April 1945 calendar

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 Hungary liberated from Nazi occupation
• 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

Famous Birthday

• Daniel Cohn-Bendit

  French political activist called "Danny the Red" for both his hair and his communist ideology.

• Björn Ulvaeus

  Swedish musician of the pop group Abba, he was married to Agnetha (then divorced).

• Michel Denisot

  French journalist, producer, TV host and director of a football club and television.

• Richie Blackmore
• Linda Hunt

  American actress who won an Oscar for playing a male dwarf in "The Year of Living Dangerously," her second film role.

• Dick Rivers

  French rock singer who celebrated 35 years in his career from the time he was 15, with a great many TV productions.

• Joël Robuchon

  French chef and restaurateur, titled "Chef of the Century" by the guide Gault Millau in 1989 and also awarded the Meilleur Ouvrier de France...

• Edwige Avice
• Michael Brandon

  American actor on stage, film and television, he played the title role in "Jerry Springer - The Opera.

• Catherine Spaak

  France -- Actress (Libertine, Hotel, Circle of Love).

• Pamela Aden

  American market analyst who founded Aden Research with her sister Mary Anne in San Jose, Costa Rica.

• Joseph Doucé
• Michel Bühler
• Hummie van der Tonnekreek
• Michel Gillibert

  French politician who served as Secretary of State for the Disabled.

• Mimi Farina

  rocker ("Reflections in a Crystal Wind").

• Larry Gagosian
• Robert Key

  British Member of Parliament/British undersecretary for National Heritage.

• Tammi Terrell

  American singer (d. 1970).

• Demetrio Stratos

  Egyptian-Italian singer-songwriter (Area) (d. 1979).

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Famous Deaths

• Eva Braun

  German news figure, the mistress of Adolf Hitler for 15 years and his wife for one day.

• Claretta Petacci

  mistress of Mussolini, is executed.

• Ernie Pyle

  American writer, journalist and syndicated columnist who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1943 and was killed in Okinawa during World War II.

• Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  German clergyman, theological scholar, writer and member of the resistance movement against the Nazi regime during World War II.

• Hans Bloesch

  Writer.

• Adolph Hitler

  German Dictator (1936-45), commits suicide at 56.

• Albrecht Haushofer

  Writer, dies at 42.

• Pavlo Skoropadsky

  Ukrainian politician and general (Born 1871).

• Bernito Mussolini

  Fascist leader (Italy), tried and shot.

• Joseph Weinheber

  Austria poet/writer (Vienna Verbatim), dies at age 43.

• Benjamin M Telders

  president (Dutch Liberal States Party), dies at age 42.

• Hans von Dohnanyi

  German jurist, member of the German Resistance (Born 1902).

• Hendrik N Werkman

  resistance/painter (Blue Boat), is executed at age 63.

• Kamiel van Baelen

  Flemish resistance fighter (in Dachau), dies at age 29.

• Hannie Schaft

  "Girl with red hair", is executed.

• Walter Model

  German field marshal (Born 1891).

• Ion Pillat Romaniams

  poet/Senator (Umbra timpului), dies.

• Ernest T Pyle

  British/US newscaster, killed by Japanese gunfire on Okinawa, Japan, at age 44.

• J P Heyboer

  resistance fighter, is executed.

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt

  32nd US President (1933-1945, Democrat), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia, USA, at age 63.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Betty Hutton - Stuff Like That There
2. Harry James & His Orchestra - I Don't Care Who Knows It
3. Johnny Long & His Orchestra - My Dreams are Getting Better All the Time
4. Bing Crosby with Ethel Smith (Organ) - Just a Prayer Away
5. Jerry Wald & His Orchestra - Laura