October 6th, 1945 (SATURDAY)
GERMANY: Munich: The first issue of the centre-left newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung is published today.
Berlin: Robert H. Jackson (USA), Francois de Menthon (France), Hartley Shawcross (UK) and R. Rudenko (USSR) sign the "Charter of the International Military Tribunal", indicting 24 members of the Nazi government and armed forces, thus paving the way for the Nuremberg trials.
CHINA: 50,000 Japanese troops in North China surrender to the III Amphibious Corps of the United States Marines under the command of Major General Keller E. Rockey.
CANADA: Minesweepers HMCS Wasaga, Kenora and Minas are paid off.
1949 (THURSDAY)
UNITED STATES: Iva Toguri d'Aquino, aka "Tokyo Rose," is sentenced in San Francisco, California, to ten years imprisonment and fined US$10,000 (US$82,059 in year 2005 dollars) after being convicted for treason. She had broadcast music and Japanese propaganda to American troops in the Pacific during World War II. She is pardoned by President Gerald Ford in 1977 and dies in Chicago, Illinois, on 26 September 2006 at age 90.