Page 22: Historical Events In 1944

Dec 15   Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over English Channel.   

Dec 15   Glenn Miller presumed dead after his plane disappeared over the English Channel   

Dec 15   Glenn Miller, US band leader/jazz composer, dies at 40.   

Dec 16   Battle of Bulge begins in Belgium   

Dec 16   Battle of the Bulge begins in Belgium   

Dec 16   Germans begin Battle of the Bulge to strike back at U.S. troops   

Dec 16   Glenn Miller, US jazz composer/orch leader (Danny boy), dies at 40.   

Dec 16   The Battle of the Bulge begins in WWII as Germany launches a surprise counter-attack against Allied forces in Belgium.   

Dec 17   Green Bay Packers win NFL championship   

Dec 17   Japanese-Americans released from detention camps   

Dec 17   Pieter A Roodenburgh, student/resistance fighter, dies at 26   

Dec 17   US Army announces end of excluding Japanese-Americans from West Coast.   

Dec 18   Destroyers "Hull," "Spence" and "Monaghan" sink in typhoon (Philippines)   

Dec 18   Destroyers "Hull," "Spence" and "Monaghan" sink in typhoon (Phillippines)   

Dec 20   Abbas Hilmi II, viceroy of Egypt (1892-1914), dies at 70.   

Dec 20   Archbishop De Young and bishop Huibers condemn black market   

Dec 20   Battle of Bastogne, Nazis surround 101st Airborne (NUTS!).   

Dec 21   In this year, Cards' Marty Marion claims NL MVP   

Dec 22   Antoine Mariotte, composer, dies on 69th birthday.   

Dec 22   Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium.   

Dec 23   Beginning of harsh winter   

Dec 23   HMCS Clayoquot (Minesweeper) torpedoed off Halifax.   

Dec 24   Joseph Gustav Mraczek, composer, dies at 66   

Dec 25   Canadian Army captures Adriatic coast city of Ravenna, Italy.   

Dec 26   Battle of Bastogne-US Gen Patton's 4th Pantzers repulse Germans   

Dec 26   Battle of Bastogne-US troops repulse the Germans   

Dec 27   Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, composer, dies at 77.   

Dec 27   Greece: British premier Churchill flies back to London.   

Dec 28   Eisenhower and Montgomery meet in Hasselt Belgium   

Dec 28   The Broadway musical On the Town opens in New York City.   

Dec 29   Belgian nazi Leon Degrelle at default to the death sentenced   

Dec 29   Over France RCAF Flight Lt. Dick Audet destroys five German planes in ten minutes.   

Dec 29   Rodney Redmond, NZ cricket (opener scored century in Test v Pak 1973).   

Dec 30   King George II of Greece, abdicates his throne   

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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,