4th » World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine German submarine U-505 called 'U-505' the first time a United States Navy known as U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
4th » World War II: Rome falls to the Allies of World War II Allies, the first Axis powers Axis capital (political) capital to fall.
5th » World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on Nazi Germany e.g German Atlantic Wall known as gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
6th » World War II: the Normandy Landings known as Battle of Normandy begins. D-Day, code named 'Operation Overlord', commences with the landing of 155,000 Allies of World War II named Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The allied soldiers quic
7th » World War II: The steamer 'Danae', carrying 350 Crete or Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans, is sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.
7th » World War II: Invasion of Normandy called Battle of Normandy At Abbey Ardennes, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canada e.g Canadian prisoners of war.
9th » World War II: 99 civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for Maquis du Limousin known as maquisards attacks.
9th » World War II: the Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the Karelia (historical province of Finland) called previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
10th » World War II: Six hundred forty-two men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France.
10th » World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia, Greece 218 men, women and children are Distomo massacre or massacred by German troops.
10th » In baseball, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
11th » USS Missouri BB-63 6, the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is ship commissioning commissioned.
12th » American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division Battle of Carentan e.g secure the town of Carentan.
13th » World War II: German combat elements - reinforced by the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division - Battle of Bloody Gulch or launch a counterattack on American forces near Carentan.
13th » World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.
14th » World War II: After several failed attempts, the British Army abandons Operation Perch, its plan to capture the Nazi Germany known as German-occupied town of Caen.
15th » World War II: Battle of Saipan: The United States invade Japanese-occupied Saipan.
15th » In the Saskatchewan general election, 1944 Saskatchewan general election, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first Socialism socialist government in North America.
16th » At age 14, George Stinney e.g George Junius Stinney, Jr. becomes the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century.
17th » Iceland declares Icelandic National Day called independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
19th » World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
20th » World War II: The Battle of the Philippine Sea concludes with a decisive United States Navy known as U.S. naval victory. The lopsided naval air battle is also known as the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot".
20th » Continuation war: the Soviet Union demands an unconditional surrender from Finland during the beginning of partially successful Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive. The Finnish government refuses.
25th » World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic Countries, begins.
25th » World War II: United States Navy and Royal Navy ships Bombardment of Cherbourg or bombard Cherbourg to support United States Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg.
25th » The final page of the comic Krazy Kat was published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.
26th » World War II: The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, one of the largest battles between Nazi Germany and Polish resistance movement in World War II named Polish resistance forces, ends with the defeat of the latter.
30th » World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to United States named American forces.
Famous Birthdays on June in 1944
1st » Colin Blakemore, English neurobiologist and academic
1st » Robert Powell, English actor
2nd » Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and conductor (d. 2012)
2nd » Robert Elliott (actor born 1944) or Robert Elliott, American actor (d. 2004)
19th » Chico Buarque, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist
19th » Richard Monette, Canadian actor and director (d. 2008)
20th » Cheryl Holdridge, American actress (d. 2009)
20th » John McCook, American actor
20th » David Roper, English actor
21st » Ray Davies, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Kinks)
21st » Tony Scott, English-American director and producer (d. 2012)
21st » Corinna Tsopei, Greek model and actress, Miss Universe 1964
22nd » Peter Asher, English singer, guitarist, and producer (Peter & Gordon)
22nd » Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austrian actor and director
23rd » Rosetta Hightower, American singer (The Orlons)
24th » Jeff Beck, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The Yardbirds, The Jeff Beck Group, The Honeydrippers, and Beck, Bogert & Appice)
24th » David Mark Berger, American-Israeli weightlifter (d. 1972)
24th » Nancy Cartwright (philosopher) e.g Nancy Cartwright, American philosopher and academic
24th » Kathryn Lasky, American author
24th » John "Charlie" Whitney, English guitarist (Family (band) named Family, Axis Point (band) known as Axis Point, and Streetwalkers)
25th » Robert Charlebois, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
26th » Arthur Doyle, American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and flute player (d. 2014)
26th » Wolfgang Weber, German footballer and manager
26th » Gennady Zyuganov, Russian politician, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
27th » Angela King (environmentalist) known as Angela King, English environmentalist and author, co-founded Common Ground (United Kingdom) or Common Ground
27th » Patrick Sercu, Belgian cyclist
28th » Martin Harris (academic) or Martin Harris, English linguist and academic
30th » Raymond Moody, American parapsychologist and author
30th » Glenn Shorrock, English-Australian singer-songwriter (Little River Band, The Twilights, Axiom (Australian band) known as Axiom, Esperanto (band) e.g Esperanto, and Birtles Shorrock Goble)
30th » Ron Swoboda, American baseball player and sportscaster
Famous Deaths for June 1944
10th » Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch mathematician (b. 1910)
16th » Marc Bloch, French historian and academic (b. 1886)
25th » Dénes Berinkey, Hungarian jurist and politician, 18th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1871)
25th » Lucha Reyes (Mexican singer) called Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer and actress (b. 1906)
27th » Milan Hodža, Czech politician, 10th Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1878)