September 3rd, 1945 (MONDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: Sloop HMS Modeste is commissioned.
FRENCH INDOCHINA: In Laos, Franco-Laotian forces enter Vientiane and release interned French civilians.NORTH-WEST PACIFIC: The Soviets sever all communications between Japan and the Kuriles and Sakhalin.
COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES: Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita, the commander of the Philippines, surrenders to Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright at Camp John Hay, Baguio, Mountain Province, Luzon, Philippine, Islands.
Off Wake Island, the Japanese surrender in a ceremony on board the destroyer escort USS Levy (DE-162).
Off the Bonin islands, Lieutenant General Yoshio Tachibana, the local commander, signs the surrender documents on board the destroyer USS Dunlap (DD-384) off Chichi Jima. General Tachibana is later convicted and executed for a particularly gruesome series of war crimes perpetuated against U.S. airmen who had been captured in the area during 1944-45.
U.S.A.: Top songs on the pop music record charts
are
(1) "Till the End of Time" by Perry Como;
(2) "On The Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe" by Johnny Mercer;
(3) "Gotta Be This Or That (Part 1)" by Benny Goodman and his
Orchestra; and
(4) "You Two Timed Me One Time Too Often" by Tex Ritter.