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October 19, 1944
On October 19, 1944, united States forces land in the Philippines. Kathy Acker, Philip Jackson, James Heckman would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · October 19, 1944
United States forces land in the Philippines.
The Battle of Leyte in the Pacific campaign of World War II was the amphibious invasion of the island of Leyte in the Philippines by American forces and Filipino guerrillas under the overall command of General Douglas MacArthur. The combined forces fought against the Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines led by General Tomoyuki Yamashita. The operation, codenamed King Two, launched the Philippines campaign of 1944–45 for the recapture and liberation of the entire Philippine Archipelago and to end almost three years of Japanese occupation.
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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 October 19, 1944
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1944 United States forces land in the Philippines. 1944 World War II battle
The Battle of Leyte in the Pacific campaign of World War II was the amphibious invasion of the island of Leyte in the Philippines by American forces and Filipino guerrillas under the overall command of General Douglas MacArthur. The combined forces fought against the Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines led by General Tomoyuki Yamashita. The operation, codenamed King Two, launched the Philippines campaign of 1944–45 for the recapture and liberation of the entire Philippine Archipelago and to end almost three years of Japanese occupation.
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1944 A coup is launched against Juan Federico Ponce Vaides, beginning the ten-year Guatemalan Revolution. President of Guatemala from July 1944 until his popular overthrow in October 1944
Juan Federico Ponce Vaides was the acting President of Guatemala from 4 July 1944 to 20 October 1944. He was overthrown by a popular uprising on 20 October 1944 that began the Guatemalan Revolution.
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- 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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