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1944 Calendar

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•  January 25, 1944 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Monkey in Chinese astrology.
•  January 31, 1944 – World War II: During Anzio campaign 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby’s Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.
•  February 15, 1944 – World War II: The assault on Monte Cassino, Italy, begins.
•  April 13, 1944 – Diplomatic relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established.
•  June 13, 1944 – World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.
•  June 17, 1944 – Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
•  July 7, 1944 – World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.
•  July 18, 1944 – World War II: Hideki Tojo resigns as Prime Minister of Japan due to numerous setbacks in the war effort.
•  October 10, 1944 – Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp.
•  November 4, 1944 – World War II: Bitola Liberation Day

•  March 5, 1944 – Lucio Battisti, Italian singer (d. 1998)
•  April 3, 1944 – Tony Orlando, American musician
•  April 13, 1944 – Susan Davis, American politician
•  April 24, 1944 – Tony Visconti, American record producer
•  June 30, 1944 – Terry Funk, American professional wrestler
•  August 19, 1944 – Buzz Kilman, Chicago radio personality
•  September 7, 1944 – Forrest Blue, American football player (d. 2011)
•  October 4, 1944 – Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006)
•  November 17, 1944 – Danny DeVito, American actor
•  December 10, 1944 – Steve Renko, American baseball player