Nagasaki bombed
August 9, 1945
Three days after Hiroshima, with no Japanese surrender yet in hand, a plutonium bomb destroyed the port city of Nagasaki. Forty thousand people died in an instant. The same day Soviet armies swept into Japanese-occupied Manchuria. Within a week, Emperor Hirohito told his people on radio to endure the unendurable and surrendered.
In context
Also in 1945 (12 other events on record)
- Liberation of the camps · Europe · War
- Trinity test lights the New Mexico desert · North America · Science
- Hiroshima bombed · East Asia · War
- V-E Day · Europe · War
- Hitler kills himself in the bunker · Europe · War
- Yalta Conference carves up postwar Europe · Europe · Politics
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Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.