1945

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)

Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s - 1940s - 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s

Years: 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 - 1945 - 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950

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Births

• March 30 - Eric Clapton, blues guitarist

Deaths

• February 11 - Al Dubin, Swiss songwriter.
• February 11 - J S H Lokerman, Dutch resistance fighter
• September 26 - Béla Bartók, aged 64, Hungarian composer
• Stefan Banach, Polish mathematician
• Charles Williams, British author

Events

• February 11 - Yalta Conference ends
• May 8 : V-E Day (Victory in Europe, as Nazi Germany surrenders) of World War II.
• June 26 : United Nations' charter signed.
• July 16 : The Trinity Test, the first test of an atomic bomb using 6 kilograms of plutonium, succeeds in detonating, unleashing an explosion equivalent to that of 20,000 tons of TNT.
• July 28 : A US bomber accidentally crashes into the Empire State Building
• August 6 August 9 : Two atomic bombs, (Little Boy and Fat Man) are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan, ending World War II.
• September 2 : V-J Day (Victory in Japan, as Imperial Japan surrenders)
• April 12: United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1945) dies in office; Vice President Harry S Truman (1945-1953) takes the Oath of Office.
• Foundation of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Wolfgang Pauli
• Chemistry - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
• Medicine - Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain, Sir [Howard Walter Florey]]
• Literature - Gabriela Mistral
• Peace - Cordell Hull