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

HH Abbas II Hilmi Bey ( also known as Abbas Hilmi Pasha ) () ( 14 July 1874 – 19 December 1944 ) was the last Khedive of Egypt and Sudan ( 8 January 1892 – 19 December 1914 ).

Koussevitsky's Boston Symphony Orchestra premièred the work in December 1944 to highly positive reviews.

Germany's last offensive on its Western front, Operation Wacht am Rhein, was an offensive launched towards the vital port of Antwerp in December 1944.

President Roosevelt authorized the Bronze Star Medal by Executive Order 9419 dated 4 February 1944, retroactive to 7 December 1941.

* Albert W. Small, The Special Fish Report ( December, 1944 ) describe the operation of Colossus to break Tunny messages

The proximity fuse emerged on the battlefields of Europe in late December 1944.

In recognition of his senior position in the Allied command, on December 20, 1944 he was promoted to General of the Army, equivalent to the rank of Field Marshal in most European armies.

The Germans launched a surprise counter offensive in the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944 which was turned back in early 1945 by the Allies after Eisenhower repositioned his armies and improved weather allowed the Air Force to engage.

In December 1944 he recorded Quite Early One Morning produced by Aneirin Talfan Davies again for the Welsh BBC but when Davies offered it for national broadcast it was turned down by BBC London .. On 31 August 1945 Quite Early One Morning was broadcast on the BBC Home Service, and in the three years beginning October 1945, Thomas made over a hundred broadcasts for the corporation.

17, December 1944, pp. 530 – 555.

Edvard Munch (; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944 ) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century.

The Mk I Colossus was built between March and December 1943 by Tommy Flowers and his colleagues at the Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill in London and then shipped to Bletchley Park in January 1944.

A few days later, on 3 December 1944, a large-scale pro-EAM demonstration in Athens ended in violence and ushered an intense, house-to-house struggle with British and monarchist forces ( the Dekemvriana ).

Alexander remained in command of 15th Army Group, as well as its successor, the Allied Armies in Italy, for most of the Italian Campaign, until December 1944, when he relinquished his command to Clark and took over as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces Headquarters, responsible for all military operations in the Mediterranean Theatre.

The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) is an international organization that was created on July 22, 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference and came into existence on December 27, 1945 when 29 countries signed the Articles of Agreement.

Jack Laurence Chalker ( December 17, 1944 – February 11, 2005 ) was an American science fiction author.

Kary Banks Mullis ( born December 28, 1944 ) is a Nobel Prize winning American biochemist, author, and lecturer.

Mullis was born in Lenoir, North Carolina, near the Blue Ridge Mountains, on December 28, 1944.

His wife Helma died of cancer on 29 October 1944, although Schwitters only heard of her death in December ; at about the same time, he discovered that the Merzbau had been destroyed during an allied air raid.

* Order of the Red Banner, six times (№ 47-26 June 1919, № 629 / 2 от апреля 1921 года, № 27 / 3-2 December 1925, № 5 / 4-22 February 1930, № 1 / 5-3 November 1944, № 1 / 6 от 24 June 1948 )

His instructions were to attend a December 1944 lecture at the Technische Hochschule there by Germany's top nuclear scientist Werner Heisenberg, who was heading their atomic bomb project, to an audience filled with Nazi agents.

After a site survey in September by Papa Riedel and Schubert, Kammler chose the code name Zement ( cement ) for it in December, and work to blast an underground cavern into a cliff at Lake Traunsee near Gmunden commenced in January 1944.

When the death sentence was passed, according to Moskalenko's later account, Beria pleaded on his knees for mercy before collapsing to the floor and wailing and crying energetically, but to no avail: the other six defendants were executed by firing squad on 23 December 1953, the same day as the trial, while Beria was fatally shot through the forehead by General Batitsky after the latter stuffed a rag into Beria's mouth to silence his bawling.

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (; ; 29 March 1899 – 23 December 1953 ) was a Soviet politician, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus ( NKVD ) under Joseph Stalin during World War II, and Deputy Premier in the postwar years ( 1946 – 1953 ).

According to NKVD orders, tens of thousands of Romanian families were deported to Siberia during this period, with 12, 191 people deported on 2 August 1940 ( less than a month after the occupation ), and another 2, 057 persons deported to Siberia in December 1940, together with their families.

In the Great Purge, Houtermans was arrested by the NKVD in December 1937.

Founded on August 30, 1948, with help from the Soviet NKVD, the Securitate was abolished in December 1989, shortly after President Nicolae Ceaușescu was ousted.

The apex of Yezhov's career was reached on 20 December 1937, when the party hosted a giant gala to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the NKVD at the Bolshoi Theater.

Near the end of December 1938 Abakumov was moved from Moscow to Rostov, where soon he became the head of UNKVD of Rostov Oblast, ( the head of the local NKVD Office ).

The decision was made in December 1943, when NKVD agents entered the homes of Kalmyks, or registered the names of those absent for deportation later, and packed them into cargo wagons and transported to various locations in Siberia: Altai Krai, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Omsk Oblast, and Novosibirsk Oblast.

In 1922, after the creation of the State Political Directorate ( GPU ) and connecting it with People's Commisariat for Internal Affairs ( NKVD ) of the Russian SFSR, foreign intelligence was conducted by the GPU Foreign Department, and between December 1923 and July 1934 by the Foreign Department of Joint State Political Directorate or OGPU.

The codebreaker Meredith Gardner recalled that Weisband had watched him extract a list of Western atomic scientists from a December 1944 NKVD message.

It was really a May and December combination.

As summer cooled into fall and winter, even so the relationship between the two men continued to grow colder by the day, and by December of 1834 it was icy.

In late December, the American army moved from Whitemarsh to Valley Forge, and although the distance was only 13 miles, the journey took more than a week because of the bad weather, the barefooted and almost naked men.

The queen agreed on December 17, a warrant was signed on January 27, and the Exchequer paid Quiney his expenses on February 27, 1598/9.

He was ordained deacon 16 June and priest 22 December 1633.

In December I wrote her with authority that we would meet on the steps of the Hotel Astor, a rendezvous spot that I had learned was the most sophisticated.

The promotion of Robert E. Swift to the position of Assistant Manager of the Interference Control Field Service Department was announced early in December by Frederick S. Scarborough, Manager of Interference Control Field Service.

She was then trained on the trot until December 29, hitched to a breaking cart once around the half-mile track and hoppled again.

Starting in great force late in December, from a line stretching from East Prussia to Budapest, the Red armies had swept two hundred miles across Poland to the Oder, thirty miles from Berlin, and the Upper Danube region was being rapidly overrun, while the Western Allies had not yet occupied all of the left bank of the Rhine.

For these crimes he was sentenced to be hanged in public on Friday, December 2, 1859.

On December 2, 1859, John Brown was hanged at Charles Town, Virginia.

She was the John Harvey, one of those Atlantic sea-horses that had sailed to Bari to bring beans, bombs, and bullets to the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, to Field Marshal Montgomery's Eighth Army then racing up the calf of the boot of Italy in that early December of 1943.

It was the night of December 2, 1943, and it was growing dark in Bari.

On December 9, 1862, Sergeant Edwin H. Fay, an unusual Louisianan who held A.B. and M.A. degrees from Harvard University and who before the war was headmaster of a private school for boys in Louisiana, wrote his wife: `` I saw Pemberton and he is the most insignificant puke I ever saw.

He said the snow plan was put in effect too slowly in December.

The verdict brought vindication to the dead woman's stepson, Vincent Hengesbach, 54, who was tried for the same crime in December, 1958, and released when the jury failed to reach a verdict.

The 187-mile Illinois State Toll Highway, for example, was not opened over its entire length until December, 1958.

Of course, the crowning event that has dramatically upset the traditional pattern of English religious history was the friendly visit paid by Dr. Fisher, then Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, to the Vatican last December.

" Willie " Lincoln was born on December 21, 1850, and died on February 20, 1862.

Burnside, against the advice of the president, prematurely launched an offensive across the Rappahannock River and was stunningly defeated by Lee at Fredericksburg in December.

By December 1863 a proposed constitutional amendment that would outlaw slavery absolutely was brought to Congress for passage.

Allan Dwan ( April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981 ) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.

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The largest structure ever made from adobe ( bricks ) was the Bam Citadel, which suffered serious damage ( up to 80 %) by an earthquake on December 26, 2003.