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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.
•  April 26, 1944 – Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
•  June 4, 1944 – World War II: Rome falls to the Allies, the first Axis capital to fall.
•  August 12, 1944 – Alençon is liberated by General Leclerc, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.
•  August 16, 1944 – First flight of the Junkers Ju 287.
•  September 22, 1944 – World War II: the Red Army enters Tallinn.
•  October 11, 1944 – Tuvinian People’s Republic or formerly Tannu Tuva is annexed by the U.S.S.R
•  October 23, 1944 – World War II: Battle of Leyte Gulf – The largest naval battle in history begins in the Philippines.
•  December 26, 1944 – World War II: Patton’s Third Army breaks the encirclement of surrounded U.S. forces at Bastogne, Belgium.

•  January 14, 1944 – Nina Totenberg, American journalist
•  February 10, 1944 – Frank Keating, American politician and 25th Governor of Oklahoma
•  February 13, 1944 – Bo Svenson, Swedish-born actor
•  March 21, 1944 – Marie-Christine Barrault, French actress
•  April 7, 1944 – Julia Phillips, American film producer and writer (d. 2002)
•  April 13, 1944 – Brian Pendleton, musician (d. 2001)
•  May 26, 1944 – Sam Posey, American race car driver, TV commentator and author
•  July 17, 1944 – Mark Burgess, New Zealand Cricketer
•  September 15, 1944 – Sotirios Hatzigakis, Greek politician
•  December 12, 1944 – Zoe Laskari, Greek actress