1944 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1944?
- 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: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
- February 22, 1944 – World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
- March 3, 1944 – The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards.
- May 1, 1944 – 200 Communist prisoners are shot by the Germans at Kaisariani in Athens as reprisals for the killing of General Franz Krech by partisans at Molaoi
- June 7, 1944 – World War II: The steamer Danae carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans is sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.
- June 13, 1944 – World War II: German combat elements - reinforced by the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division - launch a counterattack on American forces near Carentan.
- June 15, 1944 – World War II: Battle of Saipan: The United States invade Japanese-occupied Saipan.
- June 17, 1944 – Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
- July 17, 1944 – World War II: Napalm incendiary bombs are dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, near St. Lô, France.
- August 20, 1944 – World War II: the Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet offensive.
- August 26, 1944 – World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
- September 4, 1944 – World War II: Finland exits from the war with Soviet Union.
- 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 25, 1944 – The Romanian Army liberates Carei, the last Romanian city under Axis Powers occupation.
- October 29, 1944 – The city of Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.
- December 30, 1944 – King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving the throne vacant.
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