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July 1945

The following events occurred in July 1945: July 1, 1945 (Sunday)The Battle of Balikpapan began when Australian and Dutch troops made an amphibious landing a few miles north of Balikpapan, Borneo.The Inner German Border was established as the boundary between the Western and Soviet occupation zones of Germany.British troops withdrew from Magdeburg, now part of the Soviet occupation zone.A Lion is in the Streets by Adria Locke Langley topped the New York Times Fiction Best Sellers list.Born:Debbie Harry, singer-songwriter and actress (Blondie), in Miami, FloridaDied:Willibald Borowietz, 51, German Generalleutnant (committed suicide by electrocution in a bathtub in the Camp Clinton, Mississippi POW camp)July 2, 1945 (Monday)Only 200,000 essential workers were left in Tokyo due to mass evacuations.The submarine USS Barb fired rockets on Kaihyo Island near Sakhalin, becoming the first American underwater craft to fire rockets in shore bombardment.The 1945 Sheikh Bashir Rebellion broke out in Burao and Erigavo in British Somaliland, led by Sheikh Bashir, a Somali religious leader.July 3, 1945 (Tuesday)Moscow radio announced that the body of Joseph Goebbels had been discovered in the courtyard of the Chancellery in Berlin.James F. Byrnes became United States Secretary of State.The first civilian passenger car made in the United States in three years rolled off the assembly line of the Ford Motor Company in Detroit.July 4, 1945 (Wednesday)About 500 Canadian troops rioted in Aldershot, England, in protest about the delay in sending them home.The Auxiliary Flight Research Station (AFRS) on Wallops Island, Virginia, launched its first test vehicle, a small two-stage, solid-fuel rocket to check out the installation's instrumentation.July 5, 1945 (Thursday)General Douglas MacArthur announced that the Philippines had been completely liberated.The United Kingdom general election was held.

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