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Year 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. Many of the events that happened in the year were related to World War II.

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

(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 – WWII: Philippine Commonwealth troops enter the province of Ilocos Sur in Northern Luzon and attack Japanese forces.
• January 11, US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt proposes a Second Bill of Rights for social and economic security in his State of the Union address
• 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.
  • 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.
• 22 February – United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe organized from the Eighth Air Force's strategic planning staff; subsuming strategic planning for all US Army Air Forces in Europe and Africa.
• 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