" The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers ( 1936 ) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future ( 1940 – 1944 ).

* 1944 – Felicity Palmer, English soprano

* 1944 – Georgios Balanos, Greek translator, author and publisher

* 1944 – John Kay, German-Canadian singer-songwriter and musician ( The Sparrows and Steppenwolf )

* 1865 – Max Nettlau, German anarchist and historian ( d. 1944 )

* 1944 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress ( d. 2010 )

* 1944 – G. W. Bailey, American actor

* 1944 – Jan Bols, Dutch speed skater

* 1944 – Inday Badiday, Filipino journalist ( d. 2003 )

* 1944 – The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.

* 1944 – Continuation War: The Vyborg – Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during World War II, ends to a strategic stalemate.

* 1909 – Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat ( d. 1944 )

* 1944 – Sam Elliott, American actor

* 1944 – Patricia McKissack, American author

* 1944 – Khaleda Zia, Bangladeshi politician, 9th Prime Minister of Bangladesh

Alexis Carrel ( June 28, 1873 – November 5, 1944 ) was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques.

* 1944 – Divina Galica, English skier and race car driver

* 1944 – Kevin Tighe, American actor

* 1944 – ASNOM: birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in the Republic of Macedonia.

* 1944 – Jim Capaldi, English singer-songwriter and drummer ( Traffic ) ( d. 2005 )

* 1944 – Naná Vasconcelos, Brazilian singer and musician

* 1996 – John McSherry, American baseball umpire ( b. 1944 )

* 1944 – The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.

* 1944 – Dmitry Nikolayevich Filippov, Soviet politician ( d. 1998 )

* Hansa ( Swedish ship ), a Swedish passenger liner, sunk by a Soviet submarine in 1944

The branch lost its passenger services in June 1944 but lived on as a freight route, and also to serve quarries at Tytherington.

The canal was abandoned in stages between 1944 and 1966 and the British Railways withdrew the passenger service and closed Ashby de la Zouch railway station in September 1964.

In 1944 passenger service on the NLR Poplar branch ceased.

In 1971 the passenger operations of the former Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Company, which had absorbed lessor Staten Island Railway Company in 1944, were acquired from its parent Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and the Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Company was renamed Staten Island Railroad Corporation, which still exists as a subsidiary of the CSX Corporation.

Volvo's first overhead valve passenger car engine was the straight-4 B4B of 1944 and its descendants, the B14A and B16.

By 1944, Avensa had started passenger flights with Lockheed 10A twins.

The Southern Railway played a vital role in the Second World War, embarking the British Expeditionary Force, during the Dunkirk operations, and supplying Operation Overlord in 1944 ; because the railway was primarily a passenger network, its success was an even more remarkable achievement.

Under Tokyu, the line gained electrification to increase the carrying capacity and in 1944, all passenger sections was electrified.

On 28 February 1944 a descending eastbound freight train loaded with oil and petrol lost its braking power and became a runaway train, finally ploughing into a westbound passenger train at Breifoss, just east of Geilo.

Until Hackney Central's closure in 1944, a passenger connection linked the two stations.

* Tinahely railway station opened on 22 May 1865, closed for passenger and goods traffic on 24 April 1944 and finally closed altogether on 20 April 1945.

This did not prevent risk to his life, however, as in 1944 a Dakota on which he was a passenger was involved in a near miss.

* Shillelagh railway station opened on 22 May 1865, closed for passenger and goods traffic on 24 April 1944 and finally closed altogether on 20 April 1945.

The train station and marshalling yards were targets for high altitude bombing by the Allies in the spring of 1944.

* 1944 – Holocaust: diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later.

During 1944, while Malraux was fighting in Alsace, Josette died, aged 34, when she slipped while boarding a train.

Almost all the people deported were murdered on or shortly after April 11, 1944, when their train reached Auschwitz concentration camp | Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Between July 1942 and September 1944, almost every Tuesday a cargo train left for the concentration camps Auschwitz-Birkenau ( 65 train-loads containing 60, 330 people most of whom were gassed on arrival ), Sobibór ( 19 train-loads of 34, 313 people, all of whom were killed on arrival ), Bergen-Belsen and Theresienstadt ( 9 train-loads of 4, 894 people some 2, 000 of whom survived the war ).

Peary returned the favor in a memorable 1944 Fibber McGee & Molly episode in which neither of the title characters appeared: Jim Jordan was recovering from a bout of pneumonia ( this would be written into the show the following week, when the Jordans returned ), and the story line involved Gildersleeve and nephew Leroy hoping to visit the McGees at home during a train layover in Wistful Vista, but finding Fibber and Molly not at home.

In 1984, President Ronald Reagan visited the city of Sidney on a train ( the same train that President Roosevelt traveled on during his visit to Sidney in 1944 ) whilst touring the country.

* 28 January 1944, a train carrying 800 Allied Prisoners of War was bombed when it crossed a bridge on the Ponte Paglia in Allerona, Italy, killing approximately 400 British, U. S. and South African prisoners.

During World War II, mission Elmira was the landing of a significant part of the 82nd Airborne Division ’ s glider train in Normandy on the evening before 6 June 1944 as part of Operation Neptune, the assault phase of Operation Overlord.

In 1944 a concentration camp was established next to the train station Hall-Hessental.

On 29 April 1944, a test train was run from Sira to Stavanger.

On 22 May 1944 a RAF Spitfire fighter, in a training exercise, accidentally collided with a Wellington bomber and crashed into a Sheffield-bound goods train as it was passing over the railway bridge on Lea Road.

The town narrowly escaped destruction on 2 June 1944, during the Second World War, when a fire developed on the lead wagon of a heavy ammunition train travelling slowly through the town.

On July 17, 1944, Joe falls out their plane while in Thailand while they are investigating a train with Shima's gold in it.

All in all, until July 18, 1944, more than 700 inhabitants of Hajnówka lost their lives, the factories were robbed and then demolished, while the train station and parts of the town centre were levelled by aerial bombardment.

The brigade was assigned to the British 2nd Army in January 1944 to train for the upcoming amphibious assault in Normandy.

The formation continued to train in the UK until the summer of 1944 when, with some 4, 000 troops under command, it moved to Normandy, joining 21st Army Group at Falaise on 30 August.

Until October 1944, the 20th Armored Division's mission was to train soldiers and qualify them for overseas shipment as replacements for armored units.

Starting in June 1944, the SS in Stutthof began conscripting women from Danzig and the surrounding cities to train as camp female guards because of a severe shortage of guards.

Starting on 8 March 1944 and finishing the following day, the NKVD loaded 37, 713 Balkars onto 14 train echelons bound for Central Asia and Siberia.

* June 25, 1944: bombing of Sète's train station, Balaruc-les-Bains's and Frontignan's oil refineries by the American 15th Expeditionary Mobility Task Force.

No. 1321 Bomber ( Defence ) Training Flight RAF was first formed at RAF Bottesford on 1 September 1944 as a fighter affiliation unit to train bomber crews from No. 5 Group Bomber Command how to defend their aircraft.

CDR Frank Wead was relieved of active duty on 21 July 1944, and was processed through the Personnel Department at NAS Alameda receiving his discharge papers and a train ticket for Los Angeles, California.