WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1944
Find out what all happened January to December 1944

World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone. (22. February 1944)

Battle of Peleliu begins as the United States Marine Corps' 1st Marine Division and the United States Army's 81st Infantry Division hit White and Orange beaches under heavy fire from Japanese infantry and artillery. (15. September 1944)

World War II: 642 men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France. (10. June 1944)

World War II: Battle of Saipan: The United States invade Japanese-occupied Saipan. (15. June 1944)

World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Island. (20. February 1944)

The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler's NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes power in Hungary. (15. October 1944)

World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies. (25. August 1944)

World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu, who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies. (23. August 1944)

World War II: The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers. (20. February 1944)

Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court martial. (6. July 1944)

World War II: The Narva Offensive begins. (15. February 1944)

Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the U.S. Third and U.S. Seventh Fleets. Afterward is the first Kamikaze attack of World War 2. (25. October 1944)

World War II: the British 11th Armoured Division liberates the Belgian city of Antwerp. (4. September 1944)

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

World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties. (17. January 1944)

World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands. (31. January 1944)

World War II: Riga, the capital of Latvia is occupied by the Red Army. (13. October 1944)

In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical theatre of the Archiginnasio is destroyed in an air-raid. (29. January 1944)

World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java. (14. February 1944)

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill. (22. June 1944)