June 1945 calendar

Events

• 01 Jun 1945 WLB-AM in Minneapolis Minn changes call letters to KUOM
• 02 Jun 1945 Audie Murphy is awarded the Medal of Honor.
• 04 Jun 1945 6th Marine division occupies Orokoe Peninsula Okinawa
• 05 Jun 1945 Opera Peter Grimes of Benjamin Britten, premieres in London
• 06 Jun 1945 Free People premieres in Amsterdam
• 07 Jun 1945 King Haakon VII of Norway returns with his family to Oslo after five years in exile.
• 09 Jun 1945 Gruesome Twosome, premieres in USA
• 10 Jun 1945 US destroyer William D Porter (Willie Dee) sunk by kamikaze
• 12 Jun 1945 US 7th Marine regiment conquer summit of Kunishi Ridge, Okinawa
• 13 Jun 1945 Heerjansdam soccer team forms
• 15 Jun 1945 ANJV established in Concert building, Amsterdam
• 16 Jun 1945 71st Preakness: Wayne D Wright aboard Polynesian wins in 1:58.8
• 17 Jun 1945 Day of Unity in West Germany
• 21 Jun 1945 US defeat Japanese forces on Okinawa during WWII
• 22 Jun 1945 World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when organised resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island.
• 23 Jun 1945 77th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Pavot wins in 2:30.2
• 24 Jun 1945 Schermerhorn government forms
• 25 Jun 1945 Allied landing at Ternate Molukkas
• 26 Jun 1945 UN Charter signed by 50 nations in San Francisco
• 27 Jun 1945 Foundation 1940-45 established
• 28 Jun 1945 Polish Provisional Government of National Unity set up by Soviets.
• 29 Jun 1945 20.6 cm rainfall at Litchville North Dakota
• 30 Jun 1945 17-day newspaper strike in New York begins

Famous Birthday

• Aung San Suu Kyi

  Burmese politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

• Carly Simon

  Pop Singer.

• José Pinheiro
• Eddy Merckx

  Belgian cyclist,one of the greatest cyclist of all times.

• Luis Ocaña

  Spanish cyclist (d. 1994).

• Raul Seixas

  Brazilian singer and New Age composer, the partner of Pablo Coelho.

• Adrienne Barbeau

  American actress and the author of three books.

• Radovan Karadzic

  Montenegrin medical doctor, psychiatrist, poet, an old war buddy of Milosovic.

• Jörg Immendorff

  German artist, a painter, sculptor, stage designer and art professor.

• Lionel Poilâne

  French boulanger (artisan baker) and entrepreneur whose commitment to crafting quality bread earned him worldwide renown.

• Françoise Chandernagor

  French writer and formal legal advisor to the government.

• Arthur Shawcross

  American homicide, a serial killer of 13 prostitutes in upper New York.

• Ken Buchanan

  Scottish professional boxer and world lightweight champion.

• Wolfgang Schüssel

  Austrian People's Party politician.

• Philippe Sarde

  French composer.

• Karen Thorne
• Roland Moreno
• Anne Murray

  Canadian-American contemporary pop and country singer who has won a string of awards along with ten No.

• François Asensi
• Nicola Pagett

  British actress who achieved her overnight success with her appearance on "Upstairs-Downstairs.

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Famous Deaths

• Meinoud M Rost van Tonningen

  Anti semite / NSB (1937-41), suicide.

• Nishida Kitaro

  Scholar / philosopher / Zen practitioner, dies at 74.

• Ruben Marcos Campos

  Composer, dies at 69.

• Colonel Roberts

  Commandant 22nd regiment marines, dies in battle.

• Simon B Buckner

  US Lieutenant General / Commandant of 10th Army, dies in action.

• Josef Hora

  Czech writer / Poet (Sinking Shadows), dies at 53.

• Isamu Tsjo

  Japanese Chief of Staff 32nd Army, commits harakiri.

• Mitsuri Ushijima

  Japanese Lieutenant General / Commandant 32nd Army, commits harakiri.

• Lieutenant General Ushijima

  Japanese commander, commits suicide at Okinawa.

• Erno Rapee

  Composer, dies at 54.

• Nikolay Nikolayevich Tcherepnin

  Composer, dies at 72.

• Kitaro Nishida

  Japanese philosopher (Born 1870).

• Luis Fernando de Orleans y Borbon

  Spanish prince (Born 1888).

• Isamu Cho

  Japanese general at Okinawa, by seppuku (Born 1895).

• Mitsuru Ushijima

  Japanese general (died at Okinawa by seppuku) (Born 1887).

• Emil Hacha

  President of Czechoslovakia (Born 1872).

• Frank Bruno

  French athlete, diving monitor and professional deep sea diver, who lives in Corsica on board his boat.

• Georg Kaiser

  German dramatist, primarily seen as an expressionist playwright.

• Karl Hanke

  Polish-German businessman and politician (d. 1945).

• Aris Velouchiotis

  Greek guerrilla resistance leader (Born 1905).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Bing Crosby (Xavier Cugat Orchestra) - You Belong To My Heart
2. Xavier Cugat & His Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra - Good, Good, Good (That's You-That's You)
3. Frank Sinatra - Dream (When You're Feeling Blue)
4. Johnnie Johnston - Laura
5. Dick Haymes - The More I See You