May 1944 calendar

Events

• 01 May 1944 Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin
• 02 May 1944 WABD (WNEW, now WNYW) TV channel 5 in NYC (DUM / MET / FOX) 1st broadcast
• 03 May 1944 Meet Me in St. Louis opens on Broadway
• 05 May 1944 Russian offensive against Sebastopol Krim.
• 06 May 1944 KJR-AM in Seattle Washington swaps calls with KOMO
• 08 May 1944 33 communist resistance fighter sentenced to death
• 09 May 1944 Country singer Jimmie Davis becomes Governor of Louisiana.
• 10 May 1944 US court case Smith v Allwright: excluding Blacks from primary voting is illegal.
• 11 May 1944 Opposition group surprise attack post office Washer
• 12 May 1944 Krim purged of Nazi troops
• 13 May 1944 70th Preakness: Conn McCreary aboard Pensive wins in 1:59.2.
• 14 May 1944 British troops occupy Kohima.
• 15 May 1944 Dwight Eisenhower, Bernard Montgomery, Winston Churchill and King George VI discuss D-Day plan.
• 16 May 1944 Military police attack gypsies
• 17 May 1944 Operation Straightline: Allies land in the Netherlands New-Guinea
• 18 May 1944 Expulsion of more than 200,000 Tartars from Crimea by Soviet Union begins; they are accused of collaborating with the Germans.
• 19 May 1944 240 gypsies transported to Auschwitz from Westerbork Netherlands.
• 20 May 1944 US Communist Party dissolves.
• 21 May 1944 Adolf Hitler begins attack on English/US "terror pilots".
• 23 May 1944 Operation-Buffalo: Allied jailbreak out Anzio-bridgehead.
• 24 May 1944 Icelandic voters sever all ties with Denmark.
• 25 May 1944 Partisan leader Tito escapes Germans surrounding Bosnia.
• 26 May 1944 US 82nd Airborne division D-day-landing at La Haye du Puits to Ste MFre Eglise.
• 27 May 1944 Jean-Paul Sartres Huis Clos, premieres in Paris
• 29 May 1944 British troops occupy Aprilia, Italy.
• 30 May 1944 Transport nr 75 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
• 31 May 1944 Allied breakthrough in Italy

Famous Birthday

• Rudy Giuliani

  American politician, the charismatic and controversial mayor of New York City and a candidate for the Republican nomination in the 2008...

• George Lucas

  American director, writer, producer and film genius.

• Alain Souchon

  French pop singer, songwriter and actor of Swiss descent (mother) born in Morocco.

• Marie-France Pisier

  French actress and director born in Vietnam where her father was stationed, she is a member of a noted family.

• Joe Cocker

  British musician, a singer and drummer known for gutsy vocals and spastic gestures.

• Yves Simon

  French singer and writer, he has published more than 30 books and released 20 albums of songs.

• Patti Labelle
• Pierre Bachelet

  French singer-songwriter with a "gentle romantic voice".

• Helmut Berger

  Actor (Ash Wednesday, Damned, Picture of Dorian Gray).

• Dave (singer)
• Danny Trejo

  American actor.

• Jean-Pierre Léaud

  French actor, appearing in his first film at age 13.

• Armande Altaï
• Dominique Lavanant

  French actress, Cesar award-winning film and theatrical actress.

• Gladys Knight

  American singer, leader of the long-lived rhythm and blues pop group "Gladys Knight and The Pips.

• Michel Noir

  French executive, commercial director for a branch of the Péchiney group; Marketing and human relations Consultant, 1972-78; National...

• French presidential election 1988
• Gary Glitter

  Rock Singer.

• Sondra Locke

  American actress singer and director.

• Ringo (singer)
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Famous Deaths

• Henk Hos

  Resistance fighter, executed at 37.

• Ethel Mary Smyth

  Composer, dies at 86.

• Leone Sinigaglia

  Composer, dies at 75.

• Max Brand [Frederick Schiller Faust]

  Western author.

• Arthur T Quiller-Couch [Q]

  British author/critic, dies at age 80.

• Katri Vala

  Finnish poet, dies at age 42.

• Themistoklis Diakidis

  Greek high jumper (Born 1882).

• Arthur Quiller-Couch

  English writer (Born 1863).

• Christian Wirth

  German military, an SS Major and head of the death camps organization in Poland 1942-1943.

• Max Brand

  American journalist and author (d. 1944).

• Jessie Ralph

  Actress (Good Earth, San Francisco), dies at 79.

• George Ade

  US novelist/playwright (Counsel Widow), dies at age 78.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Perry Como - Long Ago (and Far Away)
2. Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - G.I. Jive
3. Ink Spots - I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You
4. Louis Prima - I'll Walk Alone
5. Jo Stafford - Long Ago (And Far Away)