1944 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1944?
- January 17, 1944 – World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four battles with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
- 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.
- January 31, 1944 – World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
- February 17, 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins. The battle ends in an American victory on February 22.
- February 20, 1944 – World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Island.
- June 4, 1944 – World War II: Rome falls to the Allies, the first Axis capital to fall.
- 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 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.
- August 1, 1944 – The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
- 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.
- August 10, 1944 – World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.
- August 20, 1944 – World War II: 168 captured allied airmen, including Phil Lamason, accused by the Gestapo of being “terror fliers”, arrive at Buchenwald concentration camp.
- August 29, 1944 – Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
- September 11, 1944 – World War II: The first Allied troops of the U.S. Army cross the western border of Germany.
- 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 20, 1944 – The Soviet Army and Yugoslav Partisans liberate Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia
- November 1, 1944 – World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands.
- November 11, 1944 – Dr. jur. Erich Göstl, a member of the Waffen SS, is presented with the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, to recognise extreme battlefield bravery, after losing his face and eyes during the Battle of Normandy.
- November 27, 1944 – World War II: An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump at Fauld, Staffordshire kills seventy people.
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