* 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 )

Styne established his own dance band, which brought him to the notice of Hollywood, where he was championed by Frank Sinatra and where he began a collaboration with lyricist Sammy Cahn, with whom he wrote many songs for the movies, including " It's Been a Long, Long Time " (# 1 for 3 weeks for Harry James and His Orchestra in 1945 ), " Five Minutes More ," and the Oscar-winning " Three Coins in the Fountain ".

More than 5, 000 Dutch soldiers lost their lives in Indonesia between 1945 and 1949.

More than 1, 000 of them had been killed between 1933 and 1945.

Sigh no More, Piccadilly Theatre, London ( 1945 )

More were built in the 1920s and 1930s and after 1945.

Released in June, 1945, V-Disc 451 featured " More Than You Know " backed with " Brotherly Jump ".

More recently, Lou Lumenick, film critic for the New York Post, wrote, " John M. Stahl's masterful Leave Her to Heaven ( 1945 ) sounds like a contradiction in terms – a film noir in eye-popping Technicolor, with its most chilling scene taking place not in a dimly lit back alley but on a lake in Maine.

More recently, in 1945, it is said that Shimon Peres ( called Shimon Persky at the time ) and David Ben-Gurion found a nest of Bearded Vultures in the Negev desert.

Released in June, 1945, V-Disc 451 featured " More Than You Know " backed with " Brotherly Jump ".

* More Than You Know, No. 451A, June, 1945, with Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra

*“ Hazel Scott is Queen Once More in Warner ’ s ‘ Rhapsody in Blue ”, Chicago Defender, 1 September 1945: 14.

More modern writers living on or writing about Öland include novelist Margit Friberg ( 1904 – 1997 ), poet Anna Rydstedt ( 1928 – 1994 ), novelist Birgitta Trotzig ( 1929-2011 ), poet Lennart Sjögren ( 1930 -), children novelist Eva Bexell ( 1945 -), poet Tom Hedlund ( 1945 -), novelist Johan Theorin ( 1963 -), poet and novelist Magnus Utvik ( 1964 -) and novelist Per Planhammar ( 1965 -).

Superboy first appeared in More Fun Comics No. 101 ( 1944, with a 1945 cover date ).

* " The More I See You " ( 1945 ) w. Mack Gordon

* " The More I See You " ( 1945 ) w. Mack Gordon for Diamond Horseshoe

" He discusses songs he likes: " Would You Like To Take A Walk " ( 1930 ), " I Found A Million Dollar Baby " ( 1931 ), " You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me " ( 1932 ), " Summer Night " ( 1936 ), " There Will Never Be Another You " ( 1942 ), " Serenade in Blue " ( 1942 ), " At Last " ( 1942 ), " Jeepers Creepers " ( 1938 ), and " The More I See You " ( 1945 ).

More than fifteen years after the end of the Second World War, neither anticipated much popular interest in Adolf Hitler ( 1889 – 1945 ) or Nazi Germany ( 1933 – 45 ).

Other notable adaptations of folklore Chełm stories into the mainstream culture are the comedy Chelmer Khakhomim (“ The Wise Men of Chelm ”) by Aaron Zeitlin, The Heroes of Chelm ( 1942 ) by Shlomo Simon, published in English translation as The Wise Men of Helm ( Solomon Simon, 1945 ) and More Wise Men of Helm ( Solomon Simon, 1965 ), and the book Chelmer Khakhomim by Y. Y. Trunk.

* 1941 to 1945 More than 250, 000 Serbs were expelled from Croatia and Bosnia by the extreme nationalist Ustashe regime during the Serbian Genocide.

Brent also played opposite Ruby Keeler in 42nd Street ( 1933 ), Greta Garbo in The Painted Veil ( 1934 ), Ginger Rogers in In Person ( 1935 ), Madeleine Carroll in The Case Against Mrs. Ames ( 1936 ), Jean Arthur in More Than a Secretary ( 1936 ), Myrna Loy in Stamboul Quest ( 1934 ) and The Rains Came ( 1939 ), Merle Oberon in ' Til We Meet Again ( 1940 ), Ann Sheridan in Honeymoon for Three ( 1941 ), Joan Fontaine in The Affairs of Susan ( 1945 ), Barbara Stanwyck in The Purchase Price ( 1932 ), Baby Face ( 1933 ), The Gay Sisters ( 1942 ) and My Reputation ( 1946 ), Claudette Colbert in Tomorrow Is Forever ( 1946 ), Dorothy McGuire in The Spiral Staircase ( 1946 ), Lucille Ball in Lover Come Back ( 1946 ) and Yvonne De Carlo in Slave Girl ( 1947 ).

More big roles followed, notably that of Maj. Joppolo in A Bell For Adano ( 1945 ) opposite Gene Tierney.

* More Than Singing: The Interpretation of Songs ( Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1945 )

Released in June 1945, V-Disc 451 featured " More Than You Know " backed with " Brotherly Jump ".