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1944 Calendar

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•  January 17, 1944 – World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four battles 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.
•  January 25, 1944 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Monkey in Chinese astrology.
•  January 27, 1944 – World War II: The 900-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
•  February 15, 1944 – World War II: The assault on Monte Cassino, Italy, begins.
•  March 19, 1944 – World War II: Nazi forces occupy Hungary.
•  March 24, 1944 – World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners begin breaking out of Stalag Luft III.
•  June 14, 1944 – World War II: After several failed attempts, the British Army abandons Operation Perch, its plan to capture the German-occupied town of Caen.
•  October 21, 1944 – World War II: The first kamikaze attack: A Japanese plane carrying a 200 kg bomb attacks HMAS Australia off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.
•  November 4, 1944 – World War II: Bitola Liberation Day
•  December 5, 1944 – World War II: Allied troops occupy Ravenna.

•  January 12, 1944 – Joe Frazier, American boxer (d. 2011)
•  January 26, 1944 – Angela Davis, American feminist and activist
•  March 4, 1944 – Len Walker, former English footballer and manager
•  April 7, 1944 – Julia Phillips, American film producer and writer (d. 2002)
•  July 4, 1944 – Joe Berardo, Portuguese millionaire
•  July 20, 1944 – Olivier de Kersauson, French sailor
•  September 4, 1944 – Ron Ward, Canadian ice hockey player
•  September 7, 1944 – Earl “The Goat” Manigault, American basketball player (d. 1998)
•  September 30, 1944 – Diane Dufresne, French Canadian singer
•  November 17, 1944 – Jim Boeheim, Hall of Fame basketball coach