January 1945 calendar

Events

• 01 Jan 1945 German air raid on allied airports at Eindhoven / Saint-Trond / Brussels
• 02 Jan 1945 Kentucky begins 130 home basketball game win streak, ends in 1955
• 03 Jan 1945 British Premier Winston Churchill visits France
• 04 Jan 1945 US jeep-aircraft carrier Ommaney Bay sinks after kamikaze attack.
• 05 Jan 1945 Pepe LePew debuts in Warner Bros cartoon Odor-able Kitty
• 06 Jan 1945 Future President George Bush marries Barbara Pierce in Rye, New York
• 07 Jan 1945 Lord Haw-Haw reports total German victory at Ardennen.
• 08 Jan 1945 Youth for Christ organizes
• 09 Jan 1945 US soldiers led by General Douglas MacArthur invade Philippines.
• 10 Jan 1945 Baseball writers again fail to elect a new Hall of Famer.
• 12 Jan 1945 US Task Force 38 destroys 41 Japanese ships in Battle of South China Sea.
• 13 Jan 1945 WWII: A day after beginning the Vistula-Oder Offensive, the Soviets launch the East Prussian Offensive to eliminate German forces in East Prussia.
• 15 Jan 1945 Make Mine Manhattan opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 429 performances
• 16 Jan 1945 Scottish 52nd land division / 1st Commando brigade-assault at Heinsberg
• 17 Jan 1945 Liberation of Warsaw by Soviet troops
• 18 Jan 1945 Warsaw freed by Soviet army
• 19 Jan 1945 World War II: Soviet forces liberate the ?odz ghetto. Out more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation.
• 20 Jan 1945 FDR sworn-in for an unprecedented 4th term as President
• 21 Jan 1945 British troops land on Ramree, near coast of Burma.
• 22 Jan 1945 Burma highway reopens
• 23 Jan 1945 Dutch Premier Gerbrandy, exiled in London, offers his resignation.
• 24 Jan 1945 Scottish 52nd Lowland division occupies Heinsberg.
• 25 Jan 1945 New York Yankees sold by Ruppert estate to Larry MacPhail, Dan Topping
• 26 Jan 1945 Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp
• 27 Jan 1945 Russia liberates Auschwitz and Birkenau Concentration Camp
• 28 Jan 1945 Gen Vinegar Joe Stillwell and truck convoy reopen Burma Road to China
• 30 Jan 1945 Wilhelm Gustloff torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 7,700 die
• 31 Jan 1945 American Private Edward Donald Slovik, age 25, is executed by firing squad for desertion, the first such execution since the US Civil War.

Famous Birthday

• Rod Stewart

  British musician born to Scottish parents living in London.

• Tom Selleck

  American actor, a veteran of 50 commercials before his film debut in 1970, and best known for starring in his hit series, "Magnum P.I.

• Jacqueline du Pré
• Martin Shaw

  British actor, the star of the TV series, "The Professionals," December 1977 to February 1983.

• Stephen Stills

  American musician, a vocalist for "Buffalo Springfield" before joining "Crosby, Stills and Nash" in 1968 for superstardom.

• Marthe Keller

  Swiss actress and director.

• Claude Guéant

  French civil servant, he studied law at Paris University and entered "Sciences-Po" and ENA.

• Jacky Ickx

  Belgian winner of the Formula One Race in 1969 and 1970 and the Grand-Prix-Rennan in 1967 and 1978.

• Leigh Taylor-Young

  American actress and leading lady of films from the late '60s and early '70s.

• Robert Wyatt

  English singer-songwriter and drummer (Soft Machine The Wilde Flowers and Matching Mole).

• Marie-Renée Oget
• Michel Paje
• Santo Versace

  Italian entrepreneur and noted family, the brother of Gianni Versace.

• Nancy Anne Hastings
• Susan Watkins

  American writer who was stated by Jane Roberts to be one of her many "Soul Counterparts.

• Jean-Pierre Stirbois
• François Roussely

  French former senior civil servant, currently Vice Chairman of Credit Suisse in Europe.

• David Spangler

  American writer and mystic, a "conscious sensitive" since youth; his books include "Revelation, Birth of a New Age.

• Gunther von Hagens

  German anatomist invented plastination.

• Andrew Dallmeyer

  Scottish actor and highly regarded director of over fifty productions.

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Famous Deaths

• Edith Frank

  mother of Anne Frank (Born 1900).

• Vit Nejedly

  Composer, dies at 33.

• Fyodor Akimenko

  Composer, dies at 68.

• A Wolfenstein

  Writer, dies at 61.

• Carlo Felice Boghen

  Composer, dies a day before 76th birthday.

• Philip "Felix" Bekkers

  Actor (We Go on Trip), dies at 37.

• William Busch

  Composer, dies at 43.

• Jac[obus] P Thijsse

  Dutch biologist (Omgang met planten), dies at 79.

• Rudolf Borchardt

  Writer, dies at 67.

• Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski

  Polish writer (Born 1879).

• Else Lasker-Schuler

  German-born poet (Born 1869).

• Betram Home Ramsay

  English Admiral/Commander Naval Forces (Normandy), dies at age 61.

• Dennis Donnini

  British rifleman (Victoria Cross), dies in battle at age 19.

• Ernest B Allo

  French theologist, dies at age 71.

• Helmuth J Moltke

  German politician ("July 20th Plot"), executed at age 37.

• Gottlieb J Haberlandt

  Hungarian/German botanist, dies at age 90.

• Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay

  British naval commander (Born 1883).

• Juri Uluots

  Estonian Prime Minister (Born 1890).

• Edgar Cayce

  American mystic known as "The Sleeping Prophet.

• Karl Krafft

  Swiss-German astrologer, statistician and researcher said to have cast and studied more than 60,000 birth charts.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Charlie Spivak - Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral
2. Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - I Dream Of You
3. Ella Fitzgerald - And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine
4. Andrews Sisters - Rum and Coca-Cola
5. Sammy Kaye & His Orchestra - Always