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** German surrender of Paris: General Dietrich von Choltitz surrenders Paris to the Allies in defiance of Hitler ’ s orders to destroy it.
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** V-E Day ( Victory in Europe, as Nazi Germany surrenders ) commemorates the end of WWII in Europe, with the final surrender being to the Soviets in Berlin, attended by representatives of the Western Powers.
** WWII ends: The final official surrender of Japan is accepted by the Supreme Allied Commander, General Douglas MacArthur, and Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz for the United States, and delegates from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, China, and others from a Japanese delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu, on board the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
** United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the surrender of Italy to the Allies.
** Second Boer War: British military leaders accept the unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje.
** 20 July 1881 — Sioux chief Sitting Bull leads the last of his fugitive people in surrender to United States troops at Fort Buford in Montana.
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** Xun Chen, younger brother, served Yuan Shao, persuaded Han Fu to surrender, fate unknown after the Battle of Guandu
** Luftwaffe Dornier Do 217 bombers sink the Italian battleship Roma west of Corsica with two Fritz X radio-controlled glide bombs as she steams to surrender to the Allies ; 1, 253 of the 1, 849 aboard are lost.
** July: The New Mexico District Military Governor, General James Henry Carleton, tells 18 Navajo chiefs that they must surrender by July 20, 1863, and move to Fort Sumner, at the Bosque Redondo.
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