1944 - What happened in 1944 ?
January 1944
Thursday 20:
World War II: The Royal Air Force drops 2,300 tons of bombs on Berlin.
Saturday 22:
World War II: Allies begin Operation Shingle (an assault on Anzio, Italy).
Thursday 27:
World War II: The two year Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
Saturday 29:
World War II: About 300 men, women, and children die in the Massacre in Koniuchy in Poland.
Monday 31:
World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
February 1944
Thursday 03:
United States troops capture the Marshall Islands.
Monday 07:
World War II: In Anzio, Italy Nazi forces launch a counteroffensive.
Thursday 17:
World War II: Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins. The battle ended in an American victory on February 22.
Sunday 20:
World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Island.
Tuesday 29:
World War II: The Admiralty Islands are invaded in the American General Douglas MacArthur-led Operation Brewer.
March 1944
Saturday 04:
In Ossining, New York, Louis Buchalter, the leader of 1930s crime syndicate Murder, Inc., is executed at Sing Sing.
Wednesday 15:
Allied aircraft bomb the Nazi-held monastery and stage an assault.
Sunday 19:
World War II: Nazi forces occupy Hungary.
April 1944
Friday 14:
Huge explosion rocks the Bombay harbour killing 300 and causing a loss of 20 million pounds at that time. See: Bombay Explosion (1944).
Friday 21:
Women in France receive the right to vote.
Saturday 22:
World War II: Operation Persecution initiated – Allied forces land in the Hollandia area of New Guinea.
Tuesday 25:
The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
Saturday 29:
"Dancing Romeo," the last Our Gang film, premiers.
May 1944
Friday 05:
Mohandas Gandhi is freed from prison.
Thursday 11:
World War II: The Allies start a major offensive against the Axis Powers on the Gustav Line.
Wednesday 17:
Type IX U-boat: U-884 is launched.
Thursday 18:
World War II: SS troops burn down six villages in the Brkini hills in south western Slovenia.
June 1944
Sunday 04:
World War II: Rome falls to the Allies, the first Axis powers capital to fall.
Monday 05:
World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
Saturday 10:
In baseball, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
Thursday 15:
In the Saskatchewan general election, 1944, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government of North America.
Monday 19:
The Battle of the Philippine Sea took place, where the United States Navy sank 3 Japanese aircraft carriers and shot down almost 400 aircraft in what was called The Marianas Turkey Shoot.
July 1944
Tuesday 11:
Franklin D. Roosevelt says he will run for a fourth term as President of the United States.
Monday 17:
World War II: The largest convoy of the war embarks from Halifax, Nova Scotia under Royal Canadian Navy protection.
Tuesday 18:
World War II: Hideki Tojo resigns as Prime Minister of Japan due to numerous setbacks in the war effort.
Friday 21:
American troops land on Guam starting the battle (ends on August 10).
Tuesday 25:
One of the bloodiest days for Canadians during the war: 18,444 casualties, including 5,021 killed.
August 1944
Monday 07:
IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
Wednesday 09:
The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey the Bear for the first time.
Thursday 10:
World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.
Saturday 19:
Paris rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.
Tuesday 22:
1944 - World War II: Thirty-two Spaniards & four French Maquis tackle a German column (1,300 men in 60 lorries, with 6 tanks & 2 self-propelled guns), at La Madeiline, France. Three Maquis are wounded, with 110 Germans killed and 200 wounded.
September 1944
Saturday 02:
Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz, arriving three days later.
Monday 04:
World War II: The British 11th Armoured Division liberate the Belgian city of Antwerp.
Tuesday 12:
The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany and the Chetniks continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among those liberated cities.
Thursday 14:
United States Marines land on the island of Peleliu.
Tuesday 26:
World War II: Operation Market Garden fails.
October 1944
Monday 02:
World War II: Nazi troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
Thursday 05:
Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German Jet fighter over France.
Tuesday 10:
Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are systematically murdered at Auschwitz death camp.
Friday 20:
Liquid natural gas leaks from storange tanks in Cleveland, then explodes; the explosion and resulting fire level 30 blocks and kill 130.
Monday 30:
Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
November 1944
Wednesday 01:
The British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands.
Tuesday 07:
U.S. presidential election, 1944: Franklin D. Roosevelt wins reelection over challenger Thomas E. Dewey, to become the only U.S. president to be elected to a fourth term.
Sunday 19:
World War II: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
Friday 24:
The first bombing raid against the Japanese capital of Tokyo from the east and by land was made by 88 American aircraft.
Wednesday 29:
The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
December 1944
Friday 01:
Edward Stettinius Jr. becomes becomes the last United States Secretary of State of the Roosevelt administration.
Saturday 16:
World War II: A V-2 rocket hits the Rex Cinema in Antwerp killing 567 people.
Friday 22:
Vietnam People's Army is formed to resist Japanese occupation of Vietnam
Tuesday 26:
American troops repulse German forces at Bastogne
Sunday 31:
World War II: Hungary declares war on Germany
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