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1945 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1945th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 945th year of the 2nd millennium, the 45th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1940s decade.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt would join the Conference for one day on 2 February 1945; both would fly to Yalta on 3 February for the Yalta Conference with Stalin. 31: The Red Army crosses the Oder River into Germany and are now less than 50 miles from Berlin.: A second invasion on Luzon by Americans lands on the west coast.
The cartoon character Casper the Friendly Ghost debuts, in The Friendly Ghost. The motion picture The Lost Weekend , starring Ray Milland , is released. The most realistic film portrayal of alcoholism up to this time, it wins several Academy Awards the following year.
1945 in economic history (5 C, 2 P) 1945 in education (3 C) 1945 in the environment (7 C, 2 P) Ethnic cleansing of Germans (1 C, 34 P) 1945 events by month (19 C) F.
The Battle of Okinawa began. 50,000 American troops landed on Okinawa against little initial resistance and established a 13-kilometre (8.1 mi) beachhead. [1]The Japanese ocean liner-turned-hospital ship Awa Maru was passing through the Taiwan Strait when the American submarine USS Queenfish (SS-393) mistook it for a destroyer, torpedoed and sank it.
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The 1945 Resko Przymorskie Dornier Do 24 crash in Kępa, Pomeranian Voivodeship. [10] Died: Rupert Downes, 60, and George Alan Vasey, 49, Australian generals (plane crash near Cairns); Albert Richards, 25, British war artist (jeep drove over a landmine)