Page 6: Historical Events In 1944

Mar 27   2000 Jews are murdered in Kaunas Lithuania.   

Mar 27   40 Jewish policemen in Riga Latvia ghetto are shot by the gestapo   

Mar 27   Children's Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno.   

Mar 28   6th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Utah defeats Dartmouth 42-40.   

Mar 28   Chayyim Most, Rabbi/Maggid of Kovono, killed by nazis   

Mar 29   Vangelis, Greek musician is born.   

Mar 30   781 British bombers attack Neurenberg   

Mar 30   inaugural use of torpedo squadrons from carriers to drop aerial mines (Palau Harbor).   

Mar 31   Hungary orders all Jews to wear yellow stars   

Mar 31   Mineichi Koga, admiral of Japanese fleet, dies   

Apr 01   German Abwehr ends England spiel, after 132 killed.   

Apr 02   CPI-leader Palmiro Togliatti returns to Italy   

Apr 02   Mikulas Moyzes, composer, dies at 71.   

Apr 03   British dive bombers attack battle cruiser Tirpitz.   

Apr 03   Supreme Court (Smith v Allwright) "white primaries" unconstitutional   

Apr 03   Supreme Court, in "Smith v Allwright", declares "white primaries" unconstitutional.   

Apr 04   British troops capture Addis Ababa Ethiopia   

Apr 04   De Gaulle forms new regime in exile, with communists   

Apr 04   John Peale Bishop, US poet (Undertaker's Garland), dies at 51   

Apr 05   140 Lancasters bomb airplane manufacturer in Toulouse   

Apr 05   Isolde Kurz, German writer/poetess (Meine Mutter), dies at 90.   

Apr 06   Jewish nursery at Izieu-Ain France overrun by Nazis   

Apr 07   General Montgomery speaks to generals about invastion plan.   

Apr 09   Boleslaw Wallek-Walewski, composer, dies at 59   

Apr 09   In this year, Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientals Ecclesiae   

Apr 10   "Patrolling the Ether" is shown on 3 TV stations simultaneously.   

Apr 11   RAF bombs census bureau in The Hague   

Apr 12   Lillian Hellman's "Searching Wind," premieres in NYC   

Apr 13   Cecile Chaminade, composer, dies at 86   

Apr 13   Mont Canadiens sweep Chicago Black Hawks for the Stanley Cup   

Apr 13   SC rejects black suffrage   

Apr 14   1st Jews transported from Athens arrive at Auschwitz   

Apr 14   Freighter "Fort Stikene" explodes in Bombay India, killing 900.   

Apr 17   J T Hearne, cricketer (took 49 wkts in 12 Tests for England), dies   

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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,