page_title: 1945
section_title: September
hierarchical_section_title: 1945 / Events / September
caption_attribution_description: English: The victory memorial in Zhongshan Warship Tourist Area. 中文: 中山舰lv旅游区 English: "Surrender of the japanese garrison in Wuhan" (1945-09-18)
context_page_description: 1945 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1945th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 945th year of the 2nd millennium, the 45th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1940s decade.
  It marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It also saw the only time nuclear weapons were used in combat.
context_section_description: September 2 – World War II ends:
  Japanese general Tomoyuki Yamashita surrenders to Filipino and American forces at Kiangan, Ifugao.
  The final official Japanese Instrument of Surrender is accepted by the Supreme Allied Commander, General Douglas MacArthur, and Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz for the United States, and delegates from the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, China, and others from a Japanese delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu, on board the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
  General Douglas MacArthur is given the title of Supreme Commander Allied Powers, and is also tasked with the occupation of Japan.
  The Democratic Republic of Vietnam is officially established, by Ho Chi Minh.
  September 4 – WWII: Japanese forces surrender on Wake Island, after hearing word of their country's surrender.
  September 5
  Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist "Tokyo Rose", is arrested in Yokohama.
  Russian code clerk Igor Gouzenko comes forward with numerous documents, implicating the Soviet Union in many spy rings in North America, both in the United States and in Canada.
  September 8
  U.S. troops occupy southern Korea, while the Soviet Union occupies the north, with the dividing line being the 38th parallel of latitude. This arrangement proves to be the indirect beginning of a divided Korea, which will lead to the Korean War in 1950.
  September 9 – Chiang Kai-shek officially accepts the Japanese capitulation at Nanking.
  September 10 – Vidkun Quisling is sentenced to death as a Nazi collaborator, in Norway.
  September 11
  Hideki Tōjō, Japanese prime minister during most of WWII, attempts suicide to avoid facing a war crimes tribunal.
  Radio Republik Indonesia starts broadcasting.
  The Batu Lintang camp in Sarawak, Borneo is liberated by Australian forces.
  September 12 – The Japanese Army formally surrenders to the British in Singapore.
  September 18
  Typhoon Makurazaki kills 3,746 people in Japan.
  The Japanese Army in Central China officially surrenders to the Chinese, in Wuhan.
  September 20 – Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru demand that all British troops depart India.
  September 24 – Anti-Jewish violence in Central and Eastern Europe, 1944–46: The Topoľčany pogrom is carried out in Slovakia.
caption: August 18: The surrender of the Japanese Army in Central China, 1945-09-18. (Memorial in Wuhan)
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