* 1945 – Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.

* HMS Auriga ( P419 ), a British submarine launched in 1945

* 1945 – Diana Darvey, British actress, singer, and dancer ( d. 2000 )

* 1945 – Martyn Lewis, British news anchor

* Blair, Alasdair M. " The British iron and steel industry since 1945 ," Journal of European Economic History Winter 1997, Vol.

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS ( 3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967 ) was a British Labour politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.

* 1945 – Lemmy, British singer, bassist ( Motörhead )

* English in the British Isles until its consolidation as a national language in the Renaissance and the rise of Modern English ; subsequently internationally under the various states in or formerly in the British Empire ; globally since the victories of the predominantly English speaking countries ( United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and others ) and their allies in the two world wars ending in 1918 ( World War I ) and 1945 ( WW II ) and the subsequent rise of the United States as a superpower and major cultural influence.

A personal high point was the reception of the Japanese surrender in Singapore when British troops returned to the island to receive the formal surrender of Japanese forces in the region led by General Itagaki Seishiro on 12 September 1945, codenamed Operation Tiderace.

Following the liberation of Denmark and the end of World War II, the last British troops left in September 1945.

* 1945 – World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony.

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

* 1945 – Paul Newton, British musician ( Uriah Heep )

* 1945 – Simon Schama, British historian

* 1945 – World War II: The British Indian Army and Imperial Japanese Army begin a series of battles known as the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations.

In 2008, The Times ranked him second on a list of " The 50 greatest British writers since 1945 ".

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.

" Between 1945 and 1947, with A. J. Ayer and Bertrand Russell, he contributed a series of articles and essays to Polemic, a short-lived British " Magazine of Philosophy, Psychology, and Aesthetics " edited by the ex-Communist Humphrey Slater.

While in British custody, he committed suicide on 23 May 1945.

Hamburg surrendered without a fight to British Forces on 3 May 1945.

It was through abstinence from much of the Second World War that the US found itself one of only two superpowers left in 1945, whereas the British Empire, France, and Germany were all contenders prior to this.

After World War II, between 1945 and the 29 November 1947 Partition vote, British soldiers and policemen were targeted by Irgun and Lehi.

* 1944 – 1945 The killings of several suspected collaborators with the Haganah and the British mandate government during the Hunting Season.

* 1865 – Henry George Chauvel, Australian general ( d. 1945 )

Major population growth within Ajaccio occurred between 1945 and 1975, with a doubling of the city's population, caused by a general shift of the population away from rural areas.

* 1945 – The Nazi occupation army surrenders and leaves Northern Italy after a general partisan insurrection by the Italian resistance movement ; the puppet fascist regime dissolves and Benito Mussolini tries to escape.

At the 1945 general election, Sinclair and many of his colleagues lost their seats to both Conservatives and Labour, and the party returned just 12 MPs to Westminster.

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.

Labour lost the general election of 1951 to Churchill's renewed Conservatives, despite polling more votes than in the 1945 election and more votes nationwide than the Conservative party.

Early in 1945, McBride named 36-year-old Ohio State Buckeyes coach Paul Brown as the team's head coach and general manager and gave him a share in its profits.

This slaughter forced the tiny surviving Party to switch from a workers ' union-to a peasant, guerilla-based organization, and to seek the aid of the most heterodox sources: from " patriotic capitalists " to the dreaded KMT itself, with which it openly sought to participate in a coalition government, even after the Japanese general surrender in 1945.

" George Orwell's Animal Farm ( 1945 ) similarly satirized Stalinist Communism in particular, and totalitarianism in general, in the guise of animal fable.

* 1945 – Tommy Franks, American general

* 1891 – Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Japanese general ( d. 1945 )

* 1945 – The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.

* 1886 – Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., American general ( d. 1945 )

Anderson assisted in nailing the Red flag to the roof of the Junior Officers mess in Annan Parbat, in August 1945, after the victory of the Labour Party in the general election was confirmed.

* 1873 – Pavlo Skoropadsky, Ukrainian general ( d. 1945 )

Foot fought the Plymouth Devonport constituency in the 1945 general election.

*" Secrets of the German Jet Planes " June 1945, Popular Science page 124 — the first detailed drawing in a general public magazine

* Alexander Patch ( 1889 – 1945 ), general of US Army in World War II

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 signatories were General Secretary Joseph Stalin, President Harry S. Truman, and Prime Minister Clement Attlee, who, as a result of the British general election of 1945, had replaced Winston Churchill as the UK ’ s Conference representative.

The SNP first won a parliamentary seat at the Motherwell by-election in 1945, but Dr Robert McIntyre MP lost the seat at the general election three months later.

Tommy Ray Franks ( born June 17, 1945 ) is a retired general in the United States Army.

After the war many players returned to their teams, while the major event of the second half of the 1940s was the 1945 signing of Jackie Robinson to a players contract by Branch Rickey the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

* July 26 – Winston Churchill resigns as the United Kingdom's Prime Minister after his Conservative Party is soundly defeated by the Labour Party in the 1945 general election.

** George Patton, American general ( d. 1945 )