Page 2: Historical Events In 1945
Saturday, 14 March 2026
Jan 12 US Task Force 38 destroys 41 Japanese ships in Battle of South China Sea. 


Jan 13 Prokofchev's 5th Symphony premieres in Moscow 


Jan 13 The Soviet 'Red' army occupies the Hungarian city of Budapest. 


Jan 14 Death marches to the interior of Germany begin, taking 250000 Jewish lives 


Jan 14 Sandor Vandor, composer, dies at 43. 


Jan 15 "Make Mine Manhattan" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 429 perfs. 


Jan 15 Every Amsterdammer gets 3 kg sugar beets. 


Jan 15 Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp 


Jan 16 Dennis Donnini, Brit rifleman (Victoria Cross), dies in battle at 19 


Jan 16 Scottish 52nd land division/1st Commando brigade-assault at Heinsberg 


Jan 16 U.S. inaugural and 3rd army units close the bulge, but do not succeed in entrapping enemy forces 


Jan 16 US inaugural and 3rd army meet at Houffalise 


Jan 17 Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation 


Jan 17 Liberation of Warsaw by Soviet troops (end of Nazi occupation). 


Jan 17 Liberation of Warsaw from the Nazi by Soviet troops. 


Jan 17 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by secret police in Hungary. 


Jan 17 Warsaw is liberated by Polish and Soviet forces during WWII 


Jan 18 Approximately 800 prisoners remaining in the Lodz Ghetto are liberated by Soviet troops, after 74600 have been deported to Auschwitz 


Jan 18 Warsaw freed by Soviet army 


Jan 19 Approximately 800 prisoners remaining in the Lodz Ghetto are liberated by Soviet troops, after 74600 have been deported to Auschwitz. 


Jan 19 Ernest B Allo, French theologist, dies at 71. 


Jan 20 FDR sworn-in for an unprecedented 4th term as President. 


Jan 20 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the only president to be elected to four terms in office, was inaugurated to his final term. He died three months later and was succeeded by his vice president, Harry Truman 


Jan 21 British troops land on Ramree, near coast of Burma 


Jan 21 The Brazilian Expeditionary Force leads an allied attack on Monte Castelo in Italy, the only participation of South American troops in World War II. 


Jan 22 A Wolfenstein, writer, dies at 61 


Jan 22 Burma highway reopens 


Jan 22 HMCS Trentonian (Corvette) torpedoed 


Jan 23 Dutch Premier Gerbrandy, exiled in London, offers his resignation 


Jan 23 Helmuth J Moltke, German politician ("July 20th Plot"), executed at 37 


Jan 24 Scottish 52nd Lowland division occupies Heinsberg. 


Jan 25 Dan Topping, Del Webb and Larry MacPhail purchase NY Yanks for $2.8 mil. 


Jan 25 Grand Rapids MI is recorded as becoming inaugural US city to fluoridate its water. 


Jan 25 Japanese occupiers of Batavia arrest Indo-European youths 


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