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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 9, 1944 – The Soviet Air Forces conduct heavy bombing on Tallinn, Estonia, killing up to 800 people, mostly civilians.
•  April 22, 1944 – World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated – Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea.
•  April 26, 1944 – Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
•  May 5, 1944 – German troops execute 216 civilians in the village of Kleisoura in Greece
•  June 11, 1944 – USS Missouri the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned.
•  June 22, 1944 – Opening day of the Soviet Union’s Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre.
•  September 17, 1944 – World War II: Allied Airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the “Market” half of Operation Market Garden.
•  September 26, 1944 – World War II: On the central front of the Gothic Line Brazilian troops control the Serchio valley region after ten days of fighting.
•  November 3, 1944 – World War II: Two supreme commanders of the Slovak National Uprising, Generals Ján Golian and Rudolf Viest are captured, tortured and later executed by German forces.

•  February 14, 1944 – Alan Parker, British film director and writer
•  February 27, 1944 – Ken Grimwood, American writer (d. 2003)
•  May 9, 1944 – Richie Furay, American musician (Poco and Buffalo Springfield)
•  August 4, 1944 – Doudou Ndoye, Senegalese lawyer and politician
•  August 23, 1944 – Antonia Novello, former United States Surgeon General
•  September 7, 1944 – Forrest Blue, American football player (d. 2011)
•  September 18, 1944 – Charles L. Veach, American astronaut (d. 1995)
•  October 24, 1944 – Ray Downs American author and musician
•  October 31, 1944 – Sally Kirkland, American actress
•  December 11, 1944 – Lynda Day George, American actress