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February 29, 1944

On February 29, 1944, the Admiralty Islands are invaded in Operation Brewer, led by American general Douglas MacArthur, in World War II. Kathy Acker, Philip Jackson, James Heckman would arrive in the same year.

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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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On February 29, 1944

  1. 1944 The Admiralty Islands are invaded in Operation Brewer, led by American general Douglas MacArthur, in World War II.

    Archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean

    The Admiralty Islands are an archipelago group of 40 islands in the Bismarck Archipelago, to the north of New Guinea in the South Pacific Ocean. These are also sometimes known as the Manus Islands, after the largest island of the chain.

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Died on February 29, 1944

Pehr Evind Svinhufvud Finnish politician (1861–1944)

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Others born in 1944

Kathy Acker 1944– American author and poet (died 1997)
Philip Jackson 1944– Scottish sculptor and photographer
James Heckman 1944– American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Bernie Worrell 1944– American keyboard player and songwriter (died 2016)
Monty Alexander 1944– Jamaican jazz pianist
Phillip Allen Sharp 1944– American molecular biologist; 1993 Nobel Prize laureate (Physiology or Medicine)

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