* 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 – 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 )

11 # 3 ( Jan., 1945 ), pp. 255 – 268 in JSTOR

The largest institution of higher education in Toruń, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń serves over 40 thousand students and was founded in 1945, based on the Toruń Scientific Society, Stefan Batory University in Wilno, and Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv.

* Jan Koniarek, Polish Air Force 1939 – 1945, Squadron / Signal Publications, 1994, ISBN 978-0-89747-324-8.

* von Flocken, Jan and Klonovsky, Michael: Stalins Lager in Deutschland 1945 – 1950.

Frauenburg's cathedral chapter then elected the aged Canon Johannes ( Jan ) Hanowski, a German of Polish ethnicity and long-term archpriest of Allenstein ( today's Olsztyn ), as capitular vicar, i. e. provisional head of the see, on 28 July 1945.

" Radom " is also the popular unofficial name for a semiautomatic 9 mm Para pistol of Polish design ( the Model 35 / ViS-35 ) designed by Piotr Wilniewczyc and Jan Skrzypinski ( hence the designation " ViS "), under Director Kazimierz Ołdakowski, which had been in production from 1935 to 1945 at the national arsenal located in the city.

* Jan Dietz ( b. 1945 ), computer scientist

* Virts, Nancy, “ Change in the Plantation System: American South, 1910 – 1945 ,” Explorations in Economic History, 43 ( Jan. 2006 ), 153 – 76.

Their son, Jan Masaryk, served as Foreign Minister in the Czechoslovak government-in-exile ( 1940 – 1945 ) and in the governments of 1945 to 1948.

According to the United States Navy “ the 36-day ( Iwo Jima ) assault resulted in more than 26, 000 American casualties, including 6, 800 dead .” To put that into context, the 82-day Battle of Okinawa lasted from early April until mid-June 1945 and U. S. ( 5 Army and 2 Marine Corps Divisions ) casualties were over 62, 000 of whom over 12, 000 were killed or missing, while the Battle of the Bulge lasted 40 days ( 16 Dec 44 – 25 Jan 45 ) with almost 90, 000 U. S. casualties of ; 19, 000 killed, 47, 500 wounded, and 23, 000 captured or missing.

In 1945, Sturla Gudlaugsson, a specialist in Dutch seventeenth-century painting and iconography and Director of the Netherlands Institute for Art History and the Mauritshuis in The Hague, wrote The Comedians in the work of Jan Steen and his Contemporaries, which revealed that a major influence on Jan Steen's work was the guild of the Rhetoricians or Rederijkers and their theatrical endeavors.

" Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Devolution, 1945 – 1979 ," Journal of British Studies Jan. 2010, Vol.

He was a Third-class Clerk, Treasury Department, Lagos ( 1921 – 1924 ); Recruit, Gold Coast Police Force ( Jul .- September 1924 ); Solicitor Clerk to the late Mr. Justice Graham Paul at Calabar ( Jan .- Aug. 1925 ); Instructor in Political Science, Lincoln University ( 1931 – 34 ); University Correspondent for the Baltimore Afro-American ( 1928 – 34 ); General and Sports Correspondent for the Philadelphia Tribune ( 1928 – 34 ); Editor-in Chief of the West African Pilot ( 1937 – 45 ); Correspondent for the Associated Negro Press ( 1944 – 47 ); Correspondent for Reuters ( 1944 – 46 ); Managing Director of Zik ’ s Press Limited printers and publishers of the West African Pilot ( Lagos ), Eastern Guardian ( Port Harcourt ), Nigerian Spokesman ( Onitsha ), Southern Nigeria Defender ( Ibadan ), Daily Comet ( Kano ), and Eastern Sentinel ( Enugu ); Managing Director of Comet Press Limited ( 1945 – 53 ); Chairman of West African Pilot Limited and the Associated Newspapers of Nigeria Limited and six other limited liability companies ( 1952 – 53 ); Chairman, Nigerian Real Estate Corporation Limited ( 1952 – 53 ); etc.

* Roosevelt Presidential Library collection relating to Germany ( Jan. 1944 – Sept. 1944 ), ( Oct. 1944 – Oct. 1945 )

Gould and Marsh Patent 24021, 17 May 1859, Edgar Patent 119335, 26 Sep 1871, Cramer Patent 152726, 7 Jul 1874, McChesney Patent 161086, 6 Apr 1875, Stewart Patent 497426, 19 Jan 1886, Adams Patent 682014, 3 Sep 1901, Nordbö Patent 1202882, 31 Oct 1916, Barnett Patent 1958227, 8 May 1934, Reuther Patent 2203393, 4 Jun 1940, Firestone Patent 2417639, 11 Jun 1945, and Reuther Patent 2557690, 5 Apr 1950.

* 1945 illustration-OECD Observer, No 246-247, Dec 2004-Jan 2005-( Retrieved 4 Jan 2012 )

Bobbie Belle Jones Slayton born on Jan. 3, 1945

* Jan 1944-Aug 1945 Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey

* Battle of the Roermond Triangle, Jan 1945

Attached to: VIII Composite Command, 14 Feb 1944 – 1 Jan 1945

* Domestic Transportation Wing, Air Transport Command, 27 Nov 1944 – 15 Jan 1945

cover to Action Comics # 80 ( Jan 1945 ), art by Wayne Boring