Page 12: Historical Events In 1945

Apr 25   Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany.   

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

Apr 25   U.S. and Red Army units meet near the Elbe River at Torgan, 75 miles south of Berlin   

Apr 25   United Nations founded at San Francisco   

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

Apr 26   Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, leader of France's Vichy collaborationist regime during WW II, arrested for treason   

Apr 27   2nd Republic of Austria forms   

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

Apr 28   Bernito Mussolini, Fascist leader (Italy), tried and shot   

Apr 28   Bernito Mussolini, Italian fascist leader is born   

Apr 28   British commands attack Elbe and occupies Lauenburg.   

Apr 28   Italian dictator Benito Mussolini shot by Italian partisans.   

Apr 29   1st food drop by RAF above nazi-occupied Holland (operation Manna)   

Apr 29   Canadians start air dropping food supplies to the starving Dutch.   

Apr 29   The German armed foces in Italy surrender to the allies   

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

Apr 29   US liberates Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, Germany   

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

Apr 30   Adolph Hitler, German dictator (1936-45), commits suicide at 56.   

Apr 30   Germany surrenders; end of the Third Reich   

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

May 01   900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren commit suicide   

May 01   Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government   

May 01   Australia's 26th Brigade troops invade Tarakan on Borneo's east coast   

May 01   Australian and Dutch troops lands on Tarakan   

May 01   Desider Antalffy-Zsiross, Hungarian organist/composer, dies at 59   

May 01   General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms   

May 01   Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WWII   

May 01   Seys-Inquart flees to Flensburg.   

May 01   Soviet army reach Rostock   

May 02   Allies occupy Wismar.   

May 02   Berlin captured by Russian forces at the end of WW2.   

May 02   Berlin surrenders to Russian troops.   

May 02   British Army enters Lubeck in the Baltic, sealing off German forces in Denmark   

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Jan 03   In the year 1945 birth of stephen Stills, Dallas TX, songwriter/guitarist (Cosby Stills & Nash)   

Jan 03   In the year 1945 birth of victoria Principal, Fukuoka Japan, actress (Earthquake, Pamela-Dallas)   

Jan 04   Jay Dee Maness, Loma Linda Ca, singer (Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited) was born in the year 1945.   

Jan 04   On this day in history birth of vesa-Matti Loiri, Finnish entertainer   

Jan 04   On this day in history birth of richard R. Schrock, American chemist, Nobel laureate   

Jan 05   Sam Wyche, NFL coach (Cincinnati Bengals) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 05   On this day in history birth of chuck McKinley, U.S. tennis player (d. 1986)   

Jan 05   On this day in history birth of roger Spottiswoode, Canadian-born film director   

Jan 01   Vit Nejedly, composer, dies at 33 on this day in history.   

Jan 02   Betram Home Ramsay, Engl adm/Cmdr Naval Forces (Normandy), dies at 61 in the year 1945.   

Jan 03   Fyodor Akimenko, composer, dies at 68 in the year 1945.   

Jan 06   In the year 1945 death of vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist (b. 1863)   

Jan 08   Jac[obus] P Thijsse, Dutch biologist (Omgang met planten), dies at 79 in the year 1945.   

Jan 09   In the year 1945 death of jüri Uluots, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1890)   

Jan 10   Rudolf Borchardt, writer, dies at 67 in the year 1945.   

Jan 14   Sandor Vandor, composer, dies at 43 on this day in history.