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   On this day in history john Post, Dutch farmer/resistance fighter (passage fight), executed   

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

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

Jul 18   7:45 Operation-Goodwood: British assault east of Caen in the year 1944.   

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

Jul 19   In the year 1944 1,200+ 8th Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany   

Jul 19   In the year 1944 carl Bock, Danish Gestapo agent, liquidated   

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

Jul 20   In the year 1944 arthur J Treadwell, English mayor of Stoke Newington, dies at about 71   

Jul 20   On this day in history brit/Canadian troops occupy Hill 67/Ifs/Bras/Frenouville, Normandy   

Jul 20   In the year 1944 pres FDR nominated for an unprecedented 4th term at Dem convention   

Jul 20   In the year 1944 uS invades Japanese-occupied Guam in WW II   

Jul 20   In the year 1944 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 on this day in history.   

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

Jul 21   Invasion and recapture of Guam begins in the year 1944.   

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

Jul 22   In the year 1944 soviets set up Polish Committee of National Liberation   

Jul 23   Bernard M Cohen, attorney, killed at Belsen concentration camp in the year 1944.   

Jul 23   On this day in history chicago Cubs Bill Nicholson hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader   

Jul 23   On this day in history uS forces invade Japanese-held Tinian in WW II   

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

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

Jul 24   On this day in history jan Postma, leader of illegal Dutch party (CPN), executed at 49   

Jul 24   Russians liberate the Majdanek extermination camp on this day in history.   

Jul 25   -26] Japanse banzai-attack on Guam in the year 1944.   

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

Jul 25   The breakout from the Normandy beaches begins in the year 1944.   

Jul 25   The first jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262) on this day in history.   

Jul 26   On this day in history japanese suicide attack on US lines in Guam   

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Jan 02   On this day in history birth of peter Eotvos, composer   

Jan 02   On this day in history 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   In the year 1944 birth of david Atherton, English conductor   

Jan 03   In the year 1944 birth of blanche d'Alpuget, Australian novelist, biographer and second wife of Bob Hawke   

Jan 04   Volker Hornback, rocker (Tangerine Dream) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 05   On this day in history birth of felix Arons, Dutch director/actor (Waaldrecht)   

Jan 05   On this day in history birth of tommie Smith, US, 200m dash (Olympic-gold-1968) [or Jun 5]   

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

Jan 03   Jurgis BaltruÅ¡aitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1873) died on this day in history.   

Jan 04   Henri "Hans" Flu, Indonesian/Dutch family doctor/antifascist, murder died on this day in history.   

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   J Verleun, Dutch resistance fighter, executed died on this day in history.   

Jan 08   In the year 1944 death of william Kissam Vanderbilt II, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1878)   

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