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1944 Calendar Trivia
The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2028. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.
April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.
1944 Calendar
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Historical Events Of 1944
- January 25, 1944 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Monkey in Chinese astrology.
- January 30, 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Cisterna, part of Operation Shingle, begins in central Italy.
- June 13, 1944 – World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.
- June 17, 1944 – Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
- August 5, 1944 – World War II: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.
- August 21, 1944 – Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins.
- October 12, 1944 – World War II: The Axis occupation of Athens comes to an end.
- October 20, 1944 – American general Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he commands an Allied assault on the islands, reclaiming them from the Japanese during the Second World War.
- October 21, 1944 – World War II: The first kamikaze attack. A Japanese fighter plane carrying a 200 kg bomb attacks HMAS Australia off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.
- November 3, 1944 – World War II: Two supreme commanders of the Slovak National Uprising, Generals Ján Golian and Rudolf Viest are captured, tortured and later executed by German forces.
Who Were Born On 1944?
- January 4, 1944 – Charlie Manuel, American baseball player and manager
- January 14, 1944 – Marjoe Gortner, American actor and producer
- February 1, 1944 – Dick Snyder, American basketball player
- February 22, 1944 – Robert Kardashian, American lawyer and businessman (d. 2003)
- June 29, 1944 – Seán Patrick O'Malley, American cardinal
- July 21, 1944 – Paul Wellstone, American academic and politician (d. 2002)
- August 21, 1944 – Peter Weir, Australian director, producer, and screenwriter
- September 21, 1944 – Bobby Tench, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Gass, Hummingbird, Humble Pie, and Streetwalkers)
- October 28, 1944 – Dennis Franz, American actor and playwright
- December 17, 1944 – Timo K. Mukka, Swedish-Finnish author (d. 1973)