February 1944 calendar

Events

• 01 Feb 1944 US 7th Infantry / 25th Marine Division lands on Kwajalein / Roi / Namur
• 02 Feb 1944 Baseball meets in NYC to discuss postwar action
• 03 Feb 1944 World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison.
• 04 Feb 1944 US 7th Infantry Division captures Kwajalein.
• 05 Feb 1944 358 RAF-bombers attack Stettin, Germany.
• 07 Feb 1944 Bing Crosby records Swinging on a Star for Decca Records
• 08 Feb 1944 1st black reporter accredited to White House, Harry McAlpin
• 09 Feb 1944 U-734 / U-238 sunk off Ireland
• 10 Feb 1944 Belgium resistance fighter / Author Kamiel van Baelen arrested
• 11 Feb 1944 U-424 sunk off Ireland
• 12 Feb 1944 Wendell Wilkie (Republican) enters US presidential race.
• 14 Feb 1944 Carl Wick publishes Salmon Trolling for Commercial and Sport Fishing
• 15 Feb 1944 Bombing and shooting at Monte Cassino convent Italy, begins
• 17 Feb 1944 US begins night bombing of Truk.
• 18 Feb 1944 Maastricht resistance fighter JAJ Janssen arrested
• 19 Feb 1944 U-264 sinks off Ireland
• 20 Feb 1944 Batman and Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers
• 21 Feb 1944 War As It Happens news show premieres on NBC TV
• 22 Feb 1944 US 8th Air Force bombs Enschede, Arnhem and Nijmegen by mistake / 800+ die
• 23 Feb 1944 The Soviet Union begins the forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people from the North Caucasus to Central Asia.
• 24 Feb 1944 Leo Hendrick A Baekeland, Belgian/US chemist (Bakelite), dies at age 80.
• 25 Feb 1944 US 1st Army completes invasion plan
• 26 Feb 1944 1st female US navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed
• 29 Feb 1944 US troops land on Los Negros, Admirality Islands.

Famous Birthday

• François Cevert

  French race car driver, he died October 6, 1973 on a qualifying run on the circuit of Watkins Glen, USA.

• Jerry Springer

  British-American host of "The Jerry Springer Show," a violent, confrontational, infamous television talk show.

• Robert Kardashian

  Armenian-American lawyer (Born 1944).

• Stockard Channing

  Movie Actress.

• Christine Boutin

  French politician leading the french Christian democratic party.

• Marc Beriault

  Canadian astrologer, author and teacher of occult subjects.

• Dennis Farina

  TV Actor.

• Sebastiao Salgado

  Brazilian documentary photographer.

• Jean-Pierre Bisson

  French theater actor and director, an enfant terrible at his best.

• Jonathan Demme

  American director producer and screenwriter.

• Peter Allen

  Australian singer-songwriter pianist and actor (d. 1992).

• Jean-Paul Dupré
• Jean-Marie Olivier
• Mick Avory

  British musician, a member of the rock group "The Kinks," internationally known.

• Paul Fireman

  American business executive whose holdings in Reebok stock put him on the Forbes 400 list in 1986 at a net worth of $270 million.

• Alain Lamassoure
• Richard Ford (writer)
• Alan Parker

  English director producer and screenwriter.

• Alan Parker

  English director producer and screenwriter.

• Sal Bando

  American baseball player, a right-handed third baseman with the Milwaukee Brewers.

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Famous Deaths

• Martin Lunssens

  Composer, dies at 72.

• Edmund von Borck

  Composer, dies at 37.

• Siegfried Garibaldi Kallenberg

  Composer, dies at 76.

• Leo Hendrik Baekeland

  Flemish-American chemist and inventor of the first synthetic plastic, Bakelite (Born 1863).

• Leo H A Baekeland

  Belgian / US chemist (bakeliet), dies at 80.

• Ivan Sollertinski

  Friend of Russian Composer D Sjostakovitsj.

• Pehr Evind Svinhufvud

  President of Finland (Born 1861).

• Robert E Park

  sociologist (human ecology, marginal man), dies at age 79.

• Fausto Agnelli

  Swiss painter, dies at age 64.

• Eugene Michel Antoniadi

  Greek astronomer (Born 1870).

• Yvette Guilbert

  French stage actress and well-known singer of the Belle Époque.

• Piet Mondrian

  Dutch artist influenced by Cubism, who developed a highly geometric nonobjective style he called neoplasticism.

• Arsen Kotsoyev

  Russian author and translator (d. 1944).

• Kasturba Gandhi

  Indian wife of Mahatma Gandhi (d. 1944).

• Henri Nathansen

  Danish writer and stage director (Born 1868).

• Ferenc Szisz

  Hungarian-born race car driver (Born 1873).

• Lina Cavalieri

  Italian opera soprano singer, actress, and monologist, in her time referred to as the "world's most beautiful woman.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Woody Herman & His Orchestra - Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me
2. Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra - Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
3. Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra - When They Ask About You
4. Johnny Long & His Orchestra - No Love, No Nothin'
5. David Rose & His Orchestra - Holiday For Strings