1945
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"In 1945 The Andrews Sisters appropriated the song "Rum and Coca-Cola", which had originally been recorded by Jamaican musician Lord Invader."--Sholem Stein "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."--Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell |
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1945 (MCMXLV) was the 945th year of the 2nd millennium, the 45th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1940s decade. This year also marks the end of the Second World War, the deadliest conflict in human history.
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Art and culture
- The end of World War II and the public disclosure of the Holocaust atrocities
- Paragraph 175: when concentration camps were liberated, gays were not freed but made to serve out their sentence under Paragraph 175
- Adolf Hitler committs suicide as Russian shells exploded in the Chancellery garden above. It was twelve years and three months since he had become dictator of Germany.
- Vannevar Bush foresees the invention of hypertext
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Literature
- La môme vert-de-gris by Peter Cheyney, first title in the Série Noire
- Naked City, a book collection of photographs, by the American photographer Weegee.
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- "Cézanne's Doubt", an essay by French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
- Listen, Little Man! by Wilhem Reich
- "Existentialism Is a Humanism" lecture by Sartre
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Music
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Film
- Rome, Open City by Roberto Rossellini
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Guilty pleasures
- Mom and Dad by William Beaudine
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Births
- May 31 – Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German film director (d. 1982)
- March 22 – Jorge Ben , Brazilian musician
- March 23 – Franco Battiato, Italian singer-songwriter and director (d. 2021)
- June 19 – Greil Marcus, American music journalist and cultural critic
- October 19 - Divine, American actor (d. 1988)
- Unknown - Toshio Saeki, Japanese illustrator and painter (d. 2019)
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Deaths
- March 20 – Lord Alfred Douglas, English poet (b. 1870)
- April 22 – Käthe Kollwitz, German artist (b. 1867)
- April 28 - Benito Mussolini, Italian Fascist dictator (executed) (b. 1883)
- April 30 - Adolf Hitler, German Nazi dictator (suicide) (b. 1889)
- June 8 – Robert Desnos, French poet and resistance fighter (b. 1900)
- July 20 – Paul Valéry, French poet (b. 1871)
- August 26 – Franz Werfel, Austrian writer (b. 1890)
- September 15 – Anton Webern, Austrian composer (b. 1883)
- September 20 – William Seabrook, Writer, journalist, occultist and explorer (b. 1884)
- December 28 – Theodore Dreiser, American author (b. 1871)
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