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1944 Calendar

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•  January 4, 1944 – World War II: Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters in Europe, begins.
•  January 25, 1944 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Monkey in Chinese astrology.
•  February 3, 1944 – World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison.
•  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.
•  August 22, 1944 – World War II: Romania is captured by the Soviet Union.
•  October 2, 1944 – World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
•  October 7, 1944 – World War II: Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn down the crematoria.
•  October 8, 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Crucifix Hill occurs on Crucifix Hill just outside Aachen. Capt. Bobbie Brown receives a Medal of Honor for his heroics in this battle.
•  October 23, 1944 – World War II: Battle of Leyte Gulf – The largest naval battle in history begins in the Philippines.
•  October 25, 1944 – Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the U.S. Third and U.S. Seventh Fleets.

•  January 28, 1944 – John Tavener, English composer
•  January 31, 1944 – Charlie Musselwhite, American musician
•  February 6, 1944 – Christine Boutin, French politician
•  March 7, 1944 – Zhiuli Shartava, Georgian politician and the Head of the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia (d. 1993)
•  March 15, 1944 – Jacques Doillon, French film director
•  June 17, 1944 – Randy Johnson, American football player (d. 2009)
•  July 27, 1944 – Barbara Thompson (musician), English jazz saxophonist, flautist and composer
•  September 11, 1944 – Everaldo, Brazilian footballer
•  December 21, 1944 – Bill Atkinson, English footballer
•  December 25, 1944 – Nigel Starmer-Smith, English Rugby Union commentator.