September 1944 calendar

September 1944
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in September 1944.
The US president was Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was Winston Churchill (Conservative), Pope Pius XII was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on September 1944: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of September 1944?

Events

01 Sep 1944 Bulgaria government of Bagrjanow, resigns
02 Sep 1944 During WWII, George Bush ejects from a burning plane
03 Sep 1944 58th US Womens Tennis: P Betz beats Margaret Osborne duPont
04 Sep 1944 2,087 Jews transported for Westerbork to KZ-Lower Theresienstadt
05 Sep 1944 Mad Tuesday 65,000 Dutch Nazi collaborators flee to Germany
06 Sep 1944 Gen Von Zangens 15th army escape from Zealand
07 Sep 1944 SS-General Kurt Meyer takes Durnal Belgium
08 Sep 1944 1st V-2 rockets land in London and Antwerp
09 Sep 1944 Resistance fighter Jaap Musch arrested in Nijverdal Neth
10 Sep 1944 Lieutenant General Frederick Browning against Montgomery But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far
11 Sep 1944 FDR and Churchill meet in Canada at 2nd Quebec Conference
12 Sep 1944 Noorbeek and Mheer freed
13 Sep 1944 30th Infantry division of US 1st Army frees Margraten
14 Sep 1944 6,500 Dutch / Indonesian captives sent to Junyo Maru
15 Sep 1944 British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs
16 Sep 1944 Adolf Hitler meets with military advisors at Wolfsschanze in East Prussia. Hitler announces he will launch an offensive through the Ardennes, with objective being Antwerp, Belgium. The idea is to isolate the British, Canadian, and two American armies in the north, and force their surrender. The reduced strength of the US might then cause them to make peace, fearful of communist Soviet Union.
17 Sep 1944 British Premier Winston Churchill travels to US
18 Sep 1944 Eindhoven free
19 Sep 1944 Luftwaffe bombs Eindhoven: 200 killed
20 Sep 1944 Nijmegen free
21 Sep 1944 Last British paratroopers at bridge of Arnhem surrenders
22 Sep 1944 Operation Market Garden: Polish paratroopers land at Driel
24 Sep 1944 WWII: The U.S. Army 45th Infantry Division takes the strongly defended city of Epinal before crossing the Moselle River and entering the western foothills of the Vosges.
25 Sep 1944 World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem in the Netherlands, thus ending the Battle of Arnhem and Operation Market Garden.
26 Sep 1944 British and Polish paratroopers evacuate Oosterbeek (Arnhem)
27 Sep 1944 Helmond and Oss, Netherlands liberated
28 Sep 1944 1st TV Musical comedy (The Boys from Boise)
29 Sep 1944 Browns last in AL attendance, only 6,172 watch them sweep Yanks in DH
30 Sep 1944 Dutch General Mine Workers Union (ABWM) forms

Famous Birthday

Michael Douglas
American actor, director and producer, from a noted family as the first son of actor Kirk Douglas.
Marjorie Orr
British astrologer known for her media presentations, radio and TV broadcasts, widely syndicated.
Jacqueline Bisset
English actress and producer.
Jean-Louis Debré
Barry White
American musician.
Christian Boltanski
French sculptor, photographer, painter and film maker.
Reinhold Messner
Italian pioneer adventurer and film maker, leader of an expedition to climb the Mt.
Axel Kahn
Bernard Debré
French urologist at Hôpital Cochin in Paris and a member (député) of the National Assembly of France.
Anne Robinson
British television host who brought her acerbic "You are the weakest link.
Bora Milutinovic
Mike Marshall (actor)
Diane Dufresne
Canadian singer and painter.
Peter Cetera
American singer-songwriter bass player and producer (Chicago).
Linda Kay Henning
Élisabeth Roudinesco
Marc Fievet
Ard Schenk
Dutch ice-skater.
Rocio Jurado
Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006).
Swoosie Kurtz
Amercan actress with two Tony Awards to her credit.
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