Date: August 21, 1945
American Airlines Flight 009 crashes near Rural Retreat, Virginia, killing 17. Date: February 23, 1945 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 23 📅 Events on this day in 1945 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1945World War II: Karl Dönitz Launches Operation Hannibal, Baltic Evacuation January 23, 1945Syrian Protesters…
World War II: Cologne is captured by American troops. On the same day, Operation Spring Awakening, the last major German offensive of the war, begins. Date: March 6, 1945 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 6 📅 Events on this day in 1945 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from…
World War II: The Battle of Slater's Knoll on Bougainville comes to an end. Date: April 6, 1945 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 6 📅 Events on this day in 1945 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1945U.S. Senate Approves U.S. Participation in the United Nations, December 4,…
World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier. Date: April 27, 1945 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 27 📅 Events on this day in 1945 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1945Tripolitania Anti-Jewish Riots Begin, November…
World War II: Mikhail Devyataev escapes with nine other Soviet POWs from a Nazi concentration camp in Peenemünde, Usedom. Date: February 8, 1945 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 8 📅 Events on this day in 1945 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1945Tito Signs Soviet Troop Entry Agreement,…
World War II: The 11th Airborne Division, with Filipino guerrillas, free all 2,147 captives of the Los Baños internment camp, in what General Colin Powell later would refer to as "the textbook airborne operation for all ages and all armies". Date: February 23, 1945 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 23…