The first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, in the Trinity test in New Mexico ; Oppenheimer remarked later that it brought to mind words from the Bhagavad Gita: " Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.

Someone remarked to a Navy official during early 1945 that it seemed odd to be building the new laboratory at that time: the war would probably be over before the facility could be finished.

The Dodgers would merge with the Boston Yanks franchise in 1945 ( with the Brooklyn half " moving " to the AAFC the next year as the New York Yankees ); in 1949, the Yanks moved to New York and became the New York Bulldogs.

The AAFC did not start play until after the war, however, and Brown continued to get ready for the 1945 season at Great Lakes.

Bill Radovich, an offensive lineman, was one player who " jumped " leagues ; he played for the Detroit Lions in 1945 and then joined the Los Angeles Dons of the AAFC after the team offered to increase his salary.

The stadium was the site of the AAFC Championship game in 1946, 1948 and 1949, and of the NFL Championship Game in 1945 ( Washington Redskins v. Cleveland Rams ), 1950 ( L. A. Rams vs Browns ), 1952 ( Detroit vs. Browns ), 1954 ( Detroit vs. Browns ), 1964 ( Baltimore Colts vs. Browns ) and 1968 ( Baltimore Colts vs. Browns ).

DeGroot had served as head coach of the NFL's Washington Redskins in 1944 and 1945 before jumping over to the rival AAFC for its debut 1946 season.

In 1945 or early 1946, while still living at Canonbury Square, Orwell wrote an article on " British Cookery ", complete with recipes, commissioned by the British Council.

Of the approximately 4, 800 Jews who had lived in Hannover 1938, fewer than 100 were still in the city when troops of the United States Army arrived on April 10, 1945 to occupy Hanover at the end of the war.

has thus not been used in official terminology since 1945, though it is still found in the name of the Reichstag building, which since 1999 has housed the German federal parliament, the Bundestag.

On 29 November 1945, while still in exile, King Peter II was deposed by Yugoslavia's Constituent Assembly.

The city still bears many wounds from the bombing raids of 1945, but it has undergone significant reconstruction in recent decades.

He died in 1945, aged 88, and was buried in the cemetery of La Valette-du-Var, where his grave can still be seen today.

By December 1945, six months after the war had ended, it was estimated by French authorities that 2, 000 German prisoners were still being killed or maimed each month in mine-clearing accidents.

However, as the Eastern Front was by far the primary battlefield of the German military, the OKH was still influential, particularly as Hitler was commander-in-chief of the OKH ( Oberbefehlshaber des Heeres ) from December 1941 until his suicide on 30 April 1945.

Nevertheless, a clemency board, appointed by the Secretary of War in the summer of 1945, reviewed all general court-martial cases where the accused was still in confinement.

On VE Day, 8 May 1945, Lyttelton joined in the celebrations by playing his trumpet from a wheelbarrow, inadvertently giving his first broadcast performance ; the BBC recording still survives.

", the timeline would have remained unchanged — Hitler in all likelihood still would have committed suicide on April 30, 1945, regardless of what he had to drink that afternoon.

The Canadian 2nd Infantry Division liberated the several hundred inhabitants that were still at Westerbork on 12 April 1945.

The league planned to begin play in 1945, but postponed its opening for a year as World War II still raged.

The first nine " honoured members " ( players Hobey Baker, Charlie Gardiner, Eddie Gerard, Frank McGee, Howie Morenz, Tommy Phillips, Harvey Pulford, Hod Stuart and Georges Vézina ) were inducted on April 30, 1945, although the Hall of Fame still did not have a permanent home.

* 8 × 57mm IS: The standard German service rifle cartridge from 1888 to 1945, the 8 × 57mmIS ( aka 8 mm Mauser ) has seen wide distribution around the globe through commercial, surplus, and military sales, and is still a popular and commonly used hunting round in most of Europe, partly because of the abundance of affordable hunting rifles in this chambering as well as a broad availability of different hunting, target, and military surplus ammunition available.

Ron Roisen reports rumours that he was still alive in Magdeburg Prison in January 1945, but there is no definitive evidence of this.

On February 27, 1945 Calais suffered a last bombing raid – this time by British bombers who mistook the town for Dunkerque, which was at that time still occupied by German forces.

With Schmidt's disappearance after 1945, the reputation of the Skull was still formidable enough to prove useful.

The Baroque Schloß ( palace ) was destroyed in 1945, but the palace gardens ( Schloßgarten ) still exist.

In 1944, when he travelled to Washington and London for meetings with Roosevelt, Churchill and other Allied leaders, he already had heart disease, and in early 1945 his health deteriorated still more obviously.

The Gate survived World War II and was one of the damaged structures still standing in the Pariser Platz ruins in 1945 ( another being the Academy of Fine Arts ).

In 1945 a mine exploded near Boat Cave causing damage to the cliff face which is still visible.

As early as December 1945, politicians worried about the possibility of smuggling nuclear weapons into the United States, though this was still in the context of a battle between the superpowers of the Cold War.

His contacts in the musical world during the war enabled him to secure the services of a large number of talented young musicians still serving in the armed forces in 1945.

These benefits had been legislated for the previous year by Churchill ’ s Family Allowances Act 1945, and was the first measure pushed through parliament by Attlee ’ s government.

In May 1945, after a year of growing hostility between the president and the assembly, which was vainly awaiting deeds to substantiate Velasco's rhetorical advocacy of social justice, the mercurial chief executive condemned and then repudiated the newly completed constitution.

The lacey membranes of the endoplasmic reticulum were first seen by Keith R. Porter, Albert Claude, and Ernest F. Fullam in the year 1945.

Amidst the devastation of the Stunde Null year of 1945 cinema attendance was unsurprisingly down to a fraction of its wartime heights, but already by the end of the decade it had reached levels that exceeded the pre-war period.

Ulmer's other noirs include Strange Illusion ( 1945 ), also for PRC ; Ruthless ( 1948 ), for Eagle-Lion, which had acquired PRC the previous year ; and Murder Is My Beat ( 1955 ), for Allied Artists.

Animal Farm: A Fairy Story was published in Britain on 17 August 1945, and a year later in the U. S., on 26 August 1946.

9 March 1945: Goebbels awards a 16 year old Hitler Youth, Willi Hübner, the Iron Cross for his actions in the ongoing Battle for Berlin

Friedman spent the 1945 – 46 academic year teaching at the University of Minnesota ( where his friend George Stigler was employed ).

Suriname and Indonesia became independent of the Netherlands in the period of decolonization: Suriname in 1975 and Indonesia in 1945 ( it was not until 16 August 2005 that the Dutch government recognized 1945-and not 1949-as the country's year of independence ).

World War II brought to Rüsselsheim the only year in the entire history of Opel – 1945 – in which it produced no vehicles at all, since that first Lutzmann-authored Opel was made in 1899.

As a direct result of the war and the War Production Board, by June 1945, over 646 billion units per year were being produced.

He graduated from Grinnell High School in 1945 and entered Grinnell College in the fall of that year.

On 20 January 1945, in the final year of the War, he married Jennifer Morris.

Following the 1945 elections to the Constituent Assembly in France, which were held with a very limited franchise, the French authorities gradually extended the franchise until in November 1955 the principle of universal sufferage was passed into law and implemented the following year.

The final stage, between the years 1945 and 1963, saw the transition from two year college to university, under Principals J. M.

Worldcon, or more formally The World Science Fiction Convention, is a science fiction convention held each year since 1939 ( except for the years 1942 to 1945, during World War II ).

The date ( expressed as the year in the reign of the emperor at the time the coin was stamped ) is on the reverse of all coins, and, in most cases, country name ( through 1945, 大日本 or Dai Nippon, " Great Japan "; after 1945, 日本国, Nihon koku, " State of Japan ") and the value in kanji is on the obverse, except for the present 5-yen coin where the country name is on the reverse.

Year 1945 ( MCMXLV ) was a common year starting on Monday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar.

On 29 April 1945, the corpses of Mussolini, his mistress Clara Petacci and other Fascist leaders were infamously hanged in Piazzale Loreto, where a year before fifteen antifascists had been executed.

In 1945, Onsager was naturalized as an American citizen, and the same year he was awarded the title of J. Willard Gibbs Professor of Theoretical Chemistry.

In the US and United Kingdom, from 1945 to 1980 negative real interest rates have cost lenders an estimated 3-4 % of GDP per year on average.

He stayed until December 1945, overlapping Ulam's stay by about a year, during which they formed a relationship that became very fruitful after the war.

Civilian production at Dodge was restarted by late 1945, in time for the 1946 model year.

As a seventeen year old, in 1945, Li joined the Communist Party of China.