Page 9: Historical Events In 1945

Mar 24   US minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa.   

Mar 25   US 1st army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen.   

Mar 25   US 4th Armored division arrives at Hanau and Aschaffenburg   

Mar 25   US inaugural army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen.   

Mar 25   US Northern Tractor Flotilla departs Ulithi to Okinawa   

Mar 26   -29] Kamikazes attack US battle fleet near Kerama Retto   

Mar 26   British premier Churchill looks over at the Rhine (near Ginsberg).   

Mar 26   David Lloyd George, British (L) premier (1916-22), dies at 82   

Mar 26   Generals Eisenhower/Bradley/Patton attack at Remagen the Rhine.   

Mar 26   Japanese resistance ends on Iwo Jima.   

Mar 26   Kamikazes attack US battle fleet near Kerama Retto   

Mar 26   US 7th Army crosses Rhine at Worms.   

Mar 26   Venray soccer team forms   

Mar 27   7th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Okla State beats NYU 49-44   

Mar 27   British premier Churchill sails to eastern banks of Rhine   

Mar 27   Ella Fitzgerald and Delta Rhythm Boys record "It's Only a Paper Moon"   

Mar 27   General Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken.   

Mar 27   Iwo Jima occupied, after 22000 Japanese and 6000 US killed.   

Mar 27   Jorgen Nielsen, Danish writer (romance), dies at 42.   

Mar 27   US 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden.   

Mar 28   Last German V-1 (buzz bomb) attack on London   

Mar 28   Last German V-2 (buzz bomb) attack on London   

Mar 28   The last V2 German rocket of World War II falls on London.   

Mar 29   Karl T Sapper, German geographer/geologist (Vulkankunde), dies at 79.   

Mar 29   World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England.   

Mar 30   289 anti-fascists murdered by Nazis in Rombergpark Dortmund   

Mar 30   Karel Moor, composer, dies at 71   

Mar 30   USSR invades Austria during WWII   

Mar 31   3rd Algerian division crosses the Rhine   

Mar 31   Hans Fischer, German physicist (Nobel 1930), dies at 63.   

Mar 31   Sicherheitsdienst murders 10 political prisoners in Zutphen.   

Mar 31   Tennessee Williams' "Glass Menagerie", premieres in New York NY.   

Mar 31   US artillery lands on Keise Shima/begins firing on Okinawa   

Apr 01   1st edition of Indonesia Merdeka publishes   

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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,