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| 1945 |
| | | Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes has its premiere in London, at the Sadler's Wells theatre | |
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| 1945 |
| | | Jean-Louis Barrault directs and stars in the film Les Enfants du Paradis | |
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| 1945 |
| | | Alexander Solzhenitsyn is sentenced to eight years in a Soviet labour camp for critizing Stalin in a private correspondence | |
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| 1945 |
| | | Demonstrations in Algeria spark off an uprising against French rule, which is put down with the loss of perhaps 10,000 Muslim lives | |
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| 1945 |
| | | Igor Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, premiered in New York, derives from music written for or inspired by films | |
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| 1945 |
| | | Achmed Sukarno makes a unilateral declaration of Indonesian independence, and leads the subsequent struggle against the Dutch | |
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| 1945 |
| | | Austrian composer Anton Webern is accidentally killed near Salzburg by a soldier in the US occupation force | |
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| 1945 |
| | | Juan Perón, professed friend of the poor in Argentina, is arrested by brother officers | |
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| 1945 |
| | | A mass demonstration by trade unions in Buenos Aires results in the release of Perón | |
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| 1945 |
| | | Russian-born novelist Vladimir Nabokov becomes a US citizen | |
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