Page 6: Historical Events In 1944

Mar 26   705 British bombers attack Essen   

Mar 26   Diana Ross, American singer is born.   

Mar 27   1000 Jews leave Drancy France for Auschwitz Concentration Camp.   

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.   

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

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

Jan 03   Christina von Saltza, US, swimmer (Olympic-3 gold/silver-1960) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   In the year 1944 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   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   On this day in history birth of tommie Smith, US, 200m dash (Olympic-gold-1968) [or Jun 5]   

Jan 01   On this day in history c T B Turner, cricket (17 Tests 1886-95, 101 wkt All time great), dies   

Jan 03   Jurgis BaltruÅ¡aitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1873) died in the year 1944.   

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   In the year 1944 death of ida Tarbell, American journalist (b. 1857)   

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

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 in the year 1944.