WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO OCTOBER 1945
Find out what all happened August to October 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)

Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. (2. September 1945)

The Food and Agriculture Organization is founded in Quebec City, Canada. (16. October 1945)

August Revolution: Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh take power in Hanoi, Vietnam. (19. August 1945)

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

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

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

World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor. (12. October 1945)

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

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

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

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: 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)

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

Getúlio Vargas, president of Brazil, resigns. (29. October 1945)

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

Baseball: Billy Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series (see Curse of the Billy Goat). (6. October 1945)