August 1944 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 1944 Adam Clayton Powell elected 1st black congressman from East
• 02 Aug 1944 Amsterdam soccer team The Volewijckers plays in orange shirts
• 03 Aug 1944 Allied troops conquer Myitkyina Burma
• 04 Aug 1944 Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by Nazis
• 05 Aug 1944 US 79th / 90th division occupy Laval / Mayenne
• 06 Aug 1944 All 1,200 Jewish death marchers from Lipcani Moldavia have died
• 07 Aug 1944 Anton de Kom arrested by Surinam resistance fighter
• 08 Aug 1944 Canada / Polish troops occupy Cramesnil / Secqueville / Cintheaux / St-Aignan
• 09 Aug 1944 12 workers of Dutch illegal paper Trouw, executed at Camp Vught
• 10 Aug 1944 US recaptures Guam from Japanese
• 11 Aug 1944 British Premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy
• 12 Aug 1944 Churchill and Tito meet in Naples
• 13 Aug 1944 British 8th army occupies Florence
• 14 Aug 1944 British Premier Winston Churchill arrives at Corsica
• 15 Aug 1944 Allied air raid on train in North Netherlands, 32 killed
• 16 Aug 1944 2nd Canadian Division occupies Falaise Normandy
• 17 Aug 1944 4th Canadian Armour division occupiers Trun Normandy
• 18 Aug 1944 Paris railroad workers strike against Nazi occupiers
• 19 Aug 1944 Allied air raid on Maastricht, 80+ killed
• 20 Aug 1944 Anna Lucasta, opens on Broadway
• 21 Aug 1944 Germans storm up Hill 262 (Mont Ormel) Normandy
• 22 Aug 1944 Last transport of French Jews to Nazi-Germany
• 23 Aug 1944 Allied troops capture Marseilles France
• 24 Aug 1944 Gen LeClercs troops open assault on Paris
• 25 Aug 1944 France 2nd Tank division under General Leclerc reaches Notre Dame
• 26 Aug 1944 Bulgaria announces withdrawal and German troops are to be disarmed
• 27 Aug 1944 200 Halifax bombers attack oil-installations in Homburg
• 28 Aug 1944 Last German troops in Marseille surrendered and Toulon cleared
• 29 Aug 1944 Anti German rebellion in Slovakia
• 30 Aug 1944 11th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 24, All-Stars 21
• 31 Aug 1944 Allied offensive at Gothen-linie, Italy

Famous Birthday

• Sylvie Vartan

  French singer, born to an Armenian-Bulgarian father (originally Vartanian) and to a Hungarian mother.

• Kay Parker

  British-American actress, a leading player in the X-rated genre of adult entertainment.

• John Holmes

  American porno star who was reputed to have 13" of qualification and who once boasted of having sex with 14,000 women.

• Rajiv Gandhi

  Indian politician and noted family, the eldest son of Indira Gandhi.

• Christine Chubbuck
• Larry Ellison

  CEO of Oracle Corporation, billionaire.

• Sam Elliott

  Movie Actor.

• Bernard Boursicot

  French minor administrator who had a affair in China that was so romantic and so strange that it gave birth to the sensational New York...

• Patrick Devedjian

  French politician of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party.

• Robert Ryan

  American bullfighter.

• Paulo Leminski

  Brazilian poet, known for his exquisite verbal invention and detached irony.

• Richard Belzer

  American actor who began his career as a comedian and became best known for his role as Detective John Munch on the television series...

• Gianfranco Ferrè
• Peter Weir

  Sydney, NSW -- Director / writer (Witness, Dead poets Society).

• Patrick Depailler

  French race car driver who participated in 95 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 2 July 1972.

• William Benaïm
• Bernard Menez
• Dominique Desseigne

  French businessman, chairmain of the casin Lucien Barrière.

• Ian McDiarmid

  Scottish actor.

• Frédéric Vitoux

  French writer and journalist.

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Famous Deaths

• Morten Nielsen

  Danish resistance fighter.

• Felix Nussbaum

  German Painter (Widerstandskunst), dies in Auschwitz.

• Felka Platek

  Wife of Painter Felix Nussbaum, dies in Auschwitz.

• Berthold Schenk von Stauffenberg

  Attempt Hitler assassination.

• Roman Padlewski

  Composer, dies at 28.

• Henry J Wood

  English conductor (My Life of Music, Proms), dies at 75.

• Nikolay Andreyevich Roslavets

  Composer, dies at 63.

• Krijn van den Helm

  Resistance fighter (KP Leeuwarden), shot to death.

• Mussa Dshalil

  Writer.

• Killinger

  German ambassador to Romania, commits suicide.

• Georg von Boeselager

  German nobleman (Born 1915).

• Manuel L Quezon

  First President of the Philippine Commonwealth (Born 1878).

• Maurice Turnbull

  English cricketer (Born 1906).

• Joseph P Kennedy

  Jr.

• Gunther von Kluge

  German field marshal (Born 1882).

• Michael Wittmann

  German WWII tank commander (Born 1914).

• Chaim Soutine

  Belarusian-French painter (d. 1943).

• Erwin von Witzleben

  Polish-German field marshal (d. 1944).

• Raymond Aimos

  Actor (Golem, Mayerling, La Bandera), dies at 55.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Helen Forrest - Time Waits For No One
2. Betty Hutton - It Had To Be You
3. Three Suns - How Many Hearts Have You Broken
4. Frank Sinatra - I Couldn't Sleep A Wink Last Night
5. Dinah Shore - I'll Walk Alone