Historical Events in 1944
42 curated events dated to this year, and 113 musicalized poets on V2Melody were alive then.
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1944
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Death of Eunice Tietjens
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Chicago Convention lays foundations for international civil aviation
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Computer for Codebreaking (Colossus)
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D-Day Normandy Landings
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Development of the Sturmgewehr 44 Assault Rifle
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Flight and Expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe
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Operation Fortitude
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Publication of 'The Unquiet Grave'
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The Agonizing Flight of the Warsaw Uprising Sewers Escape
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The Port Chicago Disaster
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V-2 Ballistic Missile Deployment
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Awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
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Bretton Woods International Monetary System
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First Rocket to Reach Space
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First Successful Implosion Lens Test for Atomic Bomb
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German V-1 Flying Bomb
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Publication of 'Collected Poems'
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Publication of 'The Last Poems'
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Publication of 'The Negro Soldier'
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Publication of 'The Portable Dorothy Parker'
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Second Pulitzer Prize for 'Western Star'
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The Bombay Explosion
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V-2 Rocket Attacks
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Warsaw Uprising
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Ballpoint Pen First Marketed in Argentina as the 'Birome'
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Battle of the Bulge
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Death of Joseph Campbell
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Dutch Hunger Winter
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Dylan Thomas Writes 'Poem in October' with Wind and Weather Imagery
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Guided Missile Systems
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Ivory-billed Woodpecker Presumed Extinct
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Japanese Fire Balloons Attack North America
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Jet Aircraft Combat
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Liberation of Paris
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Proximity Fuze for Artillery Shells
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Publication of 'The Region of the Summer Stars'
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Reber's Radio Maps of the Sky
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Japanese Cannibalism Incidents in WWII
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Publication of 'The Romance of the Rose'
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The 1944 San Juan Earthquake
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The Mad Gasser of Mattoon (1944)
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Phantom Anesthetist of Mattoon
Poets alive in 1944
113 poets
Poets in 1944
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