Page 7: Historical Events In 1945

Mar 10   Germany blows-up Wessel Bridge on Rhine   

Mar 10   Japan declares Vietnam Independence.   

Mar 10   Patton's 3rd Army makes contact with Hodge's inaugural Army.   

Mar 10   Tokyo on fire after night time B-29 bombing.   

Mar 10   US troops lands on Mindanao   

Mar 11   1000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4662 ton bombs   

Mar 11   Flemish Nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death   

Mar 12   30 Amsterdammers executed by Nazi occupiers   

Mar 12   Anne Frank, diarist (Diary of Anne Frank), killed in Belsen Camp.   

Mar 12   Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy   

Mar 12   New York is the inaugural to prohibit discrimination by race and creed in employment.   

Mar 12   The British Empire celebrates its inaugural British Empire Day.   

Mar 12   USSR returns Transylvania to Romania   

Mar 13   Herbert Bedford, composer, dies at 78.   

Mar 13   Queen Wilhelmina returns to Netherlands.   

Mar 13   Sicherheitsdienst arrest Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman.   

Mar 14   During World War II, the 617 Dambuster Squadron of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) drops the heaviest bomb of the war on the Bielefeld railway viaduct in Germany. Known as the "Grand Slam," the 22000-pound bomb, which was designed by Sir Barnes Wallis, is dropped from an Avro Lancaster flown by RAF Squadron Leader C.C. Calder.   

Mar 14   RAF bomb cuts railway link Hannover-Hamm.   

Mar 14   The heaviest bomb of World War II, the 9988kg "Grand Slam", is dropped by the RAF's Dambuster Squadron on the Bielefeld railway viaduct in Germany.   

Mar 15   17th Academy Awards "Going my Way", Bing Cosby and Ingrid Bergman win   

Mar 15   17th Academy Awards   

Mar 15   Catholic University of Nijmegen reopens   

Mar 15   Herman B Wiardi Beckman, Dutch MP (SDAP), dies at 41   

Mar 15   In this year, Billboard publishes its inaugural album chart (King Cole Trio is #1).   

Mar 15   Record album charts inaugural published in the United States   

Mar 16   Allies secure Iwo Jima   

Mar 16   Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, French writer/poet, commits suicide at 52   

Mar 16   US defeats Japan at Iwo Jima.   

Mar 17   Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra.   

Mar 17   American forces defeat the Japanese at the battle of Iwo Jima.   

Mar 17   HMCS Guysborough torpedoed in the Bay of Biscay.   

Mar 18   1250 US bombers attacks Berlin   

Mar 18   Maurice "Rocket" Richard is recorded as becoming the inaugural NHLer to score 50 goals   

Mar 18   US Task Force 58 attacks targets on Kiushu.   

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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,