Top News Stories from 1944

World Events

• Allies invade Normandy on D-Day (June 6). Background: Normandy campaign
• Bretton Woods Conference creates International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
• Battle of the Bulge begins as Germans penetrate Allied front in Belgium (Dec. 16 to Jan. 1945).
• Anne Frank and her family betrayed and sent to concentration camps. She will die in 1945.
• Dumbarton Oaks Conference—U.S., British Commonwealth, and U.S.S.R. propose establishment of United Nations.

U.S. Events

• GI Bill of Rights is passed, providing benefits for armed-service veterans.
• FDR is reelected, beating Republican challenger Thomas Dewey. Background: Presidential Elections, 1789–present

Economics

Sports

World Series

Stanley Cup

Kentucky Derby Champion

NCAA Basketball Championship

NCAA Football Champions

Entertainment

Events

• The first instance of network censorship occurs. The sound is cut off on the Eddie Cantor and Nora Martin duet, "We're Having a Baby, My Baby and Me."
• The DuMont network goes on the air. Paramount Pictures backs the start-up enterprise, but its lack of affiliated radio networks leads to its early demise in 1956.

Science

• Scientists at Harvard University construct the first automatic, general-purpose digital computer.
• DNA is isolated by Oswald Avery.
• The Germans develop the V-2, the first true missile.

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