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

* 1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator ( known best as the Harvard Mark I ).

* 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

The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( IBRD ) and International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) were established by delegates at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 and became operational in 1946.

The World Bank and International Monetary Fund were designed by delegates at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 and the World Bank, then consisting of only the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, became operational in 1946.

" Patton's Third Army became operational at noon on August 1, 1944.

Since becoming operational in Normandy on August 1, 1944 until May 9, 1945, the Third Army was in continuous combat for 281 days.

The programme began on 22 March 1944, overseen by Colonel R. M. McLeod, and became fully operational by 6 April ).

ENIAC inventors John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert proposed the EDVAC's construction in August 1944, and design work for the EDVAC commenced before the ENIAC was fully operational.

During World War II, US Coast Guard LORAN Unit 92, a radio navigation station built in the summer and fall of 1944, and operational from mid-November 1944 until mid-May 1945, was located on Gardner Island's southeast end.

Having returned to operational duties in 1944 after pestering Bomber Command, 25-year-old Gibson was killed along with his navigator, Sqn Ldr Jim Warwick, on a bombing raid on Rheydt ( nowadays a borough of Mönchengladbach ) operating as a Pathfinder Master Bomber based at RAF Coningsby, when his de Havilland Mosquito XX, KB267, crashed near Steenbergen on 19 September 1944.

In March 1944, heavy bomber operational training ended and the 225th Army Air Force Base Unit began training of replacement personnel for deployed heavy bombardment units in the overseas combat theaters.

It had first flown in 1941 but mass production started in 1944 with the first squadrons operational that year, too late for a decisive effect on the outcome of the war.

Particularly in the initial stage of operational use until early 1944, the sudden fire from below was often attributed to ground fire rather than a fighter.

The first USAAF unit did not move to Britain until February 1944 ; operational use did not start until the summer, and was limited throughout the war.

From February 1944 the operational command was the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force ( SHAEF ) which as an Allied command also had operational control of British and all other allied land forces and tactical airforces in the European theatre.

From February 1944, SHAEF was the operational command and ETOUSA administrative command.

501 which by 1 September 1944 listed 25 Tiger IIs operational.

Natzweiler-Struthof was operational between May 21, 1941 until the beginning of September 1944 when the SS evacuated the camp into Dachau.

Particularly in the initial stage of operational use until early 1944, the sudden fire from below was often attributed to ground fire rather than a fighter.

On 1 September 1944, the 21st Army Group was relieved of operational control of the American armies, and those armies formed the 12th Army Group.

) On the first day that General George Patton's Third Army became operational, in the summer of 1944, he issued a standing order to his staff that no infantry division would be committed to combat without a chemical mortar battalion attached, and no infantry regiment would be committed without a mortar company attached.

Gibson returned to operational duties in 1944 after pestering Bomber Command.

During the early part of 1944, the Army also had loose operational control over the American and Chinese Northern Combat Area Command, and the Chindits operating behind enemy lines under Major General Orde Wingate.