• 1944 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in April 1944: The most significant...
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  • shipwrecks in April 1944 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during April 1944. "Dahomian". Uboat. Retrieved 22 April 2012. "Mills"...
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  • The action of 26 April 1944 occurred as a part of Operation Tunnel, Allied destroyer sweeps of the coast of Brittany in preparation for Operation Overlord...
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  • 1944 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1944. 1944 (MCMXLIV)...
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  • West, English footballer (d. 2012) 1944 – Peter Cresswell, English judge 1944 – Maarja Nummert, Estonian architect 1944 – Tony Visconti, American record...
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  • 1944 – Len Goodman, English dancer (d. 2023) 1944 – Mike Kogel, German singer-songwriter 1944 – Stephen Nickell, English economist and academic 1944 –...
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  • break out in Uppsala, Sweden. 1944 – Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt. 1944 – Heinrich Kreipe is captured...
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  • 1944 – World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated: Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea. 1944 –...
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  • April 23 is the 113th day of the year (114th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 252 days remain until the end of the year. 215 BC – A temple is...
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  • François Vallée (1912-1944), organiser, George Clement (1917-1944), wireless operator, code name "Edouard" Henri Gaillot (1896-1944), code name "Ignace"...
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    The Bombay explosion (or Bombay docks explosion) occurred on 14 April 1944, in the Victoria Dock of Bombay, British India (now Mumbai, India) when the...
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  • "7 aprile 1944 – 80 anni fa la strage di Fragheto" [7 April 1944 – 80 years ago, the Fragheto massacre]. Chiamami Città (in Italian). 6 April 2024. Retrieved...
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    Western Europe during World War II. The operation was launched on 6 June 1944 (D-Day) with the Normandy landings (Operation Neptune). A 1,200-plane airborne...
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    (4 March 1944 – 17 April 1944); Uman–Botoşani offensive (5 March 1944 – 17 April 1944); Bereznegovatoye–Snigirevka offensive (6–18 March 1944); Polesskoe...
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    landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War...
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  • driver and manager 1944 – Michael Fish, English meteorologist and journalist 1944 – Cuba Gooding Sr., American singer (d. 2017) 1944 – Herb Pedersen, American...
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  • Battle of Garfagnana: December 1944 Battle of Monte Castello: November 1944 – February 1945 Spring 1945 offensive in Italy: April–May 1945 Battle of Bologna:...
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  • April 1944 9 April Rosie the Riveter (film) 17 April The Lady and the Monster 25 April Pin Up Girl And the Angels Sing 26 April The Hitler Gang 29 April The...
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    of 1944. Following Joseph Stalin's "broad front" strategy, these battles coincided with the Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive (December 1943 – April 1944) and...
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    large-scale rehearsals for the D-Day invasion of Normandy, which took place in April 1944 on Slapton Sands in Devon. Coordination and communication problems resulted...
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  • Cantafora, Italian film and television actor (b. 1944) 2024 – Andrew Davis, English conductor (b. 1944) 2024 – Roman Gabriel, Filipino-American NBA American...
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    15 April 1944) (Winter Line / Gustav Line) 2: the Battle of Monte Cassino (Operation Diadem) Fourth Battle of Monte Cassino (24 April – 17 May 1944) Capture...
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    Yugoslavia in World War II. The air strikes lasted from 16 April 1944 to 6 September 1944. Belgrade was bombed eleven times by the Anglo–American air...
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    The Crimean offensive (8 April – 12 May 1944), known in German sources as the Battle of the Crimea, was a series of offensives by the Red Army directed...
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  • their genocidal campaign against Serbs of the Independent State of Croatia. 1944 – World War II: Nine German E-boats attack US and UK units during Exercise...
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    Lille 9–10 April 1944, 450 dead, Rouen 18–19 April 1944, 900 dead, Noisy-le-Sec 18–19 April 1944, 464 dead, Juvisy-sur-Orge 18–19 April 1944, 392 dead...
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  • American pop singer-songwriter (d. 2016) 1944 – Jon Bing, Norwegian author, scholar, and academic (d. 2014) 1944 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress (d....
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    Crimea, the front was disbanded in May 1944. For the second time the 4th Ukrainian Front was created on 4 August 1944, by separating the left wing of the...
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    Giovanni Gentile (Italian: [dʒoˈvanni dʒenˈtiːle]; 30 May 1875 – 15 April 1944) was an Italian philosopher, fascist politician, and pedagogue. He, alongside...
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  • 1943 – Ricardo Viñes, Spanish pianist (b. 1875) 1944 – Billy Bitzer, American cinematographer (b. 1872) 1944 – Pyotr Stolyarsky, Soviet violinist (b. 1871)...
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