Editing 1944 (section)

===November===
{{Main article|November 1944}}
* [[November 1]]&ndash;[[December 7]] &ndash; Delegates of 52 nations meet at the International Civil Aviation Conference in Chicago, to plan for postwar international cooperation, framing the constitution of the [[International Civil Aviation Organization]].
* [[November 3]] &ndash; WWII: Two supreme commanders of the [[Slovak National Uprising]], Generals [[Ján Golian]] and [[Rudolf Viest]], are captured, tortured and later executed by German forces.
* [[November 7]]
** [[1944 United States presidential election]]: [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] wins reelection over [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] challenger [[Thomas E. Dewey]], becoming the only U.S. president elected to a fourth term.
** [[Rail transport in Puerto Rico#Tragedy on election day in 1944|Election day rail accident in Puerto Rico]]: A passenger train derails at [[Aguadilla]] due to excessive speed on a downgrade; 16 are killed, 50 injured.
* [[November 10]] &ndash; WWII: [[Ammunition ship]] {{USS|Mount Hood|AE-11|6}} disintegrates from the accidental detonation of 3,800 tons of cargo, in the [[Seeadler Harbor]] fleet anchorage at [[Manus Island]]. 22 small boats are destroyed, 36 nearby ships damaged, 432 men are killed and 371 more are injured.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Gile|first=Chester A.|title=The ''Mount Hood'' Explosion|journal=Proceedings|date=February 1963}}</ref>
* [[November 11]]
** Operational ships of the French Navy re-enter their base at [[Toulon]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2017}}
** The [[1942–44 musicians' strike]] ends in the United States when [[RCA Records|RCA Victor]] and [[Columbia Records]] capitulate to the union's demands.
* [[November 12]] &ndash; WWII: [[Operation Catechism]] &ndash; {{ship|German battleship|Tirpitz}} is sunk by British Royal Air Force [[Avro Lancaster|Lancaster bombers]] near [[Tromsø (city)|Tromsø]] in Norway.<ref name="Pocket On This Day"/> Estimated casualties range from 950 to 1,204.
* [[November 14]] &ndash; WWII: American submarine  {{USS|Queenfish|SS-393|6}} torpedoes [[Japanese aircraft carrier Akitsu Maru|Japanese aircraft carrier ''Akitsu Maru'']] in the East China Sea; 2,246 drown.<ref name=hi81>{{cite web|url=http://www.jsu.or.jp/siryo/sunk/pdf/hi81.pdf|title=Convoy Hi-81 (ヒ81船団)|publisher=All Japan Seamen's Union|access-date=2011-11-17}}</ref>
* [[November 16]]
** WWII: U.S. forces begin the month-long [[Operation Queen]] in the [[Rur (river)|Rur]] Valley.
** The [[Jussi Awards]], the Finnish film award ceremony, is held for the [[1st Jussi Awards|first time]] at Restaurant Adlon in [[Helsinki]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://elokuvauutiset.fi/site/93-jussi-palkinnot/jussi-palkinnot/3326-jussi-palkinnot-vuonna-1944|title=Jussi-palkinnot vuonna 1944|website=Elokuvauutiset.fi|accessdate=October 11, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011230442/http://elokuvauutiset.fi/site/93-jussi-palkinnot/jussi-palkinnot/3326-jussi-palkinnot-vuonna-1944|archive-date=October 11, 2016|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[November 17]] &ndash; WWII: Partisan troops of the [[National Liberation Movement (Albania)|National Liberation Movement]] entered Tirana, the capital of Albania.
* [[November 18]]
** The [[Popular Socialist Youth]] is founded in [[Cuba]].
** WWII: American submarine {{USS|Picuda|SS-382|6}} torpedoes Japanese landing craft depot ship {{ship||Mayasan Maru}}; 3,546 drown.<ref name=hi81/>
* [[November 22]]
** [[Conscription Crisis of 1944|Conscription Crisis]]: [[Prime Minister of Canada]] [[William Lyon Mackenzie King|William Mackenzie King]] agrees a one-time [[conscription]] levy in Canada for overseas service.
** [[Laurence Olivier]]'s film ''[[Henry V (1944 film)|Henry V]]'', based on [[Henry V (play)|Shakespeare's play]], opens in London. It is the most acclaimed and the most successful movie version of a Shakespeare play made up to this time, and the first in [[Technicolor]]. Olivier both stars and directs.<ref>As does [[Kenneth Branagh]] reprising the role over forty years later in his successful [[Henry V (1989 film)|remake]].</ref>
* [[November 24]] &ndash; WWII: German forces [[Moonsund Landing Operation|evacuate from the West Estonian Archipelago]].
* [[November 27]]
** [[RAF Fauld explosion]]: Between 3,450 and 3,930 [[ton]]s (3,500 and 4,000 [[tonne]]s) of [[Ammunition#Ordnance ammunition|ordnance]] explodes at an underground storage depot in [[Staffordshire]], England, leaving about 75 dead and a [[explosion crater|crater]] {{convert|1,200|m|yd}} across and {{convert|120|m|ft}} deep. The blast is one of the [[List of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions|largest non-nuclear explosions]] in history, and the largest on UK soil.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Reed|first=John|year=1977|title=Largest Wartime Explosions: 21 Maintenance Unit, RAF Fauld, Staffs. November 27, 1944|journal=[[After the Battle]]|volume=18|pages=35–40|issn=0306-154X}}</ref>
** [[Operation Tigerfish]]: [[Royal Air Force]] bombing of [[Freiburg im Breisgau]] kills 2,800.
* [[November 29]] &ndash; WWII: American submarine {{USS|Archerfish|SS-311|6}} sinks [[Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano|Japanese aircraft carrier ''Shinano'']], the largest carrier built to this date, and will remain through the twentieth century the largest ship sunk by a submarine.<ref>{{cite book|last=Cressman|first=Robert J.|title=The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in WWII|url=https://archive.org/details/TheOfficialChronologyOfTheUSNavyInWorldWarII/page/278|publisher=Naval Institute Press|year=2000|location=Annapolis, Maryland|isbn=978-1-55750-149-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/TheOfficialChronologyOfTheUSNavyInWorldWarII/page/278 278]}}</ref>