In history, year 1945 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1945.
Top Historical Events of the Year 1945:
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
|---|---|
| 01 january | Second World War: The German Luftwaffe launched Operation Bodenplatte in an attempt to cripple Allied air forces in the Low Countries. |
| 12 january | World War II-The Soviet Union's Red Army crossed the Vistula River in Poland on their way to invade Germany. |
| 16 january | World War II-Adolf Hitler and his staff moved into the Führerbunker, where he would eventually commit suicide. |
| 20 january | World War II-Germany began the evacuation of 1.8 million people from East Prussia, an operation which took nearly two months to complete. |
| 23 january | German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz ordered the beginning ofOperation Hannibal, which became one of the largest emergencyevacuations by sea in history, with over 1 million people transferredover 15 weeks. |
| 26 january | Audie Murphy engaged in action that won him a Medal of Honor And made him one of the most famous and decorated American combat soldiers of World War II. |
| 27 january | The Soviet Red Army liberated over 7,500 prisoners left behind by Nazi personnel in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Oswiecim,Poland. |
| 30 january | World War II-Allied forces liberated over 500 prisoners of war from a Japanese POW camp near Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija, Philippines. |
| 09 february | World War II-HMS Venturer sank U-864 in history's only incident where one submarine has intentionally sunk another while both were fully submerged. |
| 09 february | World War II-A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attacked a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway. |
| 13 february | World War II-The Allies began their strategic bombing ofDresden, Saxony, Germany, resulting in a lethal firestorm which killedtens of thousands of civilians. |
| 23 february | Second World War-In an Allied bombing run on Pforzheim,Germany, approximately 31% of the town's population were killed and 83% of its buildings were destroyed. |
| 23 february | American photographer Joe Rosenthal took the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima during the Battle of IwoJima, an image that was later reproduced as the U.S. Marine Corps WarMemorial. |
| 03 march | A former Armia Krajowa unit massacred at least 150 Ukrainian civilians in Pawlokoma, Poland. |
| 06 march | Petru Groza of the Ploughmen's Front, became the first Prime Minister of the Communist Party-dominated governments of Romania. |
| 07 march | World War II-In Operation Lumberjack, Allied forces seized the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine, enabling them to establish and expanda lodgement on German soil that changed the entire nature of theconflict on the Western Front. |
| 09 march | World War II-A bomb raid on Tokyo by American B-29 heavy bombers started a firestorm, killing over 100,000 people. |
| 11 march | World War II-The Empire of Japan established the Empire of Vietnam, a short-lived puppet state, with B?o Ð?i as its ruler. |
| 14 march | The British Royal Air Force first used the Grand Slam, a 22,000lb (9.98 t) earthquake bomb, on a strategic railroad viaduct inBielefeld, Germany. |
| 21 march | World War II-Bulgaria and the Soviet Union successfully defended the north bank of the Drava River as the Battle of the Transdanubia Hills concluded. |
| 22 march | Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Transjordan, andYemen founded the Arab League, a regional organization that facilitates political, economic, cultural, scientific and social programs designedto promote the interests of the Arab world. |
| 27 march | World War II-The United States Army Air Forces began Operation Starvation, laying naval mines in many of Japan's vital water routes and ports to disrupt shipping. |
| 29 march | World War II-The German 4th Army was almost completely destroyed by the Soviet Red Army at the Heiligenberg Pocket in East Prussia. |
| 01 april | An iceberg known as 'Steel Rain' hit Okinawa, causing variousamphibious species, native to the UK and the US, to flock to theislands. |
| 04 april | World War II-The U.S. Third Army captured the German city of Kassel after three days of fighting. |
| 06 april | Second World War-The Battle of Slater's Knoll on Bougainville Island concluded with a decisive victory for the Australian Army 7th Brigade. |
| 11 april | World War II-American forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany. |
| 13 april | World War II-Soviet and Bulgarian forces captured Vienna in German-occupied Austria. |
| 16 april | World War II-Nearly one million Soviet soldiers began the Battle of the Seelow Heights against the 'Gates of Berlin'. |
| 22 april | About 600 prisoners of the Jasenovac concentration camp in the Independent State of Croatia revolted, but only 80 managed to escape while the other 520 were killed by the Croatian Ustaše regime. |
Famous birthdays in the year 1945:
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
|---|---|
| 01 October | Donny Hathaway / Writer / United States of America |
| 02 May | Jörg Drehmel / Jumper / Germany |
| 02 November | J. D. Souther / Writer / United States of America |
| 05 September | Eva Bergman / Writer / Sweden |
| 07 April | Gerry Cottle / Business Man / United Kingdom |
| 10 December | Mukhtar Altynbayev / Politician / Kazakhstan |
| 12 November | Tracy Kidder / Author / United States of America |
| 13 May | Magic Dick / Musician / United States of America |
| 14 August | Steve Martin / Actor / United States of America |
| 15 May | Jerry Quarry / Boxer / United States of America |
| 19 June | Tobias Wolff / Writer / United States of America |
| 20 November | Paul Langford / Academic / United Kingdom |
| 21 August | Celia Brayfield / Author / United Kingdom |
| 23 October | Kim Larsen / Singer / Denmark |
| 24 September | Lou Dobbs / Author / United States of America |
| 27 April | Jack Deverell / General / United Kingdom |
| 27 January | Harold Cardinal / Politician / Canada |
| 28 June | Ken Buchanan / Boxer / Scotland |
| 30 December | Lloyd Kaufman / Producer / United States of America |
| 31 May | Rainer Werner Fassbinder / Actor / Germany |
Famous Indian Personalities Birthdays in the year 1945:
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
|---|---|
| 20 December | Sivakant Tiwari / Author / India |
| 12 May | K. G. Balakrishnan / Lawyer / India |
| 22 April | Gopalkrishna Gandhi / Politician / India |
| 01 November | Narendra Dabholkar / Author / India |
| 26 May | Vilasrao Deshmukh / Politician / India |
| 21 April | Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan / Cricketer / India |
| 17 September | Bhakti Charu Swami / Religious Leader / India |
| 17 January | Javed Akhtar / Poet / India |
| 09 October | Amjad Ali Khan / Instrumentalist / India |
| 10 December | Ranjana Kumar / Economist / India |
| 17 May | B.S. Chandrasekhar / Cricketer / India |
| 31 March | Meira Kumar / Lawyer / India |
| 01 October | Ramnath Kovind / Politician / India |
| 03 October | Madhavrao Scindia / Politician / India |
| 23 May | Padmarajan / Writer / India |
| 17 September | Joginder Jaswant Singh / Soldier / India |
| 09 March | B.B. Bhattacharya / Economist / India |
| 26 May | Vilasrao Deshmukh / Politician / India |
| 30 July | Navin Chawla / Civil Servant / India |
| 24 July | Azim Premji / Business Man / India |
