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Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). It is most widely known for being the year in which World War II ended. It is also known as the beginning of the Information Age.^{[citation needed]}

Contents:

1. Events of 1945
   • -  Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April
   • -  May ^. June ^. July  ^.  Aug.
   • -  Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^.  Dec.
   • -  Undated ^. Ongoing
2. Births
3. Deaths
4. Nobel prizes
5. Ship events
6. See also -  Notes -  External links

Events of 1945

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

January

• January - American troops cross the Siegfried Line into Belgium.
• January 5 - The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.
• January 7 - British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference at Zonhoven describing his supporting role at the Battle of the Bulge.
• January 9 - United States forces was landed the beaches on Lingayen Gulf in Luzon the Philippines was the attack the Imperial Japanese Army.
  • United States forces was invaded in Luzon the Philippines was accompanied by the Philippine Commonwealth troops and the Filipino guerrillas against the Japanese Imperial forces.
  • United States and the Philippine Commonwealth troops was captured in Baroro bridge in the town of Bacnotan, La Union on Luzon the Philippines by the attack of the Imperial Japanese Army.
• January 12 - WWII: The Soviet Union begins the Vistula-Oder Offensive in Eastern Europe against the Nazis.
• January 13 - A Soviet patrol arrests Raoul Wallenberg in Hungary.
• January 16 - Adolf Hitler evacuates to his underground Führerbunker.
• January 17 - WWII:
  • The Soviet Union occupies Warsaw.
  • The Holocaust: The evacuation of Auschwitz concentration camp begins.
• January 20 - Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated to an unprecedented 4th term as President of the United States. No president before, or since, has ever reached a third term in office.
• January 20 - Hungary drops out of World War II, agreeing to an armistice with the Allies.
• January 24 - The German A4b-Rocket is first successfully launched.
• January 26 - Beginning the Second Battle of Santa Cruz, Laguna the Philippines was entering the town to the Filipino soldiers and guerrilla units against the Japanese forces.
• January 27 - WWII The Holocaust - The Red Army liberates the Auschwitz and Birkenau death camps.
• January 28 - WWII: Supplies begin to reach China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
• January 30 - The Wilhelm Gustloff, with over 10,000 mainly civilian Germans from Gotenhafen (Gdynia) in the Gdansk Bay, is sunk by 3 torpedoes from the Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea; 9,000 die.
• January 30 - Raid at Cabanatuan: 121 American soldiers and other 200 Filipino guerrillas free 513 American POWs from the Japanese-held camp at Cabanatuan City, Philippines.
• January 31 - Eddie Slovik is executed by firing squad for desertion, the first American soldier since the American Civil War, and last to date to be executed for this offence.

February

• February 2 - WWII: President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill leave to meet with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference.
• February 3 - WWII - The Soviet Union agrees to enter the Pacific War against Japan, once hostilities against Germany are concluded.
  • United States forces capture Manila, Philippines from the Japanese Imperial Army.
• February 4 - WWII: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin begin the Yalta Conference (ends February 11).
• February 6 - French writer Robert Brasillach is executed for collaboration with the Germans.
• February 7 - WWII: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
• February 9 - Walter Ulbricht becomes leader of the German Communists in Moscow.
• February 10 - WWII: The SS General von Steuben is sunk by the Soviet submarine S-13.
• February 13 - WWII:
  • Soviet forces capture Budapest, Hungary from the Nazis.
  • The Royal Air Force bombs Dresden, Germany.
• February 14 - Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru join the United Nations.
• February 16 - WWII:
  • American and Filipino forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines.
  • American and Filipino forces recapture the Bataan Peninsula.
• February 19 - WWII - Battle of Iwo Jima: About 30,000 United States Marines land on Iwo Jima.
• February 20 - 980 Japanese soldiers die as a result of a killing spree by long saltwater crocodiles that began on February 19 and ended on Feb 20 in Ramree, Burma. [1]
• February 21 - The last A4-rocket is launched at Peenemünde.
• February 23 - WWII:
  • Battle of Iwo Jima: A group of United States Marines reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag. The photo, Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (taken by Joe Rosenthal), later wins a Pulitzer Prize.
  • The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by American and Filipino forces.
  • The liberating Filipino and American troops enter Intramuros, Manila.
  • The German garrison in Poznań capitulates to Red Army and Polish forces.
• February 24 - Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.
• February 28 - The United States and the Philippine Commonwealth troops land to the beaches of western island of Palawan was the attack of the Japanese forces.