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.
- February 14, 1944 – World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java.
- February 29, 1944 – World War II: The Admiralty Islands are invaded in Operation Brewer led by American General Douglas MacArthur.
- March 24, 1944 – World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners begin breaking out of Stalag Luft III.
- March 30, 1944 – World War II: Allied bombers conduct their most severe bombing run on Sofia, Bulgaria.
- April 5, 1944 – World War II: 270 inhabitants of the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by the Germans.
- April 17, 1944 – Forces of the Communist-controlled Greek People’s Liberation Army attack the smaller National and Social Liberation resistance group, which surrenders. Its leader Dimitrios Psarros is murdered.
- April 25, 1944 – The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
- May 18, 1944 – Deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union government.
- June 9, 1944 – World War II: 99 civilians are hung from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.
- June 10, 1944 – In baseball, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
- July 18, 1944 – World War II: Hideki Tojo resigns as Prime Minister of Japan due to numerous setbacks in the war effort.
- July 26, 1944 – World War II: the Soviet army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, liberating it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.
- August 23, 1944 – World War II King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of General Antonescu, who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies (see King Michael’s Coup)
- September 9, 1944 – World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established.
- September 26, 1944 – World War II: Operation Market Garden fails.
- October 10, 1944 – Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp.
- November 29, 1944 – The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
- December 3, 1944 – Greek Civil War: Fighting breaks out in Athens between the ELAS and government forces supported by the British Army.
- December 5, 1944 – World War II: Allied troops occupy Ravenna.
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