December 1945 calendar

Events

• 01 Dec 1945 CFL Grey Cup: Toronto beats Winnipeg, 35-0 at Toronto
• 03 Dec 1945 Communist demonstrations in Athens presage the Greek Civil War.
• 04 Dec 1945 US Senate approves US participation in United Nations.
• 05 Dec 1945 Lost Squadron crashes east of Florida
• 07 Dec 1945 Microwave oven patented.
• 10 Dec 1945 Preston Tucker reveals plan to produce the Torpedo, a new 150 MPH car.
• 11 Dec 1945 Het Parool publishes first "Captain Rob" Dutch comic strip.
• 12 Dec 1945 Special Court of justice convicts NSB-leader Mussert to death.
• 15 Dec 1945 Occupation of Japan: General Douglas MacArthur orders that Shinto be abolished as the state religion of Japan.
• 16 Dec 1945 Cleveland Rams win NFL championship.
• 18 Dec 1945 Uruguay joins the United Nations.
• 19 Dec 1945 Austrian Republic re-establishes.
• 20 Dec 1945 Rationing of auto tires ends in US.
• 21 Dec 1945 Billion Dollar Baby opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 219 performances
• 23 Dec 1945 Frederick Astons Cinderella premieres in London
• 26 Dec 1945 CFP franc and CFA franc are created.
• 27 Dec 1945 International Monetary Fund established - World Bank founded.
• 28 Dec 1945 The United States Congress officially recognizes the Pledge of Allegiance.
• 31 Dec 1945 Ratification of United Nations Charter completed.

Famous Birthday

• Bette Midler

  American singer, actress, comedienne and recording artist who went from being known as the "last of the truly tacky women" to 22 films and...

• Lemmy (rock musician)
• Diane Sawyer

  News Anchor.

• Michael Nouri

  American actor, 6'3" and handsome, appeared in the soap opera "Search For Tomorrow," in 1976.

• Charles Watson (murderer)
• Davy Jones

  English singer (The Monkees).

• Georges Aperghis

  Composer.

• Barbara Carrera

  Nicaraguan actress and model.

• Peter Criss

  American musician, singer and drummer, who became famous as a member of the theatrical heavy metal rock group "Kiss.

• Cyril de Rouvre
• Jean-Patrick Capdevielle

  French singer-songwriter, guitarist and video director, whose music combines American and English influences.

• Jean-Pierre Cattenoz

  French Catholic priest, who served as archbishop of Avignon.

• Noel Redding

  Bass guitarist and songwriter who was recruited to play in the Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1966 and left in 1969 a year before Hendrix's...

• René Pétillon

  French satirical and political cartoonist.

• Billy Bridge
• Shekhar Kapur

  Indian director producer and screenwriter.

• Portia Simpson-Miller

  Jamaican politician 7th Prime Minister of Jamaica.

• Paul Nicholas

  English actor and singer.

• Ernie Hudson

  Movie Actor.

• Laurel Burch

  American artist whose whimsical and colorful animal creations came out of her imagination.

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Famous Deaths

• Irma Grese

  German concentration camp supervisor (Born 1923).

• Elisabeth Volkenrath

  Polish-born German Nazi concentration camp supervisor (d. 1945).

• Harvey Bartlett Gaul

  Composer, dies at 64.

• Vittorio Mario Vanzo

  Composer, dies at 83.

• Constantino Gaito

  Composer, dies at 67.

• Henry van Goudoever

  Dutch lawyer / judge, dies on his 69th birthday.

• George S Patton

  US General (Sicily / Normandy), dies in car crash at 60.

• Mogens Klitgaard

  Danish Author (Brunkul), dies at 39.

• Robert van Genechten

  Dutch Nazi (NSB), commits suicide.

• Josef Kramer known as the "Beast of Belsen"

  and ten others hanged for crimes committed at the Belsen and Oswiecim German concentration camps.

• Fumimaro Konu

  Japanese prince/Prime Minister (1937-39, 1940-41), commits harakiri.

• Giovanni Agnelli

  Italian noted family, the son of Umberto and great grandson of Giovanni, the founder of Fiat.

• Theodore Dreiser

  American writer, a realistic novelist who interpreted life frankly.

• Charles Fabry

  French physicist; specialized in optics and photometry in which he developed the Fabry-Perot interferometer for astro-physics.

• Theodor Dannecker

  German Nazi officer (Born 1913).

• Josef Kramer

  German concentration camp commandant (Born 1906).

• Otto Neurath

  Austrian sociologist and philosopher (d. 1945).

• Francisco Pujol

  Composer, dies at 67.

• Forrester Harvey

  Actor (Tarzan & Mate, Chump at Oxford), dies at 61.

• Donald Douglas II

  Dies at 40.

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Top #4 songs in the USA

1. Gene Krupa & His Orchestra (vocal Anita O'Day - Chickery Chick
2. Frank Sinatra - Nancy (With The Laughing Face)
3. Bing Crosby - White Christmas
4. Frank Sinatra - White Christmas