1945 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1945?
- January 17, 1945 – World War II: Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw.
- February 3, 1945 – World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin, a raid which kills between 2,500 to 3,000 and dehouses another 120,000.
- February 13, 1945 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- March 21, 1945 – World War II: Operation Carthage – British planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also hit a school and 125 civilians are killed.
- April 9, 1945 – World War II: The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer is sunk.
- April 11, 1945 – World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
- April 13, 1945 – World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen Germany.
- April 19, 1945 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Guatemala are established.
- April 27, 1945 – World War II: German troops are finally expelled from Finnish Lapland.
- May 6, 1945 – World War II: The Prague Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front, begins.
- June 14, 1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the 15th, 66th and 121st Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL was completed and they liberating the captured in Ilocos Sur start the Battle of Bessang Pass in Northern Luzon.
- June 29, 1945 – Carpathian Ruthenia is annexed by the Soviet Union.
- July 31, 1945 – Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
- August 2, 1945 – World War II: the Potsdam Conference, at which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, is concluded.
- August 25, 1945 – Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China kill Baptist missionary John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.
- October 16, 1945 – The Food and Agriculture Organization is founded in Quebec City, Canada.
- November 16, 1945 – UNESCO is founded.
- November 29, 1945 – The Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia is declared.
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