Oct 24 United Nations are created

Oct 16 UN's Food & Agriculture Organization comes into existence

Oct 24 United Nations Charter becomes effective

Oct 08 Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada

Oct 17 Juan Peron becomes dictator of Argentina

Oct 19 Foundation of War Widow's Guild of Australia The guild's first president was Mrs Jessie Vasey, widow of Major-General GA Vasey, who had asked his wife to "look after the widows"

Oct 11 Typhoon hits Okinawa, damaging many Navy ships.

Jul 28 Thirteen people are killed when a B-25 bomber crashes into the Empire State Building.

Jul 16 " Fat Boy", the experimental, plutonium bomb, exploded at 5:30 a.m. in the first U.S. test of an atomic bomb. The mushroom-shaped cloud rose to a height of 41,000 feet above the New Mexico desert at Alamogordo Air Base. All life in a one-mile radius ceased to exist.

Jul 26 Churchill resigns as Britain's PM

Jul 17 Potsdam Conference (FDR, Stalin, Churchill) holds first meeting

Jul 30 Japanese submarine, I-58, sinks USS Indianapolis (CA-35) in Philippine Sea; 316 out of 1199 crew survived.

Jul 06 Nicaragua becomes first nation to formally accept UN Charter

Jul 28 US Senate ratifies UN charter 89-2

Jul 16 " Fat Boy", the experimental, plutonium bomb, exploded at 5 30 a.m. in the first U.S. test of an atomic bomb. The mushroom-shaped cloud rose to a height of 41,000 feet above the New Mexico desert at Alamogordo Air Base. All life in a one-mile radius ceased to exist.

Jul 02 USS Barb (SS-220) bombards Japanese installations on Kaihyo Island, Japan; first successful use of rockets against shore positions.

Jul 01 Troops of the 7th Division land at Balikpapan in south-east Borneo

Jul 04 Canadian troops enter Berlin as part of British garrison force; to share occupation duties.

Jul 28 USS Callaghan (DD-792) is last ship sunk by a Japanese kamikaze attack, off Okinawa.

Jul 03 The first civilian passenger car built since February 1942 was driven off the assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Detroit, MI. Automotive production had been diverted to military production for the war (WWII) effort.

Jul 05 Australian Prime Minister John Curtin dies in office

Jul 16 First atomic bomb test, in New Mexico, USA

Jul 28 US Army bomber crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Bldg, 14 die

Jul 10 Robert Goddard Rocket pioneer, dies

Jul 06 Pres Truman signs executive order establishing Medal of Freedom

Jul 05 Death of Prime Minister John Curtin

Jul 06 Wash Senator Rick Ferrell catches a record 1,722 games

Jul 16 The first atomic bomb detonated, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico

Jul 10 14 carriers from Third Fleet carriers begin air strikes on Japanese Home Islands which end 15 August.

Mar 24 150 bombers fly from Italy to bomb Berlin.

Mar 07 The tandem rotor XHRP-X transport helicopter, built under Navy contract by P-V Engineering Forum made its first flight at the contractor's plant at Sharon Hill

Mar 08 "Kiss Me Kate" opens in Britain

Mar 15 Billboard publishes its first album chart (King Cole Trio is #1)

Mar 25 US 4th Armored division arrives at Hanau & Aschaffenburg

Mar 30 USSR invades Austria during WWII

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