1944 United States presidential election: Franklin D. Roosevelt wins reelection over Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey, becoming the only U.S. president elected to a fourth term. Election day rail accident in Puerto Rico : A passenger train derails at Aguadilla due to excessive speed on a downgrade; 16 are killed, 50 injured.
30 ott 2013 · As a result of internal disagreement and in the face of resistance from the prisoners, the SS postpones the liquidation of the family camp until August 1944. June 6On this day known as D-Day, British and American troops launch an invasion of France.
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Europe witnessed the wrath of the German war machine with devastating effects. Most of mainland and western Europe had fallen before the might of the German troops and only the Soviet troops were fighting back in the eastern front. The one country that was holding back any possible German attack was Great Britain. Despite the incisive aerial attack...
People from various walks of life were born in 1944. Did you know that the erstwhile secretary-general of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, was born in 1944? From politics, we shall move on t music and entertainment and tell you that the co-creator and producer of the Star Wars movie franchise, George Lucas, was born this year. So were musicians...
D-Day was seen as a turning point of the war. It was given the code name ‘Operation Overlord’. During much of the Second World War, military intelligence departments devised code names for their operations to evade the chance of getting their plans leaked in case spies were within earshot. A plan of such magnitude, that of recapturing Europe from t...
As the war in Europe and the Pacific raged on, back in the United States people were still going for their regular dose of entertainment. The singer Bing Crosby was the undisputed heartthrob of the nation in 1944. His records were selling like hotcakes all around the country. In Hollywood, leading actors and actresses such as James Stewart, Humphre...
The D-Day assault was not the only reason for Allied victory in the war. But it was certainly the beginning of the end for Germany. As thousands of allied troops entered France from its north, Italy and southern France was being liberated simultaneously. On the eastern sector of the war in Europe, the Soviet forces of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin we...
22 giu 2012 · What Events Happened in 1944 World War II 1944 France D-Day. Operation Overlord, code named D-Day, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. Paris is liberated from Nazi occupation August 25. More Information and Timeline for the Liberation of France. 1.
9 nov 2016 · Historical Events for the Year 1944 3rd January » World War II: Top Ace Major Pappy Boyington or Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Vought F4U... 4th January » World War II: Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters... 5th January » The 'Daily ...
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