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November 26 is the 330th day of the year (331st in leap years) ... 1945 – Michael Omartian, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer;
The 3 November 1945 declaration was made in Indonesia, encouraging the formation of political parties as part of democracy.; Irvin Charles Mollison was sworn in as a U.S. Customs Court judge in New York City, becoming the first African-American to serve on the federal bench within the continental United States.
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.
November 23 – Charles Armijo Woodruff, U.S. Navy officer and 11th Governor of American Samoa from 1914 to 1915 (born 1884; suicide) November 25 – Doris Keane, stage actress (born 1881) November 26 – John Jenkins, auto racer (born 1875) November 28 – Dwight F. Davis, tennis player (born 1879)
26: Syria declares war on Germany and Japan. [5]: After ten days of fighting, American and Filipino troops recapture Corregidor. 27: Lebanon declares war on Germany and Japan 28: A Philippine government is established.: U.S. and Filipino forces invade Palawan, an island of the Philippines.
On 17 August 1945, Sukarno and Hatta declared the independence of Indonesia in Jakarta, two days after the Japanese emperor's surrender in the Pacific.As the news about the independence declaration spread throughout the archipelago, ordinary Indonesians felt a sense of freedom that led most to regard themselves as pro-Republican. [6]
On November 26, 1941, a Japanese task force (the Striking Force) of six aircraft carriers – Akagi, Kaga, Sōryū, Hiryū, Shōkaku, and Zuikaku – departed Hittokapu Bay on Etorofu (now Iterup) Island in the Kuril Islands, en route to a position northwest of Hawaii, intending to launch its 408 aircraft to attack Pearl Harbor: 360 for the two ...
Nimitz, MacArthur and Leahy holding a conference with FDR.. Responsibility for the planning of Operation Downfall fell to American commanders Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur and the Joint Chiefs of Staff—Fleet Admirals Ernest King and William D. Leahy, and Generals of the Army George Marshall and Hap Arnold (the latter being the commander of the U.S. Army ...