May 1945 calendar

Events

• 01 May 1945 Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WWII
• 02 May 1945 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina and Princess Juliana reach Gilze-Rijen
• 03 May 1945 German ship Cap Arcona sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed
• 04 May 1945 German troops in the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway surrender
• 05 May 1945 Netherlands and Denmark liberated from Nazi control
• 07 May 1945 British troops pull into Utrecht Neth
• 08 May 1945 Gen Von Keitel surrenders to Marshal Zhukov
• 09 May 1945 Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation
• 10 May 1945 Russian troops occupied Prague
• 11 May 1945 US marines conquer Awatsha Draw, Okinawa, Japan.
• 12 May 1945 Argentinian labour leader Jose Peter declares the Federacion Obrera de la Industria de la Carne dissolved.
• 13 May 1945 US troops conquer Dakeshi, Okinawa, Japan.
• 14 May 1945 Kamikaze-Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Enterprise.
• 15 May 1945 World War II: The final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia.
• 16 May 1945 Violent battles around Sugar Loaf/Half Moon Okinawa, Japan.
• 17 May 1945 Two US P-47 Thunderbolts bomb Kiushu, Japan.
• 21 May 1945 Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart wed.
• 22 May 1945 US 6th Marine division reaches suburbs of Naha, Okinawa, Japan.
• 23 May 1945 Winston Churchill resigns as British Prime Minister
• 26 May 1945 US drop fire bombs on Tokyo
• 28 May 1945 William Joyce (quotLord Haw-Hawquot) is captured. He is later charged with high treason in London for his English-language wartime broadcasts on German radio, convicted, and then hanged in January 1946.
• 29 May 1945 US 1st Marine Division conquors Shuri-castle Okinawa, Japan.
• 30 May 1945 The Iranian government demands that all Soviet and British troops leave the country.

Famous Birthday

• Priscilla Presley

  German-American actress, news figure, business executive and author.

• Pete Townshend

  British musician, founding member of "The Who" rock band, composer of "Tommy," a 1969 rock opera that went on to win five Tony awards for...

• Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  film-maker, dies of drug overdose in Munich, Germany, at age 36.

• Laurent Gbagbo

  Ivorian academic and politician 4th President of Côte d'Ivoire.

• Bianca Jagger

  Nicaraguan-American model actress and activist.

• John Fogerty

  American musician, one of rock's great singer-composer-guitarists who ranked alongside Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly.

• Edinburgh (Scotland)
• Catherine Lara

  French violinist, composer and singer.

• Patch Adams

  American physician, famed over the years throughout the medical community for charging no fees, carrying no malpractice insurance and living...

• Henri Emmanuelli

  French senior banking executive and politician.

• Sylviane Agacinski
• Keith Jarrett

  American pianist and composer.

• Pascal Clément

  French politician, a member of the Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (UMP).

• Bob Seger

  American rock and roll singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist.

• Richard Hatch (actor)
• Alana Stewart

  American model before her marriage to George Hamilton, with whom she had a son, Ashley.

• Esther Galil
• Daniel Prévost (politician)
• Jupp Heynckes

  German footballer and manager.

• Patrick Ricard

  French entrepreneur and Chairman and CEO of the liquor & wine group Pernod Ricard, which he inherited from his father Paul Ricard, the...

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Famous Deaths

• Heinrich Himmler

  German head of the Gestapo police, architect of the concentration camps and the Holocaust, who was second only to Hitler in the Third Reich.

• Martin Bormann

  German Nazi official, one of the most powerful but least known Nazis; he was called "Hitler's evil genius.

• Ludwig Stumpfegger

  German SS doctor (Born 1910).

• Richard Glucks

  German SS officer (Born 1889).

• Tubby Hall

  American jazz drummer (Born 1895).

• Heber J Grant

  seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Born 1856).

• Robert Ritter von Greim

  German field marshal (Born 1892).

• Desider Antalffy-Zsiross

  Hungarian organist/composer, dies at age 59.

• Paul Josef Goebbels

  German minister on propoganda, commits suicide.

• Louis L H de Visser

  Dutch Member of Parliament (CPN), dies at age 66.

• Major Courtney

  US medal of honor marine, dies in battle of Sugar Loaf.

• Sasaki Shigetsu Sokei-an

  founder of first Zen Institute of America, dies.

• Irma Laplasse

  Flemish farmer/Nazi collaborator, is executed.

• Jan van Geenen

  Resistance fighter.

• Wilhelm Rediess

  SS and Police leader of Nazi-occupied Norway (Born 1900).

• Konrad Henlein

  German politician, a governor during the Third Reich and Nazi gauleiter of occupied Sudetenland during WW II.

• Josef Terboven

  German Nazi leader, best known as the Reichskommissar for Norway during the German occupation of Norway.

• Charles Williams

  British writer (Born 1886).

• Odilo Globocnik

  Italian-Austrian SS officer (d. 1945).

• Enno Lolling

  German SS-Standartenfuhrer died by suicide (Born 1888).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Johnny Long & His Orchestra - Candy
2. Woody Herman & His Orchestra - Caldonia
3. Bing Crosby & Judy Garland - Yah-Ta-Ta, Yah-Ta-Ta (Talk, Talk, Talk)
4. Jo Stafford - There's No You
5. Mills Brothers - I Wish