Prior to 1944, the responsibilities of the current Health portfolio were part of the now-defunct post of Minister of Pensions and National Health.

After the liberation of Italy in June 1944, he had served as minister without portfolio and then as foreign minister.

He left the Health portfolio on February 11, 1944, but continued to serve as Attorney General of Manitoba until his death.

After the August 23, 1944 Royal Coup, he was Minister without portfolio in two successive cabinets of Constantin Sănătescu.

When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.

Our companion was a huge, plain-spoken American sculptor who had been a sixteen-year-old rifleman all across France in 1944.

The most convincing recent measurement of an anaconda was made in eastern Colombia by Roberto Lamon, a petroleum geologist of the Richmond Oil Company, and reported in 1944 by Emmett R. Dunn.

Volume 1, was completed in 1941 and published in 1944.

Volume 1 ( ( Af ) of the seventh edition of Dana's System Of Mineralogy was published in 1944 and Volume 2 ( ( Af ) in 1951 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, N. Y..

Even though it was known that the Luftwaffe in the north was now being directed by the young and energetic General Peltz, the commander who would conduct the `` Little Blitz '' on London in 1944, a major raid on Bari at this juncture of the war was not to be considered seriously.

In October 1944, he was appointed state warden and chief of the Forest Fire Section.

" 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 ).

Americium was first produced in 1944 by the group of Glenn T. Seaborg at the University of California, Berkeley.

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.

The discovery of americium and curium in 1944 was closely related to the Manhattan Project ; the results were confidential and declassified only in 1945.

According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.

The scenes at the end of the novel, when Oran's gates are reopened, recall the jubilant scenes in Paris when the city was liberated in 1944.

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.

It was successively renamed Annales d ' histoire sociale ( 1939 – 1942, 1945 ), Mélanges d ' histoire sociale ( 1942 – 1944 ), Annales.

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.

* Fleming was knighted, as a Knight Bachelor, by king George VI in 1944.

Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss was overall commandant of the Auschwitz complex from May 1940 – November 1943 ; Obersturmbannführer Arthur Liebehenschel from November 1943 – May 1944 ; and Sturmbannführer Richard Baer from May 1944 – January 1945.

Aristide Joseph Bonaventure Maillol ( December 8, 1861 – September 27, 1944 ) was a French Catalan sculptor, painter, and printmaker.

In May 1944, General Donovan, the head of the OSS, divided the unit into groups.

Greater Berlin was divided into four sectors by the Allies under the London Protocol of 1944, one each for:

From 1944 – 45 as part of Nazi Germany, it was divided into the Prussian provinces of Kurhessen and Nassau.

In December 1944, when the allies had already liberated virtually all of Belgium, its territory was split up into three Gau-type entities as integral (" Germanic ") parts of the Reich: the bi-cultural Belgian capital Brussels ( Brüssel in German, Brussel in Dutch and Bruxelles in French ) remained directly under the German Reichskommissar as a Brussels District, but the bulk of the country was divided ethno-linguistically and placed under collaborating Belgian fascist party leaders ( though with very little local support ) as Gauleiters and with Führer-imitating titles in their national languages:

The Arts Council of England was created in 1944 as the Arts Council of Great Britain, which was then divided to form the Arts Council of England, the Scottish Arts Council and the Arts Council of Wales in 1994.

Upon Wainscott's death in 1944, half of his company stock went to his wife ; the other half was divided among his employees.

The party was aided by an opposition divided between the Democratic Party and the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party, who eventually merged in 1944.

In 1936 some parts of the territory of Leningrad Suburban District of Leningrad was returned to Leningrad Oblast and divided into Vsevolozhsky District, Krasnoselsky District, Pargolovsky District and Slutsky District ( renamed Pavlovsky District in 1944 ).

This, together with other factors such as famine and disorder in British India and the priority given by the Allies to the defeat of Nazi Germany, prolonged the campaign and divided it into four phases: the Japanese invasion which led to the expulsion of British, Indian and Chinese forces in 1942 ; failed attempts by the Allies to mount offensives into Burma, from late 1942 to early 1944 ; the 1944 Japanese invasion of India which ultimately failed following the battles of Imphal and Kohima ; and, finally, the successful Allied offensive which reoccupied Burma from late-1944 to mid-1945.

This replaced the fallen Vichy State ( 1940 – 1944 ) and united the politically divided French Resistance, drawing Gaullists, nationalists, communists and anarchists, into a new " national unanimity " government established on 9 September 1944.

The Soviet Union recaptured Lithuania in 1944 and the Memel region was incorporated into the newly-formed Lithuanian SSR in 1945 while the remainder of East Prussia was divided between Poland ( the southern two-thirds now forming the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship ) and the Soviet Union ( the remaining territory which was formed into the Kaliningrad Oblast ).

According to the order of July 5, 1944, the forces of the Home Army within the city were divided onto five districts, each with its own centre of mobilization and different tasks.

On 24 April 1944, the Front was divided into the 2nd Belorussian Front and 3rd Belorussian Front.

On February 1, 1944 a portion of Naka Ward was divided out to become, but was merged back into Naka Ward on November 3, 1945.

There were also specialist units present serving both ADGs and the usual Military Police Company and Station Complement Squadron to guard and run the airfield, The two ADGs at North Witham were the 29th and 33rd ( the 85th ADG was present until February 1944 ) and, apart from their direct control of units on the airfield, they were responsible for seven Service Groups divided into A and B teams, each based with and serving one of the 14 Troop Carrier Groups in the IX TCC.

Following Greek and Bulgarian independence, the former town and its 350 families was divided between the countries in the Neuilly treaty in 1922 until 1941 when the Axis powers opened the borders briefly up to 1944 when Greece retook Kotyli and the local Bulgarian Muslims were since schooled in Greek language.

Poland formed the Polish Citizen's Militia, a kind of police force, at the end of 1944, while Poland was still in a theater of war, but just before Europe became divided.

On 26 September 1944 Hitler ordered Himmler to create special army units, the Volkssturm (" People's Storm ").

In June 1944 the British agreed to create a Jewish Brigade, that would fight in Europe.

An earlier Oklahoma community named Woodville was submerged in 1944 when the Red River was dammed to create Lake Texoma.

After several postponements due to weather, the operation began on July 25, 1944 with a short, very intensive bombardment with lighter explosives, designed so as not to create greater rubble and craters that would slow Allied progress.

Dominicana was established in 1944 in an effort to create a national airline aiming at the large number of Dominican citizens who emigrated to the United States of America, Puerto Rico and Spain.

Eventually, though, the Soviet Union exploited the change in power from Sheng to Kuomintang officials to create the puppet Second East Turkestan Republic ( 1944 – 1949 ) in present-day Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture to exploit its minerals, later justifying it as a national liberation movement against the " reactionary " Kuomintang regime.

The 26th Panzer then proceeded to create a formidable defensive complex around the town and along the ridge towards Ortona on the coast and Orsogna was not occupied by the Allies — despite a further two determined attempts during December — until the Germans withdrew after the Allied breakthrough at Cassino in May 1944.

His choir participated successfully in the Universal Exposition of 1937 in Paris, and in 1942, Stalin commissioned him and lyrist Sergey Mikhalkov to create a new Soviet national anthem, which was officially adopted on 1 January 1944.

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.

This conference took place in 1944 and its goal was “ to create a new international monetary and trade regime that was stable and predictable .” This new system opened world markets, promoted a liberal economy and was implemented through different institutions, such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

Domas Šidlauskas-Visuomis ( 1878 – 1944 ) began to create Vaidevutybė ( Baltic paganism ) in 1911.

Meanwhile, the new head of G-2, Major General Clayton L. Bissell, at Groves ' and Furman's urging, decided to create a new, even larger Alsos Mission for Western Europe in March 1944.

From his position as the chief political actor in the largest of the Communist front organizations, Groza was able to assert himself in a position of eminence within the Romanian political sphere as the Ploughmen's Front joined the Communist Party to create the National Democratic Front in October 1944 ( it also included Mihai Ralea's Socialist Peasants ' Party and the Hungarian People's Union, being briefly joined by the Social Democrats, and other minor groups ).

On January 16, 1944, Morgenthau presented Roosevelt with the Treasury report, and the president agreed to create the War Refugee Board ( WRB ), the first major attempt of the United States to deal with the annihilation of European Jews.

In 1944 at Los Alamos, one of Frisch's tasks as the leader of the Critical Assemblies group was to accurately determine the exact amount of enriched uranium which would be required to create the critical mass, the mass of uranium which would sustain a nuclear reaction.

Anderson helped to create the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party in 1944.

When Red Skelton was drafted in March 1944, Ozzie Nelson was prompted to create his own family situation comedy.

" After the Teheran Conference, Stalin decided to create his own puppet government for Poland, and the PKWN was proclaimed in 1944.

David Michael Rorvik ( born 1944 ) is an American journalist and novelist who was the author of the 1978 book In his Image: The Cloning of a Man in which he claimed to have been part of a successful endeavor to create a clone of a human being.

In 1868, the Virginia Central Railroad was merged with the Covington and Ohio Railroad to create the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ; the original tunnel served until it was replaced with a different alignment in 1944.

Historically, it was used by the British to create the Mulberry Harbours for the 1944 D-Day invasion of Normandy.

Frank's already budding literary ambitions were galvanized on 29 March 1944 when she heard a broadcast made by the exiled Dutch Minister for Education, Art and Science, Gerrit Bolkestein, calling for the preservation of " ordinary documents — a diary, letters ... simple everyday material " to create an archive for posterity as testimony to the suffering of civilians during the Nazi occupation, and on 20 May notes that she has started re-drafting her diary with future readers in mind.

The IMF was set up in 1944 to encourage international cooperation on monetary matters, to stabilise exchange rates and create an international payments system.

In the governments of Phraya Phahol Pholphayuhasena and Plaek Phibunsongkhram he became minister, and was elected as prime minister on August 1, 1944, after Plaek's plans to move the capital to Phetchabun and to create the Phutthamonthon park failed to get enough approval from the parliament.