* 1939 – 1945, the Second Battle of the Atlantic.

* 1945 – World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.

* 1945 – World War II: the Battle of Slater's Knoll on Bougainville comes to an end.

* 1945 – Neal Boortz, American radio personality

* 1945 – U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office ; vice-president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President.

* 1945 – Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organization ( d. 2006 )

* 1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day.

* 1945 – Annie Dillard, American writer

* 1945 – Mimi Fariña, American singer-songwriter, musician, and activist ( d. 2001 )

* 1945 – Michael J. Smith, American astronaut ( d. 1986 )

* 1871 – Theodore Dreiser, American author ( d. 1945 )

* 1905 – Aris Velouchiotis, Greek military leader ( d. 1945 )

* 1945 – Jan Sloot, Dutch inventor ( d. 1999 )

* 1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb " Little Boy " is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay.

* 1945 – Ron Jones, English director ( d. 1993 )

* 1945 – Andy Messersmith, American baseball player

* 1945 – World War II: Nagasaki, Japan is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar.

* 1945 – World War II: The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and begins the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation.

* 1945 – Barbara Delinsky, American author

* 1945 – Aleksandr Gorelik, Russian figure skater ( d. 2012 )

* 1945 – Posy Simmonds, English cartoonist

* 1866 – Giovanni Agnelli, Italian businessman, founded Fiat S. p. A ( d. 1945 )

* 1945 – Lars Engqvist, Swedish politician

* 1945 – Robin Jackman, English cricketer

* 1897 – Karl-Otto Koch, German SS officer ( d. 1945 )

In the book, Speer claimed to have contemplated Hitler's assassination in early 1945 to end the war.

In 1944, after the failed July 20th assassination attempt against Hitler, Gisevius first hid at the home of his future wife, the Swiss national Gerda Woog, and fled to Switzerland in 1945, making him one of the few conspirators to survive the war.

Peter Hoffmann's biography of Hitler assassination conspirator Claus Graf von Stauffenberg (" Stauffenberg, A Family History ," 1992 ) indicates that after the failure of Stauffenberg's bomb plot in July 1944, Gisevius went into hiding until January 23, 1945, when he escaped to Switzerland by using a passport that had belonged to Carl Deichmann, a brother-in-law of German Count Helmuth James von Moltke, who was a specialist in international law serving in the legal branch of the Foreign Countries Group of the OKW ( Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, " Supreme Command of the Armed Forces ").

Allied forces then felt the danger of assassination or lynching had passed ( many thousands of fascists were murdered in Italy in summer and fall 1945 ), and returned him to Procida prison in Italy.

During the Second World War from 1940 to 1945 Addington House was the residence of the Cigna, Moravec, Strankmuller and Tauer families of the Czechoslovak Military Intelligence staff under Colonel František Moravec, who planned the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.

Sometimes the concentration camps were used to hold important prisoners, such as the generals involved in the attempted assassination of Hitler ; U-boat Captain-turned-Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller ; and Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, who was interned at Flossenbürg on February 7, 1945, until he was hanged on April 9, shortly before the war ’ s end.

Around February 1945, he began to fear the possibility that Emil Bodnăraş was planning his assassination and that he intended to blame it on political opponents of the Communist Party ( as a means to direct sympathy towards the latter group ).

Kovilage Anton Vijaya Kumaranatunga ( Sinhala: ක ො ව ි ලග ේ ඇන ් ටන ් ව ි ජය ක ු ම ා රණත ුං ග ) ( October 9, 1945 – February 16, 1988 ) ( known as Vijaya Kumaranatunga ) was a popular Sri Lankan film actor and politician, married to former Sri Lankan president Chandrika Kumaratunga from 1978 to his assassination in 1988.

* Helmuth James Graf von Moltke ( 1907 – 1945 ), German jurist involved in the July 20 assassination attempt against Hitler in 1944

In 1945 Vito narrowly survives an assassination attempt when he refuses the request of Virgil Sollozzo to invest in a heroin operation and use his political contacts for the operation's protection.

In August 1945 Elizabeth Bentley, fearful of assassination by the Soviet MGB, turned herself in to the government.

A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician.

Eliyahu Hakim (; 1925-22 March 1945 ) was a Lehi member, known for taking part in the 1944 assassination of Lord Moyne, the British Minister Resident in the Middle East.

Neorealism exploded soon after the war, with unforgettable works such as Rossellini's trilogy Rome, Open City ( 1945 ), Paisà ( 1946 ), and Germany, Year Zero ( 1948 ), and with extraordinary actors such as Anna Magnani, as an attempt to describe the difficult economic and moral conditions of Italy and the changes in public mentality in everyday life.

He brought down a mini-budget in an attempt to slow consumption, control inflation and reduce the deficit, but it triggered the worst credit squeeze since 1945 — the economy was driven into recession, the stock market slumped, private investment, housing activity and motor vehicle sales fell, unemployment rose to almost 2 percent ( the highest rate since the Depression ) and several major companies collapsed.

A last-ditch attempt, known as " Operation Bodenplatte ", to win air superiority on 1 January 1945 failed.

* 1945 – World War II: The Prague Uprising begins as an attempt by the Czech resistance to free the city from Nazi occupation.

Conducted as a part of Operation Plunder, the operation took place on 24 March 1945 in aid of an attempt by the British 21st Army Group to cross the Rhine River.

There was no fighting for the town in 1945 during World War II even though the town was declared a fortress ( Festung ) in an attempt to block the Red Army's route to Berlin.

In 1945 the public interest in atomic warfare and weaponry inspired contributors to the Bulletin to attempt to inform those interested about the dangers and destruction that atomic war could bring about.

He led the remnants of his division in a successful breakout attempt towards the West, and on 8 May 1945 surrendered to American forces.

The first attempt to reform the education system in Ontario was initiated in 1945, with the Royal Commission on Education, which proposed a three-tiered education system with six years of elementary education, followed by four years of secondary education, and culminating in three years of junior colleges.

KRS started in 1945 from the original Carlton Reach Research Station, set up by Kimberley Michael Durack with help from his brother William Aiden Durack in 1941, and support from the WA Department of Agriculture and the WA Public Works Department, being the first serious attempt at tropical agriculture on the banks of the Ord River.

It struck down several key planks of the Chifley Labor government's reconstruction program, notably an attempt to nationalise the banks in the Bank Nationalisation case ( 1948 ), and an attempt to establish a comprehensive medical benefits scheme in the First Pharmaceutical Benefits case ( 1945 ).

In 1970, Roger Garaudy, a member of the Central Committee of the PCF from 1945 on, was expelled from the party for his revisionist tendencies, being criticised for his attempt to reconcile Marxism with Roman Catholicism.

In their attempt to explain the social stability of African " primitive " stateless societies where they undertook their fieldwork, Evans-Pritchard ( 1940 ) and Meyer Fortes ( 1945 ) argued that the Tallensi and the Nuer were primarily organized around unilineal descent groups.

From 1936 till 1945, Saarlouis was named as Saarlautern (- lautern being a common ending of town and village names in Germany ) in an attempt by the Nazis to Germanize the town name.

Crosland was himself an active member of the Fabian Society, contributing to the New Fabian Essays, which saw the emerging generation of Labour thinkers and politicians attempt to set out a new programme for Labour following the Attlee governments of 1945 to 1951.

The Eastern Front remained static in the Vistula sector, with the Soviets making no attempt to push forward, until the Vistula-Oder Offensive began on 12 January 1945.

In a desperate attempt for survival, the team merged with the Boston Yanks for the 1945 season.

Following the defeat of Germany in 1945 the cantons were once again annexed by Belgium, and as a result of alleged collaboration with Nazi Germany an attempt was made to de-Germanize the local population by the Belgian and Walloon authorities.

He was the senior surviving officer on the battleship Yamato when it was sunk on 7 April 1945 during Operation Ten-Go, an attempt to support the defenders of Okinawa.

In his " Thoughts of a Man condemned to Death " written towards the end of 1944 in prison, Goerdeler wrote: We should not attempt to minimize what has been happening, but we should also emphasize the great guilt of the Jews, who had invaded our public life in ways that lacked customary restraint He was finally executed by hanging on 2 February 1945 at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin.

After his return to the country, further political conflicts led to a failed military coup attempt in 1944, and López Pumarejo finally resigned in early 1945.

A further base was founded at Hope Bay on February 13, 1945, after a failed attempt to unload stores on February 7, 1944.