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    1944 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in October 1944: The Battle of...
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  • The list of shipwrecks in October 1944 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during October 1944. "Snapper". Dictionary of American...
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    attacked by Allied aircraft in 42 bombing raids. On the night of 14/15 October 1944, the attack by No. 5 Group Royal Air Force (RAF) marked the high point...
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    The 1944 United States presidential election was the 40th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 7, 1944. The election took...
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  • and academic 1944 – Gerry Anderson, Irish radio and television host (d. 2014) 1944 – Coluche, French comedian and actor (d. 1986) 1944 – Dennis Franz...
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    Battle of Leyte Gulf (category October 1944 events)
     'Leyte Open Sea Naval Battle', Filipino: Labanan sa Golpo ng Leyte) 23–26 October 1944, was the largest naval battle of World War II and by some criteria the...
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  • Grazier drown while taking code books from the sinking German submarine U-559. 1944 – Holocaust: Anne and Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen...
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  • Amelia". Westminster Abbey. Retrieved 8 October 2022. Pearsall, William Harold; Scott, Lorna Iris (December 2, 1944). "Obituary. Professor J. H. Priestley"...
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  • Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews. 1944 – The Dutch city of Breda is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division. 1944 – World War II: The Soviet Red Army...
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    Princess Beatrice (Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore; 14 April 1857 – 26 October 1944), later Princess Henry of Battenberg, was the fifth daughter and youngest...
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    with amphibious landings on the eastern Philippine island of Leyte on October 20, 1944. The United States and Philippine Commonwealth military forces, with...
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  • The 1944 World Series was an all-St. Louis World Series, matching the St. Louis Cardinals and St. Louis Browns at Sportsman's Park. It marked the third...
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  • VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne. 1944 – World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National...
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    the Bulge, which by late December 1944 had decisively turned against the German forces. It began on 31 December 1944 in Rhineland-Palatinate, Alsace and...
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    In March 1944, Hungary was occupied by the Wehrmacht. This invasion was formally known as Operation Margarethe (Unternehmen Margarethe). Hungarian Prime...
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  • Arsenic and Old Lace October 1944 11 October To Have and Have Not 17 October Fiddlers Three – (GB) None but the Lonely Heart November 1944 1 November Something...
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    President of Guatemala from 4 July 1944 to 20 October 1944. He was overthrown by a popular uprising on 20 October 1944 that began the Guatemalan Revolution...
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    On 7 October 2023, Hamas and several other Palestinian nationalist militant groups launched coordinated armed incursions from the Gaza Strip into the...
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    occurred in northern Vietnam in French Indochina during World War II from October 1944 to late 1945, which at the time was under Japanese occupation from 1940...
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  • Leyte: Return to the Philippines, October 1944 is a board wargame published in 1975 by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) that simulates the return of...
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    Don Caldwell. "Luftwaffe Aircraft Losses By Theater, September 1943-October 1944". The Air Force Historical Foundation. Retrieved March 1, 2016. 4,468...
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    the withdrawal of German forces and the liberation of the country in October 1944. Tsolakoglou, Rallis and Logothetopoulos (in Germany, where he had escaped...
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    objective was to capture Soviet Ukraine and its capital Kiev. In September 1944, Army Group South Ukraine was renamed Army Group South in Eastern Hungary...
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    from May 1940 to April 1942 (part of the 299th Infantry Division). In October 1944, Burgdorf assumed the role of the chief of the Army Personnel Office...
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    At least 802 prisoners tried to escape, 144 successfully, and on 7 October 1944, two Sonderkommando units, consisting of prisoners who operated the gas...
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    Soviet authorities, mostly in the years 1944–1945. At the same time, OUN-UPA killed 30,676 people in the years 1944–1953, and 8,340 of them were soldiers...
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    between Finland and Nazi Germany – effectively from September to November 1944 – in Finland's northernmost region, Lapland. Though the Finns and the Germans...
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    Command needed aerial photos to develop plans for its air raids. On 10 October 1944 the Committee of Operations Analysts, which provided advice to USAAF...
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  • Graham Carr (category 1944 births)
    William Graham Carr (born 25 October 1944) is an English former professional footballer, manager and scout. He is currently an associate director for Northampton...
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