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Date	Event
January 3, 1944	World War II: US flying ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Vought F4U Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Mitsubishi A6M Zero.
January 4, 1944	World War II: Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters in Europe, begins.
January 5, 1944	The Daily Mail becomes the first major London newspaper to be published on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
January 17, 1944	World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
January 22, 1944	World War II: The Allies commence Operation Shingle, an assault on Anzio and Nettuno, Italy.
January 27, 1944	World War II: The 900-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
January 29, 1944	World War II: Approximately 38 people are killed and about a dozen injured when the Polish village of Koniuchy (present-day Kaniūkai, Lithuania) is attacked by Soviet partisan units.
January 29, 1944	In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical theatre of the Archiginnasio is completely destroyed in an air-raid, during the Second World War.
January 30, 1944	World War II: The Battle of Cisterna, part of Operation Shingle, begins in central Italy.
January 31, 1944	World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
January 31, 1944	World War II: During the Anzio campaign, the 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.
February 3, 1944	World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison.
February 7, 1944	World War II: In Anzio, Italy, German forces launch a counteroffensive during the Allied Operation Shingle.
February 14, 1944	World War II: In the action of 14 February 1944, a Royal Navy submarine sinks a German-controlled Italian Regia Marina submarine in the Strait of Malacca.
February 15, 1944	World War II: The assault on Monte Cassino, Italy begins.
February 15, 1944	World War II: The Narva Offensive begins.
February 17, 1944	World War II: The Battle of Eniwetok begins. The battle ends in an American victory on February 22.
February 17, 1944	World War II: Operation Hailstone begins: U.S. naval air, surface, and submarine attack against Truk Lagoon, Japan's main base in the central Pacific, in support of the Eniwetok invasion.
February 20, 1944	World War II: The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
February 20, 1944	World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Atoll.
February 22, 1944	World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
February 22, 1944	World War II: The Soviet Red Army recaptures Krivoi Rog.
February 23, 1944	The Soviet Union begins the forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people from the North Caucasus to Central Asia.
February 24, 1944	Merrill's Marauders: The Marauders begin their 1,000-mile journey through Japanese-occupied Burma.
February 29, 1944	The Admiralty Islands are invaded in Operation Brewer, led by American general Douglas MacArthur, in World War II.
March 3, 1944	The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards.
March 3, 1944	A freight train carrying stowaway passengers stalls in a tunnel shortly after departing from Balvano, Basilicata, Italy just after midnight, with 517 dying from carbon monoxide poisoning.
March 4, 1944	World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
March 5, 1944	World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman–Botoșani Offensive in the western Ukrainian SSR.
March 6, 1944	World War II: Soviet Air Forces bomb an evacuated town of Narva in German-occupied Estonia, destroying the entire historical Swedish-era town.
March 9, 1944	World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia.
March 10, 1944	Greek Civil War: The Political Committee of National Liberation is established in Greece by the National Liberation Front.
March 18, 1944	Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupts, killing 26 people, causing thousands to flee their homes, and destroying dozens of Allied bombers.
March 19, 1944	World War II: The German army occupies Hungary.
March 24, 1944	German troops massacre 335 Italian civilians in Rome.[43]
March 24, 1944	World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III.[45][46]
March 30, 1944	World War II: Allied bombers conduct their most severe bombing run on Sofia, Bulgaria.
March 30, 1944	Out of 795 Lancasters, Halifaxes and Mosquitos sent to attack Nuremberg, 95 bombers do not return, making it the largest RAF Bomber Command loss of the war.
April 1, 1944	World War II: Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
April 4, 1944	World War II: First bombardment of oil refineries in Bucharest by Anglo-American forces kills 3000 civilians.
April 10, 1944	Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escape from Birkenau death camp.
April 13, 1944	Relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established.
April 14, 1944	Bombay explosion: A massive explosion in Bombay harbor kills 300 and causes economic damage valued at 20 million pounds.
April 16, 1944	World War II: Allied forces start bombing Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.
April 17, 1944	Forces of the Communist-controlled Greek People's Liberation Army attack the smaller National and Social Liberation resistance group, which surrenders. Its leader Dimitrios Psarros is murdered.
April 22, 1944	The 1st Air Commando Group using Sikorsky R-4 helicopters stage the first use of helicopters in combat with combat search and rescue operations in the China Burma India Theater.
April 22, 1944	World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated: Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea.
April 22, 1944	World War II: In Greenland, the Allied Sledge Patrol attack the German Bassgeiger weather station.
April 24, 1944	World War II: The SBS launches a raid against the garrison of Santorini in Greece.
April 25, 1944	The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
April 26, 1944	Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
April 26, 1944	Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete.
April 28, 1944	World War II: Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.
April 29, 1944	World War II: New Zealand-born SOE agent Nancy Wake, a leading figure in the French Resistance and the Gestapo's most wanted person, parachutes back into France to be a liaison between London and the local maquis group.
May 18, 1944	World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino: Conclusion after seven days of the fourth battle as German paratroopers evacuate Monte Cassino.
May 18, 1944	Deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union.
May 24, 1944	Börse Berlin building burns down after being hit in an air raid during World War II.[3]
June 4, 1944	World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German Kriegsmarine submarine U-505: The first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
June 4, 1944	World War II: The United States Fifth Army captures Rome, although much of the German Fourteenth Army is able to withdraw to the north.
June 5, 1944	World War II: More than 1,000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
June 6, 1944	Commencement of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, with the execution of Operation Neptune—commonly referred to as D-Day—the largest seaborne invasion in history. Nearly 160,000 Allied troops cross the English Channel with about 5,000 landing and assault craft, 289 escort vessels, and 277 minesweepers participating. By the end of the day, the Allies have landed on five invasion b
June 7, 1944	World War II: The steamer Danae, carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans, is sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.
June 7, 1944	World War II: Battle of Normandy: At Ardenne Abbey, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.
June 9, 1944	World War II: Ninety-nine civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.
June 9, 1944	World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
June 10, 1944	World War II: Six hundred forty-two men, women and children massacred at Oradour-sur-Glane, France.
June 10, 1944	World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia, Greece, 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.
June 10, 1944	In baseball, 15-year-old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
June 11, 1944	USS Missouri, the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned.
June 12, 1944	World War II: Operation Overlord: American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division secure the town of Carentan, Normandy, France.
June 13, 1944	World War II: The Battle of Villers-Bocage: German tank ace Michael Wittmann ambushes elements of the British 7th Armoured Division, destroying up to fourteen tanks, fifteen personnel carriers and two anti-tank guns in a Tiger I tank.
June 13, 1944	World War II: German combat elements, reinforced by the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division, launch a counterattack on American forces near Carentan.
June 13, 1944	World War II: Germany launches the first V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs strike their targets.
June 14, 1944	World War II: After several failed attempts, the British Army abandons Operation Perch, its plan to capture the German-occupied town of Caen.
June 15, 1944	World War II: The United States invades Saipan, capital of Japan's South Seas Mandate.
June 15, 1944	In the Saskatchewan general election, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government in North America.
June 16, 1944	In a gross miscarriage of justice, George Junius Stinney Jr., age 14, becomes the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century after being convicted in a two-hour trial for the rape and murder of two teenage white girls.
June 17, 1944	Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
June 20, 1944	World War II: The Battle of the Philippine Sea concludes with a decisive U.S. naval victory. The lopsided naval air battle is also known as the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot".
June 20, 1944	Continuation War: The Soviet Union demands an unconditional surrender from Finland during the beginning of partially successful Vyborg
June 20, 1944	The experimental MW 18014 V-2 rocket reaches an altitude of 176 km, becoming the first man-made object to reach outer space.
June 22, 1944	World War II: Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre.
June 22, 1944	U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill.
June 25, 1944	World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic countries, begins.
June 25, 1944	World War II: United States Navy and British Royal Navy ships bombard Cherbourg to support United States Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg.
June 25, 1944	The final page of the comic Krazy Kat is published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.
June 26, 1944	World War II: San Marino, a neutral state, is mistakenly bombed by the RAF based on faulty information, leading to 35 civilian deaths.
June 26, 1944	World War II: The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, one of the largest battles between Nazi Germany and Polish resistance forces, ends with the defeat of the latter.
June 27, 1944	World War II: Mogaung is the first place in Burma to be liberated from the Japanese by British Chindits, supported by the Chinese.
June 30, 1944	World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces.
July 3, 1944	World War II: The Minsk Offensive clears German troops from the city.
July 6, 1944	Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court-martial.
July 6, 1944	The Hartford circus fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut.
July 7, 1944	World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.
July 9, 1944	World War II: American forces take Saipan, bringing the Japanese archipelago within range of B-29 raids, and causing the downfall of the Tojo government.
July 9, 1944	World War II: Continuation War: Finland wins the Battle of Tali–Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in northern Europe. The Red Army withdraws its troops from Ihantala and digs into a defensive position, thus ending the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive.
July 17, 1944	Port Chicago disaster: Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California, killing 320.
July 17, 1944	World War II: At Sainte-Foy-de-Montgommery in Normandy Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is seriously injured by allied aircraft while returning to his headquarters.
July 18, 1944	World War II: Hideki Tōjō resigns as Prime Minister of Japan because of numerous setbacks in the war effort.
July 20, 1944	World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
July 21, 1944	World War II: Battle of Guam: American troops land on Guam, starting a battle that will end on August 10.
July 21, 1944	World War II: Claus von Stauffenberg and four fellow conspirators are executed for the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
July 22, 1944	The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland.
July 25, 1944	World War II: Operation Spring is one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war.
July 26, 1944	World War II: The Red Army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, capturing it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.
August 1, 1944	World War II: The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi German occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
August 2, 1944	ASNOM: Birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in North Macedonia.
August 2, 1944	World War II: The largest trade convoy of the world wars arrives safely in the Western Approaches.
August 4, 1944	The Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.
August 4, 1944	The Finnish Parliament, by derogation, elected Marshal C. G. E. Mannerheim as President of Finland to replace Risto Ryti, who had resigned.
August 5, 1944	World War II: At least 1,104 Japanese POWs in Australia attempt to escape from a camp at Cowra, New South Wales; 545 temporarily succeed but are later either killed, commit suicide, or are recaptured.
August 5, 1944	World War II: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp (Gęsiówka) in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.
August 5, 1944	World War II: The Nazis begin a week-long massacre of between 40,000 and 50,000 civilians and prisoners of war in Wola, Poland.
August 6, 1944	The Warsaw Uprising occurs on August 1. It is brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Kraków are detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising, the Kraków Uprising, that was planned but never carried out.
August 7, 1944	IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
August 9, 1944	The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
August 9, 1944	Continuation War: The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during the Second World War, ends to a strategic stalemate. Both Finnish and Soviet troops at the Finnish front dug to defensive positions, and the front remains stable until the end of the war.
August 10, 1944	World War II: The Battle of Guam comes to an effective end.
August 10, 1944	World War II: The Battle of Narva ends with a defensive German victory.
August 12, 1944	Waffen-SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.
August 12, 1944	Nazi German troops end the week-long Wola massacre, during which time at least 40,000 people are killed indiscriminately or in mass executions.
August 12, 1944	Alençon is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.
August 13, 1944	World War II: German troops begin the pillage and razing of Anogeia in Crete that would continue until September 5.
August 15, 1944	World War II: Operation Dragoon: Allied forces land in southern France.
August 16, 1944	First flight of a jet with forward-swept wings, the Junkers Ju 287.
August 19, 1944	World War II: Liberation of Paris: Paris, France rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.
August 20, 1944	World War II: One hundred sixty-eight captured allied airmen, including Phil Lamason, accused by the Gestapo of being "terror fliers", arrive at Buchenwald concentration camp.
August 20, 1944	World War II: The Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet Union offensive.
August 21, 1944	Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins.
August 21, 1944	World War II: Canadian and Polish units capture the strategically important town of Falaise, Calvados, France.
August 22, 1944	World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces.
August 23, 1944	World War II: Marseille is liberated by the Allied forces.
August 23, 1944	World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu, who is later arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies.
August 23, 1944	Freckleton air disaster: A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England, killing 61 people.
August 24, 1944	World War II: Allied troops begin the attack on Paris.
August 25, 1944	World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
August 26, 1944	World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
August 28, 1944	World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
August 29, 1944	World War II: Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
September 2, 1944	The last execution of a Finn in Finland takes place when soldier Olavi Laiho is executed by shooting in Oulu.
September 3, 1944	Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later.
September 4, 1944	World War II: The British 11th Armoured Division liberates the Belgian city of Antwerp.
September 4, 1944	World War II: Finland exits from the war with Soviet Union.
September 5, 1944	Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.
September 6, 1944	World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by Allied forces.
September 6, 1944	World War II: Soviet forces capture the city of Tartu, Estonia.
September 8, 1944	World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time.
September 9, 1944	World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established.
September 11, 1944	World War II: The Western Allied invasion of Germany begins near the city of Aachen.
September 11, 1944	World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.
September 12, 1944	World War II: The liberation of Yugoslavia from Axis occupation continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among the liberated cities.
September 13, 1944	World War II: Start of the Battle of Meligalas between the Greek Resistance forces of the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) and the collaborationist security battalions.
September 14, 1944	World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.
September 15, 1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.
September 15, 1944	Battle of Peleliu begins as the United States Marine Corps' 1st Marine Division and the United States Army's 81st Infantry Division hit White and Orange beaches under heavy fire from Japanese infantry and artillery.
September 17, 1944	World War II: Allied airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden.
September 17, 1944	World War II: Soviet troops launch the Tallinn Offensive against Germany and pro-independence Estonian units.
September 17, 1944	World War II: German forces are attacked by the Allies in the Battle of San Marino.
September 18, 1944	World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, killing 5,600, mostly slave labourers and POWs.
September 18, 1944	World War II: The Battle of Arracourt begins.
September 19, 1944	World War II: The Battle of Hürtgen Forest begins. It will become the longest individual battle that the U.S. Army has ever fought.
September 19, 1944	World War II: The Moscow Armistice between Finland and the Soviet Union is signed, which officially ended the Continuation War.
September 25, 1944	World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem via Oosterbeek.
September 27, 1944	The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission in World War II.
September 28, 1944	World War II: Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Estonia.
September 30, 1944	The Germans commence a counter offensive to retake the Nijmegen salient, this having been captured by the allies during Operation Market Garden.
October 2, 1944	World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
October 5, 1944	The Provisional Government of the French Republic enfranchises women.
October 6, 1944	World War II: Units of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps enter Czechoslovakia during the Battle of the Dukla Pass.
October 7, 1944	World War II: During an uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn down Crematorium IV.
October 8, 1944	World War II: Captain Bobbie Brown earns a Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Crucifix Hill, just outside Aachen.
October 11, 1944	The Tuvan People's Republic is annexed by the Soviet Union.
October 12, 1944	World War II: The Axis occupation of Athens comes to an end.
October 13, 1944	World War II: The Soviet Riga Offensive captures the city.
October 15, 1944	World War II: Germany replaces the Hungarian government after it announces an armistice with the Soviet Union.
October 18, 1944	World War II: Soviet Union begins the liberation of Czechoslovakia from Nazi Germany.
October 18, 1944	World War II: The state funeral of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel takes place in Ulm, Germany.
October 19, 1944	United States forces land in the Philippines.
October 19, 1944	A coup is launched against Juan Federico Ponce Vaides, beginning the ten-year Guatemalan Revolution.
October 20, 1944	World War II: The Soviet Red Army and Yugoslav Partisans liberate Belgrade.
October 20, 1944	Liquefied natural gas leaks from storage tanks in Cleveland and then explodes, leveling 30 blocks and killing 130 people.
October 20, 1944	American general Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he comes ashore during the Battle of Leyte.
October 21, 1944	World War II: The first kamikaze attack damages HMAS Australia as the Battle of Leyte Gulf begins.
October 21, 1944	World War II: The Nemmersdorf massacre against German civilians takes place.
October 21, 1944	World War II: The city of Aachen falls to American forces after three weeks of fighting, the first German city to fall to the Allies.
October 23, 1944	World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf begins.
October 24, 1944	World War II: Japan's center force is temporarily repulsed in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
October 25, 1944	World War II: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.
October 25, 1944	World War II: The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine ace of the war) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.
October 25, 1944	World War II: The final attempt of the Imperial Japanese Navy to win the war climaxes at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
October 26, 1944	World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf ends with an overwhelming American victory.
October 27, 1944	World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.
October 29, 1944	The Dutch city of Breda is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.
October 29, 1944	World War II: The Soviet Red Army enters Hungary.
October 30, 1944	Holocaust: Anne and Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they die from disease the following year, shortly before the end of WWII.
November 1, 1944	World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren.
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.
November 4, 1944	World War II: The 7th Macedonian Liberation Brigade liberates Bitola for the Allies.
November 4, 1944	World War II: Operation Pheasant, an Allied offensive to liberate North Brabant in the Netherlands, ends successfully.
November 7, 1944	Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring.
November 7, 1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States.
November 10, 1944	The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371.
November 12, 1944	World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers, which sink the German battleship Tirpitz, with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway.
November 16, 1944	World War II: In support of the Battle of Hürtgen Forest, the town of Düren is destroyed by Allied aircraft.
November 18, 1944	The Popular Socialist Youth is founded in Cuba.
November 19, 1944	World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the sixth War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
November 19, 1944	World War II: Thirty members of the Luxembourgish resistance defend the town of Vianden against a larger Waffen-SS attack in the Battle of Vianden.
November 21, 1944	World War II: American submarine USS Sealion sinks the Japanese battleship Kongō and Japanese destroyer Urakaze in the Formosa Strait.
November 23, 1944	World War II: The Lotta Svärd Movement is disbanded under the terms of the armistice treaty in Finland after the Continuation War.
November 24, 1944	World War II: The 73rd Bombardment Wing launches the first attack on Tokyo from the Northern Mariana Islands.
November 26, 1944	World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's shop in London, United Kingdom, killing 168 people.
November 26, 1944	World War II: Germany begins V-1 and V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium.
November 27, 1944	World War II: RAF Fauld explosion: An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump in Staffordshire kills seventy people.
November 29, 1944	Albania is liberated by the Partisans.
December 3, 1944	Greek Civil War: Fighting breaks out in Athens between the ELAS and government forces supported by the British Army.
December 7, 1944	An earthquake along the coast of Wakayama Prefecture in Japan causes a tsunami which kills 1,223 people.
December 15, 1944	World War II: a single-engine UC-64A Norseman aeroplane carrying United States Army Air Forces Major Glenn Miller is lost in a flight over the English Channel.
December 16, 1944	World War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins with the surprise offensive of three German armies through the Ardennes forest.
December 17, 1944	World War II: Battle of the Bulge: Malmedy massacre: American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Joachim Peiper.
December 18, 1944	World War II: XX Bomber Command responds to the Japanese Operation Ichi-Go offensive by dropping five hundred tons of incendiary bombs on a supply base in Hankow, China.
December 18, 1944	The Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision in Korematsu v. United States supporting Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 which cleared the way for the incarceration of nearly all 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens, born and raised in the United States.
December 22, 1944	World War II: Battle of the Bulge: German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium, prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: "Nuts!"
December 22, 1944	World War II: The People's Army of Vietnam is formed to resist Japanese occupation of Indochina, now Vietnam.
December 24, 1944	World War II: The Belgian Troopship Leopoldville was torpedoed and sank with the loss of 763 soldiers and 56 crew.
December 26, 1944	World War II: George S. Patton's Third Army breaks the encirclement of surrounded U.S. forces at Bastogne, Belgium.
December 28, 1944	Maurice Richard becomes the first player to score eight points in one game of NHL ice hockey.
December 30, 1944	King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving the throne vacant.
December 31, 1944	World War II: Operation Nordwind, the last major Wehrmacht offensive on the Western Front, begins.