V-E Day
May 8, 1945
Germany signed unconditional surrender at Reims and Berlin. Crowds poured into the streets of London, Paris, New York, and Moscow. Churchill addressed the crowd outside Whitehall. Across a ruined continent, the war in Europe was over. Sixty million dead. Half the Jews of Europe gone. Nothing would quite be the same.
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
- Hitler kills himself in the bunker · Europe · War
- Nagasaki bombed · East Asia · War
- Yalta Conference carves up postwar Europe · Europe · Politics
Before and after in Europe
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Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.