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1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1945th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 945th year of the 2nd millennium, the 45th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1940s decade.

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Wreckage from a Mitchell Bombardier B-25 that crashed into the Empire State Building;
A funeral procession for president Franklin D. Roosevelt;
Charter of the United Nations is established;
A British Sherman "Firefly" tank in Namur during the Battle of the Bulge;
Two atomic bombs, a Fat Man and a Little Boy were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Killing over 150,000-246,000;
A photograph of the soldiers raising the American flag during the battle of Iwo Jima. Resulting in their American victory;
The Führerbunker where German dictator Adolf Hitler and his wife committed suicide. Marking the End of World War II in Europe;
Soviet soldiers raising the flag over the Reichstag building during the Battle of Berlin.
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1945 marked the end of World War II, ending the countries of Nazi Germany, and the Empire of Japan. It is also the year concentration camps were liberated and the only year in which atomic weapons have been used in combat.

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World War II will be abbreviated as “WWII”

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January 27 – The Soviet Red Army liberates Auschwitz.

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February 4 – The "Big Three" at the Yalta Conference: Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin.
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February 19 – During the Battle of Iwo Jima, U.S. Marines land on the island.

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April 7Japanese battleship Yamato explodes after persistent attacks from U.S. aircraft during the Battle of Okinawa.
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April 30Adolf Hitler, along with his wife of one day Eva Braun, commits suicide.

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May – Marines of 1st Marine Division fighting on Okinawa.
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May 8 – American soldiers fighting in the Pacific theater listen to radio reports of Victory in Europe Day.
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May 9 – Prague is liberated by the Red Army.

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June 5Dwight Eisenhower, Georgy Zhukov and Arthur Tedder.

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July 16Trinity test at night in New Mexico.

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August 9 – The mushroom cloud from the nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air.
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August 18 – Surrender of the Japanese Army in Central China (Memorial in Wuhan).

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September 2 – Japan signs the Instrument of Surrender aboard the USS Missouri.
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September 9 – Japanese troops formally relinquish control of Southern Korea over to the United States, effectively ending Japan's 35-year rule over Korea.

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October 18Nuremberg trials begin, after Buchenwald closes.

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Stephen Stills
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Sir Rod Stewart
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Javed Akhtar
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Tom Selleck
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Bob Marley
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Edwin Catmull
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Ana Lúcia Torre
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Björn Ulvaeus
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Bob Seger
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Yochanan Vollach
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Priscilla Presley
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Laurent Gbagbo
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John Carlos
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Wolfgang Schüssel
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Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia
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Dame Helen Mirren
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Patrick Modiano
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David Sanborn
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Steve Martin
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Vince McMahon
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Wyomia Tyus
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

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Franz Beckenbauer

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Gerd Müller

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Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno
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Else Lasker-Schüler

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Anne Frank
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José María Moncada
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Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy

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David Lloyd George
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Hans Fischer

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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Benito Mussolini
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Adolf Hitler

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Joseph Goebbels
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Prince Waldemar of Prussia
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Prince Kan'in Kotohito

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Luís Fernando de Orleans y Borbón

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Óscar R. Benavides

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Florencio Harmodio Arosemena

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Béla Bartók

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Pierre Laval

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Sigurður Eggerz

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George S. Patton
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