* 1944 – The Holocaust: a tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.

Flakturm on the Heiligengeistfeld in Hamburg-one of four enormous fortress-like bunkers which were made of reinforced concrete, built between 1942 and 1944 and equipped with anti-aircraft artillery for air defense

* 1944 – World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four battles with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105, 000 Allied casualties.

Cotten starred with Jennifer Jones in four films: the wartime domestic drama Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), the romantic drama Love Letters ( 1945 ), the western Duel in the Sun ( 1946 ), and the critically acclaimed Portrait of Jennie ( 1948 ), in which he played a melancholy artist who becomes obsessed with a girl who may have died many years ago.

It was not until the concluding months of 1943 that the only realized attempt to build a " true four engined " version of the A-series He 177, the He 177B emerged with only three airworthy prototypes produced by early 1944, some three years after the first flights of the Avro Lancaster prototypes, the most commonly encountered RAF bomber pounding Germany on strategic night raids from 1942 to the end of the war in Europe.

The film focuses on four wealthy, corrupted fascist libertines after the fall of Benito Mussolini's Italy in 1944.

The World Bank is one of four institutions created at the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944.

The prime ministers of Britain and the four major dominions at the 1944 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting | Commonwealth Prime Ministers ' Conference, 1 May 1944.

The Germans held the position until withdrawing on May 17, 1944, having repulsed four main offensives by the New Zealanders, British Indian regiment and Polish troops.

Orphaned at the aged of four and partially raised in foster homes, by 1944, Stanwyck was the highest paid woman in the United States.

During 1943 and early 1944 there were at least four failed attempts organised by von Tresckow and von Stauffenberg to get one of the military conspirators near enough to Hitler for long enough to kill him with hand grenades, bombs or a revolver:

He was also nominated four times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), Casablanca ( 1942 ), Mr. Skeffington ( 1944 ), and Notorious ( 1946 ).

LeMay advanced from captain to brigadier general in less than four years and by 1944 was a major general in the Army Air Forces.

He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor five times, four of which came in his first five years of film acting: for The Keys of the Kingdom ( 1944 ), The Yearling ( 1946 ), Gentleman's Agreement ( 1947 ), and Twelve O ' Clock High ( 1949 ).

In February 1944 the four Raider battalions were converted to regular marine units.

The OJC had four hundred members by the summer of 1944, and they also participated in the liberations of Paris, Lyon, Toulouse, Grenoble, and Nice.

The first recorded bombing using a V1 was on 22 June 1944 at 07: 00, when the bomb passed over the top of a bus and hit four houses nearby.

Boyer never won an Oscar, though he was nominated for Best Actor four times in Conquest ( 1937 ), Algiers ( 1938 ), Gaslight ( 1944 ) and Fanny ( 1961 ), the latter also winning him a nomination for the Laurel Awards for Top Male Dramatic Performance.

" ( Passer-by, where you are, on five November 1944 one hundred and thirty four civilians fell victim to the war.

While the other four municipalities were established in the 1920s, Woodmere was incorporated as a village in 1944.

A British veterinary report in 1944 noted four generations of healthy short-legged cats which were similar to normal cats except for the length of the legs.

They had four children: Samuel Robson ( Rob ) born in 1944, John Thomas ( 1946-2005 ), James Carr ( Jim ) born in 1948, and Alice Louise born in 1949.

She was one of the first Red Cross nurses to attend to allied troops immediately after the invasion of France in June, 1944 ( she reportedly landed at ' Utah Beach ' just six weeks after D-Day ).

Cofounder Marc Bloch ( 1886 – 1944 ) was a quintessential modernist who studied at the elite École Normale Supérieure, and in Germany, serving as a professor at the University of Strasbourg until he was called to the Sorbonne in Paris in 1936 as professor of economic history.

While serving in the military, Brubeck met Paul Desmond in early 1944.

In January 1944, he resumed command of ETOUSA and the following month was officially designated as the Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force ( SHAEF ), serving in a dual role until the end of hostilities in Europe in May 1945.

The longest serving president in Liberian history was William Tubman, serving from 1944 until his death in 1971.

In 1944, he again became Minister of Justice, serving until 1946, and had to deal with the war-responsibility trials.

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.

Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya (,, German: Nikolaus von Horthy und Nagybánya ; 18 June 1868 – 9 February 1957 ) was the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary during the interwar years and throughout most of World War II, serving from 1 March 1920 to 15 October 1944.

Cosgrave became the first parliamentary leader of the new party, serving until his retirement in 1944.

After serving in the war, he joined the mathematics department at Royal Holloway College in 1944 ( the McCrea Building on Royal Holloway's campus is named after him ).

He served as an officer in the U. S. Navy from 1944 to 1946, reaching the rank of Captain and serving as assistant naval aide and then naval aide to President Truman, for whom he became a trusted personal adviser and friend.

Former U. S. Marine Earskin J. Nabers claimed that while serving as a wireless operator on Saipan in 1944, he decoded a message from naval officials which said Earhart's aircraft had been found at the airfield in the village of As Lito, that he was later ordered to guard the aircraft, and then witnessed its destruction.

In 1944, Cheboygan became the home port of the former U. S. Coast Guard cutter and icebreaker Mackinaw, serving from 1944-2006.

* Walter Evans Edge ( 1873 – 1956 ), served as a United States Senator representing New Jersey from 1919 to 1929, and was twice the Governor of New Jersey, from 1917 to 1919 and again from 1944 to 1947, serving as governor during both World War I and World War II.

The first LDS church building was completed in 1891, serving as the center of church and community activities for fifty-three years until it was destroyed by fire in 1944.

He was serving as Pillsbury's assistant engineering and electrical officer when Guadalcanals task group located a German submarine off Cape Blanco, French West Africa, on June 4, 1944 and forced it to the surface.

Martin was drafted into the United States Army in 1944 during World War II, serving a year stationed in Akron, Ohio.

During the war he saw two tours of duty: The first in 1942, while also serving as a U. S. Senator, and the second in 1944 – 5 after resigning from the Senate.

Assigned to the Armed Forces Network, he was sent to Britain in 1944 as a sergeant, serving as an announcer for the Glenn Miller American Band.

While serving in this capacity at Cape Gloucester, Puller was awarded his fourth Navy Cross for overall performance of duty between December 26, 1943 and January 19, 1944.

After serving as an assistant coach at Ohio State from 1938 to 1940, Gillman was the head football coach at Miami University from 1944 to 1947 and at the University of Cincinnati from 1949 to 1954, compiling a career college football record of 81 – 19 – 2.

While serving as Sweden's special envoy in Budapest between July and December 1944, Wallenberg issued protective passports and sheltered Jews in buildings designated as Swedish territory saving tens of thousands of lives.

Gregory Bruce Jarvis ( August 24, 1944 – January 28, 1986 ) was an American engineer who died during the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, where he was serving as Payload Specialist.