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* 1945 – Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
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* 1945 – World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.
* 1945 – U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office ; vice-president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President.
* 1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day.
* 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 – 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 and Hong
They conducted a survey of the upper Yangtze River in the spring of 1945 and, disguised as coolies, conducted a detailed three-month survey of the Chinese coast from Shanghai to Kitchioh Wan, near Hong Kong.
As a result, the unemployed were deported to the Mainland, and the population of Hong Kong had dwindled from 1. 6 million in 1941 to 600, 000 in 1945.
In 1941, the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong led to the damage of university buildings, and the university closed until 1945.
After the British resumed control of Hong Kong in 1945, following the defeat of Japan, the railway was in a sorry state.
Hong Kong was handed over by Imperial Japanese Army to the UK on August 30, 1945, and resumed its pre-war status as a British dependency.
Service was not resumed until 25 December 1945, after the end of the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong.
They managed to complete just one propaganda movie, The Attack on Hong Kong ( 1942 ; aka The Day of England's Collapse ) before the British returned in 1945 ( Teo, 1997 ).
Throughout January 1945, Radford's fleet operated in the South China Sea striking Japanese targets in French Indochina and Hong Kong.
In 1945, the school re-opened after Japan surrendered, merging with St. Paul's College to become the first co-educational college in Hong Kong.
XXXIV Corps was still active in September 1945 in Malaya, with HQ 2nd British Infantry Division, 25th Indian Division, 50th Indian Tank Brigade, and 150th Indian Infantry Brigade, which was en route to Hong Kong.
In 1945, Yu was awarded a Victory Scholarship by the Government of Hong Kong to continue his studies in England.
Within the garden is a regular dodecagon shrine with an embedded memorial ( Roll of Honour and Plaque ) to those killed in Hong Kong during World War II ( 1941 – 1945 ).
In the autumn of 1945 CNCo returned to Hong Kong and Shanghai and, gradually, requisitioned shipping and property seized by the Japanese was restored and normal working resumed.
After British forces regained Hong Kong in 1945, the Royal Navy provided Jardines with a new six-pound gun with which to continue the tradition of the noon-day gun.
Arthur LI Kwok-cheung GBS JP ( born 27 June 1945, Hong Kong ) is a member of the Executive Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Secretary for Education and Manpower from August 2002 to June 2007.
Victor Fung Kwok-king (; sometimes Victor K. Fung ; born 1945, Hong Kong ), GBS ( 2003 ), is the Group Chairman of Li & Fung group of companies.
He was interned in Stanley Internment Camp during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong between 1941 and 1945, when he was released and went to the United Kingdom with his family.
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