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USA-related events during the year of 1945
Events from the year 1945 in the United States . World War II ended during this year following the surrender of Germany in May and that of Japan in September.
Incumbents
Governors and Lieutenant Governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama : Chauncey Sparks (Democratic )
Governor of Arizona : Sidney Preston Osborn (Democratic )
Governor of Arkansas : Homer Martin Adkins (Democratic ) (until January 9), Benjamin Travis Laney (Democratic ) (starting January 9)
Governor of California : Earl Warren (Republican )
Governor of Colorado : John Charles Vivian (Republican )
Governor of Connecticut : Raymond E. Baldwin (Republican )
Governor of Delaware : Walter W. Bacon (Republican )
Governor of Florida : Spessard Holland (Democratic ) (until January 2), Millard F. Caldwell (Democratic ) (starting January 2)
Governor of Georgia : Ellis Arnall (Democratic )
Governor of Idaho :
Governor of Illinois : Dwight H. Green (Republican )
Governor of Indiana : Henry F. Schricker (Democratic ) (until January 8), Ralph F. Gates (Republican ) (starting January 8)
Governor of Iowa : Bourke B. Hickenlooper (Republican ) (until January 11), Robert D. Blue (Republican ) (starting January 11)
Governor of Kansas : Andrew F. Schoeppel (Republican )
Governor of Kentucky : Simeon S. Willis (Republican )
Governor of Louisiana : Jimmie H. Davis (Democratic )
Governor of Maine : Sumner Sewall (Republican ) (until January 3), Horace A. Hildreth (Republican ) (starting January 3)
Governor of Maryland : Herbert R. O'Conor (Democratic )
Governor of Massachusetts : Leverett Saltonstall (Republican ) (until January 3), Maurice J. Tobin (Democratic ) (starting January 3)
Governor of Michigan : Harry Kelly (Republican )
Governor of Minnesota : Edward John Thye (Republican )
Governor of Mississippi : Thomas L. Bailey (Democratic )
Governor of Missouri : Forrest C. Donnell (Republican ) (until January 8), Phil M. Donnelly (Democratic ) (starting January 8)
Governor of Montana : Sam C. Ford (Republican )
Governor of Nebraska : Dwight Griswold (Republican )
Governor of Nevada : Edward P. Carville (Democratic ) (until July 24), Vail M. Pittman (Democratic ) (starting July 24)
Governor of New Hampshire : Robert O. Blood (Republican ) (until January 4), Charles M. Dale (Republican ) (starting January 4)
Governor of New Jersey : Walter Evans Edge (Republican )
Governor of New Mexico : John J. Dempsey (Democratic )
Governor of New York : Thomas Dewey (Republican )
Governor of North Carolina : J. Melville Broughton (Democratic ) (until January 4), R. Gregg Cherry (Democratic ) (until January 4)
Governor of North Dakota : John Moses (Democratic ) (until January 4), Fred G. Aandahl (Republican ) (starting January 4)
Governor of Ohio : John W. Bricker (Republican ) (until January 8), Frank J. Lausche (Democratic ) (starting January 8)
Governor of Oklahoma : Robert S. Kerr (Democratic )
Governor of Oregon : Earl Snell (Republican )
Governor of Pennsylvania : Edward Martin (Republican )
Governor of Rhode Island : J. Howard McGrath (Democratic ) (until October 6), John Orlando Pastore (Democratic ) (starting October 6)
Governor of South Carolina : Olin D. Johnston (Democratic ) (until January 2), Ransome Judson Williams (Democratic ) (starting January 2)
Governor of South Dakota : Merrill Q. Sharpe (Republican )
Governor of Tennessee : Prentice Cooper (Democratic ) (until January 16), Jim Nance McCord (Democratic ) (starting January 16)
Governor of Texas : Coke R. Stevenson (Democratic )
Governor of Utah : Herbert B. Maw (Democratic )
Governor of Vermont : William H. Wills (Republican ) (until January 4), Mortimer R. Proctor (Republican ) (starting January 4)
Governor of Virginia : Colgate Darden (Democratic )
Governor of Washington : Arthur B. Langlie (Republican ) (until January 8), Monrad C. Wallgren (Democratic ) (starting January 8)
Governor of West Virginia : Matthew M. Neely (Democratic ) (until January 15), Clarence W. Meadows (Democratic ) (starting January 15)
Governor of Wisconsin : Walter S. Goodland (Republican )
Governor of Wyoming : Lester C. Hunt (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governors
Lieutenant Governor of Alabama : Leven H. Ellis (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas : James Lavesque Shaver (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of California : Frederick F. Houser (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Colorado : William Eugene Higby Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut : William L. Hadden (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Charles Wilbert Snow (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Delaware : Isaac J. MacCollum (Democratic ) (until January 16), Elbert N. Carvel (Democratic ) (starting January 16)
Lieutenant Governor of Idaho :
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois : Hugh W. Cross (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana : Charles M. Dawson (Democratic ) (until January 8), Richard T. James (Republican ) (starting January 8)
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa : Robert D. Blue (Republican ) (until January 11), Kenneth A. Evans (Republican ) (starting January 11)
Lieutenant Governor of Kansas : Jess C. Denious, Sr. (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky : Kenneth H. Tuggle (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana : J. Emile Verret (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts : Horace T. Cahill (Republican ) (until January 3), vacant (starting January 3)
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan : Eugene C. Keyes (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Vernon J. Brown (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota : Archie H. Miller (Republican ) (until January 2), C. Elmer Anderson (Republican ) (starting January 2)
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi : Fielding L. Wright (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri : vacant (until January 8), Walter Naylor Davis (Democratic ) (starting January 8)
Lieutenant Governor of Montana : Ernest T. Eaton (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska : Roy W. Johnson (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : Vail M. Pittman (Democratic ) (until July 24), vacant (starting July 24)
Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico : James B. Jones (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of New York : Joseph R. Hanley (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina : Reginald L. Harris (Democratic ) (until January 4), Lynton Y. Ballentine (Democratic ) (starting January 4)
Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota : vacant (until January 4), Clarence P. Dahl (Republican ) (starting January 4)
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio : Paul M. Herbert (Republican ) (until January 8), George D. Nye (Democratic ) (starting January 8)
Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma : James E. Berry (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania : John C. Bell, Jr. (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island :
until month and day unknown: vacant
month and day unknown: John O. Pastore (Democratic )
starting month and day unknown: vacant
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina : Ransome Judson Williams (Democratic ) (until January 2), vacant (starting January 2)
Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota : A. C. Miller (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Sioux K. Grigsby (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee : Joseph H. Ballew (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), Larry Morgan (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Texas : John Lee Smith (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont : Mortimer R. Proctor (Republican ) (until January 4), Lee E. Emerson (Republican ) (starting January 4)
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia : William M. Tuck (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Washington : Victor A. Meyers (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin : Oscar Rennebohm (Republican )
Events
January
January 20:Franklin D. Roosevelt , the President of the United States , begins his fourth term
Harry S. Truman becomes the 34th U.S. Vice President
February
February 4–11: Yalta Conference
March
April
April 12: Harry S. Truman becomes the 33rd U.S. President upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt
May
June
July
August
August 6: Atomic bombing of Hiroshima
September
September 2
World War II ends: The final official surrender of Japan is accepted by the Supreme Allied Commander, General Douglas MacArthur , and Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz for the United States, and delegates from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands , China, and others from a Japanese delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu , on board the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay (but in Japan August 14 is recognized as the day the Pacific War ended).
Japanese general Tomoyuki Yamashita surrenders to Filipino and American forces at Kiangan, Ifugao .
September 5
The Russian code clerk Igor Gouzenko comes forward with numerous documents implicating the Soviet Union in numerous spy rings in North America: both in the United States and in Canada.
Iva Toguri D'Aquino , a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist "Tokyo Rose ", is arrested in Yokohama .
September 8 – American troops occupy southern Korea , while the Soviet Union occupies the north, with the dividing line being the 38th parallel of latitude. This arrangement proves to be the indirect beginning of a divided Korea .
September 9 – The first actual case of a (computer) bug being found, is a moth lodged in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at the Naval Weapons Center in Dahlgren, Virginia.
September 20 – The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) is disbanded and split up among several other agencies.
October
November
December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January
Stephen Stills
Tom Selleck
January 1 – Diahnne Abbott , American actress and singer
January 3 – Stephen Stills , American rock singer, songwriter (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young )
January 4 – Richard R. Schrock , American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2005
January 6
January 7 – Tony Conigliaro , American baseball player (d. 1990 )
January 10 – Steven P. Perskie , American politician, judge
January 15 – Vince Foster , American deputy White House counsel during the first term of President Bill Clinton (d. 1993 )
January 20
January 22 – Jophery Brown , American baseball player, actor and stuntman (d. 2014 )
January 25 – Leigh Taylor-Young , American actress
January 28
January 29 – Tom Selleck , American actor (Magnum, P.I. )
January 30 – Michael Dorris , American author (d. 1997 )
January 31 – Joseph Kosuth , American artist
February
Mia Farrow
February 3 – Bob Griese , American football player
February 9 – Mia Farrow , American actress
February 12 – David D. Friedman , American economist
February 14 – Carl Bernstein , American investigative journalist and author
February 15 – Douglas Hofstadter , American cognitive scientist
February 17 – Zina Bethune , American actress, dancer and choreographer (d. 2012 )
February 20 – Henry Polic II , American actor (d. 2013 )
February 22 – Oliver , American singer (Good Morning Starshine ) (d. 2000 )
February 24 – Barry Bostwick , American actor
February 25 – Roy Saari , American swimmer (d. 2008 )
February 27 – Carl Anderson , American singer, actor (Jesus Christ Superstar ) (d. 2004 )
February 28 – Bubba Smith , American football player, actor (d. 2011 )
March
Micky Dolenz
Charles Greene
March 1 – Dirk Benedict , American actor
March 2 – Joy Garrett , American actor and vocalist (d. 1993 )
March 3 – Hattie Winston , American actress
March 4 – Gary Williams , American basketball coach
March 7 – Arthur Lee , American musician (d. 2006 )
March 8
March 9 – Dennis Rader , American serial killer
March 12 – Sammy Gravano , American mobster
March 14
March 20
March 21 – Charles Greene , American Olympic athlete
March 22 – Sheila Frahm , American politician
March 24 – Curtis Hanson , American film director, screenwriter (d. 2016 )
March 29 – Walt Frazier , African-American basketball player
March 31
April
Linda Hunt
Mike Smith
May
Bob Seger
John Fogerty
May 1 – Rita Coolidge , American pop singer
May 3 – Jeffrey C. Hall , American geneticist and chronobiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2017
May 5
May 6
May 8 – Keith Jarrett , American musician
May 21 – Richard Hatch , American actor (Battlestar Galactica ) (d. 2017 )
May 22 – Victoria Wyndham , American actress (Another World )
May 23 – Lauren Chapin , American child actress, evangelist
May 24 – Priscilla Wagner , American actress, businesswoman and wife of singer Elvis Presley
May 28
May 30
June
John Carlos
George Pataki
Carly Simon
June 1 – Frederica von Stade , American mezzo-soprano
June 2 – Jon Peters , American film producer
June 3 – Hale Irwin , American professional golfer
June 4 – Anthony Braxton , American composer, musical instrumentalist
June 5
June 6 – David Dukes , American actor (d. 2000 )
June 7 – Billy Butler , American singer, songwriter (d. 2015 )
June 8 – Steven Fromholz , American singer, songwriter (d. 2014 )
June 11 – Adrienne Barbeau , American actress, television personality and author (Maude )
June 13 – Rodney P. Rempt , American admiral
June 16 – Chip Damiani , American drummer (The Remains ) (d. 2014 )
June 17
June 19 – Greil Marcus , American music journalist, cultural critic
June 23 – Jim Fouratt , American gay activist, entertainer
June 24 – George Pataki , Governor of New York
June 25
June 26 – Dwight York , American musician, fashion consultant, cult leader, and child molester
June 27 – Norma Kamali , American fashion designer
June 30
July
Debbie Harry
Burt Ward
Ron Glass
July 1
July 2 – Linda Warren , American author
July 6 – Burt Ward , American actor and activist (Batman )
July 9 – Dean Koontz , American novelist
July 10 – Ron Glass , African-American actor (Barney Miller ) (d. 2016 )
July 11 – Richard Wesley , American playwright, screenwriter
July 12
July 13
July 15 – Jan-Michael Vincent , American actor (d. 2019 )
July 18
July 20
July 26 – Betty Davis , African-American funk and soul singer
July 28 – Jim Davis , American cartoonist (Garfield )
July 30
July 31 – William Weld , American politician
August
Steve Martin
Vince McMahon
August 1 – Douglas Osheroff , American physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1996
August 2 – Joanna Cassidy , American actress
August 4 – Alan Mulally , American businessman, CEO of the Ford Motor Company
August 5 – Loni Anderson , American actress (WKRP in Cincinnati )
August 7 – Alan Page , American football player
August 12 – J. D. McClatchy , American poet and literary critic (d. 2018 )
August 14 – Steve Martin , American actor, comedian
August 15
August 20 – Jonathan Goodson , American television game show producer, son of Mark Goodson
August 22
August 24
Marsha P. Johnson , born Malcolm Michaels Jr., African-American gay liberation activist and drag queen (d. 1992 )
Vince McMahon , American professional wrestling promoter, chairman and CEO of WWE
August 26
August 29 – Wyomia Tyus , American Olympic athlete
August 31 – Bob Welch , American musician (d. 2012 )
September
Richard Thaler
Jessye Norman
September 4 – Danny Gatton , American guitarist (d. 1994 )
September 8 – Ron "Pigpen" McKernan , American musician (d. 1973 )
September 9 – Doug Ingle , American singer, songwriter
September 12
September 14 – Benjamin Harjo Jr. , Native American artist
September 15 – Jessye Norman , African-American operatic soprano (d. 2019 )
September 16 – Pat Stevens , American voice actress (d. 2010 )
September 17 – Phil Jackson , American basketball coach
September 18 – P. F. Sloan , American singer, songwriter (d. 2015 )
September 19 – Randolph Mantooth , American actor, motivational speaker (Emergency! )
September 20
September 21 – Kay Ryan , American poet
September 23 – Paul Petersen , American child actor, advocate for other child actors
October
Don McLean
John Lithgow
Henry Winkler
October 1 – Donny Hathaway , African-American soul singer, songwriter (d. 1979 )
October 2 – Don McLean , American rock singer, songwriter (American Pie )
October 3 – Kay Baxter , American bodybuilder (d. 1988 )
October 4 – Clifton Davis , African-American actor, minister (Amen )
October 12 – Dusty Rhodes , American wrestler (d. 2015 )
October 13 – Susan Stafford , American television presenter
October 15 – Jim Palmer , American baseball player
October 18 – Huell Howser , American television personality, host of California's Gold (d. 2013 )
October 19 – John Lithgow , American actor (Third Rock from the Sun )
October 20 – George Wyner , American actor
October 22
October 24
October 25 – David Schramm , American astrophysicist (d. 1997 )
October 26
October 27 – Carrie Snodgress , American actress (d. 2004 )
October 29
October 30
October 31 – Brian Doyle-Murray , American actor (Saturday Night Live )
November
Goldie Hawn
James Avery
December
Bette Midler
Ernie Hudson
Diane Sawyer
December 1 – Bette Midler , American actress and singer[4]
December 2 – Charles "Tex" Watson , American prisoner, 'Manson Family' member
December 6 – Larry Bowa , American baseball player, manager
December 9 – Michael Nouri , American actor
December 13
Herman Cain , African-American conservative politician, author, business executive, radio host, syndicated columnist, and Tea Party activist (d. 2020 )
Kathy Garver , American actress, author and online radio hostess
Heather North , American actress (d. 2017 )
December 16 – Patti Deutsch , American voice actress (d. 2017 )
December 17
December 18 – Carolyn Wood , American professional swimmer
December 19 – Elaine Joyce , American actress, game show panelist
December 20
December 22
December 23 – Donald A. Ritchie , American historian
December 24 – Nicholas Meyer , American screenwriter, producer, director and novelist
December 25 – Gary Sandy , American actor
December 26 – John Walsh , American media personality (America's Most Wanted )
Date Unknown
Deaths
January 3 – Edgar Cayce , mysticist (born 1877 )
January 7
January 13 – Margaret Deland , novelist (born 1857 )
January 22 – Blind Willie Johnson , African American gospel singer and guitarist (born 1897 ; pneumonia)
January 23 – Newton E. Mason , U.S. Navy rear admiral (born 1850 )
January 30 – Herbert L. Clarke , cornet virtuoso (born 1867 )
January 31 – Eddie Slovik , soldier (born 1920 ; executed for desertion)
February 2 – Joe Hunt , tennis player (born 1919 ; killed in naval aviation accident)
February 5 – Volga Hayworth , showgirl (born c. 1898)
February 11 – Al Dubin , songwriter (born 1891 in Switzerland)
March 4
March 30 – Maurice Rose , U.S. Army general (born 1899 ; killed in action)
March 31 – Harriet Boyd Hawes , archaeologist (born 1871 )
April 10 – Gloria Dickson , actress (born 1917 ; killed in domestic fire)
April 12 – Franklin D. Roosevelt , 32nd President of the United States from 1933 to 1945 (born 1882 )
April 17 – Ernie Pyle , journalist (born 1900 )
April 29 – Malcolm McGregor , silent film actor (born 1892 )
April 30 – William Orlando Darby , U.S. Army colonel, creator of the Rangers (born 1911 ; killed in action)
May 14 – Heber J. Grant , 7th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1856 )
May 17 – Bobby Hutchins , Our Gang films child actor (born 1925 ; killed in military aviation accident)
May 18 – William Joseph Simmons , founder of the second Ku Klux Klan (born 1880 )
June 16 – Henry Bellamann , author (born 1882 )
June 18 – Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. , U.S. Army general (born 1886 ; killed in action at Battle of Okinawa )
20 June – Bruno Frank , German author, poet, dramatist and humanist (born 1887 )
July 13 – Alla Nazimova , scriptwriter and actress (born 1879 in Crimea)
July 16 – Addison Randall , Western film actor (born 1906 )
July 25 – Charles Gilman Norris , novelist (born 1881 )
August 9 – Harry Hillman , track athlete (born 1881 )
August 10 – Robert H. Goddard , rocket scientist (born 1882 )
August 25 – Willis Augustus Lee , U.S. Navy admiral and Olympic shooter (born 1888 ; heart attack on active service)
September 1 – Frank Craven , actor (born 1881 )
September 6 – John S. McCain Sr. , U.S. Navy admiral (born 1884 ; heart attack on active service)
September 20 – Jack Thayer , survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic (born 1894 )
September 26 – A. Peter Dewey , soldier, first American casualty in Vietnam (born 1916 )
October 1 – Walter Bradford Cannon , physiologist (born 1871 )
October 13 – Milton S. Hershey , chocolate tycoon (born 1857 )
October 24 – Charles D. Barney , stockbroker (born 1844 )
October 28 – Gilbert Emery , film actor and author (born 1875 )
November 7 – Gus Edwards , songwriter (born 1879 in Germany )
November 11 – Jerome Kern , popular composer (born 1885 )
November 21
November 23 – Charles Armijo Woodruff , U.S. Navy officer and 11th Governor of American Samoa from 1914 to 1915 (born 1884 ; suicide)
November 25 – Doris Keane , stage actress (born 1881 )
November 26 – Johnny Jenkins , auto racing driver (born 1875 in Wales )
November 28 – Dwight F. Davis , tennis player (born 1879 )
December 4 – Thomas Hunt Morgan , biologist, geneticist and embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 (born 1866 )
December 21 – George S. Patton , U.S. Army general (born 1885 ; died as result of auto accident in Germany)
December 28 – Theodore Dreiser , novelist (born 1871 )
See also
References
External links
1945 in North America
Sovereign states Dependencies and other territories