| January 1 | France joins the UN |
| January 1 | German air raid on allied airports at Eindhoven/Saint-Trond/Brussels |
| January 2 | Allied air raid on Neurenberg |
| January 2 | Kentucky begins 130 home basketball game win streak, ends in 1955 |
| January 2 | Radio Orange ends cooperation at Liese-Aktion |
| January 3 | Allies land on west coast of Burma, conquer Akyab |
| January 3 | British Premier Winston Churchill visits France |
| January 3 | Cato-Meridian School, New York, installs germicidal lamps in every room |
| January 3 | Greek General Plastiras forms government |
| January 3 | John Patrick's "Hasty Heart," premieres in New York City |
| January 3 | U.S. aircraft carriers attack Okinawa |
| January 4 | Germans execute resistance fighters in Amsterdam |
| January 4 | U.S. jeep-aircraft carrier Ommaney Bay sinks after kamikaze attack |
| January 5 | Pepe LePew debuts in Warner Bros cartoon "Odor-able Kitty" |
| January 5 | Surprise attack on Liese-Aktion-office on Marnix St, Amsterdam |
| January 6 | Future president George Bush marries Barbara Pierce in Rye NY |
| January 7 | Lord Haw-Haw reports total German victory at Ardennen |
| January 8 | "Youth for Christ" organizes |
| January 9 | U.S. soldiers led by General Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines |
| January 10 | Baseball writers again fail to elect a new Hall of Famer |
| January 10 | LA Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close |
| January 10 | No one is elected to baseball's Hall of Fame |
| January 12 | German forces in Belgium retreat in Battle of Bulge |
| January 12 | U.S. Task Force 38 destroys 41 Japanese ships in Battle of South China Sea |
| January 13 | Prokofchev's 5th Symphony premieres in Moscow |
| January 15 | Every Amsterdammer gets 3 kg sugar beets |
| January 15 | "Make Mine Manhattan" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 429 performances |
| January 15 | Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp |
| January 16 | Scottish 52nd land division/1st Commando brigade-assault at Heinsberg |
| January 16 | U.S. 1st and 3rd army meet at Houffalise |
| January 17 | Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation |
| January 17 | Gilbert Dodds, record miler (4:05.3), retires to do gospel work |
| January 17 | Liberation of Warsaw by Soviet troops (end of Nazi occupation) |
| January 17 | Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by secret police in Hungary |
| January 18 | Warsaw freed by Soviet army |
| January 20 | Franklin D. Roosevelt sworn-in for an unprecedented 4th term as president |
| January 21 | British troops land on Ramree, near coast of Burma |
| January 22 | Burma highway reopens |
| January 22 | Heavy U.S. air raid on Okinawa |
| January 23 | Dutch Premier Gerbrandy, exiled in London, offers his resignation |
| January 24 | Scottish 52nd Lowland division occupies Heinsberg |
| January 25 | Dan Topping, Del Webb and Larry MacPhail purchase New York Yankees for $2.8 mil |
| January 25 | Grand Rapids, Michigan becomes 1st U.S. city to fluoridate its water |
| January 25 | Japanese occupiers of Batavia arrest Indo-European youths |
| January 25 | New York Yankees sold by Ruppert estate to Larry MacPhail, Dan Topping, & |
| January 25 | West Africa 82nd division occupies Myohaung, Burma |
| January 26 | Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp |
| January 27 | Nazi occupiers forbid food transport to West (The Netherlands) |
| January 27 | Russia liberates Auschwitz and Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland) |
| January 27 | S Romberg, H&D Fields' musical premieres in New York City |
| January 27 | Wally van Hall, "banker in defiance," arrested |
| January 28 | Dutch airplanes dump pamphlets on Java |
| January 28 | General "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell and truck convoy reopen Burma Road to China |
| January 28 | Swedish ships bring food to starving Netherlands |
| January 30 | German ship "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed, 4,800 killed |
| January 30 | "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 7,700 die |
| January 31 | U.S. 4th Infantry division occupies Elcherrath |
| February 1 | U.S. Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie |
| February 2 | Escape attempt at Mauthausen concentration camp |
| February 3 | Almost 1000 Flying Fortresses drop 3000 ton bombs on Berlin |
| February 3 | Walt Disney's "3 Caballeros" released |
| February 4 | FDR, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta |
| February 5 | Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69t.6 kph (440 yd/20.8 s) |
| February 5 | British premier Churchill arrives in Yalta, the Krim |
| February 5 | U.S. troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla |
| February 6 | 8th Air Force bombs Magdeburg/Chemnitz |
| February 6 | Russian Red Army crosses the river Oder |
| February 7 | General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila |
| February 7 | President Truman appoints Irwin C. Mollison judge of U.S. Customs Court |
| February 7 | U.S. 76th/5th Infantry divisions begin crossing Sauer |
| February 8 | Allied air attack on Goch/Kleef/Kalkar/Reichswald |
| February 9 | WAAF-corporal flies along the tail of a Spitfire |
| February 10 | "Rum and Coca Cola" by Andrews Sisters hits #1 |
| February 11 | 1st gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey, California |
| February 11 | Yalta agreement signed by FDR, Churchill and Stalin |
| February 12 | San Francisco selected for site of United Nations Conference |
| February 13 | Allied planes bomb Dresden Germany; 135,000 die |
| February 13 | Gerbrandy British government refuses Dutch Jewish right to buy |
| February 13 | U.S.S.R. captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany; 159,000 die |
| February 14 | 8th Air Force bombs Dresden |
| February 14 | Peru, Paraguay, Chile and Ecuador joins UN |
| February 16 | U.S. forces land on Corregidor, complete conquest on March 3 |
| February 16 | Venezuela declares war on nazi-Germany |
| February 19 | 30,000 U.S. Marines land on Iwo Jima |
| February 19 | 900 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days |
| February 19 | Brotherhood Day 1st celebrated |
| February 21 | Archbishop De Jong calls for help with war casualties |
| February 21 | British Army captures Goch |
| February 21 | U.S. 10th Armour division overthrows Orscholz line |
| February 22 | Arab League froms (Cairo) |
| February 22 | British troops take Ramree Island, Burma |
| February 22 | Canadian 3rd Division occupies Moyland |
| February 23 | 2nd Dutch government of Gerbrandy forms in London |
| February 23 | Canadian troops occupy Kalkar |
| February 23 | U.S. Marines raise flag on Iwo Jima, famous photo and statue |
| February 24 | Egypt and Syria declares war on nazi-Germany |
| February 24 | Manila freed from Japanese |
| February 24 | Nazi occupiers begin state of siege |
| February 25 | U.S. aircraft carriers attack Tokyo |
| February 26 | Very heavy bombing on Berlin by 8th U.S. Air Force |
| February 27 | Battle of U.S. 94 Infantry |
| March 1 | British 43rd Division under General Essame occupies Xanten |
| March 1 | Chinese 30th division occupies Hsenwi |
| March 1 | Field Marshal Kesselring succeeds von Rundstedt as commander |
| March 1 | Franklin D. Roosevelt announces success of Yalta Conference |
| March 1 | U.S. infantry regiment captures Monchengladbach |
| March 2 | 8th Air Force bombs Dresden |
| March 2 | King Michael of Romania gives in to Communist government |
| March 3 | Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarters |
| March 3 | RAF bombing error hits The Hague killing 511 |
| March 3 | U.S. 7th Army occupies last part of Westwall |
| March 3 | U.S. and Philippine forces recaptures Corregidor |
| March 4 | Finland declares war on nazi-Germany |
| March 5 | Allies bombs The Hague, Netherlands |
| March 5 | Generals Eisenhower, Patton and Patch meet in Luneville |
| March 5 | U.S. 7th Army Corps captures Cologne |
| March 5 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill |
| March 6 | 117 SD-prisoners executed at Savage Farm |
| March 6 | Assassination attempt on Hohere, SS Police fuhrer Rauter |
| March 6 | Chinese 38th division occupies Lashio |
| March 6 | Erich Honnecker andErich Hanke flee nazis |
| March 6 | Federico Garcia Lorca's "La Casa," premieres in Buenos Aires |
| March 7 | Cologne taken by allied armies |
| March 7 | U.S. 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany, crosses Rhine |
| March 7 | Yugoslavia government of Tito forms |
| March 8 | 53 Amsterdammers executed by nazi occupiers |
| March 8 | International Women's Day is 1st observed |
| March 8 | "Kiss Me Kate" opens in Britain |
| March 8 | Phyllis M. Daley is 1st black nurse sworn-in as U.S. Navy ensign |
| March 9 | 334 U.S. B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bomb |
| March 9 | Japanese proclaim "independence" of Indo-China |
| March 10 | Germany blows-up Wessel Bridge on Rhine |
| March 10 | Japan declares Vietnam Independence |
| March 10 | Patton's 3rd Army makes contact with Hodge's 1st Army |
| March 10 | Tokyo in fire after night time B-29 bombing |
| March 10 | U.S. troops lands on Mindanao |
| March 11 | 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs |
| March 11 | Flemish nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death |
| March 12 | 30 Amsterdammers executed by nazi occupiers |
| March 12 | British Empire celebrates it's 1st British Empire Day |
| March 12 | Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy |
| March 12 | New York is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race and creed in employment |
| March 12 | U.S.S.R. returns Transylvania to Romania |
| March 13 | Queen Wilhelmina returns to Netherlands |
| March 13 | Sicherheitsdienst arrest Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman |
| March 14 | RAF bomb cuts railway link Hannover-Hamm |
| March 15 | 17th Academy Awards - "Going my Way," Bing Cosby and Ingrid Bergman win |
| March 15 | Bert Shepard (1 legged WW II vet) tries out as a pitcher for Senators |
| March 15 | Billboard publishes its 1st album chart (King Cole Trio is #1) |
| March 15 | Catholic University of Nijmegen reopens |
| March 15 | Dodgers open spring training at Bear Mountain, New York |
| March 16 | Allies secure Iwo Jima |
| March 17 | Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra |
| March 18 | 1,250 U.S. bombers attacks Berlin |
| March 18 | Maurice "Rocket" Richard becomes the 1st NHLer to score 50 goals |
| March 18 | U.S. Task Force 58 attacks targets on Kiushu |
| March 19 | 800 killed as Kamikaze attacked USS Franklin off Japan |
| March 19 | Adolf Hitler issues Nero Decree: destruction of German facilities |
| March 19 | British 36th division conquers Mogok (ruby mine) |
| March 19 | U.S. Task Force 58 attacks ships near Kobe/Kure |
| March 20 | U.S. 70th Infantry division/7th Armour division attack Saar |
| March 21 | 1st Japanese flying bombs (ochas) attack Okinawa |
| March 21 | During WW II Allied bombers begin 4-day raid over Germany |
| March 21 | Dutch Resistance fighter Hannie Schaft arrested by Nazi police |
| March 22 | Arab League forms with adoption of a charter in Cairo Egypt |
| March 22 | U.S. 3rd Army crosses Rhine at Nierstein |
| March 23 | British 7th Black Watch crosses the Rhine |
| March 23 | Largest operation in Pacific war, 1,500 U.S. Navy ships bomb Okinawa |
| March 23 | Premier Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Straelen |
| March 24 | General Eisenhower, Montgomery and Bradley discuss advance in Germany |
| March 24 | Largest one-day airborne drop, 600 transports and 1300 gliders |
| March 24 | Operation Varsity: British, U.S. and Canadian airborne landings East of Rhine |
| March 24 | U.S. minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa |
| March 25 | U.S. 1st army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen |
| March 25 | U.S. 4th Armored div arrives at Hanau and Aschaffenburg |
| March 25 | U.S. Northern Tractor Flotilla departs Ulithi to Okinawa |
| March 26 | British premier Churchill looks over at the Rhine (near Ginsberg) |
| March 26 | De Paul wins NIT basketball championship, George Mikan scores 34 |
| March 26 | Generals Eisenhower/Bradley/Patton attack at Remagen the Rhine |
| March 26 | Japanese resistance ends on Iwo Jima |
| March 26 | Kamikazes attack U.S. battle fleet near Kerama Retto |
| March 26 | U.S. 7th Army crosses Rhine at Worms |
| March 26 | Venray soccer team forms |
| March 27 | 7th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Oklahoma State beats NYU 49-44 |
| March 27 | British premier Churchill sails to eastern banks of Rhine |
| March 27 | DePaul beats Bowling Green for NIT title |
| March 27 | Ella Fitzgerald and Delta Rhythm Boys record "It's Only a Paper Moon" |
| March 27 | General Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken |
| March 27 | Iwo Jima occupied, after 22,000 Japanese and 6,000 U.S. killed |
| March 27 | U.S. 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden |
| March 28 | Last German V-2 (buzz bomb) attack on London |
| March 30 | 289 anti-fascists murdered by nazis in Rombergpark Dortmund |
| March 30 | U.S.S.R. invades Austria during WW II |
| March 31 | 3rd Algerian division crosses the Rhine |
| March 31 | Sicherheitsdienst murders 10 political prisoners in Zutphen |
| March 31 | Tennessee Williams' "Glass Menagerie," premieres in New York City |
| March 31 | U.S. artillery lands on Keise Shima/begins firing on Okinawa |
| April 1 | 1st edition of Indonesia Merdeka publishes |
| April 1 | Canadian troop free Doetinchem, Enschede, Borculo and Eibergen |
| April 1 | Ruhrgebied sealed off by U.S. 1st and 9th army |
| April 1 | Sons of Elburger Soccer team forms in Elburg |
| April 1 | U.S. forces invade Okinawa during WW II |
| April 2 | 1st U.S. units reach east coast of Okinawa |
| April 3 | Hengelo freed from nazi control by Canadian army |
| April 3 | Nazi's begin evacuation of camp Buchenwald |
| April 3 | U.S. 1st army conquers Hofgeismar |
| April 4 | Hungary liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day) |
| April 4 | U.S. forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany |
| April 4 | U.S. tanks and infantry conquer Bielefeld |
| April 5 | Almelo Netherlands freed |
| April 5 | Kuniaki Koiso resigns as Prime Minister of Japan; replaced by Kantaro Suzuki |
| April 6 | Coevorden freed from nazis |
| April 6 | Japanese giant battleship Yamato heads to Okinawa |
| April 6 | Massive kamikaze-attack on U.S. battle fleet near Okinawa |
| April 6 | U.S. Marines explore Tsugen Shima near Okinawa |
| April 7 | 1st and last assault of German Rammkommando on U.S. bombers |
| April 7 | U.S. B-17's bombs range at Luneburg |
| April 7 | U.S. planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide superbattleship Yamato and four destroyers were sunk |
| April 8 | Nazi occupiers executed, Nazi general Christiansen flees Netherlands |
| April 9 | Liberty ship at Bari Italy carrying aerial bombs explodes, kills 360 |
| April 9 | NFL requires players to wear long stockings |
| April 10 | Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald, Czechoslovakia |
| April 10 | Canadian troops conquer Deventer |
| April 10 | General Blaskowitz becomes nazi leader of "Fort Holland" |
| April 10 | German troops attack Ijsselbrug |
| April 10 | NFL's Boston Yankees and Brooklyn Tigers merge |
| April 10 | U.S. troops land on Tsugen Shima Okinawa |
| April 10 | U.S. troops liberate Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany |
| April 10 | William Schuman and Antony Tudors ballet premieres in New York City |
| April 11 | Allied troops liberate Basket-Compascuum |
| April 11 | SS burns and shoots 1,100 at Gardelegen |
| April 11 | U.S. captures Tsugen Shima |
| April 11 | U.S. soldiers liberate Nazi concentration camp "Buchenwald" |
| April 11 | U.S. troops conquers Mulheim, Oberhausen, Bochum, Unna, Essen |
| April 12 | Canadian troops liberate Nazi concentration camp Westerbork, Netherlands |
| April 12 | Harry Truman sworn in as 33rd president |
| April 12 | Richard Strauss completes his "Metamorphosis" |
| April 12 | U.S. liberates Buchenwald concentration camp |
| April 13 | Canadian army liberates Teuge and Assen Netherlands from Nazis |
| April 13 | Red Army occupy Wien (Vienna) |
| April 13 | U.S. Marines conquer Minna Shima off Okinawa |
| April 14 | American planes bombed Tokyo and damaged the Imperial Palace |
| April 14 | Arnhem/Zwolle freed from nazis |
| April 14 | U.S. 7th Army and allies forces captured Nuremberg and Stuttgart in Germany |
| April 14 | U.S. forces conquered Motobu peninsula on Okinawa |
| April 14 | U.S. Marines attack Yae Take on Okinawa |
| April 15 | British and Canadian troops liberate Nazi camp of Bergen-Belsen |
| April 15 | British Army liberates Belsen concentration camp |
| April 15 | Franklin D. Roosevelt buried on grounds of Hyde Park home |
| April 15 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Communium interpretes dolorum |
| April 15 | U.S. troops occupy concentration camp Colditz |
| April 16 | German troops in Groningen surrender |
| April 16 | Red Army begins Battle of Berlin |
| April 16 | U.S. troops enter Nuremberg, Germany, during WW II |
| April 16 | U.S. troops land on He Shima Okinawa |
| April 17 | 8th Air Force bombs Dresden |
| April 17 | German occupiers flood Wieringermeer, Netherlands |
| April 17 | Mussolono flees from Salo to Molan |
| April 17 | U.S. troops lands in Mindanao |
| April 18 | 1 armed outfielder, St. L Brown Pete Gray, 1st game he goes 1 for 4 |
| April 18 | Clandestine Radio 1212, after broadcasting pro-nazi propoganda for months used their influence to trap 350,000 German army group B troops |
| April 18 | Epe freed (by corporal G van Aken) |
| April 19 | 49th Boston Marathon won by John A Kelley of Mass in 2:30:40.2 |
| April 19 | Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Carousel" opens on Broadway |
| April 19 | U.S. aircraft carrier Franklin heavy damaged in Japanese air raid |
| April 19 | U.S. offensive against Shuri-barrier on Okinawa |
| April 20 | Cleveland Browns organization formed by Arthur "Mickey" McBride |
| April 20 | German occupiers flood Beemster and Fencer |
| April 20 | Soviet troops enter Berlin |
| April 20 | U.S. 7th army captured German city of Nuremberg |
| April 20 | U.S. forces conquer Motobu peninsula on Okinawa |
| April 21 | Allied troops occupy German nuclear laboratory |
| April 21 | He Shima Okinawa conquered in 5 days, 5,000 die |
| April 21 | Ivor Nivello's "Perchance to Dream," premieres in London |
| April 21 | Russia army arrives at outskirts of Berlin |
| April 21 | U.S. 7th Army occupies Neurenberg |
| April 22 | Concentration Camp at Sachsenhausen liberated |
| April 22 | Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 3 |
| April 23 | Concentration camp Flossenburg liberated |
| April 23 | U.S. troops in Italy cross river Po |
| April 24 | Albert B "Happy" Chandler is named 2nd baseball commissioner |
| April 24 | Delegates of 46 countries gather in San Francisco to discuss U.N. |
| April 25 | 45 countries convene United Nations Conference on International Organization in SF |
| April 25 | Allied air raid on Surabaja, Java |
| April 25 | British troops reach Grebbe line Netherlands |
| April 25 | Clandestine Radio 1212, used to hoax Nazi Germany's final transmission |
| April 25 | Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany |
| April 25 | Red army completely surrounds Berlin |
| April 25 | U.S. and Soviet forces meet at Torgau, Germany on Elbe River |
| April 26 | Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, leader of France's Vichy collaborationist regime during WW II, arrested for treason |
| April 27 | 2nd Republic of Austria forms |
| April 27 | Italian partisans capture Mussolini prisoner |
| April 27 | U.S. 5th army enters Genua |
| April 28 | British commands attack Elbe and occupies Lauenburg |
| April 28 | U.S. 5th army reaches Swiss border |
| April 29 | 1st food drop by RAF above nazi-occupied Holland (operation Manna) |
| April 29 | Japanese army evacuates Rangoon |
| April 29 | Terms of surrender of German armies in Italy signed |
| April 29 | U.S. liberates 31,601 in Nazi concentration camp in Dachau Germany |
| April 29 | Venice and Mestre were captured by the Allies |
| April 30 | "Arthur Godfrey Time" begins a 27 year run on CBS radio |
| April 30 | Concentration camp Munchen-Allag freed |
| April 30 | Lord Haw-Haw calls for crusade against the bolsheviks |
| April 30 | Red Army occupies Demmin |
| April 30 | Red Army opens attack on German Reichstag building in Berlin |
| April 30 | Russian Army frees Ravensbruck concentration camp |
| April 30 | U.S. troops attack the Elbe |
| May 1 | 900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren, commit suicide |
| May 1 | Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government |
| May 1 | Australian and Dutch troops lands on Tarakan |
| May 1 | General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms |
| May 1 | Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WW II |
| May 1 | Seys-Inquart flees to Flensburg |
| May 1 | Soviet army reach Rostock |
| May 2 | Allies occupy Wismar |
| May 2 | Dutch Queen Wilhelmina and Princess Juliana reach Gilze-Rijen |
| May 2 | German Army in Italy surrenders |
| May 2 | Russia takes Berlin; General Weidling surrenders |
| May 2 | Yugoslav troops occupy Trieste |
| May 3 | 1st Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen |
| May 3 | Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg |
| May 3 | British troop join in Rangoon |
| May 3 | German ship "Cap Arcona" sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed |
| May 4 | German troops in Netherlands, Denmark and Norway surrender |
| May 5 | Mauthausen Concentration camp liberated |
| May 5 | Netherlands and Denmark liberated from Nazi control |
| May 5 | Premier Gerbrandy on Radio Orange tells Dutch they are liberated |
| May 5 | Uprising against SS-occupying troops in Prague |
| May 6 | General J. Blaskowitz surrenders German troops in Netherlands |
| May 7 | British troops pull into Utrecht, Netherlands |
| May 7 | Formal undertaking of complete German surrender |
| May 7 | Mauthausen Concentration Camp liberated |
| May 7 | Nazi generals Jodl and Von Friedenburg surrender |
| May 7 | Princess Irene Brigade moves into the Hague Netherlands |
| May 7 | Pulitzer prize awarded to John Hersey (Bell for Adano) |
| May 7 | SS open fire on crowd in Amsterdam, killing 22 |
| May 8 | Canadian troops move into Amsterdam |
| May 8 | Chinese counter attack at Tsjangte, supports by 14th air fleet |
| May 8 | General Von Keitel surrenders to Marshal Zhukov |
| May 8 | V-E Day; Germany signs unconditional surrender, WW II ends in Europe |
| May 9 | Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day) |
| May 9 | Nazi propagandist Max Blokzijl arrested |
| May 9 | New balata ball used in baseball, 50% livilier |
| May 9 | Norwegian nazi collaborators Vidkun Quisling arrested |
| May 9 | Victory celebration at Red Square |
| May 10 | Allies capture Rangoon from the Japanese |
| May 10 | Russian troops occupied Prague |
| May 11 | U.S. Marines conquer Awatsha Draw Okinawa |
| May 13 | U.S. troops conquer Dakeshi Okinawa |
| May 14 | Kamikaze-Zero strikes U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise |
| May 14 | U.S. offensive on Okinawa, Sugar Loaf conquered |
| May 16 | Violent battles around Sugar Loaf/Half Moon Okinawa |
| May 17 | 2 U.S. P-47 Thunderbolts bomb Kiushu |
| May 18 | Tigers and A's both have 7 straight games postponed due to rain |
| May 19 | Start of the 1st Victory Test Cricket between England and Australia Services |
| May 20 | Keith Miller scores 105 in the 1st Victory Test Cricket at Lord's |
| May 21 | Australia Services win 1st Victory Test Cricket at Lord's by 6 wickets |
| May 21 | German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured |
| May 21 | Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart wed |
| May 22 | 6th Marine division reaches suburbs of Naha Okinawa |
| May 22 | NSB-Fuhrer Rost van Tonningen attempts and fails at suicide |
| May 23 | British military police arrest Admiral Karl Doenitz |
| May 23 | German island of Helgoland in North Sea surrenders to British |
| May 23 | Lord Haw-Haw arrested at Danish boundary |
| May 23 | Winston Churchill resigns as British Prime Minister |
| May 25 | Arthur C. Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit |
| May 26 | U.S. drops fire bombs on Tokyo |
| May 29 | U.S. 1st Marine division conquerors Shuri-castle Okinawa |
| June 1 | WLB-AM in Minneapolis Minnesota changes call letters to KUOM |
| June 4 | 6th Marine division occupies Orokoe Peninsula Okinawa |
| June 4 | U.S., Russia, England and France agree to split occupied Germany |
| June 5 | Opera "Peter Grimes of Benjamin Britten," premieres in London |
| June 5 | U.S., U.K., U.S.S.R., France declare supreme authority over Germany |
| June 6 | "Free People" premieres in Amsterdam |
| June 9 | 71st Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Hoop, Jr. wins in 2:07 |
| June 9 | Australian troops lands in Brunei Bay North, Borneo |
| June 9 | Following an 8-7 win over the Phils, Brooklyn manager Leo Durocher is arrested on a complaint by a fan that Durocher slugged him |
| June 9 | "Gruesome Twosome," premieres in USA |
| June 10 | U.S. destroyer William D. Porter ("Willie Dee") sunk by kamikaze |
| June 12 | U.S. 7th Marine regiment conquer summit of Kunishi Ridge, Okinawa |
| June 13 | Heerjansdam soccer team forms |
| June 13 | Orokoe peninsula Okinawa captured, with 6,000 dead |
| June 15 | ANJV established in Concert building, Amsterdam |
| June 15 | Dutch political party ANJV forms |
| June 16 | 71st Preakness: Wayne D Wright aboard Polynesian wins in 1:58.8 |
| June 16 | Boo Ferriss loses to Yankees 3-2 after starting his career with 8 wins |
| June 17 | Day of Unity in West Germany, National Day |
| June 18 | William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) British radio traitor charged with treason |
| June 21 | U.S. defeat Japanese forces on Okinawa during WW II |
| June 23 | 77th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Pavot wins in 2:30.2 |
| June 23 | Last organized Japanese defiance broken, Tarakan |
| June 24 | Schermerhorn government forms |
| June 25 | Allied landing at Ternate Molukkas |
| June 25 | Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo announce fall of Okinawa |
| June 26 | England win the second Victory test cricket at Bramall Lane by 41 runs |
| June 26 | U.N. Charter signed by 50 nations in SF |
| June 27 | Foundation 1940-45 established |
| June 28 | Polish Provisional Government of National Unity set up by Soviets |
| June 29 | 20.6 cm rainfall at Litchville North Dakota (state record) |
| June 29 | Ruthenia, formerly in Czechoslovakia, becomes part of Ukrainian SSR |
| June 30 | 17-day newspaper strike in New York begins |
| July 1 | 1st of the superstars returns from the WW II, Hank Greenberg homers |
| July 1 | 55th Postmaster General: Robert E Hannegan of Mo takes office |
| July 1 | Allies troop land on Balikpapan |
| July 5 | Labour Party wins British parliamentary election |
| July 6 | Nicaragua becomes 1st nation to formally accept United Nations Charter |
| July 6 | President Truman signs executive order establishing Medal of Freedom |
| July 6 | Washington Senator Rick Ferrell catches a record 1,722 games |
| July 10 | Lieutenant Admiral Marc Mitscher named chief of U.S. Navy staff |
| July 12 | Cubs stop Braves Tommy Holmes modern-day NL hitting streak at 37 games |
| July 13 | 1st atom bomb explodes in New Mexico |
| July 14 | Battleship USS South Dakota is 1st U.S. ship to bombard Japan |
| July 15 | 27th PGA Championship: Byron Nelson at Morraine CC Dayton, Ohio |
| July 16 | 1st atomic bomb detonated, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico |
| July 16 | Australian Services win 3rd Victory Test Cricket by 4 wickets |
| July 16 | Cruiser Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with atom bomb |
| July 17 | Potsdam Conference (FDR, Stalin, Churchill) holds 1st meeting |
| July 19 | Edwin Schlossberg, husband of Carolyn Kennedy |
| July 19 | USS Cod saves 51 sailors from Dutch sub in only sub-to-sub rescue |
| July 21 | Detroit Tigers and Philadelphia A's play 24 inning 1-1 tie |
| July 23 | Marshal Henri Petain, leader Vichy-regime, goes on trial |
| July 24 | U.S. destroyer Underhill torpedoed West of Guam |
| July 26 | After Labour landslide in general election, Clement Attlee becomes PM |
| July 26 | Declaration of Potsdam: US/Brit/China demands Japanese surrender |
| July 26 | Japanese government disregards U.S. ultimatum |
| July 26 | U.S. cruiser Indianapolis reaches Tinian with atom bomb |
| July 26 | Winston Churchill resigns as Britain's Prime Minister |
| July 27 | Cubs purchase pitcher Hank Borowy from New York Yankees |
| July 27 | U.S. Communist Party forms |
| July 28 | Airplane crashes into the Empire State Building |
| July 28 | Japanese premier Suzuki disregards U.S. ultimatum to surrender |
| July 28 | U.S. Army B-25 crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Building, 14 die |
| July 28 | U.S. Senate ratifies United Nations charter 89-2 |
| July 29 | After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine |
| July 30 | Philippines Sea: U.S. cruiser Indianapolis torpedoed/sinks, 880 die |
| August 1 | Japanese city Toyama destroyed by B-29's |
| August 1 | Mel Ott is 1st in NL to hit 500th home run (joins Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx) |
| August 1 | SVBO soccer team forms in Barger-Oosterveld |
| August 2 | Potsdam Conference ended, with Stalin, Truman and Churchill |
| August 4 | Golfer Byron Nelson records most tournament wins (18) in a season |
| August 4 | Red Sox Tom McBride is 3rd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (4th) |
| August 5 | Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug 6th in Japan) |
| August 6 | Hiroshima Peace Day-atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by "Enola Gay" |
| August 6 | Keith Miller scores 110 in the 4 Victory Test Cricket at Lord's |
| August 8 | England and Australia Services draw 4th Victory Test |
| August 8 | President Harry S. Truman signs United Nations Charter |
| August 8 | U.S., U.S.S.R., England and France sign Treaty of London |
| August 8 | U.S.S.R. declares war against Japan in WW II |
| August 8 | U.S.S.R. establishes a communist government in North Korea |
| August 9 | U.S. drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki |
| August 10 | Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies provided status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged |
| August 11 | Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito |
| August 13 | 35 Jews sacrifice their lives to blow up Nazi rubber plant in Silesia |
| August 14 | V-J Day; Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II |
| August 15 | A riot ensued in San Francisco while the city was celebrating the end of WW II |
| August 15 | Chandler sells World Series radio rights for $150,000 to Gillette, Ford had been World Series sponsor since 1934, pay $100,000 annually |
| August 15 | South Korea liberated from Japanese rule |
| August 15 | U.S. wartime rationing of gasoline and fuel oil ends |
| August 17 | Indonesia (Dutch E Indies) declares independence from Netherlands |
| August 17 | Koreas divided on 38th parallel with U.S. occupying the southern area |
| August 18 | Scheduled demonstrations at Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field to end segregation in organized baseball are called off |
| August 19 | Phillies Jimmie Foxx, 37, pitches 1st 7 innings vs Reds and wins |
| August 20 | Dodgers Tommy Brown, 17, is youngest player to hit a home run |
| August 20 | Robert Hamilton wins PGA golf tournament |
| August 20 | Russian troops occupy Harbin and Mukden |
| August 20 | Tommy Brown, Brooklyn Dodger becomes youngest home run hitter (17) |
| August 21 | President Truman ends Lend-Lease program |
| August 22 | Bob Cristofani scores 110 for Australia Services at Old Trafford |
| August 22 | England defeat Australia Services by 6 wkts in 5th Victory Test Cricket |
| August 22 | Noel Coward's revue "Sigh no More," premieres in London |
| August 22 | Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup |
| August 24 | Cleveland ace Bob Feller returns from Navy and strike out 12 |
| August 25 | Jewish immigrants are permitted to leave Mauritius for Palestine |
| August 26 | Japanese diplomats board Missouri to receive instructions on Japan's surrender at the end of WW II |
| August 27 | U.S. troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender |
| August 29 | British liberate Hong Kong from Japan |
| August 29 | General MacArthur named Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in Japan |
| August 30 | 12th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 19, All-Stars 7 (92,753) |
| August 30 | Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 9th Symphony |
| August 30 | General MacArthur lands in Japan |
| August 30 | Hong Kong liberated from Japan |
| September 1 | Japan surrenders ending WW II (U.S. date, 9/2 in Japan) |
| September 1 | Phillies Vince DiMaggio ties NL record with 4th grand slam of season |
| September 2 | 59th U.S. Womens Tennis: Sarah P Cooke beats Pauline Betz (36 86 64) |
| September 2 | Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independence from France (National Day) |
| September 2 | V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri (WW II ends) |
| September 3 | 65th U.S. Mens Tennis: Sergeant Frank A Parker beats Wm Talbert (14-12 61 62) |
| September 3 | Japanese forces in Philippines surrender to Allies |
| September 4 | Ruben Fine wins 4 simultaneous rapid chess games blindfolded |
| September 4 | U.S. regains possession of Wake Island from Japan |
| September 6 | A's catcher George George punches ump Joe Rue gets suspended |
| September 6 | "Mr Strauss Goes to Boston" opens at Century Theater New York City for 12 performances |
| September 7 | Japanese at Rioekioe-islands surrender |
| September 7 | Joe Kuhel hits inside-the-park home run, only home run hit by a Senator all season at Washington's Griffith Stadium |
| September 8 | Hideki Tojo, Japanese Prime Minister during most of WW II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal attempt fails, later he is hanged |
| September 8 | U.S. invades Japanese-held Korea |
| September 9 | 1st "bug" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweasers from a relay and taped into the log |
| September 9 | Japanese in S Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies |
| September 9 | Jimmie Foxx hits his 534th and final home run |
| September 9 | Philadelphia A's Dick Fowler no-hits St. Louis Brown, 1-0 |
| September 10 | KLS-AM in Oakland California changes call letters to KWBR (now KDIA) |
| September 10 | Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis |
| September 16 | Barometric pressure at 856 mb (25.55") off Okinawa (record low) |
| September 18 | 1000 whites walk out of Gary, Indiana schools to protest integration |
| September 19 | Kim Il Sung arrives in harbor of Wonsan, Korea |
| September 19 | Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London |
| September 20 | German rocket engineers begin work in U.S. |
| September 22 | Stan Musial gets 5 hits off 5 pitchers on 5 consecutive pitches |
| September 26 | All old Dutch banknotes declared invalid |
| September 28 | Canadian football's Calgary Bronks changes its name to Stampeders |
| September 28 | Robert T Duncan appears as Tonio in "I Pagliacci" |
| September 29 | Cubs clinch NL pennant |
| September 30 | Hank Greenberg's final day home run wins pennant for Tigers |
| October 1 | Heavyweight champ Joe Louis is discharged from army |
| October 1 | U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) disbands |
| October 3 | Elvis Presley's 1st public appearance, he is 10 |
| October 3 | Tigers and Cubs meet in World Series for 4th time |
| October 3 | World Federation of Trade Unions forms; CIO a member |
| October 5 | Indonesian army forms |
| October 5 | "Meet the Press" premieres on radio |
| October 5 | Queen Wilhelmina visits Rotterdam |
| October 6 | General Eisenhower welcomed in Hague (on Hitler's train) |
| October 6 | Memorial for executed unveiled in Terbregge |
| October 6 | Tavern owner "Billy Goat" Sianis buys seat for his goat for Game 4 of World Series and is escorted out, he casts goat curse on Cubs |
| October 7 | Dutch author A M de Jong's murderer Ton van Gog escapes |
| October 8 | Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada |
| October 9 | British troops occupy Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal |
| October 10 | Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 3 in 42nd World Series |
| October 11 | Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-Shek vs Mao Tse-Tung |
| October 11 | JPL WAC Corporal Launch (1st Man-Made Object to escape Atmosphere) |
| October 14 | Chicago Cardinals end a record 29-game losing streak, beat Bears |
| October 15 | Baseball Attendance hits record 10.28 million (Tigers 1.28 is highest) |
| October 16 | UN's Food and Agriculture Organization comes into existence |
| October 18 | Nazi war crime trial opens in Nuremberg |
| October 18 | Paul Robeson wins Spingarn Medal for singing and acting achievements |
| October 20 | Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Lawrence opens trial of Neurenberg |
| October 21 | Women in France allowed to vote for 1st time |
| October 23 | Jackie Robinson signs Montreal Royal contract |
| October 24 | France (PC/PS/MRP win parliamentary election (25/24/23%) |
| October 24 | U.N. charter comes into effect |
| October 25 | Japanese surrender Taiwan to General Chiang Kai-shek |
| October 27 | 1st edition of Elseviers Weekly newspaper (Elseviers Magazine) |
| October 27 | "Carib Song" closes at Adelphi Theater New York City after 36 performances |
| October 29 | 1st ball point pen goes on sale, 57 years after it is patented |
| October 29 | Happy Chandler, resigns as U.S. Senator, remains as baseball commish |
| October 30 | Branch Rickey signs Jackie Robinson to a Montreal Royals |
| October 30 | U.S. government announces end of shoe rationing |
| November 1 | 1st issue of Ebony magazine published by John H. Johnson |
| November 3 | Lindsay Hassett scores 187 and 124* for Australia Services at Delhi |
| November 6 | HUAC begins investigation of 7 radio commentators |
| November 8 | "Girl from Nantucket" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 12 performances |
| November 8 | Riverboat sinks off Hong Kong; kills 1,550 |
| November 10 | "Are You with It?" opens at Century Theater New York City for 264 performances |
| November 10 | College football's #1 Army beats #2 Notre Dame 48-0 |
| November 10 | General Enver Hoxha becomes leader of Albania |
| November 10 | Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald liberated by U.S. |
| November 12 | Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN) |
| November 13 | Australian Services draw 1st Victory Test against India |
| November 14 | H Lindsay and R Crouse's "State of the Union," premieres in New York City |
| November 14 | Java: Sutan Sjahrir appointed as forming government |
| November 15 | The rules are revised for election of modern players to the Hall of |
| November 16 | Yeshiva College (Univesity), chartered in NY, 1st U.S. Jewish College |
| November 17 | "Girl from Nantucket" closes at Adelphi Theater New York City after 12 performances |
| November 17 | New world air speed record 606 mph (975 kph) set by HJ Wilson of RAF |
| November 18 | Arnold Schonberg's Prelude for orchestra and mixed choir, premieres |
| November 20 | 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany |
| November 20 | Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 9th Symphony under J Mravinski premieres |
| November 20 | Queen Wilhelmina opens parliament in Hague |
| November 21 | Benjamin Britten's 2nd String quartet in C, premieres |
| November 21 | General Motors workers go on strike |
| November 22 | "Day before Spring" opens at National Theater New York City for 167 performances |
| November 22 | Jim Benton, Cleveland end, gains 303 yards (NFL record) |
| November 23 | Most U.S. wartime rationing of foods, including meat and butter, ends |
| November 26 | During snow storm, school bus crashes, kills 15 (Washington) |
| November 27 | Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft re-buried in presence of Queen Wilhelmina |
| November 27 | General George C. Marshall named special U.S. envoy to China |
| November 27 | Hannie Buy buried in presence of Queen Wilhelmina |
| November 27 | Trial against NSB-leader Mussert begins |
| November 28 | Australia Services draw second Victory Test Cricket vs. India at Calcutta |
| November 29 | Yugoslavian Socialist Republic proclaimed |
| November 30 | 33rd CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 35-0 |
| December 1 | CFL Grey Cup: Toronto beats Winnipeg, 35-0 at Toronto |
| December 4 | 11th Heisman Trophy Award: Doc Blanchard, Army (FB) |
| December 4 | Senate approves U.S. participation in UN |
| December 5 | "Lost Squadron" crashes east of Florida (Bermuda Triangle) |
| December 5 | Special Council of Annulment affirms death sentence of Max Blokzijl |
| December 7 | Microwave oven patented |
| December 10 | Australia Services lose 3rd Victory Test Cricket to India by 6 wkts |
| December 10 | Preston Tucker reveals plan to produce the Torpedo, a new 150 MPH car |
| December 11 | Het Parool publishes 1st Captain Rob-strip |
| December 12 | Special Court of justice convicts NSB-leader Mussert to death |
| December 14 | Elmer Rice' "Dream Girl," premieres in New York City |
| December 15 | John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, ordained as a priest |
| December 16 | Cleveland Rams win NFL championship |
| December 18 | Uruguay joins UN |
| December 19 | Austrian Republic re-establishes |
| December 19 | Jean Giraudoux' "La Folle de Chaillot," premieres in Paris |
| December 20 | Rationg of auto tires ends in US |
| December 21 | "Billion Dollar Baby" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 219 performances |
| December 21 | Gould/Comden/Green's "Billion Dollar Baby," premieres in New York City |
| December 22 | Utrecht: Catholic People's party (KVP) established |
| December 23 | Frederick Astons "Cinderella" premieres in London |
| December 23 | Pope Pius XII encyclical Orientals omnes, about Rutheense church |
| December 27 | Arthur Laurent's "Home of the Brave," premieres in New York City |
| December 27 | International Monetary Fund established - World Bank founded |
| December 28 | Congress officially recognizes the Pledge of Allegiance |
| December 31 | Bradman scores 112, his 1st post-War century, SA vs. Australia Services |
| December 31 | Ratification of United Nations Charter completed |
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