July 1945 calendar

Events

• 01 Jul 1945 1st of the superstars returns from the WWII, Hank Greenberg homers
• 02 Jul 1945 The Okinawa campaign is declared over. Total US casualties are 80,000 (dead, wounded, missing, non-combat sickness). Total Japanese casualties are 120,000.
• 05 Jul 1945 Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
• 06 Jul 1945 Nicaragua becomes first nation to formally accept United Nations Charter.
• 08 Jul 1945 WWII: Harry S. Truman is informed that Japan will talk peace if it can retain the reign of the Emperor.ref name=quotnuclearfiles1940quot/
• 09 Jul 1945 A forest fire breaks out in the Tillamook Burn (the third in that area since 1933).
• 10 Jul 1945 Lieutenant Admiral Marc Mitscher named chief of US Navy staff
• 12 Jul 1945 Cubs stop Braves Tommy Holmes modern-day NL hitting streak at 37 games
• 13 Jul 1945 1st atom bomb explodes in New Mexico
• 14 Jul 1945 Battleship USS South Dakota is 1st US ship to bombard Japan
• 15 Jul 1945 27th PGA Championship: Byron Nelson at Morraine Country Club - Dayton Ohio
• 16 Jul 1945 1st atomic bomb detonated, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico
• 17 Jul 1945 Potsdam Conference (FDR, Stalin, Churchill) holds 1st meeting
• 19 Jul 1945 Edwin Schlossberg, husband of Carolyn Kennedy
• 21 Jul 1945 Detroit Tigers and Philadelphia Athletics play 24 innings 1-1 tie.
• 23 Jul 1945 The post-war legal processes against Philippe Petain begin.
• 24 Jul 1945 US destroyer Underhill torpedoed West of Guam
• 26 Jul 1945 After Labour landslide in general election, Clement Attlee becomes Prime Minister
• 27 Jul 1945 Cubs purchase pitcher Hank Borowy from New York Yankees
• 28 Jul 1945 Japanese Premier Suzuki disregards US ultimatum to surrender
• 29 Jul 1945 After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine
• 30 Jul 1945 Philippines Sea: US cruiser Indianapolis torpedoed / sinks, 880 die
• 31 Jul 1945 Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.

Famous Birthday

• Debbie Harry

  American singer-songwriter and actress best known for being the lead singer of the punk rock and New Wave band.

• Helen Mirren

  British actress, winner of an assortment of awards, best known in the US for her portrayal of the complex Jane Tennison, detective.

• Patrick Modiano

  French novelist.

• Richard Wright (musician)
• Kim Carnes

  American singer, gravel-voiced, best known for the 1981 pop classic "Bette Davis Eyes," which won a Grammy; an outstanding songwriter in...

• Sergio Galeotti

  Italian entrepreneur who built his own company, Armani Spa.

• Pierre Lescure

  French journalist and radio-television executive, son of François, journalist and member of Resistance, succeeding Gilles Jacob as President...

• Julie Dassin
• Jim Davis (cartoonist)
• Michel Morin
• Jean-Marie Poiré

  French film director, screenwriter, and producer, son of Alain Poiré (producer).

• Micheline Calmy-Rey

  Swiss politician 91st President of the Swiss Confederation.

• Elie Lison
• Joël Hart
• Burt Ward

  TV Actor.

• John Lodge

  English singer-songwriter bass player and producer (The Moody Blues).

• William Weld

  American politician, the Governor of Massachusetts after George Dukakis, finally balancing the budget and doing so without raising taxes.

• Michael Cole

  American actor.

• Michael Blake

  American writer, the author of the book and screenplay for "Dances with Wolves," the winner of the Golden Globe Award on 1/19/1991 and the...

• Jean-Claude Martinez
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Famous Deaths

• Salomeja Neris [S Bacinskaite-Buciene]

  Latvian poet, dies at 40.

• George Barbier

  Actor (Man Who Came to Dinner), dies at 80.

• Paul Valery

  French author and poet (Born 1871).

• John Curtin

  Australian journalist and politician 14th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1945).

• Boris Galerkin

  Russian mathematician and engineer (d. 1945).

• Robert Goddard

  American physicist engineer and academic (d. 1945).

• Wolfram von Richthofen

  German field marshal (Born 1895).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Les Brown & His Orchestra (Vocal Doris Day) - Tain't Me
2. Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra - Can't You Read Between the Lines?
3. Carmen Cavallaro & His Orchestra - Chopin's Polonaise
4. Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra - Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well?
5. Merry Macs - Sentimental Journey