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November 18, 1944
On November 18, 1944, the Popular Socialist Youth is founded in Cuba. Kathy Acker, Philip Jackson, James Heckman would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · November 18, 1944
The Popular Socialist Youth is founded in Cuba.
The Popular Socialist Youth was a youth organization in Cuba, the youth wing of the Popular Socialist Party. Raúl Valdés Vivó was the general secretary of the organization. By 1960, the organization was estimated to have around 13,000 members.
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The year in brief
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 November 18, 1944
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1944 The Popular Socialist Youth is founded in Cuba. Cuban youth organization; part of the Popular Socialist Party
The Popular Socialist Youth was a youth organization in Cuba, the youth wing of the Popular Socialist Party. Raúl Valdés Vivó was the general secretary of the organization. By 1960, the organization was estimated to have around 13,000 members.
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Other moments from 1944
- April 1 World War II: Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
- April 10 Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escape from Birkenau death camp.
- April 16 World War II: Allied forces start bombing Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.
- April 17 Forces of the Communist-controlled Greek People's Liberation Army attack the smaller National and Social Liberation resistance group, which surrenders. Its leader Dimitrios Psarros is murdered.
- April 22 World War II: The 1st Air Commando Group using Sikorsky R-4 helicopters stage the first use of helicopters in combat with combat search and rescue operations in the China Burma India Theater.
- April 22 World War II: In Greenland, the Allied Sledge Patrol attack the German Bassgeiger weather station.
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