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  • Tokyo, Japan
    Feb, 1945
    Hirohito

    The First Private audience with The Emperor

    Tokyo, Japan
    Feb, 1945

    In February 1945 during the first private audience with the Emperor which he had been allowed in three years, Konoe advised Hirohito to begin negotiations to end the war.




  • Poland and Eastern Germany
    Friday Feb 2, 1945
    World War II

    Vistula–Oder Offensive ended

    Poland and Eastern Germany
    Friday Feb 2, 1945

    The Vistula–Oder Offensive was a Red Army operation on the Eastern Front in January 1945. The army made a major advance into German-held territory, capturing Kraków, Warsaw and Poznań. The offensive lasted from 12 January till 2 February 1945. As result, most of Poland occupied by the Soviet Union.




  • London, United Kingdom
    Feb, 1945
    Queen Elizabeth II

    Elizabeth appointed as an honorary second subaltern

    London, United Kingdom
    Feb, 1945

    In February 1945, she was appointed as an honorary second subaltern in the Auxiliary Territorial Service with the service number of 230873.




  • Yalta, Crimea, U.S.S.R.
    Sunday Feb 4, 1945
    World War II

    Yalta Conference

    Yalta, Crimea, U.S.S.R.
    Sunday Feb 4, 1945

    On 4 February, Soviet, British, and US leaders met for the Yalta Conference. They agreed on the occupation of post-war Germany, and on when the Soviet Union would join the war against Japan.




  • Yalta, Crimea
    Sunday Feb 4, 1945
    Winston Churchill

    Yalta Conference

    Yalta, Crimea
    Sunday Feb 4, 1945

    Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin had been met at the Yalta Conference, February 1945.




  • Nine Mile, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica
    Tuesday Feb 6, 1945
    Bob Marley

    Born

    Nine Mile, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica
    Tuesday Feb 6, 1945

    Bob Marley was born on 6 February 1945 at the farm of his maternal grandfather in Nine Mile, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica.




  • Italy
    Wednesday Feb 7, 1945
    08:38:00 PM
    Benito Mussolini

    The Porzûs massacre

    Italy
    Wednesday Feb 7, 1945
    08:38:00 PM

    The Porzûs massacre was an intra-partisan massacre of the Italian resistance during late World War II, on 7 February 1945.


  • Dresden, Germany
    Tuesday Feb 13, 1945
    Winston Churchill

    Bombing of Dresden

    Dresden, Germany
    Tuesday Feb 13, 1945

    On the nights of 13–15 February 1945, some 1,200 British and US bombers attacked the German city of Dresden, which was crowded with wounded and refugees from the Eastern Front. The attacks were part of an area bombing campaign that was initiated by Churchill in January with the intention of shortening the war. Churchill came to regret the bombing because initial reports suggested an excessive number of civilian casualties close to the end of the war, though an independent commission in 2010 confirmed a death toll between 22,700 and 25,000.


  • Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
    Tuesday Feb 13, 1945
    World War II

    Fall of Budapest

    Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
    Tuesday Feb 13, 1945

    The Siege of Budapest was the 50-day-long encirclement by Soviet and Romanian forces of the Hungarian capital of Budapest. The city unconditionally surrendered on 13 February 1945. It was a strategic victory for the Allies in their push towards Berlin.


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