December 1944 calendar

Events

• 01 Dec 1944 Mail routing resumes in free South Netherlands.
• 02 Dec 1944 General De Gaulle arrives in Moscow
• 03 Dec 1944 Mussert puts Seyss-Inquart plan for small Nazi-Europe
• 04 Dec 1944 Germans destroy Rhine dikes, flooding Betuwe.
• 05 Dec 1944 German troops rob all the silver coin in Utrecht.
• 06 Dec 1944 US 95th Infantry division reaches German Westwall.
• 07 Dec 1944 Convention on International Civil Aviation drawn up in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
• 10 Dec 1944 9 Dutch citizens hanged by Nazis
• 11 Dec 1944 Surprise attack on House of Keeping Axe, 29 prisoners freed
• 12 Dec 1944 December 13 ampndash WWII: British units attempt to take the hilltop town of Tossignano, but are repulsed.
• 13 Dec 1944 Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138.
• 14 Dec 1944 Begin (ning) Liese-Aktion: werving of labor force for Germany
• 15 Dec 1944 bandleader/composer Glenn Miller ("Chattanooga Choo-Choo"), at age 40, in a plane crash between London and Paris.
• 16 Dec 1944 Battle of Bulge begins in Belgium
• 17 Dec 1944 Japanese-Americans released from detention camps
• 18 Dec 1944 US Destroyers Hull, Spence, and Monaghan sink in typhoon off Philippines, 790 killed.
• 19 Dec 1944 The entire territory of Estonia is taken by the Red Army.
• 20 Dec 1944 Archbishop De Young and Bishop Huibers condemn black market
• 22 Dec 1944 Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium
• 23 Dec 1944 Beginning of harsh winter
• 26 Dec 1944 Budapest surrounded by Soviet army.
• 27 Dec 1944 Greece: British Premier Churchill flies back to London
• 28 Dec 1944 Eisenhower and Montgomery meet in Hasselt Belgium
• 29 Dec 1944 Gen Eisenhowers train returns to Versailles
• 30 Dec 1944 King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving the throne vacant.
• 31 Dec 1944 48 people die in a train accident in Ogden, Utah, USA.

Famous Birthday

• Pierre Arditi

  French actor.

• Brenda Lee

  American singer billed as "Little Miss Dynamite, the little girl with the big voice," from the time she was a 4' 9" (approximately 145 cm)...

• John Densmore

  American musician, the drummer and fourth member of the superstar rock group "The Doors.

• Marcel Rufo

  French pedopsychiatrist, author, and radio-TV presenter.

• Teri Garr

  American actress and comedienne who was a regular on the "Sonny and Cher Comedy Review," 1974.

• Teri Garr

  American actress and comedienne who was a regular on the "Sonny and Cher Comedy Review," 1974.

• Daniel Pennac

  French writer of Corsican descent, formerly teacher, he won the "Renaudot" Prize in 2007 for his essay "Chagrin d'école".

• Dennis Wilson

  American musician, songwriter and drummer with "The Beach Boys," a top American group with the staying power to survive their clashes in the...

• Patrick Topaloff

  French comedian, singer, and actor.

• Kary Mullis

  American chemist and winner of the Nobel Prize at age 48.

• Noël Lucas
• Tahar Ben Jelloun

  French writer of Moroccan origin.

• Kenny Everett

  British actor and comedian.

• António Variacoes
• Jeroen Krabbé

  Dutch actor director and producer.

• Bernard Hill

  English actor.

• Cathy Lee Crosby
• Bernard Hill

  English actor.

• Taylor Hackford

  American film director and producer and noted spouse, the husband of British actress Helen Mirren.

• Rebecca Welles
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Famous Deaths

• Glenn Miller

  American musician, a trombonist and big band leader, famous for popular swing-era hits like "In The Mood", "Chattanooga Choo Choo" and...

• Harry Langdon

  American actor director and screenwriter (d. 1944).

• Joseph Gustav Mraczek

  Composer, dies at 66.

• Vassily Kandinsky

  Abstract artist (Dreamy Inspiration), dies at 78.

• Pieter A Roodenburgh

  Student / resistance fighter, dies at 26.

• Vassily V Kandinsky

  Russian / German / French painter.

• Amy Marcy Cheney Beach

  Composer, dies at 77.

• Rudolph Karstadt

  German entrepreneur (Born 1856).

• Filippo T Marinetti

  Italian writer (father of futurism), dies at age 67.

• Abbas Hilmi II

  viceroy of Egypt (1892-1914), dies at age 70.

• Romain Roland

  French writer/pacifist (Nobel Prize 1915), dies at age 78.

• Josef Lhevinne

  Russian pianist (Born 1874).

• Betsie ten Boom

  sister of Corrie ten Boom and Holocaust victim (Born 1885).

• George Steer

  British journalist (Born 1909).

• Wassily Kandinsky

  Russian artist, an expressionist painter, who in the years immediately preceding World War I, completed an amazing transformation of art in...

• Antoine Mariotte

  French physicist, chemical researcher and composer.

• Eiji Sawamura

  Japanese baseball player and soldier (d. 1944).

• Roger Bresnahan

  American baseball player and manager (d. 1944).

• Abbas II

  Abbas II of Egypt (d. 1944).

• John Brunt

  English captain Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1944).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Ginny Simms - Wish You Were Waiting For Me
2. Bing Crosby - White Christmas
3. Charlie Spivak - Let Me Love You
4. Andy Russell - I Dream Of You (More Than You Dream I Do)
5. Frank Sinatra - White Christmas