August 1944

Tuesday 01:

Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.

Wednesday 02:

Beginning of the Treblinka uprising.

Friday 04:

Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family.

Saturday 05:

Holocaust: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.

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.

Tuesday 15:

Allied forces land in southern France.

Saturday 19:

Paris rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.

Monday 21:

Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins.

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.

Wednesday 23:

World War II: Ion Antonescu, prime minister of Romania, is arrested and a new gouverment is established. Romania exits the war against Russia joining the Allies.

Thursday 24:

World War II: French and Allied troops start the attack on Paris.

Friday 25:

World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.

Saturday 26:

World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.

Monday 28:

Marseille and Toulon are liberated.

Tuesday 29:

Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazi rulers.