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• At 2300 hours, the Soviet Union tore up the non-aggression treaty with Japan and declared war; the invasion would begin 61 minutes later at the start of the following day. ww2dbase [Manchurian Strategic Offensive | CPC]
• US President Harry Truman signed the United Nations Charter, making the US the third nation to join the new organization. ww2dbase [Harry Truman | TH]
• US President Truman threatened Japan with further nuclear devastation during a radio address. ww2dbase [Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | CPC]
• Manhattan Project scientist Dr. Harold Jacobsen predicted Hiroshima's devastated centre would remain dead, "not unlike our conception of the moon", for 70 years. ww2dbase [Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | AC]

• USS Manta departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her second war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Manta | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• USS Cassin Young departed Okinawa, Japan for San Pedro, California, United States. ww2dbase [Cassin Young | Okinawa | CPC]
• About 60 American B-29 bombers attacked aircraft factories and arsenals near Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | Tokyo | CPC]
• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) launched raids on northern Honshu and southern Hokkaido, Japan. ww2dbase [Yorktown (Essex-class) | Preparations for Invasion of Japan | DS]
• A limited rail service resumed in Hiroshima, Japan. ww2dbase [Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Hiroshima | AC]

• USS Blenny reported sinking 11 small Japanese craft with the deck gun in the South China Sea off Malaya. ww2dbase [Blenny | South China Sea | CPC]
• USS Whale made rendezvous with USS Dragonet in the Pacific Ocean and received a rescued pilot. ww2dbase [Whale | CPC]

• US Ambassador to the Soviet Union W. Averell Harriman reported to US President Harry Truman that Joseph Stalin would like to see Chinese recognition of the Soviet puppet state of Mongolia as an independent nation, and that its borders would be the present day borders of the Mongolia Area of China. ww2dbase [Averell Harriman | Moscow | CPC]

• US B-24 bombers based in the Philippine Islands struck Shinchiku Airfield (now Hsinchu), Taiwan. ww2dbase [Shinchiku Airfield | Shinchiku | CPC]

• United States, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, and France signed the London Charter of the International Military Tribunal in London, England, United Kingdom. The chief prosecutors from these four nations met for the first time. ww2dbase [Nuremberg Trials and Other Trials Against Germany | London, England | TH, CPC]
• Nordmark arrived at Rosyth, Scotland, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Nordmark | Rosyth, Scotland | CPC]

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