* 1944 – Peter Weir, Australian director

Australian soldiers, sailors, and airmen take part in an impromptu game of end-to-end Australian rules football in Central Australia in 1944.

* 1944 – Adrian Hurley, Australian basketball coach

* 1944 – Derryn Hinch, Australian media personality

* 1944 – Ray Meagher, Australian actor

* 1944 – Tony Whitlam, Australian judge

* 1944 – Dennis Firestone, Australian race car driver

One month after his 18th birthday on 19 May 1944 Brabham enlisted into the Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ).

* 1944 – John Newcombe, Australian tennis player

* 1944 – Dick Smith, Australian entrepreneur and adventurer

* 1862 – Charles Turner, Australian cricketer ( d. 1944 )

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.

* 1944 – Gareth Evans, Australian lawyer and politician

* 1944 – Midget Farrelly, Australian surfer

* 1944 – Terry Jenner, Australian cricketer

The real U-571 was never involved in any such events, was not captured, and was in fact sunk in January 1944, off Ireland, by a Short Sunderland flying boat from No. 461 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force.

** Peter Allen, Australian singer, songwriter ( b. 1944 )

* November 16 – Charles Turner, Australian cricketer ( d. 1944 )

Peter Lindsay Weir, AM ( born 21 August 1944 ) is an Australian film director.

* Ric Smith ( Richard C. Smith, born 1944 ), Australian public servant

* Charles Turner ( 1862 – 1944 ), former Australian cricketer

* John Edwin Ashley Williams ( 1919 – 1944 ), Australian Air Force officer, murdered by the Gestapo in Nazi Germany in 1944, following " The Great Escape "

Over the course of his 51-year federal parliamentary career ( and an additional seven years prior to that in a colonial parliament ), Hughes changed parties five times: from Labor ( 1901 – 16 ) to National Labor ( 1916 – 17 ) to Nationalist ( 1917 – 30 ) to Australian ( 1930 – 31 ) to United Australia ( 1931 – 44 ) to Liberal ( 1944 – 52 ).

The 1944 Australian Referendum was held on 19 August 1944.

The main effects of Paregoric are to increase the muscular tone of the intestine, to inhibit normal peristalsis, and as an expectorant ; a peer-reviewed clinical study in 1944 reported " that all of ingredients have been found to contribute toward the expectorant action of paregoric, and, further, that an advantage is contained in the combination over the sum of the effects of the individual constituents ," that Paregoric " is expectorant by virtue of a reflex from the stomach ," and " preparations of paregoric which have aged for two or three years are superior as an expectorant to preparations aged for less time .".

Until fall 1944 overseas units contained five performers or fewer ; The Barretts of Wimpole Street, using local theaters in France and Italy, was the first to use an entire theater company, including scenery.

The following year, Sir Frederick Hopkins postulated that some foods contained " accessory factors "— in addition to proteins, carbohydrates, fats, and salt — that were necessary for the functions of the human body .< ref > Christiaan Eijkman, Beriberi and Vitamin B < sub > 1 </ sub >, Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation </ ref > In 1901, Gerrit Grijns ( May 28, 1865 – November 11, 1944 ), a Dutch physician and assistant to Christiaan Eijkman in the Netherlands correctly interpreted the disease as a deficiency syndrome, and between 1910 and 1913, Dr. Edward Bright Vedder established that an extract of rice bran is a treatment for beriberi.

The 1944 war establishment for a British platoon, which contained 36 men, had a single PIAT attached to the platoon headquarters, alongside a mortar detachment.

Galland said after the war, had it not been for the Allied landing in Normandy which increased the need for lighter fighter variants, each Geschwader in the Luftwaffe would have contained a Gruppe of Sturmbock aircraft by September 1944.

Issues # 33 -# 41 of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories published between June 1943 and February 1944 contained a nine-episode series of short silent stories featuring a Gremlin Gus as their star.

It contained a lion within a wreath of wheat ears below a red five-pointed star and above a ribbon bearing the years 681, the year of the establishment of the First Bulgarian Empire by Asparukh and 1944, the year when the Fatherland Front took power which lead to the establishment of the People's Republic of Bulgaria.

One of the early famous rocketeers was Stephen Smith, a Secretary of the Indian Airmail Society, who launched 270 rockets between 1934 and 1944 of which 80 contained mail.

That barrier with its accompanying minefields effectively contained Soviet naval vessels to the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland until the autumn of 1944, when the Soviets were able to use Finnish coastal seaways to circumvent the barrier.

In 1934, whilst in England Jooss added new works to his repertoire, including Pandora ( 1944 ), contained disturbing images of human disaster and tragedy, which was later interpreted by some as foretelling the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan a year later.

This followed a statutory amendment in 1944 that read " Nothing herein contained shall render women ineligible as candidates ", and was contained in Chapter 1 of Statute 1.

However, sometimes the numbers in a group are considerably larger e. g. the mass grave at Villeneuve-Loubet, which contained the remains of 14 German soldiers killed in August 1944.

During the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, the 101st Airborne Division along with elements of other units was trucked to the Belgian town of Bastogne in order to secure and defend the town which contained a major road junction.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe was also recording shouting, stomping music in the 1930s and 1940s, such as " Strange Things Happening Every Day " ( 1944 ), that in some ways contained major elements of mid-1950s rock and roll.

In April, 1944 tests on the first plutonium-239 produced with neutrons in a nuclear reactor rather than a cyclotron, revealed an unexpected problem: the reactor-bred plutonium contained five times more plutonium-240 ( a result of reactor neutron bombardment ), an unwanted isotope that spontaneously decayed and produced neutrons that promised to cause a pre-detonation, without sufficiently quick critical mass assembly.

The story of gremlins appeared in Issues # 33 -# 41 of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories published by Walt Disney Productions between June 1943 and February 1944 ; it contained a nine-episode series of short, silent stories featuring a Gremlin Gus as their star.

When the Orioles were the St. Louis Browns, they played in only one World Series, the 1944 matchup against their Sportsman's Park tenants, the Cardinals.

Carl Friedrich Michael Meinhof ( July 23, 1857 – February 11, 1944 ) was a German linguist and one of the first linguists to study African languages.

Civil wars through the 19th century to early 20th century tended to be short ; the average length of a civil war between 1900 and 1944 was one and half years.

* 1944 – Maurice Richard becomes the first player to score 8 points in one game of NHL ice hockey.

On June 9, 1944 the trustees approved another coat of arms based on the shield part of the seal, this one by Canadian artist and designer Thoreau MacDonald.

* 1944 – World War II: Battle of the Bulge – German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium, prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: " Nuts!

The strength of the La Niña made the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season one of the most active since 1944 ; there were 16 named storms of at least 39 mph ( 63 km / h ), eight of which became or greater hurricanes.

In February 1944, Operation Hailstone, one of the most important naval battles of the war, took place at Truk, in which many Japanese support vessels and aircraft were destroyed.

Already before the war, people undesirable to the regime were used as slave labour, and in 1944 they reached one quarter of the workers.

Kelly also frequently appeared on television shows during the 1960s, but his one effort at television series, as Father Chuck O ' Malley in Going My Way ( 1962 – 63 ), based on the Best Picture of 1944 starring Bing Crosby, was dropped after thirty episodes, although it enjoyed great popularity in Roman Catholic countries outside of the United States.

For twenty-two years, from its founding in 1944 to his retirement in 1966, the Liberal Party had had only one leader, Robert Menzies.

It was not until the fourth attempt that the Winter Line was breached by the Allies, and Alexander's forces moved on to capture Rome in June 1944, thereby achieving one of the strategic goals of the Italian campaign.

* 1944 – World War II: Operation Spring – one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war: 1, 500 casualties, including 500 killed.

* 1944 – The Hartford Circus Fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut.

In 1944, one of the city's most enduring cultural hubs was inaugurated, Malmö Stadsteater ( Malmö Municipal Theatre ) with a repertory embracing both stage theatre, opera, musical, ballet, musical recitals and theatrical experiments.

In just one month in 1944, Americans captured Kwajalein Atoll, Majuro and Enewetak, and in the next two months the rest of the Marshall Islands except Wotje, Mili, Maloelap and Jaluit.

It was one of the first countries to start European integration, through the Benelux in 1944 and the European Coal and Steel Community in 1952.

* 1944 – World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers in one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of war and sinks the German battleship Tirpitz, with 12, 000 lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway.

David worked for The New Yorker as a general reporter and war correspondent before he was killed by a landmine near Aachen, Germany in October 1944, less than one month after his arrival to the European Theater of war.

On the following day, 31 July 1944, in view of the likely invasion by German forces, the state sent three letters of protest: one to Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister, one to Adolf Hitler and one to Benito Mussolini, the latter delivered by a delegation to Serafino Mazzolini, a high-ranking diplomat in the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Two test launches were recovered by the Allies: the Bäckebo rocket which landed in Sweden on 13 June 1944 and one recovered by the Polish resistance on 30 May 1944 from Blizna and transported to the UK during Operation Most III.

For example, circa June 22, 1944, only one of seven impacts was reported as being south of the Thames, when ¾ of the impacts had been there.