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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in April 1944.
The US president was Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was Winston Churchill (Conservative), Pope Pius XII was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on April 1944: find out below

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Historical Events

Which were the important events of April 1944?


Events

  • 01 Apr 1944 German Abwehr ends England spiel, after 132 killed
  • 02 Apr 1944 CPI-leader Palmiro Togliatti returns to Italy.
  • 03 Apr 1944 British dive bombers attack battle cruiser Tirpitz
  • 04 Apr 1944 British troops capture Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
  • 05 Apr 1944 140 Lancasters bomb airplane manufacturer in Toulouse.
  • 06 Apr 1944 Jewish nursery at Izieu-Ain, France overrun by Germans.
  • 09 Apr 1944 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientals Ecclesiae
  • 10 Apr 1944 Patrolling the Ether is shown on 3 TV stations simultaneously
  • 11 Apr 1944 RAF bombs census bureau in The Hague.
  • 13 Apr 1944 SC rejects black suffrage
  • 14 Apr 1944 Freighter Fort Stikene explodes in Bombay India, killing 1,376
  • 16 Apr 1944 Allied forces started bombing of Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.
  • 19 Apr 1944 Allied fleet attack Sabang Sumatra.
  • 20 Apr 1944 NFL legalizes coaching from the bench.
  • 21 Apr 1944 NFL Chicago Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers merge (dissolves on December 3).
  • 22 Apr 1944 Hitler and Mussolini meet at Salzburg
  • 24 Apr 1944 RAF bombs Munich
  • 25 Apr 1944 United Negro College Fund incorporates in the USA.
  • 26 Apr 1944 First B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down.
  • 27 Apr 1944 Boston Braves' Jim Tobin no-hits Brooklyn Dodgers, 2-0.
  • 28 Apr 1944 Stalin meets Polish / US priest S Orlemanski
  • 29 Apr 1944 Surprise attack by Van de Peat on General Landsdrukkerij in the Hague.

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Music charts

Which were the top hits in April 1944?
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Top #5 songs in the USA

  1. - Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
  2. - I Love You
  3. - Mairzy Doats
  4. - It's Love-Love-Love
  5. - I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You)

Movies

Which were the most popular Movies released in that month?
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Going My Way

Going My Way

Release year: 1944

Directed by: Leo McCarey

Starring: Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Frank McHugh, James Brown

Country: United States of America

Two Girls and a Sailor

Two Girls and a Sailor

Release year: 1944

Directed by: Richard Thorpe

Starring: Van Johnson, June Allyson, Gloria DeHaven, José Iturbi

Country: United States of America

Rosie the Riveter

Rosie the Riveter

Release year: 1944

Directed by: Joseph Santley

Starring: Jane Frazee, Frank Albertson, Barbara Jo Allen, Frank Jenks

Tawny Pipit

Tawny Pipit

Release year: 1944

Directed by: Bernard Miles, Charles Saunders

Starring: Bernard Miles, Rosamund John, Niall MacGinnis, Jean Gillie

Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble

Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble

Release year: 1944

Directed by: George B. Seitz

Starring: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden, Sara Haden