Page 4: Historical Events In 1945

Feb 07   General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila   

Feb 07   Pete Postlethwaite, American actor is born.   

Feb 07   Pete Postlethwaite, American actor.2006 An aging Egyptian passenger ferry carrying more than 1400 people sinks in the Red Sea off the Saudi coast is born   

Feb 07   President Truman appoints Irwin C Mollison judge of US Customs Court.   

Feb 07   US 76th/5th Infantry divisions begin crossing Sauer   

Feb 08   Allied air attack on Goch/Kleef/Kalkar/Reichswald   

Feb 08   Beginning of the Battle of the Rhineland as the inaugural Canadian Army attacks German positions in the Reichswald   

Feb 09   -Feb 10] Germany destroys Ruhrdammen.   

Feb 09   George J L Maduro, resistance fighter (Madurodam), dies in Dachau.   

Feb 09   Germany destroys Ruhrdammen.   

Feb 09   Mia Farrow, American film actress is born.   

Feb 10   "Rum and Coca Cola" by Andrews Sisters hits #1   

Feb 10   Juan de Hernandez, composer, dies at 63.   

Feb 11   1st gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey, CA.   

Feb 11   Al Dubin, Swiss songwriter (Tiptoe Thru The Tulips), dies at 53.   

Feb 11   inaugural gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey CA   

Feb 11   U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Russian leader Josef Stalin sign the Yalta Agreement during WWII.   

Feb 11   Yalta agreement signed by FDR, Churchill and Stalin.   

Feb 12   ... de Jong, Dutch vicar/resistance fighter, executed.   

Feb 12   San Francisco selected for site of UN Conference.   

Feb 12   SF selected for site of UN Conference   

Feb 13   Allied bombers began pounding Dresden, Germany, during WWII   

Feb 13   Allied planes bomb Dresden Germany; 135000 die.   

Feb 13   George Studd, cricketer (4 Tests with brother v Aus 1882-83), dies   

Feb 13   Gerbrandy British government refuses Dutch Jewish right to buy.   

Feb 13   Soviet forces capture Budapest, saving 120000 Jews.   

Feb 13   USSR captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany; 159000 die   

Feb 14   8th Air Force bombs Dresden   

Feb 14   Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Peru join the United Nations   

Feb 16   American troops begin their reoccupation of the Philippine island of Corregidor during WWII   

Feb 16   Billy Frank, cricketer (Test S Afr v Eng 1896, 5 and 2, 1-52), dies.   

Feb 16   US forces land on Corregidor, complete conquest on March 3   

Feb 16   Venezuela declares war on Nazi-Germany.   

Feb 19   30000 US Marines land on Iwo Jima   

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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,