32 events found for 1945
World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force bomber Enola Gay dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan…
World War II: The USAAF bomber Bockscar dropped a Fat Man atomic bomb (replica pictured) on Nagasaki, Japan.
Amid rumors of kidnappings of children by Jews in Kraków, a crowd of Poles took part in a pogrom, resulting in at…
An official administrative history of the Manhattan Project, written by American physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth, was…
Kenji Hatanaka (pictured) and other Japanese military officers launched an attempted coup d'état to prevent the…
The Stanley Internment Camp in Hong Kong was liberated following the announcement of the surrender of Japan in World…
The independence of Indonesia was proclaimed by Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta , igniting a revolution against the Dutch…
Animal Farm, George Orwell's satirical allegory of Soviet totalitarianism, was first published.
World War II: Amid a Soviet invasion of Japanese-held Sakhalin, Japanese police massacred 18 Koreans in Kamishisuka.
American physicist Harry Daghlian accidentally dropped a tungsten carbide brick onto a plutonium bomb core, exposing…
On the deck of the U.S. Navy battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay, representatives from the Empire of Japan and the Allied…
The Japanese-run camp at Batu Lintang in Borneo was liberated by the Australian 9th Division, averting the planned…