Historical Events In 1944

Oct 30   Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring," premieres in Wash DC in the year 1944.  

Oct 30   Anne Frank (of Diary fame) is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen on this day in history.  

Oct 30   On this day in history paul Emile Ladmirault, composer, dies at 66  

Oct 31   Chief of staff Kruls names De Quay chairman of Universal Commission on this day in history.  

Nov 01   In the year 1944 final mass gassing at Auschwitz, 73 women are murdered. The remainder of the prisoners, approximately 2,300, are deported to Ravensbruck and Bergen-Belsen to meet the growing slave labor demand.  

Nov 02   Auschwitz begins gassing inmates in the year 1944.  

Nov 03   Allied commando's lands at Westkapelle Walcheren on this day in history.  

Nov 04   In the year 1944 german troops reconquer Schmidt Hurtgenwald  

Nov 05   Allied troops reach Zoutelande Walcheren in the year 1944.  

Nov 06   Bill Henderson, Vancouver BC, rock vocalist/guitarist (Chilliwack) in the year 1944.  

Nov 06   Hannah Senesh, Jewish poetess, executed by Nazis in Budapest on this day in history.  

Nov 06   On this day in history recognition of the future importance of turbojet and turboprop powerplants led the Bureau of Aeronautics to request the Naval Air Material Center to study requirements for a laboratory to develop and test gas-turbine powerplants  

Nov 07   FDR wins 4th term in office, defeating Thomas E Dewey (R) in the year 1944.  

Nov 07   Franklin D.Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President in the year 1944.  

Nov 07   In the year 1944 richard Sorge & Ozaki, spies, hanged in Tokyo  

Nov 08   On this day in history 25,000 Hungarian Jews are loaned to Nazis for forced labor  

Nov 08   25,000 Hungarian Jews are loaned to the Nazis for forced labor in the year 1944.  

Nov 08   Roosevelt wins the U.S. Presidency for a fourth term. Democrats gain in the House in the year 1944.  

Nov 08   In the year 1944 walter Nowotny, German combat/jet fighter pilot, dies  

Nov 09   Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize in the year 1944.  

Nov 10   In the year 1944 german riots in Rotterdam/Schiedam 52,000 men sent to Germany  

Nov 12   Edgar Stillman Kelley, US composer (Gulliver), dies at 87 on this day in history.  

Nov 12   In the year 1944 rAF sink German battleship "Tirpitz" at Tromso Fjord Norway  

Nov 12   On this day in history the German battleship Tirpitz is sunk off the Norwegian coast.  

Nov 13   In the year 1944 paul Graener, composer, dies at 72  

Nov 15   In the year 1944 government approves sending members of the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) to New Guinea to replace men for service in forward areas Members of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) and the Australian Army Medical Women's Service (AAMWS) were already serving in New Guinea  

Nov 15   In the year 1944 maarten Reuchlin, resistance fighter, executed  

Nov 15   In the year 1944 surprise attack on office of Nethche Bank  

Nov 16   Charles Kellaway, cricketer (26 Tests 1910-1928), dies on this day in history.  

Nov 16   On this day in history uS 9th division & 1st Army attacks at Geilenkirchen  

Nov 17   In the year 1944 -Nov 19] Nazi raids in Dutch NE Polder  

Nov 17   In the year 1944 a C MacLaren, cricketer (England batsman from turn of century), dies  

Nov 19   World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling $14 billion USD in war bonds to help pay for the war effort in the year 1944.  

Nov 20   1st Japanse suicide submarine attack (Ulithi Atol, Carolines) in the year 1944.  

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Jan 02   On this day in history birth of peter Eotvos, composer  

Jan 02   In the year 1944 birth of prince Norodom Ranariddh, Cambodian politician  

Jan 03   In the year 1944 birth of christina von Saltza, US, swimmer (Olympic-3 gold/silver-1960)  

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of david Atherton, English conductor  

Jan 03   Blanche d'Alpuget, Australian novelist, biographer and second wife of Bob Hawke was born in the year 1944.  

Jan 04   Volker Hornback, rocker (Tangerine Dream) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 05   Felix Arons, Dutch director/actor (Waaldrecht) was born in the year 1944.  

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

Jan 01   In the year 1944 c T B Turner, cricket (17 Tests 1886-95, 101 wkt All time great), dies  

Jan 03   In the year 1944 death of jurgis BaltruÅ¡aitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1873)  

Jan 04   Henri "Hans" Flu, Indonesian/Dutch family doctor/antifascist, murder died on this day in history.  

Jan 05   Adolph Goldschmidt, German/Swiss art historian, dies at 80 on this day in history.  

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

Jan 07   J Verleun, Dutch resistance fighter, executed died in the year 1944.  

Jan 08   In the year 1944 death of william Kissam Vanderbilt II, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1878)  

Jan 11   In the year 1944 galeazzo count of Cortellazzo Ciano, Italian politician, dies