6th » World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki devastated when the nuclear weapon atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States Boeing B-29 Superfortress B-29 'Enola Gay'. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly,
9th » World War II: Nagasaki, Nagasaki Nagasaki is Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki devastated when an nuclear weapon atomic bomb, 'Fat Man', is dropped by the United States B-29 Superfortress B-29 'Bockscar'. 39,000 people are killed outright.
9th » The Red Army Soviet invasion of Manchuria named invades Japanese-occupied Manchuria.
11th » Poles in Kraków engage in Kraków pogrom e.g a pogrom against Jews in the city, killing one and wounding five.
14th » Japan accepts the Allied Japanese Instrument of Surrender terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor of Japan Emperor records the Gyokuon-hōsō Imperial Rescript on Surrender (August 15 in Japan Standard Time).
14th » The Viet Minh launches August Revolution amid the political confusion and power vacuum engulfing Vietnam.
16th » Puyi, the last Chinese emperor and ruler of Manchukuo, is captured by Soviet Union known as Soviet troops.
17th » Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta Proclamation of Indonesian Independence named proclaim the independence of Indonesia, igniting the Indonesian National Revolution against the Dutch Empire.
19th » August Revolution: Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh take power in Hanoi, Vietnam.
21st » Physicist Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. is fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
23rd » Soviet–Japanese War (1945) called Soviet–Japanese War Joseph Stalin ordered conveying a Imperial Japanese Army called Japanese army prisoner of war to the Soviet Union. (Japanese prisoners of war in the Soviet Union)
25th » Ten days after World War II ends with Japan Victory over Japan Day announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China Chinese Communist Party kill United States U.S. intelligence officer John Birch (missionary) John Birch, regarded
30th » Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
30th » The Commander-in-chief United States called Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
30th » The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
30th » The August Revolution ends as Emperor Bảo Đại abdicates, ending the Nguyễn dynasty.
31st » The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies.
23rd » Rayfield Wright, American football player and coach
24th » Ronee Blakley, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
24th » Molly Duncan (musician) named Molly Duncan, Scottish saxophonist (Average White Band)
24th » Ken Hensley, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Uriah Heep (band) known as Uriah Heep, The Gods (band) called The Gods, and Toe Fat)
24th » Vince McMahon, American wrestler, promoter, producer, and actor