Timeline August 1945

Events in August 1945 13

• 1882 – 1945 Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945) Died 10 August 1945, aged 62 Goddard was an American physicist who built and launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket in 1926. His pioneering work laid the theoretical and practical groundwork for later spaceflight technology, though he received little recognition in his own lifetime. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is named in his honor.
• 1945 Potsdam Conference Allied leaders set terms for postwar Germany and Japan Truman, Churchill (replaced mid-conference by Attlee), and Stalin met near Berlin to finalize occupation policy for Germany and issue an ultimatum demanding Japan's unconditional surrender. The conference also confirmed the Oder-Neisse line as Poland's western border. Disagreements here foreshadowed the Cold War split.
• 1945 Chinese Civil War resumes Nationalists and Communists renew fighting after Japan's surrender With Japan defeated, the uneasy wartime truce between Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists and Mao Zedong's Communists broke down into open civil war over control of China. Fighting escalated despite American-brokered negotiations. The war would end in 1949 with Communist victory and Nationalist retreat to Taiwan.
• 1945 – 1946 John Coltrane serves in the US Navy Hawaii Plays in the Navy band in Hawaii.
• 1945 US Championships 1945 Men: Frank Parker · Women: Sarah Palfrey Cooke
• 1945 Atomic bombings and surrender Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the end of the Pacific War In August 1945 the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima (6 August) and Nagasaki (9 August), killing well over 100,000 people. On 15 August Emperor Hirohito announced Japan's surrender by radio — the first time most Japanese had heard his voice — ending World War II.
• 1945 Hiroshima Atomic bomb dropped On August 6, 1945, the US dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing 80,000 instantly. By year's end, 140,000 had died.
• 1945 Atomic bombing of Nagasaki The second and last use of a nuclear weapon in war Three days after Hiroshima, a US B-29 dropped a plutonium bomb on Nagasaki, killing tens of thousands instantly and many more from injury and radiation. Japan announced its intention to surrender days later. It remains the most recent use of a nuclear weapon in warfare.
• 1945 Nagasaki atomic bomb Second bomb dropped on Japan The United States dropped a plutonium bomb nicknamed "Fat Man" on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, three days after Hiroshima. Between 40,000 and 80,000 people were killed instantly.
• 1945 VJ Day — Japan surrenders Emperor Hirohito announces defeat Emperor Hirohito announced Japan's unconditional surrender in a radio broadcast on August 15, 1945 — the first time most Japanese had heard his voice. The formal surrender was signed on September 2 aboard USS Missouri.
• 1945 Indonesian declaration of independence Sukarno proclaims Indonesia free of colonial rule Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta declared Indonesian independence two days after Japan's surrender, ending Japanese occupation and challenging the return of Dutch colonial rule. The Netherlands did not recognize independence until 1949, following years of armed conflict. Sukarno became Indonesia's first president.
• 1945 – present Van Morrison Singer-songwriter Belfast-born singer who mixed soul, jazz, blues and Irish folk into a style of his own, from Gloria and Brown Eyed Girl to Astral Weeks and Moondance.
• 1945 Van Morrison born in Belfast George Ivan Morrison Grows up in east Belfast on his father's collection of American blues and jazz records.