November 1944

The following events occurred in November 1944:

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November 1, 1944 (Wednesday)

November 2, 1944 (Thursday)

November 3, 1944 (Friday)

  • The Japanese began the Fu-Go (fire balloon) campaign against the continental United States.[5]
  • Turkey ended blackout restrictions.[3]
  • Japanese destroyer Akikaze was torpedoed and sunk west of Cape Bolinao, Philippines by the American submarine Pintado when she intercepted torpedoes intended for the aircraft carrier Jun'yō.

November 4, 1944 (Saturday)

November 5, 1944 (Sunday)

  • British troops in Italy captured Ravenna, cutting the railway line to Bologna.[7]
  • The Japanese cruiser Nachi was sunk in Manila Bay by U.S. aircraft.
  • Born: Kim Hye Cha, Korea
  • Died: Alexis Carrel, 71, French surgeon, biologist and Nobel laureate

November 6, 1944 (Monday)

  • The German garrison at Middelburg surrendered to the Allies.[5]
  • The Italian government announced the formation of a private army about six divisions strong, to enter into the war on the Allied side.[8]
  • The provisional government of France struck down all of the country's anti-Semitic laws. Implementation of this measure was difficult when it came to returning Jews to their former occupations and giving them back their homes and confiscated property.[8]
  • In Liverpool, the largest penicillin factory in the world began production.[8]
  • Born: Wild Man Fischer, songwriter, in Los Angeles, California (d. 2011)
  • Died: Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne, 64, Anglo-Irish politician and businessman (assassinated in Cairo by the Jewish terrorist group Lehi)

November 7, 1944 (Tuesday)

November 8, 1944 (Wednesday)

November 9, 1944 (Thursday)

  • German troops on Walcharen Island surrendered to the Allies.[5]
  • Allied troops in Italy crossed the Montone River.[7]
  • German submarine U-537 was torpedoed and sunk in the Java Sea by the American submarine Flounder.

November 10, 1944 (Friday)

November 11, 1944 (Saturday)

November 12, 1944 (Sunday)

November 13, 1944 (Monday)

November 14, 1944 (Tuesday)

November 15, 1944 (Wednesday)

November 16, 1944 (Thursday)

November 17, 1944 (Friday)

November 18, 1944 (Saturday)

November 19, 1944 (Sunday)

November 20, 1944 (Monday)

November 21, 1944 (Tuesday)

• Dies: Sarah Louise Northcott, Serial Killer, and mother of Gordon Stuart Northcott.[22]

November 22, 1944 (Wednesday)

  • Operation Clipper ended in Allied victory.
  • Canadian Parliament assembled in a special meeting to debate the conscription crisis. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King said that it had not become necessary to require drafted troops to serve overseas and that to do so "would occasion the most serious controversy that could arise in Canada. I can think of no course fraught with greater danger to our war effort, to say nothing of the unity and strength of Canada today and for generations to come, than a general election at this late stage of the war on the conscription issue. Until it is apparent conscription for overseas forces is necessary, the government would not be justified in taking the risk of widespread national dissention."[1]
  • The British submarine Stratagem was depth charged and sunk in the Strait of Malacca by the Japanese submarine chaser CH 35.
  • The film Henry V, adapted from the William Shakespeare play of the same name premiered in the United Kingdom. The film starred Laurence Olivier, who also directed.
  • The musical film Meet Me in St. Louis starring Judy Garland and Margaret O'Brien premiered in St. Louis, Missouri.
  • Died: Joseph Caillaux, 81, French politician; Arthur Eddington, 61, English astronomer, physicist and mathematician

November 23, 1944 (Thursday)

November 24, 1944 (Friday)

November 25, 1944 (Saturday)

November 26, 1944 (Sunday)

November 27, 1944 (Monday)

November 28, 1944 (Tuesday)

  • The Allies began to operate the port of Antwerp.[5]
  • The 57th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front captured the Hungarian town of Mohács.[28]
  • German submarine U-80 was lost with all hands in a diving accident off Pillau.

November 29, 1944 (Wednesday)

November 30, 1944 (Thursday)

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  22. Gordon Stewart Northcott
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