Today in History for January 1945

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 58 of 58

1st - France joins the UN
1st - German air raid on allied airports at Eindhoven/Saint-Trond/Brussels
2nd - Allied air raid on Neurenberg
2nd - Kentucky begins 130 home basketball game win streak, ends in 1955
2nd - Radio Orange ends cooperation at Liese-Aktion
3rd - Allies land on west coast of Burma, conquer Akyab
3rd - British Premier Winston Churchill visits France
3rd - Cato-Meridian School, NY, installs germicidal lamps in every room
3rd - Greek General Plastiras forms government
3rd - John Patrick's "Hasty Heart," premieres in NYC
3rd - US aircraft carriers attack Okinawa
4th - Germans execute resistance fighters in Amsterdam
4th - US jeep-aircraft carrier Ommaney Bay sinks after kamikaze attack
5th - Pepe LePew debuts in Warner Bros cartoon "Odor-able Kitty"
5th - Surprise attack on Liese-Aktion-office on Marnix St, Amsterdam
7th - Lord Haw-Haw reports total German victory at Ardennen
8th - "Youth for Christ" organizes
9th - US soldiers led by Gen Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines
10th - Baseball writers again fail to elect a new Hall of Famer
WW2 General Douglas MacArthur 10th - LA Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close
10th - No one is elected to baseball's Hall of Fame
12th - German forces in Belgium retreat in Battle of Bulge
12th - US Task Force 38 destroys 41 Jap ships in Battle of South China Sea
12th - World War II: The Soviets begin a large offensive against the Nazis in Eastern Europe.
13th - Prokofchev's 5th Symphony premieres in Moscow
15th - "Make Mine Manhattan" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 429 perfs
15th - Every Amsterdammer gets 3 kg sugar beets
15th - Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp
16th - Scottish 52nd land division/1st Commando brigade-assault at Heinsberg
16th - US 1st & 3rd army meet at Houffalise
17th - Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation
17th - Gilbert Dodds, record miler (4:05.3), retires to do gospel work
17th - Liberation of Warsaw by Soviet troops (end of Nazi occupation)
17th - Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by secret police in Hungary
18th - Warsaw freed by Soviet army
20th - FDR sworn-in for an unprecedented 4th term as president
20th - Hungary ends its involvement in the Second World War, agreeing to an armistice with the Allies.
21st - British troops land on Ramree, near coast of Burma
22nd - Burma highway reopens
22nd - Heavy US air raid on Okinawa
23rd - Dutch Premier Gerbrandy, exiled in London, offers his resignation
23rd - World War II: Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal.
24th - Scottish 52nd Lowland division occupies Heinsberg
25th - Dan Topping, Del Webb & Larry MacPhail purchase NY Yanks for $2.8 mil
25th - Grand Rapids, Michigan becomes 1st US city to fluoridate its water
25th - Japanese occupiers of Batavia arrest Indo-European youths
25th - NY Yankees sold by Ruppert estate to Larry MacPhail, Dan Topping, &
25th - West Africa 82nd division occupies Myohaung, Burma
26th - Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp
27th - Nazi occupiers forbid food transport to West (The Netherlands)
27th - Russia liberates Auschwitz & Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland)
27th - S Romberg, H&D Fields' musical premieres in NYC
27th - Wally van Hall, "banker in defiance," arrested
28th - Dutch airplanes dump pamphlets on Java
28th - Gen "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell & truck convoy reopen Burma Road to China
28th - Swedish ships bring food to starving Netherlands
30th - "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 9,400 die
31st - US 4th Infantry division occupies Elcherrath

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 63 of 63

1st - Jacques Ickx, Belgium, Le Mans auto race (6-time winner)
1st - Peter Duncan, Australian politician
3rd - Stephen Stills, Dallas TX, songwriter/guitarist (Cosby Stills & Nash)
4th - Jay Dee Maness, Loma Linda Ca, singer (Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited)
4th - Vesa-Matti Loiri, Finnish entertainer
4th - Richard R. Schrock, American chemist, Nobel laureate
5th - Sam Wyche, NFL coach (Cincinnati Bengals)
5th - Chuck McKinley, U.S. tennis player (d. 1986)
5th - Roger Spottiswoode, Canadian-born film director
6th - Barry Holstein Lopez, US author (Of Wolves & Men)
6th - Barry John, Welsh international rugby player
6th - Pepe Le Pew, cartoon skunk (Au Dorable Kitty)
6th - Allen Appel, American novelist
7th - Tony Conigliaro, Mass, baseball outfielder (Boston Red Sox)
7th - Dick Marty, Swiss politician
7th - Raila Odinga, Prime Minister of Kenya
8th - John Peters, rock drummer (Harpers Bizarre)
8th - Terry Sylvester, rocker (Hollies)
9th - Frank J Biondi Jr, president (HBO)
9th - Harun Farocki, actor/director (Nicht loeschbares Feur)
9th - John Doman, American actor
Singer Rod Stewart (10th) 10th - Rod Stewart, London, British singer (Maggie Mae, Do You Think I'm Sexy)
10th - Edward Wiskoski, American professional wrestler
11th - Christine Kaufmann, Austria, actress (Town Without Pity, Red Lips)
11th - Samdech Preah Sanghareach Bour Kry, Supreme Patriarch of the Cambodian Dhammayutt Order
12th - Maggie Bell, Glasgow Scotland, rocker
13th - [Eileen] Joy[ce] Chant [Rutter], UK, sci-fi author (High Kings)
14th - Einar Hakonarson, Icelandic painter
14th - Maina Gielgud, British ballet dancer and administrator
15th - Vince Foster, American lawyer (d. 1993)
15th - William R. Higgins, USMC colonel (d. 1990)
15th - Princess Michael of Kent, British royal
16th - Kabir Bedi, actor (Thief of Baghdad, Terminal Entry)
17th - William Hart, US singer (4 Gents, Delfonics-I'm Sorry)
17th - Javed Akhtar, Indian lyricist, poet and scriptwriter
19th - Charles Amirkhanian, composer
19th - Rod Evans, rocker (Deep Purple-Come Taste the Band)
19th - Vadim Abdrashitov, director (Fox Hunt, Parade of Planets)
20th - Eric Stewart, rock guitarist (10cc-I'm Not in Love)
20th - Peter Beckwith, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire
20th - Christopher Martin-Jenkins, cricket commentator and correspondent
21st - Andrew Stein, pres of NYC council (D)
21st - Chris Britton, rocker (Troggs-Rock & Roll Goldmine)
22nd - Michael Cristofer, actor/writer (Little Drummer Girl)
22nd - Oliver, rocker
23rd - Mike Harris, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario
24th - D. Todd Christofferson, LDS apostle
24th - John Garamendi, American politician
25th - Leigh Taylor-Young, Wash DC, actress (Peyton Place, Alice B Toklas)
26th - Mick Hill, cricketer (NSW all-rounder 1964-75)
26th - Jacqueline du Pré, English cellist (d. 1987)
27th - Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, North Irish peace activist (Nobel 1976)
27th - Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader (d. 2005)
28th - Nick Raynsford, British MP
28th - José Luis Perales, Spanish singer
28th - Robert Wyatt, English musician
29th - Donna Marie Caponi Young, Detroit, LPGA golfer (US Open 1969, 70)
29th - James Nicholson, British MEP
Actor Tom Selleck (29th) 29th - Tom Selleck, Detroit Mich, actor (Lance-Rockford Files, Magnum PI)
29th - Jim Nicholson, Irish politician
30th - Michael Dorris, writer
30th - Robert Wittinger, composer
31st - Noah Creshevsky, composer

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

6th - Future president George Bush marries Barbara Pierce at the First Presbyterian Church in Rye NY

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 22 of 22

1st - Vit Nejedly, composer, dies at 33
2nd - Betram Home Ramsay, Engl adm/Cmdr Naval Forces (Normandy), dies at 61
3rd - Fyodor Akimenko, composer, dies at 68
3rd - Edgar Cayce, American psychic (b. 1877)
3rd - Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish writer (b. 1879)
6th - Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist (b. 1863)
8th - Jac[obus] P Thijsse, Dutch biologist (Omgang met planten), dies at 79
8th - Karl Krafft, Swiss astrologer who was manipulated by the Nazi regime (b. 1900)
9th - Jüri Uluots, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1890)
10th - Rudolf Borchardt, writer, dies at 67
14th - Sandor Vandor, composer, dies at 43
16th - Dennis Donnini, Brit rifleman (Victoria Cross), dies in battle at 19
19th - Ernest B Allo, French theologist, dies at 71
22nd - A Wolfenstein, writer, dies at 61
22nd - Carlo Felice Boghen, composer, dies a day before 76th birthday
22nd - Johan Eykman, theologist (World Church), dies at 52
22nd - Else Lasker-Schuler, German-born poet (b. 1869)
23rd - Helmuth J Moltke, German politician ("July 20th Plot"), executed at 37
28th - Philip "Felix" Bekkers, actor (We Go on Trip), dies at 37
30th - Gottlieb J Haberlandt, Hungarian/German botanist, dies at 90
30th - William Busch, composer, dies at 43
31st - Eddie Slovik, 1st US executed for desertion since Civil War at 25