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1945 Empire State Building B-25 crash: A B-25 Mitchell bomber crashed into the Empire State Building in New York City during a heavy fog, resulting in fourteen deaths. At a press conference, Japanese Prime Minister KantarÅ Suzuki gave a response to the Potsdam Declaration that elicited confusion. The translation was unclear as to whether he ...
What happened to the members of the Six Triple Eight? AP Photo/Jay Reeves Romay Davis shows a photo of her as a member of 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion during World War II, on July 25 ...
On July 28, 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber of the United States Army Air Forces crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building in New York City while flying in thick fog. The crash killed fourteen people (three crewmen and eleven people in the building), and an estimated twenty-four others were injured.
July 8 – WW II: President Harry S. Truman is informed that Japan will talk peace if it can retain the Emperor. [4] July 9 – A forest fire breaks out in the Tillamook Burn (the third in that area of Oregon since 1933). July 15 – The Scott Morrison Award of Minor Hockey Excellence is first given; the first recipient is Gordie Howe.
July 1945 sports events in the United States (1 P) ... 1945 Empire State Building B-25 crash; T. Trinity (nuclear test) U. Utah prisoner of war massacre
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.
July 25 is the 206th day of the year (207th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; ... 1865 – Jac. P. Thijsse, Dutch botanist and conservationist (d. 1945)
Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon, conducted by the United States Army at 5:29 a.m. MWT [a] (11:29:21 GMT) on July 16, 1945, as part of the Manhattan Project. The test was of an implosion-design plutonium bomb, nicknamed " The Gadget ", of the same design as the Fat Man bomb later detonated over Nagasaki ...