Page 6: Historical Events In 1945

Mar 03   Arthur Vanderpoorten, Flemish Internal minister (1940), dies at 61   

Mar 03   Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter.   

Mar 03   RAF bombing error hits The Hague killing 511   

Mar 03   Roermond/Venlo Netherlands, freed   

Mar 03   US 7th Army occupies last part of Westwall.   

Mar 03   US and Philippine forces recaptures Corregidor.   

Mar 04   Finland declares war on Nazi-Germany.   

Mar 05   Allied troops converge on the Rhine   

Mar 05   Allies bombs The Hague, Netherlands   

Mar 05   Generals Eisenhower, Patton and Patch meet in Luneville.   

Mar 05   US 7th Army Corps captures Cologne   

Mar 05   US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Gretchen Merrill.   

Mar 06   117 SD-prisoners executed at Savage Farm   

Mar 06   Chinese 38th division occupies Lashio   

Mar 06   Erich Honnecker and Erich Hanke flee Nazis.   

Mar 06   Jan Thijssen, Dutch resistance fighter, executed at Savage Farm.   

Mar 06   Rob Reiner, American director is born.   

Mar 07   Adolf Bartels, German writer/racist, dies at 82.   

Mar 07   Branch Rickey announces formation of the US Negro Baseball League   

Mar 07   Cologne taken by allied armies   

Mar 07   Formal undertaking of complete German surrender.   

Mar 07   German General Keitel repeats surrender signing in Berlin for the benefit of the Russians; WWII ends in Europe.   

Mar 07   Germany signs an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Reheime, France (to take effect the next day), ending the European theatre of WWII   

Mar 07   Mauthausen Concentration Camp liberated   

Mar 07   Nazi Generals Jodl and Von Friedenburg surrender.   

Mar 07   Princess Irene Brigade moves into the Hague Netherlands.   

Mar 07   Pulitzer prize awarded to John Hersey (Bell for Adano).   

Mar 07   SS open fire on crowd in Amsterdam, killing 22   

Mar 07   The Commanding Officer, CGAS Floyd Bennett Field reported that a dunking sonar suspended from an XHOS-1 helicopter had been tested successfully   

Mar 07   The tandem rotor XHRP-X transport helicopter, built under Navy contract by P-V Engineering Forum made its inaugural flight at the contractor's plant at Sharon Hill.   

Mar 07   US 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany, crosses Rhine.   

Mar 07   Yugoslavia government of Tito forms   

Mar 08   "Kiss Me Kate" opens in Britain   

Mar 08   53 Amsterdammers executed by Nazi occupiers.   

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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,