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7500 British troops, trapped on the far side of the Rhine at Arnhem, are captured by the Germans
Athens is liberated and the Greek government-in-exile returns, with George Papandreou at its head
Tito and his partisans, with Soviet assistance, liberate Belgrade
Civil war breaks out in Greece between rival groups of partisans resisting demobilization
The Germans stage a counter-attack in the Ardennes region before being pushed back in the Battle of the Bulge
US dramatist Tennessee Williams has his first success with The Glass Menagerie
Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill meet at Yalta to discuss Allied post-war plans
The Germans surrender Budapest to the Soviets after a costly siege
American and Soviet troops join up at Torgau, 70 miles south of Berlin
Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are shot by partisans and their bodies are hung from a gibbet in Milan
The citizens of Prague, and other cities in Czechoslovakia, rise against the Germans as the Red Army approaches from the east
The Sudetenland is restored to Czechoslovakia, seven years after its transfer to Germany under the Munich Agreement
The Japanese in Korea surrender to the Russians in the north and to the Americans in the south
[1939-1945] - the death toll in World War II, double that of World War I, includes 17 million Russians and 8 million Chinese
Joshua Lederberg and Edward Tatum announce their discovery of bacterial conjunction, meaning that in effect bacteria mate and transfer genes
Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, set in a down-and-out bar of the kind he had known in his youth, is performed in New York
Marlon Brando stars on Broadway in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar named Desire
The first transistor is produced in the Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey
The Morris Minor is launched, designed by Alec Issigonis, and becomes one of Britain's best-selling cars
Six Arab states attack Israel in support of the Palestinians, starting the first Arab-Israeli war
The World Council of Churches is established in Amsterdam – a significant step in the ecumenical movement
700,000 Palestinian Arabs flee from their homes in Israel and become refugees
Prime minister Ben Chifley sees Australia's first mass-produced car, the Holden, roll off the production line
Death of a Salesman, by US playwright Arthur Miller, has its first performance in New York
The first Soviet atomic bomb, called by the Americans Joe One, is successfully tested in Kazakhstan
