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.

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 ).

" at Civic Auditorium in Oakland, California, in January 1944.

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.

Munch died in his house at Ekely near Oslo on 23 January 1944, about a month after his 80th birthday.

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.

The communist partisans regrouped and gained control of southern Albania in January 1944.

By January 1944, Germany had diplomatic relations with only a handful of countries: Argentina, Ireland, Vichy France, the Salo Republic in Italy, Occupied Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Bulgaria, Switzerland, the Holy See, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Thailand, Japan, and the Japanese puppet states of Manchukuo and the Wang Jingwei regime in China.

Kaj Harald Leininger Munk ( commonly called Kaj Munk ) ( 13 January 1898 – 4 January 1944 ) was a Danish playwright and Lutheran pastor, known for his cultural engagement and his martyrdom during the Occupation of Denmark of World War II.

He was arrested and subsequently assassinated by the Gestapo on the night of 4 January 1944 at Hørbylunde, near Silkeborg.

* Syria ( France ), 29 September 1923 – 1 January 1944.

In January 1944, the Istiqlal ( Independence ) Party, which subsequently provided most of the leadership for the nationalist movement, released a manifesto demanding full independence, national reunification, and a democratic constitution.

The RAF bombing raid on the night of 16 January 1944, destroyed much of the city.

Paul John Keating ( born 18 January 1944 ) is a former Australian politician who served as the 24th Prime Minister of Australia from 1991 to 1996.

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.

Born in 1884 in French Guiana this descendant of African slaves was a key figure together with René Pleven in the organization by the De Gaulle government of the Brazzaville Conference of 1944, which took place between the January 30 and February 8, 1944 and which did set out the new direction of French colonial policies after World War II.

The total number of Rifle Corps started at 62 on 22 June 1941, dropped to six by 1 January 1942, but then increased to 34 by February 1943, and 161 by New Year's Day 1944.

* Sir Lyman Poore Duff ( as Chief Justice, ( March 17, 1933 – January 2, 1944 ; appointed a Puisne Justice under Prime Minister Laurier, June 4, 1906 )

* Henry Hague Davis ( January 31, 1935 – June 30, 1944 )

27 December 1943 the Free French authorities agreed to transfer their remaining powers to Syria from 1 January 1944.

" Premiered respectively by Prokofiev ( No. 6: 8 April 1940 ), Sviatoslav Richter ( No. 7: Moscow, 18 January 1943 ) and Emil Gilels ( No. 8: Moscow, 30 December 1944 ), they were subsequently championed in particular by Richter.

Eisenhower retired from active service on May 31, 1952, and resumed the university presidency, which he held until January 1953.

On January 1, 1937, he resumed control of the National Guard, combining the roles of president and chief director of the military.

In January 1906, he resumed his full-time naval career, first as an Assistant Director of Naval Intelligence at the Admiralty and, in August, as flag-captain to Rear-Admiral Sir George Egerton on.

Once work resumed, however, Sawakin port opened in January 1991, and was capable of handling an estimated 1. 5 million tons of cargo a year.

The General Assembly meets under its president or Secretary-General in regular yearly sessions the main part of which lasts from September to December and resumed part from January until all issues are addressed ( which often is just before the next session's start ).

The last two of these Regular sessions were routinely scheduled to recess exactly three months afterwards in early December, but were resumed in January and extended on until just before the beginning of the following sessions.

The march into Texas resumed on January 26, and the army crossed the Rio Grande on February 12.

Philip abdicated in January 1724 in favor of Louis I, his eldest son with his first wife, but Louis died in August and Philip resumed the crown.

In late January 1940, Hitler ordered planning to be resumed for an invasion of Norway.

In January 1981, production on YCDTOTV resumed, and a new batch of episodes aired locally on CJOH through May of that year.

Nevertheless, Charles Emmanuel obtained the help of French troops to free Alba from the Spaniards ( January 1617 ), as the new King Louis XIII resumed his father's former alliance with Savoy.

The Russians resumed drilling into the lake in January 2012 and reached the upper surface of the water in 6 February 2012.

Through 1989, there were 32 flights ; this includes the one on January 28, 1986, when Challenger was lost, and the delay until September 29, 1988, when flights resumed.

The war between the Polish faction and the Scranton Diocese settled into a standstill for the Christmas holidays, but in January 1890, war resumed, and this time the focus was the cemetery on Welsh Hill which the Diocese had created for use by both the Poles and the Lithuanians.

Purchases of crude oil resumed in January 2009 using revenues available from the 2005 Hurricane Katrina emergency sale.

When in late January 1740 the traffic across the Irish Sea resumed, retail prices for coal soared.

In January 1944 he resumed command of ETOUSA and the following month was officially designated as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces.

The trial commenced on 5 July 2005, but was adjourned, and not resumed until 9 January 2006.

In March 2009, in the recession, Granada announced it would remain at Quay Street but after a change of management, talks resumed in January 2010.

McKernan developed a close friendship with Constanten based on their mutual aversion to psychedelics and eventually served as his best man when Constanten wed. After Constanten's departure in January 1970 over musical and lifestyle differences, McKernan resumed keyboard duties.

After seven years, ABC resumed broadcasting the pageant on January 15, 2011.

On 9 January, the offensive resumed.

1946, January 23 – first meeting of resumed New York Committee of the Pact and Banner of Peace has been conducted.

On 31 January, Germany resumed " unrestricted " submarine warfare, which caused many civilian deaths, including American passengers on British ships.