What Happened In December 1945 In History

Historical Events for December, 1945

• 4th » By a vote of 65 to 7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations. (The UN had been established on October 24, 1945.)
• 5th » Flight 19 is lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
• 15th » Occupation of Japan: General Douglas MacArthur orders that Shinto be abolished as the state religion of Japan.
• 27th » The World Bank and International Monetary Fund are created with the signing of an agreement by 29 nations.

Famous Birthdays on December in 1945

• 1st » Bette Midler, American singer-songwriter, actress and producer
• 2nd » Penelope Spheeris, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 3rd » Paul Nicholas, English actor and singer
• 4th » Roberta Bondar, Canadian neurologist, academic, and astronaut
• 5th » Serge Chapleau, Canadian cartoonist
• 5th » Moshe Katsav, Iranian-Israeli politician, 8th President of Israel
• 6th » Larry Bowa, American baseball player and manager
• 6th » Dan Harrington, American poker player
• 6th » Shekhar Kapur, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 7th » Marion Rung, Finnish singer
• 8th » John Banville, Irish author and journalist
• 9th » Matti Mäntylä, Finnish actor
• 9th » Michael Nouri, American actor
• 10th » Mukhtar Altynbayev, Kazakhstani general and politician, 3rd Defence Minister of Kazakhstan
• 10th » George Amon Webster, American singer and pianist (Cathedral Quartet) (d. 2013)
• 12th » Portia Simpson-Miller, Jamaican politician, 7th Prime Minister of Jamaica
• 12th » Tony Williams (drummer) or Tony Williams, American drummer, composer, and producer (The Tony Williams Lifetime) (d. 1997)
• 13th » Herman Cain, American businessman, journalist, and politician
• 13th » Kathy Garver, American actress and producer
• 13th » Brian McGuire, Australian race car driver (d. 1977)
• 15th » Ivor Crewe, English political scientist and academic
• 15th » Thaao Penghlis, Australian actor
• 16th » Patti Deutsch, American actress
• 16th » Bobby George, English darts player
• 16th » Yukio Hattori, Japanese television host
• 16th » Tony Hicks, English guitarist and singer (The Hollies)
• 17th » Ernie Hudson, American actor
• 17th » Chris Matthews, American journalist
• 17th » Jüri Talvet, Estonian poet and critic
• 17th » Jacqueline Wilson, English author
• 17th » Cees de Wolf, Dutch footballer (d. 2011)
• 18th » Jean Pronovost, Canadian ice hockey player
• 19th » Elaine Joyce, American actress
• 19th » John McEuen, American guitarist (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
• 20th » Peter Criss, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer (Kiss (band) or Kiss, Wicked Lester, and Chelsea (American band) named Chelsea)
• 20th » Sivakant Tiwari, Singaporean lawyer (d. 2010)
• 22nd » Frances Lannon, English historian and academic
• 22nd » Diane Sawyer, American journalist
• 23rd » Adly Mansour, Egyptian lawyer, judge, and politician, List of Presidents of Egypt named President of Egypt
• 23rd » Geoffrey Wheatcroft, English journalist and author
• 24th » Nicholas Meyer, American author, screenwriter, and director
• 24th » Steve Smith (comedian) called Steve Smith, Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 25th » Rick Berman, American screenwriter and producer
• 25th » Eve Pollard, English journalist and author
• 25th » Mike Pringle (politician) e.g Mike Pringle, Zambian-Scottish politician
• 25th » Noel Redding, English singer-songwriter and bass player (The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Fat Mattress, Road (band) called Road, and The Noel Redding Band) (d. 2003)
• 25th » Gary Sandy, American actor
• 25th » Ken Stabler, American football player and sportscaster
• 28th » Max Hastings, English journalist, historian, and author
• 28th » Birendra of Nepal (d. 2001)
• 30th » Davy Jones (musician) or Davy Jones, English singer and actor (The Monkees) (d. 2012)
• 30th » Lloyd Kaufman, American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded Troma Entertainment
• 30th » Concetta Tomei, American actress
• 30th » Vernon Wells (actor) called Vernon Wells, Australian actor and producer
• 31st » Diane von Fürstenberg, Belgian-American fashion designer
• 31st » Connie Willis, American author

Famous Deaths for December 1945

• 4th » Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine named Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
• 9th » Yun Chi-ho, Korean Resistance activists, politicians (b. 1864)
• 10th » Theodor Dannecker, German SS officer (b. 1913)
• 11th » Charles Fabry, French physicist (b. 1867)
• 13th » Irma Grese, German Nazi concentration camps called concentration camp guard (b. 1923)
• 13th » Josef Kramer, German Nazi concentration camps known as concentration camp commandant (b. 1906)
• 13th » Elisabeth Volkenrath, Polish-German Nazi concentration camps called concentration camp supervisor (b. 1919)
• 16th » Giovanni Agnelli, Italian businessman, founded the Fiat or Fiat Automobile Company (b. 1866)
• 16th » Fumimaro Konoe, Japanese politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1891)
• 21st » George S. Patton, American general (b. 1885)
• 25th » Franz Kröwerath, German rower (b. 1880)
• 28th » Theodore Dreiser, American journalist and author (b. 1871)
• 30th » Song Jin-woo (journalist) named Song Jin-woo, South Korean journalist and politician (b. 1889)

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