Page 21: Historical Events In 1944

Nov 24   US bombers based on Saipan, inaugural attack Tokyo   

Nov 25   32nd CFL Grey Cup: Montreal HMCS defeat Hamilton Flying Wildcats, 7-6.   

Nov 25   A German V-2 missile hit a Woolworth's department store in New Cross Road, Deptford, killing 160 midday shoppers. The V-2 was a recent innovation in German ammunition   

Nov 25   Kenesaw Mountain Landis, judge/baseball commisioner, dies at 78   

Nov 26   1st allied marines move onto Antwerp harbor   

Nov 27   3500-4000 ton explosive, explodes in Staffordshire, 68 killed   

Nov 28   1st allied ship sails into Schelde Antwerp.   

Nov 28   Bijnen, Dutch opposition leader (LKP), shot to death in Apeldoorn.   

Nov 29   Albania liberated from Nazi control (National Day).   

Nov 29   Albania liberated from Nazi control (Natl Day).   

Nov 29   John Hopkins hospital performs inaugural open heart surgery   

Nov 30   Biggest and last British Battleship HMS Vanguard runs aground   

Nov 30   Max Halbe, writer, dies at 79.   

Dec 01   Béla Bartòk's Concerto for orchestra, premieres.   

Dec 02   10th Heisman Trophy Award: Les Horvath, Ohio State (QB).   

Dec 02   Filippo T Marinetti, Italian writer (father of futurism), dies at 67   

Dec 03   British order to disarm, leads to general strike in Greece.   

Dec 03   Civil War breaks out in Greece.   

Dec 03   Delfien Vanhaute, Flemish pastor/poet (Ark of Noah), dies at 75   

Dec 03   In this year, Civil War starts in Athens Greece   

Dec 04   Germans destroy Rhine dikes, Betuwe flooded   

Dec 04   USS Flasher (SS-249) sinks Japanese destroyer Kishinami and damages a merchant ship in South China Sea. Flasher is only U.S. submarine to sink over 100000 tons of enemy shipping in World War II.   

Dec 05   German troops rob all the silver coin in Utrecht   

Dec 06   US 95th Infantry division reaches Westwall.   

Dec 07   Convention on International Civil Aviation drawn up in Chicago.   

Dec 09   Laird Cregar, actor (Charley's Aunt, Hangover Square), dies at 28.   

Dec 10   9 Dutch citizens hanged by nazis   

Dec 11   Surprise attack on House of Keeping Axe, 29 prisoners freed.   

Dec 12   Three Evacuation Squadrons (VE) were established in the Pacific from Air Sea Rescue Squadron.   

Dec 13   Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, results in the deaths of 138.   

Dec 13   Lupe Velez, actress (Joe Palooka), overdoses on seconal at 34.   

Dec 14   Begin(ning) Liese-Aktion: werving of labor force for Germany   

Dec 14   Congress establishes rank of General of the Army (5-star general)   

Dec 15   A single-engine plane carrying bandleader Glenn Miller vanishes over the English Channel while en route to Paris.   

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Jan 02   In the year 1944 birth of peter Eotvos, composer   

Jan 02   Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Cambodian politician was born in the year 1944.   

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

Jan 03   David Atherton, English conductor was born on this day in history.   

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

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

Jan 05   Felix Arons, Dutch director/actor (Waaldrecht) was born on this day in history.   

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   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 in the year 1944.   

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

Jan 06   On this day in history death of ida Tarbell, American journalist (b. 1857)   

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

Jan 08   William Kissam Vanderbilt II, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1878) died on this day in history.   

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