1945 - January. January 5 - The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland. January 7 - British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference at Zonhoven describing his contribution to the Battle of the Bulge. January 12 - World War II: The Soviet Union begin a very large offensive in Eastern Europe against the Nazis. January 13 - A Soviet patrol arrests Raoul Wallenberg in Hungary. January 16 - Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, th ...

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1945 - January. January 3 - Victoria Principal, American actress January 3 - Stephen Stills, American singer and songwriter (Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young) January 4 - Richard R. Schrock, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate January 10 - Rod Stewart, English singer January 26 - Jacqueline du Pré, English cellist (d. 1987) January 29 - Tom Selleck, American actor January 30 - Michael Dorris, American author (d. 1997) January 31 - Joseph Kosuth, Am ...

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1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). 1945 - Events. January 5 - The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland. January 7 - British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference at Zonhoven describing his contribution to the Battle of the Bulge. January 12 - World War II: The Soviet Union begin a very large offensive in Eastern Europe against the Nazis. January 13 - A Soviet patrol arre ...

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1945 in aviation - January. January 1 - the Luftwaffe begins targeting Allied airfields in Europe as "Operation Bodenplatte" 1945 in aviation - February. February 13-15 - Allied bombers attack Dresden with incendiary weapons, destroying most of the city and killing some 50,000 people. February 21 - aircraft carrier USS Saratoga i ...

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February February 7 - Consolidated-Vultee XP-81 February 21 - Hawker Sea Fury prototype SR 661 February 25 - Bell XP-83 March Blohm & Voss BV 238 March 18 - Douglas XB2D-1, prototype of the AD Skyraider April April 5 - Miles Monitor April 19 - de Havilland Sea Hornet prototype PX 212 April 27 - Pilatus P-2 June June 9 - Avro Lincoln June ...

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August von Mackensen (December 6, 1849 – November 8, 1945) was a German Field Marshal, born August Mackensen in Haus Leipnitz, in the Prussian province of Saxony, to Louis and Marie Louise Mackensen. August von Mackensen - Biography. He began his military service in 1869 as a volunteer with the 2nd Life Hussars regiment. During the Franco-Prussian War he was promoted to second lieutenant and recommended for the Iron Cross, Second Class. After an interlude at Halle University, Mackensen form ...

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August Wilson (April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright. His singular achievement and literary legacy is a cycle of ten plays, each set in a different decade, depicting the comedy and tragedy of the African-American experience in the 20th century. August Wilson - Biography. Born Frederick August Kittel in Pittsburgh's Hill District, fourth of six children of Frederick Kittel, an immigrant German baker who seldom spent time with his family, and Daisy Wilson ...

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Auguste van Pels (September 29, 1900 - c. May 8, 1945) was a German Jewish refugee who hid with Anne Frank during the Nazi Occupation of the Netherlands, and who died in Nazi custody. In the published version of Anne Frank's diary she was assigned the pseudonym Petronella van Daan. Auguste 'Gusti' Röttgen was born in Buer, Germany into a lower middle class Jewish household. The family may have held a liberal approach to religion, as Anne Frank observed Auguste's unfamiliarity with Jewish history, and ...

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The Battle of Okinawa, fought on the island of Okinawa in the Ryukyu Islands (south of the four big islands of Japan), was the largest amphibious assault during the Pacific campaign of World War II. It was also the largest sea-land-air battle in history, running from April through June, 1945. Neither side expected it to be the last major battle of the war, which it was. The Americans were planning Operation Downfall, the invasion of the main islands of Japan, which never happened, due to the Japanese surrender after the American use of the atomic bomb in August 1945, first in Hiroshima, and a second time ...

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1945 in rail transport - January events. January 1 - The national railway operator in the Republic of Ireland, Great Southern Railways, with responsibility for the southern part of the Irish railway network is merged into a new national transport operator, Córas Iompair Éireann (CIÉ). January 10 - Los Angeles streetcars make their last run. January 12 - Bituminous Coal Research Incorporated’s Locomotive Study Group, made up of representatives from eastern railroads and locomotive manu ...

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Stefan Banach (March 30, 1892 in Kraków, part of Poland under the occupation of Austria-Hungary – August 31, 1945 in L'viv, Soviet Union), was an eminent Polish mathematician, one of the moving spirits of the Lwów School of Mathematics in pre-war Poland. He was largely self-taught in mathematics; his genius was accidentally discovered by Juliusz Mien and later Hugo Steinhaus. When World War II began, Banach was President of the Polish Mathematical Society and a full professor of University of Lwów. Being a corresponding me ...

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Bob Balaban (born August 16, 1945 in Chicago) is an American actor and director. He has starred in many films including Clockwatchers, Pie in the Sky, Altered States, and 2010: The Year We Make Contact. He also co-starred in Gosford Park, which he helped to conceive along with the director Robert Altman. An early movie appearance was in Midnight Cowboy. Balaban's most regarded film-directing credit is Parents starring Randy Quaid; a satire of the values and prejudices of E ...

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Cardinal Andrzej Maria Deskur (February 29, 1924 in Sancygniów near Kielce, Poland) is President emeritus of the Pontifical Council of Social Communications and a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was born to a family of French origin. He received a doctorate in law in 1945 from the Jagiellonian University (study underground). He was the secretary general of the very important post-war Polish student organization called "Bratniak". He entered the seminary in Kraków and was ordained a priest on 20 August 1950. He obtai ...

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Yun Poson (Korean hangul: 윤보선; hanja: 尹潽善; revised: Yun Boseon; McCune-Reischauer: Yun Posŏn; August 26, 1897 – July 18, 1990) was the President of South Korea from 1960 to 1962. Born in Asan, South Chungcheong province, Yun graduated with an M.A. from the University of Edinburgh in 1930. He entered politics after Japanese occupation ended in 1945, with Syngman Rhee being his mentor. In 1948, Yun was appointed by Rhee as mayor of Seoul. A year later, he was appointed as the Minister of Commerce and ...

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Chen Yi (陳毅, Pinyin: Chén Yì; August 26, 1901 - June 6, 1972) was a Chinese communist military commander and politician. He was born in Lezhi, near Chengdu, Sichuan, into a moderately wealthy magistrate's family. A comrade of Lin Biao from their guerilla days, Chen was a commander of the New Fourth Army during the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), spearheaded the Shandong counter-offensive during the Chinese Civil War, and later commanded the Communist armies that defeated the KMT for ...

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Schloss Cecilienhof is in the Northern part of the New Gardens in Potsdam, close to the Jungfernsee lake. It was the last palace built by the Hohenzollern family. Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany built it for his son Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany and Cecilie of the house of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The house was designed by Paul Schultze-Naumburg to look like an English Tudor country house, and was built between 1914 and 1917. Cecilienhof was the location of the Potsdam Conference between July 17 and August 2, 1945. The palace is no

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Wilhelm Ernst ("Wim") Wenders (born August 14, 1945 in Düsseldorf, Germany) is a noted film director, author and producer. He received Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1985 for his movie Paris, Texas, and was awarded honorary doctorates at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1989 and at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium in 2005. He was awarded the Leopard of honour at the Locarno International Film Festival in 2005. Much of the visually stunning cinematography in his movies were as a result of a highly produc ...

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Alan Cedric Page (born August 7, 1945 in Canton, Ohio) is a former football player who starred as a defensive lineman in the NFL, primarily with the Minnesota Vikings, and then went on to have a distinguished legal career, serving as a current member of the Minnesota Supreme Court. After graduating from a Catholic high school in his hometown of Canton, Page received a B.A. in political science from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. He was an All-American in football in 1966, and was selected by the Vikings in ...

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August 15, 1945, marked Victory over Japan Day or V-J Day, taking a name similar to Victory in Europe Day, which was generally known as V-E Day. In Japan, the day is known as 終戦記念日, Shusen-kinenbi, which literally means the "Memorial day for the end of the war". The day marks the end of the Burma Campaign, the Sino-Japanese War, the Pacific War with the U.S., and other military conflicts in Asia. This is commemorated as Liberation Day in nations such as Korea. See Surrender of Japa ...

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