Editing 1944 (section)

====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]]).