1944 - January

1944 - January: Encyclopedia - 1944

1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). 1944 - Events. January 4 - The Battle of Monte Cassino begins. January 5 - Murder of Danish playwright Kaj Munk. January 14 - The Soviet troops start the offensive at Leningrad and Novgorod. January 17 - British forces, in Italy, cross the Garigliano River. January 17 - Meat Rationing ends in Australia. January 20 - The Royal Air Force drops 2,300 to ...

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1944 - January: Encyclopedia II - List of shipwrecks in 1944 - January List of shipwrecks in 1944 - 31. U-592 (Germany): Sunk in the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Ireland by Royal Navy sloops Magpie, Starling, and Wild Goose. ...

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Viktor Ullmann - Biography

Viktor Ullmann - Chronology

Viktor Ullmann - List of the Prague and Theresienstadt works

Viktor Ullmann - Prague works

Viktor Ullmann - Theresienstadt works

1944 - January: Encyclopedia - Abbas II of Egypt

Abbas Hilmi Pasha or Abbas II (Arabic: عباس حلمي باشا) (July 14, 1874 – 1944) was the last khedive of Egypt (January 8, 1892 – 1914). Abbas Hilmi Pasha was the great-great-grandson of Mehmet Ali. He succeeded his father, Tewfik Pasha, as khedive of Egypt. When a boy he visited England, and he had an English tutor for some time in Cairo. He then went to school in Lausanne, and from there passed on to the Theresianum in Vienna. In addition to Turkish, his mother tongue, he acquired fluency in Arabic, and a good ...

1944 - January: Encyclopedia - Édouard Cardinal Gagnon

Édouard Cardinal Gagnon (born January 15, 1918) is a Roman Catholic cardinal and President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for the Family. He became a cardinal on May 25, 1985. Édouard Gagnon was born in Port-Daniel, Quebec, in the diocese of Gaspé, Canada. His theological studies were taken at the Major seminary of Montreal, where he earned a B.A. degree in Theology in 1940, and a doctorate degree in 1941. Gagnon was ordained on 15 August 1940. He spent time from 1941 and 1944 at the Université Laval in Quebec, a ...

1944 - January: Encyclopedia - Anton Strle

Prof. dr. Anton Strle (born 21 January 1915, died 20 October 2003) was a Slovenian professor of dogmatic theology and a priest. He was born in the village Osredek in the parish Sv.Vid nad Cerknico. He became a priest in 1941. He became a doctor in 1944 at the University of Ljubljana. After World War II he spent many years in the prison, as he was a priest in the communistic Yugoslavia. Then he worked as a parish director in Planina pri Rakeku. He lectured dogmatics and patrology for fo ...

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1944 - January: Encyclopedia - Charlie Musselwhite

Charlie Musselwhite (born January 31, 1944 in Kosciusko, Mississippi) is an American blues harp (harmonica) player and bandleader, one of the non-African-American bluesmen who came to prominence in the early 1960s, along with Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield. Though he has often been identified as a "white bluesman," he claims Native American heritage. Musselwhite was born in the rural hill country of Mississippi. He has said that he is of Choctaw descent, and he was born in a region originally inhabited by the Choctaw. However, in a 2005 interview, he said his mother had to ...

1944 - January: Encyclopedia - William B. Mayo

William Benson Mayo (1860–1944) was chief power engineer for the Ford Motor Company. Mayo was born in Chatham, Massachusetts on 7 January 1860 to Andrew Benson and Amanda Nickerson Mayo. He worked initially as a sign painter in Boston, but accepted a position as an office boy for a manufacturer of steam engines, Hooven-Owens-Rentschler. He became a salesman in the Boston office, then was promoted to New York. In 1906 he moved to the corporate office in Hamilton, Ohio as ...

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William B. Mayo - Sources

1944 - January: Encyclopedia - Mohammed Alim Khan

Emir Mohammed Alim Khan (1880-1944) was the last emir of of the Manghit dynasty, the last ruling dynasty of Bukhara in Central Asia. He reigned from January 3, 1911 to August 30, 1920. Although Bukhara was a protectorate of the Russian Empire since 1873, the Emir presided over the internal affairs of his emirate as absolute monarch. At the age of thirteen, Alim Khan was sent by his father Emir Abdulahad Khan to St. Petersburg for three years to study government and modern military techniques. In 1896, having received formal confirmation as Crown Princ ...

1944 - January: Encyclopedia - Battle of Monte Cassino

The strategic position of Monte Cassino has made it the repeated scene of battles and sieges from antiquity. In World War II, the Battle of Monte Cassino (also known as the Battle for Rome) was a costly series of battles fought by the Allies with the intention of breaking through the Gustav Line, seizing Rome and linking up with Allied forces contained within the Anzio pocket. The first battle started on January 4, 1944 and the monastery atop the hill was destroyed by Allied bombing on February 15. Allied aircraft heavily bombed ...

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Battle of Monte Cassino - Bibliography and references

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1944 - January: Encyclopedia - Arrow Cross

The Arrow Cross (Nyilaskereszt) originated in Hungary in the 1930s as the symbol of the leading Hungarian fascist political party, the Arrow Cross Party, led by Ferenc Szálasi, an ex-army major. Leaders of National Council of the Arrow Cross after Szálasi included Jeno Szollosi, Josef Gera and Ferenc Kassai-Schallmajer. In 1939 it numbered close to 500,000 members and won 31 seats in parliamentary elections. The Arrow Cross party lasted until the end of World War II in 1945. Subsequently, the symbol came to be used by other racist and anti-Semitic groups. From October 1944 - January 1945 the Arrow Cross sent 80 ...

1944 - January: Encyclopedia - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, sometimes called the Warsaw Uprising 1943, was a Jewish insurrection in Poland's Warsaw Ghetto against Nazi Germany during World War II. The main resistance lasted from April 19, 1943 to May 16 that year and was finally crushed by SS-Gruppenführer (then Brigadeführer) Jürgen Stroop. The significant precursor to the main uprising was an armed civilian action launched against the Germans on January 18, 1943. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is not to be confused with the Warsaw Uprising whic ...

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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - Background

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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - Aftermath and Death Toll

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1944 - January: Encyclopedia II - 1944 in rail transport - Births

1944 in rail transport - June births. June 11 - Michael R. Haverty, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1989–1995, president of the Kansas City Southern Railway 1995–present. ...

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