WHAT ALL HAPPENED SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 1945
Find out what all happened September to December 1945

A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond. (15. September 1945)

World War II: The surrender of the Japanese troops in Hong Kong is accepted by Royal Navy Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt. (16. September 1945)

Nuremberg Trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg. (20. November 1945)

Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier. (30. October 1945)

A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, stages a coup d'état against then president Isaías Medina Angarita, who is overthrown by the end of the day. (18. October 1945)

Cold War: United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier. (8. September 1945)

Women's suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time. (21. October 1945)

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

The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43 (30. September 1945)

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.) (4. December 1945)

General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo. (18. September 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)

Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, today celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan). (10. November 1945)

Flight 19 is lost in the Bermuda Triangle. (5. December 1945)

The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. (18. October 1945)

Australia joins the United Nations. (1. November 1945)

The United Auto Workers strike 92 General Motors plants in 50 cities to back up worker demands for a 30-percent raise. (21. November 1945)

Venezuela joins the United Nations. (15. November 1945)

The World Bank and International Monetary Fund are created with the signing of an agreement by 29 nations. (27. December 1945)

Founding of the United Nations. (24. October 1945)