WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO OCTOBER 1945
Find out what all happened April to October 1945

World War II: Führerbunker: After learning that Soviet forces have taken Eberswalde without a fight, Adolf Hitler admits defeat in his underground bunker and states that suicide is his only recourse. (22. April 1945)

World War II: The Prague Uprising begins as an attempt by the Czech resistance to free the city from German occupation. (5. May 1945)

World War II: Off the coast of Okinawa, the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill is hit by two kamikazes, killing 346 of its crew. Although badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under its own power. (11. May 1945)

World War II: German surrender at Lüneburg Heath, the North German Army surrenders to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. (4. May 1945)

World War II: The Prague Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front, begins. (6. May 1945)

World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk by American planes 200 miles north of Okinawa while en route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go. (7. April 1945)

The Viet Minh launches August Revolution amid the political confusion and power vacuum engulfing Vietnam. (14. August 1945)

Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón marries actress Eva Duarte. (18. October 1945)

Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender (August 15 in Japan Standard Time). (14. August 1945)

Carpathian Ruthenia is annexed by the Soviet Union. (29. June 1945)

World War II: Japan surrenders to end the war. (15. August 1945)

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

Dissolution and surrender of Nazi Germany and all its forces. (8. May 1945)

Physicist Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. is fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory. (21. August 1945)

Argentinian labour leader José Peter declares the Federación Obrera de la Industria de la Carne dissolved. (12. May 1945)

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

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

The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco. (26. June 1945)

The Republic of China takes over administration of Taiwan following Japan's surrender to the Allies. (25. October 1945)

World War II: Fall of Berlin: The Soviet Union announces the capture of Berlin and Soviet soldiers hoist their red flag over the Reichstag building. (2. May 1945)