What Happened in Oct 1944

Anne Frank is Transported from Auschwitz Concentration Camp to Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp

On 28 October, selections began for women to be relocated to Bergen-Belsen. More than 8,000 women, including Anne and Margot Frank and Auguste van... Read more

Agatha Christie publishes Death Comes as the End

The quiet lives of an Egyptian family are disturbed when the father, Imhotep, returns from the North with his new concubine, Nofret, who begins to... Read more

Capitulation of Remaining Polish Forces in Warsaw

On October 2 General Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski signed the capitulation of the remaining Polish forces (Warszawski Korpus Armii Krajowej or Home Army... Read more

First Canadian Army Begins Advance North from Antwerp

On October 2, the 2nd Canadian Division began its advance north from Antwerp. Stiff fighting at Woensdrecht ensued on October 6, the objective of... Read more

1944 World Series

The 1944 World Series was an all-St. Louis World Series, matching up the St. Louis Cardinals and St. Louis Browns at Sportsman's Park. It marked... Read more

Canadian Forces Initiate Operation Switchback

The second main operation of the Battle of the Scheldt opened with fierce fighting to reduce the Breskens pocket. Here, the 3rd Canadian Infantry... Read more

Battle of Debrecen

The 2nd Ukrainian Front operation begun on 6 October 1944, with Malinovsky's southern pincer attacking near Arad, and slicing through the Hungarian... Read more

"Laura" Is Released

Laura is a 1944 American film noir directed by Otto Preminger. The screenplay by Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, and Elizabeth Reinhardt is based... Read more

'To Have and Have Not' Premieres In New York

Although Howard Hawks had a high regard for Hemingway's works in general, he considered To Have and Have Not his worst book, a "bunch of junk," and... Read more

Liberation of Athens from German Occupation

As the last German soldiers take the swastika down from the Acropolis and begin to drive through the city towards the road north they pass through... Read more

Salaspils Concentration Camp Closes with the Liberation of Riga by the Red Army

In 1944, in an attempt to destroy evidence of mass murder, the Germans forced prisoners to reopen mass graves in Rumbula and burn the bodies. Once... Read more

Germany Launches Counteroffensive Against the Slovak Uprising

On September 19 German command replaced SS-Obergruppenführer Berger, who had been in charge of the troops fighting the Uprising, with General... Read more

Allied Forces Liberate the Town of Venray (Battle of Overloon)

The Battle of Overloon was a Second World War battle between Allied forces and the German army which took place in and around the village of... Read more

Peter Tosh Is Born

Peter Tosh, born Winston Hubert McIntosh (18 October[1] 1944 – 11 September 1987) was a reggae musician who was a core member of The Wailers who... Read more

East Ohio Gas Company Explosion

On October 20, 1944, a natural gas storage tank at the East Ohio Gas Co. plant in Cleveland, Ohio, exploded. The plant was located north of St.... Read more

American Forces Capture German City of Aachen

Aachen was a battle in Aachen, Germany, which occurred between 2–21 October 1944. By September 1944, the Wehrmacht had been pushed into Germany... Read more

Operation Vitality Begins as Canadian Infantry Advances Down the South Beveland Penninsula

The third major operation of the Battle of the Scheldt opened on October 24 when the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division began its advance down the... Read more

German Counteroffensive Successfully Ends Slovak National Uprising

On September 19 German command replaced SS-Obergruppenführer Berger, who had been in charge of the troops fighting the Uprising, with General... Read more

Canadian Infantry Begins Attack on Walcheren Causeway

"C" Company of the The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada took heavy casualties on the afternoon and evening of 31 October 1944 in an... Read more