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Significant Events and Personalities of 1944

This quiz tests your knowledge on significant events and notable figures from the year 1944, focusing on literature, journalism, economics, military history, and politics.

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1 Swedish children's author ________ publishes her first book, Pippi Longstocking.

2 January 6 – Ida Tarbell, American journalist (born ________)

3 ________ – James Heckman, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate

4 A hunter-killer group of the ________ captures the German submarine U-505, marking the first time a U.S.

5 ________ – WWII: Vilnius is liberated.

6 September 16 – Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (born ________)

7 ________ – Magda Aelvoet, Belgian politician

8 November 7 – Hannah Szenes, Hungarian World War II heroine (executed) (born ________)

9 ________ – Jonathan King, British music producer

10 Noor Inayat Khan, Indian princess and World War II heroine (executed) (born ________)

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the final section of the Chemins de Fer du Calvados was closed by damage from the 1944 D-Day.
  • the Abukuma, a veteran of the Pearl Harbor raid, was sunk in 1944 when her own Long Lance torpedoes exploded in the torpedo room.
  • the Terrace Mutiny of 1944 was the most serious disciplinary breach in Canadian military history.
  • the important medieval fresco cycle in Castelseprio, Italy, (pictured) was rediscovered only in 1944.
  • the only surviving fossils of Aegyptosaurus were destroyed in a 1944 bombing raid on Munich, Germany during World War II.
  • two members of No. 450 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, were among the 50 Allied POWs murdered by the Gestapo, following The Great Escape in 1944.
  • the well-publicized defection of German agent Erich Vermehren in early 1944 led directly to the demise of the Abwehr.
  • the process for the evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II was reversed in 1944.
  • the French torpedo boat La Combattante ferried General de Gaulle and other Free French leaders across the English Channel from Portsmouth to Courseulles in Normandy on 14 July 1944.
  • in 1944, Gwethalyn Graham was the first Canadian writer to reach number one on The New York Times bestseller list, with a novel depicting an interfaith romance between a Protestant woman and a Jewish man.
  • Dravidar Kazhagam formed in 1944 was the first fully Dravidian party in India.
  • David Penhaligon (1944–1986) was a promising Liberal Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom but was killed in a car crash at the age of 42.
  • 1944 was proclaimed the "Year of naturalization and the Hebrew name" by the Zionist leadership.
  • Noah W. Cross, sheriff of Concordia Parish, Louisiana, from 1944–1973, was forced to resign upon a perjury conviction in U.S. District Court in Alexandria.
  • a Junkers Ju88 was shot down and crashed on the drive of historic Hestercombe House on 28 March 1944.
  • in 1944 a railway ferry on the Norwegian railway Rjukanbanen (pictured) was sunk to 430 meters depth to prevent Nazi Germany from developing nuclear weapons.
  • former California representative Bertrand W. Gearhart ran unopposed and captured nearly 100 percent of the vote in his biennial re-election bids from 1936 to 1944.
  • during World War II, No. 233 Squadron RAF (pictured) lost four aircraft out of a total of twenty-four supply flights flown at the end of D-Day, June 6, 1944.
  • 1944 was called the "year of ten victories" by the Soviet Union for ten battles the Red Army won during that year.
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