1944
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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 |
Contents |
[change] Births
- February 23- Johnny Winter
- April 7 - Gerhard Schröder
- April 9 - Leila Khaled
- May 8 - Gary Glitter
- May 14 - George Lucas
- July 13- Ernő Rubik
- June 29 - Gary Busey
- September 10 - Judit Pogány, Hungarian actress
- November 25 - Ben Stein
[change] Deaths
[change] Events
- 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.
[change] New books
- 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
- Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren
- 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
