By then, early dance camps, retreats, and weekends had emerged, such as Pinewoods Camp, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, which became primarily a music and dance camp in 1933, and NEFFA, the New England Folk Festival, also in Massachusetts, which began in 1944.

The roots of the change began on 20 October 1944 at the Second Plenary Session of the Communist Party of Albania.

* 1944 – World War II: The " Big Week " began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.

Despite most Guatemalans ' attachment to the original ideals of the 1944 uprising, some private sector leaders and the military began to believe that Arbenz represented a Communist threat and supported his overthrow, hoping that a successor government would continue the more moderate reforms started by Arevalo.

In May 1944, a group of women began demonstrating outside of the Presidential Palace in Tegucigalpa, demanding the release of political prisoners.

The Mark I was moved to Harvard University and began operation in May 1944.

In 1944 Imi began training fighters in his areas of expertise: physical fitness, swimming, wrestling, use of the knife, and defenses against knife attacks.

Soon after Le Mans was liberated by the U. S. 79th and 90th Infantry Divisions on 8 August 1944, engineers of the Ninth Air Force IX Engineering Command began construction of a combat Advanced Landing Ground outside of the town.

With work like this going on, Germany's enemies naturally took note of the various Opel plants and, starting in August 1944, began visiting them by air.

In 1944, the Waffen SS began using a universal camouflage uniform intended to replace the wool field uniform.

The Operation Pinguin V-2 offensive began on 8 September 1944, when Lehr-und Versuchsbatterie No. 444 () launched a single rocket guided by a radio beam directed at Paris.

By the early 1940s, the British film industry began to combine documentary techniques with fictional stories in films like Noël Coward's In Which We Serve ( 1942 ), Millions Like Us ( 1943 ) and The Way Ahead ( 1944 ).

The first successful launch of a V-2 was on October 3, 1942 and began operation on September 6, 1944 against Paris, followed by an attack on London two days later.

On August 20, 1944, a c. 3, 400, 000-strong Red Army began a major summer offensive codenamed Jassy-Kishinev Operation.

Construction on B Reactor began in August 1943 and was completed just over a year later, on September 13, 1944.

Appleton was first introduced to Russian musicians and artists by the choral conductor / ethnologist Dmitri Pokrovsky ( 1944 – 1996 ) and this began his compositional return to instrumental and choral music, much of it composed for the pianist Julia Turkina and cellist Alexander Zagorinsky.

As 1944 began the frontrunners for the Republican nomination appeared to be Wendell Willkie, the party's 1940 candidate, Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, the leader of the party's conservatives, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the leader of the party's powerful, moderate eastern establishment, General Douglas MacArthur, then serving as an Allied commander in the Pacific theater of the war, and former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, then serving as a U. S. naval officer in the Pacific.

Dewey, who had been the Republican nominee in 1944, was regarded as the frontrunner when the primaries began.

The Second British Army seized Antwerp on 4 of September 1944, and the First Canadian Army began conducting combat operations around the port that same month.

The engagement began on 19 September 1944, with a probe by the U. S. 60th Infantry Regiment that entered the Hürtgen Forest but was beaten back by the terrain and opposition.

On 16 December 1944, German forces began the Ardennes Offensive, more commonly known as the Battle of the Bulge.

In early 1944, a chicken ranch began operation, and in late April of the same year, the camp opened a hog farm.

Shortly after landing on Utah Beach on June 6, 1944, the Comanches began transmitting messages.

Raeder wrote in the Seekriegsleitung war diary on 3 September 1939: " Today the war against England and France, which the Führer had previously assured us we would not have to confront until 1944 and which he believed he could avoid up until the very last minute, began ... As far as the Kriegsmarine is concerned, it is obvious that it is not remotely ready for the titanic struggle against England.

In March 1944, the German Army began a terror campaign throughout France.

Frank Capra's Why We Fight ( 1942 – 1944 ) series was a newsreel series in the United States, commissioned by the government to convince the U. S. public that it was time to go to war.

In the years immediately after the war ( 1944 – 1946 ), the Soviet part of the allied control commission demanded that public libraries should remove from circulation more than 1, 700 books that were deemed anti-Soviet, and bookstores were given catalogs of banned books.

*" Fastest Controlled Flight ", October 1944, Popular Science earliest drawing released by USAAF to public about Me 163

Rudolph William Louis " Rudy " Giuliani, KBE (; born May 28, 1944 ) is an American lawyer, businessman, former politician, and public speaker from New York.

The first public mention of turboprop engine in a general public press, was in the British aviation publication, Flight International, in February 1944 issue, which included a detailed cutaway drawing of what a possible future turboprop engine would possible look like.

In the months before the June 1944 Normandy invasion, Patton gave public talks as commander of the fictional First U. S. Army Group ( FUSAG ), which was supposedly intending to invade France by way of Calais.

The book implied he left earlier, but his withdrawal was not made public until 1944.

* Ric Smith ( Richard C. Smith, born 1944 ), Australian public servant

The publication in 1944 of the first in-depth study and analysis of Joyce's final text — A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake by mythologist Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson — tried to prove to a skeptical public that if the hidden key or " Monomyth " could be found, then the book could be read as a novel with characters, plot, and an internal coherence.

Big Bend opened to the public in 1944.

By 1944, it had a diverse business community, two oil field production companies, and public schools.

On 10 November 1944 a dozen members of the anti-Nazi Ehrenfeld Group were hanged in public.

Krishnamurti broke the hiatus from public speaking in May 1944 with a series of talks in Ojai.

The grand jury transcripts, made public in 2008, record that on August 3, Ethel Rosenberg's sister-in-law, Ruth Greenglass, testified that in November 1944, Julius Rosenberg recruited Ethel, and urged her to recruit David Greenglass ( Ruth's husband ) into a conspiracy to engage in atomic espionage for the Soviet Union:

Antonia Coello Novello, M. D., ( born August 23, 1944 ) is a Puerto Rican physician and public health administrator.

Nevertheless, trophy-hunting persisted: Life, in its issue of 22 May 1944, published a photograph of a young woman posing with the autographed skull sent to her by her Navy boyfriend, causing significant public outcry.

In 1944 / 45 a total of 97 dunums was irrigated or used for orchards, and 7, 768 dunums ( of public land ) were allotted to cereals.

This plan had developed from early schemes prior to the Second World War through Patrick Abercrombie's County of London Plan, 1943 and Greater London Plan, 1944 to a 1960s Greater London Council ( GLC ) scheme that would have involved the construction of many miles of motorway standard roads across the city and demolition on a massive scale. Due to the huge construction costs and widespread public opposition, most of the scheme was cancelled in 1973 and the Westway, the West Cross Route and East Cross Route in east London were the only significant parts to be built.

Historically independent secondary schools (" public schools " in British usage ), and grammar schools ( mainly charitable until the 1944 Act, then mainly state sector ) would prepare some or most of their pupils for university entrance, although this was not explicitly their mission.

In 1944, construction started on a large public shelter that could have housed 45, 000 persons in these caves.

It was not until January 27, 1944 that the U. S. government informed the American public about the march, when it released sworn statements of military officers who had escaped from the march.

Bill of 1944, which offered returning soldiers the opportunity of affordable higher education, forced New York to create a public university system since its private universities could not handle the influx ; the State University of New York was created by Governor Dewey in 1948.

In 1944, when the car was finally introduced to a car-hungry public, response was very positive and orders poured in from the Swedish population.