Editing 1944 (section)

====October====
* [[October 2]] - [[Warsaw Uprising]] ends.
* [[October 5]] - [[Royal Canadian Air Force]] pilots shoot down the first [[Germany|German]] [[Jet aircraft|jet fighter]] over [[France]].
* [[October 6]] - [[Battle of Debrecen]] starts on the [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Eastern Front]] (lasts until [[October 29]])
* [[October 9]] - [[United Kingdom|British]] Prime Minister [[Winston Churchill]] and [[Soviet Union]] Premier [[Joseph Stalin]] begin a nine-day conference in [[Moscow]] to discuss the future of [[Europe]].
* [[October 12]] - The Allies land at [[Athens]]. 
* [[October 13]] - [[Riga]], the capital of [[Latvia]] is liberated by the [[Red Army]].
* [[October 14]] - [[Germany|German]] [[Field Marshal]] [[Erwin Rommel]] committed suicide rather than face execution for allegedly conspiring against [[Adolf Hitler]].
* [[October 18]] - [[Volkssturm]] founded on [[Hitler]]'s orders.
* [[October 20]] - [[Belgrade]] is liberated by Yugoslav Partisans and the [[Red Army]].
* [[October 20]] - [[LNG]] explosion destroys a [[square mile]] (2.6 km²) of [[Cleveland, Ohio]]
* [[October 21]] - [[Aachen]] is the first [[Germany|German]] city to fall.
* [[October 23]] - Naval [[Battle of Leyte Gulf]] in the [[Philippines]] begins (lasts until [[October 26]]).
* [[October 25]] - [[Florence Foster Jenkins]] recital in the [[Carnegie Hall]]
* [[October 25]] - [[Red Army]] liberates [[Kirkenes]], the first town in [[Norway]] to be liberated from German occupation. 
* [[October 31]] - Mass murderer [[Marcel Petiot]] is apprehended in [[Paris metro]] station