The Year 1944
History and Politics
World War II
American Fifth Army launches attack east of Cassino.
Mont Cassino monastery bombed.
US troops complete conquest of Solomon and Marshall Islands.
800 Flying Fortresses drop 2,000 tons of bombs on Berlin.
Monte Cassino and Rome in Allied hands June 4th.
D-Day
Landings in Normandy.
First flying bomb (V-1) dropped on London.
Southern Japan bombed by US.
US troops take Saigon.
Russians capture 100,000 Germans at Minsk.
German officers attempt to assassinate Hitler.
Premier Tojo of Japan and his Cabinet resign.
Warsaw uprising.
Americans capture Guam from Japanese.
Brussels liberated.
First V-2 rockets on Britian.
US troops land in Phillippines.
Red Army occupies Hungary.
Roosevelt elected to 4th term as President of US.
Battle of the Bulge begins.
Budapest surrounded by Russians.
Vietnam declares herself independent of France under Ho Chi Minh.
Foriegn Minister, executed on orders of his father-in-law, Mussolini; Rommel commits suicide.
Science, Technology, Growth
Uranium pile built at Clinton, Tennesee.
New cyclotron completed at Washington>
Quinine synthesized.
Daily Life
Ministry of National Insurance established in Britian.
"Blackout" restrictions relaxed in Britian.
First nonstop flight from London to Canada.
Cost of living in the US rises almost 30%.
"Pensive," C. McCreary up, wins Preakness Stakes and Kentucky Derby.
Southern California wins Rose Bowl game, 29-0, against Washington.
More than 165 killed and 175 injured in Hartford, Conn., Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey Circus fire.
St Louis (AL) wins World Series, 4-2, against St Louis (NL)
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