Hisdates•ComHistorical Events In 1944
Thursday, 13 August 2020
Jan 01 C T B Turner, cricket (17 Tests 1886-95, 101 wkt All time great), dies in the year 1944. 
Jan 01 General Clark replaces General Patton as commander of 7th Army on this day in history.
Jan 01 The first feature-length foreign movie, African Journey, shown on TV, New York City NY in the year 1944.
Jan 02 On this day in history 1st use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol)
Jan 02 First use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol) on this day in history.
Jan 03 On this day in history helicopter Mercy Mission a HNS-1 helicopter, made an emergency delivery of 40 units of blood plasma from lower Manhattan Island to Sandy Hook where the plasma was administered to survivors of an explosion on the destroyer Turner (DD 648)
Jan 03 Top Marine ace MAJ Boyington captured after shooting down 28 aircraft in the year 1944.
Jan 03 On this day in history world War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero.
Jan 04 In the year 1944 henri "Hans" Flu, Indonesian/Dutch family doctor/antifascist, murder
Jan 04 Ralph Bunche appointed 1st Negro official in US State Department in the year 1944.
Jan 04 On this day in history ralph Bunche appointed first Negro official in US State Department
Jan 05 Adolph Goldschmidt, German/Swiss art historian, dies at 80 in the year 1944.
Jan 05 On this day in history the Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
Jan 07 On this day in history air Force announces production of 1st US jet fighter, the Bell P-59
Jan 07 Air Force announces production of first US jet fighter, the Bell P-59 in the year 1944.
Jan 07 On this day in history j Verleun, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
Jan 10 1st mobile electric power plant delivered, Phila in the year 1944.
Jan 10 On this day in history british troops conquer Maungdaw, Burma
Jan 11 On this day in history aircraft from USS Block Island make first aircraft rocket attack on German submarine
Jan 11 In the year 1944 crakow-Plaszow Concentration Camp established
Jan 11 Galeazzo count of Cortellazzo Ciano, Italian politician, dies on this day in history.
Jan 12 Churchill & de Gaulle begin a 2-day wartime conference in Marrakesh in the year 1944.
Jan 12 On this day in history churchill &de Gaulle begin a 2-day wartime conference in Marrakesh
Jan 12 On this day in history failed resistance raid on distribution office of Borgerstraat Amsterdam
Jan 14 On this day in history mohammed Emin Yurdakul, Turkish poet, dies at about 74
Jan 14 On this day in history soviet army begins offensive at Oranienbaum/Wolchow
Jan 15 European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany in the year 1944.
Jan 15 General Eisenhower arrives in England in the year 1944.
Jan 15 In Argentina a 7.8 earthquake resulted in 5000 deaths on this day in history.
Jan 15 Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell, 10 die in the year 1944.
Jan 16 On this day in history gen Eisenhower took command of Allied Invasion Force in London
Jan 16 Gen. Dwight Eisenhower arrived in London to assume command of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe in the year 1944.
Jan 16 In the year 1944 general Eisenhower took command of Allied Invasion Force in London
Jan 16 In London, General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes commander of the Allied Invasion Force, during WWII in the year 1944.
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