On at least one occasion, the gag is flipped, and the closet is silent: in " Too Much Energy " ( broadcast January 23, 1945 ), visiting Dr. Gamble makes to leave.

But many believed that his greatest successes were in Shakespearean productions in which he both directed and starred, especially Romeo and Juliet ( 1935 ), Richard II ( 1937, 1953 ), King Lear ( 1950, 1955 ), Much Ado About Nothing ( 1952, 1955, 1959 ) and his signature role of Hamlet ( 1934, 1939, 1945 ).

Much U. S. effort was focused on Saxony and Thuringia, which by July 1, 1945 would become part of the Soviet Occupation zone.

Much of the colony had been conquered several months before the war ended, in the big British offensive of summer 1945.

Much of the city was destroyed in 1945 during World War II.

Much of the station was destroyed in two B-29 firebombings on May 25 and June 25, 1945.

) Much admired for her adaptations of traditional Manchu fashion, which she wore with lace trousers and jade necklaces, Oei Hui-lan was one of the 42 acknowledged children of the Peranakan Chinese sugar magnate Oei Tiong Ham and wrote two memoirs: Hui-Lan Koo ( Mrs. Wellington Koo ): An Autobiography ( written with Mary Van Rensselaer Thayer, Dial Press, 1945 ) and No Feast Lasts Forever ( written with Isabella Taves, Quadrangle / The New York Times, 1975 ).

Much of the Battle of Britain during World War II was fought in the skies over the county, and between June 1944 and March 1945, over 10, 000 V1 flying bombs, or Doodlebugs were fired on London from bases in Northern France.

Much of the energy in the city's art scene in the 1945 to 1980 stretch came from private collectors, artists ' collectives, print shops, art schools and especially from commercial galleries.

Much has changed since Bevan's speech ( below ) in 1945, with the coalfields largely deserted and the Empire relinquished.

Much support was given to the Mouvement pour le Rattachement de la Sarre à la France, a francophile movement founded by Saar exiles in Paris in early 1945, with many of the exiles having returned after the war.

Much of Azabu was destroyed during the firebombing of Tokyo in 1945.

Her other film credits include Jane Eyre ( 1943 ), The Enchanted Cottage ( 1945 ), Lucky Losers ( 1950 ) with The Bowery Boys, the Alfred Hitchcock thriller The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1956 ), the 3-D film The Maze ( 1953 ), and the sci-fi B-movie classic Invaders from Mars ( 1953 ).

* By sword and fire: The Destruction of Manila in World War II, 3 February-3 March 1945 ( Unknown Binding ) by Alphonso J. Aluit ( 1994 ) National Commission for Culture and the Arts ISBN 971-8521-10-0

In 1945, probably almost every American not only knew who Sam Spade was, but had some kind of emotional feeling about him.

Work on Volume 2, was begun in 1941, interrupted by the war in 1942, and resumed in 1945.

During Dulles's first two years in office, while Republicans ran the Senate, the Department was at the mercy of men who had thirsted for its blood since 1945.

M. Kegham -- the name is a pseudynom -- was a teacher in Bucharest and a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation ( ARF ) -- two reasons the Communists put him away when they arrived in 1945.

The group of elements is more diverse than the lanthanides and therefore it was not until 1945 that Glenn T. Seaborg proposed the most significant change to Mendeleev's periodic table, by introducing the actinides.

The discovery was kept secret and only released to the public in November 1945.

The discovery of americium and curium in 1944 was closely related to the Manhattan Project ; the results were confidential and declassified only in 1945.

* 1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army was liberated in Baguio City and they fought against the Japanese forces under by General Tomoyuki Yamashita.

It was successively renamed Annales d ' histoire sociale ( 1939 – 1942, 1945 ), Mélanges d ' histoire sociale ( 1942 – 1944 ), Annales.

After 1945 this territory around Königsberg was turned into Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, where amber is now systematically mined.

The southern half of Sakhalin was acquired by Japan as a result of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 – 05, but at the end of World War II in 1945, the Soviets declared war on Japan and took possession of the Kuril islands and southern Sakhalin.

During the Invasion of the Kuril Islands, Akira Nakamura ( b. 1897 ) was captured by the Soviet army and his elder son Takeshi Nakamura ( 1925 – 1945 ) was killed in the battle.

The chemical structure of penicillin was determined by Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin in 1945.

On January 27, 1945, Auschwitz was liberated by Soviet troops, a day commemorated around the world as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss was overall commandant of the Auschwitz complex from May 1940 – November 1943 ; Obersturmbannführer Arthur Liebehenschel from November 1943 – May 1944 ; and Sturmbannführer Richard Baer from May 1944 – January 1945.

* 1999 – The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1945.

The StuG III was the most-produced German armored fighting vehicle of any type built during the war years, with some 9, 400 examples built from January 1940 through March 1945.

In 1945, the first formal women's barbershop organization, Sweet Adelines, was formed.

In 1945, a new base was constructed on the island of Terceira, and it is named Lajes Field.

During the Western Allied invasion of Germany in April 1945, the airfield was seized by the United States Third Army, and used by the USAAF 354th Fighter Group which flew P-47 Thunderbolts from the aerodrome ( designated ALG R-82 ) from late April until the German capitulation on 7 May 1945.

First documented in the 13th century, Berlin was the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia ( 1701 – 1918 ), the German Empire ( 1871 – 1918 ), the Weimar Republic ( 1919 – 1933 ) and the Third Reich ( 1933 – 1945 ).

Both republics and the Soviet Union joined the UN when the organization was founded in 1945.

* End of Estado Novo ( 1945 ): Then Dictator Getúlio Vargas is deposed by generals and later General Eurico Dutra was elected president.

Existing americium is concentrated in the areas used for the atmospheric nuclear weapons tests conducted between 1945 and 1980, as well as at the sites of nuclear incidents, such as the Chernobyl disaster.

The game between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals in particular was cited for putting Ryne Sandberg ( as well as the 1984 Cubs in general, who would go on to make their first postseason appearance since 1945 ) " on the map.

Between 1945 and 1951, the quality of rural life was improved by improvements in gas, electricity, and water services, as well as in leisure and public amenities.

Since 1945, civil wars have resulted in the deaths of over 25 million people, as well as the forced displacement of millions more.

The completed films included the seven-episode Why We Fight series — consisting of Prelude to War ( 1942 ), The Nazis Strike ( 1942 ), Divide and Conquer ( 1943 ), The Battle of Britain ( 1943 ), The Battle of Russia ( 1943 ), The Battle of China ( 1944 ), War Comes to America ( 1945 ) – plus Know Your Enemy: Japan ( 1945 ), Tunisian Victory ( 1945 ), and Two Down and One to Go ( 1945 ) that do not bear the Why We Fight banner ; as well as the African-American related, The Negro Soldier ( 1944 ).

Orwell was on staff until early 1945, writing over 80 book reviews as well as the regular column " As I Please ".

When asked to move to left field in 1940 to make room for Rudy York, he worked tirelessly to master that position as well and reduced his errors in the outfield from 15 in 1940 to 0 in 1945.

Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft shipyard launched the German cruiser Prinz Eugen, as well as many of Germany's U-boats ( 130 between 1934 and 1945 ) using preassembled parts supplied by other Krupp factories in a process similar to the construction of the US liberty ships.

To enforce that model, both sides have divergent language policy and educational systems, although the linguistic boundary is in fact well inside France, and the Alsace region changed hands four times between 1870 and 1945.

From 1943 – 1945, the OSS played a major role in training Kuomintang troops in China and Burma, and recruited Kachin, and other indigenous irregular forces for sabotage as well as guides for Allied forces in Burma fighting the Japanese Army.

* Two Max Fleischer features, Gulliver's Travels ( 1939 ) and Hoppity Goes to Town ( 1941 ) were previously sold to NTA along with a few independent productions released by Paramount like One Third of a Nation ( 1939 ), as well as some features acquired by the studio after their theatrical release, including The Bells of St. Mary's ( 1945 ) and Good Sam ( 1947 ) ( both originally distributed by RKO Radio Pictures ).

Following the surrender of the Japanese in 1945, civil administration of Papua as well as New Guinea was restored, and under the Papua New Guinea Provisional Administration Act, ( 1945 – 46 ), Papua and New Guinea were combined in an administrative union.

Stalin, Churchill, and Truman — as well as Attlee, who participated alongside Churchill while awaiting the outcome of the 1945 general election, and then replaced Churchill as Prime Minister after the Labour Party's victory over the Conservatives — gathered to decide how to administer punishment to the defeated Nazi Germany, which had agreed to unconditional surrender nine weeks earlier, on 8 May ( V-E Day ).

The most well known scholars of the Stockholm School of Economics are arguably the economists Eli Heckscher ( professor of economics and statistics 1909 – 1929, professor of economic history 1929 – 1945 ), Gunnar Myrdal and Bertil Ohlin ( professors of economics ).

In 1945, at the request of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, he recommended that a foundation be established by Congress to serve as a focal point for the Federal Government's support and encouragement of research and education in science and technology as well as the development of a national science policy.

Leigh was well enough to resume acting in 1946, in a successful London production of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth ; but her films of this period, Caesar and Cleopatra ( 1945 ) and Anna Karenina ( 1948 ), were not great successes.

They also played in, and lost, the 1936, 1940, 1943, and 1945 Championship games, as well as Super Bowls VII and XVIII.

Among the many baseball players ( including well known stars ) who served during World War II were Moe Berg, Joe DiMaggio, Bob Feller, Hank Greenberg, Stan Musial ( in 1945 ), Warren Spahn, and Ted Williams.

* April 8 – Kathy Fiscus, girl who became famous after falling down a well in San Marino, California ( b. 1945 )

Dresden in the 20th century was a major communications hub and manufacturing center, as well as a leading European centre of art, classical music, culture and science until its complete destruction on 13 February 1945.

Chrysler was prolific in its production of war materiel from 1942 to 1945, and Dodge in particular was well known to both average citizens and thankful soldiers for their tough military-spec truck models and ambulances like the WC54.