Page 15: Historical Events In 1945

May 21   German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured   

May 21   Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart wed   

May 22   6th Marine division reaches suburbs of Naha Okinawa   

May 22   Barin Road, Solomons, cleared   

May 22   Carel A Lion Cachet, lithographer/wood carver, dies   

May 23   British military police arrest Admiral Karl Doenitz.   

May 23   British milt police arrest Admiral Karl Doenitz   

May 23   German island of Helgoland in North Sea surrenders to British   

May 23   Heinrich Himmler, Gestapo leader, commits suicide in prison at 44.   

May 23   Lord Haw-Haw arrested at Danish boundary   

May 23   Nazi official Heinrich Himmler commits suicide while imprisoned in Luneburgm Germany   

May 23   Winston Churchill steps down as British PM   

May 25   Arther C Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit   

May 25   Arthur C Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit.   

May 25   Arthur C.Clark suggests using relay satellites to cover the Earth.   

May 26   US drop fire bombs on Tokyo.   

May 29   US 1st Marine division conquerors Shuri-castle Okinawa.   

May 29   US inaugural Marine division conquerors Shuri-castle Okinawa.   

May 30   Irma Laplasse, Flemish farmer/nazi collaborator, executed   

Jun 04   6th Marine division occupies Orokoe Peninsula Okinawa.   

Jun 04   Georg Kaiser, playwright, dies at 66.   

Jun 05   Berlin council of Allied commanders begins.   

Jun 05   Opera "Peter Grimes of Benjamin Britten," premieres in London   

Jun 05   USA, UK, USSR, France declare supreme authority over Germany   

Jun 06   "Free People" premieres in Amsterdam.   

Jun 06   Meinoud M Rost van Tonningen, anti semite/NSB (1937-41), suicide   

Jun 07   Nishida Kitaro, scholar/philosopher/Zen practitioner, dies at 74   

Jun 07   Wolfgang Schüssel, Chancellor of Austria   

Jun 09   "Gruesome Twosome," premieres in USA   

Jun 10   9th Division supported by the RAAF lands at Brunei Bay, beginning the invasion of British North Borneo   

Jun 12   US 7th Marine regiment conquer summit of Kunishi Ridge, Okinawa.   

Jun 13   Australians capture Brunei.   

Jun 13   Heerjansdam soccer team forms   

Jun 14   Rod Argent, rocker (The Zombies-Never Even Thought)   

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Jan 03   Stephen stills: Dallas tx, songwriter/guitarist (cosby stills & nash)   

Jan 03   Victoria principal: Fukuoka japan, actress (earthquake, pamela-dallas)   

Jan 04   Jay dee maness: Loma linda ca, singer (desert rose band-love reunited)   

Jan 04   Vesa-matti loiri: Finnish entertainer   

Jan 04   Richard r. schrock: American chemist, nobel laureate   

Jan 05   Sam wyche: Nfl coach (cincinnati bengals)   

Jan 05   Chuck mckinley: U.s. tennis player   

Jan 05   Roger spottiswoode: Canadian-born film director   

Jan 01   Vit nejedly: Composer,    

Jan 02   Betram home ramsay: Engl adm/cmdr naval forces (normandy),    

Jan 03   Fyodor akimenko: Composer,   

Jan 06   Vladimir vernadsky: Russian mineralogist (b. 1863)   

Jan 08   Jac[obus] p thijsse: Dutch biologist (omgang met planten),   

Jan 09   Jüri uluots: Estonian prime minister (b. 1890)   

Jan 10   Rudolf borchardt: Writer,   

Jan 14   Sandor vandor: Composer,