his knowledge or informed consent. Stevens lived another 20 years, surviving the highest known accumulated radiation dose in any human |
May 15 |
World War II: The final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia. |
May 16 |
Violent battles around Sugar Loaf/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 19 |
Start of the 1st Victory Test Cricket between England & Aust Services |
May 20 |
Keith Miller scores 105 in the 1st Victory Test Cricket at Lord's |
May 21 |
Aust Services win 1st Victory Test Cricket at Lord's by 6 wickets |
May 21 |
Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler of the Nazi SS 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 |
British military police arrest Admiral Karl Doenitz |
May 23 |
German island of Helgoland in North Sea surrenders to British |
May 23 |
Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi leader & Gestapo leader, commits suicide in prison at 44 |
May 23 |
Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) arrested at Danish boundary |
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 conquerors 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, Russia, Britain & France agree to split occupied Germany |
Jun 5 |
Benjamin Britten's opera "Peter Grimes" premieres in London |
Jun 5 |
USA, UK, USSR, France declare supreme authority over Germany |
Jun 6 |
"Free People" premieres in Amsterdam |
Jun 9 |
"Gruesome Twosome" premieres in USA |
Jun 9 |
-10] Australian troops lands in Brunei Bay North-Borneo |
Jun 9 |
71st Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Hoop Jr wins in 2:07 |
Jun 9 |
Following an 8-7 win over the Phils, Brooklyn manager Leo Durocher is arrested on a complaint by a fan that Durocher slugged him |
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 |
Heerjansdam soccer team forms |
Jun 13 |
Orokoe peninsula Okinawa captured, with 6,000 dead |
Jun 15 |
Dutch political party ANJV established in Concert building, Amsterdam |
Jun 16 |
71st Preakness: Wayne D Wright aboard Polynesian wins in 1:58.8 |
Jun 16 |
Boo Ferriss loses to Yanks 3-2 after starting his career with 8 wins |
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 during WW II |
Jun 23 |
77th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Pavot wins in 2:30.2 |
Jun 23 |
Last organized Japanese defiance broken (Tarakan) |
Jun 24 |
Schermerhorn government forms |
Jun 24 |
The Moscow Victory Parade takes place. |
Jun 25 |
Allied landing at Ternate Molukkas |
Jun 25 |
Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo announce fall of Okinawa |
Jun 26 |
England win the second Victory test cricket at Bramall Lane by 41 runs |
Jun 26 |
UN Charter signed by 50 nations in SF |
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 |
1st of the superstars returns from the WW II, Hank Greenberg homers |
Jul 1 |
55th Postmaster General: Robert E Hannegan of Mo takes office |
Jul 1 |
Allies troop land on Balikpapan |
Jul 5 |
Labour Party wins British parliamentary election |
Jul 5 |
World War II: Liberation of the Philippines declared. |
Jul 6 |
Nicaragua becomes 1st nation to formally accept UN Charter |
Jul 6 |
US President Harry Truman signs executive order establishing Medal of Freedom |
Jul 6 |
Wash Senator Rick Ferrell catches a record 1,722 games |
Jul 6 |
Abbott and Costello's film "The Naughty Nineties" released featuring longest version their "Who's on First" routine. |
Jul 10 |
Adm Marc Mitscher named chief of US Navy staff |
Jul 12 |
Cubs stop Braves Tommy Holmes modern-day NL hitting streak at 37 games |
Jul 14 |
Battleship USS South Dakota is 1st US ship to bombard Japan |
Jul 15 |
27th PGA Championship: Byron Nelson at Morraine CC Dayton Ohio |
Jul 16 |
1st test detonation of an atomic bomb, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico as part of the US Manhatten Project |
Jul 16 |
Australian Services win 3rd Victory Test Cricket by 4 wickets |
Jul 16 |
Cruiser Indianapolis leaves SF with atom bomb |
Jul 17 |
Potsdam Conference (Truman, Stalin, Churchill) holds 1st meeting |
Jul 19 |
USS Cod saves 51 sailors from Dutch sub in only sub-to-sub rescue |
Jul 21 |
Detroit Tigers & Phila A's play 24 inning 1-1 tie |
Jul 23 |
Marshal Henri Pétain, leader Vichy-regime, goes on trial |
Jul 24 |
US destroyer Underhill torpedoed West of Guam |
Jul 26 |
After Labour landslide in general election, Clement Attlee becomes British Prime Minister |
Jul 26 |
Declaration of Potsdam: US, Britain and China demand the Japanese surrender during WWII |
Jul 26 |
Japanese government disregards US ultimatum |
Jul 26 |
US cruiser Indianapolis reaches Tinian with atom bomb |
Jul 26 |
Winston Churchill resigns as Britain's Prime Minister after election defeat |
Jul 26 |
Physicist Raemer Schreiber and Lieutenant Colonel Peer de Silva depart Kirtland Army Air Field to transport the plutonium core for the Fat Man bomb (bombing of Nagasaki) to the island of Tinian where the bomb is assembled |
Jul 27 |
Cubs purchase pitcher Hank Borowy from NY Yankees |
Jul 27 |
US Communist Party forms |
Jul 28 |
Japanese premier Suzuki disregards US ultimatum to surrender |
Jul 28 |
US Army B-25 crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Bldg, 14 die |
Jul 28 |
US Senate ratifies UN charter 89-2 |
Jul 28 |
Physicist Raemer Schreiber and Lieutenant Colonel Peer de Silva arrive on the Pacific island of Tinian with the plutonium core used to assemble the Fat Man bomb used in the bombing of Nagasaki on August 9 |
Jul 29 |
After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed & sunk by a Japanese submarine |
Jul 30 |
Philippines Sea: US cruiser Indianapolis torpedoed/sinks, 880 die |
Jul 31 |
Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria. |
Aug 1 |
Japanese city Toyama destroyed by B-29's |
Aug 1 |
Mel Ott is 1st in NL to hit 500th HR (joins Babe Ruth & Jimmy Foxx) |
Aug 1 |
SVBO soccer team forms in Barger-Oosterveld |
Aug 2 |
Potsdam Conference ended, with Stalin, Truman & Churchill |
Aug 4 |
Golfer Byron Nelson records most tournament wins (18) in a season |
Aug 4 |
Red Sox Tom McBride is 3rd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (4th) |
Aug 5 |
Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug 6th in Japan) |
Aug 6 |
Hiroshima Peace Day-atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by "Enola Gay" |
Aug 6 |
Keith Miller scores 110 in the 4 Victory Test Cricket at Lord's |
Aug 8 |
England & Australian Services draw 4th Victory Test |
Aug 8 |
President Harry Truman signs the UN Charter |
Aug 8 |
US, USSR, Britain & France sign Treaty of London, set down procedures for Nuremberg trials |
Aug 8 |
USSR declares war against Japan in WW II |
Aug 8 |
USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea |
Aug 9 |
US drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki |
Aug 10 |
Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies provided status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged |
Aug 11 |
Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito |
Aug 14 |
V-J Day; Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II (also August 15 depending on time zone) |
Aug 15 |
A riot ensued in SF while the city was celebrating the end of WW II |
Aug 15 |
US wartime rationing of gasoline & fuel oil ends |
Aug 15 |
Chandler sells World Series radio rights for $150,000 to Gillette, Ford had been World Series sponsor since 1934, pay $100,000 annually |
Aug 15 |
World War II: Korean Liberation Day. |
Aug 15 |
Victory over Japan Day, the Japanese surrender and the end of WWII is announced in Japan (due to time zones 14th Aug in the Americas) |
Aug 16 |
Puyi, the last Chinese emperor and ruler of Manchukuo, was captured by Soviet troops. |
Aug 17 |
Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) declares independence from The Netherlands |
Aug 17 |
Koreas divided on 38th parallel with US occupying the southern area |
Aug 18 |
Scheduled demonstrations at Polo Grounds & Ebbets Field to end segregation in organized baseball are called off |
Aug 19 |
Phillies Jimmie Foxx, 37, pitches 1st 7 innings vs Reds & wins |
Aug 20 |
Dodgers Tommy Brown, 17, is youngest player to hit a HR |
Aug 20 |
Robert Hamilton wins PGA golf tournament |
Aug 20 |
Russian troops occupy Harbin & Mukden |
Aug 20 |
Tommy Brown, Bkln Dodger becomes youngest HR hitter (17) |
Aug 21 |
US President Harry Truman ends Lend-Lease program |
Aug 22 |
Bob Cristofani scores 110 for Aust Services at Old Trafford |
Aug 22 |
England defeat Aust Services by 6 wkts in 5th Victory Test Cricket |
Aug 22 |
Noel Coward's revue "Sigh no More" premieres in London |
Aug 22 |
Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup |
Aug 24 |
Cleveland ace Bob Feller returns from Navy & strike out 12 |
Aug 25 |
Jewish immigrants are permitted to leave Mauritius for Palestine |
Aug 26 |
Japanese diplomats board USS Missouri to receive instructions on Japan's surrender at the end of WW II |
Aug 27 |
US troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender |
Aug 29 |
British liberate Hong Kong from Japan |
Aug 29 |
Gen MacArthur named Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in Japan |
Aug 30 |
12th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 19, All-Stars 7 (92,753) |
Aug 30 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 9th Symphony |
Aug 30 |
Gen MacArthur lands in Japan |
Aug 30 |
Hong Kong liberated from Japanese |
Aug 31 |
The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies. |
Sep 1 |
Japan surrenders ending WW II (US date, 2nd September in Japan) |
Sep 1 |
Phillies Vince DiMaggio ties NL record with 4th grand slam of season |
Sep 2 |
59th US Womens Tennis: Sarah P Cooke beats Pauline Betz (3-6 8-6 6-4) |
Sep 2 |
Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independence from France (National Day) |
Sep 2 |
V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri (WW II ends) |
Sep 3 |
65th US Men's Tennis: Sgt Frank A Parker beats Wm Talbert (14-12 6-1 6-2) |
Sep 3 |
Japanese forces in Philippines surrender to Allies |
Sep 4 |
Ruben Fine wins 4 simultaneous rapid chess games blindfolded |
Sep 4 |
US regains possession of Wake Island from Japan |
Sep 6 |
A's catcher George George punches ump 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 8 |
Hideki Tojo, Japanese PM during most of WW II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal attempt fails, later he is hanged |
Sep 9 |
Japanese in South Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies |
Sep 9 |
Jimmie Foxx hits his 534th & final HR |
Sep 9 |
Phila A's Dick Fowler no-hits St Louis Brown, 1-0 |
Sep 9 |
1st "bug" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweasers from a relay & taped into the log |
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 |
Sep 10 |
Mike the Headless Chicken is decapitated in Fruita, Colorado; he survives for another 18 months before choking to death. |
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 Ind schools to protest integration |
Sep 19 |
Kim Il Sung arrives in harbor of Wonsan, Korea |
Sep 19 |
Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London |
Sep 20 |
German rocket engineers begin work in US |
Sep 26 |
All old Dutch banknotes declared invalid |
Sep 28 |
"Mildred Price" starring Joan Crawford opens at Strand |
Sep 28 |
Canadian football's Calgary Bronks changes its name to Stampeders |
Sep 28 |
Robert T Duncan appears as Tonio in "I Pagliacci" |
Sep 29 |
Cubs clinch NL pennant |
Sep 30 |
Hank Greenberg's final day HR wins pennant for Tigers |
Sep 30 |
Bourne End rail crash, Hertfordshire, England killed 43 |
Oct 1 |
Heavyweight champ Joe Louis is discharged from army |
Oct 1 |
US Office of Strategic Services (OSS), precursor to the CIA, disbands |
Oct 3 |
Elvis Presley's 1st public appearance at the age of 10 |
Oct 3 |
Tigers & Cubs meet in World Series for 4th time |
Oct 3 |
World Federation of Trade Unions forms; CIO a member |
Oct 5 |
"Meet the Press" premieres on radio |
Oct 5 |
Indonesian army forms |
Oct 5 |
Queen Wilhelmina visits Rotterdam |
Oct 5 |
Hollywood Black Friday: A six month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers' studios. |
Oct 6 |
Gen Eisenhower welcomed in Hague (on Hitler's train) |
Oct 6 |
Memorial for executed unveiled in Terbregge |
Oct 6 |
Tavern owner "Billy Goat" Sianis buys seat for his goat for Game 4 of World Series & is escorted out, he casts goat curse on Cubs |
Oct 7 |
Dutch author A M de Jong's murderer Ton van Gog escapes |
Oct 8 |
US President Harry Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada |
Oct 9 |
British troops occupy Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal |
Oct 10 |
Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 3 in 42nd World Series |
Oct 11 |
Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-Shek vs Mao Zedong |
Oct 11 |
JPL WAC Corporal Launch (1st Man-Made Object to escape Atmosphere) |
Oct 14 |
Chicago Cardinals end a record 29-game losing streak, beat Bears |
Oct 15 |
Baseball Attendance hits record 10.28 million (Tigers 1.28 is highest) |
Oct 16 |
UN's Food & Agriculture Organization comes into existence |
Oct 17 |
Loyalty Day in Argentina, mass demonstrations held to release Juan Perón |
Oct 18 |
Nazi war crime trial opens in Nuremberg |
Oct 18 |
Paul Robeson wins Spingarn Medal for singing & acting achievements |
Oct 20 |
Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Lawrence opens trial ofNuremberg |
Oct 21 |
Women in France allowed to vote for 1st time |
Oct 23 |
Jackie Robinson signs Montreal Royal contract |
Oct 24 |
Charter of United Nations comes into effect |
Oct 24 |
France (PC/PS/MRP win parliamentary election (25/24/23%) |
Oct 25 |
Japanese surrender Taiwan to Gen Chiang Kai-shek |
Oct 27 |
"Carib Song" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 36 performances |
Oct 27 |
1st edition of Elseviers Weekly newspaper (Elseviers Magazine) |
Oct 29 |
First ball point pen goes on sale, 57 years after it is patented |
Oct 29 |
Happy Chandler resigns as US Senator, remains as baseball commish |
Oct 29 |
Getulio Vargas, President of Brazil, resigns. |
Oct 30 |
Branch Rickey signs Jackie Robinson to a Montreal Royals |
Oct 30 |
US government announces end of shoe rationing |
Nov 1 |
First issue of Ebony magazine published by John H Johnson |
Nov 3 |
Lindsay Hassett scores 187 & 124* for Aust Services at Delhi |
Nov 5 |
Colombia joins the United Nations. |
Nov 6 |
House Committee on Un-American Activities begins investigation of 7 radio commentators |
Nov 6 |
The first landing of a jet on a carrier takes place on USS Wake Island when an FR-1 Fireball touches down |
Nov 8 |
"Girl from Nantucket" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 12 performances |
Nov 8 |
Riverboat sinks off Hong Kong; kills 1,550 |
Nov 10 |
"Are You with It?" opens at Century Theater NYC for 264 performances |
Nov 10 |
College football's #1 Army beats #2 Notre Dame 48-0 |
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 Cordell Hull (establishing UN) |
Nov 13 |
Australian Services draw 1st Victory Test against India |
Nov 14 |
H Lindsay & R Crouse's "State of the Union" premieres in NYC |
Nov 14 |
Java: Sutan Sjahrir appointed as forming government |
Nov 15 |
The rules are revised for election of modern players to the Hall of Fame |
Nov 16 |
Yeshiva College (Univesity), chartered in NY, 1st US Jewish College |
Nov 16 |
UNESCO is founded. |
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 17 |
"Girl from Nantucket" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 12 perfs |
Nov 17 |
New world air speed record 606 mph (975 kph) set by HJ Wilson of RAF |
Nov 18 |
Arnold Schoenberg's Prelude for orchestra & mixed choir, premieres |
Nov 20 |
24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany |
Nov 20 |
Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 9th Symphony under J Mravinski premieres |
Nov 20 |
Queen Wilhelmina opens parliament in Hague |
Nov 21 |
Benjamin Britten's 2nd String quartet in C premieres |
Nov 21 |
General Motors workers go on strike |
Nov 22 |
"Day before Spring" opens at National Theater NYC for 167 performances |
Nov 22 |
Jim Benton, Cleveland end, gains 303 yards (NFL record) |
Nov 23 |
Most US wartime rationing of foods, including meat & butter, ends |
Nov 26 |
During snow storm, school bus crashes, kills 15 (Washington) |
Nov 26 |
Charlie "Bird" Parker leads a record date for the Savoy label, marketed as the "greatest Jazz session ever" |
Nov 27 |
Gen George Marshall named special US envoy to China |
Nov 27 |
Trial against NSB-leader Mussert begins |
Nov 27 |
Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft re-buried in presence of Queen Wilhelmina |
Nov 28 |
Australian Services draw second Victory Test Cricket v India at Calcutta |
Nov 29 |
Yugoslavian Socialist Republic proclaimed |
Nov 30 |
33rd CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 35-0 |
Dec 1 |
CFL Grey Cup: Toronto beats Winnipeg 35-0 at Toronto |
Dec 4 |
11th Heisman Trophy Award: Doc Blanchard, Army (FB) |
Dec 4 |
Senate approves US participation in UN |
Dec 5 |
"Lost Squadron" crashes east of Florida (Bermuda Triangle) |
Dec 5 |
Special Council of Annulment affirms death sentence of Max Blokzijl |
Dec 7 |
Microwave oven patented |
Dec 10 |
Aust Services lose 3rd Victory Test Cricket to India by 6 wkts |
Dec 10 |
Preston Tucker reveals plan to produce the Torpedo, a new 150 MPH car |
Dec 11 |
Het Parool publishes 1st Captain Rob-strip |
Dec 12 |
Special Court of justice convicts Dutch Nazi leader Mussert to death |
Dec 14 |
Elmer Rice' "Dream Girl" premieres in NYC |
Dec 15 |
John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, ordained as a priest |
Dec 16 |
Cleveland Rams win NFL championship |
Dec 18 |
Uruguay joins UN |
Dec 19 |
Austrian Republic re-establishes |
Dec 19 |
Jean Giraudoux' "La Folle de Chaillot" premieres in Paris |
Dec 20 |
Rationing of auto tires ends in US |
Dec 21 |
"Billion Dollar Baby" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 219 performances |
Dec 21 |
Gould/Comden/Green's "Billion Dollar Baby" premieres in NYC |
Dec 22 |
Utrecht: Catholic People's party (KVP) established |
Dec 23 |
Frederick Astons "Cinderella" premieres in London |
Dec 23 |
Pope Pius XII encyclical Orientals omnes, about Rutheense church |
Dec 26 |
CFP franc and CFA franc are created. |
Dec 27 |
Arthur Laurent's "Home of the Brave" premieres in NYC |
Dec 27 |
International Monetary Fund formally established by 29 member countries |
Dec 27 |
The World Bank was created with the signing of an agreement by 28 nations. |
Dec 28 |
Congress officially recognizes "Pledge of Allegiance" |
Dec 31 |
Bradman scores 112, his 1st post-War century, SA v Aust Services |
Dec 31 |
Ratification of UN Charter completed |
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