Today in History

August 15, 1945
V-J Day
Just days after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japanese Emperor Hirohito broadcasts a recorded speech surrendering Japan to the allied forces, and accepting the unconditional terms of the Potsdam Declaration. "I am willing to endure the unendurable, tolerate the intolerable, for peace to last thousands of generations," he says. There are uprisings among the Japanese military in response to the decision, but a formal surrender is signed on September 2.



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It's Over

We asked readers to tell us where they were and how they reacted to the news that World War II had ended. And what a response we got!




 



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