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Year 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents:

1. Events of 1944
   • -  Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April
   • -  May ^. June ^. July  ^.  Aug.
   • -  Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^.  Dec.
   • -  Undated ^. Ongoing
2. Births
3. Deaths
4. Nobel prizes
5. Ship events
6. See also -  Notes -  External links

Events of 1944

WWII begins on September 1, 1939 after Germany invades Poland.

(Below, events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.)

January

• January 4 - WWII: The Battle of Monte Cassino begins.
• January 5 - The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
• January 8 - Philippine Commonwealth troops enter the province of Ilocos Sur in Northern Luzon and attack Japanese forces.
• January 14 - WWII: Soviet troops start the offensive at Leningrad and Novgorod.
• January 15 - WWII: The 27th Polish Home Army Infantry Division is re-created, marking the start of Operation Tempest by the Polish Home Army.
• January 15 - An earthquake hits San Juan, Argentina, killing an estimated 10,000 people in the worst natural disaster in Argentina's history.
• January 17 - WWII:
  • British forces in Italy cross the Garigliano River.
  • Meat rationing ends in Australia.
  • The Soviet Union ceases production of the Mosin-Nagant 1891/30 sniper rifle.
• January 20 - WWII:
  • The Royal Air Force drops 2,300 tons of bombs on Berlin.
  • The U.S. Army 36th Infantry Division, in Italy, attempts to cross the Rapido River.
• January 22 - WWII - Operation Shingle: The Allies begin the assault on Anzio, Italy. The U.S. Army 45th Infantry Division stands their ground at Anzio against violent assaults for 4 months.
• January 27 - WWII: The 2-year Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
• January 29 - WWII: The Battle of Cisterna takes place.
• January 30 - WWII: United States troops invade Majuro, Marshall Islands.
• January 31 - WWII: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.

February

• February 1 - WWII: United States troops land in the Marshall Islands.
• February 2 - The first issue of Human Events is published.
• February 3 - WWII: United States troops capture the Marshall Islands.
• February 7 - WWII: In Anzio, Italian forces launch a counteroffensive.
• February 14 - WWII:
  • SHAEF headquarters is established in Britain by General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
  • An anti-Japanese revolt breaks out on Java.
• February 15 - WWII - Battle of Monte Cassino: The monastery atop Monte Cassino is destroyed by Allied bombing.
• February 17 - WWII: The Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins; it ends in an American victory on February 22.
• February 20 - WWII:
  • The "Big Week" begins with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
  • The United States takes Eniwetok Island.
• February 23 - WWII: The Chechens and Ingush are forcibly deported to Central Asia.
• February 26 - Shooting begins on the Nazi propaganda film, "The Fuehrer Gives a Village to the Jews" in Theresienstadt.
• February 29 - WWII - Battle of Los Negros and Operation Brewer: The Admiralty Islands are invaded by U.S. forces.

March

• March - WWII: The Japanese launch an offensive in central and south China.
• March 1 - WWII:
  • The USS Tarawa and USS Kearsarge are laid down.
  • An anti-fascist strike begins in northern Italy.
• March 2 - WWII: A train stalls inside a railway tunnel outside Salerno, Italy; 521 choke to death.
• March 2 - The 16th Academy Awards ceremony is held.
• March 3 - WWII: The Order of Nakhimov and the Order of Ushakov are instituted in the USSR.
• March 4 - In Ossining, New York, Louis Buchalter, the leader of 1930s crime syndicate Murder, Inc., is executed at Sing Sing, along with Emanuel "Mendy" Weiss, and Louis Capone.
• March 6 - WWII: Soviet Army planes attack Narva, Estonia, destroying almost the entire old town.
• March 9 - WWII: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia.
• March 10 - WWII: In Britain the Education Act lifts the ban on women teachers marrying.
• March 12 - WWII: The Political Committee of National Liberation is created in Greece.
• March 15 - WWII:
  • Battle of Monte Cassino: Allied aircraft bomb German-held monastery and stage an assault.
  • The National Council of the French Resistance approves the Resistance programme.
• March 17 - WWII: The Nazis assassinate almost 400 prisoners, Soviet citizens and anti-fascist Romanians at Rîbniţa.
• March 19 - WWII: German forces occupy Hungary.
• March 18 - The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26 and causes thousands to flee their homes.
• March 20 - WWII: RAF Flight Sergeant Nicholas Alkemade's bomber is hit over Germany, and he has to bail out without a parachute from a height of over 4,000 meters. Tree branches interrupt his fall and he lands safely on deep snow.
• March 23 - WWII: Members of the Italian Resistance attack Nazis marching in Via Rasella, killing 33.
• March 24 - WWII:
  • Fosse Ardeatine massacre: 335 Italians are killed, including 75 Jews and over 200 members of the Italian Resistance from various groups, in Rome.
  • In the Polish village of Markowa, German police kill Józef and Wiktoria Ulm, their 6 children and 8 Jews they were hiding.