WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO SEPTEMBER 1944
Find out what all happened July to September 1944

The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland (22. July 1944)

World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. (20. July 1944)

World War II: Possibly the biggest prison breakout in history occurs as 545 Japanese POWs attempt to escape outside the town of Cowra, New South Wales, Australia. (5. August 1944)

World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris. (26. August 1944)

World War II: Minsk is liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration. (3. July 1944)

IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I). (7. August 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. (25. September 1944)

ASNOM: birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in the Republic of Macedonia. (2. August 1944)

World War II: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners. (5. August 1944)

World War II: Marseille is liberated. (23. August 1944)

World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500. (11. September 1944)

Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins. (21. August 1944)

World War II: On the central front of the Gothic Line Brazilian troops control the Serchio valley region after ten days of fighting. (26. September 1944)

World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Junyō Maru, 5,600 killed. (18. September 1944)

The Hartford Circus Fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut. (6. July 1944)

The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time. (9. August 1944)

World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by allied forces. (6. September 1944)

World War II: Battle of Saipan – American forces take Saipan in the Mariana Islands. (9. July 1944)

Freckleton Air Disaster – A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people. (23. August 1944)

World War II: The Battle of Narva ends with a combined German–Estonian force successfully defending Narva, Estonia, from invading Soviet troops. (10. August 1944)