1945 - 1945 (0 years)
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Event(s) |
| 1 | 1945 | - 1945—1945:
SA - 34 people killed and 90 injured in explosion of the Grand Magazine in Pretoria.
- 1945—1945:
SA - Announcement made that as from the beginning of the war until 05 March 1945, more than 1500 South African soldiers were decorated, 2386 were mentioned in despatches and 330 were commended.
- 1945—1945:
SA - Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuked
- 4 Feb 1945—4 Feb 1945:
Yalta Conference between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin
- 17 Mar 1945—1945:
SA - South African Forces capture Monte Sole and Monte Caprara, which were barring entering into Bologna.
- 29 Mar 1945—29 Mar 1945:
Last V1 flying bomb attack
- 25 Apr 1945—25 Apr 1945:
Berlin surrounded by Russian troops
- 30 Apr 1945—30 Apr 1945:
Hitler commits suicide
- 8 May 1945—8 May 1945:
VE Day (Victory in Europe)
- 9 May 1945—9 May 1945:
Channel Islands liberated
- 26 Jun 1945—26 Jun 1945:
UN Charter signed in San Francisco
- 16 Jul 1945—16 Jul 1945:
First ever atomic bomb exploded in a test in New Mexico (although there were
other forms of atomic device before that, such as the Pile at Stagg Field, first critical on
2nd Dec 1942)
- 26 Jul 1945—26 Jul 1945:
Labour win UK General Election - Churchill out of office
- 29 Jul 1945—29 Jul 1945:
BBC Light Programme starts
- 6 Aug 1945—6 Aug 1945:
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
- 9 Aug 1945—9 Aug 1945:
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
- 15 Aug 1945—15 Aug 1945:
VJ Day (Victory in Japan)
- 2 Sep 1945—2 Sep 1945:
Japanese surrender signed aboard USS Missouri
- 24 Oct 1945—24 Oct 1945:
United Nations Organisation comes into existence
- 4 Nov 1945—4 Nov 1945:
UNESCO founded
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