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The World Federation of Trade Unions was established to replace the International Federation of Trade Unions.; The United Nations Executive Committee voted to recommend that the U.N. permanent headquarters be located in the United States, with San Francisco as the most preferred site.
Hollywood Black Friday, or Hollywood Bloody Friday, [1] is the name given, in the history of organized labor in the United States, to October 5, 1945.On that date, a six-month strike by the set decorators represented by the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) boiled over into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Bros.' studios in Burbank, California led by Herbert Sorrell.
October 5 is the 278th day of the year (279th in leap years) ... American physicist, engineer, and academic (d. 1945) 1883 – Ernst Pittschau, German actor (d. 1951)
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.
The Elvetham air crash occurred on 5 October 1945 when a Consolidated Liberator GR.VI aircraft, serial number KG867, of 311 Squadron Royal Air Force crashed at Elvetham, east of Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, following a fire in one of its engines and fuel starvation to another.
TKR was formed on October 5, 1945, based on an announcement issued by the Government of the Republic of Indonesia. [ 2 ] TKR was formed as a result of improving the function of the previously existing People's Security Agency (BKR) and its core army was taken from the former KNIL & PETA .
October 3–10 – The Detroit Tigers win the World Series against the Chicago Cubs. October 5 – Hollywood Black Friday: A strike by the Set Decorator's Union in Hollywood results in a riot. October 23 – Jackie Robinson signs a contract with the Montreal Royals, making him the first black baseball player in the International League since ...
The Battle of Semarang (Indonesian: Pertempuran Semarang), in Indonesia also known as Pertempuran Lima Hari (Five Days' Battle) [8] was a clash between Japanese forces of the Sixteenth Army and Indonesian forces consisting of People's Security Agency personnel and pemuda in October 1945 at the city of Semarang, Central Java.