1944
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Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
Decades: | 1910s 1920s 1930s – 1940s – 1950s 1960s 1970s |
Years: | 1941 1942 1943 – 1944 – 1945 1946 1947 |
1944 by topic |
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Gregorian calendar | 1944 MCMXLIV |
Ab urbe condita | 2697 |
Armenian calendar | 1393 ԹՎ ՌՅՂԳ |
Assyrian calendar | 6694 |
Bahá'í calendar | 100–101 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1865–1866 |
Bengali calendar | 1351 |
Berber calendar | 2894 |
British Regnal year | 8 Geo. 6 – 9 Geo. 6 |
Buddhist calendar | 2488 |
Burmese calendar | 1306 |
Byzantine calendar | 7452–7453 |
Chinese calendar | 癸未年 (Water Goat) 4640 or 4580 — to — 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 4641 or 4581 |
Coptic calendar | 1660–1661 |
Discordian calendar | 3110 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1936–1937 |
Hebrew calendar | 5704–5705 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 2000–2001 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1865–1866 |
- Kali Yuga | 5044–5045 |
Holocene calendar | 11944 |
Igbo calendar | 944–945 |
Iranian calendar | 1322–1323 |
Islamic calendar | 1363–1364 |
Japanese calendar | Shōwa 19 (昭和19年) |
Javanese calendar | 1874–1875 |
Juche calendar | 33 |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
Korean calendar | 4277 |
Minguo calendar | ROC 33 民國33年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | 476 |
Thai solar calendar | 2487 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴水羊年 (female Water-Goat) 2070 or 1689 or 917 — to — 阳木猴年 (male Wood-Monkey) 2071 or 1690 or 918 |

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1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday in the Gregorian calendar.
Events
[change | change source]- January 4 – The Battle of Monte Cassino begins.
- January 5 – Murder of Danish playwright Kaj Munk
- January 17 – British forces, in Italy, cross the Garigliano River.
- January 17 – Meat Rationing ends in Australia
- January 20 – 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 – Allies begin Operation Shingle, the assault on Anzio, Italy. The U.S. Army 45th Infantry Division stand their ground at Anzio against violent assaults for 4 months.
- January 27 – The two year Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
- January 29 – The Battle of Cisterna takes place.
- January 30 – United States troops invade Majuro, Marshall Islands.
- January 31 – American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
Births
[change | change source]- January 9 - Jimmy Page, English guitarist (Led Zeppelin)
- February 23 – Johnny Winter
- March 1 - Roger Daltrey, English singer (The Who)
- March 28 – Ken Howard (d. 2016)
- April 7 – Gerhard Schröder
- April 9 – Leila Khaled
- May 8 – Gary Glitter
- May 14 – George Lucas
- May 19 – Peter Mayhew (d. 2019)
- June 4 - Michelle Phillips, American singer and musician (The Mamas & the Papas)
- July 13 – Ernő Rubik
- July 19 - Tim McIntire (d. 1986)
- August 21 - Peter Weir, Australian director
- September 10 – Judit Pogány, Hungarian actress
- September 18 - Veronica Carlson, British actor (d. 2022)
- October 9 - John Entwistle, English bass guitarist (The Who) (d. 2002)
- October 24 – Ray Downs
- November 2 - Michael Buffer, American ring announcer
- November 2 - Keith Emerson, English keyboardist (Emerson, Lake & Palmer) (d. 2016)
- November 10 - Sir Tim Rice, English lyricist
- November 25 – Ben Stein
Deaths
[change | change source]- 7 January 1944 – Lou Henry Hoover, First Lady of the United States
- 21 July 1944 – Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, German army officer
- 14 October 1944 – Erwin Rommel, German army officer
- 26 October 1944 Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom Princess Henry of Battenberg youngest daughter and youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe - Coburg and Gotha
New books
[change | change source]- An American Dilemma – Gunnar Myrdal
- Au rendez-vous allemand – (To the German Rendezvous) – Paul Éluard
- A Bell for Adano – John Hersey
- Beyond the Palisade (poetry) – James K. Baxter
- The Book of Imaginary Beings – Jorge Luis Borges
- Book of Naturalists – Charles William Beebe
- The Case of Mrs. Wingate – Oscar Micheaux
- Dangling Man – Saul Bellow
- The Dawn Appears – Annie Greene Nelson
- Friday's Child – Georgette Heyer
- The Golden Fleece – Robert von Ranke Graves
- The Horse's Mouth – Joyce Cary
- Johnny Tremain – Esther Forbes
- The Lost Weekend – Charles R. Jackson
- Our Lady of the Flowers – Jean Genet
- The Razor's Edge – W. Somerset Maugham
- The Tall Book of Nursery Tales – Feodor Rojankovsky
- Terras do Sem Fim (The Violent Land) – Jorge Amado
- Thou That Dwellest in the Gardens – Hayyim Hazaz
- Two Frontiers (poetry) – Edwin James Bradley
Nobel prizes
[change | change source]- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Joseph Erlanger, American doctor, (1874-1965), and Herbert Gasser, American doctor (1888-1963)