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1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1944th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 944th year of the 2nd millennium, the 44th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1940s decade.
U.S. presidential election, 1944: Franklin D. Roosevelt wins reelection over Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey, becoming the only U.S. president elected to a fourth term. A passenger train derails in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, due to excessive speed on a declining hill; 16 are killed, 50 injured. November 26 – USS Bon Homme Richard is ...
28: Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr., dead of a heart attack on 12 July 1944, is posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his leadership and actions on D-Day at Utah Beach.:The Soviets capture entire mainland Estonia. 29: Soviet forces begin the Moonsund Landing Operation to capture the West Estonian archipelago from German forces.
In 1944, the constantly growing Southern protest against Roosevelt's leadership became clearest in Texas, where 135,553 people voted against Roosevelt but not for the Republican ticket. The Texas Regular ticket resulted from a split in the Democratic Party in its two state conventions, May 23 and September 12, 1944.
The year 1944 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Astronomy. Hendrik van de Hulst predicts the 21 cm hyperfine line of ...
Photo and painting: Amphibious vehicles carry troops across Scheldt River, Belgium, 1944 [8] Men of 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion go on 3-day hunger strike while training in England after D-Day [9] Battle morale under "terrible strain" as fresh recruits with only 30 days' training go into combat in Netherlands [10]
Action of 11 January 1944: The Japanese cruiser Kuma was torpedoed and sunk off Penang, Malaya by the British submarine Tally-Ho. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt made the annual State of the Union Address to Congress, in which he proposed the Second Bill of Rights guaranteeing such things as housing, medical care and education.
Action of 14 February 1944: In one of the few naval engagements in the Asian and Pacific theater to involve German and Italian forces, the British submarine Tally-Ho sank the German-commanded U-boat UIT-23 (formerly the Italian submarine Giuliani). The United States declared neutrality in the border dispute between Poland and the Soviet Union. [2]