Only 200,000 essential workers were left in
Tokyo due to mass evacuations.[2]
The submarine
USS Barb fired rockets on Kaihyo Island near
Sakhalin, becoming the first American underwater craft to fire rockets in shore bombardment.[3]
About 500 Canadian troops
rioted in Aldershot, England, in protest about the delay in sending them home.[6]
The Auxiliary Flight Research Station (AFRS) on
Wallops Island,
Virginia, launched its first test vehicle, a small two-stage, solid-fuel rocket to check out the installation's instrumentation.[7]
Japanese soldiers in Burma carried out the
Kalagong massacre, killing an estimated 600 villagers after they failed to provide any information under questioning about guerrillas in the area.
The
Utah prisoner of war massacre occurred just after midnight when an American soldier killed nine German prisoners of war and wounded twenty others at a camp in
Salina, Utah.
Japanese submarine I-13 was possibly sunk in the Pacific Ocean on this date by the American destroyer escort Lawrence C. Taylor and aircraft from the escort carrier Anzio.
The
Potsdam Conference began in
Potsdam,
occupied Germany. Representatives of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States met to discuss how to administer postwar Germany.
A U.S. Navy captain in the Office of War Information broadcast in Japanese an unauthorized talk in which he stated that American patience was "rapidly running out" and told Japan to surrender unconditionally or face "virtual destruction".[14]
American, British and Russian officials agreed to allow their respective military police forces to move freely throughout all occupation zones of Berlin to thwart the city's runaway black market trade.[15]
Art treasures worth an estimated $500 million U.S. that had been looted by the Germans during the war were returned to two galleries in
Florence, Italy.[16]
Harry S. Truman told
Joseph Stalin that a new and powerful weapon was ready to be deployed against Japan, but did not provide any specific information.[17]
The Potsdam Conference adjourned temporarily so the British delegation could return to England to hear the election results.[17]
The U.S. government announced the end of all organized Japanese resistance on
Mindanao.[5]
Japanese Patrol Boat No. 2 (former destroyer
Nadakaze) was sunk by British submarine
HMS Stubborn in the
Java Sea.
Philippe Pétain caused an uproar when he spoke for the first time during his trial, claiming that he was deaf and had not heard a thing that had been said in court up to that time. Many in the courtroom did not believe him, pointing out that he had frequently appeared to be listening attentively and fidgeted the most when serious charges were being made against him.[18]
British minesweeper
Vestal was heavily damaged by a kamikaze attack. She would later be scuttled becoming the last
Royal Navy ship sunk in World War II.
At a press conference, Japanese Prime Minister
Kantarō Suzuki gave a response to the Potsdam Declaration that elicited confusion. The translation was unclear as to whether he refused to acknowledge the demand or wished to make no comment at that time.[2]
Died:Margot Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, 81, British socialite, author and wit, widow of
H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, in London
Henry Ford issued a statement that "the nation and the world are on the threshold of a prosperity and standard of living that never before were considered possible."[21]
In the last notable Japanese success of the war, the American cruiser
USS Indianapolis was torpedoed and sunk in the
Philippine Sea by the submarine I-58.
Only 200,000 essential workers were left in
Tokyo due to mass evacuations.[2]
The submarine
USS Barb fired rockets on Kaihyo Island near
Sakhalin, becoming the first American underwater craft to fire rockets in shore bombardment.[3]
About 500 Canadian troops
rioted in Aldershot, England, in protest about the delay in sending them home.[6]
The Auxiliary Flight Research Station (AFRS) on
Wallops Island,
Virginia, launched its first test vehicle, a small two-stage, solid-fuel rocket to check out the installation's instrumentation.[7]
Japanese soldiers in Burma carried out the
Kalagong massacre, killing an estimated 600 villagers after they failed to provide any information under questioning about guerrillas in the area.
The
Utah prisoner of war massacre occurred just after midnight when an American soldier killed nine German prisoners of war and wounded twenty others at a camp in
Salina, Utah.
Japanese submarine I-13 was possibly sunk in the Pacific Ocean on this date by the American destroyer escort Lawrence C. Taylor and aircraft from the escort carrier Anzio.
The
Potsdam Conference began in
Potsdam,
occupied Germany. Representatives of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States met to discuss how to administer postwar Germany.
A U.S. Navy captain in the Office of War Information broadcast in Japanese an unauthorized talk in which he stated that American patience was "rapidly running out" and told Japan to surrender unconditionally or face "virtual destruction".[14]
American, British and Russian officials agreed to allow their respective military police forces to move freely throughout all occupation zones of Berlin to thwart the city's runaway black market trade.[15]
Art treasures worth an estimated $500 million U.S. that had been looted by the Germans during the war were returned to two galleries in
Florence, Italy.[16]
Harry S. Truman told
Joseph Stalin that a new and powerful weapon was ready to be deployed against Japan, but did not provide any specific information.[17]
The Potsdam Conference adjourned temporarily so the British delegation could return to England to hear the election results.[17]
The U.S. government announced the end of all organized Japanese resistance on
Mindanao.[5]
Japanese Patrol Boat No. 2 (former destroyer
Nadakaze) was sunk by British submarine
HMS Stubborn in the
Java Sea.
Philippe Pétain caused an uproar when he spoke for the first time during his trial, claiming that he was deaf and had not heard a thing that had been said in court up to that time. Many in the courtroom did not believe him, pointing out that he had frequently appeared to be listening attentively and fidgeted the most when serious charges were being made against him.[18]
British minesweeper
Vestal was heavily damaged by a kamikaze attack. She would later be scuttled becoming the last
Royal Navy ship sunk in World War II.
At a press conference, Japanese Prime Minister
Kantarō Suzuki gave a response to the Potsdam Declaration that elicited confusion. The translation was unclear as to whether he refused to acknowledge the demand or wished to make no comment at that time.[2]
Died:Margot Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, 81, British socialite, author and wit, widow of
H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, in London
Henry Ford issued a statement that "the nation and the world are on the threshold of a prosperity and standard of living that never before were considered possible."[21]
In the last notable Japanese success of the war, the American cruiser
USS Indianapolis was torpedoed and sunk in the
Philippine Sea by the submarine I-58.