When the Cubs clinched the Eastern Division with a Sutcliffe complete-game 2-hitter at Pittsburgh on September 23, the franchise had its first title of any kind since 1945.

The 1945 – 46 season, when the league was played over two geographical groups due to the ravages of WWII, is not statistically considered, even if its title is fully official.

In the Three Power Conference of Berlin ( formal title of the Potsdam Conference ) from 17 July to 2 August 1945, they agreed to and adopted the Protocol of the Proceedings, August l, 1945, signed at Cecilienhof Castle in Potsdam.

Stalingrad was awarded the title Hero City for its heroism in 1945, and Great Britain's King George VI awarded the citizens of Stalingrad the jeweled " Sword of Stalingrad " in recognition of their bravery.

Her first starring role at the studio, in the title role as Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), revived her career and earned her an Oscar for Best Actress.

< imagemap > File: 1940s decade montage. png | Above title bar: events during World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ): From left to right: Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching " Omaha " Beach on " D-Day "; Adolf Hitler visits Paris, soon after the Battle of France ; The Holocaust occurred during the war as Nazi Germany carried out a programme of systematic state-sponsored genocide, during which approximately six million European Jews were killed ; The Japanese attack on the American naval base of Pearl Harbor launches the United States into the war ; An Observer Corps spotter scans the skies of London during the Battle of Britain ; The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the first uses of nuclear weapons, killing over a quarter million people and leading to the Japanese surrender ; Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board USS Missouri, effectively ending the war.

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.

* 1945: Lawrence Tierney played the title role in the first film dramatization of Dillinger's career ; Dillinger.

Later appearances included the television film Divorce His – Divorce Hers ( 1973 ) opposite then-wife Elizabeth Taylor ( a prophetic title, since their first marriage would be dissolved less than a year later ), a remake of the classic film Brief Encounter ( 1974 ) that was considered vastly inferior to the 1945 original, and a critically applauded performance as Winston Churchill in The Gathering Storm ( 1974 ).

Crawford wanted to play the title role in Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), but Bette Davis was the studio's first choice.

From 1945 to 1952, Crawford reigned as a top star and respected actress, appearing in such roles as Helen Wright in Humoresque ( 1946 ), Louise Howell Graham in Possessed ( 1947, for which she was nominated for a second Oscar for Best Actress ) and the title role in Daisy Kenyon ( also 1947 ).

It was one of the first four Soviet cities to be awarded the title of " Hero City " in 1945, though some of the Odessans had a more favourable view of the Romanian occupation, in contrast with the Soviet official view that the period was exclusively a time of hardship, deprivation, oppression and suffering – claims embodied in public monuments and disseminated through the media to this day.

The same year, Davis refused the title role in Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), a role for which Joan Crawford won an Academy Award, and instead made The Corn Is Green ( 1945 ) based on a play by Emlyn Williams.

She was granted the title of Empress in 1945.

Wyomia Tyus ( pronunciation: why-o-mia ; born August 29, 1945 in Griffin, Georgia ) is an American athlete, and the first person to retain the Olympic title in the 100 m.

A top team from 1936 to 1945, the Redskins began a decades-long title drought after coach Ray Flaherty and many key players defected in 1946.

Meanwhile, Dan Reeves ' Cleveland Rams had consistently lost money, despite winning the 1945 NFL title.

The title ballad from the WWII film A Walk In The Sun from 1945 mentions the Lincoln Highway.

In 1945 War Commentary resumed the title of Freedom.

* Tex Avery's 1945 cartoon The Shooting of Dan McGoo has a scene where the villain tells the title character, " T ' ain't funny, McGoo!

As in the early days of radio, the sponsor's name became the show title, such as Maxwell House Coffee Time ( 1945 – 49 ).

In 1945 Cork surrendered their provincial hurling crown, however, Lynch, as a member of the Cork senior football team won his second Munster football title.

In the late 1960s keyboardist Ian Whiteman ( born 18 May 1945, Saffron Walden, Essex ) and guitarist Martin Stone ( born 11 December 1946, Wokingham, Surrey ) joined the band and the Action moved toward a mid-tempo psychedelic ballad style, and then into folk rock.

During the 1940s she appeared alongside some of the most popular male stars of the day, including Errol Flynn in Gentleman Jim ( 1942 ), Fredric March in The Adventures of Mark Twain ( 1944 ) and San Antonio ( 1945 ) ( in which she sang a special version of the popular ballad " Some Sunday Morning "), Humphrey Bogart in Conflict ( 1945 ) and The Two Mrs. Carrolls ( 1947 ), Cary Grant in a sanitized, fictionalized version of the life of Cole and Linda Porter in Night and Day ( 1946 ), and Bing Crosby in Here Comes the Groom ( 1951 ).

Among her biggest hits as a solo artist were " I'll Walk Alone ," a wartime ballad which rose to # 4 on the charts in 1944 ; " I Should Care " and " A Stranger in Town ," which both peaked at # 10 in 1945 ; and three in 1947: " How Are Things in Glocca Morra " from Finian's Rainbow, which climbed to # 8 ; " That's My Desire ", which hit # 10 ; and " I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder ", which reached # 9.

She returned to Denmark in 1945 and in the years that followed she became Denmark's leading female ballad singer.

" Detour ( There's A Muddy Road Ahead )" is a Western swing ballad written by Paul Westmoreland in 1945.

Rita Pavone ( born August 23, 1945, Turin, Italy ) is an Italian ballad and rock singer who enjoyed success through the 1960s.

* 1945 The Anglo-American ballad study book: containing eight ballads in current tradition in the United States of America

In 1945, Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra recorded the music in Carnegie Hall, one of the few commercial recordings Toscanini made of music by an American composer.

An example of this is that during a down time of jazz dancing from 1945 – 1954, when big bands and dance halls were declining, the vernacular of the dance followed less jazz music and leaned more toward rock and roll, creating moves like " The Monkey " and " The Jerk ".

* 1945 – The BBC Light Programme radio station is launched for mainstream light entertainment and music.

Jerome David Kern ( January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945 ) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music.

Working for New York's WMCA in 1945, Barry Gray was bored with playing music and put a telephone receiver up to his microphone to talk with bandleader Woody Herman.

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.

Today, awareness of the Rastafari movement has spread throughout much of the world, largely through interest generated by reggae music, especially the major international success of Jamaican singer / songwriter Bob Marley ( 1945 – 1981 ).

In 1944 and 1945, Welk led his orchestra in many motion picture " Soundies ," considered to be the early pioneers of music videos.

The " Colonel Bogey March " is a popular march that was written in 1914 by Lieutenant F. J. Ricketts ( 1881 – 1945 ), a British army bandmaster who later became director of music for the Royal Marines at Plymouth.

After 1945 the music was discovered and championed by a new generation of listeners ; Mahler then became one of the most frequently performed and recorded of all composers, a position he has sustained into the 21st century.

Anchors Aweigh is a 1945 American Technicolor musical comedy film directed by George Sidney and starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, and Gene Kelly, in which two sailors go on a four-day shore leave in Hollywood, accompanied by music and song, meet an aspiring young singer and try to help her get an audition at MGM.

Toscanini remained music director until the spring of 1936, then returned several times as a guest conductor until 1945.

Following his training, he moved to Mumbai and joined the Indian People's Theatre Association, for whom he composed music for ballets in 1945 and 1946.

The cantata was finished in 1943, but it was created only in 1945, in London: it set to music poems by Paul Éluard, notably Liberté, thousands of copies of which had been dropped over French territory by the Royal Air Force in 1942.

Poulenc's output continued, including chansons accompanied on the piano, choral music, secular ( Huit chansons françaises, 1945 ) and religious ( Stabat Mater, 1950 ) works, orchestral pieces ( Sinfonietta, 1947 ), chamber music ( particularly for wind instruments ), works for one or two pianos such as L ' embarquement pour Cythère, a valse musette ( 1951 ).

Though earlier organizations bearing the same name date back as far as 1923, the Orchestra was officially founded in 1945 and played its first concert as the Atlanta Youth Symphony under the direction of Henry Sopkin, a Chicago music educator who remained its conductor until 1966.

It continued to perform and grow in numbers and stature, so that in 1945 it was in a position to appoint Antal Doráti as music director.

It may have opened as a music hall under the German occupation of France during World War II, but certainly in 1945 after the Liberation, it was a music hall free to Allied troops in uniform.

One is devoted to a CBS programme from 1945 that features music by Handel, Vaughan Williams and Elgar ; the other is devoted to works by Charles Ives, Robert Russell Bennett and Herrmann himself.

The danceable swing style of big bands and bandleaders such as Benny Goodman and Count Basie was the dominant form of American popular music from 1935 to 1945, a period known as the Swing Era.

The Light Programme was a BBC radio station which broadcast mainstream light entertainment and music from 1945 until 1967, when it was rebranded as BBC Radio 2.