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- Himmler committed suicide at Lüneburg, Germany. ww2dbase [Heinrich Himmler | TH]
- Members of the German High Command and the Provisional Government were taken into custody and imprisoned. ww2dbase [Nuremberg Trials and Other Trials Against Germany | TH]
- The Allies dissolved Karl Dönitz's government. ww2dbase [Germany's Surrender | CPC]
- USS Ray sank 4 small Japanese vessels west of Japan with her deck gun. ww2dbase [Ray | CPC]
- USS Sargent Bay completed repairs and arrived in Okinawa, Japan. ww2dbase [Sargent Bay | Okinawa | CPC]
- 525 American B-29 bombers conducted a raid on Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | Tokyo | CPC]
- Allied convoy RA-67, the last outgoing Allied arctic convoy, departed the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Murmansk | CPC]
- In Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom, British Prime Minister Churchill resigned and formed a caretaker administration in which the Labour Party refused to serve. ww2dbase [Winston Churchill | London, England | AC]
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