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1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1944th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 944th year of the 2nd millennium, the 44th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1940s decade.
U.S. presidential election, 1944: Franklin D. Roosevelt wins reelection over Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey, becoming the only U.S. president elected to a fourth term. A passenger train derails in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, due to excessive speed on a declining hill; 16 are killed, 50 injured. November 26 – USS Bon Homme Richard is ...
This is a timeline of events that occurred during 1944 in World War II. January. January 1944. 1st: 15th:
The 1944 Summer Olympics, scheduled for London, are not held due to World War II. 3 August – the Education Act , promoted by Rab Butler , creates a Tripartite System of secondary education in England and Wales with Secondary Modern , Technical, and Grammar schools , entrance being determined in most cases by the results of the Eleven plus exam .
This is a list of timelines of events over the period of World War II. Main timelines ... (1944) Timeline of World War II (1945–1991) Wars, campaigns, and battles
The following lists events that happened during 1944 in Australia. 1944 in Australia; Monarch: George VI: Governor-General: Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie:
Action of 26 April 1944: A German torpedo boat was sunk in the English Channel off Jentilez by Allied destroyers. German submarine U-488 was depth charged and sunk west of the Cape Verde Islands by American warships. Japanese submarine I-180 was sunk off Chirikof Island by the U.S. destroyer escort Gilmore.
Action of 11 January 1944; Action of 14 February 1944; Action of 17 July 1944; Action of 1 November 1944; Operation Adder; Admiralty Islands campaign; Afghan tribal revolts of 1944–1947; Air war during Operation Overlord; Landing at Aitape; Aitape–Wewak campaign; American airborne landings in Normandy; Razing of Anogeia; Battle of Arnhem ...