November 1944 calendar

Events

• 01 Nov 1944 Zeeuws and Flanders freed
• 02 Nov 1944 Auschwitz begins gassing inmates
• 03 Nov 1944 German troops in Vlissingen surrenders
• 04 Nov 1944 RAF bombs Dinteloord, 54 killed
• 05 Nov 1944 Allied troops reach Zoutelande Walcheren
• 06 Nov 1944 Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility in the USA, subsequently used in the Fat Man Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
• 07 Nov 1944 FDR wins 4th term in office, defeating Thomas E Dewey
• 08 Nov 1944 Last German troops at Walcheren surrenders
• 09 Nov 1944 Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize
• 10 Nov 1944 German riots in Rotterdam / Schiedam 52,000 men sent to Germany
• 11 Nov 1944 New York Rangers set NHL record of 25 games without a win (0-21-4).
• 12 Nov 1944 World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers in one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of war and sinks the German battleship Tirpitz, with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs off Troms?, Norway.
• 15 Nov 1944 Surprise attack on office of Nethche Bank
• 16 Nov 1944 US 9th division and 1st Army attacks at Geilenkirchen
• 19 Nov 1944 World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling $14 billion USD in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
• 20 Nov 1944 1st Japanse suicide submarine attack
• 21 Nov 1944 Personnel and executive staff of Philips demonstrate for more food
• 22 Nov 1944 Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry occupies Hoven at Geilenkirchen
• 23 Nov 1944 US 7th army under General Patch conquers Straatsburg
• 24 Nov 1944 US bombers based on Saipan first attack Tokyo, Japan.
• 25 Nov 1944 32nd CFL Grey Cup: Montreal HMCS defeat Hamilton Flying Wildcats, 7-6
• 26 Nov 1944 1st allied marines move onto Antwerp harbor
• 27 Nov 1944 3,500-4,000 ton explosive, explodes in Staffordshire, 68 killed
• 28 Nov 1944 1st allied ship sails into Schelde Antwerp
• 29 Nov 1944 Albania liberated from Nazi control
• 30 Nov 1944 Biggest and last British Battleship HMS Vanguard runs aground

Famous Birthday

• Danny Devito
• Ulla (spokesman of prostitutes)
• Patrice Chéreau

  French screen actor, and opera, stage, and film director ("La Reine Margot"), considered to be the most talented director of his generation;...

• Rem Koolhaas

  Dutch architect and academic designed the Seattle Central Library.

• Keith Emerson

  British musician with more energy than one person can contain.

• Marie-France Stirbois
• Harold Ramis

  Director.

• Stephanie Clement

  American pro astrologer with a pragmatic approach.

• Rafiq Hariri
• Gene Clark

  American musician, vocalist and guitar and tambourine player beginning with the "New Christy Minstrels.

• Gene Clark

  American musician, vocalist and guitar and tambourine player beginning with the "New Christy Minstrels.

• Wolfgang Joop

  German fashion designer who is well known for his designs and for his perfume line.

• Tim Rice

  American-British impresario, a former Disc Jockey who teamed up with Andrew Lloyd-Webber to help create some of the most famous musicals...

• Dian Parkinson

  American model and actress Miss District of Columbia USA 1965.

• Ben Stein

  Game Show Host.

• Tiffany Holmes

  American pro astrologer and author.

• Daniel Duval

  French film actor, director, and writer.

• Tom Seaver

  American professional baseball player known as "Tom Terrific" with the New York Mets who led them from ninth place in 1968 to first place in...

• Oscar Temaru

  French-Polynesian soldier and politician President of French Polynesia.

• Angel Thompson

  American pro astrologer, and international lecturer and a founding member of AFAN.

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Famous Deaths

• Lord Moyne

  British prefect (Middle-East), murdered.

• Segundo "Boy" Ecury

  Aruba -- WWII resistance fighter, executed at 22.

• Richard Sorge & Ozaki

  Spies, hanged in Tokyo.

• Edgar Stillman Kelley

  US Composer (Gulliver), dies at 87.

• George D Birkhoff

  US Mathematician (Aesthetic measure), dies at 60.

• Wang Tjing-Wei

  Premier China (1932-35).

• Maarten Reuchlin

  Resistance fighter, executed.

• Sekio Nishina

  Japanese inventor (kaiten-suicide submarine).

• Arthur Stanley Eddington

  English astrophysicist (Born 1882).

• EMHCH Houtappel

  Resistance fighter: in Neuengamme.

• Vaclav Stepan

  Composer, dies at 54.

• Kenesaw Mountain Landis

  American baseball commissioner (Born 1866).

• Bijnen

  Dutch opposition leader (LKP), shot to death in Apeldoorn.

• Camille Looten

  Belgian priest / literature historian.

• Joop Brouwer de Koning

  Youngest Dutch radio operator, executed at 25.

• Lode Zielens

  Flemish Author / journalist, dies at 43.

• Max Halbe

  Writer, dies at 79.

• Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam

  Russian physicist (Born 1879).

• Hannah Senesh

  Jewish poetess, executed by Germans in Budapest.

• Hannah Szenes

  Jewish woman who parachuted into Yugoslavia during World War II to help save the Jews of Hungary (Born 1921).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Stan Kenton & His Orchestra - How Many Hearts Have You Broken?
2. Ella Fitzgerald & Ink Spots - Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall
3. Ella Fitzgerald & Ink Spots - I'm Making Believe
4. Russ Morgan & His Orchestra - Dance with a Dolly (With a Hole in Her Stocking)
5. Louis Prima - Oh Marie