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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.
History of the United States (1945–1964) Timeline of United States history (1930–1949) ... Events from the year 1945 in the United States.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt would join the Conference for one day on 2 February 1945; both would fly to Yalta on 3 February for the Yalta Conference with Stalin. 31: The Red Army crosses the Oder River into Germany and are now less than 50 miles from Berlin.: A second invasion on Luzon by Americans lands on the west coast.
The Battle of Okinawa began. 50,000 American troops landed on Okinawa against little initial resistance and established a 13-kilometre (8.1 mi) beachhead. [1]The Japanese ocean liner-turned-hospital ship Awa Maru was passing through the Taiwan Strait when the American submarine USS Queenfish (SS-393) mistook it for a destroyer, torpedoed and sank it.
The following events occurred in May 1945: ... The unique performance of the front and homeland will find a final appraisal in the later, just judgment of history ...
1945 in economic history (5 C, 2 P) 1945 in education (3 C) 1945 in the environment (7 C, 2 P) Ethnic cleansing of Germans (1 C, 34 P) 1945 events by month (19 C) F.
The 1945 Resko Przymorskie Dornier Do 24 crash in Kępa, Pomeranian Voivodeship. [10] Died: Rupert Downes, 60, and George Alan Vasey, 49, Australian generals (plane crash near Cairns); Albert Richards, 25, British war artist (jeep drove over a landmine)
January 27, 1945: Auschwitz concentration camp is liberated by the Soviet Red Army. January 30, 1945: More than 9,400 Germans on the German steamer are killed when the vessel is torpedoed and sunk by a Soviet submarine during civilian evacuation. The following events occurred in January 1945: