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historic flag to be raised over Tokyo for Gen MacArthur
Approves Cong investigation of Pearl Harbor disaster
Truman message to Cong urges continuation
President Truman told Congress yesterday that it had reassembled in a "time of great emergency" and he submitted a twenty-one-point legislative program to achieve "as full peacetime production and employment as possible in the most efficient and speedy manner."
1945Jacques Lemaire, Canadian ice hockey player and coach[†]
Jacques Gérard Lemaire is a Canadian former ice hockey forward and head coach who was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1984. He spent his entire twelve-year National Hockey League (NHL) playing career with the Montreal Canadiens (1967–1979) and was a part of eight Stanley Cup championship teams in 1968, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1979. In 2017, Lemaire was named one of the "100 Greatest NHL Players".
1945Vic Pollard, English-New Zealand rugby player and footballer[†]
Victor Pollard is an English-born former Test and One-Day International cricketer and footballer who represented New Zealand at the international level in both sports.
1945Curtis Price, American musicologist and academic[†]
Curtis Alexander Price, KBE was Warden of New College, Oxford, from October 2009 to September 2016. He was previously principal of the Royal Academy of Music from 1995 to 2008 and Professor of Music in the University of London. He retired as Warden of New College in August 2016.
1945Peter Storey, English footballer[†]
Peter Edwin Storey is an English former footballer. Able to play at full-back or more commonly as a defensive midfielder, he picked up a reputation in the Football League as an aggressive player in the 1960s and 1970s.
1945World War II: Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.[†]
Wake Island, also known as Wake Atoll, is a coral atoll in the Micronesia subregion of the Pacific Ocean. The atoll is composed of three islets – Wake, Wilkes, and Peale Islands – surrounding a lagoon encircled by a coral reef. The nearest inhabited island is Utirik Atoll in the Marshall Islands, located 592 miles to the southeast.
1945The Berlin Victory Parade of 1945 is held.[†]
The Berlin Victory Parade of 1945 was held by the Allies of World War II on 7 September 1945 in Berlin, the capital of the defeated Germany, shortly after the end of World War II. The four participating countries were the Soviet Union, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.