Today in History for September 1944

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 81 of 81

1st - Bulgaria government of Bagrjanow, resigns
1st - King George VI promotes Montgomery to field marshal
2nd - Belgium's Emissie bank closes
2nd - During WW II, George Bush ejects from a burning plane
2nd - Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was sent to Auschwitz
2nd - US leaders meet in Belgium
3rd - 58th US Womens Tennis: P Betz beats Margaret Osborne duPont (63 86)
3rd - 68th & last transport of Dutch Jews (Anne Frank) leaves to Auschwitz
3rd - Canadian troops liberate Abbeville, France
3rd - Frank Parker beats Bill Talbert for US Tennis title
3rd - French troops liberate Lyon
3rd - Last transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz
3rd - Prince Bernhard appointed supreme commander of Neth Domestic Arm Force
3rd - Tank division of British Guards free Brussels
4th - 2,087 Jews transported for Westerbork to KZ-Lower Theresienstadt
4th - 64th US Mens Tennis: Frank Parker beats Wm F Talbert (64 36 63 63)
4th - British 11th Armoured Division frees Antwerp during WWII
4th - Finland breaks diplomatic contact with nazi-Germany
4th - US 1st Army frees Namen
Jewish Victim & Diarist of the Holocaust Anne Frank 5th - "Mad Tuesday" 65,000 Dutch nazi collaborators flee to Germany
5th - 5 resistance fighter executed in Terneuzen
5th - Allies liberate Brussels
5th - Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands sign unity treaty
5th - British premier Churchill travels to Scotland
5th - Dutch Armed Forces forms, under prince Bernhard
6th - Gen Von Zangens 15th army escape from Zealand
7th - SS-general Kurt Meyer takes Durnal Belgium
7th - Strongest Hurricane of century in Netherlands (wind force 12)
8th - 1st V-2 rockets land in London & Antwerp
8th - Russians march into Bulgaria; Bulgaria declares war on Germany
8th - World War II: London is hit by a V2 rocket for the first time.
9th - Allied forces liberate Luxembourg
9th - Bulgaria liberated from Nazi control (National Day)
9th - Resistance fighter Jaap Musch arrested in Nijverdal Neth
9th - US 113th cavalry passes Belg-Dutch borders
9th - Very strong hurricane hits Netherland
10th - Lt-gen Frederick Browning against Montgomery "But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far"
11th - FDR & Churchill meet in Canada at 2nd Quebec Conference
11th - US 5th Armored Division is 1st allied force to enter nazi-Germany
12th - -16] Hurricane, kills 389 in NC
12th - Noorbeek & Mheer freed
12th - US Army troops entered Germany for 1st time
13th - 30th Infantry division of US 1st Army frees Margraten
13th - Last transport out camp Westerbork to Bergen Belsen
13th - US 28th Infantry division opens assault on Siegfried line/Westwall
14th - 6,500 Dutch/Indonesian captives sent to Junyo Maru
14th - Gulpen, Meerssen & Maastricht freed
14th - Hurricane hits New England: 389 die
14th - US 28th Infantry division occupies 1.5 km of Roscheid
14th - US 4th Ivy League Inf division pushes through Westwall
15th - British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs
15th - Russian troops free Sofia Bulgaria
15th - US 1st Infantry division pushes through to Westwall
15th - US 28th Infantry division occupies Hill 555 at Roscheid
15th - US troops lands on Palau & Morotai
British war time Prime Minister Winston Churchill 17th - British Premier Winston Churchill travels to US
17th - Dutch begin railroad strike against German occupiers
17th - Operation Market Garden: British airborne division lands Arnhem Neth
18th - British submarine Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru: 5,600 killed
18th - Eindhoven free (Lightly Day)
18th - US 266th division occupiers Brest Bretagne
19th - Finland & Russia agree to cease fire
19th - Luftwaffe bombs Eindhoven: 200 killed
19th - Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War).
20th - Nijmegen is liberated from German occupation
20th - Polish forces free Terneuzen Neth
21st - Last British paratroopers at bridge of Arnhem surrenders
22nd - Boulogne reoccupied by Allies
22nd - Operation Market Garden: Polish paratroopers land at Driel
22nd - US troops land on Ulithi
26th - British & Polish paratroopers evacuate Oosterbeek (Arnhem)
26th - Soviet forces occupy Estonia
27th - Helmond & Oss Neth liberated
28th - 1st TV Musical comedy (The Boys from Boise)
28th - Battle of Arnhem, Germans defeat British airborne in Netherlands
28th - Nazi murders in Marzabotto, Italy (SS-major Reder)
29th - Browns last in AL attendance,only 6,172 watch them sweep Yanks in DH
29th - Soviet troops invade Yugoslavia
30th - -Oct 1] Failed attack on German officers near Putten Neth
30th - Calais reoccupied by Allies
30th - Dutch General Mine Workers Union (ABWM) forms

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 58 of 58

1st - Archie Bell, US singer (& the Drells-Tighten up)
1st - Don Stroud, Honolulu Hawaii, actor (Coogan's Bluff, Buddy Holly Story)
1st - Leonard Slatkin, LA California, conductor (Concert Orch, Neth)
2nd - Claude Nicollier, Vevey Switzerland, astronaut (STS 61-K, 46, 61, 75)
3rd - Gary Leeds, Glendale Ca, rocker (Walker Brothers)
3rd - Sherwood C "Woody" Spring, Hartford Ct, Col USA/astronaut (STS 61B)
3rd - Valerie Perrine, Galveston Tx, actress (Steam Bath, Superman, Lenny)
4th - Gene Parsons, rock drummer (Byrds, Gene Clark Group)
4th - Christopher Needler, English sand industrialist (TCG Materials)
4th - Jennifer Salt, LA California, actress (Sisters, Soap, Wedding Party)
4th - Ron Ward, Canadian ice hockey player
5th - Dario Bellezza, poet
5th - Rod Arrants, LA CA, actor (Vamping, Ape, Young & Restless)
6th - Gordon DeMarco, writer/activist
6th - Linda Kaye Henning, Cal, actress (Betty Joe-Petticoat Junction)
6th - M N Aubrey Mokoape, S Afr's VP (Azanian People Org)
6th - Swoosie Kurtz, Omaha Nebraska, actress (Slap Shot, Garp, Sisters)
7th - Bertel Haarder, Danish politician
9th - Olga de Haas, Dutch ballerina
10th - Thomas Allen, British opera singer
11th - Everaldo, Brazilian footballer
11th - Freddy Thielemans, mayor of Brussels
Singer Barry White (12th) 12th - Barry White, Galveston Tx, singer (Love's Theme), (d. 2003)
12th - Leonard Peltier, American activist
13th - Peter Cetera, Chicago, lead singer (Chicago-25 or 6 to 4, Old Days)
13th - [Winifred] Jacqueline Bisset, England, actress (Class, Deep, Secrets)
14th - Joey Heatherton, Rockville Center NY, dancer/actress (Bluebeard)
15th - Sotirios Hatzigakis, Greek politician
16th - Ard Schenk, Holland 1500m, 5K, 10K speed skater (Olympic-gold-1972)
16th - Betty Kelly, Detroit, rocker (Martha Reeves & Vandellas)
17th - Mary Lou Crocker, LPGA golfer
17th - Reinhold Messner, Italian mountain climber (Mount Everest)
18th - Charles Lacy Veach, Chicago Illinois, astronaut (STS 39, STS 52)
18th - Michael Franks, rocker
18th - Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006)
19th - Ard Schenk, 500, 1500, 5000k speed skater (Olympics-gold-1972)
19th - Anders Björck, Swedish politician
19th - Jean Succar Kuri, Lebanese-born Mexican businessman
20th - Jeremy Child, actor (Privilege, Taffin)
21st - Fannie Flagg, Birmingham Ala, actress/comediene (Candid Camera)
21st - Hamilton Jordan, political advisor (Crisis, Last Year of Carter Pres)
21st - Susan Maureen Fleetwood, Scotland, actress (Krays, Sacrifice)
21st - Steve Beshear, Democratic Governor of Kentucky.
22nd - John Tanner, (Rep-D-Tennessee)
23rd - Loren J Shriver, Iowa, Col USAF/astronaut (STS 51-C, STS 31, STS 46)
24th - Diana Körner, German actress
25th - Eugenia Zukerman, Cambridge Ms, flutist/novelist (Deceptive Cadence)
25th - Grayson Shillingford, cricket bowler (WI 1969-71, 7 Tests 15 wickets)
Actor Michael Douglas (25th) 25th - Michael Douglas, NJ, actor (Coma, Wall St, Jewel of the Nile)
25th - Doris Matsui, American politician
26th - Angela Dorian, (Victoria Vetri), SF, playmate (Sep 1967, Year-1968)
26th - Anne Robinson, English television host
27th - IDG Garnett, British Vice-Admiral
28th - Matthew Cowles, soap actor (Eban Japes-Loving, Billy-All My Children)
29th - Mike Post, composer (Rockford Files, Hill St Blues, Magnum PI)
29th - Tommy Boyce, songwriter (Boyce & Hart, Monkees)
29th - Torben Jensen, Denmark, actor (Taxa, Hayfever, Watch Me Fly, Guldregn)
30th - Diane Dufresne, French Canadian singer

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 28 of 28

2nd - George W Norris, US senator (lame duck-amendement), dies
2nd - Bella Rosenfeld, subject of many of Marc Chagall paintings (b. 1895)
3rd - Frantisek Alois Drdla, composer, dies at 75
4th - Izaak van der Horst, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
5th - Willem M Groenewegen, resistance fighter, executed
6th - Robert Lejour, Belgian lawyer/resistance fighter, murdered
7th - Eduardo Sanchez de Fuentes, composer, dies at 70
8th - Jan van Gilse, composer/Dutch resistance fighter, dies at 63
10th - Jaap P Musch, Dutch resistance fighter, murdered by Nazis
16th - Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1870)
17th - ... Kussin, German gen-maj/commanding Arnhem, dies in battle
18th - Anthony Stefanich, British boxer/captain, killed in Arnhem
18th - Hendrikus Colijn, Dutch premier (1933-39), dies at 75
18th - Hubert Ahaus, chaplin (Godsrijk), dies at 67
18th - Peter Waddy, British major 1st Para Brigade, dies in battle in Arnhem
18th - Robert Cole, US lt-colonel, dies in battle at Best
19th - David Lord, British lieutenant/Dakota-pilot DFC/VC, dies in battle
19th - Hilary Barlow, British colonel, dies
19th - John AC Fitch, British lt-colonel, dies in battle in Arnhem
20th - John Grayburn, English (Victoria Cross), dies in battle in Arnhem
22nd - "Cab" Calloway, British scout, dies in battle of Oosterbeek
23rd - Colijn, Neth PM, buried
25th - Jakob Schaffner, Swiss writer (Irrfahrten), dies at 68
25th - Leo Justinus Kauffmann, composer, dies at 43
26th - Ernst Isler, composer, dies at 64
26th - Julien Cahn, cricketer (private cricket promoter during 30's), dies
27th - Aimee Semple McPherson, Canada/US evangelist/faith healer, dies at 53
27th - Aristide Maillol, Fr sculptor/graphic artist, dies in car crash at 82