1944 Calendar
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1944 Historical Event(s)
January 25, 1944
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Monkey in Chinese astrology.
January 29, 1944
– World War II: The Battle of Cisterna takes place in central Italy.
March 4, 1944
– World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
March 24, 1944
– Ardeatine Massacre: German troops kill 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
April 22, 1944
– World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated – Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea.
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 30, 1944
– World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces.
August 4, 1944
– The Holocaust: a tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.
October 27, 1944
– World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.
December 26, 1944
– World War II: Patton’s Third Army breaks the encirclement of surrounded U.S. forces at Bastogne, Belgium.
Who Were Born On 1944?
March 21, 1944
– Marie-Christine Barrault, French actress
April 9, 1944
– Joe Brinkman, American Major League Umpire
April 27, 1944
– Michael Fish, British meteorologist
June 6, 1944
– Edgar Froese, German artist and electronic music pioneer (Tangerine Dream)
June 30, 1944
– Glenn Shorrock, Australian singer-songwriter (Little River Band)
August 9, 1944
– Khaleda Zia, Bangladeshi politician and former Prime Minister.
August 20, 1944
– Graig Nettles, American baseball player
October 16, 1944
– Kaizer Motaung, Southafrican footballer and footballmanager
October 19, 1944
– George McCrae, American soul singer
November 24, 1944
– Ibrahim Gambari, Nigerian scholar