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Flight 19 was the designation of a group of five General Motors TBF Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle on December 5, 1945, after losing contact during a United States Navy overwater navigation training flight from Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
December 5 is the 339th day of the year ... American video game designer and author ... December 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Children's Day ...
December 9 – General George S. Patton is injured in an automobile accident in France, resulting in his death on December 21. December 24 – Sodder children disappearance: Five of nine children go missing after their home in Fayetteville, West Virginia, is burned down.
The War Brides Act was enacted in the United States to allow alien spouses, natural children, and adopted children of American troops to enter the U.S. as non-quota immigrants, "if admissible". A United Nations spokesman said that the committee would choose a site in the "general areas" of either Boston or New York City as a permanent home for ...
1945 Liberation from Japan, [7] celebrated between 1945 and 1996 (no longer a holiday as of 1997) Liberation Day (V-J Day 30 August) India: December 19 (Goa only) 1961 Liberation of Goa from Portugal: Goa Liberation Day Israel: 28 Iyar: 1967 Reuinfication of Jerusalem in the Six-Day War: Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day) Italy: April 25: 1945
The signing of Proclamation 2714 is the legal basis for the end of World War II. As a result, any person who served between December 7, 1941, and December 31, 1946, is considered a World War II veteran. [1] Furthermore, the signing of the proclamation coincided with the termination of wartime statutes. [2]
21 March – The British Operation Carthage, an air raid targeting the local Gestapo headquarters in the Shell Building in central Copenhagen, goes wrong and 123 Danish civilians, including 87 school children, are killed. [2] 5 May – The occupation of Denmark ends with Nazi Germany's capitulation to the Allied Forces. [3]
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is declared (this day is celebrated as Republic Day until the 1990s). Marshal Tito is named president. Assembly of the world's first general purpose electronic computer, the Electronic Numerical Integrator Analyzer and Computer ( ENIAC ), is completed in the United States, covering 1,800 square feet ...