1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1944th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 944th year of the 2nd millennium, the 44th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1940s decade.
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Gregorian calendar | 1944 MCMXLIV |
Ab urbe condita | 2697 |
Armenian calendar | 1393 ԹՎ ՌՅՂԳ |
Assyrian calendar | 6694 |
Baháʼí calendar | 100–101 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1865–1866 |
Bengali calendar | 1351 |
Berber calendar | 2894 |
British Regnal year | 8 Geo. 6 – 9 Geo. 6 |
Buddhist calendar | 2488 |
Burmese calendar | 1306 |
Byzantine calendar | 7452–7453 |
Chinese calendar | 癸未年 (Water Goat) 4641 or 4434 — to — 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 4642 or 4435 |
Coptic calendar | 1660–1661 |
Discordian calendar | 3110 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1936–1937 |
Hebrew calendar | 5704–5705 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 2000–2001 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1865–1866 |
- Kali Yuga | 5044–5045 |
Holocene calendar | 11944 |
Igbo calendar | 944–945 |
Iranian calendar | 1322–1323 |
Islamic calendar | 1363–1364 |
Japanese calendar | Shōwa 19 (昭和19年) |
Javanese calendar | 1874–1875 |
Juche calendar | 33 |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
Korean calendar | 4277 |
Minguo calendar | ROC 33 民國33年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | 476 |
Thai solar calendar | 2487 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴水羊年 (female Water-Goat) 2070 or 1689 or 917 — to — 阳木猴年 (male Wood-Monkey) 2071 or 1690 or 918 |
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
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On Friday, August 4, 1944... a car pulled up in front of a spice warehouse at 263 Prinsengracht in Amsterdam. Inside the car were an Austrian Gestapo officer and his Dutch subordinates, who, acting on a tip-off (whose source has never been identified), had come to arrest the eight Jews who had been hiding for two years in an attic above the warehouse. The eight prisoners were taken to a deportation camp, from where they were sent to Auschwitz. Only one of them, Otto Frank, would survive.
... actress in the silent film days, and first wife of Comedian Charles Spencer Chaplin, died yesterday of pneumonia which followed a major abdominal operation....