1944 Calendar
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1944 Historical Event(s)
January 18, 1944
– Soviet forces liberate Leningrad, effectively ending a three year Nazi siege, known as the Siege of Leningrad.
January 25, 1944
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Monkey in Chinese astrology.
April 16, 1944
– Allied forces started bombing of Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.
June 25, 1944
– The final page of the comic Krazy Kat was published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.
August 19, 1944
– World War II: Liberation of Paris – Paris rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.
October 5, 1944
– Royal Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German jet fighter over France.
October 14, 1944
– Athens, Greece, is liberated by British Army troops entering the city as the Wehrmacht pulls out during World War II. 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.
October 27, 1944
– World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.
November 19, 1944
– World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
December 22, 1944
– World War II: The People’s Army of Vietnam is formed to resist Japanese occupation of Indo-China, now Vietnam.
Who Were Born On 1944?
February 10, 1944
– Frank Keating, American politician and 25th Governor of Oklahoma
March 19, 1944
– Said Musa, Prime Minister of Belize
April 28, 1944
– Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe, Belgian politician
May 28, 1944
– Jean-Pierre Léaud, French actor
June 3, 1944
– Eddy Ottoz, Italian athlete
June 4, 1944
– Michelle Phillips, American singer (The Mamas & the Papas) and actress
August 30, 1944
– Tug McGraw, American baseball player (d. 2004)
September 1, 1944
– Archie Bell, singer (Archie Bell & the Drells)
December 5, 1944
– Loukas Sideras, Greek drummer (Aphrodite’s Child)
December 26, 1944
– Jane Lapotaire, British actress