WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO OCTOBER 1945
Find out what all happened June to October 1945

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

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)

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)

Carpathian Ruthenia is annexed by the Soviet Union. (29. June 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: The Battle of Okinawa ends when the organized resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island. (21. June 1945)

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

Three-day celebration was held in China, following the Victory over Japan Day on September 2. (3. September 1945)

World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. 39,000 people are killed outright. (9. August 1945)

Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces. (30. August 1945)

Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens becomes Prime Minister of Greece between the pull-out of the German occupation force in 1944 and the return of King Georgios II to Greece. (17. October 1945)

General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo. (18. September 1945)

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

The Battle of Okinawa comes to an end. (22. June 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)

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)

King Haakon VII of Norway returned with his family to Oslo after five years in exile. (7. June 1945)

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