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1945
 
    
US dramatist Tennessee Williams has his first success with The Glass Menagerie       
1945
 
     
Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes has its premiere in London, at the Sadler's Wells theatre        
1945
 
    
Jean-Louis Barrault directs and stars in the film Les Enfants du Paradis       
1945
 
   
Aung San's daughter, Aung San Suu Kyi, is born in Rangoon      
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1945
 
    
In the Labour landslide in Britain's general election Harold Macmillan loses his seat of Stockton-on-Tees       
1945
 
    
Alexander Solzhenitsyn is sentenced to eight years in a Soviet labour camp for critizing Stalin in a private correspondence       
1945
 
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Demonstrations in Algeria spark off an uprising against French rule, which is put down with the loss of perhaps 10,000 Muslim lives     
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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Achmed Sukarno makes a unilateral declaration of Indonesian independence, and leads the subsequent struggle against the Dutch      
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Austrian composer Anton Webern is accidentally killed near Salzburg by a soldier in the US occupation force