WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO AUGUST 1945
Find out what all happened January to August 1945

An assassination attempt is made on Japan's prime minister, Kantarō Suzuki. (16. August 1945)

World War II: 1,250 American bombers attacked Berlin. (18. March 1945)

The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being. (30. August 1945)

World War II: The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines. (9. January 1945)

World War II: Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is liberated by the British Army. (4. May 1945)

HMS Vestal is the last British Royal Navy ship to be sunk in the Second World War (26. July 1945)

World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with German refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, leading to the deadliest known maritime disaster, killing approximately 9,500 people. (30. January 1945)

Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree. (24. February 1945)

World War II: Soviet forces begin an offensive to push Germans from Upper Silesia. (15. March 1945)

Manhattan Project: the Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico. (16. July 1945)

The US Navy cruiser USS Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with parts of the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb. (26. July 1945)

The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces. (29. April 1945)

Poles in Kraków engage in a pogrom against Jews in the city, killing 1 and wounding 5. (11. August 1945)

The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to America. (20. June 1945)

World War II: Santo Tomas Internment Camp is liberated from Japanese authority (4. February 1945)

The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begins. (23. July 1945)

World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin, a raid which kills between 2,500 to 3,000 and dehouses another 120,000. (3. February 1945)

World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2. (11. March 1945)

A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26. (28. July 1945)

World War II: The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island. (16. July 1945)