What Happened in 1944
46 historical events, 39 notable births, and 9 notable deaths in 1944.
Major Events
January 1944
1944 — year
1944 Summer Olympics — Games of the XIII Olympiad, scheduled in London, United Kingdom, canceled due to World War II
1944 Winter Olympics — edition of the Winter Olympics, scheduled in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, canceled due to World War II
deportation of the Chechens and Ingush — ethnic cleansing of Chechens and Ingush in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin
1st Golden Globe Awards — 1944 film award ceremony, on the 20th of January in Los Angeles, California, United States of America, honoring achievements in 1943 filmmaking
Battle of Kohima — 1944 battle around Kohima, Nagaland, India
1944 in film — overview of the events of 1944 in film
Leningrad–Novgorod Offensive — 1944 military operation
Battle for Narva — 1944 battle of World War II
Raid on Drvar — 1944 military operation against Yugoslav Partisans
October 1944
Warsaw Uprising — major World War II operation by the Polish resistance Home Army
Slovak National Uprising — armed uprising of the Slovak domestic resistance during the Second World War
Battle of Debrecen — 1944 battle of the Eastern Front of World War II
Battle of Angaur — 1944 battle of the Pacific campaign in World War II on the island of Angaur in the Palau Islands
Nemmersdorf massacre — massacre perpetrated by Red Army soldiers in the late stages of World War II
Budapest offensive — Soviet military offensive 1944–1945
July 1944
Bretton Woods system — financial-economic agreement reached in 1944
20 July plot — attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler, 1944
Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive — military offensive that lasted from 13 July 1944 – 29 August 1944
August 1944
Operation Bagration — 1944 large Soviet military offensive in WW2
Jassy–Kishinev Offensive — 1944 military offensive
Battle of Guam — 1944 World War II battle
Gothic Line — German defensive line in Italy during World War II
Wola massacre — 1944 systematic mass-murder in Wola, Warsaw District in Masovian, Poland
King Michael's Coup — 1944 coup d'état led by Romanian King Michael I
September 1944
Operation Dragoon — Allied invasion of southern France on 15 August 1944
Moscow Armistice — peace treaty ending the Continuation War
1944 Bulgarian coup d'état — September 1944 coup d'état in Bulgaria
June 1944
Omaha Beach — 1944 one of the five sectors of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France
Utah Beach — 1944 code name for the right flank of the Allied landing beaches in Normandy
massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane — 642 French civilians massacred by a German Waffen-SS company in 1944
Juno Beach — landing area during Operation Overlord
Sword Beach — landing area during Operation Overlord
Gold Beach — landing area during Operation Overlord
Battle of Villers-Bocage — 1944 battle in occupied France
December 1944
Siege of Budapest — Soviet siege of Budapest 1944-1945
Convention on International Civil Aviation — international treaty that established the ICAO
Malmedy massacre — WWII war crime
Operation Greif — battle
November 1944
Battle of Peleliu — 1944 battle between the United States and the Empire of Japan in the Pacific Theater of World War II
1944 United States presidential election — 40th quadrennial U.S. presidential election
Baltic Offensive — 1944 military offensive
March 1944
16th Academy Awards — American Motion Picture Academy film award ceremony
German invasion of Hungary — 1944 military operation
Ardeatine massacre — mass killing carried out by Nazi troops in Rome, 1944
April 1944
Exercise Tiger — D-Day rehearsal in 1944