Editing 1944 (section)

====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.