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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.
•  March 10, 1944 – Greek Civil War: The Political Committee of National Liberation is established in Greece by the National Liberation Front.
•  June 9, 1944 – World War II: the Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
•  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.
•  July 26, 1944 – World War II: the Soviet army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, liberating it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.
•  September 8, 1944 – World War II: London is hit by a V2 rocket for the first time.
•  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 20, 1944 – The Soviet Army and Yugoslav Partisans liberate Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia
•  October 31, 1944 – Dr. jur. 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.
•  November 27, 1944 – World War II: An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump at Fauld, Staffordshire kills seventy people.

•  February 22, 1944 – Tom Okker, Dutch tennis player
•  March 8, 1944 – Palito Ortega, Argentine singer and actor
•  March 17, 1944 – John Sebastian, American singer and songwriter
•  April 8, 1944 – Hywel Bennett, Welsh actor
•  May 18, 1944 – W. G. Sebald, German-born writer (d. 2001)
•  May 28, 1944 – Jean-Pierre Léaud, French actor
•  August 30, 1944 – Molly Ivins, American political humorist (d. 2007)
•  September 13, 1944 – Leslie Harvey, Scottish rock guitarist (d.1972)
•  October 20, 1944 – David Mancuso, American disc jockey
•  December 26, 1944 – Jane Lapotaire, British actress