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Victory in Europe Day. Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945; it marked the official end of World War II in Europe in the Eastern Front, with the last known shots fired on 11 May.
The Sétif and Guelma massacre [a] (also called the Sétif, Guelma and Kherrata massacres [b] or the massacres of 8 May 1945 [c]) was a series of attacks by French colonial authorities and pied-noir European settler militias on Algerian civilians in 1945 around the market town of Sétif, west of Constantine, in French Algeria.
Third and last page of the German instrument of unconditional surrender signed in Berlin, Germany on 8 May 1945. The German Instrument of Surrender was a legal document effecting the unconditional surrender of the remaining German armed forces to the Allies, which ended World War II in Europe, with the surrender taking effect at 23:01 CET on the same day.
The final battles of the European theatre of World War II continued after the definitive surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allies, signed by Field marshal Wilhelm Keitel on 8 May 1945 ( VE Day) in Karlshorst, Berlin. After German leader Adolf Hitler 's suicide and handing over of power to grand admiral Karl Dönitz on the last day of April 1945 ...
On May 8, 2023, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree according to which Ukraine celebrates Europe Day on May 9, [5] [6] and submitted to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's national parliament) a bill establishing May 8, the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in World War II 1939 – 1945, as a day off instead of Victory ...
Victory Day [a 1] is a holiday that commemorates the Soviet Union victory over Nazi Germany in 1945. It was first inaugurated in the 15 republics of the Soviet Union following the signing of the German Instrument of Surrender late in the evening on 8 May 1945 (9 May Moscow Time ). [a] The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May ...
May 11, 1945 (Friday) USS Bunker Hill hit by two kamikazes. While supporting the Battle of Okinawa, the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) was badly damaged by Japanese kamikaze attacks and suffered about 600 casualties. The Battle of West Henan–North Hubei ended in tactical stalemate but a Japanese operational victory.
Location. Guelma. , Algeria. 36°26′55″N 7°25′10″E / 36.4485°N 7.4195°E / 36.4485; 7.4195. Website. www .univ-guelma .dz. 8 Mai 1945 - Guelma University ( Arabic: جامعة 8 ماي 1945 - قالمة ), also called Guelma University, is located in Guelma, Algeria, on the north eastern coast of Algeria.