Events in History in 1944 (Part 3)

Events 401 - 600 of 718

• Aug 10 US/French offensive at Alencon

• Aug 11 French 5th Armour division recaptures Sées

• Aug 11 US air raid on Palembang
• Aug 12 Pipeline under ocean (Pluto) begins operating
• Aug 12 Waffen SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.

• Aug 13 British 8th Army occupies Florence
• Aug 14 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives at Corsica
• Aug 14 Canada and Polish begin Operation Tractable: attempting to encircle strategic French town of Falaise
• Aug 14 Operation Tractable: new Canadian offensive
• Aug 14 Soviet offensive at Weichsel
• Aug 15 Allied air raid on train in North Netherlands, 32 killed

• Aug 15 Operation Anvil: Allies land on French Mediterranean sea coast
• Aug 15 Operation Dragoon: Allied troops land in Provence
• Aug 15 US 12 Army corps enters Le Mans through Orleans
• Aug 15 US 7th Armour division reaches Chartres
• Aug 16 2nd Canadian Division occupies Falaise, Normandy, during Operation Intractable
• Aug 16 Dutch begin diplomatic contact with Vatican in London
• Aug 16 First flight of the Junkers Ju 287.
• Aug 16 US 15th Army corp reaches Eure, surrounds Dreux
• Aug 17 4th Canadian Armoured division occupiers Trun, Normandy
• Aug 17 German field marshal Walter Model replaces Günther von Kluge in Normandy
• Aug 17 Soviet troops arrive at Austria-Prussia border
• Aug 17 US 12 Army Corps occupies Orleans
• Aug 17 US 320th regiment infantry occupies Châteaudun

• Aug 18 Paris rail workers strike against Nazi occupiers
• Aug 18 US 15th Army Corps reaches Mantes-Gassicourt near Paris
• Aug 19 Allied air raid on Maastricht, 80+ killed
• Aug 19 Last Japanese troops driven out of India
• Aug 19 Nazis give parts of Paris to Resistance
• Aug 19 Paris police strike against nazi occupiers
• Aug 19 Polish 1st Division occupies Hill 262 (Mont Ormel), Normandy
• Aug 19 US 15th Army Corps occupies Mantes-Gassicourt at Paris
• Aug 19 US 90th/Polish 1st Division occupy Chambois, Normandy

• Aug 20 Soviet offensive at Jassy & Kisjinev
• Aug 21 Battle of Falaise, Normandy, led by Polish Armoured Division and First Canadian Army - largest encirclement on the Western Front leading to surrender and capture of German 7th Army
• Aug 21 Germans storm up Hill 262 (Mont Ormel) Normandy
• Aug 21 Raid on Jewish children's house in Secrétan/St-Mandé
• Aug 21 US 12nd Army Corps occupies Sens

• Aug 22 Last transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany
• Aug 23 94.5°F (34.7°C) in De Bilt Netherlands & 101.5°F (38.6°C) in Warnsvelt
• Aug 23 Allied troops capture Marseille, France
• Aug 23 British general Bernard Montgomery consults with US Generals Omar Bradley and Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Aug 23 General George Leclerc's troops advance towards Paris
• Aug 23 Romanian Royal coup: King Michael orders forces to cease fire against Allies and dismisses pro-Axis premier, Marshal Ion Antonescu
• Aug 23 Sammellager Drancy freed
• Aug 23 US 20th Army corp enter Fontainebleau/Melun de Seine
• Aug 23 US B-24 crashes into school in Freckelton England, 76 killed
• Aug 24 General LeClerc's troops open assault on Paris
• Aug 25 France 2nd Tank division under General Leclerc reaches Notre Dame
• Aug 25 French General Charles de Gaulle walks the Champs Elysees in Paris after the liberation of the city from Nazi occupation
• Aug 25 US Army XII Corps reaches Troyes, France
• Aug 26 Bulgaria announces withdrawal & German troops are to be disarmed
• Aug 26 Charles de Gaulle marches along the Champs-Elysees, despite coming under fire
• Aug 26 US 12nd Army Corps crosses river Seine East of Paris
• Aug 27 200 RAF Halifax bombers attack oil installations in Hamburg
• Aug 28 Last German troops in Marseille surrendered & Toulon cleared
• Aug 28 US air raid on Ambon Island, Dutch East Indies
• Aug 29 15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees
• Aug 29 Anti-German rebellion in Slovakia
• Aug 30 Philip Yordan's "Anna Lucasta" premieres in NYC
• Aug 30 Soviet troops enter Bucharest, Romania
• Aug 31 Allied offensive at "Gothen-linie" Italy
• Aug 31 French provisional government moves from Algiers to Paris
• Aug 31 French troops liberate Bordeaux
• Aug 31 Soviet & Romanian troops march into Bucharest
• Sep 1 Bulgaria government of Bagrjanow, resigns

• Sep 2 Belgium's Emissie bank closes
• Sep 2 Future US President George H. W. Bush bails from a burning plane during a mission in the Pacific
• Sep 2 US leaders meet in Belgium

• Sep 3 Canadian troops liberate Abbeville, France
• Sep 3 French troops liberate Lyon
• Sep 3 Holocaust diarist Anne Frank sent to Auschwitz concentration camp [1]
• Sep 3 Prince Bernhard appointed supreme commander of Netherlands Domestic Armed Forces
• Sep 3 Tank division of British Guards free Brussels
• Sep 4 2,087 Jews transported for Westerbork to KZ-Lower Theresienstadt
• Sep 4 British 11th Armoured Division frees Antwerp
• Sep 4 Finland breaks diplomatic contact with Nazi Germany
• Sep 4 US 1st Army frees Namur, Belgium
• Sep 5 "Mad Tuesday" 65,000 Dutch nazi collaborators flee to Germany
• Sep 5 5 resistance fighter executed in Terneuzen
• Sep 5 Allies liberate Brussels
• Sep 5 Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands sign customs Unity treaty
• Sep 5 British premier Winston Churchill travels to Scotland
• Sep 5 Dutch Armed Forces forms, under prince Bernhard
• Sep 6 Gen Von Zangen's 15th army escape from Zealand
• Sep 7 SS-general Kurt Meyer takes Durnal, Belgium
• Sep 7 Strongest Hurricane of century in Netherlands (wind force 12)
• Sep 8 1st V-2 rockets land in London & Antwerp
• Sep 8 Russians march into Bulgaria; Bulgaria declares war on Germany
• Sep 9 Allied forces liberate Luxembourg
• Sep 9 Red Army supports coup in Bulgaria, instituting new Communist government (1946-1990) during the "National Uprising"
• Sep 9 Resistance fighter Jaap Musch arrested in Nijverdal, Netherlands
• Sep 9 US 113th cavalry passes Belgian-Dutch borders
• Sep 10 Lieutenant-General Frederick Browning against Montgomery "But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far"
• Sep 11 A reconnaissance squadron of the US 5th Armored Division "Victory Division" is 1st allied force to enter Nazi-Germany
• Sep 12 Noorbeek becomes the first liberated community in the Netherlands during World War II

• Sep 12 US Army troops enter Germany for 1st time
• Sep 13 30th Infantry division of US 1st Army frees Margraten

• Sep 13 Great Atlantic hurricane reaches peak intensity as a Category 4 storm, goes on to kill 300-400 along the US East Coast
• Sep 13 Last transport out camp Westerbork to Bergen Belsen
• Sep 13 US 28th Infantry division opens assault on Siegfried line/Westwall
• Sep 14 6,500 Dutch/Indonesian captives sent to Junyo Maru
• Sep 14 Great Atlantic hurricane hits New England, 300-400 die along the US East Coast
• Sep 14 Gulpen, Meerssen & Maastricht freed
• Sep 14 US 28th Infantry division occupies 1.5 km of Roscheid
• Sep 14 US 4th Ivy League Inf division pushes through Westwall
• Sep 15 British bombers hit German battleship Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs
• Sep 15 Soviet troops free Sofia, Bulgaria
• Sep 15 US 1st Infantry division pushes through to Westwall
• Sep 15 US 28th Infantry division occupies Hill 555 at Roscheid
• Sep 15 US troops land on islands of Palau and Morotai, western Pacific
• Sep 17 British Premier Winston Churchill travels to US
• Sep 17 Dutch begin railroad strike against German occupiers
• Sep 17 Operation Market Garden: In the largest airborne operation of WWII, Allied paratroopers land in the Netherlands in a failed attempt to capture the Arnhem bridge over the Rhine
• Sep 18 WWII: British submarine Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru: 5,600 killed, including 1,377 allied POWs and 4,200 Javanese slave laborers
• Sep 18 WWII: Eindhoven, Netherlands freed by American and British troops (Lightly Day)
• Sep 18 WWII: US 266th division defeats German troops at Brest Bretagne in Brittany, France after a 7 week siege; 37,000 prisoners taken, ports rendered useless
• Sep 19 Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War)
• Sep 19 Luftwaffe bombs Eindhoven: 200 killed
• Sep 20 Nijmegen is liberated from German occupation
• Sep 20 Polish forces free Terneuzen Neth
• Sep 21 Operation Market Garden: Last British paratroopers at Arnhem Bridge surrender after several days of fighting
• Sep 21 Operation Market Garden: Polish paratroopers land at Driel after a delay due to bad weather and a shortage of planes
• Sep 22 Boulogne reoccupied by the Allies

• Sep 22 US troops land on Ulithi atoll, western Pacific
• Sep 23 Proclamation No. 30 was issued, declaring the existence of a state of war between the Philippines and the United States and the United Kingdom
• Sep 25 Operation Market Garden ends in Allied failure as the last British and Polish paratroopers are evacuated from Oosterbeek, near the town of Arnhem
• Sep 26 Soviet forces occupy Estonia
• Sep 26 World War II: Battle of Arnhem ends in Allied failure as German forces link up on both sides of the Lower Rhine river and mop up last British resistance
• Sep 27 Helmond & Oss Neth liberated
• Sep 28 Nazi forces begin killing civilians in the Italian village of Marzabotto

• Sep 29 Soviet troops invade Yugoslavia
• Sep 30 -Oct 1] Failed attack on German officers near Putten, Netherlands
• Sep 30 Calais reoccupied by the Allies
• Sep 30 Dutch General Mine Workers Union (ABWM) forms
• Oct 1 Newspaper editor Alejandro Córdova assassinated in Guatemala
• Oct 2 Polish resistance fighters capitulate in the Warsaw Uprising, with some 250,000 people killed
• Oct 2 US B-17's drops pamphlets on Walcheren
• Oct 3 1st broadcast of Radio Herrijzend Netherland
• Oct 3 RAF bombs West Kapelse
• Oct 4 British troops land on Greek mainland
• Oct 5 Kerkrade (Neth) liberated
• Oct 5 Suffrage is extended to women in France
• Oct 6 Allied aircraft accidentally bomb Fishing, Overijssel
• Oct 6 Canadians free Austria
• Oct 6 Royal Dutch Navy submarine Zwaardvis (Swordfish) sinks German submarine U168 in the Java Sea
• Oct 6 Soviet forces march into Hungary & Czechoslovakia
• Oct 7 Allies bombs sea dikes at Vlissingen

• Oct 7 Riots in Amersfoort/Utrecht/Strugle

• Oct 9 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Russia for talks with Joseph Stalin
• Oct 9 Canadian offensive in West-Zeeuws-Flanders
• Oct 9 German occupiers turn off electricity in Amsterdam
• Oct 10 Admiral Halsey's Task Force 30 bombs Okinawa, 700 die
• Oct 11 Allies bomb sea wall at Veere
• Oct 11 Tuvinian People's Republic or formerly Tannu Tuva was annexed by the U.S.S.R
• Oct 12 German army retreats from Athens
• Oct 13 Riga, capital of Latvia, freed
• Oct 13 US 1st army begins battle of Aachen, first German city captured during World War II
• Oct 14 Allied troops land in Corfu
• Oct 14 British troops march into Athens
• Oct 15 The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler's NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes power in Hungary
• Oct 16 Hungary: Horthy government falls/nazi count Szalasi becomes premier

• Oct 18 Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia during WW II
• Oct 19 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill flies back to London from Moscow
• Oct 19 Canadian troops liberate Aardensburg

• Oct 19 US forces land in the Philippines
• Oct 19 US Navy says Black women can join WAVES
• Oct 20 Liquid-gas tanks in Cleveland, Ohio, explode, 135 die, and 3,600 are left homeless
• Oct 20 Revolution by workers & students in Guatemala
• Oct 20 Soviet and Yugoslav troops free Belgrade
• Oct 20 US 1st army wins battle of Aachen on Germany's western border

• Oct 21 Canadian troops occupy Breskens
• Oct 21 World War II: US troops capture Aachen, 1st large German city to fall
• Oct 22 Kurita's vice-admiral fleet leaves North-Borneo
• Oct 23 Battle of Gulf of Leyte begins - largest naval battle of WWII near the Philippines
• Oct 23 First Central Kitchen opens in Amsterdam
• Oct 23 Soviet army invades Hungary
• Oct 23 Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita's flagship the heavy cruiser Atago sinks during the Battle of Leyte Gulf
• Oct 24 Rotterdam Passage fight frees 46 prisoners
• Oct 24 US air raid on Japanese battleships and cruisers in Sibuya Sea: Musashi sinks

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