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.

Saturday 07:

Allies bombs sea dikes at Vlissingen.

Sunday 08:

The radio show, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet debuts

Monday 09:

World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin begin a nine-day conference in Moscow to discuss the future of Europe.

Tuesday 10:

Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are systematically murdered at Auschwitz death camp.

Friday 13:

World War II: Riga, the capital of Latvia, is liberated by the Red Army

Saturday 14:

World War II: Given the choice between a public treason trial and a certain death by firing squad or suicide with honor, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel chooses the latter.

Wednesday 18:

Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia

Thursday 19:

United States forces land in the Philippines.

Friday 20:

Liquid natural gas leaks from storange tanks in Cleveland, then explodes; the explosion and resulting fire level 30 blocks and kill 130.

Saturday 21:

The first kamikaze attack: HMAS Australia was hit by a Japanese plane carrying a 200 kg (441 pound) bomb off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.

Monday 23:

The largest naval battle in history begins in Leyte Gulf, the Red Army enters Hungary

Tuesday 24:

World War II: The Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku is sunk.

Wednesday 25:

Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich

Thursday 26:

Vice president Harry Truman publicly denies ever having been a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

Sunday 29:

Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division

Monday 30:

Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.