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February 8 – The Alaska Anti-Discrimination Act of 1945, championed by charismatic native leader Elizabeth Peratrovich, is passed by the territorial Senate, after the legislature defeated a previous bill in 1943. February 12 – A devastating tornado outbreak in Mississippi and Alabama kills 45 people and injures 427 others. February 16
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 people listed below are, or were, the last surviving members of notable groups of World War II veterans, as identified by reliable sources. About 70 million people fought in World War II between 1939 and 1945. Background shading indicates the individual is still living Last survivors Veteran Birth Death Notability Service Allegiance Aimé Acton 1917 or 1918 13 December 2020 (aged 102) Last ...
Winter 1945 is trying for Canadian diplomats Charles Ritchie and Saul Rae and family, living in liberated Paris without fuel [7] Print: For European children dying of cold and hunger at Christmas [8] Record of two British mariners killed on Canadian cargo ship sunk in Scottish waters in war's last U-boat attack [9]
Between 1945 and 1960, GNP grew by 250%, expenditures on new construction multiplied nine times, and consumption on personal services increased three times. By 1960, per capita income was 35% higher than in 1945, and America had entered what the economist Walt Rostow referred to as the "high mass consumption" stage of economic development ...
May 7, 1945 – Germany surrenders, end of World War II in Europe; 1945 – Carousel opens on Broadway; 1945 – Potsdam Conference; 1945 - Tennessee Williams’s play The Glass Menagerie opens in New York; August 6 and 9, 1945 – Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. August 14, 1945 – Japan surrenders, ending World War II.
1945 in the United States by state or territory (51 C) 1945 events in the United States by month (12 C) 1945 disestablishments in the United States (40 C, 22 P)
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