Events in History in 1944 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 400 of 718

• Jun 5 Allied forces march into Rome
• Jun 5 As part of Operation Tonga, the 1st British gliders touch down on French soil to prepare for the D-Day invasion

• Jun 6 Alaska Airlines commences operations
• Jun 6 German submarines U-955, U-970, U-629 and U-373 sink in Bay of Biscay
• Jun 6 Operation Overlord: As part of the D-Day landings, the 82nd Airborne Division arrives at the French town of Sainte-Mère-Église
• Jun 6 Operation Overlord: D-Day begins as the 156,000-strong Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France, during World War II
• Jun 7 British forces attack Bréville in France during the Normandy invasion while other British forces attempt to encircle Caen
• Jun 7 Canadian 50th Division occupies Bayeux during the Normandy invasion
• Jun 8 1st SS-Panzer Korps counter attacks at Normandy
• Jun 8 Allies occupy Port-en-Bessin Normandy
• Jun 8 Dutch Resistance fighter Frans Duwaer arrested
• Jun 8 General Montgomery lands in Normandy, sets up HQ in Chateau de Creully
• Jun 9 Soviet offensive in Carelia, Finland
• Jun 10 Nazi forces carry out a massacre of 642 civilians in the French village Oradour-sur-Glane
• Jun 10 World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia Prefecture, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops
• Jun 11 15 US aircraft carriers attack Japanese bases on Marianas
• Jun 11 1st Serbian Orthodox cathedral in US, Cathedral of St Sava, NYC
• Jun 12 1st V-1 rocket assault on London
• Jun 12 British 12th airborne battalion and the 13th & 18th Hussars attack and capture Bréville
• Jun 12 Churchill/Marshall/Arnold visit Montgomery's HQ in Chateau de Creully
• Jun 12 US troop march into Carentan/Caumont, Normandy
• Jun 13 German counter attack on Villers-Bocage, Normandy
• Jun 13 Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) flying bomb (doodle-bugs) attacks
• Jun 14 1st B-29 raid against mainland Japan

• Jun 15 US forces begin invasion of Saipan in Pacific

• Jun 16 Iceland adopts constitution

• Jun 16 US bombs Kyushu, Japan
• Jun 17 -19] French troops under Lattre de Tssigny conquer Elba
• Jun 17 Hitler secretly meets with Field Marshals von Rundstedt and Rommel in Marjival, Soissons, France to assess response to Normandy Invasion
• Jun 17 Iceland dissolves its union with Denmark and declares itself a Republic
• Jun 17 Resistance fighter and poet Col Blake arrives in London
• Jun 18 German submarine U-767 sunk by English Navy destroyers in the English Channel

• Jun 19 French troops free Elba
• Jun 19 Heavy air raid on US fleet at Guam "Turkey Shoot"
• Jun 19 Japanese troops conquer Changsha China
• Jun 19 World War II: First day of the 2 day Battle of the Philippine Sea, US naval forces defeat Japanese fleet
• Jun 20 Congress charters Central Intelligence Agency
• Jun 20 Heavy storm hits the Channel

• Jun 20 Soviet forces conquer Wiborg
• Jun 20 US attacks Japanese fleet in the Philippine Sea
• Jun 21 Very heavy bombing on Berlin
• Jun 22 Boston Brave Jim Tobin 2nd no-hitter of yr beats Phils, 7-0 in 5 inn
• Jun 22 British 14th Army frees Imphal, Assam from the Japanese
• Jun 22 Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against Army Group Centre

• Jun 22 US troops occupy Biak during Battle of Biak, New Guinea
• Jun 23 4 tornadoes strike Appalachia, killing 153
• Jun 23 Soviet offensive in central front sector

• Jun 25 British assault at Caen, Normandy
• Jun 26 2nd British army reaches Grainville-Mouen line
• Jun 27 Cherbourg, France liberated by Allies
• Jun 29 French Nazi collaborator Paul Touvier shoots 7 Jews dead
• Jun 29 German counter attack at Caen
• Jun 29 Rommel & von Rundstedt travel to Berchtesgaden
• Jun 29 Soviet Armies join in Bobroesjk
• Jun 29 US 7th army corps conquers Cherbourg
• Jun 30 Allies land on Vogelkop, New Guinea
• Jun 30 French Cotentin Peninsula in allied hands
• Jun 30 Universal strike against Nazi terror in Copenhagen
• Jun 30 World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces
• Jul 1 2,500+ killed in London/SE England by German flying bombs

• Jul 1 German officer Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to colonel
• Jul 1 US headquarter moves to Colombières Normandy
• Jul 1 Von Rundstedt against Keitel: "Sign peace, idiots!"

• Jul 3 US V-III-E Army corp opens assault on Coutances Cotentin
• Jul 4 1,100 US guns fire 4th of July salute at German lines in Normandy

• Jul 4 Allied assault on Carpiquet airport at Caen
• Jul 4 Gestapo arrests German Social Democrat Julius Leber
• Jul 5 Harry Crosby takes 1st rocket airplane, MX-324, for maiden flight
• Jul 6 French General Charles de Gaulle arrives in Washington, D.C.

• Jul 6 World's largest circus tent catches fire at Ringling Brother's - Barnum & Bailey 2nd performance, 168 die (Hartford, Connecticut)
• Jul 7 Heavy Japanese counter offensive on Saipan
• Jul 7 RAF Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France
• Jul 8 British troops march into Caen, Normandy
• Jul 8 Japanese kamikaze attacks on US lines at Saipan
• Jul 9 In World War II, US troops secure Saipan as Japan falls
• Jul 9 U-740 sunk by depth charges from a British Liberator aircraft

• Jul 10 German submarine U-821 sunk by RAF
• Jul 11 Franklin Roosevelt announces that he will run for a fourth term as President of the United States
• Jul 12 Theresienstadt Family camp disbands, with 4,000 people gased
• Jul 12 US government recognizes authority of French General Charles de Gaulle
• Jul 13 Vilnius, Lithuania, liberated
• Jul 14 Attempt to liberate prisoners in Amsterdam fails, John Post arrested
• Jul 14 US assault on Coutances Cotentin
• Jul 15 Greenwich Royal Observatory in London damaged by WW II flying bomb [1]
• Jul 17 2 ammunition ships explode at Port Chicago, California, killing 322
• Jul 17 Soviet troops cross Bug River and march into Poland
• Jul 18 7:45 Operation Goodwood: British assault east of Caen
• Jul 18 Allies air raid railways at Vaires, Paris
• Jul 18 Arne Andersson runs world record 1 mile (4:01.6)
• Jul 18 British air raid on German convoy SW of Heligoland
• Jul 18 British troops occupy Bourquebus hill range, Normandy
• Jul 18 Polish troops under General Anders occupy Ancona Italy
• Jul 18 RAF Mosquitos attack Cologne and Berlin
• Jul 18 US troop march into St Lo
• Jul 19 1,200+ 8th US Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany
• Jul 19 500 15th US Air Force Liberators/Flying Fortresses bomb Munich vicinity
• Jul 19 Allied troops occupy Faubourg de Vaucelles, at Caen
• Jul 19 Claus von Stauffenberg visits RC church in Berlin-Dahlem
• Jul 19 Danish resistance fails in assault on Taarbaek Fort near Copenhagen
• Jul 19 Democratic convention opens in Chicago, goes on to nominate President Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Jul 19 Japanese aircraft carriers Taiho and Shokaku sink in Marianas
• Jul 19 NY archbishop Spellman flies to Europe

• Jul 20 British and Canadian troops occupy Hill 67/Ifs/Bras/Frenouville, Normandy
• Jul 20 Canadian Cameron Highlanders conquer St Andre
• Jul 20 Death March of 1,200 Jews from Lipcani Moldavia begins
• Jul 20 Fieldmarshal von Kluge consults with German commandant at Caen
• Jul 20 Fifty are hurt in rioting in front of the presidential palace in Mexico City
• Jul 20 Flying Fortresses of US 8th Air Force attack Leipzig/Dessau
• Jul 20 General Eisenhower visits Montgomery's headquarter in Normandy
• Jul 20 Heavy storm hampers British offensive at Caen
• Jul 20 Japanese aircraft carrier Hijo sunk by US air attack
• Jul 20 Liberators of US 8th Air Force attack Gotha Russelsheim/Eisenach
• Jul 20 US 15th Air Force attacks Friedrichshaven Memmingen
• Jul 20 US 9th Air Force bombs railroad at Chaulnes Sable-sur-Sarthe/Dreux
• Jul 20 US invades Japanese-occupied Guam
• Jul 20 US President FDR nominated for an unprecedented 4th term at Democratic convention
• Jul 20 Violent battles in Verrieres-hill (Normandy)

• Jul 21 Field Marshal Günther von Kluge warns Hitler of impending collapse of front in Normandy
• Jul 21 General Koiso becomes Premier of Japan
• Jul 21 US forces land on Guam during its recapture from the Japanese (Operation Forager)
• Jul 22 Soviets set up Polish Committee of National Liberation
• Jul 23 Conference of Bretton Woods signed; IMF operations begin
• Jul 23 Soviet Army marches into Lublin, Poland
• Jul 23 US forces invade Japanese-held Tinian in WW II
• Jul 23 US troops occupy Pisa, Italy
• Jul 24 300 allied bombers drop fire bombs on Allied/German positions at Saint-Lô, France
• Jul 24 Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek
• Jul 24 US troops land on Tinian
• Jul 25 1st jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262)
• Jul 25 Japanese banzai-attack on Guam
• Jul 25 Operation Cobra: US forces begin major offensive in Normandy with air bombardment
• Jul 25 World War II: Operation Spring - one of Canada's bloodiest days, 18,444 casualties and 5,021 killed
• Jul 26 Japanese suicide attack on US lines in Guam
• Jul 26 Soviet troops arrive in Weichsel
• Jul 26 The first German V-2 rocket hits Great Britain (nicknamed "gasometer").
• Jul 26 US offensive at St-Lo/2nd Armour div occupies St Gilles
• Jul 27 1st British jet fighter used in combat (Gloster Meteor)
• Jul 27 Soviet Army frees Majdanek concentration camp
• Jul 27 US troops occupy le Mesnil-Herman/Hill 183 Normandy
• Jul 28 Adolf Hitler routes 4 division of South France to Normandy
• Jul 28 US 8th Army corp occupies Coutances France
• Jul 29 Allied air force bomb Germany for 6 hours
• Jul 29 Frank McCormick (Reds) HR off Ace Adams (Giants) in both games of DH
• Jul 29 US 4th Armour division occupiers Avranches (Normandy, France)
• Jul 30 WWII: US 30th division reaches the suburbs of Saint-Lô, Normandy with heavy battles also occurring at Tessy-sur-Vire and Villebaudon
• Jul 31 Last deportation train out Mechelen departs to Auschwitz
• Jul 31 Transport #77 departs with French Jews to Nazi Germany
• Jul 31 US troops occupy Sansapor, New Guinea

• Aug 1 General Montgomery takes command of 12th & 21st army
• Aug 1 Polish resistance fighters of the Home Army launch the Warsaw Uprising, the largest military effort undertaken by a resistance movement in occupied Europe
• Aug 1 US 90th division occupies St Hilaire-du-Harcourt
• Aug 1 US troops enter Tessy-sur-Vir
• Aug 2 Jewish survivors of Kovono Ghetto emerge from their bunker
• Aug 2 Turkey breaks diplomatic relationship with Nazi Germany
• Aug 3 Allied troops under Lieutenant-General Joseph Stilwell take Myitkyina, Burma
• Aug 3 Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp gases 4,000 gypsies
• Aug 3 General Montgomery visits general Dempsey's headquarter
• Aug 4 Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by German Security Police (Grüne Polizei) following a tip-off from an informer who was never identified
• Aug 4 British 8th Army reaches suburbs of Florence, Italy

• Aug 5 German forces begin the mass killing of between 40,000 and 50,000 Polish civilians in the Wola district of Warsaw during the uprising
• Aug 5 US 79th/90th division occupy Laval/Mayenne
• Aug 5 US troops occupy Vannes, Brittany
• Aug 6 All 1,200 Jewish death marchers from Lipcani Moldavia have died
• Aug 6 Anti-German attack at Avranches fails
• Aug 6 Deportation of 70,000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins
• Aug 6 US 20th Army corp under general Walker occupies Nantes
• Aug 7 Anton de Kom arrested by Surinam resistance fighter
• Aug 7 German counter attack at Avranches fails
• Aug 7 IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I)
• Aug 7 July 20th Plot trial under Roland Freis in Berlin begins
• Aug 7 US 3rd Army reaches suburbs of Brest, Brittany
• Aug 8 Canada/Polish troops occupy Cramesnil/Secqueville/Cintheaux/St-Aignan
• Aug 8 US 15th Army corps occupies Le Mans
• Aug 9 12 workers of Dutch illegal paper "Trouw" executed at Camp Vught
• Aug 9 Smokey Bear debuts as spokesman for fire prevention for US Forest Service (named after NYC fireman Smokey Joe Martin)
• Aug 9 US 79th/90th division enter Le Mans
• Aug 10 Battle for Guam ends, US troops recapture Guam from the Japanese
• Aug 10 Race riots in Athens, Alabama

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