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1945 Chinese counter attack at Tsjangte, supports by 14th air fleet 
1945 General Von Keitel surrenders to Marshal Zhukov near Berlin
1945 In Berlin, the unconditional surrender is ratified, marking an end to twelve and a half years of the Nazi Third Reich.
1945 Victory In Europe Day (VE Day) declared
1946 Candice Bergen, American actress is born.
1946 Red Sox Johnny Pesky scores 6 runs in 1 game
1947 A movement among Card players to protest its 1st meeting with Jackie Robinson and the Dodgers is aborted by a talk from owner Sam Breadon.
1948 Bradman scores 146 Australia vs Surrey, 174 minutes, 15 fours
1948 Bradman scores 146 Aust v Surrey, 174 mins, 15 fours.
1948 Alfred Holy, composer, dies at 81
1949 West German constitution approved
1950 American General MacArthur is recorded as becoming comander of the UN forces in Korea.
1950 Chiang Kai-shek asks US for weapons.
1950 Franklin Dyall, dies at 76
1951 Dacron men's suits introduced and we live to regret it
1951 Dacron men's suits introduced.
1951 Margaret Lindsay, actress (Take a Guess), dies at 40
1952 Mad Magazine debuts Great Magazine sure wish I still had the inaugural issue, but mon garbaged it
1957 Johannes C B "Jan" Sluyters, Dutch painter, dies at 75
1958 President Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central HS, Little Rock
1958 Vice President Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed and spat upon by protesters in Peru
1958 Nasni Matni, Lebanese journalist, murdered.
1959 3-deck Nile excursion steamer springs a leak panicking passengers who capsized ship; 200 drown just yards from shore.
1959 Renato Caccioppoli, Italian mathematician/pianist, suicide at 55
1960 USSR and Cuba resume diplomatic relations.
1960 Hugo Alfven, Swedish composer (Midsommarvaka), dies at 88
1961 Alan Shepard receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Washington
1961 The inaugural practical sea water conversion plant-Freeport TX.
1961 James Fairfax, actor (Gale Storm Show), dies at 63
1962 London trolley buses go out of service
1962 The inaugural Atlas Centaur Launch.
1963 "Dr No" premieres in US 007 reigns supreme for over 40 years
1963 JFK offers Israel assistance against aggression
1963 Navy ships evacuate 2279 civilians from Haiti during crisis.
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