1945 Australian National Airways Stinson crash, Aftermath
The sole remaining Stinson Model A in Australia, VH-UKK Binana, had its certificate of airworthiness suspended and it did not fly again. The accident drew public attention to the potential for metal fatigue to cause sudden failure of the structure of a modern civil aircraft. The Department of Civil Aviation began a practice of calculating the safe retirement life of metal aircraft registered in Australia.


1945 Australian National Airways Stinson crash, Aftermath
In December 1946 the University of Melbourne organised an international symposium titled The Failure of Metals by Fatigue, the first such symposium in an English-speaking country. Five of the thirty technical papers presented at the symposium dealt specifically with the problem of metal fatigue in aircraft.


1945 Australian National Airways Stinson crash, Aftermath
The Structures and Materials Division of the Division of Aeronautics laboratory at Fishermen's Bend, Melbourne began a long-term program aimed at advancing the knowledge of metal fatigue in aircraft structures. Surplus wings, manufactured by Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation during its licence-production of North American P-51 Mustang aircraft, were tested by repeated loading to examine the characteristics of fatigue in aircraft structures. Eventually, approximately 200 Mustang wings were tested in this way.


1945 Austrian legislative election
The elections to the Austrian National Council held on 25 November 1945 were the first after World War II. The elections were held according to the Austrian election law of 1929, with all citizens at least 21 years old eligible to vote, however former Nazis were banned from voting, official sources putting their numbers at around 200,000.


1945 Austrian legislative election
The Austrian People's Party, comprising elements of the prewar Christian Social Party under the leadership of Leopold Figl, won a decisive victory, receiving just under half of the vote and 85 of the 165 seats in the National Council. With an outright majority of two seats, the ÖVP could have governed alone. However, Figl retained with the three-party grand coalition alongside the Socialists and Communists. The Communists, who had been equally represented in the government of Figl's predecessor, Socialist Karl Renner, since the end of the war, only received one cabinet post.


1945 Austrian legislative election
On 20 December 1945 the Federal Assembly of Austria unanimously elected incumbent Chancellor Renner as President of Austria. Renner swore in Figl as new chancellor on the same day.


1945 Austrian legislative election
The Communists only gained four seats, which some blamed on the conduct of the Red Army in the Soviet occupied zone of Austria. This proved to be the beginning of a long decline for the Communists, though they stayed in the chamber until May 1959.


1945 Avro York crash
On 1 February 1945 an Avro York carrying members of the British delegation to the Yalta conference crashed off the Italian island of Lampedusa. During the flight to Yalta, undertaken during night time, the crew became unsure of their position due to a navigation radio malfunction. The aircraft ended up over Lampedusa and circled for approximately one hour as crew members attempted to verify their position. The crew eventually determined the proper course to Malta but by then the aircraft lacked the fuel quantity to cover the distance. During an attempted ditching the Avro crashed into the sea, killing all four crew and 11 passengers. Some sources state there were four survivors.


1945 Avro York crash
The aircraft crew consisted of Warrant Officer William Wright, Leading Aircraftman John Chicken - wireless operator, Flight Sergeant Alfred Claude Jack Walker – flight engineer and Flying Officer Arthur Applebey – air gunner.


1945 Avro York crash
Results of the accident investigation were reported to Parliament by Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair. He stated in part, that the air crew had sufficient experience but had never previously flown together as a crew.


1945 Avro York crash
Six victims of the crash were buried at Imtarfa Military Cemetery in Malta. Some of the CWGC graves are damaged due to bombing of a nearby airfield in the Second World War. Wright is buried in the Medjez-el-Bab War Cemetery in Tunisia.


1945 Ball State Cardinals football team
The 1945 Ball State Cardinals football team was an American football team that represented Ball State Teachers College (later renamed Ball State University) in the Indiana Intercollegiate Conference (IIC) during the 1945 college football season. In its 10th season under head coach John Magnabosco, the team compiled a 4–1–1 record.


1945 Balochistan earthquake
The 1945 Balochistan earthquake (Urdu: بلوچستان زلزلہ 1945) occurred in British India at 1:26 PKT on 28 November 1945 with a moment magnitude of 8.1 and a maximum perceived intensity of X (Extreme) on the Mercalli intensity scale.


1945 Balochistan earthquake, Earthquake
The earthquake's epicenter was 97.6 kilometers south-southwest of Pasni in Balochistan and a tsunami caused damage along the Makran coastal region. Deaths from the event were reported to be at least 300 and as many as 4,000 people.


1945 Balochistan earthquake, Earthquake
Another very large earthquake (7.3 Ms) occurred in nearly the same location on August 5, 1947, but not much is known about the event or its effects.


1945 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting
Elections to the Baseball Hall of Fame for 1945 included the first regular election conducted in three years and a strong response to criticism of the slow pace of honors. The Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) voted by mail to select from recent players, and elected no one. The Old Timers Committee responded by electing the biggest class yet, ten people. The selections by the Committee, announced in April 1945, were: Roger Bresnahan, Dan Brouthers, Fred Clarke, Jimmy Collins, Ed Delahanty, Hugh Duffy, Hughie Jennings, King Kelly, Jim O'Rourke, and Wilbert Robinson.


1945 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting
After the baseball centennial and grand opening of the Hall of Fame in 1939, the BBWAA had determined to vote only every third year. After electing three players that year, it elected one in 1942 and none in 1945. New rules now provided that the writers would return to voting on recent players annually.


1945 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 1944 background
In response to increasing complaints that the stars of the 19th century were being ignored, commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis had in August 1944 enlarged the Hall of Fame Committee from four members to seven. He had instructed them to elect a minimum of 10 players from the 1876–1900 period when they met as the Old-Timers Committee in early 1945—a goal the committee members believed would be relatively easy to meet, as some among them stated that the number of qualified candidates was likely over two dozen.


1945 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 1944 background
After Landis' death in November 1944, the committee met briefly and elected Landis to the Hall of Fame. They also suggested that if the January 1945 election by the BBWAA failed to select any players whose careers extended into the initial years of the 20th century, some would be selected by the committee when they met in February.


1945 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
Members of the BBWAA again had the authority to select any players active in the 20th century (after 1900), provided they had not appeared in a major league game in 1944. Voters were instructed to cast votes for 10 candidates; any candidate receiving votes on at least 75% of the ballots would be honored with induction to the Hall.


1945 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
A total of 247 ballots were cast, with 2,362 individual votes for 95 specific candidates, an average of 9.56 per ballot; 186 votes were required for election. The results were announced on January 28, 1945. The emphasis on the players of the 1900s and 1910s, who many voters felt should be given priority, again continued to increase beyond the levels seen in 1939 and 1942.


1945 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
Only five of the top 22 candidates in the voting, and none of the top six, had seen any substantial play since 1917; only three of the top 36, and none of the top 22, had played their final season anytime between 1918 and 1933. Eight of the top 13 candidates were deceased. Players who had been retired over 27 years – 48 of the 94 named – received 72% of the votes.


1945 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
For the first time in the three BBWAA elections, no candidate received at least 75% of the vote. Particularly in view of the fact that the next election was not scheduled to be held until 1948, that a new generation of players was quickly becoming eligible, and that increasingly fractured voting patterns would make selections more improbable, criticism became widespread that the election system needed to be reviewed and quickly revised; it was suggested that the Old-Timers Committee might select some of the earliest popular candidates to help clear the top of the ballot. At its September 1945 meeting, the Hall of Fame Committee ordered that the three-year wait between elections be abolished, and that annual elections resume under a revised format.


1945 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
Candidates who have since been selected in subsequent elections are indicated in italics; players chosen by the Old-Timers Committee in 1945 are marked with an asterisk (*).


1945 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Old-Timers Committee
In response to the failure of the BBWAA to select any inductees, the Old-Timers Committee was encouraged to assist the BBWAA in clearing the congestion at the top of its ballot by including, among their 10 requested selections from the period 1876–1900, some players whose careers extended into the early 20th century – in particular, the three players gaining over 100 votes in the BBWAA election whose careers had peaked before 1905.


1945 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Old-Timers Committee
The committee members were: Hall of Fame president Stephen C. Clark, who chaired the committee; Hall of Fame treasurer Paul S. Kerr, the committee secretary; Yankees president Ed Barrow; Athletics owner/manager Connie Mack; New York sportswriter Sid Mercer; Braves president Bob Quinn; and Boston sportswriter Mel Webb. The committee had initially planned to meet in February; but the long search for a successor to Landis, along with the retirements of Barrow and Quinn as club presidents, delayed the meeting until April 25, one day after Albert "Happy" Chandler was elected as the new commissioner. On that day, in the offices of the New York Yankees, six members of the committee met to make their selections; Sid Mercer could not attend due to a long illness which took his life 8 weeks later.


1945 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Old-Timers Committee, Selections
The committee, as requested, selected 10 inductees, the first three by unanimous vote:


1945 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Old-Timers Committee, Selections
Of the 10 selections, only Clarke and Duffy were still living. The committee intended to consider the pitchers of the era at their next meeting in September, and to elect additional members at that time. When they met in Cooperstown on September 6, however, they focused instead on revising the widely criticized election process, and ordered that the BBWAA resume annual elections under a revised format which was hoped to facilitate more selections (the BBWAA having selected only one player in six years).


1945 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Old-Timers Committee, Selections
Former National League president John Heydler participated in the meeting to replace those members who were deceased or otherwise unable to attend. Once the decision was made to hold the next election in 1946 rather than in 1948, the committee agreed to postpone the selection of pitchers and other candidates until they met in spring 1946.


1945 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Old-Timers Committee, Other candidates
Among those candidates who were not elected by the Old-Timers Committee at their April 1945 meeting, there were five who received particularly strong support or attention:


1945 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Old-Timers Committee, Criticism and rationale
Although the committee's selections were roundly applauded at the time, in later years many baseball historians and writers came to believe strongly that the committee erred in some of its 1945 selections, and that too many individuals had been elected; however, this view does not consider the fact that the committee had been required to select 10 inductees that year. There are also several factors which make the reasons for their choices clearly discernible:


1945 Baylor Bears football team
The 1945 Baylor Bears football team represented Baylor University in the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1945 college football season. In their third, non-consecutive season under head coach Frank Kimbrough, the Bears compiled a 5–5–1 record (2–4 against conference opponents), finished in sixth place in the conference, and outscored opponents by a combined total of 178 to 141. They played their home games at Municipal Stadium in Waco, Texas. Jack O. Price and Richard "Bull" Johnson were the team captains.


1945 Bebington Municipal Borough Council election
The 1945 Bebington Municipal Borough Council election took place in 1945 to elect members of Bebington Municipal Borough Council in England.


1945 Bermondsey Borough election
Elections to Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey were held in 1949.


1945 Bermondsey Borough election
The borough had 12 wards which returned between 3 and 6 members. Of the 12 wards 2 of the wards had all candidates elected unopposed. Labour won all the seats except one ward. The Conservatives standing as Municipal Reform won one ward.


1945 Big Ten Conference football season
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1945 Big Ten Conference football season
The 1945 Big Ten Conference football season was the 50th season of college football played by the member schools of the Big Ten Conference (also known as the Western Conference) and was a part of the 1945 college football season.


1945 Big Ten Conference football season
The 1945 Indiana Hoosiers football team, under head coach Bo McMillin, compiled the only undefeated record and won the first Big Ten championship in the program's history. The Hoosiers compiled a 9–0–1 record, led the conference in both scoring offense (27.9 points per game) and scoring defense (5.6 points allowed per game), and finished the season ranked No. 4 in the final AP Poll. The lone blemish on the team's record was a 7-7 tie with Northwestern in the second game of the season. End Bob Ravensberg was a consensus first-team pick on the 1945 College Football All-America Team. Freshman halfback George Taliaferro rushed for 719 yards (the first African-American player to lead the Big Ten in rushing) and received second-team All-American honors.


1945 Big Ten Conference football season
Michigan, under head coach Fritz Crisler, compiled a 7–3 record and was ranked No. 6 in the final AP Poll. Center Harold Watts won the team's most valuable player award. Michigan's three losses were against No. 1 Army, No. 3 Navy, and No. 4 Indiana.


1945 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Results and team statistics
KeyAP final = Team's rank in the final AP Poll of the 1945 seasonAP high = Team's highest rank in the AP Poll throughout the 1945 seasonPPG = Average of points scored per gamePAG = Average of points allowed per gameMVP = Most valuable player as voted by players on each team as part of the voting process to determine the winner of the Chicago Tribune Silver Football trophy


1945 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Bowl games
During the 1945 season, the Big Ten maintained its long-standing ban on postseason games. Accordingly, no Big Ten teams participated in any bowl games.


1945 Big Ten Conference football season, All-Big Ten players
The following players were picked by the Associated Press (AP) and/or the United Press (UP) as first-team players on the 1945 All-Big Ten Conference football team.


1945 Big Ten Conference football season, All-Americans
At the end of the 1945 season, Big Ten players secured three of the consensus first-team picks for the 1945 College Football All-America Team. The Big Ten's consensus All-Americans were:


1945 Big Ten Conference football season, All-Americans
Other Big Ten players who were named first-team All-Americans by at least one selector were:


1945 Big Ten Conference football season, 1946 NFL Draft
The following Big Ten players were selected in the first six rounds of the 1946 NFL Draft:


1945 Birthday Honours
The King's Birthday Honours 1945, celebrating the official birthday of King George VI, were announced on 14 June 1945 for the United Kingdom and British Empire.


1945 Birthday Honours
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.


1945 Birthday Honours (Mention in Despatches)
This is a list of Mention in Despatches awarded in the 1945 Birthday Honours.


1945 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)
The 1945 King's Birthday Honours in New Zealand, celebrating the official birthday of King George VI, were appointments made by the King to various orders and honours. The awards were made in recognition of war service by New Zealanders and were announced on 14 June 1945. No civilian awards were made.


1945 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.


1945 Blacktown state by-election
A by-election was held in the state electoral district of Blacktown on 18 August 1945. The by-election was triggered by the death of Frank Hill (Labor).


1945 Boston Braves season
The 1945 Boston Braves season was the 75th season of the franchise.


1945 Boston Braves season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1945 Boston Braves season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1945 Boston Braves season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1945 Boston Braves season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1945 Boston Braves season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1945 Boston College Eagles football team
The 1945 Boston College Eagles football team represented Boston College during the 1945 college football season. The Eagles were led by third-year head coach Moody Sarno, and played their home games at Alumni Field in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts and Fenway Park in Boston. Boston College finished with a record of 3–4. Sarno was relieved of his duties as head coach at the conclusion of the season, as Denny Myers returned from his service in the Navy during World War II. Sarno compiled a record of 11–7–1 as head coach at Boston College.


1945 Boston Red Sox season
The 1945 Boston Red Sox season was the 45th season in the franchise's Major League Baseball history. The Red Sox finished seventh in the American League (AL) with a record of 71 wins and 83 losses, 17+1⁄2 games behind the Detroit Tigers, who went on to win the 1945 World Series.


1945 Boston Red Sox season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1945 Boston Red Sox season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1945 Boston Red Sox season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1945 Boston Red Sox season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1945 Boston Red Sox season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1945 Boston University Terriers football team
The 1945 Boston University Terriers football team was an American football team that represented Boston University as an independent during the 1945 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Robert McKelvey, the team compiled a 0–5 record, was shut out in four of five games, and was outscored by a total of 235 to 3.


1945 Boston mayoral election
The Boston mayoral election of 1945 occurred on Tuesday, November 6, 1945. Former Mayor of Boston James Michael Curley defeated acting mayor John E. Kerrigan and four other candidates.


1945 Bournemouth by-election
The Bournemouth by-election of 1945 was held on 15 November 1945. The by-election was held due to the elevation to hereditary peerage of the incumbent Conservative MP, Sir Leonard Lyle. It was won by the Conservative candidate Brendan Bracken, who was a prominent supporter of Winston Churchill and Conservative parliamentarian who had lost his Paddington North seat to Labour in the 1945 Labour landslide. Somewhat unusually, there was a significant swing to the governing party, with Labour achieving a swing of more than 10%.


1945 Bournemouth by-election
This election had the biggest swing for an incumbent governing party in a by-election until the 2021 Hartlepool by-election.


1945 Bowling Green Falcons football team
The 1945 Bowling Green Falcons football team was an American football team that represented Bowling Green State College (later renamed Bowling Green State University) as an independent during the 1945 college football season. In its fifth season under head coach Robert Whittaker, the team compiled a 4–3 record and was outscored by a total of 81 to 79. Patrick Mulvihill was the team captain.


1945 Brazilian general election
General elections were held in Brazil on 2 December 1945, the first since the establishment of Getúlio Vargas' Estado Novo. The presidential elections were won by Eurico Gaspar Dutra of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), whilst the PSD also won a majority of seats in both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. Voter turnout was 83.1% in the presidential election, 83.5% in the Chamber elections and 76.7% in the Senate elections.


1945 Brazilian general election, Background
Following the end of World War II, Vargas was forced by the military to re-democratize the country. However, the military feared that Vargas would suspend the elections like he had suspended the scheduled 1938 elections in 1937 and staged a preventive coup which prematurely removed Vargas from power on October 29, 1945 and installed a caretaker government led by José Linhares to ensure the free and fair carry-out of the elections.


1945 Brazilian general election, Background
During this era of liberalization, Vargas founded two parties: the Social Democratic Party (PSD), a centre-right party composed primarily of the national industrial bourgeoisie which had supported Vargas and Vargas' interventors in the states, and the Brazilian Labour Party (PTB) composed of the urban working class and trade union movement. The PSD would become the largest party of the two, although Vargas used the PTB as his personal machine. The PSD consistently had the largest number of deputies until the 1964 military coup. The Vargista coalition had nominated Vargas' War Minister Eurico Gaspar Dutra earlier in 1945, but the PTB and Vargas offered Dutra's fledgling candidacy only lukewarm support.


1945 Brazilian general election, Background
Vargas' traditional opponents had founded the National Democratic Union (UDN) in April 1945. The UDN, a conservative party defending economic liberalism through public incentive to foreign capital, was mostly a party of intellectuals and the urban middle-class, as well as the remnants of the oligarchic interests of the República Velha. It nominated the former tenente and Air Force brigadier Eduardo Gomes, later known for participating in the 1964 coup, as its presidential candidate. Gomes notably advocated repealing a majority of the social legislation and labour reforms passed during the Vargas rule.


1945 Brazilian general election, Background
The recently legalized Brazilian Communist Party elected 14 deputies, and the party's popular leader, Luís Carlos Prestes was elected to the Senate in Guanabara. Getúlio Vargas, nominated by the PSD and his Brazilian Labour Party (PTB) in various states including Rio Grande do Sul was elected to the Senate representing Rio Grande do Sul and São Paulo as well as elected to the Chamber in six states and Rio de Janeiro. He opted to accept the Senate seat he won for the PSD (although he supported the PTB) in Rio Grande do Sul. Former President Artur Bernardes standing for election to the Senate in Minas Gerais for the Republican Party was defeated, placing third with 21.4% of the vote.


1945 British Berlin Victory Parade
The 1945 British Berlin Victory Parade was a military parade held by the British Army on 21 July 1945 in Berlin, the capital of the then-defeated Nazi Germany. It took place on Straße des 17. Juni, which is east of Brandenburg Gate. The parade took place a month after the Moscow Victory Parade of 1945 and over two weeks before the Berlin Victory Parade. It was attended by Winston Churchill in his position as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, Commander-in-Chief of the 21st Army Group. Clement Attlee, who was Leader of the Labour Party at the time and succeeded Churchill 5 days later also attended. It occurred during the Potsdam Conference which had begun 4 days earlier with the participation of Churchill, Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin and President Harry S. Truman.


1945 British Berlin Victory Parade
10,000 troops of the British Army took part in the event. Attendees also included Henry H. Arnold and George Marshall, both five-star Generals.


1945 British Berlin Victory Parade, External link
Media related to British Victory parade in Berlin at Wikimedia Commons


1945 British Columbia general election
The 1945 British Columbia general election was the twenty-first general election in the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election was called on August 31, 1945, and held on October 25, 1945. The new legislature met for the first time on February 21, 1946.


1945 British Columbia general election
A centre-right coalition was formed by the Liberal and Conservative parties in order to defeat the social democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.


1945 British Columbia general election
Although the Coalition won fewer votes than the Liberal and Conservative parties won in total in the previous election, the Coalition still won over half of the votes, and was able to form a majority government.


1945 British Columbia general election, Results
* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.


1945 British Columbia general election, Results
1 Compared to Liberal + Conservative total from previous election


1945 British Columbia general election, Results
2 Various groups joined forces under the Social Credit name to contest the election.


1945 British Columbia general election, Results
3 Thomas Dufferin Pattullo (Prince Rupert), former premier and Liberal Party leader, ran as an Independent, and is included as such.


1945 British Columbia general election, Results
4 Includes L.H. MacQueen (Saanich), classified as an Independent PC since the Progressive Conservative Party, formerly the Conservative Party, was officially running as part of the Coalition and did not consider MacQueen as a legitimate party candidate.


1945 Broadway Consolidated Liberator crash
The 1945 Broadway Consolidated Liberator crash occurred on 22 November 1945 when a Royal Air Force Consolidated Liberator C Mk VIII transport crashed shortly after take-off from RAF Merryfield with the loss of all 27 on board.


1945 Broadway Consolidated Liberator crash
The Liberator (serial number KH126) was being operated by 53 Squadron on a trooping flight from RAF Merryfield to India. It failed to gain enough height to clear a hill. It struck a tree and crashed at White's Farm near Broadway Pound, six miles from the airfield. It burst into flames with the loss of the five-man crew (all but one were Polish) and 22 Army passengers.


1945 Broadway Consolidated Liberator crash, Investigation
The cause of the crash was determined to be pilot error. The captain completed the first turn to the left after takeoff about 700 feet too low, at about 800 feet instead of the minimum 1,500 feet as mentioned in the departure procedures. Low visibility and poor weather conditions were considered as contributory factors.


1945 Bromley by-election
The Bromley by-election of 1945 was held on 14 November 1945. The byelection was held due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, Edward Campbell. It was won by the Conservative candidate Harold Macmillan.


1945 Brooklyn Dodgers season
As World War II was drawing to a close, the 1945 Brooklyn Dodgers finished 11 games back in third place in the National League race.


1945 Brooklyn Dodgers season, Regular season
Eddie Stanky led the NL in runs scored with 128 in 1945, when he drew a then-record 148 walks.


1945 Brooklyn Dodgers season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1945 Brooklyn Dodgers season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1945 Brooklyn Dodgers season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1945 Brooklyn Dodgers season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1945 Brooklyn Dodgers season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1945 Brown Bears football team
The 1945 Brown Bears football team represented Brown University during the 1945 college football season.


1945 Brown Bears football team
In their second season under head coach Charles "Rip" Engle, the Bears compiled a 3–4–1 record, and were outscored 141 to 123 by opponents. R.D. Williams was the team captain.


1945 Brown Bears football team
Brown played its home games at Brown Stadium in Providence, Rhode Island.


1945 Bucknell Bison football team
The 1945 Bucknell Bison football team was an American football team that represented Bucknell University as an independent during the 1945 college football season. In its second and final season under head coach J. Ellwood Ludwig, the team compiled a 2–5 record. Harold Stefl and Robert Williams were the team captains.


1945 Bucknell Bison football team
The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.


1945 Bulgarian Republic Football Championship
Statistics of Bulgarian Republic Football Championship in the 1945 season.


1945 Bulgarian Republic Football Championship, Overview
It was contested by 24 teams, and Lokomotiv Sofia won the championship. As Bulgaria had lost the territories of Vardar Macedonia, Western Thrace and parts of Greek Macedonia that it administered during most of World War II, teams from those regions no longer took part in the Bulgarian championships, beginning in 1945.


1945 Bulgarian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 18 November 1945, the country's first to feature universal suffrage for women. The Bulgarian Agrarian National Union and the Bulgarian Communist Party both won 94 seats. Voter turnout was 84.8%.


1945 Bulgarian parliamentary election, Results
For the first time, women could stand as candidates, with Stoyanka Ancheva, Ekaterina Avramova, Tsola Dragoycheva, Stanka Ivanova, Tsvetana Keranova, Elena Ketskarova, Mara Kinkel, Venera Klincharova, Vyara Makedonska, Stefana Markova, Ekaterina Nikolova, Rada Todorova, Mata Tyurkedzhieva, Maria Toteva and Vera Zlatareva becoming the first women in the National Assembly.


1945 CCNY Beavers football team
The 1945 CCNY Beavers football team was an American football team that represented the City College of New York (CCNY) as an independent during the 1945 college football season. In their first season under head coach Louis Gebhard, the team compiled an 0–8 record.


1945 Caernarvon Boroughs by-election
The Caernarvon Boroughs by-election, 1945 was a parliamentary by-election held on 26 April 1945 for the British House of Commons constituency of Caernarvon Boroughs.


1945 Caernarvon Boroughs by-election, Previous MP
The seat had become vacant when the constituency's Liberal Member of Parliament (MP), David Lloyd George (1863–1945) had been elevated to the peerage as the 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor in January 1945. He died two months later, on 26 March 1945, before the by-election took place.


1945 Caernarvon Boroughs by-election, Previous MP
Lloyd George was first elected as the constituency's MP at the 1890 Caernarvon Boroughs by-election, caused by the death of the previous Conservative MP. During a long and distinguished political career the former MP had served in many high offices, notably as Chancellor of the Exchequer 1908–1915 and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1916–1922. He had led the Liberal Party, after the retirement of H. H. Asquith, from 1926 to 1931.


1945 Caernarvon Boroughs by-election, Candidates
The election took place during the Second World War. Under an agreement between the Conservative, Labour and Liberal parties, who were participating in a wartime coalition, the party holding a seat would not be opposed by the other two at a by-election. Accordingly, the Liberal Party nominated a candidate, but no Labour or Conservative representative was put forward. Plaid Cymru, which was not party to the electoral agreement, selected a candidate; so a contested poll took place.


1945 Caernarvon Boroughs by-election, Candidates
Two candidates were nominated. The list below is set out in descending order of the number of votes received at the by-election.


1945 Caernarvon Boroughs by-election, Candidates
1. The Liberal Party candidate, supporting the coalition government, was 40-year old Seaborne Davies (1904–1984). After winning the by-election, he served in Parliament between April and July 1945 only, as he was defeated by a Conservative candidate in the 1945 United Kingdom general election.


1945 Caernarvon Boroughs by-election, Candidates
2. Representing Plaid Cymru was Prof. J E Daniel. He also contested Caernarvon Boroughs in the 1945 general election.


1945 Cal Poly Mustangs football team
The 1945 Cal Poly Mustangs football team represented California Polytechnic School during the 1945 college football season. This was their last year as an independent. They joined the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) in 1946.


1945 Cal Poly Mustangs football team
The team was led by first-year head coach Ronnie Henderson (in his only year as head coach) and played home games at Mustang Stadium in San Luis Obispo, California. They finished the season with a record of one win, five losses and one tie (1–5–1). Overall, the Mustangs outscored their opponents 19–180 for the season, including four consecutive shutout losses.


1945 Calgary Stampeders season
The 1945 Calgary Stampeders season was the first season for the team under the name "Stampeders" (They were previously known as the "Bronks") and their seventh overall. There was no regular season play in 1945. The W.I.F.U. suspended operations during World War II and did not return to action until the 1945 playoffs.


1945 Calgary Stampeders season
The Stampeders were defeated in the W.I.F.U. Finals by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.


1945 Calgary Stampeders season, Regular season
During the Second World War, The W.I.F.U. decided to cancel its 1942 to 1945 seasons. However, in 1945, the war was over and the W.I.F.U. decided to hold playoffs for the year of 1945 despite the fact that no regular season games were played. All W.I.F.U. teams were automatically entered into the 1945 playoffs.


1945 California Golden Bears football team
The 1945 California Golden Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Berkeley during the 1945 college football season. Under head coach Buck Shaw, the team compiled an overall record of 4–5–1 and 2–4–1 in conference.


1945 Cambodian referendum
A six-issue referendum was held in Cambodia on 3 October 1945. The questions included whether the country should become independent, and whether the presence of foreign military forces should be refused. There were no "no" votes to any of the questions, although two had one or two invalid votes. Voter turnout was 80.3%.


1945 Cambodian referendum, Background
On 10 August Son Ngoc Thanh replaced Prime Minister Ung Hy from power, and held a referendum to try and legitimise his government.


1945 Cambodian referendum, Conduct
It is not clear whether the referendum was held by voters putting a ballot paper in a box. Thanh sent a list of five questions to provincial governors for them to ask voters. The question on independence was worded:


1945 Cambodian referendum, Conduct
Do you want to be free like Jayavarman with the Angkor Wat temples?


1945 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby
The 1945 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby  was won by the selection of Provincia (Buenos Aires Province) that beat in the final the selection of Capital (Buenos Aires city). Thi first edition was arranged by River Plate Rugby Union with the goal to develop and improve the rugby outside Buenos Aires territory. Were invited to participate:


1945 Campeonato Carioca
The 1945 edition of the Campeonato Carioca kicked off on July 8, 1945 and ended on November 18, 1945. It was organized by FMF (Federação Metropolitana de Futebol, or Metropolitan Football Federation). Ten teams participated. Vasco da Gama won the title for the 6th time. no teams were relegated.


1945 Campeonato Carioca, System
The tournament would be disputed in a double round-robin format, with the team with the most points winning the title.


1945 Campeonato Paulista
The 1945 Campeonato Paulista da Primeira Divisão, organized by the Federação Paulista de Futebol, was the 44th season of São Paulo's top professional football league. São Paulo won the title for the 3rd time. no teams were relegated and the top scorers were Corinthians's Servílio and São Paulo Railway's Passarinho with 17 goals.


1945 Campeonato Paulista, Championship
The championship was disputed in a double-round robin system, with the team with the most points winning the title.


1945 Campeón de Campeones
The 1945 Campeon de Campeones was the 4th Mexican Super Cup football one-leg  match played on 1 June 1945.


1945 Canadian federal election
The 1945 Canadian federal election was held June 11, 1945, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 20th Parliament of Canada. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal government was re-elected to its third consecutive government, although this time with a minority government as the Liberals fell five seats short of a majority.


1945 Canadian federal election
Although the election officially resulted in a minority government, the election of eight "Independent Liberal" MPs, most of whom did not run as official Liberals because of their opposition to conscription (see Conscription Crisis of 1944), gave the King government an effective working majority in parliament. Most of the Independent Liberal MPs joined (or re-joined) the Liberal caucus following World War II when the conscription issue became moot. As King was defeated in his own riding of Prince Albert, fellow Liberal William MacDiarmid, who was re-elected in the safe seat of Glengarry, resigned so that a by-election could be held, which was subsequently won by King.


1945 Canadian federal election
The federal election was the first since the victory of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in the Saskatchewan provincial election, and many predicted a major breakthrough for the CCF nationally. A Gallup poll from September 1943 showed the CCF with a one-point lead over both the Liberals and Conservatives. The party was expected to win 70 to 100 seats, possibly even enough to form a minority government. Despite the expectations, the party only won 28 seats.


1945 Canadian federal election
1945 was also the first test of the newly named Progressive Conservatives. The Conservative Party had changed its name in 1942 when former Progressive Party Premier of Manitoba John Bracken became its leader. The party improved its standing in terms of number of seats compared to the old Conservative Party, but also recorded a reduced share of the popular vote (indeed, the lowest in any election prior to 1993) and fell far short of challenging Liberal hegemony. Operation Downfall, the invasion of Japan, was scheduled for late 1945-early 1946.


1945 Canadian federal election
Bracken had promised conscription for the invasion of Japan whereas King had promised to commit one division of volunteers to the planned invasion of Japan. Based on the way that the Japanese had fought the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa it was widely expected that the invasion of the Japanese home islands would be a bloody campaign, and Bracken's promise of conscription for the planned invasion of Japan did much to turn voters against his party.


1945 Canadian federal election
A key issue in this election seems to have been electing a stable government. The Liberals urged voters to "Return the Mackenzie King Government", and argued that only the Liberal Party had a "preponderance of members in all nine provinces". Mackenzie King threatened to call a new election if he was not given a majority: "We would have confusion to deal with at a time when the world will be in a very disturbed situation. The war in Europe is over, but unrest in the east is not over."


1945 Canadian federal election
The Progressive Conservatives tried to capitalize on the massive mid-campaign victory by the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party in the 1945 Ontario provincial election. PC campaign ads exhorted voters to rally behind their party: "Ontario shows! Only Bracken can win! ", and suggesting that it would be impossible to form a majority government in the country without a plurality of seats in Ontario, which only the Tories could win. In the event, the Liberals fell just short of a majority even though they won only 34 seats in Ontario to the PCs' 48 seats. Eight "Independent Liberal" MPs could be expected to support the government.


1945 Canadian federal election
Social welfare programs were also an issue in the campaign. Another Liberal slogan encouraged voters to "Build a New Social Order" by endorsing the Liberal platform, which included


1945 Canadian federal election
Campaigning under the slogan, "Work, Security, and Freedom for All – with the CCF", the CCF promised to retain war-time taxes on high incomes and excess profits in order to fund social services, and to abolish the Senate of Canada. The CCF fought hard to prevent the support of labour from going to the Labor-Progressive Party (i.e., the Communist Party of Canada).


1945 Canadian federal election
The LPP, for its part, pointed out that the CCF's refusal to enter into an electoral pact with the LPP had cost the CCF 100,000 votes in the Ontario election, and had given victory to the Ontario PCs. It urged voters to "Make Labour a Partner in Government."


1945 Canadian federal election
The Social Credit Party of Canada tried, with modest success, to capitalize on the positive image of the Alberta Socred government of William Aberhart, asking voters, "Good Government in Alberta -- Why Not at Ottawa?". Referring to social credit monetary theories, the party encouraged voters to "Vote for the National Dividend".


1945 Canadian federal election, National results
* The party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.


1945 Canadian federal election, National results
1 1945 Progressive Conservative vote compared to 1940 National Government + Conservative vote.


1945 Canadian federal election, National results
2 1945 Social Credit vote compared to 1940 New Democracy + Social Credit vote.


1945 Canadian federal election, National results
4 The successful "Independent CCF" candidate ran as a People's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation candidate.


1945 Canadian federal election, National results
5 One Progressive Conservative candidate ran under the "National Government" label that the party had used in the 1940 election.


1945 Canadian victory nickel
The Victory Nickel is a Canadian coin produced between 1943 and 1945. The design of the coin was intended to promote the Canadian war effort during World War II.


1945 Canadian victory nickel
The coin was designed by Thomas Shingles, Master Engraver of the Royal Canadian Mint. The rim of the reverse side of the coin bears the message  "We Win When We Work Willingly" in Morse code.


1945 Canadian victory nickel, 2005 Victory Anniversary Nickel
A similar coin was released in 2005 to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II.


1945 Carlton Football Club season
The 1945 VFL season was the 49th season in the Victorian Football League to be contested by the Carlton Football Club. Under coach Percy Bentley, Carlton recovered from a middling 3–6 start to win thirteen of its last fourteen games, winning the premiership by defeating South Melbourne in the Grand Final. It was the 7th senior VFL premiership in the club's history.


1945 Carlton Football Club season, Club summary
The 1945 VFL season was the 49th season of the VFL competition since its inception in 1897; and, having competed in every season, it was also the 49th season contested by the Carlton Football Club. As it had been since 1897, the club's home ground was Carlton Oval in Princes Park, North Carlton. In addition to its senior team, Carlton fielded a team in the VFL seconds. Its thirds (under-19s) team contested the Northern District Football Association, and development teams East Brunswick, Brunswick City and Prince's Hill contested the Victorian Junior Football League.


1945 Carlton Football Club season, Club summary
The club reported 4,623 full 10/6 memberships and 712 5/- memberships (total 5,335), up from 3,936 and 489 (total 4,425) in 1944, but still short of its pre-war record membership of 7,700; but the club saw a profit of only £213, down from £503, owing to the new arrangements for pooling gate receipts across the league.


1945 Carlton Football Club season, Club summary, Senior personnel
Kenneth Luke continued as club president through 1945, a position he had held since the 1938 season. Harry Bell continued as the secretary, a role he had held since 1940.


1945 Carlton Football Club season, Club summary, Senior personnel
Percy Bentley continued as coach, a role he had held since crossing from Richmond in 1941. Bob Chitty, in his ninth season with the club, was appointed the new captain of the club; he replaced 1944 acting-captain Bob Atkinson, who returned to captain his former VFA side Coburg. Bob Green was appointed vice-captain at the start of the year, then Rod McLean took over after Green was transferred on service.


1945 Carlton Football Club season, Squad and player statistics for 1945
The following is the full list of players who were on the Carlton senior and supplementary lists through the 1945 season. Numbers in parentheses represent games played and goals kicked for Carlton during the season.


1945 Carlton Football Club season, Playing list changes
The following summarises key player transfers to and from the club between the conclusion of the 1944 season and the conclusion of the 1945 season.


1945 Carlton Football Club season, Playing list changes
World War II was still ongoing during the season, so the availability of players who were in the military would depend on where they were posted; players who were temporarily gained or lost by the club due to military service are included here. Additionally, the Victorian Football Association returned to competition after three years' recess, and VFA players who had played for Carlton during the war on wartime permits automatically became VFA players; these players needed to be re-cleared to the VFL before resuming with Carlton.


1945 Carlton Football Club season, Playing list changes
Other players who were already playing with the Carlton seconds, but who were elevated and made their senior debuts in 1945 were Wal Alexander, Clinton Wines and Don Beauvais. Carlton also notably signed up Jim Davies from Swan Districts, who had won the 1944 Sandover Medal in the under-age WANFL competition; but he was transferred away from Melbourne on service before playing a game and returned to Swan Districts in 1946. He later returned to Carlton in 1949.


1945 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Home and away season
The club entered the home-and-away season with an overall inexperienced team, noted as speedy but lacking in big, experienced key position players. The highly regarded half-backline combination of 1943 had suffered with the loss of Jim Francis to retirement and Frank Anderson to Preston, and Bob Atkinson had also been lost from the back pocket, leaving Bob Chitty as the only established key defender. A total of 18 players from the 1944 list were unavailable.


1945 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Home and away season
Carlton also had a limited preseason, due in part to the Carlton Cricket Club occupying the ground later than usual as it won its first district cricket pennant (albeit in the unofficial wartime competition); simultaneous intra-club matches were played at 2:45 Saturday 7 April at Princes Park and Ransford Oval, then again at 2:45 Saturday 14 April at Princes Park and McAllister Oval. As a result, sportswriters did not have high expectations of Carlton for the season.


1945 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Home and away season
As such, few were surprised when Carlton's season opened poorly, with three comfortable losses, including a club record 100-point defeat at the hands of Essendon, to sit last on the ladder. The club was described as "surely the weakest Carlton team sent out in years", and it was again noted that the small players were reasonable but the lack of key position players was a major problem.


1945 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Home and away season
After the early losses, Carlton started rebuilding, adopting something of a youth policy; no fewer than eight older but underperforming players – Bernie Bignell, Les Gregory, Arthur Hall, Adrian Hearn, Jim Jones, Cyril Mann, Fred Rose, and vice captain Bob Green – were omitted by the end of Round 6; among them, only Jones ever played for Carlton again.


1945 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Home and away season
Carlton improved over the following six weeks, with three wins and three losses, to move to 9th place with a 3–6 record overall. The three wins were all good wins against Fitzroy, St Kilda, and Geelong (who were all in the bottom six after Round 9), and the losses came against Richmond, Collingwood and Footscray (who were all in the top five after Round 9). The Round 7 game against Richmond was almost won: holding a one-point lead, Frank McGrath had taken a saving mark in defence, before played on and being caught dropping the ball, Richmond's Bob Bawden kicked the winning goal from the free kick, which was the last kick of the game.


1945 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Home and away season
Recruits of star key position players as the season progressed strengthened the Carlton team down the spine. The Blues recruited 18-year-old Geelong junior Ken Hands after Round 3, who made an immediate impression at centre half forward, and was touted as a future champion by the press within a month. Coburg key position player Lance Collins, who had played for Carlton on a wartime permit, was cleared back to Carlton after Round 5; and, after making little impact at pivot, was moved to full forward and led the club in goalkicking for the season.


1945 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Home and away season
Star forward Ken Baxter returned from three years of active service after Round 11. Finally, Bert Deacon, another VFA player who had played with the club on a wartime permit, was cleared to the club after Round 13, immediately became one of the league's best players, holding down the centre half-back position and giving the Blues the best half-back line in the league.


1945 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Home and away season
This, coupled with Vin Brown servicably adapting to his new position at full back, gradually turned Carlton into one of the league's strongest teams through the second half of the season, with strength in both key positions and small players. The line-up became very settled, with very selection changes made in the last two months of the season.


1945 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Home and away season
This translated into a remarkable improvement in results starting with wins against fourth-placed North Melbourne and first-placed South Melbourne in Rounds 10 and 11. After four straight wins which had seen the club rise to 7th place, Carlton suffered an upset loss against an out-of-form Essendon, which itself had lost six straight games, in a dramatic ending in which Essendon kicked three goals in the final two minutes of the game to snatch a three-point with only 13 seconds left. Sportswriters noted that this loss would likely end the Blues' faint hopes of playing finals, as they were two wins and percentage behind fourth place with six games left.


1945 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Home and away season
However, Carlton's performances continued to strengthen. Over the next five weeks, it recorded narrow wins against finals rivals Fitzroy, Collingwood and Richmond and big wins against the bottom two St Kilda and Geelong, to rise to fifth place. This set up, for the second consecutive year, a final round clash against third placed Footscray, the winner of which would qualify for the finals.


1945 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Home and away season
Footscray had won the equivalent match in 1944 by one point, kicked after the siren by Harry Hickey; but this year, in front of a then-record crowd of 30,000 at the Western Oval, Carlton dominated with a seven-goals-to-two first quarter before winning by 53 points. This saw Carlton enter the top four for the first time in the season, in fourth place with a 13–7 record, after winning ten of its last eleven home-and-away matches.


1945 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Finals series
The finals series was staged at Carlton Oval, as a result of the Melbourne Cricket Ground once again being unavailable due to its role in the war effort. Carlton had staged the 1942 and 1943 finals, and the St Kilda Cricket Ground had staged the 1944 finals; but lower capacity and attendance at St Kilda encouraged the league to return the finals to Carlton for 1945. Additional terraces were installed at the ground in August, to increase the official capacity to 62,800.


1945 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Finals series
Despite being in fourth place, Carlton's strong form in the second half of the season meant they were considered a genuine premiership threat by sportswriters. Through the latter stages of the season and into the finals, coach Percy Bentley conducted very limited Thursday training sessions, to reduce the pressure to the team which had played in so many consecutive pseudo-elimination games.


1945 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Finals series
Carlton faced third-placed North Melbourne in the first semi-final, which was in its first ever VFL finals series, and whose late season form had been a little bit patchy. Carlton dominated the game and won easily. Although the final margin was only 26 points, Carlton had led 13.7 (85) to 2.13 (25) at three-quarter time, before North Melbourne added respectability to the scoreboard with a six-goals-to-one final quarter. Lance Collins scored a VFL career-high eight goals in the match.


1945 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Finals series
The preliminary final against Collingwood, was a vicious, and famous affair. Collingwood was by far the better team throughout the game, with Carlton not playing as well as it had been; Hands and Deacon both had rare off games. Collingwood held a 28-point lead at quarter time, a 9-point lead at half-time, and opened up a game-high 34-point lead after kicking the first goal of the final quarter.


1945 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Finals series
At the same time, the Blues engaged in rough play to try to put their smaller Collingwood opponents off their game, and melee involving twelve players broke out early in the final quarter. After the melee, Carlton mounted a massive comeback, and kicked the next five goals in a fifteen-minute purple patch, to reduce the margin to two points. Then Lance Collins, who had kicked the first goal of the rally, was again the hero, kicking the last two goals of the game late to steal a ten-point win. The roughness of the game drew condemnation, but only one player – Fred Fitzgibbon – was reported and suspended.


1945 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Finals series
Carlton faced minor premiers South Melbourne in the Grand Final. Played in blustery, then rainy conditions, it was a low quality and rough game better remembered for its violence than its gameplay, and eventually gaining its nickname "The Bloodbath" from the several melees which broke out. The game was closely fought through the first half, Carlton holding a two-point lead at half time.


1945 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Finals series
Carlton pulled away with a five-goals-to-two the third quarter to lead by 23 points at three-quarter time, and managed to keep at least a two-goal buffer through the rough final quarter before winning by a game-high 28 points. Three Carlton players were suspended: captain Bob Chitty and Don Grossman for eight weeks, and Fred Fitzgibbon – who was already suspended after the preliminary final and who ran onto the ground from the outer to join a melee – for four weeks. Four South Melbourne players were also suspended.


1945 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Finals series
Bob Chitty's strikes behind play of two of South Melbourne's young stars were the main instigators of the game's violence, and – by the later admission of South Melbourne star Laurie Nash – successfully did much to distract South Melbourne from its game in the second half. Vin Brown was the best player on the ground, and the win gave Carlton its seventh premiership.


1945 Carlton Football Club season, Premiership team
The Carlton premiership nineteen was as below. Among them, five players – Bob Chitty, Rod McLean, Ken Baxter, Mick Price and Charlie McInnes – had previously played in the club's 1938 premiership win. McInnes was the reserve in both games.


1945 Carlton Football Club season, Premiership team
Fred Fitzgibbon was missing from the premiership team, after having been suspended for four matches for striking Collingwood's Len Hustler in the preliminary final; McInnes came into the team as 19th man to replace him. Three players had been injured in the preliminary final and were doubtful for the Grand Final: Jim Baird (concussion), Ron Hines (thigh) and Ron Savage (rib). Of them, only Hines failed to recover and he was omitted on the morning of the match, replaced by Alec Way as the emergency.


1945 Carlton Football Club season, Premiership team
The premiership players each received a silver teaset valued at ten guineas from the club as a reward.


1945 Carlton Football Club season, Leading Goalkickers
Despite coming to the club only after Round 5, and initially being recruited to play centre, Lance Collins ultimately moved to the forward-line and was Carlton's leading goalkicker for the season. It was the only time Collins won the award, in what was the only of Collins' three seasons with Carlton in which he played more than ten games.


1945 Carlton Football Club season, Individual awards and records
The Robert Reynolds Trophy for Carlton's senior best and fairest was awarded to ruckman Ron Savage. It was Savage's first and only best-and-fairest for the club, won in his eighth and final year with the club. Ken Baxter, despite playing only thirteen games after his return from service, finished second.


1945 Carlton Football Club season, Seconds
The Carlton seconds team finished sixth out of twelve teams with a win-loss record of 12–8, two games and percentage outside the final four.


1945 Central Michigan Chippewas football team
The 1945 Central Michigan Chippewas football team represented Central Michigan College of Education, later renamed Central Michigan University, as an independent during the 1945 college football season. In their ninth season under head coach Ron Finch, the Chippewas compiled a 6–1 record, shut out five of seven opponents, allowed an average of fewer than four points per game, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 98 to 26. The team's sole loss was to Bowling Green (6-19), allowing only seven points in the six wins.


1945 Chatham Cup
The 1945 Chatham Cup was the 18th nationwide knockout football competition in New Zealand, and the first such competition after a four-year gap caused by World War II.


1945 Chatham Cup
The competition was run on a regional basis, with regional associations each holding separate qualifying rounds. Teams taking part in the final rounds are known to have included Wellington Marist, St. Andrews (Manawatu), Western (Christchurch), and Mosgiel.


1945 Chatham Cup, The 1945 final
In the final, Jack Smith scored a hat-trick, including one goal from the penalty spot. Merv Gordon's own goal is the first to be definitively recorded as such in a Chatham Cup final, though some goals in earlier finals are regarded as own goals in some publications. The game is noted as an exciting one, especially the second half. The only goal of the first half came after 17 minutes from Marist's G. Irvine.


1945 Chatham Cup, The 1945 final
The lead became 2-0 twenty minutes into the second half through Ray Price, only for Western to score twice, the second goal coming only one minute before the whistle. In extra time Gordon's own goal was nullified by an equaliser from Ray Dowker before Smith hit the winner from the penalty spot.


1945 Chattanooga Moccasins football team
The 1945 Chattanooga Moccasins football team was an American football team that represented the University of Chattanooga (now known as the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) as an independent during the 1945 college football season. In its 15th year under head coach Scrappy Moore, the team compiled a 5–3 record.


1945 Chelmsford by-election
The Chelmsford by-election, 1945 was a parliamentary by-election for the British House of Commons constituency of Chelmsford, Essex on 26 April 1945.


1945 Chelmsford by-election, Vacancy
The by-election was caused by the death of the sitting Conservative MP, John Macnamara. He was killed on active service in Italy on 22 December 1944. He had been MP here since holding the seat in 1935.


1945 Chelmsford by-election, Election history
Chelmsford had been won by the Conservative Party at every election since 1924, when they re-gained the seat from the Liberals, and was now a safe seat. The result at the last General election was as follows;


1945 Chelmsford by-election, Candidates
The local Conservatives selected 35-year-old Flight Lieutenant Brian Cook. Before the war he was a painter, designer and publisher. The Labour party had selected Dr Mary Day to contest a General Election expected to take place in 1939-40. There had been no Liberal selected.


1945 Chelmsford by-election, Candidates
At the outbreak of war, the Conservative, Liberal and Labour parties had agreed an electoral truce which meant that when a by-election occurred, the party that was defending the seat would not be opposed by an official candidate from the other two parties. When the Labour and Liberal parties joined the Coalition government, it was agreed that any by-election candidate defending a government seat would receive a letter of endorsement jointly signed by all the party leaders.


1945 Chelmsford by-election, Candidates
The Common Wealth Party put forward 29-year-old Ernest Millington as candidate. He served with the RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War, where he rose to the rank of wing commander and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1945.


1945 Chelmsford by-election, Campaign
Polling day was set for 26 April 1945. When nominations closed, it was to reveal a two horse race, between the Conservative Cook and Millington for the Common Wealth party.


1945 Chelmsford by-election, Campaign
Cook received a joint letter of endorsement from all the leaders of the parties in the coalition.


1945 Chelmsford by-election, Campaign
Millington advocated a socialist programme based on nationalisation of the land and public ownership.


1945 Chelmsford by-election, Aftermath
When the 29-year-old Millington took his seat, he was the youngest MP in the House, which had been elected in 1935. The victory signalled the shift in public opinion that led the Labour party to pull out of the wartime coalition government and win a landslide victory in the 5 July 1945 general election. Millington held his seat in the 1945 general election and joined the Labour Party in April 1946. The result at the following General election;


1945 Chelmsford by-election, Aftermath
Cook, as Brian Batsford, was elected as Tory MP for Ealing South at a by-election on 12 June 1958.


1945 Chicago Bears season
The 1945 season was the Chicago Bears' 26th in the National Football League. The team failed to improve on their 6–3–1 record from 1944 and finished at  1–7, under temporary co-coaches Hunk Anderson and Luke Johnsos. With the end of World War II, Halas would make his return to the coaching ranks--winning the bears final 2 games, and improving their record to 3-7--so this was the end of the only co-coaching tenure in franchise history.


1945 Chicago Bears season
This was also their first losing season in 16 years, with their last being back in 1929 (they were above .500 every season between 1920 and 1928). And they would not have another, with Halas at the helm, until 1960. Meaning that between 1920 and 1963, Halas had only 2 losing seasons.


1945 Chicago Bears season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1945 Chicago Cardinals season
The 1945 Chicago Cardinals season was the 26th season the team was in the league. The team improved on their previous output of 0–10, winning one game, and snapping an NFL record 29-game losing streak (dating back to 1942, and including their season as Card-Pitt) in the process. They failed to qualify for the playoffs for the 20th consecutive season. The Cardinals had to play seven consecutive games on the road (albeit one was in Chicago, against the Bears) and they were shut out in four of their ten games.


1945 Chicago Cardinals season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1945 Chicago Cubs season
The 1945 Chicago Cubs season was the 74th season of the Chicago Cubs franchise, the 70th in the National League and the 30th at Wrigley Field. The Cubs won the National League pennant with a record of 98–56, 3 games ahead of the second-place St. Louis Cardinals. The team went on to the 1945 World Series, which they lost to the Detroit Tigers in seven games. It would take 71 years before the Cubs made it to another World Series.


1945 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1945 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1945 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1945 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1945 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1945 Chicago Cubs season, 1945 World Series, The Curse of Billy "The Goat" Sianis
The Curse of the Billy Goat was a curse on the Chicago Cubs that was started in 1945 and ended in 2016.


1945 Chicago Cubs season, 1945 World Series, The Curse of Billy "The Goat" Sianis
As the story goes, Billy Sianis, a Greek immigrant (from Paleopyrgos, Greece), who owned a nearby tavern (the now-famous Billy Goat Tavern), had two $7.20 box seat tickets to Game 4 of the 1945 World Series between the Chicago Cubs and the Detroit Tigers, and decided to bring along his pet goat, Murphy (or Sinovia according to some references), which Sianis had restored to health when the goat had fallen off a truck and subsequently limped into his tavern. The goat wore a blanket with a sign pinned to it which read "We got Detroit's goat".


1945 Chicago Cubs season, 1945 World Series, The Curse of Billy "The Goat" Sianis
Sianis and the goat were allowed into Wrigley Field and even paraded about on the playing field before the game before ushers intervened and led them off the field. After a heated argument, both Sianis and the goat were permitted to stay in the stadium occupying the box seat for which he had tickets. At this point, Andy Frain (head of Wrigley Field's hired security company at the time), waved the goat's box-seat ticket in the air and proclaimed, "If he eats the ticket that would solve everything." However, the goat did not.


1945 Chicago Cubs season, 1945 World Series, The Curse of Billy "The Goat" Sianis
Before the game was over, it started to rain and Sianis and the goat were ejected from the stadium at the command of Cubs owner Philip Knight Wrigley due to the objectionable odor of wet goat. Sianis was outraged at the ejection and allegedly placed a curse upon the Cubs that they would never win another pennant or play in a World Series at Wrigley Field again because the Cubs organization had insulted his goat, and subsequently left the U.S. to vacation in his home in Greece.


1945 Chicago Cubs season, 1945 World Series, The Curse of Billy "The Goat" Sianis
The Cubs lost Game 4 and eventually the 1945 World Series, prompting Sianis to write to Wrigley from Greece, saying, "Who stinks now?" The Cubs would eventually break the curse and what would turn out to be a 108-year drought by winning the World Series in 2016 over the Cleveland Indians in seven games.


1945 Chicago White Sox season
The 1945 Chicago White Sox season was the White Sox's 45th season in the major leagues, and their 46th season overall. They finished with a record 71–78, good enough for 6th place in the American League, 15 games behind the 1st place Detroit Tigers.


1945 Chicago White Sox season, Player stats, Batting
Note: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; BB = Base on balls; SO = Strikeouts; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases


1945 Chicago White Sox season, Player stats, Pitching
Note: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; H = Hits allowed; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; HR = Home runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts


1945 Chilean parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Chile on 4 March 1945. Although the Conservative Party received the most votes, the Radical Party remained the largest party in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.


1945 Chilean parliamentary election, Electoral system
The term length for Senators was eight years, with around half of the Senators elected every four years. This election saw 25 of the 45 Senate seats up for election.


1945 Cincinnati Bearcats football team
The 1945 Cincinnati Bearcats football team was an American football team that represented the University of Cincinnati as an independent during the 1945 college football season. The Bearcats were led by first-year head coach Ray Nolting and compiled a 4–4 record.


1945 Cincinnati Reds season
The 1945 Cincinnati Reds season was a season in American baseball. The team finished seventh in the National League with a record of 61–93, 37 games behind the Chicago Cubs.


1945 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1945 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1945 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1945 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1945 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1945 City of London by-election
The City of London by-election of 1945 was held on 31 October 1945. The by-election was held due to the elevation to hereditary peerage of the incumbent Conservative MP, George Broadbridge. It was won by the Conservative candidate and sitting Chairman of the Conservative Party Ralph Assheton who had lost Rushcliffe at the general election earlier in the year.


1945 Clemson Tigers football team
The 1945 Clemson Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Clemson College during the 1945 college football season. In its sixth season under head coach Frank Howard, the team compiled a 6–3–1 record (2–1–1 against conference opponents), finished fourth in the conference, and outscored opponents by a total of 211 to 73. The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Clemson, South Carolina.


1945 Clemson Tigers football team
Center Ralph Jenkins was the team captain. The team's statistical leaders included tailback Marion Butler with 239 passing yards, fullback Dewey Quinn with 392 rushing yards, and Butler and fullback Jim Reynolds with 30 points scored (5 touchdowns each).


1945 Clemson Tigers football team
Tackle Bob Turner and center Ralph Jenkins were selected as first-team players on the 1945 All-Southern Conference football team.


1945 Cleveland Buckeyes season
The 1945 Cleveland Buckeyes baseball team competed in Negro American League (NAL) during the 1945 baseball season. The team compiled a 52–20–2 (.716) record.


1945 Cleveland Buckeyes season
The team won the NAL pennant and defeated the Washington Homestead Grays in the 1945 Negro World Series, four games to none.


1945 Cleveland Buckeyes season
Quincy Trouppe was the team's manager. Avelino Cañizares and Sam Jethroe were the leading hitters with batting averages of .365 and .339. Gene Bremmer was the leading pitcher with a 6–1 record and 2.07 earned run average.


1945 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1945 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1945 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1945 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1945 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1945 Cleveland Indians season, Awards and honors
All-Star Game (note: rosters were named by Associated Press writers, but game was not played due to travel restrictions during World War II)


1945 Cleveland Rams season
The 1945 Cleveland Rams season was the team's eighth year with the National Football League and the ninth and final season in Cleveland. Led by the brother tandem of head coach Adam Walsh and general manager Chile Walsh, and helmed by future Hall of Fame quarterback Bob Waterfield, the Rams franchise finished 9-1 before winning its first NFL Championship by defeating the Washington Redskins, 15-14, at Cleveland Stadium. Other stars on the team included receiver Jim Benton and back Jim Gillette, who gained more than 100 yards in the title game.


1945 Cleveland Rams season
One month after winning the championship, team owner Dan Reeves, frustrated by continuing financial losses and anxious over the startup in the coming year of the All-America Football Conference Cleveland Browns, moved the team to Los Angeles, marking the first and only time an NFL champion has played the following season in another city.


1945 Cleveland Rams season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1945 Cleveland Rams season, Regular season, Week 4: at Green Bay Packers
CLE – Benton 17 pass from Waterfield (kick failed)GB – Comp 1 run (Hutson kick)GB – Fritsch 3 run (Hutson kick)CLE – Colella 6 pass from Waterfield (Waterfield kick)CLE – Greenwood 1 run (Waterfield kick)CLE – Colella 5 run (Waterfield kick)


1945 Cleveland Rams season, Regular season, Week 5: at Chicago Bears
CLE – Greenwood 11 run (kick failed)CLE – Colella 3 run (Waterfield kick)CLE – Gehrke 10 run (Waterfield kick)CHI – Margarita 1 run (Gudauskas kick)CHI – Margarita 42 pass from Luckman (Gudauskas kick)CHI – Gallameau  2 run (Gudauskas kick)CLE – Greenwood 8 run (Waterfield kick)CLE – Benton 21 pass from Waterfield (Waterfield kick)CLE – Colella 18 pass from Reisz (Waterfield kick)


1945 Cleveland Rams season, Post season, NFL Championship Game: vs. Washington Redskins
In the first quarter, the Redskins had the ball at their own 5-yard line. Dropping back into the end zone, quarterback Sammy Baugh threw, but the ball hit the goal post (which at the time were on the goal line instead of at the back of the end zone) and bounced back to the ground in the end zone. Under the rules at the time, this was ruled as a safety and thus gave the Rams a 2–0 lead.


1945 Cleveland Rams season, Post season, NFL Championship Game: vs. Washington Redskins
In the second quarter, Baugh suffered bruised ribs and was replaced by Frank Filchock. Filchock threw a 38-yard touchdown pass to Steve Bagarus to give the Redskins a 7–2 lead. But the Rams scored just before halftime when rookie quarterback Bob Waterfield threw a 37-yard touchdown pass to Jim Benton. Waterfield's ensuing extra point was partiallyblocked, with the ball teetering on the crossbar, but it dropped over to give Cleveland a 9–7 lead.


1945 Cleveland Rams season, Post season, NFL Championship Game: vs. Washington Redskins
In the third quarter, the Rams increased their lead when Jim Gillette scored on a 44-yard touchdown reception, but this time the extra point was missed. The Redskins then came back to cut their deficit to 15–14 with Seymour's 8-yard touchdown catch from Filchock. In the fourth quarter, Washington kicker Joe Aguirre missed two field goals attempts, of 46 and 31 yards, that could have won the game.


1945 Cleveland Rams season, Roster
Bold denotes player on the roster on the official NFL roster at the end of 1945 season.


1945 Cleveland mayoral election
The Cleveland mayoral election of 1945 saw the election of Thomas A. Burke.


1945 Colgate Red Raiders football team
The 1945 Colgate Red Raiders football team was an American football team that represented Colgate University as an independent during the 1945 college football season. In its 17th season under head coach Andrew Kerr, the team compiled a 3–4–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 128 to 111. The team played its home games at Colgate Athletic Field in Hamilton, New York.


1945 College Football All-America Team
The 1945 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams in 1945. The nine selectors recognized by the NCAA as "official" for the 1945 season are (1) Collier's Weekly, as selected by Grantland Rice, (2) the Associated Press, (3) the United Press, (4) the All-America Board, (5) the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), (6) the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), (7) the International News Service (INS), (8) Look magazine, (9) the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) and (10) the Sporting News.


1945 College Football All-America Team, Consensus All-Americans
For the year 1945, the NCAA recognizes 10 published All-American teams as "official" designations for purposes of its consensus determinations. The following chart identifies the NCAA-recognized consensus All-Americans and displays which first-team designations they received.


1945 Colombian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Colombia in February 1945 to elect the Chamber of Representatives. The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, which won 80 of the 131 seats.


1945 Colorado A&M Aggies football team
The 1945 Colorado A&M Aggies football team represented Colorado State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in the Mountain States Conference (MSC) during the 1945 college football season. In their second season under head coach Julius Wagner, the Aggies compiled a 2–5–1 record (0–4 against MSC opponents), finished last in the MSC, and were outscored by a total of 179 to 89.


1945 Colorado Buffaloes football team
The 1945 Colorado Buffaloes football team was an American football team that represented the University of Colorado during the 1945 college football season. Head coach Frank Potts led the team to a 3–1 mark in the MSC and 5–3 overall.


1945 Columbia Lions football team
The 1945 Columbia Lions football team was an American football team that represented the Columbia University during the 1945 college football season. In their 16th season under head coach Lou Little, the Lions compiled an 8–1 record, were ranked #20 in the final AP Poll, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 251 to 105. The Lions' lone setback was a 32–7 loss to Penn.


1945 Combined Scottish Universities by-election
The Combined Scottish Universities by-election, 1945 was a by-election held from 9 to 13 April 1945 for the Combined Scottish Universities, a university constituency of the British House of Commons.


1945 Combined Scottish Universities by-election, Vacancy
The seat had become vacant on 6 March 1945 when the National Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) George Morrison had resigned by the procedural device of accepting the post of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead, a notional 'office of profit under the crown' which is used as a procedural device to enable MPs to resign from the Commons.


1945 Combined Scottish Universities by-election, Candidates
Two candidates contested the by-election. The Rector of the University of Glasgow, Sir John Boyd Orr, stood as an independent. He was a doctor and biologist, and founder of the Rowett Research Institute.


1945 Combined Scottish Universities by-election, Candidates
The other candidate was R. M. Munro of the National Liberal Party.


1945 Combined Scottish Universities by-election, Result
The result was a victory for the Boyd Orr, who won over 70% of the votes. He held the seat until 1946, when he resigned to take up the post of Director of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.


1945 Connecticut Huskies football team
The 1945 Connecticut Huskies football team represented the University of Connecticut in the 1945 college football season. The Huskies were led by 11th-year head coach J. Orlean Christian and completed the season with a record of 7–1.


1945 Copa Aldao
The 1945 Copa Aldao was the final match to decide the winner of the Copa Aldao, the 16th. edition of the international competition organised by the Argentine and Uruguayan Associations together. The final was contested by Uruguayan club Peñarol and Argentine side River Plate.


1945 Copa Aldao
In the first match, played at Estadio Centenario in Montevideo, River Plate beat Peñarol 2–1 while in the second leg held in San Lorenzo de Almagro Stadium in Buenos Aires, River Plate beat again Peñarol 3–2 therefore achieving its fourth Copa Aldao trophy in five finals contested. Besides, striker Ángel Labruna was the most notable player of River Plate, having scored all goals for the team (5) in both matches.


1945 Copa Escobar-Gerona
The 1945 Copa Escobar-Gerona, also named Copa de Confraternidad Rioplatense, was the 2nd. edition of this cup competition organised jointly by the Argentine and Uruguayan Associations.


1945 Copa Escobar-Gerona
Boca Juniors (Argentine Primera División runner-up) faced Club Nacional de Football (Uruguayan Primera División runner-up) in a two-legged series at San Lorenzo Stadium in Buenos Aires and Estadio Centenario in Montevideo. In the first match, Nacional won 2–1, while Boca Juniors was the winner of the second match, 3–2. After both teams tied on points and no third match was scheduled to define the series, they were declared champions and therefore the title was shared.


1945 Copa Ramírez Final
The 1945 Copa Ramírez Final (also named Campeonato de la República) was the final match to decide the winner of the Copa General Pedro Ramírez, the 3rd. (and last) edition of this Argentine national cup organised by the AFA. The final was contested by Estudiantes de La Plata and Boca Juniors,


1945 Copa Ramírez Final
In the match, played at Estadio Gasómetro in Boedo, ended in a 4–4, therefore a playoff was scheduled to define a champion. It was played almost 9 months later in the same venue, with Estudiantes winning the match 1–0 and crowning champion of the competition.


1945 Copa Ramírez Final, Overview
The cup was contested by 42 teams. The four Primera División teams that had been semifinalist in the previous editions were elegibles to participate, plus other clubs from Regional leagues. Teams were divided into four groups (by Province), playing each other in a single round-robin tournament.


1945 Copa Ramírez Final, Overview
Primera División teams entered directly to quarter finals. In the caso of Boca Juniors, the squad beat Sarmiento de Junín 3–2 (as visitor) and Racing 21 at Ferro C. Oeste. On the other hand, Estudiantes LP defeated Sarmiento de Resistencia 1–0 in Resistencia, Chaco and Estudiantes de Santiago del Estero 3–1 (also as visitor).


1945 Copa Ramírez Final, Overview
The final was played at San Lorenzo de Almagro's venue on March 24, 1945. With 15 left, Boca Juniors was leading 3–1 but Estudiantes reacted and scored 3 goals within 5 minutes. With only one minute to play, Jaime Sarlanga scored the last goal for the 4–4 final. With no winner after an extra time, a playoff was scheduled to define the champion. The match was finally played on December 18, 1945 in the same venue. With Estudiantes winning 1–0 (goal by Manuel Pelegrina, the match was suspended on 83' and the trophy was awarded to Estudiantes. Pelegrina was also the most notable player of Estudiantes, having scored 4 goals in the series.


1945 Copa de Competencia Británica Final
The 1945 Copa de Competencia Británica Final was the final that decided the winner of the 2nd. edition of this Argentine domestic cup. It was played on October 12, 1945. Racing defeated Boca Juniors 4–1 at San Lorenzo Stadium, winning their first Copa Británica trophy.


1945 Copa de Competencia Británica Final, Overview
The cup was contested by the same clubs participating in 1945 Argentine Primera División, playing a single-elimination format in a neutral venue. Racing beat Huracán 5–3 at San Lorenzo, River Plate 3–2 at La Bombonera, and Estudiantes de La Plata 4–0 at San Lorenzo.


1945 Copa de Competencia Británica Final, Overview
On the other hand, Boca Juniors beat Atlanta 6–2 at Ferro C. Oeste, qualifying to the quarterfinals. After beating Independiente (1–0 at San Lorenzo) and thrashing Ferro Carril Oeste (7–0 at Estadio Racing Club), Boca earned its place in the final.


1945 Copa de Competencia Británica Final, Overview
In the final, Racing showed a great accuracy to score and beat Boca Juniors 4–1, with some Boca Juniors supporters complaining that referee Dottori did not award a penalty to Boca Juniors.


1945 Copa del Generalísimo Final
The Copa del Generalísimo 1945 Final was the 43rd final of the King's Cup. The final was played at Montjuïc in Barcelona, on 24 June 1945, being won by Club Atlético de Bilbao, who beat Valencia CF 3-2.


1945 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship
The 1945 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship was the 36th staging of the Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1909.


1945 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship
1st Battalion won the championship following a 3-11 to 0-04 defeat of Oldcastletown in the final. This remains their only championship title.


1945 Cork Senior Football Championship
The 1945 Cork Senior Football Championship was the 57th staging of the Cork Senior Football Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887.


1945 Cork Senior Football Championship
On 21 October 1945, Fermoy won the championship following a 0-06 to 0-03 defeat of Clonakilty in the final. This was their 7th championship title overall and their first title since 1906.


1945 Cork Senior Hurling Championship
The 1945 Cork Senior Hurling Championship was the 57th staging of the Cork Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887. The draw for the opening round fixtures took place at the Cork Convention on 28 January 1945. The championship began on 13 May 1945 and ended on 16 September 1945.


1945 Cork Senior Hurling Championship
On 16 September 1945, Glen Rovers won the championship following a 4-10 to 5-3 defeat of Carrigdhoun in the final. This was their 10th championship title overall and their second title in succession.


1945 Cornell Big Red football team
The 1945 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University as an independent during the 1945 college football season. In its first season under head coach Edward McKeever, the team compiled a 5–4 record and outscored its opponents 169 to 166. Allen Dekdebrun was the team captain.


1945 Cornell Big Red football team
Cornell played its home games at Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, New York.


1945 Cotton Bowl Classic
The 1945 Cotton Bowl Classic featured the TCU Horned Frogs and the Oklahoma A&M Cowboys.


1945 Cotton Bowl Classic, Background
Oklahoma A&M won the Missouri Valley Conference and had only lost to Norman NAS (a naval team). TCU was lucky to be there, with a 7–2–1 record and 3–1–1 conference record. This was Oklahoma A&M's first bowl game.


1945 Cotton Bowl Classic, Game summary
The game started with and ended with an Oklahoma A&M touchdown. Bob Fenimore had two touchdown runs with additional touchdowns by Jim Spavital, Joe Thomas, and Mack Creage the game was dominated by A&M, who had long drives of 59, 61, 62, 40, and 66 all result in touchdowns while TCU turned the ball over twice and let Oklahoma A&M run the ball 60 times in one of the more lopsided Cotton Bowl games.


1945 Cotton Bowl Classic, Aftermath
Oklahoma A&M would win the Sugar Bowl the year after, but they would not reach another Cotton Bowl until 2003 (now known as Oklahoma State) and has not won one since the 1945 game. TCU would reach the Cotton Bowl four more times from 1951 to 1958.


1945 Coupe de France Final
The 1945 Coupe de France Final was a football match held at Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Colombes on May 6, 1945, that saw RC Paris defeat Lille OSC 3–0 thanks to goals by André Philippot, Pierre Ponsetti and Oscar Heisserer.


1945 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR
The 1945 Ukrainian Cup was a football knockout competition conducting by the Football Federation of the Ukrainian SSR and was known as the Ukrainian Cup.


1945 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR, Competition schedule, First Elimination Round
The main date for games was on 27 September 1945.


1945 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR, Competition schedule, Second Elimination Round
The main date for games was on 7 October 1945.


1945 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR, Competition schedule, Third Elimination Round
The main date for games was on 14 October 1945.


1945 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR, Competition schedule, Fourth Elimination Round
The main date for games was on 21 October 1945.


1945 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR, Competition schedule, Quarterfinals
The main date for games was on 28 October 1945.


1945 Curaçao general election
General elections were held in the Territory of Curaçao on 5 November 1945. Ten of the fifteen seats in the Estates of Curaçao were elected, with the remaining five appointed by governor P.A. Kasteel. The ten elected seats consisted of five for Curaçao, three for Aruba, one for Bonaire and one for the SSS Islands


1945 Curaçao general election
From a population of 127,866 (December 1944) only 6,093 men, about 5% of the population, were entitled to vote in the elections. This was the last parliamentary election in Curaçao before the introduction of universal suffrage.


1945 Curaçao general election, Results, Curaçao
Population: 78,587 (31 December 1944)Entitled to vote: 4,095Valid votes: 3,520 Invalid votes: 45Seats: 5Average valid votes per seat: 704


1945 Curaçao general election, Results, Curaçao
Wix received enough preferential votes to get elected. With 2,122 votes 3 seats were obtained by the DP; 707 votes per seat. Wix had just more than 50% of 707 votes.


1945 Curaçao general election, Results, Aruba
Population: 39,318 (31 December 1944)Entitled to vote: 1,906Valid votes: 1,728 Seats: 3Average valid votes per seat: 576


1945 Curaçao general election, Results, Bonaire
Population: 5,798 (31 December 1944)Entitled to vote: 102Valid votes: 94Seats: 1


1945 Curaçao general election, Results, SSS Islands
Entitled to vote: 148 (Sint Maarten: 60, Sint Eustatius: 45, Saba: 43)Seats: 1


1945 Curaçao general election, Results, SSS Islands
W.R. Plantz was the only candidate so the seat for the SSS Islands went automatically to him.


1945 Curaçao general election, Results, Appointed by the governor
Gerharts was not on time to hand over his letter of credence and therefore he lost his seat. The governor decided to use one of the five seats he could appoint for Gerharts, so he still became a member of the Estates of Curaçao. The other four people who were appointed by the governor were A.W.J.M. Desertine, V.E. Henriquez, C.W.J. Jonckheer and E. Cohen Henriquez.


1945 Curaçao general election, Aftermath
The governor decided that Desertine was the speaker of the parliament and Plantz the deputy speaker.


1945 Curaçao general election, Aftermath
The new session of the Estates started on the first Tuesday of April 1946. Because of the issue with the letter of credence of Gerharts the number of members of the Estates of Curaçao was not 15 but 14.


1945 Dakota A65-83 disappearance
RAAF ambulance aircraft A65-83 (C47-CIZ) was a Douglas DC-3 plane that crashed on or near an island in the Timor area of the Banda Sea during a storm on 19 December 1945.


1945 Dakota A65-83 disappearance
The plane had been assigned to the Royal Australian Air Force in March 1945 with the call sign VH-CIZ and assigned to 35 Squadron as an air ambulance.


1945 Dakota A65-83 disappearance
The aircraft departed from Morotai and flew to Ambon en route to Darwin, piloted by Pilot Officer Francis Robinson. It left Ambon at 10.40AM and, about an hour into the flight, indicated that it wished to place a message. Darwin Aeradio asked the plane to "go ahead" but no response was received.


1945 Dakota A65-83 disappearance
The following day, a message from the plane claimed that all 22 passengers and 4 crew were "alive... all alive" and were "waiting to be picked up". A second, garbled message, which included the Dakota's call sign CIZ, was also intercepted. Two days after that, a civilian engineer reported picking up a final message stating “Darwin from Timor... waiting to be picked up.”


1945 Dakota A65-83 disappearance
Unfortunately search efforts at the time proved fruitless and no trace of the plane or those it carried has been found. Without a precise crash site to investigate, the Australian Defence Force have refused to fund a search for the remains, although private efforts to undertake a search continue.


1945 Danish Folketing election
Folketing elections were held alongside Landsting elections in Denmark on 30 October 1945, except in the Faroe Islands where they were held on 20 November. The Social Democratic Party remained the largest in the Folketing, with 48 of the 149 seats. Voter turnout was 86.3% in Denmark proper and 57.3% in the Faroes.