October 1945 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1945 Heavyweight champ Joe Louis is discharged from army
• 02 Oct 1945 George Albert Smith becomes president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• 03 Oct 1945 Tigers and Cubs meet in World Series for 4th time
• 04 Oct 1945 The Partizan Belgrade sports society is founded in Belgrade, Serbia.
• 05 Oct 1945 Meet the Press premieres on radio
• 06 Oct 1945 Memorial for executed unveiled in Terbregge
• 08 Oct 1945 US President Harry Truman announces atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada.
• 09 Oct 1945 British troops occupy Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal
• 10 Oct 1945 Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 3 in 42nd World Series.
• 11 Oct 1945 JPL WAC Corporal Launch
• 12 Oct 1945 World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.
• 14 Oct 1945 Chicago Cardinals end a record 29-game losing streak, beat Chicago Bears.
• 15 Oct 1945 Baseball Attendance hits record 10.28 million
• 16 Oct 1945 The Food and Agriculture Organization is founded in Quebec City, Canada.
• 18 Oct 1945 Nazi war crime trial opens in Nuremberg
• 20 Oct 1945 Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Lawrence opens trial of Neurenberg
• 21 Oct 1945 Argentine military officer and politician Juan Peron marries actress Eva Peron.
• 23 Oct 1945 Jackie Robinson signs a contract with the Montreal Royals.
• 24 Oct 1945 Charter of United Nations of force became
• 25 Oct 1945 Japanese surrender Taiwan to General Chiang Kai-shek.
• 27 Oct 1945 Carib Song closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 36 performances
• 29 Oct 1945 1st ball point pen goes on sale, 57 years after it is patented
• 30 Oct 1945 Branch Rickey signs Jackie Robinson to a Montreal Royals

Famous Birthday

• Jaclyn Smith

  TV Actress.

• Christophe (singer)
• Luis Inácio Lula da Silva
• Pascal Sevran

  French TV personality, not at all typical.

• Henry Winkler

  American actor who became popular as the brash ultra-cool biker Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli on the TV series "Happy Days," which made a debut...

• John Lithgow

  American actor with a range versatile enough to cover drama and comedy.

• Divine (actor)
• Brian Connolly

  Lead singer (Sweet), dies of heart failure at 52.

• Aurore Clément

  French actress.

• Don McLean

  American musician, a singer, songwriter and guitarist of folk rock who achieved his greatest success in the '70s as a soloist.

• Nikita Mikhalkov

  Director (Dark Eyes, Slave of Love).

• Laura Desjardins

  American astrologer, author and lecturer, delving into the science of the cosmos and effects on life patterns since 1972.

• Spider Sabich
• Jean-Jacques Kantorow
• Andreas Schmidt-Schaller
• Linda M Georgian
• François Rochebloine
• Gérard Vignoble
• Kofi Yamgnane
• Michel Watteau
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Famous Deaths

• Leonardo Conti

  Swiss-German Third Reich Health Leader, a specialist in the "race questions.

• Herman T Colenbrander

  Historian, dies at 73.

• Jesse James Payne

  Lynched in Madison County Florida.

• Milton S Hershey

  American chocolate tycoon (Born 1857).

• Plutarco Elias Calles

  President of Mexico (Born 1877).

• Robert Ley

  German Nazi leader (Born 1890).

• Alexei Krylov

  Russian engineer and mathematician (Born 1863).

• Robert Ley

  German chemist, ardent Nazi and close friend of Hitler and the labor front leader 1933-1945.

• Paul Pelliot

  French sinologist and explorer (d. 1945).

• Vidkun Quisling

  Norwegian military officer and politician Minister President of Norway (d. 1945).

• Felix Salten

  Austrian-Swiss author and critic (d. 1945).

• Walter B Cannon

  US physiologist (Traumatic Shock), dies at 73.

• Henry Ainley

  Actor (As You Like It), dies at 66.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Judy Garland & Merry Macs - On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe
2. Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - Hong Kong Blues
3. Billy Eckstine - A Cottage For Sale
4. Count Basie & His Orchestra - Jimmy's Blues
5. Harry James & His Orchestra - It's Been a Long, Long Time