Today in History for March 1944

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 40 of 40

1st - Massive strikes in Northern Italian towns
1st - U-358 sinks in Atlantic
2nd - 16th Academy Awards - "Casablanca," Jennifer Jones & Paul Lukas win
2nd - Fumes from locomotive stalled in a tunnel suffocates 521 in Italy
3rd - 1st performance of corporal Samuel Barber's 2nd Symphony
4th - 1st US bombing of Berlin
4th - Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy
5th - 1st performance of Walter Piston's 2nd Symphony
6th - USAF begins daylight bombing of Berlin
7th - Japans begins offensive in Burma
8th - US resumes bombing Berlin
10th - U-575 sinks HMS Asphodel
11th - Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested
13th - USSR recognizes Italian Badoglio government
15th - Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing
16th - Vichy Internal minister Pucheu sentenced to death
18th - Nazi Germany occupies Hungary
18th - 2,500 women trample guards & floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm clocks announced for sale in a Chicago Illinois dept store
19th - Tippett's oratorium "Child of Our Time," premieres in London
20th - Bus falls off bridge into Passaic River NJ, killing 16
20th - Mount Vesuvius, Italy explodes
21st - Gen Eisenhower postpones S France invasion until after Normandy
22nd - 600+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Berlin
23rd - Bomb assassination against Southern Tirol congregation in Rome, 33 die
23rd - Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 m without a parachute & lives
24th - 76 Allied officers escape Stalag Luft 3 (Great Escape)
24th - 811 British bombers attack Berlin
24th - In occupied Rome, Nazis execute more than 300 civilians
25th - Germany troop executes 335 residents of Rome
25th - RAF Sgt Nickolas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber from 18,000 feet without a parachute
26th - 705 British bombers attack Essen
27th - 1,000 Jews leave Drancy France for Auschwitz Concentration Camp
27th - 2,000 Jews are murdered in Kaunas Lithuania
27th - 40 Jewish policemen in Riga Latvia ghetto are shot by the gestapo
27th - Children's Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno
28th - 6th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Utah defeats Dartmouth 42-40
28th - Astrid Lindgren sprains ankle & begins writing Pippi Longstocking
28th - NBA rookie of the year in 1966, Rick Barry
30th - 781 British bombers attack Neurenberg
31st - Hungary orders all Jews to wear yellow stars

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 70 of 70

1st - Dirk Benedict, Helena Mont, actor (A-Team, Battlestar Galactica)
1st - John B Breaux, (Rep-D-LA, 1972-88)
1st - John Napier, London, set designer (Royal Shakesphere Company)
1st - Mike D'Abo, rock vocalist (Manfred Mann-Mighty Quinn)
1st - Roger Daltrey, English rocker/actor/producer (The Who-Tommy)
2nd - Katherine Crawford, actress (Captains & Kings, Gemini Man)
2nd - Leif Segerstam, composer
2nd - Pam Barnett, LPGA golfer
2nd - Uschi Glas, German actress
3rd - Janice Garfat, rocker (Dr Hook)
4th - Bobby Womack, Cleve, R&B singer/guitarist (Woman's Got to Have It)
5th - Paul Sands, LA Ca, comedian/actor (SCTV, Story Theater, St Elsewhere)
5th - Lucio Battisti, Italian singer (d. 1998)
5th - Roy Gutman, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner
6th - David Gilmore, Cambridge England, guitarist (Pink Floyd)
6th - Kiri Te Kanawa, Gisborne NZ, operatic soprano (Don Giovanni)
6th - Mary Wilson, Detroit Mich, vocalist (Supremes-Where Did Our Love Go)
7th - Elton Gallegly, (Rep-R-California)
7th - Jorgen Theobaldy, writer
7th - Townes Van Zandt, Texas, singer/songwriter (Kathleen, Loretta), (d. 1997)
7th - Stanley Schmidt, American editor
8th - Carole Bayer Sager, NY, aka Mrs Burt Bachrach, singer (Arthur)
8th - Buzz Hargrove, Canadian labour leader
8th - Sergey Nikitin, Russian composer
8th - Palito Ortega, Argentine singer and actor
9th - Geoff Arnold, cricketer (England medium-pacer in 34 Tests 1967-75)
9th - Lee Irvine, cricketer (South African batsman, only Tests in 1970)
9th - Trevor Burton, rocker (Move)
11th - Ric Rothwell, drummer (Mindbenders-Games of Love)
14th - Clyde Lee, NBAer
14th - Peter Paul Zahl, writer
15th - Chi Cheng, Taiwan, sprinter/80m hurdler (Oly-Bronze-68)
15th - David Costell, Pitts, rocker (Gary Lewis & the Playboys-Diamond Ring)
15th - Jacques Doillon director/writer (La Fille de Quinze Ans)
15th - Ralph MacDonald, rock percussionist (Graceland)
15th - Sly Stone, Dallas, rocker (Sly & the Family Stone-Everyday People)
17th - Cito Gaston, MLB manager (Toronto Blue Jays)
17th - John Sebastian, NYC, singer (Loving Spoonful, Welcome Back Kotter)
17th - Pat McCauley, N Ireland, rock drummer (Them)
17th - Patti Boyd, Somerset England, (Mrs George Harrison/Mrs Eric Clapton)
17th - Pattie Boyd, British photographer and model
18th - Dick Smith, Australian Adventurer and Businessman
18th - Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Israeli military leader and politician, (d. 2012)
19th - Joseph Celli, composer
19th - Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, LBJ's daughter
19th - Myung-Wha Chung, Seoul Korea, cellist (Chung Sisters)
19th - Said Musa, Prime Minister of Belize
19th - Sirhan Sirhan, Palestinian-born assassin
21st - Charles Edward Greene, Pine Bluff Ark, 4x100m runner (Oly-gold-1968)
21st - Henrik Colding-Jorgensen, composer
21st - Jamary Oliveira, composer
21st - Marie-Christine Barrault, Paris France, actress (Stardust Memories)
22nd - Jeremy Clyde, rocker
22nd - R P Mardling, headmaster (Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield)
22nd - T S "Tony" McPhee, rocker (Sad Go Round)
23rd - Michael Nyman, composer (Mesmer, Carrington)
23rd - Salim Altaf, cricketer (Pakistan medium-pacer in 21 Tests 1967-78)
24th - Denny McLain, baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers, 31 wins in 1968)
24th - R. Lee Ermey, American actor
24th - Vojislav Koštunica, Serbian Prime Minister
25th - Ross Duncan, cricketer (one Test Australia v England 1971, 0-30)
25th - Terry L Bruce, (Rep-D-IL, 1985- )
26th - Diana Ross, [Earle], Detroit, (Supremes, Lady Sings Blues, Mahogany)
27th - Khosrow Shakibai, Iranian actor (d. 2008)
28th - Ken Howard, El Centro California, American actor (Ken-White Shadow, Dynasty, 1776)
28th - Rick Barry, ABA/NBA forward (NY Nets, Golden State Warriors)
29th - James Diggle, FBA, classicist
29th - John Suchet, British TV journalist (Independent TV News)
30th - Gerrit Komrij, Dutch poet/essayist (Happy Schizo)
31st - Rod Allen, [B Rodney Bainbridge] rock bassist/vocalist (Fortunes)

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

17th - Actor Charlton Heston weds Lydia Clarke

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 18 of 18

1st - ... Formans, director Milos Formans mother, dies in Auschwitz
4th - Louis Capone, New York organized crime figure (b. 1896) (executed)
4th - Emanuel Weiss, American hitman (b. 1906) (executed)
4th - Fannie Barrier Williams, American educator and political activist (b. 1855)
5th - Max Jacob, French writer, dies in nazi concentration camp at 67
10th - David Vogel, Ukrainian author, dies in Auschwitz at 52
11th - Hendrik W van Loon, Neth/US radio commentator/writer, dies at 62
12th - Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer (b. 1861)
14th - Pavel Grigor'yevich, composer, dies at 66
15th - Otto von Below, German commandant (WW I), dies at 86
18th - Benjamin Delmonte, theater director/actor, dies at 79
19th - William Hale Thompson, American mayor of Chicago (b. 1869)
20th - Felix Woyrsch, composer, dies at 83
22nd - ... Pucheu, French Internal minister to Vichy, executed
23rd - O C Wingate, British general-major (Burma), dies in air crash
28th - Chayyim Most, Rabbi/Maggid of Kovono, killed by nazis
28th - Stephen Butler Leacock, writer/economist (Literary Lapses), dies at 75
31st - Mineichi Koga, admiral of Japanese fleet, dies