For a very brief period in 1944 the Wills band included 23 members., and around mid year he toured Northern California and the Pacific Northwest with 21 pieces in the orchestra. Billboard reported that Wills outgrossed Harry James, Benny Goodman, " both Dorsies, et al.

He died in 1944, within a year of the end of World War II.

Based on the 1000 casualties per year criterion, there were 213 civil wars from 1816 to 1997, 104 of which occurred from 1944 to 1997.

* 1944 – Soviet forces liberate Leningrad, effectively ending a three year Nazi siege, known as the Siege of Leningrad.

Production of fighters was not given priority until 1944 ; Adolf Galland commented that this should have occurred at least a year earlier.

He visited the Regiment in England during the war, and always ensured the 1st Battalion had a turkey dinner at Christmas every year they were overseas, including the Christmas of 1944 when the battalion was holding front line positions in the Nijmegen Salient.

See, for instance, the rabbinic category of Damages ( Jewish law ) ( note though that while a few aspects of this law are incorporated into Israeli law, tort law in Israel is technically similar to English tort law-as enacted by British Mandate of Palestine authorities in 1944 and taking effect in 1947, a year before Israel became a state ).

In addition, the Town and Country Planning Act 1944 gave consideration to those areas damaged in bombing raids and enabled local authorities to clear slums, while the Housing ( Temporary Accommodation ) Act passed that same year made £ 150 million available for the construction of temporary dwellings.

Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV ) was a leap year starting on Saturday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar.

Construction on B Reactor began in August 1943 and was completed just over a year later, on September 13, 1944.

In early 1944, a chicken ranch began operation, and in late April of the same year, the camp opened a hog farm.

He resigned from the Presidency of the British Society in 1944, the year in which, under the Presidency of Sylvia Payne, there finally emerged a tripartite compromise agreement which allowed the Freudians, Klienians and a group of “ Independents ” to run their own training and accreditation programmes.

It was liberated by the Red Army on May 9, 1944 and was awarded with the Hero City title a year later.

Between 1931, the year of Gen. Maximiliano Hernández Martínez's coup, and 1944, when he was deposed, there was brutal suppression of rural resistance.

On January 30, 1944, United States troops invaded, but found that Japanese forces had previously evacuated their fortifications to Kwajalein and Enewetak about a year earlier.

" Blind Alley " was published before any of the novels ; written in 1944, it was accepted by John W. Campbell later that year and published in Astounding Science Fiction in March 1945.

Madame Levy was imprisoned in Camp Drancy on 3 November 1943, and on 20 November of the same year she was deported to Auschwitz, where she died of typhus in January 1944.

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.

In 1944, Siegel married Martha Baird ( University of Iowa ), who had begun studying in his classes the year before.

Ann Sheridan's name came up when negotiations with Crawford broke down in 1944 during her first year at Warner Bros.

Between 1944 and 1982, he wrote at least one novel a year ( except 1950, 1951, and 1971 ), typically producing three per year-and published twelve in 1974 alone.

He graduated from Carleton College in Minnesota in May 1944, having enlisted in the United States Navy a year earlier.

His share in the profits of this smash hit gave McCarey the highest reported income in the U. S. for the year 1944, and its follow-up, The Bells of St. Mary's ( 1945 ), which was made by McCarey's own production company, was similarly successful.

Estimated to have a strength of 100, 000 in June 1944, the FFI grew rapidly, doubling by the following month, and reaching approximately 400, 000 by October of that year.

According to the later feature film, made in 1976, both " Lads " were conceived during the same wartime air raid and were thus born in the same year, 1944.

The films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 for best art direction went to a film from 1999.

The most famous work of Algerian cinema is probably that of Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Chronicle of the Years of Fire, which won the palme d ' Or at the Cannes film festival in the year 1975.

Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, Kurosawa directed approximately a film a year, including a number of highly regarded films such as Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Yojimbo ( 1961 ).

Reeves reprised the role the following year in the film The Avenger, about Aeneas's arrival in Latium and his conflicts with local tribes as he tries to settle his fellow Trojan refugees there.

The following year they collaborated on a musical film version of The Little Prince, based on the classic children's tale by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

The television, film, book, costume, home decoration, and confectionery industries use this time of year to promote products closely associated with such a holiday, with promotions going from early September to 31 October, since their themes rapidly lose strength once the holiday ends, and advertising starts concentrating on Christmas.

* In the 1989 film Major League it was announced of fictional New York Yankees pitcher Duke Simpson: " The Duke led the American League this year in saves, ERA, and hit batsmen.

In 1996, the year after the film was released, the annual three-day " Braveheart Conference " at Stirling Castle attracted fans of Braveheart, increasing the conference's attendance to 167, 000 from 66, 000 in the previous year.

In the same year, a tourism report said that the " Braveheart effect " earned Scotland ₤ 7 million to ₤ 15 million in tourist revenue, and the report led to various national organizations encouraging international film productions to take place in Scotland.

There was a vast amount of publicity around the film, with a critic for the New York Times calling it " the most eagerly awaited picture of the year ", and it was one of the biggest money-makers of the era.

The Indians would appear in a film the following year titled The Kid From Cleveland, in which Veeck had an interest.

That same year, Marker organized the omnibus film Loin du Vietnam, a protest against the Vietnam War with segments contributed by Marker, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda, Claude Lelouch, William Klein, Michele Ray and Joris Ivens.

He started at Disney Studios in 1935, more than a year after the debut of Donald Duck on June 9, 1934 in the short animated film The Wise Little Hen.

During the same year, he directed Hell-Bent for Election, a campaign film for Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The following year, she made a cameo in the successful horror film Scream.

Until 1906, the year of his last film, Doyen recorded more than 60 operations.

Parton continued to make inroads on the pop charts as well with a re-recorded version of " I Will Always Love You " from the feature film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ( 1982 ) scraping the Top 50 that year and her duet with Kenny Rogers, " Islands in the Stream " ( written by the Bee Gees and produced by Barry Gibb ), spent two weeks at number one in 1983.

Visually, the character was an extension of Thomas Jerome Newton, the extraterrestrial being he portrayed in the film The Man Who Fell to Earth the same year.

The same year, he made a cameo appearance in the German film Christiane F., a real-life story of teenage drug addiction in 1970s Berlin.

The same year, the film of Leslie Thomas's 1966 comic novel The Virgin Soldiers saw Bowie make a brief appearance as an extra.

In Nagisa Oshima's film the same year, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, based on Laurens van der Post's novel The Seed and the Sower, Bowie played Major Jack Celliers, a prisoner of war in a Japanese internment camp.

* Little Miss Marker ( 1934 )— The film that made Shirley Temple a star, launched her career as perhaps America's most beloved child film star, and pushed her past Greta Garbo as the nation's biggest film draw of the year.