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In the Ordinance of 9 August 1944, the French Provisional Government restored the Republic and the rule of law in metropolitan France and nullified the laws of the Vichy regime. The Preston Sturges-directed satirical comedy-drama film Hail the Conquering Hero starring Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines and William Demarest was released.
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1944 Liberation from Nazi Germany Guam: July 21: 1944 Liberation from Japan [3] [4] [5] Liberation Day Guernsey (Channel Islands) May 9: 1945 Liberation from Nazi Germany [6] Liberation Day Hungary: April 4: 1945 Siege of Budapest, celebrated between 1950 and 1989 (no longer a holiday as of 1990) Liberation Day Hong Kong: Last Monday in August ...
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August 6 – USS Bennington is commissioned. August 7 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled computer, the electromechanical Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I). August 9 – The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
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