Page 3: Historical Events In 1945

Jan 25   West Africa 82nd division occupies Myohaung, Burma.   

Jan 26   Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp   

Jan 26   Soviet troops arrive at Auschwitz to discover 7600 survivors and 648 corpses. Most of the prisoners in Auschwitz had been sent out on a death march on Jan 18.   

Jan 27   Nazi occupiers forbid food transport to West (The Netherlands).   

Jan 27   Russia liberates Auschwitz and Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland).   

Jan 27   Russian troops liberate the Nazi concentration camps Birkenau and Auschwitz.   

Jan 27   Wally van Hall, "banker in defiance," arrested.   

Jan 28   Dutch airplanes dump pamphlets on Java.   

Jan 28   General "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell and truck convoy reopen Burma Road to China   

Jan 28   Philip "Felix" Bekkers, actor (We Go on Trip), dies at 37   

Jan 28   Swedish ships bring food to starving Netherlands.   

Jan 30   "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 7700 die.   

Jan 30   German ship "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 7700 die   

Jan 30   Gottlieb J Haberlandt, Hungarian/German botanist, dies at 90   

Jan 31   Eddie Slovik, 1st US executed for desertion since Civil War at 25.   

Jan 31   Eddie Slovik, inaugural American executed for desertion since Civil War   

Jan 31   US 4th Infantry division occupies Elcherrath.   

Feb 01   Johan Huizinga, Dutch culture historian (Homo Ludens), dies at 72.   

Feb 01   US Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie   

Feb 02   Escape attempt at Mauthausen concentration camp   

Feb 02   Karl F Goerdeler, mayor (Leipzig)/"July 20th plot", hanged at 60   

Feb 03   Almost 1000 Flying Fortresses drop 3000 ton bombs on Berlin   

Feb 03   Jose Rolon, composer, dies at 61   

Feb 03   Walt Disney's "The 3 Caballeros" released.   

Feb 04   FDR, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta   

Feb 04   Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin meet at Yalta in the Crimea to discuss plans for the defeat of the Axis powers and to decide on the post-war future.   

Feb 05   Big Racket is recorded as becoming quickest race horse at 69.6 kph (440 yards/20.8 seconds).   

Feb 05   Big Racket is recorded as becoming quickest race horse at 69t.6 kph (440 yd/20.8 s)   

Feb 05   British premier Churchill arrives in Yalta   

Feb 05   US troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla.   

Feb 06   8th Air Force bombs Magdeburg/Chemnitz   

Feb 06   Bob Marley, Jamaican singer is born.   

Feb 06   Jan Bos, Dutch resistance fighter, executed.   

Feb 06   Russian Red Army crosses the river Oder   

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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,