May 1945.
Since May 1945 passed approximately Nine Hundred and Fourty-Three months (942.9). This May started with Tuesday (18. week) and ended with Thursday (22. week). This May had 31 days and 4 Sundays. On bottom of the page you can find calendar for May 1945.
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Events occurred in May 1945
We found 97 events occured in May month in 1945.
• 1945. May 1 (Category: Births), Peter Kiesewetter, German composer (d. 2012)
• 1945. May 1 (Category: Births), Rita Coolidge, American singer
• 1945. May 1 (Category: Deaths), Joseph Goebbels, German Nazi politician (b. 1897)
• 1945. May 1 (Category: Deaths), Magda Goebbels, wife of Joseph Goebbels (b. 1901)
• 1945. May 1 (Category: Events), A German newsreader officially announces that Adolf Hitler has "fallen at his command post in the Reich Chancellery fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism and for Germany". The Soviet flag was raised over the Reich Chancellery, by order of Stalin.
• 1945. May 1 (Category: Events), The Yugoslav partisans free Trieste.
• 1945. May 1 (Category: Events), World War II: Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda commit suicide in the Reich Garden outside the Führerbunker. Their children are murdered by Magda by having cyanide pills inserted into their mouths.
• 1945. May 2 (Category: Births), Bianca Jagger, Nicaraguan actress, model, and activist
• 1945. May 2 (Category: Births), Gene Deckerhoff, American sports announcer
• 1945. May 2 (Category: Births), Goldy McJohn, Canadian musician (Steppenwolf, The Mynah Birds, and The Sparrows)
• 1945. May 2 (Category: Births), Judge Dread, English singer-songwriter (d. 1998)
• 1945. May 2 (Category: Births), Sarah Weddington, American attorney
• 1945. May 2 (Category: Deaths), Joe Corbett, American baseball player (b. 1875)
• 1945. May 2 (Category: Deaths), Ludwig Stumpfegger, German SS doctor (b. 1910)
• 1945. May 2 (Category: Deaths), Martin Bormann, German Nazi official (b. 1900)
• 1945. May 2 (Category: Events), World War II: Fall of Berlin: The Soviet Union announces the capture of Berlin and Soviet soldiers hoist their red flag over the Reichstag building.
• 1945. May 2 (Category: Events), World War II: Italian Campaign – General Heinrich von Vietinghoff signs the official instrument of surrender of all Wehrmacht forces in Italy.
• 1945. May 2 (Category: Events), World War II: The US 82nd Airborne Division liberates Wöbbelin concentration camp finding 1000 dead inmates, most starved to death.
• 1945. May 3 (Category: Births), Davey Lopes, American baseball player and coach
• 1945. May 3 (Category: Events), World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the Royal Air Force in Lübeck Bay.
• 1945. May 4 (Category: Births), Narasimhan Ram, Indian journalist
• 1945. May 4 (Category: Deaths), Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (b. 1880)
• 1945. May 4 (Category: Events), World War II: German surrender at Lüneburg Heath, the North German Army surrenders to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
• 1945. May 4 (Category: Events), World War II: Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is liberated by the British Army.
• 1945. May 5 (Category: Births), Kurt Loder, American journalist, critic, author, and columnist
• 1945. May 5 (Category: Deaths), Peter Van Pels, Dutch holocaust victim (b. 1926)
• 1945. May 5 (Category: Events), World War II: Canadian and UK troops liberate the Netherlands and Denmark from Nazi occupation when Wehrmacht troops capitulate.
• 1945. May 5 (Category: Events), World War II: The Prague Uprising begins as an attempt by the Czech resistance to free the city from Nazi occupation.
• 1945. May 6 (Category: Births), Bob Seger, American singer-songwriter and musician
• 1945. May 6 (Category: Births), Jimmie Dale Gilmore, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (The Flatlanders)
• 1945. May 6 (Category: Births), Richard Eyer, American actor
• 1945. May 6 (Category: Events), World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops.
• 1945. May 6 (Category: Events), World War II: The Prague Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front, begins.
• 1945. May 7 (Category: Births), Christy Moore, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Planxty and Moving Hearts)
• 1945. May 7 (Category: Births), Robin Strasser, American actress
• 1945. May 7 (Category: Events), World War II: General Alfred Jodl signs unconditional surrender terms at Reims, France, ending Germany's participation in the war. The document takes effect the next day.
• 1945. May 8 (Category: Births), Keith Jarrett, American pianist and composer
• 1945. May 8 (Category: Deaths), Bernhard Rust, German Nazi education minister (b. 1883)
• 1945. May 8 (Category: Deaths), Josef Terboven, German Nazi leader(b. 1898)
• 1945. May 8 (Category: Deaths), Wilhelm Rediess, German Nazi SS and Police leader (b. 1900)
• 1945. May 8 (Category: Events), End of the Prague uprising, today celebrated as a national holiday in the Czech Republic.
• 1945. May 8 (Category: Events), Hundreds of Algerian civilians are killed by French Army soldiers in the Sétif massacre.
• 1945. May 8 (Category: Events), The Halifax Riot started when thousands of civilians and servicemen went on a rampage through Halifax.
• 1945. May 8 (Category: Events), World War II: V-E Day, combat ends in Europe. German forces agree in Rheims, France, to an unconditional surrender.
• 1945. May 9 (Category: Births), Steve Katz, American musician, songwriter, and producer (Blood, Sweat & Tears, Blues Project, and American Flyer)
• 1945. May 9 (Category: Events), World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union..
• 1945. May 9 (Category: Events), World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation.
• 1945. May 10 (Category: Deaths), Konrad Henlein, German nazi politician (b. 1898)
• 1945. May 10 (Category: Deaths), Richard Glücks, German SS officer (b. 1889)
• 1945. May 11 (Category: Events), World War II: Off the coast of Okinawa, the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill is hit by two kamikazes, killing 346 of its crew. Although badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under its own power.
• 1945. May 12 (Category: Births), Alan Ball, Jr., English footballer (d. 2007)
• 1945. May 12 (Category: Births), Ian McLagan, English musician and songwriter (Small Faces Faces, and The New Barbarians)
• 1945. May 12 (Category: Births), Nicky Henson, English actor
• 1945. May 12 (Category: Births), Patrick Ricard, French businessman
• 1945. May 12 (Category: Events), Argentinian labour leader José Peter declares the Federación Obrera de la Industria de la Carne dissolved.
• 1945. May 13 (Category: Births), Magic Dick, American musician (The J. Geils Band)
• 1945. May 13 (Category: Births), Sam Anderson, American actor
• 1945. May 13 (Category: Deaths), Tubby Hall, American jazz drummer (b. 1895)
• 1945. May 14 (Category: Births), Francesca Annis, English actress
• 1945. May 14 (Category: Births), George Nicholls, English rugby player
• 1945. May 14 (Category: Births), Yochanan Vollach, Israeli footballer and president of the Maccabi Haifa sport organization
• 1945. May 14 (Category: Deaths), Heber J. Grant, American 7th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1856)
• 1945. May 15 (Category: Births), Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza
• 1945. May 15 (Category: Births), Lasse Berghagen, Swedish singer-songwriter, composer, and actor
• 1945. May 15 (Category: Deaths), Charles Williams, English writer (b. 1886)
• 1945. May 15 (Category: Events), World War II: The final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia.
• 1945. May 16 (Category: Births), Marta Beatriz Roque, Cuban dissident and economist
• 1945. May 16 (Category: Births), Nicky Chinn, English songwriter and producer
• 1945. May 17 (Category: Births), Tony Roche, Australian tennis player
• 1945. May 19 (Category: Births), Pete Townshend, English singer-songwriter, musician, and author (The Who, Deep End, and Thunderclap Newman)
• 1945. May 19 (Category: Deaths), Philipp Bouhler, German Nazi leader (b. 1889)
• 1945. May 20 (Category: Births), Vladimiro Montesinos, Peruvian politician
• 1945. May 21 (Category: Births), Ernst Messerschmid, German astronaut
• 1945. May 22 (Category: Events), Operation Paperclip – United States Army Major Robert B. Staver recommends that the U.S. evacuate German scientists and engineers to help in the development of rocket technology.
• 1945. May 23 (Category: Births), Lauren Chapin, American actress
• 1945. May 23 (Category: Births), Padmarajan, Indian director (d. 1991)
• 1945. May 23 (Category: Deaths), Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi commander (b. 1900)
• 1945. May 23 (Category: Events), World War II: Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, commits suicide while in Allied custody.
• 1945. May 23 (Category: Events), World War II: The Flensburg government under Reichspräsident Karl Dönitz is dissolved when its members are captured and arrested by British forces at Flensburg in Northern Germany.
• 1945. May 24 (Category: Births), Priscilla Presley, American actress and businesswoman
• 1945. May 24 (Category: Births), Terry Callier, American singer-songwriter guitarist (d. 2012)
• 1945. May 24 (Category: Deaths), Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal (b. 1892)
• 1945. May 26 (Category: Births), Garry Peterson, Canadian drummer (The Guess Who and Bachman–Turner Overdrive)
• 1945. May 26 (Category: Births), Vilasrao Deshmukh, Indian politician (d. 2012)
• 1945. May 27 (Category: Births), Bruce Cockburn, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Esquires and The Flying Circus)
• 1945. May 27 (Category: Deaths), Enno Lolling, German SS physician (b. 1888)
• 1945. May 28 (Category: Births), John Fogerty, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Creedence Clearwater Revival and The Golliwogs)
• 1945. May 28 (Category: Births), John N. Bambacus, American politician
• 1945. May 28 (Category: Births), Patch Adams, American physician, activist, diplomat, and author, founded the Gesundheit! Institute
• 1945. May 29 (Category: Births), Gary Brooker, English singer-songwriter and musician (Procol Harum and The Paramounts)
• 1945. May 29 (Category: Births), Joyce Tenneson, American photographer
• 1945. May 29 (Category: Events), First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
• 1945. May 30 (Category: Births), Norman Eshley, English actor
• 1945. May 31 (Category: Births), Bernard Goldberg, American journalist
• 1945. May 31 (Category: Births), Laurent Gbagbo, Ivorian politician, 4th President of Côte d'Ivoire
• 1945. May 31 (Category: Births), Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director (d. 1982)
• 1945. May 31 (Category: Deaths), Odilo Globocnik, Austrian SS officer (b. 1904)
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