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Date	Event
January 1, 1945	World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches Operation Bodenplatte, a massive, but failed, attempt to knock out Allied air power in northern Europe in a single blow.
January 5, 1945	The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet Provisional Government of the Republic of Poland.
January 8, 1945	World War II: Philippine Commonwealth troops under the Philippine Commonwealth Army units enter the province of Ilocos Sur in Northern Luzon and attack invading Japanese Imperial forces.
January 9, 1945	World War II: The Sixth United States Army begins the invasion of Lingayen Gulf.
January 12, 1945	World War II: The Red Army begins the Vistula–Oder Offensive.
January 16, 1945	World War II: Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
January 17, 1945	World War II: The Vistula–Oder Offensive forces German troops out of Warsaw.
January 17, 1945	The SS-Totenkopfverbände begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as the Red Army closes in.
January 17, 1945	Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet custody while in Hungary; he is never publicly seen again.
January 18, 1945	World War II: Liberation of Kraków, Poland by the Red Army.
January 19, 1945	World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź Ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation.
January 20, 1945	World War II: The provisional government of Béla Miklós in Hungary agrees to an armistice with the Allies.
January 20, 1945	World War II: Germany begins the evacuation of 1.8 million people from East Prussia, a task which will take nearly two months.
January 23, 1945	World War II: German admiral Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal.
January 25, 1945	World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends.
January 26, 1945	World War II: Audie Murphy displays valor and bravery in action for which he will later be awarded the Medal of Honor.
January 27, 1945	World War II: The Soviet 322nd Rifle Division liberates the remaining inmates of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
January 28, 1945	World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
January 30, 1945	World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with German refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, killing approximately 9,500 people.
January 30, 1945	World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: One hundred and twenty-six American Rangers and Filipino resistance fighters liberate over 500 Allied prisoners from the Japanese-controlled Cabanatuan POW camp.
January 31, 1945	US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.
January 31, 1945	World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed.
January 31, 1945	World War II: The end of fighting in the Battle of Hill 170 during the Burma Campaign, in which the British 3 Commando Brigade repulsed a Japanese counterattack on their positions and precipitated a general retirement from the Arakan Peninsula.
February 3, 1945	World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin, a raid which kills between 2,500 and 3,000 and dehouses another 120,000.
February 3, 1945	World War II: The United States and the Philippine Commonwealth begin a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan.
February 4, 1945	World War II: Santo Tomas Internment Camp is liberated from Japanese authority.
February 4, 1945	World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea.
February 4, 1945	World War II: The British Indian Army and Imperial Japanese Army begin a series of battles known as the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations.
February 5, 1945	World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
February 8, 1945	World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada commence Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine.
February 8, 1945	World War II: Mikhail Devyataev escapes with nine other Soviet inmates from a Nazi concentration camp in Peenemünde on the island of Usedom by hijacking the camp commandant's Heinkel He 111.
February 9, 1945	World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
February 9, 1945	World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attack a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway.
February 13, 1945	World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army.
February 13, 1945	World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment.
February 14, 1945	World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden.
February 14, 1945	World War II: Navigational error leads to the mistaken bombing of Prague, Czechoslovakia by a United States Army Air Forces squadron of B-17s assisting in the Soviet Red Army's Vistula–Oder Offensive.
February 14, 1945	World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans
February 14, 1945	President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially beginning U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relations.
February 15, 1945	World War II: Third day of bombing in Dresden.
February 16, 1945	World War II: American forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines.
February 16, 1945	The Alaska Equal Rights Act of 1945, the first anti-discrimination law in the United States, was signed into law.
February 19, 1945	World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima: About 30,000 United States Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima.
February 21, 1945	World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, Japanese kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea and damage the USS Saratoga.
February 21, 1945	World War II: the Brazilian Expeditionary Force defeat the German forces in the Battle of Monte Castello on the Italian front.
February 23, 1945	World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag.
February 23, 1945	World War II: The 11th Airborne Division, with Filipino guerrillas, free all 2,147 captives of the Los Baños internment camp, in what General Colin Powell later would refer to as "the textbook airborne operation for all ages and all armies."
February 23, 1945	World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by combined Filipino and American forces.
February 23, 1945	World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań. The city is liberated by Soviet and Polish forces.
February 23, 1945	World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is annihilated in a raid by 379 British bombers.
February 24, 1945	Egyptian Premier Ahmad Mahir Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.
February 26, 1945	World War II: US troops reclaim the Philippine island of Corregidor from the Japanese.
March 3, 1945	World War II: In poor visibility, the RAF mistakenly bombs the Bezuidenhout area of The Hague, Netherlands, killing 511 people.
March 6, 1945	World War II: Cologne is captured by American troops. On the same day, Operation Spring Awakening, the last major German offensive of the war, begins.
March 7, 1945	World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine river at Remagen.
March 9, 1945	World War II: A coup d'état by Japanese forces in French Indochina removes the French from power.
March 9, 1945	World War II: Allied forces carry out firebombing over Tokyo, destroying most of the capital and killing over 100,000 civilians.
March 10, 1945	World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting conflagration kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
March 11, 1945	World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2.
March 11, 1945	World War II: The Empire of Vietnam, a short-lived Japanese puppet state, is established.
March 14, 1945	The R.A.F. drop the Grand Slam bomb in action for the first time, on a railway viaduct near Bielefeld, Germany.
March 16, 1945	World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist.
March 16, 1945	Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers, resulting in at least 4,000 deaths.
March 17, 1945	The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany, collapses, ten days after its capture.
March 19, 1945	World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing 724 of her crew. Badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the US under her own power.
March 19, 1945	World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities, and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.
March 21, 1945	World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.
March 21, 1945	World War II: Operation Carthage: Royal Air Force planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also accidentally hit a school, killing 125 civilians.
March 21, 1945	World War II: Bulgaria and the Soviet Union successfully complete their defense of the north bank of the Drava River as the Battle of the Transdanubian Hills concludes.
March 22, 1945	World War II: The city of Hildesheim, Germany is heavily damaged in a British air raid, though it had little military significance and Germany was on the verge of final defeat.[21][22][23]
March 22, 1945	The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
March 26, 1945	World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends as the island is officially secured by American forces.
March 27, 1945	World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war on the Axis Powers.
March 29, 1945	World War II: The last launch site of the V-1 flying bomb in the Low Countries is captured by Allied forces, ending German strikes against targets in Belgium.
March 29, 1945	World War II: The German 4th Army is almost destroyed by the Soviet Red Army.
March 30, 1945	World War II: Soviet forces invade Austria and capture Vienna. Polish and Soviet forces liberate Danzig.
March 31, 1945	World War II: A defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands.
April 1, 1945	World War II: The Tenth United States Army attacks the Thirty-Second Japanese Army on Okinawa.
April 4, 1945	World War II: United States Army troops liberate Ohrdruf forced labor camp in Germany.
April 4, 1945	World War II: United States Army troops capture Kassel.
April 4, 1945	World War II: Soviet Red Army troops liberate Hungary from German occupation and occupy the country themselves.
April 5, 1945	Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito signs an agreement with the Soviet Union to allow "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory".
April 6, 1945	World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.
April 6, 1945	World War II: The Battle of Slater's Knoll on Bougainville comes to an end.
April 7, 1945	World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato, one of the two largest ever constructed, is sunk by United States Navy aircraft during Operation Ten-Go.
April 8, 1945	World War II: After an air raid accidentally destroys a train carrying about 4,000 Nazi concentration camp internees in Prussian Hanover, the survivors are massacred by Nazis.
April 9, 1945	Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Lutheran pastor and anti-Nazi dissident, is executed by the Nazi regime.
April 9, 1945	World War II: The German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer is sunk by the Royal Air Force.
April 9, 1945	World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ends.
April 9, 1945	The United States Atomic Energy Commission is formed.
April 11, 1945	World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
April 12, 1945	U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office; Vice President Harry S. Truman becomes President upon Roosevelt's death.
April 12, 1945	World War II: The U.S. Ninth Army under General William H. Simpson crosses the Elbe River astride Magdeburg, and reaches Tangermünde—only 50 miles from Berlin.
April 13, 1945	World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany.
April 13, 1945	World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna.
April 14, 1945	Razing of Friesoythe: The 4th Canadian (Armoured) Division deliberately destroys the German town of Friesoythe on the orders of Major General Christopher Vokes.
April 15, 1945	Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.
April 16, 1945	World War II: The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin, with nearly one million troops fighting in the Battle of the Seelow Heights.
April 16, 1945	The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz).
April 16, 1945	More than 7,000 die when the German transport ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine.
April 17, 1945	World War II: Montese, Italy, is liberated from Nazi forces.
April 17, 1945	Historian Tran Trong Kim is appointed the Prime Minister of the Empire of Vietnam.
April 18, 1945	Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany.
April 18, 1945	Italian resistance movement: In Turin, despite the harsh repressive measures adopted by Nazi-fascists, a great pre-insurrectional strike begins.
April 20, 1945	World War II: U.S. troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
April 20, 1945	World War II: Führerbunker: On his 56th birthday Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
April 20, 1945	Twenty Jewish children used in medical experiments at Neuengamme are killed in the basement of the Bullenhuser Damm school.
April 21, 1945	World War II: Soviet forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the German High Command headquarters.
April 22, 1945	World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp revolt. Five hundred twenty are killed and around eighty escape.
April 22, 1945	World War II: Sachsenhausen concentration camp is liberated by soldiers of the Red Army and Polish First Army.
April 23, 1945	World War II: Adolf Hitler's designated successor, Hermann Göring, sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of Nazi Germany. Martin Bormann and Joseph Goebbels advise Hitler that the telegram is treasonous.
April 25, 1945	Elbe Day: United States and Soviet reconnaissance troops meet in Torgau and Strehla along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two.
April 25, 1945	Liberation Day (Italy): The National Liberation Committee for Northern Italy calls for a general uprising against the German occupation and the Italian Social Republic.
April 25, 1945	United Nations Conference on International Organization: Founding negotiations for the United Nations begin in San Francisco.
April 25, 1945	The last German troops retreat from Finland's soil in Lapland, ending the Lapland War. Military acts of Second World War end in Finland.
April 26, 1945	World War II: Battle of Bautzen: Last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
April 26, 1945	World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army are liberated in Baguio and they fight against the Japanese forces under General Tomoyuki Yamashita.
April 27, 1945	World War II: The last German formations withdraw from Finland to Norway. The Lapland War and thus, World War II in Finland, comes to an end and the Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn photograph is taken.
April 27, 1945	World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.
April 28, 1945	Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are shot dead by Walter Audisio, a member of the Italian resistance movement.
April 28, 1945	The Holocaust: Nazi Germany carries out its final use of gas chambers to execute 33 Upper Austrian socialist and communist leaders in Mauthausen concentration camp.
April 29, 1945	World War II: The Surrender of Caserta is signed by the commander of German forces in Italy.
April 29, 1945	World War II: Airdrops of food begin over German-occupied regions of the Netherlands.
April 29, 1945	World War II: HMS Goodall (K479) is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet, becoming the last Royal Navy ship to be sunk in the European theatre of World War II.
April 29, 1945	World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor; Hitler and Braun both commit suicide the following day.
April 29, 1945	Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.
April 29, 1945	The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces.
April 30, 1945	World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for less than 40 hours. Soviet soldiers raise the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building.
April 30, 1945	World War II: Stalag Luft I prisoner-of-war camp near Barth, Germany is liberated by Soviet soldiers, freeing nearly 9000 American and British airmen.
May 1, 1945	World War II: A German newsreader officially announces that Adolf Hitler has "fallen at his command post in the Reich Chancellery fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism and for Germany". The Soviet flag is raised over the Reich Chancellery, by order of Stalin.
May 1, 1945	World War II: Up to 2,500 people die in a mass suicide in Demmin following the advance of the Red Army.
May 2, 1945	World War II: The Soviet Union announces the fall of Berlin.
May 2, 1945	World War II: The surrender of Caserta comes into effect, by which German troops in Italy cease fighting.
May 2, 1945	World War II: The US 82nd Airborne Division liberates Wöbbelin concentration camp finding 1000 dead prisoners, most of whom starved to death.
May 2, 1945	World War II: A death march from Dachau to the Austrian border is halted by the segregated, all-Nisei 522nd Field Artillery Battalion of the U.S. Army in southern Bavaria, saving several hundred prisoners.
May 3, 1945	World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the Royal Air Force in Lübeck Bay.
May 4, 1945	World War II: Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is liberated by the British Army.
May 4, 1945	World War II: The German surrender at Lüneburg Heath is signed, coming into effect the following day. It encompasses all Wehrmacht units in the Netherlands, Denmark and northwest Germany.
May 5, 1945	World War II: The Prague uprising begins as an attempt by the Czech resistance to free the city from German occupation.
May 5, 1945	World War II: A Fu-Go balloon bomb launched by the Japanese Army kills six people near Bly, Oregon.
May 5, 1945	World War II: Battle of Castle Itter, one of only two battles in that war in which American and German troops fought cooperatively.
May 6, 1945	World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops.
May 6, 1945	World War II: The Prague Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front, begins.
May 7, 1945	World War II: Last German U-boat attack of the war, two freighters are sunk off the Firth of Forth, Scotland.
May 7, 1945	World War II: General Alfred Jodl signs unconditional surrender terms at Reims, France, ending Germany's participation in the war. The document takes effect the next day.
May 8, 1945	World War II: The German Instrument of Surrender signed at Reims comes into effect.
May 8, 1945	End of the Prague uprising, celebrated now as a national holiday in the Czech Republic.
May 8, 1945	Hundreds of Algerian civilians are killed by French Army soldiers in the Sétif massacre.
May 8, 1945	The Halifax riot starts when thousands of civilians and servicemen rampage through Halifax, Nova Scotia.
May 9, 1945	World War II: The final German Instrument of Surrender is signed at the Soviet headquarters in Berlin-Karlshorst.
May 13, 1945	World War II: Yevgeny Khaldei's photograph Raising a Flag over the Reichstag is published in Ogonyok magazine.
May 15, 1945	World War II: The Battle of Poljana, the final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia.
May 19, 1945	Syrian demonstrators in Damascus are fired upon by French troops injuring twelve, leading to the Levant Crisis.
May 23, 1945	World War II: Heinrich Himmler, head of the Schutzstaffel, commits suicide while in Allied custody.
May 23, 1945	World War II: Germany's Flensburg Government under Karl Dönitz is dissolved when its members are arrested by British forces.
May 29, 1945	First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
June 5, 1945	The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
June 7, 1945	King Haakon VII of Norway returns from exactly five years in exile during World War II.
June 10, 1945	Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.
June 14, 1945	World War II: Filipino troops of the Philippine Commonwealth Army liberate the captured in Ilocos Sur and start the Battle of Bessang Pass in Northern Luzon.
June 18, 1945	William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") is charged with treason for his pro-German propaganda broadcasting during World War II.
June 20, 1945	The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to the U.S. under Operation Paperclip.
June 21, 1945	World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when the organized resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island.
June 22, 1945	World War II: The Battle of Okinawa comes to an end.
June 26, 1945	The United Nations Charter is signed by 50 Allied nations in San Francisco, California.
June 28, 1945	Poland's Soviet-allied Provisional Government of National Unity is formed over a month after V-E Day.
June 29, 1945	The Soviet Union annexes the Czechoslovak province of Carpathian Ruthenia.
July 5, 1945	The United Kingdom holds its first general election in 10 years, which would be won by Clement Attlee's Labour Party.
July 16, 1945	Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
July 16, 1945	World War II: The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island.
July 17, 1945	World War II: The main three leaders of the Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.
July 23, 1945	The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.
July 26, 1945	The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.
July 26, 1945	World War II: The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany.
July 26, 1945	World War II: HMS Vestal is the last British Royal Navy ship to be sunk in the war.
July 26, 1945	World War II: The USS Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with components and enriched uranium for the Little Boy nuclear bomb.
July 28, 1945	A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26.
July 29, 1945	The BBC Light Programme radio station is launched for mainstream light entertainment and music.
July 30, 1945	World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen. Most die during the following four days, until an aircraft notices the survivors.
July 31, 1945	Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
August 2, 1945	World War II: End of the Potsdam Conference.
August 6, 1945	World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.
August 8, 1945	The London Charter is signed by France, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and the United States, establishing the laws and procedures for the Nuremberg trials.
August 9, 1945	World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. Thirty-five thousand people are killed outright, including 23,200–28,200 Japanese war workers, 2,000 Korean forced workers, and 150 Japanese soldiers.
August 9, 1945	The Red Army invades Japanese-occupied Manchuria.
August 11, 1945	Poles in Kraków engage in a pogrom against Jews in the city, killing one and wounding five.
August 15, 1945	Emperor Hirohito broadcasts his declaration of surrender following the effective surrender of Japan in World War II; Korea gains independence from the Empire of Japan.
August 16, 1945	The National Representatives' Congress, the precursor of the current National Assembly of Vietnam, convenes in Sơn Dương.
August 17, 1945	Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta proclaim the independence of Indonesia, igniting the Indonesian National Revolution against the Dutch Empire.
August 17, 1945	The novella Animal Farm by George Orwell is first published.
August 17, 1945	Evacuation of Manchukuo: At Talitzou by the Sino-Korean border, Puyi, then the Kangde Emperor of Manchukuo, formally renounces the imperial throne, dissolves the state, and cedes its territory to the Republic of China.
August 18, 1945	Sukarno takes office as the first president of Indonesia, following the country's declaration of independence the previous day.
August 18, 1945	Soviet-Japanese War: Battle of Shumshu: Soviet forces land at Takeda Beach on Shumshu Island and launch the Battle of Shumshu; the Soviet Union’s Invasion of the Kuril Islands commences.
August 19, 1945	August Revolution: Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh take power in Hanoi, Vietnam.
August 21, 1945	Physicist Harry Daghlian is fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
August 23, 1945	World War II: Soviet–Japanese War: The USSR State Defense Committee issues Decree no. 9898cc "About Receiving, Accommodation, and Labor Utilization of the Japanese Army Prisoners of War".
August 25, 1945	Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Chinese Communist Party kill U.S. intelligence officer John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.
August 25, 1945	The August Revolution ends as Emperor Bảo Đại abdicates, ending the Nguyễn dynasty.
August 30, 1945	The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong comes to an end.
August 30, 1945	The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
August 30, 1945	The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
September 2, 1945	World War II: The Japanese Instrument of Surrender is signed by Japan and the major warring powers aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
September 2, 1945	Communist leader Ho Chi Minh proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam after the end of the Nguyễn dynasty.
September 3, 1945	A three-day celebration begins in China, following the Victory over Japan Day on September 2.
September 5, 1945	Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.
September 5, 1945	Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
September 7, 1945	World War II: Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.
September 7, 1945	The Berlin Victory Parade of 1945 is held.
September 8, 1945	The division of Korea begins when United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.
September 9, 1945	Second Sino-Japanese War: The Empire of Japan formally surrenders to China.
September 11, 1945	World War II: Australian 9th Division forces liberate the Japanese-run Batu Lintang camp, a POW and civilian internment camp on the island of Borneo.
September 12, 1945	The People's Republic of Korea is proclaimed, bringing an end to Japanese rule over Korea.
September 15, 1945	A hurricane strikes southern Florida and the Bahamas, destroying 366 airplanes and 25 blimps at Naval Air Station Richmond.
September 16, 1945	World War II: The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong comes to an end.
September 18, 1945	General Douglas MacArthur moves his general headquarters from Manila to Tokyo.
September 30, 1945	The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43.
October 5, 1945	A six-month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of the Warner Brothers studio.
October 10, 1945	The Double Tenth Agreement is signed by the Communist Party and the Kuomintang about the future of China.
October 12, 1945	World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.
October 12, 1945	The Lao Issara took control of Laos' government and reaffirmed the country's independence.
October 17, 1945	A massive demonstration in Buenos Aires, Argentina, demands Juan Perón's release.
October 18, 1945	The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
October 18, 1945	A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, stages a coup d'état against president Isaías Medina Angarita, who is overthrown by the end of the day.
October 18, 1945	Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón marries actress Eva Duarte.
October 21, 1945	In the 1945 French legislative election French women vote for the first time.
October 24, 1945	The United Nations Charter comes into effect.
October 25, 1945	Fifty years of Japanese administration of Taiwan formally ends when the Republic of China assumes control.
October 30, 1945	Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the baseball color line.
November 1, 1945	The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro.
November 10, 1945	Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, today celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).
November 16, 1945	UNESCO is founded.
November 20, 1945	Nuremberg trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg.
November 21, 1945	The United Auto Workers strike 92 General Motors plants in 50 cities to back up worker demands for a 30-percent raise.
November 27, 1945	CARE (then the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe) is founded to send CARE Packages of food relief to Europe after World War II.
November 29, 1945	The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia is declared.
December 4, 1945	By a vote of 65–7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations. (The UN had been established on October 24, 1945.)
December 5, 1945	Flight 19, a group of TBF Avengers, disappears in the Bermuda Triangle.
December 12, 1945	The People's Republic of Korea is outlawed in the South, by order of the United States Army Military Government in Korea.
December 15, 1945	Occupation of Japan/Shinto Directive: General Douglas MacArthur orders that Shinto be abolished as the state religion of Japan.
December 17, 1945	Kurdistan flag day, the flag of Kurdistan was raised for the first time in Mahabad in eastern Kurdistan (Iran).
December 19, 1945	John Amery, British Fascist, is executed at the age of 33 by the British Government for treason.
December 22, 1945	U.S. President Harry S. Truman issues an executive order giving World War II refugees precedence in visa applications under U.S. immigration quotas.
December 24, 1945	Five of nine children become missing after their home in Fayetteville, West Virginia, is burned down.
December 27, 1945	The International Monetary Fund is created with the signing of an agreement by 29 nations.