Page 18: Historical Events In 1944

Oct 08   Wendell Lewis Wilkie, Republican politician, dies at 52.   

Oct 09   British PM Winston Churchill arrives in Russia for talks with Stalin.   

Oct 10   Adm Halsey's Task Force 30 bombs Okinawa, 700 die.   

Oct 11   Allies bomb sea wall at Veere.   

Oct 12   700 Riot Police are called in to restore order at Frank Sinatra Columbus Day appearance in New York City's Paramount Theater   

Oct 12   German army retreats from Athens   

Oct 13   Riga Latvia freed   

Oct 13   US inaugural army begins battle of Aachen   

Oct 14   Allied troops land in Corfu   

Oct 14   Erwin Rommel, German fieldmarshal (WW II-Africa), suicide at 52.   

Oct 14   German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commits suicide rather than face trial for his part in an attempt to overthrow Hitler.   

Oct 15   Philip Mechanicus, journalist, executed in Auschwitz-Birkenau   

Oct 15   The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler's NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes over the power in Hungary   

Oct 16   Eric Westberg, composer, dies at 52   

Oct 16   Hungary: Horthy govt falls/nazi count Szalasi is recorded as becoming premier   

Oct 17   Pavel Haas, composer, dies at 45.   

Oct 18   Eisenhower, Bradley and Montgomery confer in Brussel   

Oct 18   Hitler orders the establishment of "Volkssturm." Boys between fifteen and eighteen and men between fifty and sixty are drafted into service. The Nazis have to mobilize replacements for 500000 men   

Oct 18   Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia during WW II   

Oct 19   British premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Moscow.   

Oct 19   US forces land in Philipines   

Oct 20   30 blocks of Cleveland Ohio burn after a liquid gas factory explodes   

Oct 20   Gabriel Groulez, composer, dies at 65   

Oct 20   General Douglas MacArthur keeps his famous promise and returns to the Philippines.   

Oct 20   Liquid-gas tanks in Cleveland, Ohio explode, 135 die, 3600 homeless.   

Oct 20   Revolution by workers and students in Guatemala.   

Oct 21   Canadian troops occupy Breskens.   

Oct 21   In this year, Prv. Ernest Alva Smith (The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada) claims the Victoria Cross at the Savio River, Italy.   

Oct 21   US troops capture Aachen, inaugural large German city to fall   

Oct 22   Kurita's vice-admiral fleet leaves North-Borneo.   

Oct 23   1st Central Kitchen opens in Amsterdam   

Oct 23   Hana Brady, Holocaust victim   

Oct 23   Soviet army invades Hungary   

Oct 23   The largest naval battle in the history of warfare was fought near Leyte Gulf in the Philippines on Oct 23-26, 1944   

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Jan 02   Peter eotvos: Composer   

Jan 02   Prince norodom ranariddh: Cambodian politician   

Jan 03   Christina von saltza: Us, swimmer (olympic-3 gold/silver-1960)   

Jan 03   David atherton: English conductor   

Jan 03   Blanche d'alpuget: Australian novelist, biographer and second wife of bob hawke   

Jan 04   Volker hornback: Rocker (tangerine dream)   

Jan 05   Felix arons: Dutch director/actor (waaldrecht)   

Jan 05   Tommie smith: Us, 200m dash (olympic-gold-1968) [or jun 5]   

Jan 01   C t b turner: Cricket (17 tests 1886-95, 101 wkt all time great),   

Jan 03   Jurgis baltrušaitis: Lithuanian poet (b. 1873)   

Jan 04   Henri "hans" flu: Indonesian/dutch family doctor/antifascist, murder   

Jan 05   Adolph goldschmidt: German/swiss art historian,   

Jan 06   Ida tarbell: American journalist (b. 1857)   

Jan 07   J verleun: Dutch resistance fighter, executed   

Jan 08   William kissam vanderbilt ii: Member of the vanderbilt family (b. 1878)   

Jan 11   Galeazzo count of cortellazzo ciano: Italian politician,