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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in April 1945.
The US president was Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was Winston Churchill (Conservative), Pope Pius XII was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on April 1945: find out below

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Historical Events

Which were the important events of April 1945?


Events

  • 01 Apr 1945 Ruhrgebied sealed off by US 1st and 9th army
  • 02 Apr 1945 First US units reach east coast of Okinawa, Japan.
  • 03 Apr 1945 US first army conquers Hofgeismar.
  • 04 Apr 1945 US tanks / infantry conquer Bielefeld
  • 05 Apr 1945 Kuniaki Koiso resigns as Prime Minister of Japan; replaced by Kantaro Suzuki.
  • 06 Apr 1945 Japanese giant battleship Yamato heads to Okinawa
  • 07 Apr 1945 US planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide superbattleship Yamato and four destroyers were sunk
  • 08 Apr 1945 World War II: After an air raid accidentally destroys a train carrying about 4,000 Nazi concentration camp internees in Prussian Hanover, the survivors are massacred by Nazis.
  • 09 Apr 1945 Battleship Admiral Scheer sinks British aircraft carrier
  • 10 Apr 1945 Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald
  • 11 Apr 1945 Allied troops liberate Basket-Compascuum
  • 12 Apr 1945 Richard Strauss completes his Metamorphosis
  • 13 Apr 1945 Red Army occupy Wien
  • 14 Apr 1945 American planes bombed Tokyo and damaged the Imperial Palace
  • 15 Apr 1945 British Army liberates Belsen concentration camp
  • 16 Apr 1945 Red Army begins Battle of Berlin
  • 17 Apr 1945 German occupiers flood Wieringermeer, Netherlands.
  • 18 Apr 1945 Epe freed
  • 19 Apr 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel opens on Broadway
  • 20 Apr 1945 Soviet troops enter Berlin, Germany.
  • 21 Apr 1945 He Shima Okinawa conquered in 5 days, 5,000 die
  • 22 Apr 1945 Concentration camp at Sachsenhausen liberated.
  • 23 Apr 1945 Concentration camp Flossenburg liberated.
  • 24 Apr 1945 Delegates of 46 countries gather in SF
  • 25 Apr 1945 Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany
  • 26 Apr 1945 World War II: Battle of Bautzen : last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
  • 27 Apr 1945 Italian partisans capture Mussolini prisoner
  • 28 Apr 1945 US 5th army reaches Swiss border.
  • 29 Apr 1945 1st food drop by RAF above Nazi-occupied Holland
  • 30 Apr 1945 Arthur Godfrey Time begins a 27 year run on CBS radio
  • 01 Apr 1945 World War II: The Tenth United States Army attacks the Thirty-Second Japanese Army on Okinawa.
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Music charts

Which were the top hits in April 1945?
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Top #5 songs in the USA

  1. - Stuff Like That There
  2. - I Don't Care Who Knows It
  3. - My Dreams are Getting Better All the Time
  4. - Just a Prayer Away
  5. - Laura

Movies

Which were the most popular Movies released in that month?