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• Japanese physicist Yoshio Nishina sought permission from the American occupation administration to use his two cyclotrons for biological and medical research. The request was granted, but orders from United States Secretary of War Robert Patterson dated 10 Nov would have all cyclotrons in Japan destroyed on 24 Nov. ww2dbase [Yoshio Nishina | CPC]

• Du Yuming was relieved as the commanding officer of Kunming, Yunnan Province, China. ww2dbase [Du Yuming | Kunming, Yunnan | CPC]

• Vice President Mohammad Hatta of Indonesia issued Proclamation X, changing the country from a presidential system to a parliamentary system. The proclamation established the Working Committee of the KNIP (Komite Nasional Indonesia Pusat, or Central National Committee of Indonesia) to fill the role of the nation's legislation branch of government until legislators could be elected. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Australian troops and Dutch officials entered Pontianak, Borneo, Dutch East Indies. The population, mostly Chinese in ethnicity, greated the liberators with Chinese national flags rather than the Dutch tricolor. ww2dbase [Pontianak, Borneo | CPC]

• Korean nationalist leader Rhee Syngman, after decades of exile, returned to Korea via Douglas MacArthur's personal transport aircraft. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Light carrier Hosho arrived at Wotje, Marshall Islands and embarked 700 Japanese military servicemen. She departed for Eniwetok, Marshall Islands later on the same day. ww2dbase [Hosho | Wotje | CPC]

• Robert Oppenheimer resigned as the director of the Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States facility of the Manhattan Project. ww2dbase [Operation Trinity and Manhattan Project | Robert Oppenheimer | Los Alamos, New Mexico | CPC]
• USS Ranger arrived at New Orleans, Louisiana. ww2dbase [Ranger | New Orleans, Louisiana | DS]
• Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Sargent Bay departed San Diego bound for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ww2dbase [Sargent Bay | San Diego, California | DS]

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