August is the eighth month of the year (between July and September) in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with a length of 31 days. In the Southern Hemisphere, August is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern Hemisphere.
August symbols: The birthstones of August are the peridot and sardonyx. Its birth flower is the gladiolus or poppy, meaning beauty, strength of character, love, marriage and family. The zodiac signs for the month of August are Leo (until August 22) and Virgo (from August 23 onwards).
Historical Events for August, 1944
Day of Week 1st » World War II: the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazism e.g Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
Day of Week 2nd » ASNOM: birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Republic Day (Republic of Macedonia) known as Day of the Republic in the Republic of Macedonia.
2nd » World War II: The Convoy HX 300 named largest trade convoy of the world wars arrives safely in the Western Approaches.
Day of Week 4th » The Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jews known as Jewish Diary named diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.
Day of Week 5th » World War II: Possibly the biggest prison breakout in history occurs as 545 Japanese people Japanese Prisoner of war POWs Cowra breakout attempt to escape outside the town of Cowra, New South Wales, Australia.
5th » World War II: Poland Polish insurgents liberate a Germany German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jews Jewish prisoners.
5th » World War II: The Nazis begin a Wola massacre named week-long massacre of anywhere between 40,000 and 100,000 civilians and prisoners of war in Wola, Poland.
Day of Week 6th » The Warsaw Uprising occurs on August 1. It is brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Krakow are detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising, the Krakow Uprising (1944) named Krakow Uprising, that was planned but never carried out.
Day of Week 7th » IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
Day of Week 9th » The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
9th » Continuation War: The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during the Second World War, ends to a strategic stalemate. Both Finnish and Soviet troops at the Finnish front dug to defensive positions,
Day of Week 10th » World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.
10th » World War II: The Battle of Narva (1944) Battle of Narva ends with a combined Germany German–Estonian force successfully defending Narva, Estonia, from invading Soviet Union Soviet troops.
Day of Week 12th » Nazi Germany known as Nazi German troops end the week-long Wola massacre, during which time at least 40,000 people were killed indiscriminately or in mass executions.
12th » Alençon is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazism or Nazis by French forces.
Day of Week 15th » World War II: Operation Dragoon: Allied forces land in southern France.
Day of Week 19th » World War II: Liberation of Paris: Paris, France rises against Nazi Germany called German occupation with the help of Allied troops.
Day of Week 20th » World War II: KLB Club or 168 captured allied airmen, including Phil Lamason, accused by the Gestapo of being "terror fliers", arrive at Buchenwald concentration camp.
20th » World War II: The Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet Union offensive.
Day of Week 21st » Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins.
21st » World War II: Canada Canadian and Poland Polish units Operation Tractable capture the strategically important town of Falaise, Calvados, France.
Day of Week 22nd » World War II: Romania is captured by the Soviet Union.
22nd » World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces
Day of Week 23rd » World War II: Marseille is Liberation of Marseille known as liberated by the Allies.
23rd » Freckleton Air Disaster A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people.
Day of Week 24th » World War II: Allied troops begin Liberation of Paris named the attack on Paris.
Day of Week 25th » World War II: Liberation of Paris or Paris is liberated by the Allies of World War II e.g Allies.
Day of Week 26th » World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
Day of Week 28th » World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
Day of Week 29th » Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovaks named Slovak troops turn against the Nazism called Nazis.
Famous Birthdays on August in 1944
1st » Dmitry Nikolayevich Filippov, Russian banker and politician (d. 1998)
1st » Andrew G. Vajna, Hungarian-American film producer
2nd » Jim Capaldi, English drummer and songwriter (Traffic (band) e.g Traffic) (d. 2005)
2nd » Naná Vasconcelos, Brazilian singer and berimbau player