WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO SEPTEMBER 1945
Find out what all happened July to September 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: Australian 9th Division forces liberate the Japanese-run Batu Lintang camp, a POW and civilian internment camp on the island of Borneo. (11. September 1945)

The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany. (26. July 1945)

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

The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power. (26. July 1945)

Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Chinese Communist Party kill U.S. intelligence officer John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War. (25. August 1945)

World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning. (6. August 1945)

The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies. (31. August 1945)

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

Puyi, the last Chinese emperor and ruler of Manchukuo, is captured by Soviet troops. (16. August 1945)

Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) is sentenced to death in London. (19. September 1945)

World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen. (30. July 1945)

The August Revolution ends as Emperor Bảo Đại abdicates, ending the Nguyễn Dynasty. (30. August 1945)

The BBC Light Programme radio station is launched for mainstream light entertainment and music. (29. July 1945)

Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta proclaim the independence of Indonesia, igniting the Indonesian National Revolution against the Dutch Empire. (17. August 1945)

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

World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater: the Instrument of Surrender of Japan is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. (2. September 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)

Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War. (5. September 1945)

Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria. (31. July 1945)