Apr 19 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical "Carousel" opens on Broadway

Apr 25 Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany

Apr 13 President Roosevelt dies.

Apr 20 Soviet troops enter Berlin

Apr 30 Munich is captured by Patch's 7th Army unit.

Apr 30 Germany surrenders; end of the Third Reich.

Apr 29 US liberates Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, Germany

Apr 04 US forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany

Apr 03 Nazi's begin evacuation of camp Buchenwald

Apr 11 At the end of World War 2, the Red army enters the Austrian city of Vienna

Apr 05 Almelo Netherlands freed

Apr 08 US forces launch invasion of Okinawa during WW II

Apr 28 Bernito Mussolini Fascist leader & mistress captured, tried, & shot

Apr 28 The birth of Bernito Mussolini, Italian fascist leader

Apr 20 US 7th army captured German city of Nuremberg

Apr 04 Hungary liberated from Nazi occupation (National Liberation Day)

Apr 13 Allies occupy Wien (Vienna)

Apr 22 Toronto Maple Leafs beat Det Red Wings 4 games to 3 for Stanley Cup

Apr 15 FDR buried on grounds of Hyde Park home

Apr 10 On his last visit to Theresienstadt, Adolf Eichmann is heard to say, "I shall gladly jump into the pit, knowing that in the same pit there are 5 million enemies of the state."

Apr 30 "Arthur Godfrey Time" begins a 27 year run on CBS radio

Apr 14 Tokyo incendiary raids, using B-29's, damage Imperial Palace

Apr 25 US & Soviet forces meet at Torgau Germany on Elbe River

Apr 28 Italian dictator Benito Mussolini shot by Italian partisans

Apr 09 Liberty ship at Bari Italy carrying aerial bombs explodes, kills 360

Apr 25 RCAF's No. 6 Group makes its last bombing raid over Germany.

Apr 29 The German commanding officer in Italy surrenders to General Alexander of the U.S. 5th Army unit.

Apr 04 US tanks/infantry conquer Bielefeld

Apr 23 In only U.S. use of guided missiles in WW II, 2 BAT missiles release at Balikiapan, Borneo

Apr 11 U.S. troops liberate approximately 20,000 prisoners from Buchenwald.

Apr 18 Clandestine Radio 1212, after broadcasting pro-nazi propoganda for months used their influence to trap 350,000 German army group B troops

Nov 27 Gen George C Marshall named special US envoy to China

Nov 12 Canadian rock musician Neil Young is born

Nov 26 During snow storm, school bus crashes, killing 15 (Washington)

Nov 23 Susan Anspach actresswas born Five Easy Pieces, Play It Again, Sam, The Yellow Rose, The Slap Maxwell Story

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