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    1945 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in September 1945: During the...
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    days between 3 September 1939 and 2 September 1945. The duration of the Second World War in Europe was from 3 September 1939 to 8 May 1945, while in the...
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    The signing took place on the deck of USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945. The date is sometimes known as Victory over Japan Day. However, that...
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  • 1945 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1945. 1945 (MCMXLV) was...
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    [20 September 1945]. pp. 30–33. CMH Pub 100-11. Retrieved 2007-06-10. "Omaha Beachhead". Historical Division, War Department. 20 September 1945. p. 33...
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  • Love Letters is a 1945 American romantic film noir directed by William Dieterle from a screenplay by Ayn Rand, based on the novel Pity My Simplicity by...
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    World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two major alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
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    the end of the war. The 1939–1945 Star was awarded for operational service between 3 September 1939 and 2 September 1945, and was the only campaign star...
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  • 91. "ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 26901". 1 February 1945. Retrieved 18 September 2018. "February 1945 USAAF Stateside Accident Reports". Aviation Archaeological...
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    commemoration is 2 September. The name, V-J Day, had been selected by the Allies after they named V-E Day for the victory in Europe. On 2 September 1945, formal...
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    The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist suicide terrorist attacks carried out by Al-Qaeda against the United...
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    August 1945 – 2 September 1945) and subsequently South Sakhalin Operation (11 August 1945 – 25 August 1945) Soviet assault on Maoka (19 August 1945 – 22...
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    Francisco Antonio Rodríguez Brito (20 September 1945 – 23 April 2024) was a Venezuelan boxer. At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City he won the gold...
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    period of late World War II, its conclusion and legal aftermath, from January 1945 to 1991. 1: The Germans begin a surprise offensive (Operation Nordwind) in...
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  • 1945 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in April 1945: The Battle of Okinawa...
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    to be completed outside the United States, when it went critical in September 1945; ZEEP remained in use by researchers until 1970. A larger 10 MW NRX...
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    On 19 September 1945, the Viceroy Lord Wavell announced that elections to the central and provincial legislatures would be held in December 1945 to January...
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  • The list of shipwrecks in September 1945 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during September 1945. Kleppa, Hermund (2001). "Minnestein...
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    August 17, 1945, the government of Jakarta City was changed from the Japanese into the Jakarta National Administration in September 1945. After the war...
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    The history of South Korea begins with the Japanese surrender on 2 September 1945. At that time, South Korea and North Korea were divided, despite being...
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    The division of Korea began on August 15, 1945 when the official announcement of the surrender of Japan was released, thus ending the Pacific Theater of...
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    USS Midway, was commissioned in September 1945 and decommissioned in 1992. USS Franklin D. Roosevelt was commissioned in October 1945, and taken out of service...
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    Japanese occupied regions of Guangxi. Japan formally surrendered on 2 September 1945, following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Soviet declaration...
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  • The year 1945 in film involved some significant events. With 1945 being the last year of World War II, the many films released this year had themes of...
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    surrender to the Allies in 1945. The first Japanese garrison in Malaya to lay down their arms was in Penang on 2 September 1945 aboard HMS Nelson. The concept...
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    On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 129...
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    troops often withdrew from urban areas to avoid confrontations. By September 1945, control of major infrastructure installations, including railway stations...
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    The 1945–46 War in Vietnam, codenamed Operation Masterdom by the British, and also known as the Southern Resistance War (Vietnamese: Nam Bộ kháng chiến)...
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    September 2, Hồ Chí Minh proclaimed in Hanoi (Tonkin's capital) the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV). In late September 1945...
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    Ho Chi Minh proclaimed Vietnam independent and signed a decree on 5 September 1945 adopting the Viet Minh flag as the flag of the Democratic Republic of...
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