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• the Homestead Grays were the Negro League world champs every year from 1937 through 1945?
• the First cabinet Gerhardsen in 1945 featured the first female Norwegian Government minister, Kirsten Hansteen?
• the race movie, a genre of films produced for black audiences and featuring black casts, was very popular among African Americans in the United States between 1915 and 1945?
• the ceremony marking the Japanese surrender of Timor on 11 September 1945 was held aboard HMAS Moresby?
• the history of nuclear weapons and the United States includes around 1,054 nuclear tests between 1945 and 1992?
• the game between FC Bayern Munich and 1860 Munich on 23 April 1945 in the Gauliga Bayern, ending 3–2, was the last official football game played in Nazi Germany?
• the 1945 Trial of the Sixteen helped the USSR consolidate its control over Poland?
• in 1945, entrepreneur Leonard Shoen founded U-Haul, first American cargo trailer-rental company?
• Charles Butler McVay III, commander of the USS Indianapolis, was blamed when it was lost at sea in 1945 and only finally exonerated by the United States Congress posthumously in 2000?
• Austrian mathematician Wilhelm Wirtinger (1865–1945) showed how to compute the fundamental group of a knot?
• French Army soldiers killed between 15,000 and 45,000 Algerian civilians in the Setif massacre of May 8, 1945, the same day as V-E day in Europe?
• Labour's Alfred Dobbs was the shortest-serving post-war British Member of Parliament – just one day, before his death in 1945?
• in 1945, Frederick C. Branch became the first African-American U.S. Marine Corps officer?
• Bhulabhai Desai negotiated a secret power-sharing deal with Liaquat Ali Khan in 1945 that would have prevented the partition of India and the creation of Pakistan?
• Air Marshal Sir Richard Gordon Wakeford flew Catalina flying boats in the Second World War, and was involved in the last sinking of a German U-boat on 8 May 1945?

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