Editing 1944 (section)

===Other events===
====January-July====
* [[January 5]] - The ''[[Daily Mail]]'' becomes the first transoceanic [[newspaper]].
* [[January 15]] - Earthquake in [[San Juan, Argentina]], kills 8000-10000 people.
* [[February 26]] - - Shooting begins of the [[Nazism|Nazi]] propaganda film, "The Fuehrer Gives a Village to the Jews" in [[Theresienstadt]].
* [[March 1]] - [[USS Tarawa (CV-40)|USS Tarawa]] laid down
* [[March 4]] - In [[Ossining (village), New York|Ossining, New York]], [[Louis Buchalter]], the leader of [[1930s]] crime syndicate [[Murder, Inc.]], is executed at [[Sing Sing (prison)|Sing Sing]].
* [[March 24]] - In the Polish village of [[Markowa]], German police kill Józef and Wiktoria Ulm, their six children and eight Jewish people they were hiding.
* [[April 25]] - The [[United Negro College Fund]] is incorporated.
*[[May 30]] - [[Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois|Princess Charlotte Louise Juliette Louvet Grimaldi]] of [[Monaco]], heir to the throne resigns from her rights in favor of her son [[Rainier III, Prince of Monaco|Prince Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand Grimaldi]], later reigning Prince [[Rainier III, Prince of Monaco|Rainier III of Monaco]].
* [[June 17]] - [[Iceland]] declares full independence from [[Denmark]].
* [[July 1]] - Start of the [[United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference]] at [[Bretton Woods, New Hampshire]].
* [[July 6]] - A fire broke out during a performance of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus in Hartford, Connecticut, resulting in the deaths of 168 people, most of them children. See ''[[Hartford Circus Fire]]''
* [[July 17]] - [[Port Chicago disaster]]: Near the [[San Francisco Bay]], two ships laden with [[ammunition]] for the war explode in [[Port Chicago, California]] killing 232.
* [[July 22]] - End of Bretton Woods conference and signing of Agreements.

====August-November====
* [[August 4]] - [[Holocaust]]: A tip from a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] informer leads the [[Gestapo]] to a sealed-off area in an [[Amsterdam]] warehouse where they find [[Jew]]ish diarist [[Anne Frank]] and her family.
* [[August 5]] - Holocaust: [[Poland|Polish]] insurgents liberate a [[Germany|German]] [[labor camp]] in [[Warsaw]], freeing 348 [[Jew]]ish prisoners.
* [[August 7]] - [[IBM]] dedicates the first program-controlled [[calculator]], the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the [[Harvard Mark I]]).
* [[August 9]] - The [[United States Forest Service]] and the [[Wartime Advertising Council]] release posters featuring [[Smokey the Bear]] for the first time.
* [[September 2]] - [[Holocaust]]: Diarist [[Anne Frank]] and her family are placed on the last transport train from [[Westerbork]] to [[Auschwitz]]. They arrive three days later.
* [[October 2]] - Holocaust: [[Nazism|Nazi]] troops end the [[Warsaw Uprising]].
* [[October 8]] - The [[radio]] show, ''[[The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet]]'' debuts.
* [[October 10]] - [[Holocaust]]: 800 [[Roma (people)|Gypsy]] children are systematically murdered at [[Auschwitz]] death camp
* [[November 7]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1944]]: [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] wins reelection over [[United States Republican Party|Republican]] challenger [[Thomas E. Dewey]] to become the only U.S. president to be elected to a fourth term.
* [[November 22]] - [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]] introduces [[conscription]] in [[Canada]] (see [[Conscription Crisis of 1944]]).
====December====
* [[December 3]] - [[Civil war]] breaks out in a newly-liberated [[Greece]], between [[Communism|Communists]] and royalists.
* [[December 1]] - [[Edward Stettinius Jr.]] becomes the last [[United States Secretary of State]] of the [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Roosevelt]] administration, by filling the seat left by the [[Cordell Hull]].
* [[December 26]] - The play ''[[The Glass Menagerie]]'' by [[Tennessee Williams]] was first publicly performed.
* [[December 30]] - King [[George II of Greece]] declares a regency, leaving his throne vacant.