Search examples: Microsoft | 2015 | 2014/10 | 4.12 | 04/20 | 05/26/1980 | Galileo Galilei

Events on the year of 1944 in history

Events
Date Text
01 Jan 1944 1st feature-length foreign movie, African Journey, shown on TV, New York City
0
01 Jan 1944 Army defeats Navy 10-7 in football "Arab Bowl, " Oran, North Africa
0
01 Jan 1944 Gen Clark replaces General Patton as commander of 7th Army
0
02 Jan 1944 1st use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol)
0
03 Jan 1944 World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Vought F4U Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Mitsubishi A6M Zero.
0
04 Jan 1944 Ralph Bunche appointed 1st Negro official in US State Department
0
04 Jan 1944 World War II: Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters in Europe, begins.
0
05 Jan 1944 The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
0
07 Jan 1944 Air Force announces production of 1st US jet fighter, the Bell P-59
0
10 Jan 1944 British troops conquer Maungdaw, Burma
0
10 Jan 1944 1st mobile electric power plant delivered, Philadelphia
0
11 Jan 1944 Crakow-Plaszow Concentration Camp established
0
12 Jan 1944 Failed resistance raid on distribution office of Borgerstraat Amsterdam
0
12 Jan 1944 Churchill & de Gaulle begin a 2-day wartime conference in Marrakesh
0
14 Jan 1944 Soviet army begins offensive at Oranienbaum/Wolchow
0
15 Jan 1944 Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell, 10 die
0
15 Jan 1944 General Eisenhower arrives in England
0
15 Jan 1944 European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany
0
16 Jan 1944 General Eisenhower took command of Allied Invasion Force in London
0
17 Jan 1944 World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
0
17 Jan 1944 Corvette Violet sinks U-641 in Atlantic Ocean
0
18 Jan 1944 World War II: Soviet forces liberate Leningrad, effectively ending a three-year Nazi siege, known as the Siege of Leningrad.
0
18 Jan 1944 The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.
0
18 Jan 1944 1st Chinese naturalized US citizen since repeal of exclusion acts
0
20 Jan 1944 RAF drops 2300 ton bombs on Berlin
0
21 Jan 1944 447 German bombers attack London
0
21 Jan 1944 649 British bombers attack Magdeburg
0
22 Jan 1944 During World War II, Allied forces begin landing at Anzio Italy
0
22 Jan 1944 World War II: The Allies commence Operation Shingle, an assault on Anzio, Italy.
0
22 Jan 1944 Battle of Anzio (Italy); Allies stopped on the beach
0
23 Jan 1944 Detroit Red Wings score 15 goals against New York Rangers and NHL record 37 points, also most consecutive goals and most lopsided game 15-0
0
23 Jan 1944 Arnold Schoenberg's "Ode to Napoleon" premieres in New York City NY
0
24 Jan 1944 Allied troops occupy Nettuno Italy
0
27 Jan 1944 World War II: The 900-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
0
27 Jan 1944 Casey Stengel, manager of the Boston Braves since 1938, resigns Lou Perini, Guido Rugo, & Joseph Maney buy control of Boston Braves
0
27 Jan 1944 Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days with 600,000 killed
0
28 Jan 1944 683 British bombers attack Berlin
0
28 Jan 1944 Leonard Bernstein's "Jeremiah" premieres in Pittsburgh
0
28 Jan 1944 U-271 & U-571 sunk off Ireland
0
29 Jan 1944 In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical theatre of the Archiginnasio is destroyed in an air-raid.
0
29 Jan 1944 World War II: Approximately 38 people are killed and about a dozen injured when the Polish village of Koniuchy (present-day Kaniūkai, Lithuania) is attacked by Soviet partisan units.
0
29 Jan 1944 285 German bombers attack London
0
30 Jan 1944 World War II: American troops land on Majuro, Marshall Islands.
0
30 Jan 1944 World War II: The Battle of Cisterna, part of Operation Shingle, begins in central Italy.
0
30 Jan 1944 US invades Majuro, Marshall Islands
0
31 Jan 1944 World War II: During the Anzio campaign the 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.
0
31 Jan 1944 World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
0
31 Jan 1944 Operation-Overlord (D-Day) postponed until June
0
31 Jan 1944 U-592 sunk off Ireland
0
31 Jan 1944 US forces invade Kwajalein Atoll
0
01 Feb 1944 US 7th Infantry / 25th Marine Division lands on Kwajalein / Roi / Namur
0
02 Feb 1944 4th US marine division conquerors Roi, Marshall Islands
0
02 Feb 1944 Allied troops 1st set foot on Japanese territory
0
02 Feb 1944 Baseball meets in NYC to discuss postwar action
0
03 Feb 1944 World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison.
0
04 Feb 1944 US 7th Infantry Division captures Kwajalein
0
05 Feb 1944 358 RAF-bombers attack Stettin
0
07 Feb 1944 Bing Crosby records "Swinging on a Star" for Decca Records
0
07 Feb 1944 Germans launch counteroffensive at Anzio Italy
0
07 Feb 1944 World War II: In Anzio, Italy, German forces launch a counteroffensive during the Allied Operation Shingle.
0
08 Feb 1944 1st black reporter accredited to White House, Harry McAlpin
0
08 Feb 1944 U-762 sunk off Ireland
0
09 Feb 1944 U-734 / U-238 sunk off Ireland
0
10 Feb 1944 U-666 / U-545 / U-283 sink off Ireland
0
10 Feb 1944 Belgium resistance fighter/author Kamiel van Baelen arrested
0
11 Feb 1944 German troops re-conquer Aprilia Italy
0
11 Feb 1944 U-424 sunk off Ireland
0
12 Feb 1944 Wendell Wilkie (R) enters presidential race
0
14 Feb 1944 Carl Wick publishes "Salmon Trolling for Commercial and Sport Fishing
0
14 Feb 1944 World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java.
0
14 Feb 1944 Anti-Japanese revolt on Java
0
15 Feb 1944 World War II: The Narva Offensive begins.
0
15 Feb 1944 World War II: The assault on Monte Cassino, Italy begins.
0
15 Feb 1944 891 British bombers attack Berlin
0
15 Feb 1944 Bombing & shooting at Monte Cassino convent Italy, begins
0
17 Feb 1944 Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins; US victory on February 22
0
17 Feb 1944 World War II: Operation Hailstone begins. U.S. naval air, surface, and submarine attack against Truk Lagoon, Japan's main base in the central Pacific, in support of the Eniwetok invasion.
0
17 Feb 1944 World War II: The Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins. The battle ends in an American victory on February 22.
0
17 Feb 1944 US begins night bombing of Truk
0
18 Feb 1944 Youngest baseball player, Cin Reds sign 15 year old Joe Nuxhall
0
18 Feb 1944 Cincinnati Reds sign youngest baseball player, 15 year old Joe Nuxhall
0
18 Feb 1944 Maastricht resistance fighter JAJ Janssen arrested
0
19 Feb 1944 823 British bombers attack Berlin
0
19 Feb 1944 U-264 sinks off Ireland
0
20 Feb 1944 World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Island.
0
20 Feb 1944 World War II: The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
0
20 Feb 1944 Batman & Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers
0
20 Feb 1944 US takes Eniwetok Island
0
21 Feb 1944 "War As It Happens" news show premieres on NBC TV (NYC only)
0
22 Feb 1944 US 8th Air Force bombs Enschede, Arnhem and Nijmegen by mistake / 800+ die
0
22 Feb 1944 World War II: The Soviet Red Army recaptures Krivoi Rog.
0
22 Feb 1944 World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
0
23 Feb 1944 The Soviet Union begins the forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people from the North Caucasus to Central Asia.
0
24 Feb 1944 Merrill's Marauders: The Marauders begin their 1,000-mile journey through Japanese occupied Burma.
0
24 Feb 1944 Argentina coup by Juan Peron minister of war
0
25 Feb 1944 US 1st Army completes invasion plan
0
26 Feb 1944 1st female US navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed
0
29 Feb 1944 World War II: The Admiralty Islands are invaded in Operation Brewer led by American General Douglas MacArthur.
0
29 Feb 1944 5 leaders of Indonesia Communist Party sentenced to death
0
29 Feb 1944 US troop land on Los Negros, Admirality Islands
0
01 Mar 1944 Massive strikes in Northern Italian towns
0
01 Mar 1944 U-358 sinks in Atlantic
0
02 Mar 1944 16th Academy Awards - "Casablanca, " Jennifer Jones and Paul Lukas win
0
02 Mar 1944 Fumes from locomotive stalled in a tunnel suffocates 521 in Italy
0
03 Mar 1944 The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards.
0
04 Mar 1944 1st US bombing of Berlin
0
04 Mar 1944 Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy
0
04 Mar 1944 World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
0
05 Mar 1944 World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman–Botoșani Offensive in the western Ukrainian SSR.
0
06 Mar 1944 USAF begins daylight bombing of Berlin
0
07 Mar 1944 Japans begins offensive in Burma
0
08 Mar 1944 US resumes bombing Berlin
0
09 Mar 1944 World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia.
0
09 Mar 1944 World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that would last five days.
0
10 Mar 1944 Greek Civil War: The Political Committee of National Liberation is established in Greece by the National Liberation Front.
0
11 Mar 1944 Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested
0
13 Mar 1944 USSR recognizes Italian Badoglio government
0
15 Mar 1944 Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing
0
16 Mar 1944 Vichy Internal minister Pucheu sentenced to death
0
17 Mar 1944 Actor Charlton Heston weds Lydia Clarke
0
18 Mar 1944 2,500 women trample guards and floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm clocks announced for sale in a Chicago Illinois department store
0
18 Mar 1944 The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26 people and causes thousands to flee their homes.
0
18 Mar 1944 Nazi Germany occupies Hungary
0
19 Mar 1944 World War II: Nazi forces occupy Hungary.
0
19 Mar 1944 Tippett's oratorium "Child of Our Time" premieres in London
0
20 Mar 1944 Bus falls off bridge into Passaic River NJ, killing 16
0
20 Mar 1944 Mount Vesuvius, Italy explodes
0
21 Mar 1944 General Eisenhower postpones S France invasion until after Normandy
0
22 Mar 1944 600+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Berlin
0
23 Mar 1944 Bomb assassination against Southern Tirol congregation in Rome, 33 die
0
23 Mar 1944 Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 meter without a parachute & lives
0
24 Mar 1944 World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III.
0
24 Mar 1944 Ardeatine massacre: German troops murder 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
0
24 Mar 1944 76 Allied officers escape Stalag Luft 3 (Great Escape)
0
24 Mar 1944 811 British bombers attack Berlin
0
24 Mar 1944 In occupied Rome, Nazis executed more than 300 civilians
0
25 Mar 1944 Germany troop executes 335 residents of Rome
0
25 Mar 1944 RAF Sergeant Nickolas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber from 18,000 feet without a parachute
0
26 Mar 1944 705 British bombers attack Essen
0
27 Mar 1944 1,000 Jews leave Drancy France for Auschwitz Concentration Camp
0
27 Mar 1944 2,000 Jews are murdered in Kaunas Lithuania
0
27 Mar 1944 40 Jewish policemen in Riga Latvia ghetto are shot by the gestapo
0
27 Mar 1944 Children's Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno
0
28 Mar 1944 NBA rookie of the year in 1966, Rick Barry
0
28 Mar 1944 6th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Utah defeats Dartmouth 42-40
0
28 Mar 1944 Astrid Lindgren sprains ankle & begins writing Pippi Longstocking
0
30 Mar 1944 Allied bombing raid on Nuremberg. Along the English eastern coast 795 aircraft are despatched, including 572 Lancasters, 214 Halifaxes and 9 Mosquitos. The bombers meet resistance at the coasts of Belgium and the Netherlands from German fighters. In total, 95 bombers are lost, making it the largest RAF Bomber Command loss of World War II.
0
30 Mar 1944 World War II: Allied bombers conduct their most severe bombing run on Sofia, Bulgaria.
0
30 Mar 1944 781 British bombers attack Neurenberg
0
31 Mar 1944 Hungary orders all Jews to wear yellow stars
0
01 Apr 1944 German Abwehr ends England spiel, after 132 killed
0
01 Apr 1944 Japanese troops conquer Jessami, East-India
0
01 Apr 1944 Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
0
02 Apr 1944 CPI-leader Palmiro Togliatti returns to Italy
0
02 Apr 1944 Soviet Army marches into pro-German Romania
0
03 Apr 1944 British dive bombers attack battle cruiser Tirpitz
0
03 Apr 1944 Supreme Court (Smith vs. Allwright) "white primaries" unconstitutional
0
04 Apr 1944 British troops capture Addis Ababa Ethiopia
0
04 Apr 1944 De Gaulle forms new regime in exile, with communists
0
04 Apr 1944 World War II: First bombardment of oil refineries in Bucharest by Anglo-American forces kills 3000 civilians.
0
05 Apr 1944 140 Lancasters bomb airplane manufacturer in Toulouse
0
05 Apr 1944 World War II: Two hundred seventy inhabitants of the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by the Germans.
0
06 Apr 1944 Jewish nursery at Izieu-Ain France overrun by Nazis
0
07 Apr 1944 General Montgomery speaks to generals about invastion plan
0
09 Apr 1944 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientals Ecclesiae
0
10 Apr 1944 "Patrolling the Ether" is shown on 3 TV stations simultaneously
0
10 Apr 1944 Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escape from the Birkenau death camp.
0
10 Apr 1944 Soviet forces liberate Odessa from Nazi's
0
11 Apr 1944 RAF bombs census bureau in The Hague
0
12 Apr 1944 Lillian Hellman's "Searching Wind", premieres in NYC
0
13 Apr 1944 SC rejects black suffrage
0
13 Apr 1944 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Chicago Blackhawks in 4 games
0
13 Apr 1944 Diplomatic relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established.
0
13 Apr 1944 South Carolina rejects black suffrage
0
13 Apr 1944 Stanley Cup Montr
0
13 Apr 1944 Transport nr 71 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
0
14 Apr 1944 Freighter "Fort Stikene" explodes in Bombay India, killing 1,376
0
14 Apr 1944 Bombay Explosion: A massive explosion in Bombay harbor kills 300 and causes economic damage valued then at 20 million pounds.
0
14 Apr 1944 Freighter "Fort Stikine" explodes in Bombay India, killing 960+
0
14 Apr 1944 1st Jews transported from Athens arrive at Auschwitz
0
14 Apr 1944 General Eisenhower becomes head commander of allied air fleet
0
14 Apr 1944 Greek Colonel Venizelos forms government
0
16 Apr 1944 World War II: Allied forces start bombing Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.
0
17 Apr 1944 Forces of the Communist-controlled Greek People's Liberation Army attack the smaller National and Social Liberation resistance group, which surrenders. Its leader Dimitrios Psarros is murdered.
0
18 Apr 1944 48th Boston Marathon won by Gerard Cot
0
18 Apr 1944 Leonard Bernstein & Jerome Robbins' ballet "Fancy Free" premieres in NYC
0
19 Apr 1944 Gerard Cote wins his 2nd straight & 3rd career Boston Marathon
0
19 Apr 1944 Allied fleet attack Sabang Sumatra
0
20 Apr 1944 NFL legalizes coaching from the bench
0
20 Apr 1944 Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter John Postma sentence to death
0
21 Apr 1944 NFL Chicago Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers merge (dissolves on December 3)
0
22 Apr 1944 World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated: Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea.
0
22 Apr 1944 The 1st Air Commando Group using Sikorsky R-4 helicopters stage the first use of helicopters in combat with combat search and rescue operations in the China Burma India Theater.
0
22 Apr 1944 Allies land near Hollandia, New-Guinea
0
22 Apr 1944 Hitler & Mussolini meet at Salzburg
0
24 Apr 1944 1st Boeing B-29 arrives in China "over the Hump"
0
24 Apr 1944 RAF bombs Munich
0
25 Apr 1944 The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
0
26 Apr 1944 Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete.
0
26 Apr 1944 Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
0
26 Apr 1944 1st B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down
0
26 Apr 1944 Papandreou government in Greece forms
0
27 Apr 1944 Boston Brave Jim Tobin no-hits Brooklyn Dodgers, 2-0
0
28 Apr 1944 Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 US soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats
0
28 Apr 1944 World War II: Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.
0
28 Apr 1944 Stalin meets Polish/US priest S Orlemanski
0
29 Apr 1944 World War II: British agent Nancy Wake, a leading figure in the French Resistance and the Gestapo's most wanted person, parachutes back into France to become a liaison between London and the local maquis group.
0
29 Apr 1944 Surprise attack by Van de Peat on General Landsdrukkerij in the Hague
0
30 Apr 1944 New York Giant, Mel Ott scores 6 runs in 1 game drawing 5 walks for 4th time
0
30 Apr 1944 New York Giant Phil Weintraub gets 11 RBIs
0
01 May 1944 Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, 1st jet bomber, makes 1st flight
0
01 May 1944 Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the dark)
0
01 May 1944 Surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails
0
01 May 1944 World War II: Two hundred Communist prisoners are shot by the Germans at Kaisariani in Athens, Greece in reprisal for the killing of General Franz Krech by partisans at Molaoi.
0
02 May 1944 WABD (WNEW, now WNYW) TV channel 5 in NYC (DUM / MET / FOX) 1st broadcast
0
03 May 1944 "Meet Me in St. Louis" opens on Broadway
0
03 May 1944 Meat rationing ends in US
0
05 May 1944 Gandhi freed from prison
0
05 May 1944 Russian offensive against Sebastopol Krim
0
05 May 1944 German troops execute 216 civilians in the village of Kleisoura in Greece.
0
06 May 1944 70th Kentucky Derby: Conn McCreary aboard Pensive wins in 2:04.2
0
06 May 1944 KJR-AM in Seattle Washington swaps calls with KOMO
0
08 May 1944 33 communist resistance fighter sentenced to death
0
08 May 1944 U-575 sinks Asphodel
0
09 May 1944 Country singer Jimmie Davis becomes Governor of Louisiana
0
09 May 1944 Dutch resistance fighter Gerard Musch arrested
0
09 May 1944 Joe McCarthy returns as Yankee manager after an illness
0
09 May 1944 Russians recapture Crimea by taking Sevastopol
0
10 May 1944 Chinese offensive in West-Yunnan
0
10 May 1944 Smith v Allwright (excluding Blacks from primary voting) is illegal
0
11 May 1944 World War II: The Allies begin a major offensive against the Axis Powers on the Gustav Line.
0
11 May 1944 Opposition group surprise attack post office washer
0
11 May 1944 Slomp Resistance fighter (Frits de Zwerver) freed from Arnhem prison
0
12 May 1944 900+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Zwikau, Bohlen & Br
0
12 May 1944 Krim purged of Nazi troops
0
12 May 1944 Secret Police arrest Gerrit Van de Peat
0
13 May 1944 70th Preakness: Conn McCreary aboard Pensive wins in 1:59.2
0
14 May 1944 91 German bombers harass Bristol
0
14 May 1944 British troops occupy Kohima
0
15 May 1944 14,000 Jews of Munkacs Hungary deported to Auschwitz
0
15 May 1944 Cincinnati Reds' Clyde Shoun no-hits Boston Braves, 1-0
0
15 May 1944 Eisenhower, Montgomery, Churchill & George VI discuss D-Day plan
0
15 May 1944 Sergei Aleksi becomes guardian of Patriarch Throne
0
16 May 1944 1st of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz
0
16 May 1944 Military police attack gypsies
0
17 May 1944 Operation Straightline: Allies land in the Netherlands New-Guinea
0
17 May 1944 Allied air raid on Surabaja, Java
0
17 May 1944 Chinese/US arm forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma
0
17 May 1944 General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th
0
18 May 1944 World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino: Conclusion after seven days of the fourth battle as German paratroopers evacuate Monte Cassino.
0
18 May 1944 Deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union government.
0
18 May 1944 Expulsion of more than 200,000 Tartars from Crimea by Soviet Union begins, they are accused of collaborating with the Germans
0
18 May 1944 Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino Italy
0
19 May 1944 240 gypsies transported to Auschwitz from Westerbork Netherlands
0
19 May 1944 German defense line in Italy collapsed
0
20 May 1944 US Communist Party dissolves
0
21 May 1944 Hitler begins attack on English / US "terror pilots"
0
23 May 1944 British/Canadian troops occupy Pontecorvo Italy
0
23 May 1944 Chinese counter offensive at Hunan front
0
23 May 1944 Operation-Buffalo: Allied jailbreak out Anzio-bridgehead
0
23 May 1944 Polo Grounds host 1st NYC night game since 1941
0
24 May 1944 Enver Hoxha becomes head of Albania anti fascists
0
24 May 1944 Icelandic voters severe all ties with Denmark
0
25 May 1944 Partisan leader Tito escapes Germans surrounding Bosnia
0
26 May 1944 82nd Airborne division D-day-landing at La Haye du Puits to Ste M
0
27 May 1944 Jean-Paul Sartres "Huis Clos, " premieres in Paris
0
27 May 1944 Allies land on Biak, Indonesia (operation Horlicks)
0
27 May 1944 Japanese advance in Hangkhou China
0
27 May 1944 Jean-Paul Sartre's "Huis Clos" premieres in Paris France
0
29 May 1944 British troops occupy Aprilia Italy
0
30 May 1944 Transport nr 75 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
0
31 May 1944 Allied breakthrough in Italy
0
01 Jun 1944 Gen Montgomery / Patton / Bradley / Dempsey / Crerar meet in Portsmouth
0
01 Jun 1944 Nazi occupiers make it punishable to give aid to allied pilots
0
02 Jun 1944 Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery dine in Portsmouth
0
02 Jun 1944 Judendurchgangslager Vught disbands
0
03 Jun 1944 76th Belmont: G L Smith aboard Bounding Home wins in 2:32.2
0
03 Jun 1944 Generals Giraud and de Gaulle reach agreement on constitution
0
03 Jun 1944 Nazis pull out of Rome
0
04 Jun 1944 1st British gliders touches down on French soil for D-Day
0
04 Jun 1944 1st submarine captured and boarded on high seas-U 505
0
04 Jun 1944 French general De Gaulle arrives in London
0
04 Jun 1944 World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U-505 – the first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
0
04 Jun 1944 World War II: Rome falls to the Allies, the first Axis capital to fall.
0
05 Jun 1944 1st B-29 bombing raid; 1 plane lost due to engine failure
0
05 Jun 1944 1st British gliders touched down on French soil for D-Day
0
05 Jun 1944 Allies march into Rome
0
05 Jun 1944 Field Marshal Rommel goes on vacation
0
05 Jun 1944 General Eisenhower decides invasion set for June 6
0
05 Jun 1944 King Victor Emmanuel abdicates the throne for his son Umberto
0
05 Jun 1944 World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
0
06 Jun 1944 Baseball cancels all games honoring D-Day invasion
0
06 Jun 1944 D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France
0
06 Jun 1944 Nazi troops executed 96 prisoners by firing squad
0
06 Jun 1944 Theodore Roosevelt Jr receives congressional medal of honor
0
06 Jun 1944 U-955, U-970, U-629, U-373 sink in Gulf of Biskaje
0
06 Jun 1944 World War II: the Battle of Normandy begins. D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history.
0
07 Jun 1944 Achilles Veen soccer team forms in Veen
0
07 Jun 1944 Canadian 50th division occupies Bayeux
0
07 Jun 1944 Claus von Stauffenberg meets Hitler
0
07 Jun 1944 World War II: The steamer Danae, carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans, is sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.
0
07 Jun 1944 World War II: Battle of Normandy – At Abbey Ardennes, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.
0
08 Jun 1944 1st SS-Pantser corps counter attacks at Normandy
0
08 Jun 1944 Allies occupy Port-and-Bessin Normandy
0
08 Jun 1944 Dutch Resistance fighter Frans Duwaer arrested
0
09 Jun 1944 Russian offensive in Carelia
0
09 Jun 1944 World War II: 99 civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.
0
09 Jun 1944 World War II: the Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
0
10 Jun 1944 Joe Nuxhall, 15, of Cin Reds is youngest player in major league
0
10 Jun 1944 Nazi murders in Oradour-sur-Glane, France
0
10 Jun 1944 World War II: Six hundred forty-two men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France.
0
10 Jun 1944 World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.
0
10 Jun 1944 In baseball, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
0
10 Jun 1944 Joe Nuxhall at 15 becomes youngest ML baseball player
0
11 Jun 1944 15 US aircraft carriers attack Japanese bases on Marianas
0
11 Jun 1944 1st Serbian Orthodox cathedral in US, Cathedral of St. Sava, New York City
0
11 Jun 1944 KP gang surprise attack on Dome Arnhem jail
0
11 Jun 1944 USS Missouri, the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned.
0
12 Jun 1944 1st V-1 rocket assault on London
0
12 Jun 1944 British 12th airborne batallion / 13th and 18th Hussars conquer
0
12 Jun 1944 US troop march into Carentan / Caumont, Normandy
0
12 Jun 1944 American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division secure the town of Carentan.
0
13 Jun 1944 German counter attack on Villers-Bocage Normandy
0
13 Jun 1944 World War II: German combat elements - reinforced by the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division - launch a counterattack on American forces near Carentan.
0
13 Jun 1944 World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.
0
13 Jun 1944 Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) buzz-bomb attacks
0
14 Jun 1944 General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles France
0
14 Jun 1944 World War II: After several failed attempts, the British Army abandons Operation Perch, its plan to capture the German-occupied town of Caen.
0
14 Jun 1944 1st B-29 raid against mainland Japan
0
15 Jun 1944 World War II: Battle of Saipan: The United States invade Japanese-occupied Saipan.
0
15 Jun 1944 In the Saskatchewan general election, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government in North America.
0
15 Jun 1944 US forces begin invasion of Saipan in Pacific
0
16 Jun 1944 Iceland adopts constitution
0
16 Jun 1944 US bombs Kyushu Japan
0
16 Jun 1944 At age 14, George Junius Stinney, Jr. becomes the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century.
0
17 Jun 1944 Hitler secretly meets with von Rundstedt in Marjival Soissons
0
17 Jun 1944 Iceland declares independence from Denmark
0
17 Jun 1944 Resistance fighter / Poet Col Blake arrives in London
0
17 Jun 1944 Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
0
17 Jun 1944 Republic of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir, Iceland
0
18 Jun 1944 Farewell concert of Willem Mengelberg in Paris
0
18 Jun 1944 U-767 sinks
0
19 Jun 1944 300 Japanese aircrafts shot down
0
19 Jun 1944 French troops free Elba
0
19 Jun 1944 Heavy air raid on US fleet at Guam "Turkey Shoot"
0
19 Jun 1944 Japanese troops conquer Changsha China
0
19 Jun 1944 World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
0
20 Jun 1944 Heavy storm hits the Channel
0
20 Jun 1944 Nazi begin mass extermination of Jews at Auschwitz
0
20 Jun 1944 Soviet forces conquer Wiborg
0
20 Jun 1944 US attacks Japanese fleet in Philippines Sea
0
20 Jun 1944 US troops occupy Biak
0
20 Jun 1944 World War II: The Battle of the Philippine Sea concludes with a decisive U.S. naval victory. The lopsided naval air battle is also known as the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot".
0
20 Jun 1944 Continuation war: the Soviet Union demands an unconditional surrender from Finland during the beginning of partially successful Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive. The Finnish government refuses.
0
20 Jun 1944 Congress charters Central Intelligence Agency
0
21 Jun 1944 Very heavy bombing on Berlin
0
22 Jun 1944 Boston Brave Jim Tobin 2nd no-hitter of yr beats Phils, 7-0 in 5 inn
0
22 Jun 1944 British 14th army frees Imphal Assam
0
22 Jun 1944 Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre.
0
22 Jun 1944 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill.
0
22 Jun 1944 FDR signs "GI Bill of Rights" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act)
0
22 Jun 1944 Longest shut out in Phillies history, Phils beat Braves 1-0 in 15 inn
0
23 Jun 1944 Russian offensive in central front sector
0
23 Jun 1944 4 tornadoes strike Appalachia, killing 153
0
23 Jun 1944 Thomas Mann becomes a US citizen
0
25 Jun 1944 British assault at Caen Normandy
0
25 Jun 1944 World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic Countries, begins.
0
25 Jun 1944 World War II: United States Navy and Royal Navy ships bombard Cherbourg to support United States Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg.
0
25 Jun 1944 The final page of the comic Krazy Kat was published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.
0
26 Jun 1944 2nd British army reaches Grainville-Mouen line
0
26 Jun 1944 Yanks, Dodgers and Giants play unique 6 inn game for War Bonds, each playing successive innings, final score Dodgers-5, Yanks-1 and Giants-0
0
26 Jun 1944 World War II: The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, one of the largest battles between Nazi Germany and Polish resistance forces, ends with the defeat of the latter.
0
27 Jun 1944 Cherbourg, France liberated by Allies
0
27 Jun 1944 Cherbourg, France captured by Allies
0
29 Jun 1944 German counter attack at Caen
0
29 Jun 1944 Nazi Paul Touvier shoots 7 Jews dead
0
29 Jun 1944 Rommel and von Rundstedt travel to Berchtesgaden
0
29 Jun 1944 Soviet Armys join in Bobroesjk
0
29 Jun 1944 US 7th army corp conquers Cherbourg
0
30 Jun 1944 Allies land on Vogelkop, New Guinea
0
30 Jun 1944 French Cotentin Peninsula in allied hands
0
30 Jun 1944 Universal strike against Nazi terror in Copenhagen
0
30 Jun 1944 World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces.
0
01 Jul 1944 2500+ killed in London / SE England by German flying bombs
0
01 Jul 1944 Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing IMF andWorld Bank
0
01 Jul 1944 Earl Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to Colonel
0
01 Jul 1944 General Eisenhower visits front in Normandy
0
01 Jul 1944 Von Rundstedt against Keitel: "Signs peace, idiots!"
0
02 Jul 1944 Marshal von Kluge replaces General von Rundstedt
0
03 Jul 1944 Oriole Park (minor league baseball stadium) burns down in Baltimore
0
03 Jul 1944 US V-III-E Army corp opens assault on Coutances Cotentin
0
03 Jul 1944 World War II: Minsk is liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration.
0
04 Jul 1944 1,100 US guns fire 4th of July salute at German lines in Normandy
0
04 Jul 1944 1st Japanese kamikaze attack, US fleet near Iwo Jima
0
04 Jul 1944 Allied assault on Carpiquet airport at Caen
0
04 Jul 1944 Gestapo arrests German Social Democrat Julius Leber
0
05 Jul 1944 Harry Crosby takes 1st rocket airplane, MX-324, for maiden flight
0
06 Jul 1944 170 die in a fire at Ringling Bros Circus in Hartford Conn
0
06 Jul 1944 French General De Gaulle arrives in Washington, DC
0
06 Jul 1944 US General Patton lands in France
0
06 Jul 1944 Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court martial.
0
06 Jul 1944 The Hartford circus fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut.
0
07 Jul 1944 Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France
0
07 Jul 1944 Heavy Japanese counter offensive on Saipan
0
07 Jul 1944 World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.
0
08 Jul 1944 British troops march into Caen
0
08 Jul 1944 Japanese kamakize attacks on US lines at Saipan
0
09 Jul 1944 In World War II, US troops secure Saipan as Japan fell
0
09 Jul 1944 U-740 sinks
0
09 Jul 1944 World War II: Battle of Normandy – British and Canadian forces capture Caen, France.
0
09 Jul 1944 World War II: Battle of Saipan – American forces take Saipan in the Mariana Islands.
0
09 Jul 1944 World War II: Battle of Tali-Ihantala – Finland wins the Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in northern Europe. The Red Army withdraws its troops from Ihantala and digs into a defensive position, thus ending the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive.
0
10 Jul 1944 U-821 sinks
0
11 Jul 1944 12th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh
0
11 Jul 1944 FDR says he would run for a 4th term
0
11 Jul 1944 Bill Boggs, Phila, TV host/producer (Midday, Morton Downey Jr Show)
0
11 Jul 1944 NL beats AL 7-1 in 12th All Star Game (Pitts' Forbes Field)
0
12 Jul 1944 Theresienstadt Family camp disbands, with 4,000 people gased
0
12 Jul 1944 US government recognizes authority of General De Gaulle
0
13 Jul 1944 Vilnius, Lithuania, liberated
0
14 Jul 1944 Attempt to liberate prisoners in Amsterdam fails, John Post arrested
0
14 Jul 1944 US assault on Coutances Cotentin
0
15 Jul 1944 Greenwich Observatory damaged by WW II flying bomb
0
16 Jul 1944 Dodgers score 8 unearned runs against Braves to win 8-5 and break their 16-game losing streak, they will lose another 5 in a row
0
17 Jul 1944 Russian troops cross river Bug / march into Poland
0
17 Jul 1944 Port Chicago disaster: Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California, killing 320.
0
17 Jul 1944 World War II: Napalm incendiary bombs are dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, near Saint-Lô, France.
0
17 Jul 1944 2 ammunition ships explodes at Port Chicago, California kills 322
0
18 Jul 1944 7:45 Operation-Goodwood: British assault east of Caen
0
18 Jul 1944 Allies air raid railways at Vaires Paris
0
18 Jul 1944 Arne Andersson runs world record 1 mile (4:01.6)
0
18 Jul 1944 British air raid on German convoy SW of Helgoland
0
18 Jul 1944 Polish troops under General Anders occupy Ancona Italy
0
18 Jul 1944 World War II: Hideki Tōjō resigns as Prime Minister of Japan because of numerous setbacks in the war effort.
0
19 Jul 1944 1,200+ 8th Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany
0
19 Jul 1944 500 15th Air Force Liberators / Flying Fortresses bomb Munich vicinity
0
19 Jul 1944 Allied troops occupy Faubourg de Vaucelles, at Caen
0
19 Jul 1944 Danish resistance fails on assault on Taarbaek Fort near Copenhagen
0
19 Jul 1944 Democratic Convention opens in Chicago
0
19 Jul 1944 Earl Claus von Stauffenberg visits RC church in Berlin-Dahlem
0
19 Jul 1944 General Bradley flies to England
0
19 Jul 1944 Japanese aircraft carriers Taiho / Shokaku sinks in Marianas
0
19 Jul 1944 New York Archbishop Spellman flies to Europe
0
19 Jul 1944 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg 1st meets Eichmann
0
20 Jul 1944 British / Canadian troops occupy Hill 67 / Ifs / Bras / Frenouville, Normandy
0
20 Jul 1944 British Premier Winston Churchill flies to France to meet Montgomery
0
20 Jul 1944 Browns Nelson Potter is 1st pitcher suspended for throwing spitballs
0
20 Jul 1944 Death March of 1,200 Jews from Lipcani Moldavia begins
0
20 Jul 1944 Field Marshal von Kluge consults with German Commandant at Caen
0
20 Jul 1944 Flying Fortresses of US 8th Air Force attack Leipzig / Dessau
0
20 Jul 1944 Heavy storm hampers British offensive at Caen
0
20 Jul 1944 Japanese aircraft carrier Hijo sinks by US air attack
0
20 Jul 1944 July 20th Plot-Failed assassination attempt on Hitler
0
20 Jul 1944 Liberators of US 8th Air Force attack Gotha Russelsheim / Eisenach
0
20 Jul 1944 President FDR nominated for an unprecedented 4th term at Democratic Convention
0
20 Jul 1944 US 15th Air Force attacks Friedrichshaven Memmingen
0
20 Jul 1944 World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
0
20 Jul 1944 US invades Japanese-occupied Guam in WW II
0
20 Jul 1944 Von Stauffenberg fails on an attempt on Hitler's life
0
21 Jul 1944 British Premier Winston Churchill flies to France, meets Montgomery
0
21 Jul 1944 General Koiso becomes Premier of Japan
0
21 Jul 1944 US forces land on Guam to get rid of Japanese invaders
0
21 Jul 1944 Von Kluge warns Hitler of impending collapse of front in Normandy
0
21 Jul 1944 World War II: Battle of Guam – American troops land on Guam starting the battle. It would end on August 10.
0
21 Jul 1944 World War II: Claus von Stauffenberg and fellow conspirators are executed in Berlin, Germany for the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
0
21 Jul 1944 US forces free Guam of Japanese invaders
0
22 Jul 1944 The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland
0
22 Jul 1944 Soviets set up Polish Committee of National Liberation
0
23 Jul 1944 Chicago Cubs Bill Nicholson hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader
0
23 Jul 1944 Conference of Bretton Woods signed; IMF operations begin
0
23 Jul 1944 Soviet Army marches into Lublin Poland
0
23 Jul 1944 US troops occupy Pisa Italy
0
23 Jul 1944 US forces invade Japanese-held Tinian in WW II
0
24 Jul 1944 300 allied bombers drop fire bombs on Allied / German positions
0
24 Jul 1944 Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek
0
24 Jul 1944 US troops land on Tinian
0
25 Jul 1944 US troop march into Guam
0
25 Jul 1944 World War II: Operation Spring – one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war: One thousand five hundred casualties, including 500 killed.
0
25 Jul 1944 1st jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262)
0
26 Jul 1944 Japanese suicide attack on US lines in Guam
0
26 Jul 1944 Russian troops arrive in Weichsel
0
26 Jul 1944 World War II: the Soviet Army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, capturing it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.
0
27 Jul 1944 Soviet Army frees Majdanek concentration camp
0
27 Jul 1944 US troops occupy le Mesnil-Herman / Hill 183 Normandy
0
27 Jul 1944 1st British jet fighter used in combat (Gloster Meteor)
0
27 Jul 1944 US regains possession of Guam from Japanese
0
28 Jul 1944 Hitler routes 4 division of South France to Normandy
0
28 Jul 1944 US 8th Army corp occupies Coutances France
0
29 Jul 1944 Allied air force bomb Germany for 6 hours
0
29 Jul 1944 Frank McCormick (Reds) HR off Ace Adams (Giants) in both games of DH
0
29 Jul 1944 US 4th Armour division occupiers Avranches
0
30 Jul 1944 Heavy battles at Tessy-sur-Vire and Villebaudon Normandy
0
31 Jul 1944 Last deportation train out Mechelen departs to Auschwitz
0
31 Jul 1944 Transport nr 77 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
0
31 Jul 1944 US troops occupy Sansapor New-Guinea
0
01 Aug 1944 Adam Clayton Powell elected 1st black congressman from East
0
01 Aug 1944 General Montgomery takes command of 12th and 21st army
0
01 Aug 1944 US 90th division occupies St. Hilaire-du-Harcourt
0
01 Aug 1944 US troops enter Tessy-sur-Vir
0
01 Aug 1944 World War II: the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
0
02 Aug 1944 Amsterdam soccer team "The Volewijckers" plays in orange shirts
0
02 Aug 1944 Jewish survivors of Kovono Ghetto emerge from their bunker
0
02 Aug 1944 Turkey breaks diplomatic relationship with Nazi-Germany
0
02 Aug 1944 ASNOM: birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in the Republic of Macedonia.
0
02 Aug 1944 World War II: The largest trade convoy of the world wars arrives safely in the Western Approaches.
0
03 Aug 1944 Allied troops conquer Myitkyina Burma
0
03 Aug 1944 Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp gases 4,000 gypsies
0
03 Aug 1944 Lieutenant General Stilwells troops occupy Myitkyina Burma
0
03 Aug 1944 Tommy Brown, just 16 years and 8 months old, plays shortstop for Dodgers
0
04 Aug 1944 Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by Nazis
0
04 Aug 1944 British 8th army reaches suburbs of Florence Italy
0
04 Aug 1944 The Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.
0
05 Aug 1944 US 79th / 90th division occupy Laval / Mayenne
0
05 Aug 1944 US troops occupy Vannes Bretagne
0
05 Aug 1944 World War II: Possibly the biggest prison breakout in history occurs as 545 Japanese POWs attempt to escape outside the town of Cowra, New South Wales, Australia.
0
05 Aug 1944 World War II: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.
0
05 Aug 1944 World War II: The Nazis begin a week-long massacre of anywhere between 40,000 and 100,000 civilians and prisoners of war in Wola, Poland.
0
06 Aug 1944 All 1,200 Jewish death marchers from Lipcani Moldavia have died
0
06 Aug 1944 Anti-German attack at Avranches fails
0
06 Aug 1944 Deportation of 70,000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins
0
06 Aug 1944 US 20th Army corp under general Walker occupies Nantes
0
06 Aug 1944 The Warsaw Uprising occurs on August 1. It is brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Kraków are detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising, the Kraków Uprising, that was planned but never carried out.
0
07 Aug 1944 Anton de Kom arrested by Surinam resistance fighter
0
07 Aug 1944 Canada / Polish offensive direction Falaise: Total Cooperation
0
07 Aug 1944 German counter attack at Avranches fails
0
07 Aug 1944 July 20th Plot trial under Roland Freis in Berlin begins
0
07 Aug 1944 US 3rd Army reaches suburbs of Brest Brittany
0
07 Aug 1944 IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
0
08 Aug 1944 Canada / Polish troops occupy Cramesnil / Secqueville / Cintheaux / St-Aignan
0
08 Aug 1944 Germans raid Achterhuis, home of Anne Frank and family
0
08 Aug 1944 US 15th Army corp occupies Le Mans
0
09 Aug 1944 12 workers of Dutch illegal paper "Trouw, " executed at Camp Vught
0
09 Aug 1944 Smokey Bear debuts as spokeman for fire prevention
0
09 Aug 1944 US 79th / 90th division enter Le Mans
0
09 Aug 1944 The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
0
09 Aug 1944 Continuation War: The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during the Second World War, ends to a strategic stalemate. Both Finnish and Soviet troops at the Finnish front dug to defensive positions, and the front remains stable until the end of the war.
0
10 Aug 1944 Braves Red Barrett throws only 58 pitches to shut out Cin Reds 2-0
0
10 Aug 1944 US recaptures Guam from Japanese
0
10 Aug 1944 World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.
0
10 Aug 1944 World War II: The Battle of Narva ends with a combined German–Estonian force successfully defending Narva, Estonia, from invading Soviet troops.
0
10 Aug 1944 Boston Brave Red Barrett throws only 58 pitches to beat Reds 2-0
0
10 Aug 1944 Race riots in Athens Alabama
0
11 Aug 1944 British Premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy
0
11 Aug 1944 Klaus Barbie, Gestapo head of Lyon France leaves for Auschwitz
0
11 Aug 1944 US air raid on Palembang
0
12 Aug 1944 Churchill and Tito meet in Naples
0
12 Aug 1944 Pipeline under ocean (Pluto) begins operating
0
12 Aug 1944 Waffen-SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.
0
12 Aug 1944 Nazi German troops end the week-long Wola massacre, during which time at least 40,000 people were killed indiscriminately or in mass executions.
0
12 Aug 1944 Alençon is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.
0
13 Aug 1944 British 8th army occupies Florence
0
13 Aug 1944 Generals Montgomery / Dempsey / Bradley discuss naderende breakthrough
0
13 Aug 1944 Jackie Gleason-Les Tremayne show premieres on NBC radio
0
14 Aug 1944 British Premier Winston Churchill arrives at Corsica
0
14 Aug 1944 Operation Tractable: new Canadian offensive
0
14 Aug 1944 Russian offensive at Weichsel
0
15 Aug 1944 Allied air raid on train in North Netherlands, 32 killed
0
15 Aug 1944 German field marshal von Kluge vanishes for one day
0
15 Aug 1944 Operation Anvil: Allies land on French Mediterranean sea coast
0
15 Aug 1944 Operation Dragoon: Allied troops land in Provence
0
15 Aug 1944 US 7th Armour division reaches Chartres
0
15 Aug 1944 World War II: Operation Dragoon: Allied forces land in southern France.
0
16 Aug 1944 2nd Canadian Division occupies Falaise Normandy
0
16 Aug 1944 Chartres freed
0
16 Aug 1944 Dutch begin diplomatic contact with Vatican in London
0
16 Aug 1944 US 15th Army corp reaches Eure, surrounds Dreux
0
16 Aug 1944 First flight of the Junkers Ju 287.
0
17 Aug 1944 4th Canadian Armour division occupiers Trun Normandy
0
17 Aug 1944 Canadian 2nd division conquerors Falaise Normandy
0
17 Aug 1944 German Field Marshal Model replaces von Kluge in Normandy
0
17 Aug 1944 Russian troops arrive at Austria-Prussia border
0
17 Aug 1944 Yanks Johnny Lindell ties record with 4 consecutive doubles in a game
0
18 Aug 1944 Paris railroad workers strike against Nazi occupiers
0
18 Aug 1944 US 15th Army corp reaches Mantes-Gassicourt near Paris
0
18 Aug 1944 US 20th Army corp conquers Chartres
0
19 Aug 1944 Allied air raid on Maastricht, 80+ killed
0
19 Aug 1944 Gen Bradley visits Montgomery
0
19 Aug 1944 Last Japanese troops driven out of India
0
19 Aug 1944 Paris police strike against Nazi occupiers
0
19 Aug 1944 Polish 1st Division occupies Hill 262 (Mont Ormel), Normandy
0
19 Aug 1944 US 15th Army corp occupies Mantes-Gassicourt at Paris
0
19 Aug 1944 US 90th / Polish 1st Division occupy Chambois Normandy
0
20 Aug 1944 "Anna Lucasta, " opens on Broadway
0
20 Aug 1944 26th PGA Championship: Bob Hamilton at Manito Golf and Country Club - Spokane Washington
0
20 Aug 1944 Gen de Gaulle returns to France
0
20 Aug 1944 Russian offensive at Jassy and Kisjinev
0
20 Aug 1944 US and British forces destroy German 7th Army at Falaise-Argentan Gap
0
20 Aug 1944 "Anna Lucasta," opens on Broadway
0
21 Aug 1944 Germans storm up Hill 262 (Mont Ormel) Normandy
0
21 Aug 1944 US 12nd Army corp occupies Sens
0
21 Aug 1944 Dumbarton Oaks conference opens in Washington, DC; establishes UN
0
22 Aug 1944 Last transport of French Jews to Nazi-Germany
0
23 Aug 1944 Allied troops capture Marseilles France
0
23 Aug 1944 General George Leclercs troops advance towards Paris
0
23 Aug 1944 General Montgomery consults with Generals Bradley / Eisenhower
0
23 Aug 1944 King Michael of Romania ordered his forces to cease fire against Allies and dismissed the pro-Axis premier, Marshal Ion Antonescu
0
23 Aug 1944 Sammellager Drancy freed
0
23 Aug 1944 US 20th Army corp enter Fontainebleau / Melun de Seine
0
23 Aug 1944 US B-24 crashes into school in Freckelton England, 76 killed
0
23 Aug 1944 Romania liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day 1944-1990)
0
24 Aug 1944 Gen LeClercs troops open assault on Paris
0
25 Aug 1944 France 2nd Tank division under General Leclerc reaches Notre Dame
0
25 Aug 1944 Paris liberated from Nazi occupation (Freedom Tuesday)
0
25 Aug 1944 US 12nd Army corp reaches Troyes
0
25 Aug 1944 Paris liberated from Nazi occupation
0
26 Aug 1944 Bulgaria announces withdrawal and German troops are to be disarmed
0
26 Aug 1944 US 12nd Army Corps crosses river Seine East of Paris
0
27 Aug 1944 200 Halifax bombers attack oil-installations in Homburg
0
28 Aug 1944 Last German troops in Marseille surrendered and Toulon cleared
0
28 Aug 1944 US air raid on Ambon
0
28 Aug 1944 World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
0
29 Aug 1944 Anti German rebellion in Slovakia
0
29 Aug 1944 Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
0
29 Aug 1944 15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees
0
30 Aug 1944 11th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 24, All-Stars 21 (48,769)
0
30 Aug 1944 Soviet troops enter Bucharest Romania
0
31 Aug 1944 Allied offensive at "Gothen-linie, " Italy
0
31 Aug 1944 French provisional government moves from Algiers to Paris
0
31 Aug 1944 French troops liberate Bordeaux
0
31 Aug 1944 Russian-Romanian troops march into Bucharest
0
01 Sep 1944 Bulgaria government of Bagrjanow, resigns
0
01 Sep 1944 King George VI promotes Montgomery to field marshal
0
02 Sep 1944 During WWII, George Bush ejects from a burning plane
0
02 Sep 1944 Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was sent to Auschwitz
0
02 Sep 1944 US leaders meet in Belgium
0
03 Sep 1944 58th US Womens Tennis: P Betz beats Margaret Osborne duPont (63 86)
0
03 Sep 1944 68th and last transport of Dutch Jews (Anne Frank) leaves to Auschwitz
0
03 Sep 1944 Canadian troops liberate Abbeville, France
0
03 Sep 1944 Frank Parker beats Bill Talbert for US Tennis title
0
03 Sep 1944 French troops liberate Lyon
0
03 Sep 1944 Last transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz
0
03 Sep 1944 Prince Bernhard appointed Supreme Commander of the Netherlands Domestic Arm Force
0
03 Sep 1944 Tank division of British Guards free Brussels
0
03 Sep 1944 Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later.
0
04 Sep 1944 2,087 Jews transported for Westerbork to KZ-Lower Theresienstadt
0
04 Sep 1944 64th US Mens Tennis: Frank Parker beats Wm F Talbert (64 36 63 63)
0
04 Sep 1944 British 2nd Armoured pantzer division frees Antwerp
0
04 Sep 1944 Finland breaks diplomatic contact with Nazi-Germany
0
04 Sep 1944 US 1st Army frees Namen
0
04 Sep 1944 World War II: The British 11th Armoured Division liberates the Belgian city of Antwerp.
0
04 Sep 1944 World War II: Finland exits from the war with Soviet Union.
0
05 Sep 1944 "Mad Tuesday" 65,000 Dutch Nazi collaborators flee to Germany
0
05 Sep 1944 5 resistance fighter executed in Terneuzen
0
05 Sep 1944 Allies liberate Brussels
0
05 Sep 1944 British Premier Churchill travels to Scotland
0
05 Sep 1944 Dutch Armed Forces forms, under Prince Bernhard
0
05 Sep 1944 Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.
0
06 Sep 1944 Gen Von Zangens 15th army escape from Zealand
0
06 Sep 1944 World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by Allied forces.
0
06 Sep 1944 World War II: Soviet forces capture the city of Tartu, Estonia.
0
07 Sep 1944 SS-General Kurt Meyer takes Durnal Belgium
0
07 Sep 1944 Strongest Hurricane of century in the Netherlands (wind force 12)
0
08 Sep 1944 1st V-2 rockets land in London and Antwerp
0
08 Sep 1944 Russians march into Bulgaria; Bulgaria declares war on Germany
0
08 Sep 1944 World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time.
0
08 Sep 1944 World War II: Menton is liberated from Germany.
0
09 Sep 1944 Allied forces liberate Luxembourg
0
09 Sep 1944 Bulgaria liberated from Nazi control (National Day)
0
09 Sep 1944 Resistance fighter Jaap Musch arrested in Nijverdal Neth
0
09 Sep 1944 US 113th cavalry passes Belg-Dutch borders
0
09 Sep 1944 Very strong hurricane hits Netherland
0
09 Sep 1944 World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established.
0
10 Sep 1944 Lieutenant General Frederick Browning against Montgomery "But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far"
0
11 Sep 1944 US 5th pantzer division is 1st to enter Nazi-Germany
0
11 Sep 1944 World War II: The first Allied troops of the U.S. Army cross the western border of Germany.
0
11 Sep 1944 World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.
0
11 Sep 1944 FDR & Churchill meet in Canada at the 2nd Quebec Conference
0
12 Sep 1944 Noorbeek and Mheer freed
0
12 Sep 1944 US Army troops entered Germany for 1st time
0
12 Sep 1944 World War II: The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among those liberated cities. Near Trier, American troops enter Germany for the first time.
0
13 Sep 1944 30th Infantry division of US 1st Army frees Margraten
0
13 Sep 1944 Last transport out camp Westerbork to Bergen Belsen
0
13 Sep 1944 US 28th Infantry division opens assault on Siegfried line / Westwall
0
14 Sep 1944 6,500 Dutch / Indonesian captives sent to Junyo Maru
0
14 Sep 1944 Gulpen, Meerssen and Maastricht freed
0
14 Sep 1944 Hurricane hits New England: 389 die
0
14 Sep 1944 US 28th Infantry division occupies 1.5 km of Roscheid
0
14 Sep 1944 US 4th Ivy League Inf division pushes through Westwall
0
14 Sep 1944 World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.
0
15 Sep 1944 British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs
0
15 Sep 1944 Russian troops free Sofia Bulgaria
0
15 Sep 1944 US 1st Infantry division pushes through to Westwall
0
15 Sep 1944 US 28th Infantry division occupies Hill 555 at Roscheid
0
15 Sep 1944 US troops lands on Palau and Morotai
0
15 Sep 1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.
0
15 Sep 1944 Battle of Peleliu begins as the United States Marine Corps' 1st Marine Division and the United States Army's 81st Infantry Division hit White and Orange beaches under heavy fire from Japanese infantry and artillery.
0
17 Sep 1944 British Premier Winston Churchill travels to US
0
17 Sep 1944 Dutch begin railroad strike against German occupiers
0
17 Sep 1944 Operation Market Garden: British airborne division lands Arnhem Neth
0
17 Sep 1944 World War II: Allied Airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden.
0
18 Sep 1944 British submarine Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru: 5,600 killed
0
18 Sep 1944 Eindhoven free (Lightly Day)
0
18 Sep 1944 US 266th division occupiers Brest Bretagne
0
18 Sep 1944 World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, 5,600 killed.
0
19 Sep 1944 Finland and Russia agree to cease fire
0
19 Sep 1944 Luftwaffe bombs Eindhoven: 200 killed
0
19 Sep 1944 Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War).
0
19 Sep 1944 Battle of Hürtgen Forest between United States and Nazi Germany begins.
0
20 Sep 1944 Nijmegen free
0
20 Sep 1944 Polish forces free Terneuzen Neth
0
21 Sep 1944 Last British paratroopers at bridge of Arnhem surrenders
0
22 Sep 1944 Operation Market Garden: Polish paratroopers land at Driel
0
22 Sep 1944 US troops land on Ulithi
0
22 Sep 1944 Boulogne reoccupied by Allies
0
25 Sep 1944 World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem in the Netherlands, thus ending the Battle of Arnhem and Operation Market Garden.
0
26 Sep 1944 British and Polish paratroopers evacuate Oosterbeek (Arnhem)
0
26 Sep 1944 Soviet forces occupy Estonia
0
26 Sep 1944 World War II: Operation Market Garden fails.
0
26 Sep 1944 World War II: On the central front of the Gothic Line Brazilian troops control the Serchio valley region after ten days of fighting.
0
27 Sep 1944 Helmond and Oss, Netherlands liberated
0
27 Sep 1944 The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission in World War II.
0
28 Sep 1944 Battle of Arnhem, Germans defeat British airborne in the Netherlands
0
28 Sep 1944 Nazi murders in Marzabotto, Italy (SS-major Reder)
0
28 Sep 1944 Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Klooga, Estonia.
0
28 Sep 1944 1st TV Musical comedy (The Boys from Boise)
0
29 Sep 1944 Browns last in AL attendance, only 6,172 watch them sweep Yanks in DH
0
29 Sep 1944 Soviet troops invade Yugoslavia
0
30 Sep 1944 Dutch General Mine Workers Union (ABWM) forms
0
30 Sep 1944 Calais reoccupied by Allies
0
01 Oct 1944 St. Louis Browns win their only AL pennant
0
02 Oct 1944 Nazis crush Warsaw Uprising killing 250,000 people
0
02 Oct 1944 World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
0
03 Oct 1944 1st broadcast of Radio Herrijzend Netherland
0
03 Oct 1944 RAF bombs West Kapelse
0
04 Oct 1944 British troops land on Greek continent
0
04 Oct 1944 St. Louis Browns win 1st World Series game in their only appearance
0
05 Oct 1944 Harold Arlen / ET Harburgs musical premieres in New York City
0
05 Oct 1944 Kerkrade (Neth) liberated
0
05 Oct 1944 Royal Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German jet fighter over France.
0
05 Oct 1944 Suffrage is extended to women in France.
0
06 Oct 1944 Allied aircrafts bombard per accident Fishing, Overijssel
0
06 Oct 1944 Canadians free Austria
0
06 Oct 1944 HM Zwaardvis sinks U168 at Java
0
06 Oct 1944 Soviets march into Hungary and Czechoslovakia
0
07 Oct 1944 Allies bombs sea dikes at Vlissingen
0
07 Oct 1944 Field Marshal Rommel gets order to return to Berlin
0
07 Oct 1944 Riots in Amersfoort / Utrecht / Strugle
0
07 Oct 1944 Uprising at Auschwitz, Jews burn down crematoriums
0
07 Oct 1944 Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp
0
07 Oct 1944 World War II: During an uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn down the crematoria.
0
08 Oct 1944 "Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet" debut on CBS radio
0
08 Oct 1944 World War II: The Battle of Crucifix Hill occurs just outside Aachen. Capt. Bobbie Brown receives a Medal of Honor for his heroics in this battle.
0
09 Oct 1944 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Russia for talks with Stalin
0
09 Oct 1944 British Premier Winston Churchill arrives in Moscow
0
09 Oct 1944 Canadian offensive in West-Zeeuws-Flanders
0
09 Oct 1944 German occupier turn off electricity in Amsterdam
0
09 Oct 1944 St. Louis Cardinals beat St. Louis Browns, 4 games to 2 in 41st World Series
0
10 Oct 1944 US takes Okinawa
0
10 Oct 1944 Holocaust: Eight hundred Gypsy children are murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp.
0
11 Oct 1944 Allies bomb sea wall at Veere
0
11 Oct 1944 Tuvan People's Republic or formerly Tannu Tuva is annexed by the U.S.S.R
0
12 Oct 1944 German army retreats from Athens
0
12 Oct 1944 World War II: The Liberation of Athens from the German invaders.
0
13 Oct 1944 Riga Latvia freed
0
13 Oct 1944 World War II: Riga, the capital of Latvia is occupied by the Red Army.
0
13 Oct 1944 US 1st army begins battle of Aachen
0
14 Oct 1944 Allied troops land in Corfu
0
14 Oct 1944 British troops march into Athens
0
14 Oct 1944 World War II: Athens, Greece, is liberated by British Army troops entering the city as the Wehrmacht pulls out. This clears the way for the Greek government-in-exile to return to its historic capital city, with George Papandreou, Sr., as the head of government.
0
14 Oct 1944 Linked to a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is forced to commit suicide.
0
14 Oct 1944 German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commits suicide rather than face trial for his part in an attempt to overthrow Hitler
0
15 Oct 1944 The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler's NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes power in Hungary.
0
16 Oct 1944 Hungary: Horthy government falls / Nazi count Szalasi becomes Premier
0
16 Oct 1944 Wally Walrus, Woody Woodpecker's first steady foil, was debuted at the The Beach Nut, a Walter Lantz's cartoon.
0
18 Oct 1944 Eisenhower, Bradley and Montgomery confer in Brussel
0
18 Oct 1944 World War II: Soviet Union begins the liberation of Czechoslovakia from Nazi Germany.
0
18 Oct 1944 Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia during WW II
0
19 Oct 1944 British Premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Moscow
0
19 Oct 1944 Canadian troops liberate Aardensburg
0
19 Oct 1944 Navy says black women can join WAVES
0
19 Oct 1944 United States forces land in the Philippines.
0
19 Oct 1944 US forces land in Philipines
0
20 Oct 1944 Liquid-gas tanks in Cleveland explodes, 135 die, 3,600 homeless
0
20 Oct 1944 Russian / Yugoslavian troops free Belgrade
0
20 Oct 1944 US 6th army lands on Leyte, Philippines
0
20 Oct 1944 The Soviet Army and Yugoslav Partisans liberate Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia
0
20 Oct 1944 Liquid natural gas leaks from storage tanks in Cleveland, then explodes; the explosion and resulting fire level 30 blocks and kill 130.
0
20 Oct 1944 American general Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he commands an Allied assault on the islands, reclaiming them from the Japanese during the Second World War.
0
20 Oct 1944 30 blocks of Cleveland OH burn after a liquid gas factory explodes
0
20 Oct 1944 Revolution by workers & students in Guatemala
0
20 Oct 1944 US 1st army wins battle of Aachen
0
20 Oct 1944 US forces under Gen Douglas MacArthur return to the Philippines
0
21 Oct 1944 Canadian troops occupy Breskens
0
21 Oct 1944 World War II: The first kamikaze attack — A Japanese fighter plane carrying a 200-kilogram (440 lb) bomb attacks HMAS Australia off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.
0
21 Oct 1944 World War II: Nemmersdorf massacre against the German civilians takes place.
0
21 Oct 1944 World War II: Battle of Aachen — The city of Aachen falls to American forces after three weeks of fighting, making it the first German city to fall to the Allies.
0
21 Oct 1944 During WWII, US troops capture Aachen, 1st large German city to fall
0
23 Oct 1944 1st Central Kitchen opens in Amsterdam
0
23 Oct 1944 Gulf of Leyte battle begin
0
23 Oct 1944 World War II: Battle of Leyte Gulf: The largest naval battle in history begins in the Philippines.
0
23 Oct 1944 Soviet army invades Hungary
0
24 Oct 1944 Rotterdam Passage fight frees 46 prisoners
0
24 Oct 1944 US air raid on Japanese battleships / cruisers in Sibuya Sea: Musashi sinks
0
24 Oct 1944 US aircraft carrier Princeton sinks at Philippines
0
24 Oct 1944 US Captain David Mccampbell shoots down 9-11 Japanese planes in Gulf of Leyte
0
24 Oct 1944 World War II: The Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku and the battleship Japanese battleship Musashi are sunk by American aircraft in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
0
25 Oct 1944 Battle at Samar-island
0
25 Oct 1944 Battle in Straits of Surigao: Japanese fleet destroyed
0
25 Oct 1944 Gas output stopped in Amsterdam
0
25 Oct 1944 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.
0
25 Oct 1944 The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine captain of World War II) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.
0
25 Oct 1944 The Romanian city of Carei is liberated by Romanian and Soviet forces from Nazi-Hungarian occupation.
0
25 Oct 1944 World War II: Battle of Leyte Gulf — the largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the U.S. Third and U.S. Seventh Fleets. Afterward is the first Kamikaze attack of the war.
0
25 Oct 1944 Japanese navy defeated at battle of Leyte Gulf
0
26 Oct 1944 World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf ends with an overwhelming American victory.
0
27 Oct 1944 Hertogenbosch and Tilburg freed from Nazi occupation
0
27 Oct 1944 Tito reaches free Belgrade
0
27 Oct 1944 World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.
0
28 Oct 1944 Russia and Bulgaria sign weapon pact
0
29 Oct 1944 1st Polish Armoured Division liberates Breda Neth
0
29 Oct 1944 Breda freed
0
29 Oct 1944 Cabadese 2nd Infantry division frees Goes South-Beveland
0
29 Oct 1944 The city of Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.
0
29 Oct 1944 World War II: The Soviet Red Army enters Hungary.
0
30 Oct 1944 Last transport for Auschwitz arrives in Birkenau
0
30 Oct 1944 Scottish Highlanders liberate Waalwijk
0
30 Oct 1944 Sweden announces intention to stay neutral and refuse sanctuary in WWII
0
30 Oct 1944 Tholen Island freed
0
30 Oct 1944 Anne and Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they die from disease the following year, shortly before the end of WWII.
0
30 Oct 1944 Anne Frank (of Diary fame) is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen
0
31 Oct 1944 Chief of Staff Kruls names De Quay Chairman of Universal Commission
0
31 Oct 1944 Erich Göstl, a member of the Waffen-SS, is awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, to recognise extreme battlefield bravery, after losing his face and eyes during the Battle of Normandy.
0
01 Nov 1944 Zeeuws and Flanders freed
0
01 Nov 1944 World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands.
0
02 Nov 1944 Auschwitz begins gassing inmates
0
02 Nov 1944 Canadian troops occupy Knokke
0
03 Nov 1944 German troops in Vlissingen surrenders
0
03 Nov 1944 Pro-German government of Hungary flees
0
03 Nov 1944 World War II: Two supreme commanders of the Slovak National Uprising, Generals Ján Golian and Rudolf Viest are captured, tortured and later executed by German forces.
0
04 Nov 1944 RAF bombs Dinteloord, 54 killed
0
04 Nov 1944 World War II: Bitola Liberation Day
0
05 Nov 1944 Allied troops reach Zoutelande Walcheren
0
05 Nov 1944 Canadian and British troops liberate Dinteloord
0
05 Nov 1944 German troops blow-up Heusden North Brabant city hall, 134 die
0
07 Nov 1944 FDR wins 4th term in office, defeating Thomas E Dewey (R)
0
07 Nov 1944 Train crashes in tunnel of Aguadilla Spain; about 500 die
0
08 Nov 1944 25,000 Hungarian Jews are loaned to Nazis for forced labor
0
08 Nov 1944 Last German troops at Walcheren surrenders
0
09 Nov 1944 Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize
0
09 Nov 1944 Walcheren of Nazi troops purged
0
10 Nov 1944 German riots in Rotterdam / Schiedam 52,000 men sent to Germany
0
10 Nov 1944 US 9th Army takes Margraten cemetery
0
11 Nov 1944 New York Rangers set NHL record of 25 games without a win (0-21-4)
0
12 Nov 1944 German battleship "Tirpitz" sunk off Norway
0
15 Nov 1944 Surprise attack on office of Nethche Bank
0
16 Nov 1944 US 9th division and 1st Army attacks at Geilenkirchen
0
20 Nov 1944 1st Japanse suicide submarine attack (Ulithi Atol, Carolines)
0
20 Nov 1944 Amsterdam: Vondelpark closed because of kappen of trees
0
20 Nov 1944 Prince Bernhard establishes staff in Breda
0
21 Nov 1944 Personnel and executive staff of Philips demonstrate for more food
0
22 Nov 1944 Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry occupies Hoven at Geilenkirchen
0
23 Nov 1944 US 7th army under General Patch conquers Straatsburg
0
24 Nov 1944 US bombers based on Saipan, begin 1st attack on Tokyo
0
25 Nov 1944 32nd CFL Grey Cup: Montreal HMCS defeat Hamilton Flying Wildcats, 7-6
0
26 Nov 1944 1st allied marines move onto Antwerp harbor
0
26 Nov 1944 Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz and Birkenau crematoriums
0
26 Nov 1944 World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's shop in London, United Kingdom, killing 168 people.
0
26 Nov 1944 World War II: Germany begins V-1 and V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium.
0
27 Nov 1944 3,500-4,000 ton explosive, explodes in Staffordshire, 68 killed
0
27 Nov 1944 World War II: RAF Fauld explosion: An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump in Staffordshire kills seventy people.
0
28 Nov 1944 1st allied ship sails into Schelde Antwerp
0
28 Nov 1944 400 Rotterdammers attack coal warehouse
0
28 Nov 1944 Hal Newhouser is named AL MVP
0
28 Nov 1944 In reprisal 40 Dutch men are executed by Nazis
0
29 Nov 1944 The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
0
29 Nov 1944 World War II: Albania is liberated by partisan forces.
0
29 Nov 1944 Albania liberated from Nazi control (National Day)
0
29 Nov 1944 John Hopkins hospital performs 1st open heart surgery
0
30 Nov 1944 Biggest and last British Battleship HMS Vanguard runs aground
0
01 Dec 1944 Mail routing resumes in free South Netherlands
0
02 Dec 1944 10th Heisman Trophy Award: Les Horvath, Ohio State (QB)
0
02 Dec 1944 General De Gaulle arrives in Moscow
0
02 Dec 1944 German troops seize Betuwse dikes
0
02 Dec 1944 US 95th Infantry division occupies bridge at Saar
0
03 Dec 1944 British order to disarm, causes general strike in Greece
0
03 Dec 1944 Hungarian death march of Jews ends
0
03 Dec 1944 Mussert puts Seyss-Inquart plan for small Nazi-Europe
0
03 Dec 1944 NFL Cardinals-Pitts merger disolves
0
03 Dec 1944 Greek Civil War: Fighting breaks out in Athens between the ELAS and government forces supported by the British Army.
0
04 Dec 1944 Germans destroy Rhine dikes, Betuwe flooded
0
05 Dec 1944 German troops rob all the silver coin in Utrecht
0
06 Dec 1944 US 95th Infantry division reaches Westwall
0
07 Dec 1944 Convention on International Civil Aviation drawn up in Chicago
0
07 Dec 1944 General Radescu forms Romanian government
0
10 Dec 1944 9 Dutch citizens hanged by nazis
0
10 Dec 1944 German counter attack at Dillingen-bridgehead at Saar
0
11 Dec 1944 Surprise attack on House of Keeping Axe, 29 prisoners freed
0
13 Dec 1944 Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138
0
13 Dec 1944 Norman Krasna's "Dear Ruth" premieres in New York NY
0
14 Dec 1944 Congress establishes rank of General of the Army (5-star General)
0
14 Dec 1944 Begin(ning) Liese-Aktion: werving of labor force for Germany
0
14 Dec 1944 German occupiers forbid use of electricity in parts of Holland
0
15 Dec 1944 Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over English Channel
0
15 Dec 1944 Hizbu'allah (Arm forces for Allah) forms
0
15 Dec 1944 US Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star
0
15 Dec 1944 US troops lands on Mindoro
0
16 Dec 1944 US 2nd Inf division occupies "Heartbreak Crossroads" Wahlerscheid
0
16 Dec 1944 World War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins with the surprise offensive of three German armies through the Ardennes forest.
0
16 Dec 1944 Battle of the Bulge begins in Belgium
0
16 Dec 1944 General Eisenhower's clerk Rickey marries corporal Pearlie
0
16 Dec 1944 German V-2 strikes Antwerp bioscope (638 kill)
0
17 Dec 1944 Japanese-Americans released from detention camps
0
17 Dec 1944 US Army announces end of excluding Jap-Americans from West Coast
0
17 Dec 1944 World War II: Battle of the Bulge – Malmedy massacre – American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Peiper.
0
17 Dec 1944 M-Ocean View streetcar resumes service & is extended to Market St
0
17 Dec 1944 US Army announces end of excluding Japanese-Americans from West Coast; Japanese-Americans are released from detention camps
0
17 Dec 1944 Green Bay Packers win NFL championship
0
17 Dec 1944 US destroyers sink in storm off Philippines, 790 killed
0
18 Dec 1944 Destroyers "Hull, " "Spence" and"Monaghan" sink in typhoon (Philippines)
0
18 Dec 1944 World War II: Seventy-seven B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U.S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankow, China, a Japanese supply base.
0
18 Dec 1944 Destroyers "Hull", "Spence" & "Monaghan" sink in typhoon (Philippines)
0
18 Dec 1944 Nazi occupiers of Amsterdam destroy electricity plants
0
20 Dec 1944 Terence Rattigans "O Mistress Mine, " premieres in London
0
20 Dec 1944 Battle of Bastogne, Nazis surround 101st Airborne (NUTS!)
0
20 Dec 1944 Archbishop De Young & bishop Huibers condemn black market
0
20 Dec 1944 Bishop forbids membership in non Catholic unions
0
21 Dec 1944 Cardinals' Marty Marion wins National League MVP
0
22 Dec 1944 World War II: Battle of the Bulge – German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium, prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: "Nuts!"
0
22 Dec 1944 World War II: The Vietnam People's Army is formed to resist Japanese occupation of Indochina, now Vietnam.
0
22 Dec 1944 Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium
0
22 Dec 1944 Sub Swordfish departs Pearl Harbor for Japan
0
23 Dec 1944 Beginning of harsh winter
0
26 Dec 1944 World War II: George S. Patton's Third Army breaks the encirclement of surrounded U.S. forces at Bastogne, Belgium.
0
26 Dec 1944 Battle of Bastogne-US General Patton's 4th Pantzers repulse the Germans
0
26 Dec 1944 Budapest surrounded by soviet army
0
26 Dec 1944 Tennessee Williams' play "Glass Menagerie" premieres in Chicago
0
27 Dec 1944 Greece: British premier Churchill flies back to London
0
28 Dec 1944 Maurice Richard becomes the first player to score eight points in one game of NHL ice hockey.
0
28 Dec 1944 Eisenhower & Montgomery meet in Hasselt Belgium
0
28 Dec 1944 Former Washington 3rd baseman Buddy Lewis wins Distinguished Flying Cross
0
28 Dec 1944 Leonard Bernstein's musical "On the Town" premieres in New York NY
0
29 Dec 1944 Belgian Nazi L
0
29 Dec 1944 General Eisenhowers train returns to Versailles
0
30 Dec 1944 King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving the throne vacant.
0
30 Dec 1944 King George II of Greece, abdicates his throne
0
31 Dec 1944 48 people die in a train accident in Ogden, Utah
0
31 Dec 1944 Japanese army evacuates harbor city Akyab
0
year 1943 year 1945
© 2016 OnThisDay.net All rights reserved.
Loaded in 0.0857s.