Timeline March 1945

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• 1929 – 1945 Anne Frank (1929-1945) Died March 1945, aged 15 Anne Frank was a Jewish girl who hid with her family in Amsterdam for two years before being discovered and deported. She died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp shortly before its liberation. Her wartime diary, published after her death, became one of the most widely read accounts of the Holocaust.
• 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima Marines raise flag on Mount Suribachi US Marines stormed Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945, in one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War. The iconic photograph of Marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi became the most reproduced image in history.
• 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima US Marines capture a fortified Pacific island American forces landed on the volcanic island to secure airfields for the bombing campaign against Japan, facing fierce Japanese resistance from fortified tunnels. The flag-raising on Mount Suribachi became one of the most famous photographs of the war. The battle cost roughly 26,000 American and nearly all 21,000 Japanese defenders.
• 1945 Allies cross the Rhine Remagen bridge captured intact US troops captured the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen on March 7, 1945, crossing the Rhine before the Germans could destroy it. Within 24 hours 8,000 troops had crossed into Germany.
• 1945 Founding of the Arab League Six Arab states form a regional organization Egypt, Iraq, Transjordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Syria signed the pact establishing the League of Arab States in Cairo. The organization aimed to coordinate political, economic, and cultural policy among Arab nations. It grew to include most Arab states in the following decades.
• 1945 – present Eric Clapton English rock & blues guitarist Eric Clapton (born 1945) is one of the most influential guitarists in rock history — nicknamed "Slowhand" — known for his work with The Yardbirds, Cream and Derek and the Dominos, and for solo classics including "Layla", "Wonderful Tonight" and "Tears in Heaven". Three-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and eighteen-time Grammy winner.
• 1945 Eric Clapton born in Ripley, Surrey 30 March 1945 Eric Patrick Clapton was born in Ripley, Surrey, England, to 16-year-old Patricia Molly Clapton and Edward Fryer, a Canadian soldier who had returned to Canada before the birth. He was raised by his grandmother Rose and her husband Jack Clapp, believing for years that they were his parents and his mother was his older sister.