* 1945 – Brazilian forces liberate the town of Montese, Italy, from German Nazi forces.

After World War II and the implementation of the Oder-Neisse line in 1945, the town passed to the Republic of Poland.

From 1920 to 1945, Estonia's border with Russia, set by the 1920 Tartu Peace Treaty, extended beyond the Narva River in the northeast and beyond the town of Petseri in the southeast.

* 1945 – World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is completely destroyed in a raid by 379 British bombers.

In 1945 Polish and Soviet troops seized the town and it was subsequently attached to Poland, while the remaining German population which had not fled the advancing Red Army was expelled.

The German population was expelled from between 1945 and 1947 and replaced with Poles and, as the medieval Polish name Lignica was considered archaic, the town was renamed Legnica.

As a child, he lived in the small town of Lommatzsch, Germany from 1943 to 1945 during World War II, surviving the Dresden Bombing.

On 5, 8 and 11 April 1945 about one third of the town, including many public buildings and industrial installations were destroyed by heavy air strikes, along with 4, 500 houses.

In 1945, 1, 400 men were conscripted by the town council for " essential work " ( clean-up work on damaged buildings and the clearing of roads ).

Although most of the region was liberated in September 1944, Dunkirk was the last French town to be freed from German occupation ( 9 May 1945 ).

The major shipbuilder, the Consolidated Steel Corporation was located in the town of Orange, and among the warships that it built were the ( 1942 ), the first warship built there, the ( 1943 ), and the ( 1945 – 46 ), the last warship built there.

The town was stormed by Red Army troops on January 21 – 22, 1945.

Auguste Perret ( 1874 – 1954 ), a formative architect-turned-town-planner was commissioned to oversee the reconstruction of the city centre and town plan in January 1945 by Raoul Dautry of the MRU ( Kuhl, Lowis & Thiel-Siling 2008, p. 61 ).

Despite being almost completely destroyed during an RAF bombing raid on 5 January 1945, the town of Royan wasn't liberated by the French resistance until April of the same year.

After two weeks of battle the town was liberated on the 14th of April 1945.

The town was occupied by the Red Army in January 1945 and restored to Poland.

During World War II, from 1938 to 1945, one of the first massive concentration camp complexes in Nazi Germany was set up to the west of the town.

In early November 1943, Nazi German forces took over the town and established their rule until May 1945, when the town was finally liberated by the Yugoslav People's Army.

In 1945, the Italian petrol company Agip, directed by Enrico Mattei, started extracting methane from its fields, and Lodi was the first Italian town with a regular domestic gas service.

* 1945 The Potsdam Conference places Frombork under administration of Poland pending a final peace conference, but since one never takes place, the decision effectively passes the town to Poland.

Poldark author Winston Graham knew the town well and set his novel The Forgotten Story ( 1945 ) in Falmouth.

As a result of the decisions taken at the 1945 Potsdam Conference, the town east of the Oder-Neisse line became a part of the Republic of Poland.

Fassbinder was born in Bavaria in the small town of Bad Wörishofen, on May 31, 1945, three weeks after the Americans entered the town and the unconditional surrender of Germany.

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.