February 1945 calendar

Events

• 01 Feb 1945 US Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie.
• 02 Feb 1945 Escape attempt at Mauthausen concentration camp.
• 03 Feb 1945 Almost 1000 Flying Fortresses drop 3000 ton bombs on Berlin
• 04 Feb 1945 FDR, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta
• 05 Feb 1945 US troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla, Philippines.
• 06 Feb 1945 Russian Red Army crosses the river Oder.
• 07 Feb 1945 US 76th / 5th Infantry divisions begin crossing Sauer
• 08 Feb 1945 Allied air attack on Goch / Kleef / Kalkar / Reichswald
• 09 Feb 1945 WAAF-corporal flies along the tail of a Spitfire
• 10 Feb 1945 WWII: The ''SS General von Steuben'' is sunk by the Soviet submarine S-13.
• 11 Feb 1945 Yalta agreement signed by FDR, Churchill and Stalin
• 12 Feb 1945 San Francisco, California, selected for site of United Nations Conference.
• 13 Feb 1945 Allied planes bomb Dresden Germany; 135,000 die
• 14 Feb 1945 President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially starting the U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relationship.
• 16 Feb 1945 US forces land on Corregidor, complete conquest on March 3
• 19 Feb 1945 30,000 US Marines land on Iwo Jima
• 21 Feb 1945 British Army captures Goch.
• 22 Feb 1945 Arab League forms (Cairo, Egypt).
• 23 Feb 1945 US Marines raise flag on Iwo Jima, famous photo and statue
• 24 Feb 1945 Egypt and Syria declares war on Nazi-Germany
• 25 Feb 1945 US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo, Japan.
• 26 Feb 1945 Very heavy bombing on Berlin by 8th US Air Force.
• 27 Feb 1945 Battle of US 94 Infantry
• 28 Feb 1945 In Bucharest, a violent demonstration takes place, during which the ''bolşevic'' group opens fire on the army and protesters. In response, Andrei Y. Vishinsky, USSR vice commissioner of foreign affairs and president of the Allied Control Commission for Romania, travels to Bucharest to compel Nicolae Rădescu to resign as premier.

Famous Birthday

• Bob Marley

  Jamaican reggae singer, song writer, musician, and guitarist who achieved international fame and acclaim.

• Bob Marley

  Jamaican reggae singer, song writer, musician, and guitarist who achieved international fame and acclaim.

• Mia Farrow

  American actress and noted family, the third of seven kids of writer-director John Farrow and actress Maureen O'Sullivan.

• Gérard Lenorman

  French singer, born at the "Château de Bénouville", maternity hospital, to Madeleine Lenormand and Erich, an unknown musician German soldier...

• Herbert Léonard

  French singer, who is also a specialist of Russian airplanes from World War II.

• Edir Macedo
• Bernard Rapp
• Maud Adams

  Swedish actress and model; appeared in James Bond's "Octopussy" etc.

• Maurice Gardès

  French Catholic bishop, who has been Archbishop of Auch, Condom, Lectoure and Lombez since 2004.

• Rodrigo A C Farias
• Jean-Yves Le Déaut
• Hans-Adam II Prince of Liechtenstein
• Gérard Hamel
• Pete Postlethwaite

  Actor (The Boxer).

• Micha Bergese

  German ballet dancer and choreographer who first studied music, then dance.

• Elkie Brooks

  British rock'n'roll singer-songwriter, pianist, drummer and composer, known as Britain's No.

• André Velter
• Sam Abell

  American photographer, has worked for National Geographic Society since 1970.

• Willeke Alberti

  Dutch singer and actress, the daughter of entertainer and singer Willy Alberti and Hendrika Geertruida Kuiper (1921-2011).

• Mimsy Farmer

  American-French actress and sculptor.

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Famous Deaths

• Alfred Delp

  German Jesuit priest, member of the German resistance (Born 1907).

• Paul Bos

  Dutch resistance fighter, executed.

• Juan de Hernandez

  Composer, dies at 63.

• de Jong

  Dutch vicar / resistance fighter, executed.

• Aleksei Tolstoi

  Russian Poet / writer (Pjotr Peroyj), dies at 62.

• HJ Lochtman

  Dutch chaplain / resistance fighter, dies in Bergen-Belsen.

• Carl Friedrich Goerdeler

  German politician, member of the German resistance (Born 1884).

• Karl F Goerdeler

  mayor (Leipzig)/"July 20th plot", hanged at age 60.

• George J L Maduro

  resistance fighter (Madurodam), dies in Dachau.

• Jan Bakker

  resistance fighter, executed at age 26.

• J S H Lokerman

  Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Neugengamme.

• Walraven [Wally] van Hall

  Dutch banker/resisted Germans, executed at age 39.

• Wim Speelman

  Dutch resistance fighter, executed at age 26.

• Aubrey Cousins

  Canadian sergeant (Victoria Cross), dies in battle.

• Jose Rolon

  Composer, dies at 61.

• Johannes Popitz

  Prussian finance minister, member of the German resistance (Born 1884).

• Anacleto Diaz

  Filipino jurist (Born 1878).

• Antonio Villa-Real

  Filipino jurist (Born 1880).

• Mario de Andrade

  Brazilian writer and photographer (Born 1893).

• Jan Bos

  Dutch plant pathologist and first director of the Willie Commelin Scholten Foundation and founder of the Plant Protection Service in 1899 in...

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Bing Crosby & Andrews Sisters - Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive
2. Horace Heidt & His Orchestra - Don't Fence Me In
3. Frankie Carle & His Orchestra - A Little on the Lonely Side
4. Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra - I'm Beginning To See The Light
5. Frank Sinatra - Saturday Night (Is The Loneliest Night of the Week)