August 1945 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 1945 Mel Ott is 1st in NL to hit 500th HR
• 02 Aug 1945 Potsdam Conference ended, with Stalin, Truman and Churchill
• 04 Aug 1945 Golfer Byron Nelson records most tournament wins (18) in a season.
• 05 Aug 1945 Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima
• 06 Aug 1945 Hiroshima Peace Day-atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by Enola Gay
• 07 Aug 1945 The United Nations Charter is ratified by the United States Senate, and this nation becomes the third one to join the new international organization.
• 08 Aug 1945 England and Aust Services draw 4th Victory Test
• 09 Aug 1945 US drops 2nd atomic bomb Fat Man on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki
• 10 Aug 1945 Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies provided status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged
• 11 Aug 1945 Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito.
• 13 Aug 1945 35 Jews sacrifice their lives to blow up Nazi rubber plant in Silesia
• 14 Aug 1945 V-J Day; Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WWII
• 15 Aug 1945 A riot ensued in SF while the city was celebrating the end of WWII
• 16 Aug 1945 An assassination attempt is made on Japan's prime minister, Kantaro Suzuki.
• 17 Aug 1945 Indonesia (Dutch E Indies) declares independence from Netherlands
• 18 Aug 1945 Scheduled demonstrations at Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field to end segregation in organized baseball are called off
• 19 Aug 1945 Phillies Jimmie Foxx, 37, pitches 1st 7 innings vs. Reds andwins
• 20 Aug 1945 Dodgers Tommy Brown, 17, is youngest player to hit a HR
• 21 Aug 1945 US President Harry Truman ends Lend-Lease program.
• 22 Aug 1945 Bob Cristofani scores 110 for Aust Services at Old Trafford
• 24 Aug 1945 Cleveland ace Bob Feller returns from Navy and strike out 12
• 25 Aug 1945 Jewish immigrants are permitted to leave Mauritius for Palestine.
• 27 Aug 1945 US troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender.
• 29 Aug 1945 British liberate Hong Kong from Japan
• 30 Aug 1945 12th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 19, All-Stars 7
• 31 Aug 1945 The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies.

Famous Birthday

• Alain Juppé

  French politician, Prime Minister of France 1995-1997.

• Sheila (singer)
• Steve Martin

  American comedian and actor whose non-political and vaudevillian self-parody entitled "Wild and Crazy Guy" put him on Carson's show over 40...

• Wim Wenders

  German film director of his native Germany and the U.S.

• Van Morrison

  Irish musician, singer, songwriter, bandleader, bassist, saxophonist, guitarist, drummer and harmonica player.

• Ian Gillan

  British musician, singer and member of the band Deep Purple from 1969.

• Loni Anderson

  American actress, a lush and shapely blonde with a quality of great sweetness and a high IQ.

• Gérard Manset

  French singer-songwriter, painter, photographer, and writer.

• Caroline Cellier

  French actress who has appeared in such films as "L'année des méduses" (Year of the Jellyfish), "La vie, l'amour, la mort," "Le zèbre" and...

• Vince McMahon

  American professional wrestling promoter.

• Joanna Cassidy

  American television and movie actress best known for her role in "Falcon Crest.

• Jean Nouvel

  French architect who designed the World Arab Institute in Paris (completed in 1987), the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, MN, and the Musée...

• Maria Rohm
• Priscilla Costello
• Rita Pavone

  Italian singer and actress.

• Marianne Sägebrecht
• Bernard Accoyer

  French politician, a doctor by profession, who was President of the National Assembly of France from 2007 to 2012.

• Kléber Mesquida
• Bob Welch

  American guitarist, singer and songwriter with Fleetwood Mac from April 1971 to December 1974.

• Itzhak Perlman

  Israeli-American violinist, conductor, and pedagogue.

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Famous Deaths

• A Roda Roda

  Writer, dies at 73.

• Robert H Goddard

  United States -- Rocket pioneer, dies at 62.

• Nico Richter

  Composer, dies at 29.

• Takijiro Ohnishi

  Led Japanese kamikaze pilots (harakiri).

• Gino Marinuzzi

  Composer, dies at 61.

• Pater Bleijs [Louis]

  Resistance fighter, dies in car accident.

• John Birch

  American intelligence officer and missionary (Born 1918).

• Wu

  Prince of Korea (Born 1912).

• Robert Hampton Gray

  last Canadian Victoria Cross recipient (Born 1917).

• Hiram Johnson

  American politician (Born 1866).

• Reidar Haaland

  Norwegian Nazi collaborator (Born 1919).

• Subhas Chandra Bose popularly known as Netaji

  Indian independence movement leader (Born 1897).

• Tomas Burgos

  Chilean philanthropist (Born 1875).

• Pietro Mascagni

  Italian operatic composer, one of the principal exponents of verismo, a style of opera writing marked by melodramatic, often violent plots...

• Korechika Anami

  Japanese general and politician 54th Japanese Minister of War (d. 1945).

• Harry Hillman

  American runner and hurdler (d. 1945).

• Richard Bong

  American ace fighter pilot and Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1945).

• Franz Werfel

  Austrian novelist, playwright and poet whose early work criticized the militaristic philosophy of the 1900's.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Sammy Kaye & His Orchestra - Gotta be This or That
2. Kay Kyser & His Orchestra - Can't You Read Between the Lines?
3. Sammy Kaye & His Orchestra - Good, Good, Good (That's You-That's You)
4. Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe
5. Les Brown & His Orchestra (Vocal Doris Day) - Till The End of Time