Historical Events In 1944

Jul 14   Attempt to liberate prisoners in Amsterdam fails, John Post arrested on this day in history.  

Jul 15   Greenwich Observatory damaged by WW II flying bomb on this day in history.  

Jul 16   Dodgers score 8 unearned runs against Braves to win 8-5 & break their 16-game losing streak, they will lose another 5 in a row in the year 1944.  

Jul 16   On this day in history john Post, Dutch farmer/resistance fighter (passage fight), executed  

Jul 17   In the year 1944 2 ammunition ships explodes at Port Chicago, California kills 322  

Jul 17   In the year 1944 hugh Rigby, English portrait painter (King George V 1928-32), dies  

Jul 18   In the year 1944 7:45 Operation-Goodwood: British assault east of Caen  

Jul 18   George A Hartland, English MP (Norwich 1931-35), dies at 60 on this day in history.  

Jul 19   1,200+ 8th Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany in the year 1944.  

Jul 19   On this day in history carl Bock, Danish Gestapo agent, liquidated  

Jul 20   Abortive attempt on Hitler's life by a group of Nazi officers on this day in history.  

Jul 20   Arthur J Treadwell, English mayor of Stoke Newington, dies at about 71 in the year 1944.  

Jul 20   Brit/Canadian troops occupy Hill 67/Ifs/Bras/Frenouville, Normandy on this day in history.  

Jul 20   In the year 1944 pres FDR nominated for an unprecedented 4th term at Dem convention  

Jul 20   In the year 1944 uS invades Japanese-occupied Guam in WW II  

Jul 20   In the year 1944 von Stauffenberg fails on an attempt on Hitler's life  

Jul 21   In the year 1944 american marines capture the western Pacific island of Guam  

Jul 21   On this day in history british premier Winston Churchill flies to France, meets Montgomery  

Jul 21   Gerrit van den Bosch, led illegal Dutch CPN party, dies in Dachau on this day in history.  

Jul 21   On this day in history invasion and recapture of Guam begins.  

Jul 21   In the year 1944 uS forces free Guam of Japanese invaders  

Jul 22   On this day in history soviets set up Polish Committee of National Liberation  

Jul 23   Bernard M Cohen, attorney, killed at Belsen concentration camp in the year 1944.  

Jul 23   In the year 1944 chicago Cubs Bill Nicholson hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader  

Jul 23   In the year 1944 uS forces invade Japanese-held Tinian in WW II  

Jul 24   In the year 1944 300 allied bombers drop fire bombs on Allied/German positions  

Jul 24   On this day in history following 43 days of naval gunfire and air bombardment, Naval Task Force lands Marines on Tinian.  

Jul 24   Jan Postma, leader of illegal Dutch party (CPN), executed at 49 on this day in history.  

Jul 24   In the year 1944 russians liberate the Majdanek extermination camp.  

Jul 25   In the year 1944 -26] Japanse banzai-attack on Guam  

Jul 25   Lesley J McNair, US lt-general, killed by US bomb at St-Lo on this day in history.  

Jul 25   The breakout from the Normandy beaches begins in the year 1944.  

Jul 25   On this day in history the first jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262)  

Jul 26   In the year 1944 japanese suicide attack on US lines in Guam  

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Jan 02   Peter Eotvos, composer was born in the year 1944.  

Jan 02   Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Cambodian politician was born on this day in history.  

Jan 03   Christina von Saltza, US, swimmer (Olympic-3 gold/silver-1960) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 03   In the year 1944 birth of david Atherton, English conductor  

Jan 03   In the year 1944 birth of blanche d'Alpuget, Australian novelist, biographer and second wife of Bob Hawke  

Jan 04   On this day in history birth of volker Hornback, rocker (Tangerine Dream)  

Jan 05   In the year 1944 birth of felix Arons, Dutch director/actor (Waaldrecht)  

Jan 05   Tommie Smith, US, 200m dash (Olympic-gold-1968) [or Jun 5] was born on this day in history.  

Jan 01   On this day in history c T B Turner, cricket (17 Tests 1886-95, 101 wkt All time great), dies  

Jan 03   Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1873) died in the year 1944.  

Jan 04   Henri "Hans" Flu, Indonesian/Dutch family doctor/antifascist, murder died in the year 1944.  

Jan 05   Adolph Goldschmidt, German/Swiss art historian, dies at 80 in the year 1944.  

Jan 06   Ida Tarbell, American journalist (b. 1857) died on this day in history.  

Jan 07   J Verleun, Dutch resistance fighter, executed died on this day in history.  

Jan 08   On this day in history death of william Kissam Vanderbilt II, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1878)  

Jan 11   Galeazzo count of Cortellazzo Ciano, Italian politician, dies on this day in history.