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  GBROLYMPICS.COM / LONDON-OLYMPICS.COM - Olympic Games Medallists
The 1916, 1940 and 1944 events were also not held due to the First and Second World Wars.
In addition in 1904 the majority of team events were limited to clubs only with national teams denied entry.
The 1940 and 1944 events were cancelled due to the Second World War.
www.gbrathletics.com /olympic   (336 words)

  
  Encyclopedia: 1944
Jump to: navigation, search // Events and trends The 1940s were seen as a transition period between the radical 1930s and the conservative 1950s, which also leads the period to be divided in two halves: The first half of the decade was dominated by World War II, the widest and most...
Jump to: navigation, search // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the...
This is a list of aviation-related events from 1944: Events January January 11 - in one of the largest air raids to date, 570 USAAF bombers strike Brunswick, Halberstadt, and Oschersleben.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1944   (10777 words)

  
 1944 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar).
January 31 - American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
November 7 - U.S. presidential election, 1944: Franklin D. Roosevelt wins reelection over Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey to become the only U.S. president to be elected to a fourth term.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1944   (3415 words)

  
 Architecture
1944 in architecture See also: 1943 in architecture, other events of 1944, 1945 in architecture and the architecture tim...
1945 in architecture See also: 1944 in architecture, other events of 1945, 1946 in architecture and the architecture tim...
Architecture This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same n...
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/architecture.html   (5848 words)

  
 Comando Supremo: Events of 1944-1945
In the beginning of 1944, the 185th Nembo Autonomous Parachute Unit was employed on the Gustav line front with heavy fighting against seasoned German Units.
By May of 1944, a retrained and reequipped Italian army consisting of 100,000 men were fighting the Germans with the Allies.
In other areas, partisans split up into bands and adopted hit and run tactics, blocking mountain passes and ambushing patrols.
www.comandosupremo.com /19441945.html   (1267 words)

  
 Comando Supremo: Events of 1944-1945
In the beginning of 1944, the 185th Nembo Autonomous Parachute Unit was employed on the Gustav line front with heavy fighting against seasoned German Units.
By May of 1944, a retrained and reequipped Italian army consisting of 100,000 men were fighting the Germans with the Allies.
On June 22, 1944 the Italian destroyer Greciale carried British Frogmen, along with Italy's Commander Luigi Durand de la Penne (the Italian frogman who severely disabled the HMS Valiant) to La Spezia, where the Germans manned the naval installation.
comandosupremo.com /19441945.html   (1267 words)

  
 Forging the Iron Curtain in the Balkans, 1944-1956
The events of 1944-48 indicate deep divisions within the local Communist party, radical shifts in policy and the significant role played by individual decision-makers who were operating without the benefit of foresight or hindsight.
On the other hand, the same forces that put the Balkan states under the influence of larger powers in the nineteenth century were at work in the middle of the twentieth, so that Russian control was hardly surprising.
On the other hand, there is scope to criticize the actions of Great Britain (and later the United States) as well: as is usually the case with Great Powers, the Cold War rivals pursued their own interests first and foremost while local states paid the price.
www.lib.msu.edu /sowards/balkan/lect21.htm   (4402 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: 1999   (Site not responding. Last check: )
See also: 1998 in literature, other events of 1999, 2000 in literature, list of years in literature.
See also: 1998 in music, 1999 in British music, other events of 1999, 2000 in music, 1990s in music and the list of years in music // Events January 7 After eight years of marriage, Rod Stewart and supermodel wife Rachel Hunter announce their separation.
Y2K preparation was a major event in 1999 both in actual events and in media over-reporting.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1999   (10862 words)

  
 WWII: The World at War 1944
The Battle of Biak was a hard-fought Allied campaign during May and June 1944 to recapture the island of Biak, off the north coast of New Guinea, from the Japanese who were using it as an air base.
This was not the intended target, of course, but those witnessing the event cannot explain the cause of the explosion because the speed of the projectile is such that it arrives before the sound of its passage is heard.
In 1944 his Third Army cut across France in a sweep through Brittany, round Paris, up the Marne and the Moselle, across the Rhine and into northern Bavaria, entering Czechoslovakia in April 1945.
www.euronet.nl /users/wilfried/ww2/1944.htm   (4365 words)

  
 SSHL: Latin American Election Statistics: Dominican Republic : Elections and events 1924-1944   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Haggerty 1991: "As events unfolded, it became clear that Trujillo would be the only candidate that the army would permit to participate; army personnel harassed and intimidated electoral officials and eliminated potential opponents.
A total of 286,937 voters were registered, and according to the official report, 256,423 voted in favor of Trujillo and all the names on the slate, including senators, deputies, governors, mayors, and councilmen.
Other elections were simultaneously held for delegates to the constituent assembly called one month earlier to amend the Constitution" (page 27).
dodgson.ucsd.edu /las/dominican/1924dom.htm   (6040 words)

  
 LINKS2TRAVEL travel info guides for the travelers guidebooks
The Philippines has over 7,000 islands, of which Coron is the one with such a large amount of wrecks, thus ranking it as one of the finest wreck diving locations in the world.
Coron Bay one of the Islands of Palawan, Philipines is regarded as “the other Truk Lagoon”.
In 1944 task force 38, part of the US 3rd fleet, and under the command of Admiral William Hasley attacked 20 enemy ships.
www.links2travel.com   (775 words)

  
 1944 in sports   (Site not responding. Last check: )
See also : 1943 in sports, Other events of 1944, 1945 in sports Many sporting events did not take place because of World War II.
Ley de pesca (1944) Publicada en la Gaceta Oficial del 21.529 del 6 de octubre de 1944.
Normandy 1944 The story of D-Day told by the veterans that where there on 6th June, 1944.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-1944_in_sports.html   (353 words)

  
 Advertise - HUMAN EVENTS
Founded in 1944, HUMAN EVENTS has established itself as a leader in the political news and information industry with weekly behind the scene glimpses of political activity in America.
Called by The Wall Street Journal "the bible of the right", HUMAN EVENTS is a primary source to which political leaders and voters turn when seeking to decipher the thoughts and opinions of "conservative" America.
HUMAN EVENTS is the only weekly conservative thinking publication that has endured the test of time and the careful scrutiny of thousands upon thousand of readers for more than 50 years.
www.humanevents.com /advertise.php   (243 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: 2001
See also: 2000 in music, 2001 in music (UK), other events of 2001, 2002 in music, 2000s in music and the list of years in music // Events January 1 - Comeback of Guns N Roses in House of Blues January 1 - Hum disbands.
This is a list of aviation-related events from 2001: Events April: The unmanned aircraft Global Hawk flies automatically from Edwards AFB in the US to Australia non-stop and unrefuelled.
One demonstrator, Carlo Giuliani, is shot dead by a carabiniere and several others are badly injured during an attack by the police on a school which the protesters were using as their headquarters.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/2001   (10391 words)

  
 Pearl Harbor Raid: Other Raid-related Events
There are a number of important events related to the Pearl Harbor raid that are not covered elsewhere in this presentation.
The destroyer radioed a report of the incident to Pearl Harbor, another destroyer was ordered out to assist her, and Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral Husband E. Kimmel was informed.
Nearly all of these men had served in Ward since the beginning of the War, and were present when she sank a Japanese midget submarine just outside Pearl Harbor on the morning of 7 December 1941.
www.history.navy.mil /photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/ph-misc.htm   (720 words)

  
 NEWCITYCHICAGO.COM: Street Smart Chicago   (Site not responding. Last check: )
With his ultra-recognizable dome, movie cameos and unparalleled tenure and trade mastery, Carl Cox is the Alfred Hitchcock of danceworld.
Remarkably, he is one of the very few to achieve global star status spinning something other than trance music.
He went on to play the opening night of the legendary Shoom, ran "The Project" with Paul Oakenfold, and held residencies at Brighton¹s ZAP club and other mainstays during the infamous 1988 and Œ89 Summer of Love‹including his legendary three-deck throwdown at Sunrise.
events.newcitychicago.com /calendar/event.asp?whatID=75471   (297 words)

  
 The History Place - Holocaust Timeline
Louis, a ship crowded with 930 Jewish refugees, is turned away by Cuba, the United States and other countries and returns to Europe.
Foreign currency, gold, jewels and other valuables are sent to SS Headquarters of the Economic Administration.
During his imprisonment, a (now repentant) Hans Frank states, "A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased." Frank and the others are hanged and the bodies are brought to Dachau and burned (the final use of the crematories there) with the ashes then scattered into a river.
www.historyplace.com /worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html   (4366 words)

  
 Warsaw Events | Concerts, Shows, Exhibits...
Not every event has to be an international one, however.
Our events calendar has got listings of DJ spots, jazz concerts, theatre presentations - you name it.
And if there are any events, big or small, that you feel deserve special attention, let us know.
www.warsaw-life.com /events/events.php   (331 words)

  
 NE Diary 1939-45; Other Events
The bomb that dropped on our house was the last of a stick of five, the other four fell in the old quarry and on St Peter's Albion football ground off the Fossway.
At the end of February 1944 the same Wing Commander Pattison was lost to the squadron after an accident.
Early in 1944 an unusual experiment was tried, the airfield at Morpeth, (actually it was 3 miles SW of Morpeth) had a number of Blister Hangars and other buildings that were found to be in inconvenient positions.
www.bpears.org.uk /NE-Diary/Bck/Events.html   (2860 words)

  
 Human Events Magazine
Human Events is a weekly periodical that keeps conservatives ahead of the curve in politics, society and culture.
The Human Events staff weekly sharpens its razor sharp word processors on issues that are important you, to America and to the world.
Beyond national politics, Human Events keeps you informed of what is going on all "Across America", even featuring grass roots organizers trying to make a difference in our every-day lives.
www.conservativebookstore.com /magrack/human-events.htm   (287 words)

  
 1944 information - Search.com
1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar).
January 31 - American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
November 7 - U.S. presidential election, 1944: Franklin D. Roosevelt wins reelection over Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey to become the only U.S. president to be elected to a fourth term.
www.search.com /reference/1944   (3769 words)

  
 World War 2: Warsaw Uprising :: Photos
Others were not so lucky; 150 Mokotow defenders exited into the areas under German control and were summarily executed.
silence of the stones On November 20, 1944, Joe J. Heydecker, an amateur photographer, along with four other German soldiers stationed outside Warsaw, drove to the city for a trophy hunt.
Since 1989, democratic and independent Poland honors the memory of the Uprising as one of the most heroic and tragic events in the history of their nation and of Europe in the twentieth century.
www.warsawuprising.com /photos.htm   (819 words)

  
 The American Experience | MacArthur | People & Events | Manuel L. Quezon (1878-1944)
It is certain that he stands high in the esteem of Manuel Quezon and other political leaders, who are not averse to seeing him in Malacanan Palace....
Close observers here point to the remarkable intimacy of Gen. MacArthur and Senor Quezon, who often are seen together on terms of close friendship." MacArthur's disappointment at being passed over by President Hoover was assuaged, however, when he was named U.S. Army Chief of Staff the following year.
He died on August 1, 1944, less than three months before MacArthur's dramatic return to Philippine soil.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/macarthur/peopleevents/pandeAMEX108.html   (768 words)

  
 2002 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
March 21 - In Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh along with three other suspects are charged with murder for their part in the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl
April 26 - Robert Steinhauser opens fire on his former teachers and other students in Erfurt, Germany and then kills himself: 16 dead.
July 27 - Helen Clark leader of the Labour Party is historically re-elected in a landslide victory over the Right Wing in the New Zealand general election of 2002.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2002   (4313 words)

  
 1944 in television - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This page was last modified 10:47, 22 Jun 2005.
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about 1944 in television contains research on
1944 in television, Events, Television shows and Births.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/1944_in_television   (113 words)

  
 The Library Today (Library of Congress)
Tickets are required for this event; they are distributed by Ticketmaster at (301) 808-6900 or (410) 752-1200 and are limited to two per call.
This event is being sponsored by the Humanities and Social Sciences Division.
Leonard Bruno of the Manusript Division presents a talk on Samuel F.B. Morse and the development of the telegraph in the "American Treasures" exhibition.
www.loc.gov /loc/events   (2460 words)

  
 Iceland Tourist Board
Iceland is also a treat for grownups in the beginning of December when restaurants around the country lay out their lavish "Christmas Buffets." These smorgasbords become quite extravagant in their content and presentation because of the fierce competition between the restaurants for the holiday business.
June 17 was chosen as the official holiday because it was the birthday of Jon Sigurdsson who is regarded as Iceland's champion to the nationalist cause.
This is one of the world's largest block parties, as Icelanders by the thousands drive to camp-out in the wilderness or celebrate in numerous organized events throughout the country -- sort of like what Generation X'ers do every summer weekend when they head for the Hamptons.
www.icelandtouristboard.com /events.html   (2583 words)

  
 events of 1934 and other events related information   (Site not responding. Last check: )
People and Events: Chicago Century of Progress Exposition (World's Fair), 1933-1934 The Chicago Century of Progress Exposition, all jagged edges and bold colors, invited visitors to take a peek at the...
Dyess, Arkansas Historical events 1934 Dyess Arkansas A Brand New Town From the "Atlanta Journal, Friday 7 July 2000 "Imagine a town where everything is brand new.
In the year 1934, the world was taken by these events: US rule in Haiti ends Chinese Long March begins Empire Games held in in London First drive-in theatre opens in New Jersey The 4 pioneer students of...
www.nethorde.com /events/events-of-1934.html   (276 words)

  
 BBC - WW2 People's War - Headcorn Airfield. Part Three: Activity and Events 1944 onwards - A3098540
One afternoon, May 12th 1944 Thunderbolts were taking off three abreast from north to south when one developed a problem.
We and other farmers were able to put cattle out to graze, there were no boundary fences but the cattle seemed to know their restrictions.
We were greeted by Lieutenant Colonel WM Stacey and other officers of the 421 Red Indian Squadron.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A3098540   (2347 words)

  
 Rowayton Historical Society
The Rowayton Historical Society is interested in preserving Rowayton’s past as a reminder to our residents of who we are and all we can be.
Other areas of special interest include the Clamdigging collection - contemporaneous reflections of "Rowaytonites" during the closing months of World War II - as well as Remington Rand's early computer research and development located in and near Rowayton which sprang into being immediately following the end of the war.
ewsletter which was prepared by a dedicated group of local citizens to keep Rowayton's service men and women abreast of events at home and in contact with one another.
www.rowayton.org /rhs   (132 words)

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