1944

Events

• January 29 - The Koniuchy massacre takes place.
• February 23 - The Communist Party of the Soviet Union orders the deportation of the whole of the Vainakh (Chechen and Ingush) populations of the North Caucasus to Central Asia.
• March 12 to 23 - Adolf Hitler orders Operation Margarethe: an occupation of Hungary by the German Army. Döme Sztójay is installed as the new Hungarian prime minister.
• March 24 - The Ardeatine massacre takes place.
• July 2 - The Belarusian Central Council is dissolved after Belarus is liberated by the Soviet Union.
• July 20 - Adolf Hitler survives a failed attempt to assassinate him. The Gestapo subsequently arrest over 7,000 people accused of being involved in the plot; nearly 5,000 are executed.
• July 22 - Hideki Tojo is forced to resign as Prime Minister of Japan. Kuniaki Koiso is appointed as his successor.
• August 4 - Borkum Island Massacre: seven American POWs are murdered by German soldiers on Borkum Island.
• August 23 - Ion Antonescu is overthrown as dictator of Romania in a coup lead by the exiled former King of Romania, Michael I.
• August 25 - Paris is declared liberated from Nazi control, ending the Vichy France regime.
• September 13 - Amon Göth is dismissed as commandant of Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp by the Schutzstaffel.
• October 12 - The Hellenic State collapses when Greece is liberated from Axis occupation.
• October 15 - The Arrow Cross Party takes power in Hungary following the Nazi-supported Operation Panzerfaust.
• November 6 - Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne is assassinated in Cairo by members of Lehi on the orders of Yitzhak Shamir.
• December 3 - Beginning of the Greek Civil War.
• December 16 - Beginning of the Battle of the Bulge.
• December 17 - The Malmedy massacre takes place.

Births

Villain births

• January 1 - Omar al-Bashir
• January 25 - Evan Chandler
• January 26 - Jerry Sandusky
• March 15 - Richard Allen Minsky
• March 19 - Sirhan B. Sirhan
• April 4 - Faisal bin Musaid
• April 6 - Charles Sobhraj
• April 18 - Robert Hanssen
• May 8 - Gary Glitter
• May 28 - Rudy Giuliani
• July 1 - Vladislav Shved
• July 17 - Tharcisse Renzaho
• July 21 - Friedrich Leibacher
• August 2 - Tony Costa
• September 15 - Yoweri Kaguta Musevini
• September 23 - Ove Andersson
• December 6 - Jonathan King & Kit Culkin

Victim births

• August 20 - Rajiv Gandhi
• November 1 - Rafic Hariri

Deaths

Villain deaths

• April 8 - Bruno Lüdke
• April 10 - Constance Kent
• August 28 - Bronislav Kaminski & Chaim Rumkowski
• September 3 - Friedrich Alpers
• September 22 - Pietro Caruso
• November 10 - Wang Jingwei

Victim deaths

• November 6 - Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne