What Happened in July 1944

Events 1 - 100 of 105

• Jul 1 2,500+ killed in London/SE England by German flying bombs

• Jul 1 German officer Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to colonel
• Jul 1 US headquarter moves to Colombières Normandy
• Jul 1 Von Rundstedt against Keitel: "Sign peace, idiots!"

• Jul 3 Oriole Park, then a minor league baseball stadium burns down in Baltimore; cause, speculated discarded cigarette
• Jul 3 US V-III-E Army corp opens assault on Coutances Cotentin
• Jul 4 1,100 US guns fire 4th of July salute at German lines in Normandy

• Jul 4 Allied assault on Carpiquet airport at Caen
• Jul 4 Gestapo arrests German Social Democrat Julius Leber
• Jul 5 Harry Crosby takes 1st rocket airplane, MX-324, for maiden flight

• Jul 6 World's largest circus tent catches fire at Ringling Brother's - Barnum & Bailey 2nd performance, 168 die (Hartford, Connecticut)
• Jul 7 Heavy Japanese counter offensive on Saipan
• Jul 7 RAF Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France
• Jul 8 British troops march into Caen, Normandy
• Jul 8 Japanese kamikaze attacks on US lines at Saipan
• Jul 9 In World War II, US troops secure Saipan as Japan falls
• Jul 9 U-740 sunk by depth charges from a British Liberator aircraft

• Jul 10 German submarine U-821 sunk by RAF
• Jul 11 12th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh

• Jul 12 Theresienstadt Family camp disbands, with 4,000 people gased
• Jul 12 US government recognizes authority of French General Charles de Gaulle
• Jul 13 Vilnius, Lithuania, liberated
• Jul 14 Attempt to liberate prisoners in Amsterdam fails, John Post arrested
• Jul 14 US assault on Coutances Cotentin
• Jul 15 Greenwich Royal Observatory in London damaged by WW II flying bomb [1]
• Jul 16 Dodgers score 8 unearned runs against Braves to win 8-5 & break their 16-game losing streak, they will lose another 5 in a row
• Jul 17 Soviet troops cross Bug River and march into Poland
• Jul 17 WWII: Port Chicago Disaster - explosion during munition loading kills 322 and, injures nearly 400, destroys three ships and a pier at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California; conditions inspire the Port Chicago Mutiny later that summer
• Jul 18 7:45 Operation Goodwood: British assault east of Caen
• Jul 18 Allies air raid railways at Vaires, Paris
• Jul 18 Arne Andersson runs world record 1 mile (4:01.6)
• Jul 18 British air raid on German convoy SW of Heligoland
• Jul 18 British troops occupy Bourquebus hill range, Normandy
• Jul 18 Polish troops under General Anders occupy Ancona Italy
• Jul 18 RAF Mosquitos attack Cologne and Berlin
• Jul 18 US troop march into St Lo
• Jul 19 1,200+ 8th US Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany
• Jul 19 500 15th US Air Force Liberators/Flying Fortresses bomb Munich vicinity
• Jul 19 Allied troops occupy Faubourg de Vaucelles, at Caen
• Jul 19 Claus von Stauffenberg visits RC church in Berlin-Dahlem
• Jul 19 Danish resistance fails in assault on Taarbaek Fort near Copenhagen
• Jul 19 Democratic convention opens in Chicago, goes on to nominate President Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Jul 19 Japanese aircraft carriers Taiho and Shokaku sink in Marianas
• Jul 19 NY archbishop Spellman flies to Europe

• Jul 20 British and Canadian troops occupy Hill 67/Ifs/Bras/Frenouville, Normandy
• Jul 20 Browns Nelson Potter is 1st pitcher suspended for throwing spitballs
• Jul 20 Canadian Cameron Highlanders conquer St Andre
• Jul 20 Death March of 1,200 Jews from Lipcani Moldavia begins
• Jul 20 Fieldmarshal von Kluge consults with German commandant at Caen
• Jul 20 Fifty are hurt in rioting in front of the presidential palace in Mexico City
• Jul 20 Flying Fortresses of US 8th Air Force attack Leipzig/Dessau
• Jul 20 General Eisenhower visits Montgomery's headquarter in Normandy
• Jul 20 Heavy storm hampers British offensive at Caen
• Jul 20 Japanese aircraft carrier Hijo sunk by US air attack
• Jul 20 Liberators of US 8th Air Force attack Gotha Russelsheim/Eisenach
• Jul 20 US 15th Air Force attacks Friedrichshaven Memmingen
• Jul 20 US 9th Air Force bombs railroad at Chaulnes Sable-sur-Sarthe/Dreux
• Jul 20 US invades Japanese-occupied Guam
• Jul 20 US President FDR nominated for an unprecedented 4th term at Democratic convention
• Jul 20 Violent battles in Verrieres-hill (Normandy)

• Jul 21 Field Marshal Günther von Kluge warns Hitler of impending collapse of front in Normandy
• Jul 21 General Koiso becomes Premier of Japan
• Jul 21 US forces land on Guam during its recapture from the Japanese (Operation Forager)
• Jul 22 Soviets set up Polish Committee of National Liberation
• Jul 23 Chicago Cubs Bill Nicholson hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader
• Jul 23 Conference of Bretton Woods signed; IMF operations begin
• Jul 23 Soviet Army marches into Lublin, Poland
• Jul 23 US forces invade Japanese-held Tinian in WW II
• Jul 23 US troops occupy Pisa, Italy
• Jul 24 300 allied bombers drop fire bombs on Allied/German positions at Saint-Lô, France
• Jul 24 Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek
• Jul 24 US troops land on Tinian
• Jul 25 1st jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262)
• Jul 25 Japanese banzai-attack on Guam
• Jul 25 Operation Cobra: US forces begin major offensive in Normandy with air bombardment
• Jul 25 World War II: Operation Spring - one of Canada's bloodiest days, 18,444 casualties and 5,021 killed
• Jul 26 Japanese suicide attack on US lines in Guam
• Jul 26 Soviet troops arrive in Weichsel
• Jul 26 The first German V-2 rocket hits Great Britain (nicknamed "gasometer").
• Jul 26 US offensive at St-Lo/2nd Armour div occupies St Gilles
• Jul 27 1st British jet fighter used in combat (Gloster Meteor)
• Jul 27 Soviet Army frees Majdanek concentration camp
• Jul 27 US troops occupy le Mesnil-Herman/Hill 183 Normandy
• Jul 28 Adolf Hitler routes 4 division of South France to Normandy
• Jul 28 US 8th Army corp occupies Coutances France
• Jul 29 Allied air force bomb Germany for 6 hours
• Jul 29 Frank McCormick (Reds) HR off Ace Adams (Giants) in both games of DH

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• Jul 1 Diron Talbot, American NFL defensive tackle (Pro Bowl 1974, Washington Redskins), born in Pascagoula, Mississippi
• Jul 3 Paul Young, Scottish actor (Another Time Another Place), born in Edinburgh, Scotland
• Jul 4 Harvey Brooks [Goldstein], American rock, blues, and folk session bassist (Bob Dylan; The Electric Flag), and record producer (Karen Dalton), born in Manhattan, New York
• Jul 4 Ray Meagher, Australian actor (Home and Away), born in Roma, Queensland, Australia
• Jul 6 Byron Berline, American world champion bluegrass fiddle player, born in Caldwell, Kansas (d. 2021) [1]
• Jul 6 Donald Ritchie, Scottish ultrarunner (world record 100 miles 11:51:11 1979), born in Lossiemouth, Scotland (d. 2018)
• Jul 6 Gunhild Hoffmeister, East German 800m/1500m runner (Olympic silver 1972), born in Forst, Germany
• Jul 7 Jürgen Grabowski, German footballer (44 caps West Germany; Eintracht Frankfurt 441 games), born in Wiesbaden, Germany (d. 2022)
• Jul 7 Tony Jacklin, English golfer (British Open 1969, US Open 1970), born in Scunthorpe, England
• Jul 7 Warren Entner, rock vocalist and guitarist (Grass Roots), born in Boston, Massachusetts
• Jul 8 Jaimoe "Johnny" Johanson, American rock drummer (The Allman Brothers Band), born in Ocean Springs, Mississippi
• Jul 8 Jeffrey Tambor, American character actor (Larry Sanders - "Hank"; Arrested Decelopment), born in San Francisco, California
• Jul 8 Jonelle Allen, American stage and screen actress (The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Palmerstown, USA - "Bessie"; Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - "Grace"), and singer, born in New York City
• Jul 8 Michael Dunford, British guitarist and songwriter (The Nashville Teens, 1960-63; Renaissance - "Scheherazade"), born in Surrey, England (d. 2012)
• Jul 9 Dorian Rudnytsky, American concert and session cellist (New York Rock & Roll Ensemble), and composer (Costa Blanca Suite), born in New York City
• Jul 9 Glen Cook, American sci-fi author (Shadowline, Star's End), born in New York City

• Jul 9 Joe Miceli, American drummer (John Fred and His Playboy Band - "Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)"), born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (d. 2019)
• Jul 10 Beaky [John Dymond], British pop rock guitarist (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich), born in Salisbury, England
• Jul 11 Bill Boggs, American TV host (Midday), and producer (Morton Downey Jr Show), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Jul 11 Myra Gale Brown, American writer, first cousin once removed and former wife of Jerry Lee Lewis, born in Vicksburg, Mississippi
• Jul 11 Peter de Savary, English financier/multi-millionaire
• Jul 12 Bill McCollum Jr., American lawyer and politician (U.S. House of Representatives from Florida), born in Brooksville, Florida
• Jul 12 Denise Nicholas, American actress (Room 222, Baby I'm Back), born in Detroit, Michigan
• Jul 12 Terry Cooper, English soccer defender (20 caps; Leeds, Middlesborough) and manager (Bristol City, Birmingham City), born in Brotherton, England (d. 2021)
• Jul 13 Eric Freeman, Australian cricket fast bowler (11 Tests, 34 wickets, 2 x 50s; South Australia), born in Adelaide, Australia (d. 2020)

• Jul 14 Georgi Popov, Bulgarian soccer forward (22 caps; Botev Plovdiv 308 games) and manager (Botev Plovdiv, Maritsa Plovdiv), born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria (d. 2024)
• Jul 15 Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor (Airwolf; Hooper; Buster & Billie; Tribes), born in Denver, Colorado (d. 2019)
• Jul 15 Millie Jackson, American disco and R&B singer ("Hurts So Good"; "If You're Not Back in Love By Monday"), born in Thompson, Georgia
• Jul 16 Betty Davis (née Mabry); American model, soul and funk singer-songwriter ("They Say I'm Different"; "Nasty Gal"), born in Durham, North Carolina (d. 2022)
• Jul 16 Thomas Boggs, American rock drummer (Box Tops), born in Wynne, Arkansas (d. 2008)
• Jul 17 Carlos Alberto Torres, Brazilian footballer, Captain of winning World Cup team (1970), born in Rio de Janeiro (d. 2016)
• Jul 17 Catherine Schell [Katherina Freiin Schell von Bauschlott], Hungarian-born British actress (two Pink Panther films), born in Budapest, Hungary
• Jul 17 Mark Burgess, New Zealand cricket batsman (50 Tests, 5 x 100s; Auckland CA), born in Auckland, New Zealand
• Jul 18 David Hemery, English 400m-hurdler (Olympic gold 1968), born in Cirencester, England
• Jul 19 Commander Cody [George Frayne], American singer and pianist (Commander Cody & Lost Planet Airmen - "Hot Rod Lincoln"), born in Boise, Idaho (d. 2021)
• Jul 19 Tim McIntire, American actor (Brubaker; Stand By Your Man), singer-songwriter, and musician (Funzone), born in Yaak, Montana (d. 1986)
• Jul 20 Mel Daniels, professional basketball player (Hall of Fame 2012), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2015)
• Jul 20 Wim Van Drimmelen, Dutch sect Science Council of Government policy
• Jul 21 Buchi Emecheta, Nigerian-English writer and novelist (Second Class Citizen; The Bride Price), born in Lagos, British Nigeria (d. 2017)
• Jul 21 John Atta Mills, President of Ghana (2009-2012), born in Tarkwa, Gold Coast (d. 2012)
• Jul 21 Paul Wellstone, American politician (Sen-D-Minnesota 1991-2002), born in Washington D.C. (d. 2002)
• Jul 22 Dennis Firestone, Australian racing driver
• Jul 22 Estelle Bennett, American pop vocalist (Ronettes - "Be My Baby"), born in New York City (d. 2009)
• Jul 22 Guich Koock, actor (Harley Puckett-Carter Country), born in Austin, Texas
• Jul 22 Rick Davies, British rock vocalist, keyboardist, and songwriter (Supertramp - "Goodbye, Stranger"), born in London, England
• Jul 22 Sparky Lyle, American baseball pitcher (MLB All-Star 1973, 76, 77; World Series 1977, 78; AL Cy Young Award 1977; NY Yankees), born in DuBois, Pennsylvania
• Jul 23 Dino Danelli, American rock drummer (Fotomaker; Young Rascals; Little Steven & the Disciples of Soul), born in Jersey City, New Jersey (d. 2022)
• Jul 23 Judith Bosch, Dutch radio and TV-hostess (Tweekamp, Zeskamp), born in Leiden, Netherlands
• Jul 24 Jim Armstrong, Irish rock guitarist (Them - "Here Comes The Night"), born in Belfast, Northern Ireland
• Jul 25 Mijanou van Baarzel, Dutch actress (Klaverweide-Alicia)
• Jul 25 Molly Bennett Aiken, American foundation administrator (riding for the handicapped), born in Hollywood, California
• Jul 25 Tom Dawes, American rock bassist (The Cyrkle - "Red Rubber Ball"), and commercial jingle composer ("Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz” for Alka-Seltzer and “7Up, the Uncola”), born in Albany, New York (d. 2007)
• Jul 26 Kiel Martin, American actor (Hill Street Blues - "Det. LaRue"), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1990)
• Jul 26 Micki King, American diver (Olympic gold springboard 1972), born in Pontiac, Michigan
• Jul 26 Rimantas Stankevičius, Lithuanian cosmonaut, born in Marijampolė, Lithuania (d. 1990)
• Jul 27 Barbara Thompson, British jazz saxophonist and composer, born in Oxford, England
• Jul 27 Bobbie Gentry [Roberta Streeter], American singer and songwriter ("Ode to Billy Joe"), born in Chickasaw County, Mississippi
• Jul 27 Jean-Marie Leblanc, French cyclist, born in Nueil-les-Aubiers, Deux-Sèvres, France
• Jul 28 Bobby King, American session and touring soul singer (Bobby & Terry; Ry Cooder; Bruce Springsteen; Boz Scaggs), born in Lake Charles, Louisiana
• Jul 28 Daniel Morelon, French speed skater (Olympic gold 1968, 72), born in Bourg-en-Bresse, France
• Jul 29 Terry Jarvis, New Zealand cricket batsman (13 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 187 in 387 partnership with Glenn Turner v WI 1972), born in Auckland, New Zealand
• Jul 30 Chris Darrow, American country-rock pioneer, singer-songwriter, guitarist, fiddler, bassist, and banjo plucker (Kaleidoscope; Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, 1967-70), born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota (d. 2020)
• Jul 30 Frances de la Tour, British actress (Bejeweled; Wombling Free), born in Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, England
• Jul 30 Jimmy Cliff [Chambers], Jamaican reggae singer ("The Harder They Come"), born in St James, Colony of Jamaica
• Jul 30 Teresa Cahill, British soprano opera singer, born in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England
• Jul 31 Geraldine Chaplin, American-born actress (Doctor Zhivago, 3 Musketeers) daughter of Charlie Chaplin, born in Santa Monica, California
• Jul 31 Robert C. Merton, American economist and Nobel laureate in Economics, born in New York City
• Jul 31 Sherry Lansing, American actress (China Syndrome, Black Rain), born in Chicago, Illinois

• Jul 29 Sociologist and civil rights activist Gordon Hirabayashi marries Esther Schmoe while out on bail fighting internment during WWII

• Jul 1 Carl Mayer, Austrian-Jewish actor (Dreaming Lips, Ariane, Sunrise), dies of cancer at 49
• Jul 5 William Gillies Whittaker, English composer, dies at 67
• Jul 7 Erich Salomon, German photographer, dies at 58
• Jul 7 Georges Mandel [Louis Rothschild], French politician and resistance leader, is executed by the Milice at 59
• Jul 11 Wolfgang Redlich, German major/pilot, dies in battle
• Jul 16 Johannes Post, Dutch farmer and anti-Nazi resistance leader (Landelijke Knokploegen), executed by Nazi SS after a failed attempt to free his brother from prison aid at 37
• Jul 17 Hugh Rigby, English portrait painter (King George V 1928-32), dies
• Jul 17 William James Sidis, American mathematician and child prodigy, dies from a cerebral hemorrhage at 46
• Jul 18 George A Hartland, British politician (MP, Norwich, 1931-35), dies at 60
• Jul 18 Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (Centaurs' Booty), dies at 74
• Jul 19 Carl Bock, Danish Gestapo agent, liquidated
• Jul 19 Harry CA Eyres, British diplomat (Constantinople, Albania), dies at 87
• Jul 19 Will Marion Cook, American violinist, choral director, and composer, dies at 75
• Jul 20 Arthur J Treadwell, English mayor of Stoke Newington, dies at about 71
• Jul 20 Brandt, col/German staff chief, dies in bombing
• Jul 20 Claus von Stauffenberg, German antifascist colonel (attempted to assassinate Hitler), dies by firing squad at 36

• Jul 20 Friedrich Olbricht, German general (July 20th plotter), executed
• Jul 20 Heinz Burns, German (Olympic gold 1936), dies in bombing
• Jul 20 Korten, chef gen of Germany Luftwaffe, dies in bomb explosion
• Jul 20 Ludwig Beck, German general (July 20th plot), dies at 64
• Jul 20 Mertz, German colonel (July 20th plotter), executed
• Jul 20 Mildred Harris, American actress (b. 1901)
• Jul 20 Rudolf Schmundt, German general /Hitler's Army adjunct, dies from wounds in attempt to assassinate Hitler at 48
• Jul 20 Werner von Haeffen, German lieutenant (July 20th plotter), executed
• Jul 21 Gerrit van den Bosch, led illegal Dutch CPN party, dies in Dachau
• Jul 21 Henning von Tresckow, German Major General (organized resistance against Hitler in July 20th plot), commits suicide at 43
• Jul 23 Helmuth James von Moltke, German earl (July 20th plotter), executed by the Nazis for treason at 37
• Jul 23 Max Nettlau, German anarchist and historian, dies at 79
• Jul 24 Jan Postma, leader of illegal Dutch party (CPN), executed at 49
• Jul 25 Lesley J McNair, US Lieutenant General killed by friendly fire at St-Lo
• Jul 25 Max Kommerell, German literary critic (Die Gefangenen), dies of cancer at 42

• Jul 27 Victor Vreuls, Belgian violinist, teacher, and composer, dies at 68
• Jul 31 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer, poet and pioneering aviator (The Little Prince), dies during a reconnaissance mission at 44