Timeline
(1952)September 1945
September
- 02
- Key eventThe Japanese surrender on the “Missouri”On 2 September 1945, in Tokyo Bay, Japan signed the instrument of unconditional surrender aboard USS Missouri. The Second World War was over.
- The surrender of YamashitaOn 2 September 1945 General Tomoyuki Yamashita came down from the mountains near Kiangan and surrendered; on 3 September he signed the surrender at Baguio.
- The Vietnamese Declaration of IndependenceOn 2 September 1945, in Ba Đình Square in Hanoi, Hồ Chí Minh proclaimed the independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, quoting the US Declaration.