December 1945

Tuesday 04:

By a vote of 65 to 7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations (the UN was established on October 24, 1945).

Wednesday 05:

Flight 19, a United States Navy training flight was lost in the Bermuda Triangle.

Sunday 09:

American General George S. Patton is injured in an automobile crash in occupied Germany. He dies twelve days later.

Saturday 15:

General Douglas MacArthur orders end of Shinto as state religion of Japan

Wednesday 19:

Austria becomes a republic for the second time, the first having been founded in 1918 and interrupted by the Austro-fascist dictatorship from 1934 onwards and the Nazi invasion of Austria in 1938.

Wednesday 26:

CFP franc and CFA franc are created

Thursday 27:

1945 - Korea is divided

Friday 28:

The U.S. Congress officially recognizes the Pledge of Allegiance