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.
- March 19, 1944 – World War II: Nazi forces occupy Hungary.
- April 14, 1944 – Bombay Explosion: A massive explosion in Bombay harbor kills 300 and causes economic damage valued then at 20 million pounds.
- 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 13, 1944 – World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.
- June 15, 1944 – In the Saskatchewan general election, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government in North America.
- July 9, 1944 – World War II: Battle of Normandy – British and Canadian forces capture Caen, France.
- 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 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 21, 1944 – World War II: Canadian and Polish units capture the strategically important town of Falaise, France.
- 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 8, 1944 – World War II: London is hit by a V2 rocket for the first time.
- October 13, 1944 – World War II: Riga, the capital of Latvia is occupied by the Red Army.
- 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 23, 1944 – World War II: The Soviet Red Army enters Hungary.
- October 24, 1944 – World War II: The Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku, and the battleship Musashi are sunk in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
- October 29, 1944 – The city of Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.
- November 16, 1944 – Dueren, Germany is destroyed by Allied bombers.
- November 19, 1944 – World War II: Thirty members of the Luxembourgish resistance defend the town of Vianden against a larger Waffen-SS attack in the Battle of Vianden.
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