What Happened in 1945
44 historical events, 38 notable births, and 8 notable deaths in 1945.
Major Events
January 1945
1945 — year
Battle of Okinawa — 1945 major battle of the Pacific War
1945 South American Championship — Competition of football
Lasker Award — American medical science award
Battle of Manila — battle in 1945 during World War II fought between Japan and the United States with the Commonwealth of the Philippines
2nd Golden Globe Awards — 1945 film award ceremony, on the 16th of April in Beverly Hills, California, United States of America, honoring achievements in 1944 filmmaking
Operation Bodenplatte — 1945 Nazi air force offensive
Borneo campaign — 1945 last major Allied campaign in the South West Pacific Area during World War II
1945 in film — overview of the events of 1945 in film
Manila massacre — atrocities committed against Filipino civilians by Japanese troops at the Battle of Manila
June 1945
Charter of the United Nations — 1945 foundational treaty of the United Nations
Moscow Victory Parade of 1945 — Military Triumph Parade in 1945
August 1945
atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — 1945 use of nuclear weapons against Japan in World War II
Little Boy — US nuclear bomb
Fat Man — American nuclear bomb
August Revolution — 1945 uprising led by Viet Minh
Victory over Japan Day — day on which Japan surrendered, effectively ending World War II
Proclamation of Indonesian Independence — 1945 document declaring Indonesian independence from the Netherlands
demon core — historical subcritical mass of plutonium
March 1945
Battle of Iwo Jima — 1945 major battle in which US Forces captured the island of Iwo Jima from Japan during World War II
17th Academy Awards — American Motion Picture Academy film award ceremony
Operation Varsity — 1945 Allied operation in WWII
Operation Plunder — 1945 operation, part of a coordinated set of Rhine crossings during WWII
July 1945
Trinity — 1945 first detonation of a nuclear weapon
1945 United Kingdom general election — national election in the United Kingdom
September 1945
surrender of Japan — end of World War II, 2 September 1945
Japanese Instrument of Surrender — 1945 agreement ending hostilities in WWII
Philippines campaign of 1944–1945 — campaign which started on October 20, 1944 during WWII
Kuril Islands landing operation — part of the 1945 Soviet–Japanese War
February 1945
Bombing of Dresden — 1945 British/American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima — photograph taken during the Battle of Iwo Jima of World War II
April 1945
death of Adolf Hitler — incident of Adolf Hitler's death
Operation Ten-Go — 1945 Japanese naval operation in World War II
Operation Spring Awakening — last major German offensive of World War II
Georgian uprising on Texel — insurgency
Ruhr Pocket — battle of encirclement that took place in April 1945, on the Western Front near the end of the second World War, in the Ruhr Area of Germany
death of Benito Mussolini — circumstances of Mussolini's death
May 1945
German Instrument of Surrender — 1945 historical document
Prague uprising — uprising attempting to liberate the city of Prague from German occupation during World War II
Battle of Castle Itter — battle year 1945 in which U.S. infantry and armour, Wehrmacht Heer, French prisoners and Austrian partisans took Castle Itter from the occupying Waffen SS
Western Allied invasion of Germany — 1945 offensive by the Western Allies during the final months of hostilities in the European theatre of World War II
Bleiburg repatriations — crime in Yugoslavia at the end of World War II
end of World War II in Europe — final battles as well as the German surrender to the Allies
December 1945
Flight 19 — U.S. Navy training flight of TBF Avengers which was lost in 1945