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=== August ===
=== August ===
August 1 professor douglas osheroff was born
[[File:Nagasakibomb.jpg|thumb|200px|''August 9'': The mushroom cloud from the [[Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki|nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki]] rising 18 km into the air.]]
[[File:Nagasakibomb.jpg|thumb|200px|''August 9'': The mushroom cloud from the [[Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki|nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki]] rising 18 km into the air.]]
[[File:Shigemitsu-signs-surrender.jpg|thumb|200px|''September 2'': Japan signs the [[Japanese Instrument of Surrender|Instrument of Surrender]] aboard the [[USS Missouri (BB-63)|USS ''Missouri'']].]]
[[File:Shigemitsu-signs-surrender.jpg|thumb|200px|''September 2'': Japan signs the [[Japanese Instrument of Surrender|Instrument of Surrender]] aboard the [[USS Missouri (BB-63)|USS ''Missouri'']].]]

Revision as of 18:41, 5 December 2011

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1945 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1945
MCMXLV
Ab urbe condita2698
Armenian calendar1394
ԹՎ ՌՅՂԴ
Assyrian calendar6695
Baháʼí calendar101–102
Balinese saka calendar1866–1867
Bengali calendar1352
Berber calendar2895
British Regnal yearGeo. 6 – 10 Geo. 6
Buddhist calendar2489
Burmese calendar1307
Byzantine calendar7453–7454
Chinese calendar甲申年 (Wood Monkey)
4642 or 4435
    — to —
乙酉年 (Wood Rooster)
4643 or 4436
Coptic calendar1661–1662
Discordian calendar3111
Ethiopian calendar1937–1938
Hebrew calendar5705–5706
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2001–2002
 - Shaka Samvat1866–1867
 - Kali Yuga5045–5046
Holocene calendar11945
Igbo calendar945–946
Iranian calendar1323–1324
Islamic calendar1364–1365
Japanese calendarShōwa 20
(昭和20年)
Javanese calendar1875–1876
Juche calendar34
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4278
Minguo calendarROC 34
民國34年
Nanakshahi calendar477
Thai solar calendar2488
Tibetan calendar阳木猴年
(male Wood-Monkey)
2071 or 1690 or 918
    — to —
阴木鸡年
(female Wood-Rooster)
2072 or 1691 or 919

Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Events

Below, events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.

January

January 27: The Soviet Union liberates Auschwitz.

February

The "Big Three" at the Yalta Conference, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, February 2, 1945.
During the Battle of Iwo Jima, U.S. Marines land on the island, February 19, 1945.

March

File:Anne Frank portrait.jpg
March: Anne Frank dies in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp of typhus

April

The Japanese battleship Yamato explodes after persistent attacks from U.S. aircraft during the Battle of Okinawa, 7 April 1945.
Adolf Hitler, along with his wife Eva Braun, committed suicide on 30 April 1945.

May

June

July

July 16: Trinity Test at night in New Mexico.

August

August 1 professor douglas osheroff was born

August 9: The mushroom cloud from the nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air.
September 2: Japan signs the Instrument of Surrender aboard the USS Missouri.

September

October

October 24: The United Nations is formed. This was its flag. The modern version is slightly retouched.
October 18: Nuremberg trials begin, after Buchenwald closed.

November

December

Date unknown

Births

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Deaths

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Nobel Prizes

References

  1. ^ "Historical Information – Audie Murphy" (bio), Arlington National Cemetery, webpage:ANC-AMurphy
  2. ^ Guinness Book of World Records. 2008. p. 137.
  3. ^ "Year by Year 1945" – History International
  4. ^ [1]
  5. ^ [2]
  6. ^ Nuclearfiles.org
  7. ^ Global security.org
  8. ^ Nuclear files.org