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* 1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator ( known best as the Harvard Mark I ).
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" 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 )
1944 and IBM
IBM announced proportional letter spacing for typewriters in 1941, but IBM's World War II effort delayed the introduction of a typewriter model, the Executive, with this capability until 1944.
In 1944, IBM launched the Executive, a proportionally spaced typewriter.
The electromechanical ASCC was devised by Howard H. Aiken, built at IBM and shipped to Harvard in February 1944.
With engineering, construction, and funding from IBM, the machine was completed and installed at Harvard in February, 1944.
1944 and first
Americium was first produced in 1944 by the group of Glenn T. Seaborg at the University of California, Berkeley.
The triangle in the glass tube contains the first sample of americium ( as the hydroxide ), produced in 1944.
Although americium was likely produced in previous nuclear experiments, it was first intentionally synthesized, isolated and identified in late autumn 1944, at the University of California, Berkeley by Glenn T. Seaborg, Leon O. Morgan, Ralph A. James, and Albert Ghiorso.
* 1944 – Alençon is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.
* 1944 – The 1st Air Commando Group using Sikorsky R-4 helicopters stage the first use of helicopters in combat with CSAR operations in the China-Burma-India theater.
The winners receive the Kenesaw Mountain Landis Memorial Baseball Award, which became the official name of the award in 1944, in honor of the first MLB commissioner, who served from 1920 until his death on November 25, 1944.
This was the first time German troops entered in France since 1944, sealing the definitive Franco-German reconciliation.
The Orioles of the IL won nine league championships, first in 1908, followed by a lengthy run from 1919 to 1925, and then dramatically in 1944, after they had lost their home field Oriole Park in a disastrous mid-season fire.
* Bertha Benz ( 1849 – 1944 ), German marketing entrepreneur who was the first to drive an automobile for a long distance
Curium was first intentionally produced and identified in July 1944 by the group of Glenn T. Seaborg at the University of California, Berkeley.
The Attlee Government ensured provisions of the Education Act 1944 were fully implemented, with free secondary education becoming a right for the first time.
Carl Friedrich Michael Meinhof ( July 23, 1857 – February 11, 1944 ) was a German linguist and one of the first linguists to study African languages.
China's first censuses were irregular: the Republic of China held censuses in 1913 and 1944.
* 1944 – Maurice Richard becomes the first player to score 8 points in one game of NHL ice hockey.
* 1944 – Ibrahim Rugova, first President of Kosovo ( d. 2006 )
He was sitting in the control room of the Hanford B Reactor when it first went critical in 1944.
It was first published in Britain by Routledge in March 1944 and was quite popular, leading Hayek to call it " that unobtainable book ," also due in part to wartime paper rationing.
He then ravages on Tokyo as payback for the Japanese attempting to erase him from existence, and Shindo is killed ; though not before he and Godzilla share a brief moment of the two remembering each other from when they first met on Lagos Island in 1944, and Godzilla is seemingly sad for once.
* 1944 April – The situation in Gibraltar is considered safe and the first of the evacuees return to Gibraltar.
The first demonstration of ethnic conflict occurred on October 22, 1944, just two days after Ponce ’ s demise.
In 1944, he published his first novel, Les innocents de Paris (" The Innocent of Paris "), in Switzerland.
In Shannon's revolutionary and groundbreaking paper, the work for which had been substantially completed at Bell Labs by the end of 1944, Shannon for the first time introduced the qualitative and quantitative model of communication as a statistical process underlying information theory, opening with the assertion that
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