Date: January 30, 1945
World War II: Navigational error leads to the mistaken bombing of Prague, Czechoslovakia by a United States Army Air Forces squadron of B-17s assisting in the Soviet Red Army's Vistula–Oder Offensive. Date: February 14, 1945 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 14 📅 Events on this day in 1945 📅 On…
World War II: The U.S. Ninth Army under General William H. Simpson crosses the Elbe River astride Magdeburg, and reaches Tangermünde—only 80 kilometres from Berlin. Date: April 12, 1945 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 12 📅 Events on this day in 1945 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from…
World War II: A Fu-Go balloon bomb launched by the Japanese Army kills six people near Bly, Oregon. Date: May 5, 1945 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 5 📅 Events on this day in 1945 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1945Vistula–Oder Offensive Forces Germans Out of Warsaw,…
UNESCO is founded. Date: November 16, 1945 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 16 📅 Events on this day in 1945 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1945Japanese Coup in French Indochina Removes French Power, March 9, 1945World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima Ends, American Victory March 26,…
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…
The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43. Date: September 30, 1945 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 30 📅 Events on this day in 1945 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1945Ludendorff Bridge Collapses in Remagen, Germany, March 17, 1945World War II: Third Day of Dresden…