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
