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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)
1945 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1945th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 945th year of the 2nd millennium, the 45th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1940s decade.
Harris and his circle of literary friends agreed that a hitherto completely unknown modernist poet of great merit had come to light in suburban Australia. The Autumn 1944 edition of the magazine with the poems comes out in mid-1945 due to wartime printing delays with cover illustration by Sidney Nolan. An Australian newspaper uncovers the hoax ...
May 7, 1945 – Germany surrenders, end of World War II in Europe; 1945 – Carousel opens on Broadway; 1945 – Potsdam Conference; 1945 - Tennessee Williams’s play The Glass Menagerie opens in New York; August 6 and 9, 1945 – Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. August 14, 1945 – Japan surrenders, ending World War II.
Between 1945 and 1960, GNP grew by 250%, expenditures on new construction multiplied nine times, and consumption on personal services increased three times. By 1960, per capita income was 35% higher than in 1945, and America had entered what the economist Walt Rostow referred to as the "high mass consumption" stage of economic development ...
For Erica Tso Haidas, founder of Belonging Books in Hyannis, Coombs' book is a nonfiction account of America's earliest days with stories woven in that reflect the ways of Wampanoag life.
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1945 marked the end of an era. In foreign policy the United Nations was established on October 24, 1945, to serve as a world body to help prevent future world wars. By a vote of 65 to 7, the United States Senate, on December 4, 1945, approved the treaty that set full American participation in the UN, with a veto in the all-important Security ...