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.

Also, during World War II, Jones directed such shorts as The Weakly Reporter, a 1944 short that related to shortages and rationing on the home front.

Arnaz and Ball's marriage ( 1940 ) was turbulent, and convinced that Arnaz was being unfaithful to her, and also because Desi came home drunk several times, Ball filed for divorce in September 1944, but returned to him before the interlocutory decree became final.

In October 1944 they had set up home in Islington in a flat on the 7th floor of a block.

In 1944, 1970, and 1971 cygnets ( baby swans ) made their home on Lake LaVerne.

As Germany ’ s military and economic situation grew steadily worse during 1944, Goebbels renewed his push, in alliance with Speer, to wrest control of the home front away from Göring.

Wybicki's original manuscript was in the hands of his descendants until February 1944, when it was lost in Wybicki's great-great-grandson, Johann von Roznowski's home in Charlottenburg during the Allied bombing of Berlin.

In September 1944, he and Frances left Churt for Tŷ Newydd, a farm near his boyhood home in Llanystumdwy.

In the U. S., the " Small Homes Council ", since 1993 the " Building Research Council ", of the School of Architecture of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was founded in 1944 with the goal to improve the state of the art in home building, originally with an emphasis on standardization for cost reduction.

* Bernie Worrell ( born 1944 ), keyboardist, founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic, childhood home.

Back in 1937, with the inheritance following the death of his mother, Britten had bought The Old Mill in Snape, Suffolk, which became his Suffolk home, and this is where he spent much of his time in 1944 working on Peter Grimes.

During the autumns of 1943 and 1944, he organized prisoner exchanges which brought home 11, 000 prisoners from Germany via Sweden.

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 1944, Dawes bequeathed his lakeshore home in Evanston to Northwestern University for the Evanston Historical Society ( later renamed the Evanston History Center ).

This late afternoon view looks south with Santa Rosa Sound, Santa Rosa Island, home of Eglin missile launch sites since 1944, and the Gulf of Mexico beyond.

Courtland was home to the Courtland Army Airfield ( Courtland AAF ) in 1944 and 1945.

He is also the author of the novels Die Festung ( 1995 ) ( The Fortress ), based on travels home across France in 1944, and Der Abschied ( 2000 ) ( The Parting ), about the nuclear-powered cargo vessel NS Otto Hahn.

During World War II, Jerome was home to a Japanese American internment camp, Jerome War Relocation Center ( 1942 – 1944 ), later converted into a prison camp for captured German soldiers.

From 1944 to 1945 Windfall was home to a World War II German POW camp, Windfall Indiana World War II POW Camp.

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

Clifton was home to Clifton High School from 1912 to 1944, when the school was torn down after the construction of Fairfax High School.

None but the Lonely Heart is a 1944 film which tells the story of a Cockney lad who returns home with no ambitions but finds that his family needs him.

Andrews ' two signature roles came as an obsessed detective in Laura ( 1944 ) opposite Gene Tierney, and as a U. S. Army Air Force officer returning home from the war in the Oscar-winning 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives.

By October 1944, Camp Pendleton was declared a " permanent installation " and by 1946, it became the home of the 1st Marine Division.

* 1944 – World War II: Allied bombers conduct their most severe bombing run on Sofia, Bulgaria.

Belgium was run by a Germany military government under General Alexander von Falkenhausen until July 1944, and then under Reichskommissar Josef Grohé until liberation.

He resigned from the Presidency of the British Society in 1944, the year in which, under the Presidency of Sylvia Payne, there finally emerged a tripartite compromise agreement which allowed the Freudians, Klienians and a group of “ Independents ” to run their own training and accreditation programmes.

Richardson and Laurence Olivier were released from the armed forces in 1944 to run the Old Vic Company as a triumvirate with the stage director John Burrell.

The family was on the run for the remainder of the war, and survived intact except for the death of Kahneman's father of diabetes in 1944.

He went back home in 1944 to help run a restaurant and to begin a professional boxing career, as a boxer.

" With this victory, he realized his father's dream: Cap Graham had run unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination to be Governor of Florida back in 1944.

In his 2004 book, The Deceivers, Thaddeus Holt attributes the success of Fortitude to the trial run of Cockade in 1943 ; " FORTITUDE in 1944 could not have run as smoothly as it did if the London Controlling Section and its fellows had not gone through the exercise of COCKADE in the year before.

Byrnes envisioned that Smith would retire in 1944 and that Maybank would successfully run for Smith's Senate seat and build a strong political machine in the state with him.

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

In 1944, Long did not run for governor though he wished to have done so.

On 5 April 1944, she was dropped near the city of Orléans in occupied France, where she was deployed to work with the " Historian " network run by George Wilkinson.

From 1944 he flew, principally Mosquitos, in North Africa and acted as a convoy escort on the Malta run.

The Liberals despite internal pressure to break with the coalition agreed not to run candidates in the 1944 election.

The Little Lulu panel continued to run weekly in The Saturday Evening Post until December 30, 1944.

Although the election officially resulted in a minority government, the election of eight " Independent Liberal " MPs, most of whom did not run as official Liberals because of their opposition to conscription ( see Conscription Crisis of 1944 ), gave the King government an effective working majority in parliament.

Famous athletes who competed in Honolulu Stadium include Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio ( hit a home run out of the park in 1944 ) and Jesse Owens.

Mosley ’ s ideas were not as such new, as concepts of a Nation Europa and Eurafrika ( the same idea only with parts of north Africa included as natural sectors of Europe ’ s traditional sphere of influence, an idea that Mosley himself felt had some merit ) were already growing in Germany ’ s post-War underground, whilst Mussolini ’ s 1944 Italian Social Republic had returned to fascism ’ s roots with an attempt at a corporatist economic system during its brief run.

* Tex Avery ( 1944 – 1957 as a periodic stand-in for Bill Thompson during his run )

* Don Messick ( 1944 – 1957 ; in Wags to Riches, as a periodic stand-in for Bill Thompson during his run, 1990 – 1994 ; Tom and Jerry: The Movie, Tom and Jerry Kids, Droopy, Master Detective )

However, the election of eight " Independent Liberal " MPs, most of whom did not run as official Liberals because of their opposition to conscription ( see Conscription Crisis of 1944 ), as well as one Liberal-Progressive, gave the King government an effective working majority in parliament.