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Second World War: British and Indian forces conducted a successful airborne assault on a Japanese artillery battery duri
World War II: General Helmuth Weidling, the German commander of Berlin, surrendered to Soviet forces led by Marshal Geor
Second World War: The German ocean liner Cap Arcona, afloat in the Bay of Lübeck with thousands of concentration camp su
World War II: American and German troops fought side-by-side at the Battle for Castle Itter, defending a prison against
World War II: The citizens of Prague spontaneously rose up against the city's German occupiers
The Mauthausen and Gusen concentration camps were liberated by the United States Army
A parade in Sétif, French Algeria, celebrating the end of World War II in Europe became a riot and was followed by repri
The British Army directed fleeing Croatian soldiers to surrender to the Yugoslav Partisans, beginning the Bleiburg repat
The United States conducted the first detonation of a nuclear weapon during the Trinity test (pictured).
A B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building in New York City, killing 14 people and causing an estimated…
World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force bomber Enola Gay dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan…
World War II: The USAAF bomber Bockscar dropped a Fat Man atomic bomb (replica pictured) on Nagasaki, Japan.
Amid rumors of kidnappings of children by Jews in Kraków, a crowd of Poles took part in a pogrom, resulting in at…
An official administrative history of the Manhattan Project, written by American physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth, was…
The Stanley Internment Camp in Hong Kong was liberated following the announcement of the surrender of Japan in World…
The independence of Indonesia was proclaimed by Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta , igniting a revolution against the Dutch…
World War II: Amid a Soviet invasion of Japanese-held Sakhalin, Japanese police massacred 18 Koreans in Kamishisuka.
American physicist Harry Daghlian accidentally dropped a tungsten carbide brick onto a plutonium bomb core, exposing…
Kenji Hatanaka (pictured) and other Japanese military officers launched an attempted coup d'état to prevent the…
Kenji Hatanaka (pictured) and other Japanese military officers launched an attempted coup d'état to prevent the…