Date: February 17, 1944
World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500. Date: September 11, 1944 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 11 📅 Events on this day in 1944 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1944Battle of the Bulge Begins: German Ardennes Offensive, December 16, 1944IBM…
The Jussi Awards, the Finnish film award ceremony, is held for the first time at Restaurant Adlon in Helsinki. Date: November 16, 1944 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 16 📅 Events on this day in 1944 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1944Maurice Richard Scores Eight Points in…
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. Date: March 24, 1944 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 24 📅 Events on this day in 1944 📅 On This Day…
World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated: Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea. Date: April 22, 1944 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 22 📅 Events on this day in 1944 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1944Fragheto Massacre: German 356th…
World War II: The USS Shark (SS-314) was lost with all 87 hands in the Bashi Straits after torpedoing the Japanese freighter Arisan Maru. Date: October 24, 1944 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 24 📅 Events on this day in 1944 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1944British…
World War II: The Battle of Hürtgen Forest begins. It will become the second-longest individual battle that the U.S. Army has ever fought. Date: September 19, 1944 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 19 📅 Events on this day in 1944 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1944World War…