World War II: American Forces Land on Corregidor Island, February 16, 1945

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 1945George Orwell’s Animal Farm First…

World War II: A defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands. Date: March 31, 1945 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 31 📅 Events on this day in 1945 📅 On This Day…

Physicist Harry Daghlian is fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Date: August 21, 1945 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 21 📅 Events on this day in 1945 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1945Chinese Communist Supporters…

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…

Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet custody while in Hungary; he is never publicly seen again. Date: January 17, 1945 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 17 📅 Events on this day in 1945 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1945Adolf Hitler Moves into Führerbunker, January 16,…

World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment. Date: February 13, 1945 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 13 📅 Events on this day in 1945 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1945Lapland War Ends as…