* 1944 – In the Saskatchewan general election, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government in North America.

In the 1944 presidential election Willkie again sought the Republican nomination, choosing his wife's hometown, Rushville, Indiana, as his campaign headquarters.

The subsequent passing of the 22nd Amendment of the United States Constitution in 1947 renders this election the only occasion in American history in which a candidate was elected to an unprecedented third term as president ( Roosevelt was elected to a fourth term in 1944, but he died less than three months after his inauguration ).

The United States presidential election of 1944 took place while the United States was preoccupied with fighting World War II.

During the 1944 election campaign, Dewey suffered an unexpected blow when a remark attributed to socialite Alice Roosevelt Longworth ( daughter of Theodore Roosevelt ) mocked Dewey as " the little man on the wedding cake " ( alluding to his neat mustache and dapper dress ).

The Liberal Party, which had been active since 1944, became defunct as a result of the 2002 gubernatorial election.

In the 1944 election, during World War II, he won a fourth term, but suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died in office the following year.

" He lost his seat at the general election of 1943, but regained it when de Valera called a snap election in 1944.

Dulles was a close associate of Thomas E. Dewey, who became the presidential candidate of the Republican Party in the 1944 election and 1948.

They continued as interim trustees until April of 1944 when a general election was held and a mayor and city officials elected.

He was confronted with a crisis in 1944 when de Valera's government unexpectedly collapsed in a vote on the Transport Bill and the President had to decide whether or not to grant an election to de Valera.

Duplessis returned as premier in the 1944 election, and held power without serious opposition for the next fifteen years, until his death, winning elections in 1948, 1952 and 1956.

Elected to the National Assembly of Quebec, Jean Lesage's Liberal Party won the 1960 Quebec general election, campaigning with the slogan of C ’ est le temps que ça change ( It ’ s time things changed ) and putting an end to the long reign of the Union nationale that had governed Quebec under Maurice Duplessis since 1935 ( except for the period from 1940 to 1944 ).

" Finally, in part under the influence of New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, Fish's congressional career ended when he won the Republican Party primary in his district but lost the general election in 1944.

The Liberals returned to power in the 1939 election, but lost it again in the 1944 election.

Most were named Person of the Year either the year they were elected or while they were in office ; the only one to be given the title before being elected is Dwight D. Eisenhower, who won it in 1944 as Supreme Commander of the Allied Invasion Force, eight years before his election.

In 1944 he was first placed on house arrest, and stripped of his right to be candidate to an election on 5 September 1945.

He led the CCF to power in the 1944 provincial election, winning 47 of 53 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, and thus forming the first democratic socialist government in not only Canada, but all of North America.

* 1944-U. S. presidential election, 1944: Franklin D. Roosevelt wins reelection, becomes the only U. S. president elected to a fourth term

Mulcahy was returned again to the 12th Dáil as TD for Tipperary at the 1944 general election.

He was also a Bloc populaire candidate in the 1944 provincial election but was badly defeated in his Montreal constituency.

The split damaged the Labour movement in the 1944 general election.

Churchill, always a regular customer, did his electioneering for his first postwar election sitting on the top of the back seat of a discreetly fast and luxurious low-slung Dolphin two-door drophead coupé first registered in 1944.

Akio, however, found his true calling in mathematics and physics, and in 1944 he graduated from Osaka Imperial University with a degree in physics.

In 1944, Jones wrote to John Walvoord of Dallas Theological Seminary that while the university had " no objection to educational work highly standardized …. We, however, cannot conscientiously let some group of educational experts or some committee of experts who may have a behavioristic or atheistic slant on education control or even influence the administrative policies of our college.

Western attempts to reunite the Partisans, who denied the supremacy of the old government of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and the émigrés loyal to the king led to the Tito-Šubašić Agreement in June 1944 ; however, Marshal Josip Broz Tito was seen as a national hero by the citizens and was elected by referendum to lead the new independent communist state, starting as a prime minister.

General Patton's offensive, however, came to a screeching halt on August 31, 1944, as the Third Army literally ran out of fuel near the Moselle River, just outside of Metz, France.

He, however, supported the party establishment's platform that was a replication of the 1944 Democratic National Convention plank on civil rights.

During that campaign, however, with the war in Europe intensifying, he was widely considered too young and inexperienced for the presidency and lost the nomination to Wendell Willkie, who strongly disliked him and considered endorsing Roosevelt against Dewey at the time of his death in 1944.

The majority of women prisoners, however, arrived in 1944 and 1945 from other camps, mainly Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, and Bergen Belsen.

These documents were not, however, necessarily accurate: Among those executed before 1944 many were listed as " transferred to the Gestapo ".

The ' symbolic ' war against the Western Allies, however, turned into a disaster for the citizens of Sofia as the city was heavily bombarded by the US and the British Royal Air Force in 1943 and 1944.

Strauss was unable, however, to protect his Jewish relatives completely ; in early 1944, while Strauss was away, Alice and his son Franz were abducted by the Gestapo and imprisoned for two nights.

Kronoberg was formally granted its arms in 1944, however use of the same was already an established practice.

RCA has only reissued recordings that were personally approved by Toscanini, including some broadcast performances such as the seven complete operas he conducted at NBC between 1944 and 1950 ; however, other labels have released discs taken from off-the-air recordings of NBC broadcast concerts.

In 1944, however, increased danger to the Royal Albert Hall from bombing meant that the Proms moved again, this time to the Bedford Corn Exchange.

Bäke, however, made an ill-advised attack on the U. S. 90th Infantry Division near Aumetz on the night of September 7 – 8, 1944.

Kronoberg County was formally granted its arms in 1944, however use of the same was already an established practice.

Cassady continued his criminal activities, however, and was repeatedly arrested from 1942 to 1944 ; on at least one of these occasions, he was released by law enforcement into Brierly's safekeeping.

Before 1944, however, the main German industrial targets were out of range, so the RAF bombers concentrated on military and transportation targets in France and Belgium.

Although Von Braun's interrogators pressured him, he was not tortured ; however in 1944 another PoW, U-boat Captain Werner Henke was shot and killed while climbing the fence at Fort Hunt.

Under his direction Imperial Japanese Navy Headquarters had hoped to return to the offensive in early 1944 ; however, this soon proved impracticable.

Testing and production of the T26E1 proceeded slowly, however, and the T26E1 did not begin full production until November 1944.

" In 1883, Samuel Benjamin was appointed by the United States as the first official diplomatic envoy to Iran, however ; Ambassadorial relations were not established until 1944.

That pledge did not, however, actually eliminate all wartime strikes ; in fact there were nearly as many strikes in 1944 as there had been in 1937.

Alexandre Kum ' a Ndumbe III however shows, that OB was " based on the Führer-principle, fighting against the Empire, the capitalists, the communists, the Jews, the party and the system of parliamentarism ... on the base of national-socialism ", according to a German secret source dated Jan. 18, 1944

In October 1944 however, the remaining Tetrarchs of the regiment were replaced by Locusts and eight were used during Operation Varsity in March 1945.

Production of the T9 peaked at 100 tanks produced per month between August 1943 and January 1944 ; however, this number rapidly declined when the results of the British and American testing programmes were reported to the Ordnance Department, and only 830 T9s were ever produced.