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** General Douglas MacArthur's first order to the forces of the Empire of Japan following the Japanese surrender in World War II
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** The U. S. Senate Committee on Armed Services and U. S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations begins its closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U. S. President Harry S Truman.
** WWII ends: The final official surrender of Japan is accepted by the Supreme Allied Commander, General Douglas MacArthur, and Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz for the United States, and delegates from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, China, and others from a Japanese delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu, on board the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
** WWII: General Douglas MacArthur is named commander of all U. S. forces in the Philippines ; the Philippines Army is ordered nationalized by President Roosevelt.
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** Laura Welch ( later Bush ) causes a car accident that results in the death of Michael Dutton Douglas in her hometown of Midland, Texas.
** Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831, a Douglas DC-8 carrying 118, crashes into a wooded hillside after taking-off from Dorval International Airport near Montreal, killing all on board ( the worst air disaster for many years in Canada's history ).
** Sir Douglas Nicholls appointed 28th Governor of South Australia, the first Australian Aboriginal appointed to vice-regal office.
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