Editing 1944 (section)

===January===
{{Main article|January 1944}}
[[File:Landing at Anzio.jpg|thumb|US Army troops landing at [[Anzio]] during [[Operation Shingle]], late January 1944.]]
* [[January 2]] &ndash; WWII:
** [[Free France|Free French]] General [[Jean de Lattre de Tassigny]] is appointed to command [[First Army (France)|French Army B]], part of the [[Sixth United States Army Group]] in North Africa.
** [[Landing at Saidor]]: 13,000 US and Australian troops land on [[Papua New Guinea]] in an attempt to cut off a Japanese retreat.
* [[January 8]] &ndash; WWII: [[Philippine Commonwealth]] troops enter the province of [[Ilocos Sur]] in northern [[Luzon]] and attack Japanese forces.
* [[January 11]]
** [[United States]] President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] proposes a [[Second Bill of Rights]] for social and economic security, in his [[State of the Union]] address.
** The Nazi German administration expands [[Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp]] into the larger standalone ''Konzentrationslager Plaszow bei Krakau'' in occupied Poland.
* [[January 12]] &ndash; WWII: [[Winston Churchill]] and [[Charles de Gaulle]] begin a 2-day conference in [[Marrakech]].
* [[January 14]] &ndash; WWII: Soviet troops start the offensive at [[Leningrad]] and [[Novgorod]].
* [[January 15]]
** WWII: The [[27th Polish Home Army Infantry Division]] is re-created, marking the start of [[Operation Tempest]] by the Polish [[Home Army]], a resistance force.
** [[1944 San Juan earthquake]]: An earthquake hits [[San Juan, Argentina]], killing an estimated 10,000 people, in the worst natural disaster in Argentina's history.
** The [[Battle of Monte Cassino]] begins in Italy. British forces cross the [[Garigliano]] River. [[United States Army North|U.S. Fifth Army]] troops, commanded by Lieutenant-General [[Mark W. Clark]], arrive at the Garigliano, to begin their attack against the [[Gustav Line]] south of Rome. The [[French Expeditionary Corps (1943–44)|French Expeditionary Corps]], under command of General [[Alphonse Juin]], moves into the mountains north of [[Monte Cassino]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Ken|last=Ford|year=2004|title=Cassino 1944: Breaking the Gustav Line|url=https://archive.org/details/cassinobreakingg00ford|url-access=limited|page=[https://archive.org/details/cassinobreakingg00ford/page/n9 12]|publisher=Osprey|location=Oxford|isbn=978-1-84176-623-2}}</ref>
** The [[Soviet Union]] ceases production of the [[Mosin–Nagant 1891/30]] [[sniper rifle]].
* [[January 17]] &ndash; WWII: The [[Battle of Korsun–Cherkassy]] begins in the Soviet Ukraine.
* [[January 20]] &ndash; WWII:
** The [[Royal Air Force]] drops 2,300 tons of bombs on Berlin.
** The [[36th Infantry Division (United States)|United States 36th Infantry Division]] in Italy attempts to cross the [[Rapido (river)|Rapido]] River.
* [[January 22]] &ndash; WWII: [[Operation Shingle]]: The [[Allies of World War II|Allies]] begin the assault on [[Anzio]], Italy. The [[45th Infantry Division (United States)|U.S. 45th Infantry Division]] stand their ground at Anzio against violent assaults for four months. 
* [[January 25]] &ndash; A [[Solar eclipse of January 25, 1944|total solar eclipse]] is visible in Pacific Ocean, South America, Atlantic Ocean and Africa, the 48th solar eclipse of [[Solar Saros 130]].
* [[January 27]] &ndash; WWII:
** The two-year [[Siege of Leningrad]] is lifted.
** [[Light cruiser]] {{HMS|Spartan|95|6}} is sunk by a [[Henschel Hs 293]] [[guided missile]] from a German aircraft off [[Anzio]], western Italy, with the loss of 46 men.
* [[January 29]] &ndash; WWII: [[Koniuchy massacre]] &ndash; A unit of [[Soviet partisans]] accompanied by [[Jewish partisans]] kills at least 38 civilians in the village of [[Kaniūkai|Koniuchy]] in [[Nazi occupied Lithuania]].
* [[January 30]] &ndash; WWII:
** The [[Battle of Cisterna]] opens as [[United States Army Rangers]] attempt to break out of the [[Anzio]] beachhead.
** United States troops invade [[Majuro, Marshall Islands]].
* [[January 31]] &ndash; WWII: [[Battle of Kwajalein]]: American forces land on [[Kwajalein Atoll]] and other islands in the Japanese-held [[Marshall Islands]].