Page 13: Historical Events In 1944

Jul 14   Attempt to liberate prisoners in Amsterdam fails, John Post arrested in the year 1944.   

Jul 15   Greenwich Observatory damaged by WW II flying bomb in the year 1944.   

Jul 16   Dodgers score 8 unearned runs against Braves to win 8-5 & break their 16-game losing streak, they will lose another 5 in a row on this day in history.   

Jul 16   John Post, Dutch farmer/resistance fighter (passage fight), executed on this day in history.   

Jul 17   In the year 1944 2 ammunition ships explodes at Port Chicago, California kills 322   

Jul 17   On this day in history hugh Rigby, English portrait painter (King George V 1928-32), dies   

Jul 18   On this day in history 7:45 Operation-Goodwood: British assault east of Caen   

Jul 18   On this day in history george A Hartland, English MP (Norwich 1931-35), dies at 60   

Jul 19   On this day in history 1,200+ 8th Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany   

Jul 19   Carl Bock, Danish Gestapo agent, liquidated in the year 1944.   

Jul 20   In the year 1944 abortive attempt on Hitler's life by a group of Nazi officers.   

Jul 20   Arthur J Treadwell, English mayor of Stoke Newington, dies at about 71 on this day in history.   

Jul 20   Brit/Canadian troops occupy Hill 67/Ifs/Bras/Frenouville, Normandy on this day in history.   

Jul 20   Pres FDR nominated for an unprecedented 4th term at Dem convention on this day in history.   

Jul 20   On this day in history uS invades Japanese-occupied Guam in WW II   

Jul 20   On this day in history von Stauffenberg fails on an attempt on Hitler's life   

Jul 21   American marines capture the western Pacific island of Guam in the year 1944.   

Jul 21   British premier Winston Churchill flies to France, meets Montgomery in the year 1944.   

Jul 21   Gerrit van den Bosch, led illegal Dutch CPN party, dies in Dachau in the year 1944.   

Jul 21   In the year 1944 invasion and recapture of Guam begins.   

Jul 21   US forces free Guam of Japanese invaders in the year 1944.   

Jul 22   Soviets set up Polish Committee of National Liberation on this day in history.   

Jul 23   In the year 1944 bernard M Cohen, attorney, killed at Belsen concentration camp   

Jul 23   Chicago Cubs Bill Nicholson hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader in the year 1944.   

Jul 23   US forces invade Japanese-held Tinian in WW II on this day in history.   

Jul 24   On this day in history 300 allied bombers drop fire bombs on Allied/German positions   

Jul 24   Following 43 days of naval gunfire and air bombardment, Naval Task Force lands Marines on Tinian in the year 1944.   

Jul 24   Jan Postma, leader of illegal Dutch party (CPN), executed at 49 in the year 1944.   

Jul 24   In the year 1944 russians liberate the Majdanek extermination camp.   

Jul 25   -26] Japanse banzai-attack on Guam on this day in history.   

Jul 25   On this day in history lesley J McNair, US lt-general, killed by US bomb at St-Lo   

Jul 25   In the year 1944 the breakout from the Normandy beaches begins.   

Jul 25   The first jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262) in the year 1944.   

Jul 26   Japanese suicide attack on US lines in Guam in the year 1944.   

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Jan 02   Peter Eotvos, composer was born on this day in history.   

Jan 02   In the year 1944 birth of prince Norodom Ranariddh, Cambodian politician   

Jan 03   Christina von Saltza, US, swimmer (Olympic-3 gold/silver-1960) was born in the year 1944.   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of david Atherton, English conductor   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of blanche d'Alpuget, Australian novelist, biographer and second wife of Bob Hawke   

Jan 04   On this day in history birth of volker Hornback, rocker (Tangerine Dream)   

Jan 05   Felix Arons, Dutch director/actor (Waaldrecht) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 05   Tommie Smith, US, 200m dash (Olympic-gold-1968) [or Jun 5] was born in the year 1944.   

Jan 01   On this day in history c T B Turner, cricket (17 Tests 1886-95, 101 wkt All time great), dies   

Jan 03   Jurgis BaltruÅ¡aitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1873) died in the year 1944.   

Jan 04   In the year 1944 death of henri "Hans" Flu, Indonesian/Dutch family doctor/antifascist, murder   

Jan 05   On this day in history adolph Goldschmidt, German/Swiss art historian, dies at 80   

Jan 06   Ida Tarbell, American journalist (b. 1857) died on this day in history.   

Jan 07   In the year 1944 death of j Verleun, Dutch resistance fighter, executed   

Jan 08   William Kissam Vanderbilt II, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1878) died in the year 1944.   

Jan 11   In the year 1944 galeazzo count of Cortellazzo Ciano, Italian politician, dies