* 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 )

Over the next two centuries, the use of French grew to the extent that, by the Liberation in 1945, all islanders had a working knowledge of French.

He worked on such films as Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ( 1944 ), Our Vines Have Tender Grapes ( 1945 ), and Kitty Foyle ( 1940 ), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay.

Over 57, 000 were built by 1945.

Towards the end of the war popular books became the source of films of higher quality and more serious tone, extoling more long-term values, including Guadalcanal Diary ( film ) ( 1943 ), Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ( 1944 ) and They Were Expendable ( 1945 ).

Over the centuries, the city has been part of either Kingdom of Poland, Bohemia, Austrian Empire, Prussia, or Germany, and has been part of Poland since 1945 as a result of border changes after World War II.

Over 500 of the famed Tuskegee Airmen trained at Walterboro Army Air Field between April 1944 and October 1945 including individuals training as replacement pilots for the 332nd Fighter Squadron and the entire 447th Bombardment Group.

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* Holland, 1945, on the In the Aeroplane Over the Sea album by Neutral Milk Hotel

In the early 1940s he joined 20th Century Fox, where he remained for the rest of the decade, writing scripts for Moon Over Miami, Coney Island, Charley's Aunt, The Song of Bernadette, and others before making his directorial debut with Diamond Horseshoe in 1945.

In fact, he had been taken prisoner by the Japanese and remained a prisoner of war at the Changi Prison until 1945, working on the construction of the Burma Railway which crossed Thailand, a feat that inspired the Pierre Boulle book ' Bridge Over the River Kwai ', and the film adaptation by David Lean.

Over 300 million Slinkys have been sold between 1945 and 2005, and the original Slinky is still a bestseller.

* Harris M. Lentz III, Heads of States and Governments: A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Over 2, 300 Leaders, 1945 through 1992.

Air Power Over Europe, 1944 – 1945, 1st edition ( Official History of Australia in the Second World War Volume IV ).

* Inez M. Cavanaugh, " Reminiscing in Tempo: Tricky Sam Goes Over the Great Times He Had with Duke, Bubber, Freddie Jenkins ,", Metronome ( February 1945 ), 17, 26 ; as reprinted in Mark Tucker, The Duke Ellington Reader, New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Over this past 100 years, applied scientists including Stodola ( 1903, 1927 – 1945 ), Pfleiderer ( 1952 ), Hawthorne ( 1964 ), Shepard ( 1956 ), Lakshminarayana ( 1996 ), and Japikse ( many texts including citations ), have educated young engineers in the fundamentals of turbomachinery.

Over 500 atmospheric nuclear weapons tests were conducted at various sites around the world from 1945 to 1980.

Over a dozen seasons, from 1933 to 1945, Schalke won 162 of 189 Gauliga matches, drawing 21 and losing only 6.

While governor, he had a No. 1 hit single in 1945 with " There's a New Moon Over My Shoulder ".

Over the centuries, the Arbëreshë have managed to maintain and develop their identities, thanks to their stubbornness and cultural value exercised mainly by the two religious communities of the Eastern Rite Greek-Byzantine, based in Calabria, the " Collegio Corsini " ( 1732 ) and then " Corsini-Sant ' Adriano " in 1794 and Sicily in the " Seminario Greco-Albanese of Palermo " ( 1735 ) then transferred to Piana degli Albanesi in 1945.

Over 500 units were ordered to be produced between August and October 1945 however, only around 6 ( including prototypes ) were ever completed.

Wald produced and wrote many films between the 1930s and 1960s including Stars Over Broadway ( 1935 ), The Roaring Twenties ( 1939 ), On Your Toes ( 1939, in collaboration with playwright Lawrence Riley ), They Drive by Night ( 1940 ), Navy Blues ( 1941 ), Across the Pacific ( 1942 ), The Man Who Came to Dinner ( 1942 ), Destination Tokyo ( 1943 ), Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), Johnny Belinda ( 1948 ), Key Largo ( 1948 ), Always Leave Them Laughing ( 1949 ), The Glass Menagerie ( 1950 ), Perfect Strangers ( 1950 ), Two Tickets to Broadway ( 1951 ), The Blue Veil ( 1951 ), Peyton Place ( 1957 ), An Affair to Remember ( 1957 ), In Love and War ( 1958 ), The Sound and the Fury ( 1959 ), Sons and Lovers ( 1960 ), Return to Peyton Place ( 1961 ) and Wild in the Country ( 1961 ).

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Over the next five years, High Trees paid the reduced rate while the flats began to fill, and by 1945, the flats were back at full occupancy.

Over 22 million U. S. M-1 steel helmets were manufactured by September 1945 at the end of World War II.