Born in 1945

A selection from Wikipedia's '1945 in the United States'. Not a complete list.

• February 23 – Battle of Iwo Jima: A group of United States Marines reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag.
• March 1 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt gives what will be his last address to a joint session of Congress, reporting on the Yalta Conference.
• April 25 – Founding negotiations for the United Nations begin in San Francisco.
• May 5 – The cartoon character Yosemite Sam debuts in Hare Trigger.
• June 22 – WWII: Battle of Okinawa ends, with U.S. occupation of the island until 1972.
• July 16 – The Trinity test detonates the world's first atomic bomb.
• August 14 – (August 15 in Japan) – Emperor Hirohito announces Japan's surrender on the radio. The United States calls this day V-J Day (Victory over Japan). This ends the period of Japanese expansionism and begins the period of Occupied Japan.
• November 16 – Cold War: The United States controversially imports 88 German scientists to help in the production of rocket technology.

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