September 1945 calendar

Events

• 01 Sep 1945 Japan surrenders ending WWII
• 02 Sep 1945 59th US Womens Tennis: Sarah P Cooke beats Pauline Betz
• 03 Sep 1945 65th US Mens Tennis: Sgt Frank A Parker beats Wm Talbert
• 04 Sep 1945 Ruben Fine wins four simultaneous rapid chess games blindfolded.
• 05 Sep 1945 (2030 hours) Igor Gouzenko, a cipher clerk at the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, Canada, leaves the embassy with 109 top secret documents, seeking political asylum rather than return to the Soviet Union.
• 07 Sep 1945 Japanese at Rioekioe-islands surrender
• 08 Sep 1945 Hideki Tojo, Japanese Prime Minister during most of WWII, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal attempt fails, later he is hanged
• 09 Sep 1945 1st bug in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweasers from a relay and taped into the log
• 10 Sep 1945 KLS-AM in Oakland Ca changes call letters to KWBR
• 11 Sep 1945 World War II: Australian 9th Division forces liberate the Japanese-run Batu Lintang camp, a POW and civilian internment camp on the island of Borneo.
• 12 Sep 1945 The Japanese Army formally surrenders to the British in Singapore.
• 15 Sep 1945 A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond.
• 16 Sep 1945 Barometric pressure at 856mb (25.55 inches) off Okinawa, Japan (record low).
• 18 Sep 1945 1000 whites walk out of Gary, Indiana, schools to protest integration.
• 19 Sep 1945 Kim Il Sung arrives in harbor of Wonsan, Korea
• 20 Sep 1945 German rocket engineers begin work in US.
• 22 Sep 1945 Stan Musial gets five hits off five pitchers on five consecutive pitches.
• 26 Sep 1945 All old Dutch banknotes declared invalid
• 28 Sep 1945 Mildred Price starring Joan Crawford opens at Strand
• 29 Sep 1945 Cubs clinch NL pennant
• 30 Sep 1945 The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43

Famous Birthday

• Bryan Ferry

  British musician, a singer, bandleader and keyboardist with "Roxy Music," for which he writes most of their original material.

• Phil Jackson

  American athlete, a basketball star and coach.

• Franz Beckenbauer

  German football coach, manager, and former player, nicknamed Der Kaiser ("The Emperor") because of his elegant style, his leadership, his...

• Jessye Norman

  United States -- Opera singer (Carmen).

• Dean Ford
• Gérard d'Aboville
• Catherine Lachens
• Bruce Spence

  New Zealand actor.

• Jose Feliciano

  American musician blind from birth whose folks moved to New York when he was five.

• Marielle Goitschel

  French alpine skier, still considered as a superstar in France, she won a gold medal in Giant Slalom and a silver one in Slalom (1964...

• Noël Godin

  Belgian writer, critic, actor and notorious cream pie flinger or entarteur.

• Hervé Chabalier

  French journalist and television host.

• Milo Manara

  Italian author and illustrator.

• René Belletto

  French writer, and winner of the Prix Femina, 1986, for "L'Enfer.

• Ferruccio Ferragamo

  Italian entrepreneur and noted family, the son of Salvatore Ferragamo, the famous shoe maker and founder of the industrial firm.

• Hans-Gert Pöttering

  German lawyer and politician 23rd President of the European Parliament.

• Benoît Lamy

  Belgian motion picture writer-director.

• Gal Costa

  Brazilian singer.

• Christian Saincène
• Carmen Maura

  Spanish actress.

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Famous Deaths

• John McCain

  American politician, a Republican Senator from Arizona since 1992, the unsuccessful rival of George W. Bush for the GOP nomination for...

• John McCain

  American politician, a Republican Senator from Arizona since 1992, the unsuccessful rival of George W. Bush for the GOP nomination for...

• Vaino Raitio

  Composer, dies at 54.

• Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern

  Austrian composer, dies at 61.

• John "Pa" van de Steur

  Philanthropist (Java), dies at 80.

• Bela Bartok

  Composer, dies at 64.

• Charles A Ellwood

  US sociologist / psychologist, dies at 72.

• R Beer-Hofmann

  Writer, dies at 78.

• Andre Tardieu

  French statesman (Born 1876).

• William Buehler Seabrook

  American occultist (Born 1884).

• Jacobus W G Balfoort

  Dutch actor (Heimwee, Head On), dies at 57.

• Salvo D'Acquisto

  Italian Carabiniere (Born 1920).

• Bela Bartok

  Hungarian composer (Born 1881).

• Hans Geiger

  German physicist who introduced the first successful detector (the Geiger counter) of individual alpha particles and other ionizing...

• Clem Hill

  Australian cricketer and engineer (d. 1945).

• Eduard Wirths

  German physician (d. 1945).

• Bela Bartok

  Composer, dies at 64.

• John McCormack

  American cleric; Bishop of the Manchester, New Hampshire diocese, John McCormack seems to have had intimate knowledge of the sex scandal...

• Augusto Tasso Fragoso

  Brazilian president (Born 1869).

• John S Mccain

  US Admiral, (WWII-Pacific Ocean).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes - Some Sunday Morning
2. Glen Gray & Casa Loma Orchestra - Gotta be This or That
3. Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes - I'll Buy That Dream
4. Harry James & His Orchestra - 11:60 P.M.
5. Dinah Shore - Along the Navajo Trail