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• Shizuichi Tanaka committed suicide by firing a pistol into his heart. ww2dbase [Shizuichi Tanaka | CPC]
• Japan agreed that the first Allied troops on the homeland would be paratroopers. ww2dbase [Japan's Surrender | AC]
• USS Segundo was ordered to sail for Tokyo Bay, Japan. ww2dbase [Segundo | CPC]
• USS Bailey departed Okinawa bound for Subic Bay, Luzon, Philippines. ww2dbase [Bailey | DS]

• Under Soviet pressure, Chiang Kaishek announced that he would recognize the Outer Mongolia region as an independent country if the Mongolian people voted to secede from China. ww2dbase [Chiang Kaishek | Chongqing | CPC]
• Choibalsan spoke at a victory celebration in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Area, China after Chiang Kaishek of the Republic of China announced that China would allow a referendum for Outer Mongolia to secede if that was the people's wish. Not satisfied with Outer Mongolia, Choibalsan declared that all Mongol lands, ie. both Outer and Inner Mongolia, would one day be unified. ww2dbase [Choibalsan | Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia | CPC]

• The Anglo-Dutch Civil Affairs Agreement, generally agreed in 1944, was formally signed into effect. It called for the island of Sumatra to be turned over to the Netherlands Indies Civil Administration. ww2dbase [Sumatra | CPC]

• USS Whale arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Whale | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | CPC]

• The Kukutsu Prisoners of War Camp in northern Taiwan was closed. ww2dbase [CPC]

• The city of Cleveland, Ohio, United States honored Bob Feller with a parade; hours later, he played in his first professional post-WW2 baseball game. ww2dbase [Robert Feller | Cleveland, Ohio | CPC]
• During a press conference in Washingon DC, United States, Charles de Gaulle declared that "France means to recover its sovereignty over Indochina" despite Emperor Bao Dai's warning of Vietnamese anti-French fervor. ww2dbase [Charles de Gaulle | Washington | CPC]

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