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What Happened In January 1945 In History

Historical Events for January, 1945

  • 1st » World War II: In retaliation for the Malmedy massacre, U.S. troops massacre 30 SS prisoners at Chenogne massacre known as Chenogne.
  • 1st » World War II: The German 'Luftwaffe' launches 'Operation Bodenplatte', a massive, but failed attempt to knock out Allies of World War II called Allied air power in northern Europe in a single blow.
  • 2nd » World War II: Nuremberg, Germany (in German, Nürnberg) is severely bombed by Allies of World War II e.g Allied forces.
  • 3rd » World War II: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is placed in command of all United States Navy known as U.S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima and Okinawa Prefecture or Okinawa in Japan.
  • 5th » The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.
  • 7th » World War II: United Kingdom or British General Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein known as Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
  • 8th » World War II: Commonwealth of the Philippines or Philippine Commonwealth troops under the Philippine Commonwealth Army units enter the province of Ilocos Sur in Northern Luzon and attack Imperial Japanese Army called Japanese Imperial forces.
  • 9th » World War II: The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines.
  • 11th » Greek Civil War: Last day of the Dekemvriana clashes in Athens, Greece.
  • 16th » Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
  • 17th » World War II: Soviet Union e.g Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw.
  • 17th » The Nazi Germany e.g Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.
  • 17th » Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet Union known as Soviet custody while in Hungary; he is never publicly seen again.
  • 19th » World War II: Red Army Soviet forces liberate the Ghetto Litzmannstadt Łódź ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazism Nazi occupation.
  • 20th » World War II: Hungary agrees to an armistice with the Allies of World War II known as Allies.
  • 20th » World War II: Nazi Germany named Germany begins the evacuation of East Prussia e.g evacuation of 1.8 million people from East Prussia, a task which will take nearly two months.
  • 23rd » World War II: German admiral Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal.
  • 25th » World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends.
  • 26th » World War II: The Red Army Heiligenbeil Pocket begins encircling the 4th Army (Wehrmacht) German Fourth Army near Heiligenbeil Pocket Heiligenbeil in East Prussia, which will end in destruction of the 4th Army two months later.
  • 26th » World War II: Audie Murphy in action that will later win him the Medal of Honor.
  • 27th » World War II: The Red Army liberates the remained inmates of the Auschwitz concentration camp or Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp built by the Nazi Germans on the territory of Poland.
  • 28th » World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
  • 30th » World War II: The 'KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff or Wilhelm Gustloff', overfilled with German refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet Union or Soviet submarine, leading to the deadliest known maritime disaster, killing approximatel
  • 30th » World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: 126 American Rangers and Filipino resistance fighters liberate over 500 prisoners from the Cabanatuan POW camp.
  • 31st » United States Army US Army private Eddie Slovik is capital punishment executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the American Civil War Civil War.
  • 31st » World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed.
  • 31st » World War II: the end of fighting in the Battle of Hill 170 during the Burma Campaign, in which the British 3 Commando Brigade repulsed a Japanese counterattack on their positions and precipitated a general retirement from the Rakhine State called Arakan

Famous Birthdays on January in 1945

  • 1st » Peter Duncan (Australian politician) e.g Peter Duncan, Australian politician
  • 1st » Jacky Ickx, Belgian race car driver
  • 1st » Martin Schanche, Norwegian race car driver
  • 3rd » David Starkey, English historian
  • 3rd » Stephen Stills, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Manassas (band) named Manassas)
  • 4th » Vesa-Matti Loiri, Finnish actor and singer
  • 4th » Richard R. Schrock, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry or Nobel Prize laureate
  • 5th » Chuck McKinley, American tennis player (d. 1986)
  • 5th » Roger Spottiswoode, Canadian-English director
  • 6th » Allen Appel, American author
  • 6th » Barry John, Welsh rugby player
  • 6th » Barry Lopez, American author
  • 7th » Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (d. 1990)
  • 7th » Gilles Marotte, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
  • 7th » Dick Marty, Swiss politician
  • 7th » Raila Odinga, Kenyan politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Kenya
  • 8th » Nancy Bond, American author
  • 8th » Phil Beal, English footballer
  • 8th » Yvonne Kennedy, American politician (d. 2012)
  • 8th » Jeannie Lewis, Australian actress and singer
  • 8th » Kojo Nnamdi, Guyanese-American radio host
  • 8th » Kathleen Noone, American actress
  • 8th » Kadir Topbaş, Turkish politician, 31st List of mayors of Istanbul named Mayor of Istanbul
  • 9th » John Doman, American actor
  • 9th » Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Syrian-Armenian politician, 1st President of Armenia
  • 10th » Jerome Drayton, Canadian runner
  • 10th » John Fahey (politician) or John Fahey, Australian politician, 38th Premier of New South Wales
  • 10th » Gunther von Hagens, German anatomist, inventor of plastination
  • 10th » Jennifer Moss (actress) known as Jennifer Moss, English actress and singer (d. 2006)
  • 10th » Rod Stewart, English-Scottish singer-songwriter (The Jeff Beck Group, Faces (band) e.g Faces, Shotgun Express, and The Steampacket)
  • 10th » Edward Wiskoski, American wrestler
  • 11th » Christine Kaufmann, German-Austrian actress
  • 12th » Maggie Bell, Scottish singer-songwriter (Stone the Crows and The British Blues Quintet)
  • 12th » André Bicaba, Burkinabé sprinter
  • 13th » Gordon McVie, English oncologist
  • 14th » Maina Gielgud, English ballerina
  • 14th » Einar Hakonarson, Icelandic painter
  • 15th » Vince Foster, American lawyer (d. 1993)
  • 15th » William R. Higgins, American colonel (d. 1990)
  • 15th » Princess Michael of Kent
  • 15th » David Pleat, English footballer, manager, and sportscaster
  • 16th » Wim Suurbier, Dutch footballer
  • 17th » Javed Akhtar, Indian poet, playwright, and composer
  • 19th » Trevor Williams (musician) called Trevor Williams, English singer-songwriter and bass player (Audience (band) or Audience and The Nashville Teens)
  • 20th » Dave Boswell (baseball) or Dave Boswell, American baseball player (d. 2012)
  • 20th » Robert Olen Butler, American author
  • 20th » Christopher Martin-Jenkins, English journalist (d. 2013)
  • 20th » Eric Stewart, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (10cc, Hotlegs, Mandalaband, and The Mindbenders)
  • 21st » Martin Shaw, English actor
  • 21st » Andrew Turnbull, Baron Turnbull, English civil servant
  • 22nd » Arthur Beetson, Australian rugby player and coach (d. 2011)
  • 22nd » Jophery Brown, American baseball player, actor, and stuntman (d. 2014)
  • 22nd » Jean-Pierre Nicolas, French race car driver
  • 22nd » Christoph Schönborn, Bohemian-Austrian cardinal
  • 23rd » Richard Dearlove, English intelligence officer
  • 23rd » Mike Harris, Canadian politician, 22nd Premier of Ontario
  • 24th » D. Todd Christofferson, American religious leader
  • 24th » John Garamendi, American politician, 46th Lieutenant Governor of California
  • 25th » John Leslie (pornographic actor) or John Leslie, American porn actor, director, and producer (d. 2010)
  • 25th » Leigh Taylor-Young, American actress
  • 25th » Dave Walker, English singer and guitarist (Savoy Brown and Fleetwood Mac)
  • 26th » Jacqueline du Pré, English cellist (d. 1987)
  • 26th » David Purley, English race car driver (d. 1985)
  • 27th » Harold Cardinal, Canadian politician (d. 2005)
  • 28th » Maxwell Fuller, Australian chess player (d. 2013)
  • 28th » Karen Lynn Gorney, American actress
  • 28th » Marthe Keller, Swiss actress
  • 28th » John Perkins (author) or John Perkins, American author and activist
  • 28th » Robert Wyatt, English singer-songwriter and drummer (Soft Machine, The Wilde Flowers, and Matching Mole)
  • 29th » Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, Malian politician, Prime Minister of Mali
  • 29th » Jim Nicholson (politician) e.g Jim Nicholson, Irish politician
  • 29th » Tom Selleck, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
  • 30th » Michael Dorris, American author (d. 1997)
  • 31st » Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, lawyer, judge, and academic
  • 31st » Joseph Kosuth, American photographer and illustrator

Famous Deaths for January 1945

  • 3rd » Edgar Cayce, American psychic (b. 1877)
  • 3rd » Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish journalist and explorer (b. 1879)
  • 4th » Harold Fraser (golfer) called Harold Fraser, American golfer (b. 1872)
  • 6th » Edith Frank, German mother of Anne Frank (b. 1900)
  • 6th » Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist (b. 1863)
  • 8th » Karl Ernst Krafft, Swiss astrologer (b. 1900)
  • 9th » Shigekazu Shimazaki, Japanese admiral (b. 1908)
  • 9th » Jüri Uluots, Estonian journalist and politician (b. 1890)
  • 14th » Heinrich Schroth, German actor (b. 1871)
  • 15th » Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian mathematician (b. 1865)
  • 18th » Hermann Braun, American-German actor (b. 1918)
  • 21st » Rash Behari Bose, Indian activist (b. 1886)
  • 22nd » Else Lasker-Schüler, German poet and playwright (b. 1869)
  • 28th » Roza Shanina, Russian sergeant (b. 1924)
  • 28th » Michael J. Smith (astronaut) known as Michael J. Smith, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1945)
  • 31st » Eddie Slovik, American soldier (b. 1920)

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