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Events from the year 1944 in the United States.
Incumbents
Events
January
February
March
- March 1 – Essex-class aircraft carriers USS Tarawa (CV-40) and USS Kearsarge (CV-33) are laid down, at Norfolk Naval Shipyard and Brooklyn Navy Yard respectively.
- March 2 – The 16th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by Jack Benny, is held, the first Oscar ceremony held at a large public venue, Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Michael Curtiz's Casablanca wins the Outstanding Motion Picture, with Curtiz winning Best Director. Henry King's The Song of Bernadette receives the most nominations with 12 and wins the most awards with four.
- March 4 – In Ossining, New York, Louis Buchalter, the leader of 1930s crime syndicate Murder, Inc., is executed at Sing Sing prison, along with Emanuel "Mendy" Weiss and Louis Capone.
April
May
June
- June 4 – A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U-505, marking the first time a U.S. Navy vessel has captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
- June 5 – US and British paratrooper divisions jump over Normandy, in preparation for D-Day. All including 82nd and 101st Airborne divisions of the United States.
- June 6 – World War II – Battle of Normandy: Operation Overlord, commonly known as D-Day, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The Allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland, in the largest amphibious military operation in history. This operation helps liberate France from Germany and also weakens the Nazi hold on Europe.
- June 15
- June 16 – George Stinney, a 14-year old African-American, is executed after being accused of killing two white girls in his hometown, Alcolu, South Carolina. The execution takes place in South Carolina Penitentiary in Columbia, South Carolina by electric chair.
- June 26 – World War II: American troops enter Cherbourg.
July
August
- August 6 – USS Bennington is commissioned.
- August 7 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled computer, the electromechanical Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
- August 9 – The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
- August 12 – Major fire at Luna Park, Coney Island, New York.
- August 14 – Fort Lawton riot
- August 15 – World War II: Operation Dragoon lands Allies in southern France. The U.S. Army 45th Infantry Division participates in its fourth assault landing at St. Maxime, spearheading the drive for the Belfort Gap.
- August 20 – World War II: American forces successfully defeat Nazi forces at Chambois, closing the Falaise Gap.
- August 22 – World War II: Tsushima Maru, an unmarked Japanese passenger/cargo ship, is sunk by torpedoes launched by the submarine USS Bowfin off Akuseki-jima, killing 1,484 civilians including 767 schoolchildren.
- August 31 – The mysterious "Mad Gasser of Mattoon" attacks in Mattoon, Illinois, apparently resume.
September
October
November
December
- December 10 – Legendary Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini leads a concert performance of the first half of Beethoven's Fidelio (minus its spoken dialogue) on NBC Radio, starring Rose Bampton. He chooses this opera for its political message – a statement against tyranny and dictatorship. Presenting it in German, Toscanini intends it as a tribute to the German people who are being oppressed by Hitler. The second half is broadcast a week later. The performance is later released on LP and CD, the first of 7 operas that Toscanini conducts on radio.
- December 13 – Battle of Mindoro: United States, Australian and Philippine Commonwealth troops land in Mindoro Island, the Philippines.
- December 16 – General George C. Marshall becomes the first Five-Star General.
- December 22 – World War II: Brigadier General Anthony C. McAuliffe, commander of the U.S. forces defending Bastogne, refuses to accept demands for surrender by sending a one-word reply, "Nuts!", to the German command.
- December 24–26 – Agana race riot in Guam between white and black United States Marines.
- December 26
- December 30 – Edward Stettinius Jr. becomes the last United States Secretary of State of the Roosevelt administration, filling the seat left by Cordell Hull.
Undated
- National Committee for Education on Alcoholism, predecessor of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, is established by Marty Mann.
- 14-year-old Warren Buffett's father introduces him to a newspaper office to do the job of taking a newspaper to the subscriber. Then, with a salary of US$1,200, he buys 40 acres of land and starts a sub-leased tenant farming business.
- Rio Grande company is founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico.[3]
Ongoing
Births
January
- January 1
- January 2 – Lowell M. Snow, General authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)[4]
- January 4
- January 5 – Carolyn McCarthy, American nurse and politician[5]
- January 6 – Bonnie Franklin, American actress, singer, dancer and television director (d. 2013)
- January 9 – Ian Hornak, American painter (d. 2002)
- January 10 – Frank Sinatra Jr., American singer, songwriter and actor (d. 2016)[6]
- January 11 – Jim McAndrew, American baseball player (d. 2024)[7]
- January 12 – Joe Frazier, African American boxer, world heavyweight champion from 1970 to 1973 (d. 2011)
- January 13 – Chris von Saltza, American swimmer
- January 19
- January 25 – Evan Chandler, American screenwriter and dentist (d. 2009)
- January 26
- January 27 – Sam Smith, American basketball player (d. 2022)[9]
- January 28 – Susan Howard, American actress
February
- February 1
- February 3 – Wayne Comer, American baseball player (d. 2023)
- February 5 – Al Kooper, American rock musician (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
- February 8 – Bunky Henry, American professional golfer (d. 2018)
- February 9 – Alice Walker, African-American novelist and poet
- February 11 – Mike Oxley, American politician (d. 2016)
- February 12 – Moe Bandy, American country music singer
- February 13
- February 14 – Carl Bernstein, American journalist
- February 15 – Rommy Hunt Revson, singer and inventor (d. 2022)
- February 16 – Richard Ford, American novelist
- February 19 – Donald F. Glut, American writer, film director and screenwriter
- February 22
- February 23
- February 27 – Ken Grimwood, American writer (d. 2003)
- February 29
March
- March 1 – John Breaux, American politician
- March 3 – Odessa Cleveland, American actress (M*A*S*H)
- March 4 – Bobby Womack, African-American singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
- March 6 – Mary Wilson, African-American singer (The Supremes) (d. 2021)
- March 7
- March 11 – Richard McGeagh, American Olympic swimmer and water polo player (d. 2021)[10]
- March 14 – Steve Daskewisz, American actor (d. 2018)
- March 15 – Ralph MacDonald, American percussionist, songwriter (d. 2011)
- March 16 – Granville Van Dusen, American actor
- March 17 – John Sebastian, American singer-songwriter (The Lovin' Spoonful)
- March 20 – Camille Cosby, philanthropist
- March 23 – Ric Ocasek, American singer, songwriter and record producer (The Cars) (d. 2019)
- March 24 – R. Lee Ermey, U.S. Marine and actor (d. 2018)
- March 26 – Diana Ross, African-American actress and singer (The Supremes)
- March 27 – Thomas H. Lee, American private equity investor (d. 2023)[11]
- March 28
- March 29 – Denny McLain, American baseball player
- March 31 – Angus King, American politician
April
- April 1 – Rusty Staub, American baseball player and coach (d. 2018)
- April 3 – Tony Orlando, American musician
- April 4 – Craig T. Nelson, American actor
- April 5 – Peter King, American politician
- April 6 – Judith McConnell, American actress
- April 7
- April 8 – Jimmy Walker, American professional basketball player (d. 2007)
- April 11 – John Milius, American film director, producer and screenwriter
- April 13 – Jack Casady, American rock musician (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna)
- April 18
- April 19
- April 21 – Paul Geremia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- April 22 – Steve Fossett, American millionaire adventurer (d. 2007)
- April 24 – Tony Visconti, American record producer, musician and singer
- April 26
- April 27 – Cuba Gooding Sr., African-American actor and singer (d. 2017)
- April 29 – Richard Kline, American actor and television director
- April 30 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress (d. 2010)
May
June
July
August
- August 4
- August 7
- August 8 – Michael Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2017)
- August 9 – Sam Elliott, American actor
- August 11 – Frederick W. Smith, American businessman (d. 2025)
- August 13 – Kevin Tighe, American actor
- August 15
- August 17 – Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle Corporation
- August 19 – Steve Sloan, American football player and coach (d. 2024)[15]
- August 24
- August 27 – G. W. Bailey, American actor
- August 28 – Karen Durbin, American journalist and film critic (d. 2025)
- August 30 – Tug McGraw, American baseball player (d. 2004)
- August 31 – Earnie Shavers, African-American professional wrestler (d. 2022)
September
October
- October 2 – Vernor Vinge, American science fiction author and mathematician (d. 2024)
- October 4 – Tony La Russa, American baseball player and manager
- October 6 – Mylon LeFevre, American singer and evangelist (d. 2023)
- October 8 – Dale Dye, American actor, technical advisor, radio personality and U.S. Marine
- October 9 – Nona Hendryx, American R&B singer (Labelle)
- October 11 – William T. Greenough, American neuroscientist (d. 2013)
- October 13 – Margo Lion, American theatrical producer (d. 2020)
- October 15
- October 16 – Elizabeth Loftus, American psychologist
- October 19 – George McCrae, American soul and disco singer
- October 28 – Dennis Franz, American actor
- October 31
November
- November 1
- November 2 – Michael Buffer, American ring announcer and actor
- November 3 – Tom Shales, American writer and television critic (d. 2024)[17]
- November 4 – Linda Gary, American voice actress (d. 1995)
- November 5 – Leland Wilkinson, American statistician and computer scientist (d. 2021)[18]
- November 7 – Joe Niekro, American baseball player (d. 2006)
- November 10 – Silvestre Reyes, American politician
- November 12
- November 17
- November 18
- November 20 – Donald DiFrancesco, American lawyer and politician, 51st Governor of New Jersey
- November 21
- November 24 – Candy Darling, American actress (d. 1974)
- November 25 – Ben Stein, American law professor, actor and author
- November 27 – Mickey Leland, American politician (d. 1989)
- November 28 – Rita Mae Brown, American fiction writer and political activist
- November 30 - Dian Parkinson, former model
December
- December 1 – John Densmore, drummer, member of The Doors.
- December 2 – Cathy Lee Crosby, American actress (That's Incredible!)
- December 4 – Dennis Wilson, American drummer (The Beach Boys) (d. 1983)
- December 6
- December 7 – Daniel Chorzempa, American organist (d. 2023)
- December 9 – Ki Longfellow, American novelist (d. 2022)
- December 11
- December 19 – Tim Reid, African-American actor and film director
- December 20 – Bobby Colomby, American drummer and producer
- December 21 – Michael Tilson Thomas, American conductor
- December 22 – Steve Carlton, American baseball player
- December 23 – Wesley Clark, U.S. general and NATO Supreme Allied Commander
- December 26 – Bill Ayers, American education theorist and former radical anti-war activist
- December 28
- December 30 – Joseph Hilbe, American statistician and author
- December 31 – Lois Galgay Reckitt, American activist and politician (d. 2023)
Undated
Deaths
- January 6 – Ida Tarbell, investigative journalist (b. 1857)
- January 7 – Lou Henry Hoover, wife of Herbert Hoover, First Lady of the United States (b. 1874)
- March 7 – August Busck, entomologist and author of works on microlepidoptera (b. 1870 in Denmark)
- March 11 – Irvin S. Cobb, writer (b. 1876)
- March 19 – Henry Francis Bryan, governor of American Samoa (b. 1865)
- April 21 – Florence Trail, educator and author (b. 1854)
- April 25 – George Herriman, cartoonist (Krazy Kat) (b. 1880)
- May 8 – Albert Leo Stevens, balloonist (b. 1877)
- May 23 – Thomas Curtis, hurdler (b. 1873)
- June 30 – Georgia Hopley, journalist, political figure and temperance advocate (b. 1858)
- August 12 – Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., U.S. Navy lieutenant (b. 1915; k. in action)
- September 26 – John Sheridan Weller, attorney and politician (b. 1866)
- September 27 – Aimee Semple McPherson, Pentecostal evangelist (b. 1890 in Canada)[20]
- October 4 – Al Smith, politician (b. 1873)
- October 21 – Lionel Pape, actor (b. 1877)
- October 22 – Richard Bennett, stage and silent screen actor (b. 1870)
- November 2 – Thomas Midgley Jr., mechanical and chemical engineer (b. 1889)
- November 4 – Sir John Dill, British Army field marshal (b. 1881 in Ireland)
- November 9
- November 12 – George Houston, actor (b. 1896)
- November 26 – Florence Foster Jenkins, socialite and amateur soprano (b. 1868)
- December 4
- December 15 - Glenn Miller, conductor, trombonist (b. 1904)
- December 16 – Stuart Paton, British-born screenwriter and film director (b. 1883)
- December 21 – James Redmond, artist, killed in action in Belgium (b. 1901)[21]
- December 31 – Ruth Hanna McCormick, politician, activist and publisher (b. 1880)
See also
References
- ^ Fuller, John F. C. (1956). The Decisive Battles of the Western World. Vol. III. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode.
- ^ Morison, Samuel E. (1956). "Leyte, June 1944–January 1945". History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. XII. Boston: Little & Brown.
- ^ "Meet Rio Grande - JCK". www.jckonline.com. Archived from the original on 27 April 2012. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- ^ "General Authorities and General Officers, Elder Lowell M. Snow". churchofjesuschrist.org. Intellectual Reserve, Inc. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
- ^ Carter, Gregg Lee (2012). "Guns in American Society". An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture and the Law (2nd ed.). ABC-CLIO. p. 539. ISBN 978-0-313-38671-8.
- ^ Rosenberg, Eli (17 March 2016). "Frank Sinatra Jr., singer who followed in his father's footsteps, dies at 72". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
- ^ Member of New York Mets' First World Series Champions Dies
- ^ "Angela Davis". Britannica Presents 100 Women Trailblazers. 25 March 2020. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
- ^ Sam Smith
- ^ Richard McGeagh
- ^ US billionaire financier Thomas Lee found dead at 78
- ^ Retired federal judge Marianne Battani dies after long illness: 'We have lost a gem'
- ^ Jon Roger Brittenum, Sr. San Benito, TX, 1944 - 2022
- ^ Gordon Randall Kehler
- ^ Former Bradley Central and Alabama quarterback Steve Sloan dies
- ^ "Space Shuttle Challenger Fast Facts". CNN. 16 September 2013. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
- ^ Remembering Tom Shales, a TV critic with a biting wit
- ^ Leland Wilkinson, creator of The Grammar of Graphics, passed away
- ^ Herz, Bob (1 November 2019). "Reflections on the Career of Donald T. Nicolaisen". The CPA Journal. New York State Society of CPAs. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
- ^ Bahr, Robert (1979). Least of All Saints: the Story of Aimee Semple McPherson. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-527978-6. OCLC 4493103.
- ^ "James M. Redmond (Service #19179914)". American Battle Monuments Commission. abmc.gov.
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