Editing 1944 (section)

===March===
{{Main article|March 1944}}
[[File:Mt Vesuvius Erupting 1944.jpg|thumb|The March 1944 eruption of [[Mount Vesuvius]].]]
* [[March]] &ndash; Austrian-born [[economist]] [[Friedrich Hayek]] publishes his book ''[[The Road to Serfdom]]'' in [[London]].
* [[March 1]] &ndash; WWII: American submarine {{USS|Trout|SS-202|6}} torpedoes Japanese merchant cruiser {{ship||Sakito Maru}}; 2,495 drown.<ref name="senbotsukisen">{{cite web|url=http://www.ric.hi-ho.ne.jp/senbotusen/siryo-deta/senbotukisenlist.pdf|title=List of sunken ships in Pacific War (太平洋戦争時の喪失船舶明細表)|publisher=Sunken Ships Record Association (戦没船を記録する会)|access-date=2012-10-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202233818/http://www.ric.hi-ho.ne.jp/senbotusen/siryo-deta/senbotukisenlist.pdf|archive-date=2013-12-02|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[March 2]] &ndash; The [[16th Academy Awards]] Ceremony is held, the first Oscar ceremony held at a large public venue, [[Grauman's Chinese Theatre]] in [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]]. ''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]'', directed by [[Michael Curtiz]], wins the [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Award for Best Picture]].
* [[March 3]] &ndash; WWII: The [[Order of Nakhimov]] and the [[Order of Ushakov]] are instituted in the [[USSR]].
* [[March 4]] &ndash; [[Louis Buchalter]], the leader of [[1930s]] crime syndicate [[Murder, Inc.]], is executed at [[Sing Sing]], in [[Ossining (village), New York|Ossining, New York]], along with [[Emanuel Weiss]] and [[Louis Capone]].
* [[March 6]] &ndash; WWII: Soviet Army planes [[Bombing of Narva in World War II|attack]] [[Narva]], [[Estonia]], destroying over 95% of the town.<ref name="kattago2">{{cite journal |last=Kattago |first=Siobhan |year=2008 |title=Commemorating Liberation and Occupation: War Memorials Along the Road to Narva |journal=[[Journal of Baltic Studies]] |volume=39 |issue=4 |pages=431–449 |doi=10.1080/01629770802461225 |s2cid=145001694}}</ref>
* [[March 9]] &ndash; WWII: Soviet Army planes [[Bombing of Tallinn in World War II|attack]] [[Tallinn]], [[Estonia]], killing 757 and leaving 25,000 homeless.
* [[March 10]]
** In Britain, the prohibition on married women working as teachers is lifted.<ref>{{cite book|first=David|last=Kynaston|title=Austerity Britain 1945–1951|location=London|publisher=Bloomsbury|year=2007|isbn=978-0-7475-7985-4}}</ref>
** Resistance leader [[Joop Westerweel]] is arrested while returning to the Netherlands, having escorted a group of Jewish children to safety in [[Spain]].
* [[March 12]] &ndash; WWII: The [[Political Committee of National Liberation]] is created in Greece.
* [[March 15]]
** WWII: [[Battle of Monte Cassino]]: [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] aircraft bomb the monastery, and an assault is staged.
** WWII: The National Council of the [[French Resistance]] approves the [[Resistance movement|Resistance]] programme.
** The [[Soviet Union]] introduces [[State Anthem of the Soviet Union|a new anthem]], replacing ''[[The Internationale]]''.
* [[March 18]]
**The last eruption of [[Mount Vesuvius]] in Italy kills 26, and causes thousands to flee their homes.
**WWII: The Nazis execute almost 400 prisoners, Soviet citizens and anti-[[fascist]] Romanians at [[Rîbnița]].
* [[March 19]] 
** WWII: [[Operation Margarethe]]: German forces occupy Hungary.
** The secular [[oratorio]] ''[[A Child of Our Time]]'' by [[Michael Tippett]] is premiered at the [[Adelphi Theatre]] in London.<ref name=Amis>{{cite journal|last= Amis|first= John|author-link= John Amis|title= New Choral Work by Michael Tippett: ''A Child of Our Time''|journal=[[The Musical Times]]|volume= 85|issue= 1212|date= February 1944|pages=41–42|jstor= 921782|doi= 10.2307/921782}} {{subscription required}}</ref>
* [[March 20]] – WWII:
** [[Landing on Emirau]]: 4,000 [[United States Marines]] land on [[Emirau Island]] in the [[Bismarck Archipelago]] to develop an airbase, as part of [[Operation Cartwheel]].
** British [[Royal Air Force]] Flight Sergeant [[Nicholas Alkemade]]'s bomber is hit over Germany, and he has to bail out without a [[parachute]] from a height of over {{convert|4,000|m|sp=us|0}}. Tree branches interrupt his fall and he lands safely on deep snow.
* [[March 23]] &ndash; WWII: Members of the [[Italian Resistance]] attack [[Nazis]] marching in Via Rasella, killing 33.
* [[March 24]] &ndash; WWII:
** [[Ardeatine massacre]]: In Rome, 335 Italians are killed, including 75 Jews and over 200 members of the [[Italian Resistance]] from various groups.
** In [[Markowa]], Poland, German police kill Józef and Wiktoria Ulm, their 6 children and 8 Jews they were hiding.
** [[Stalag Luft III#The great escape|The "Great Escape"]]: 76 [[Royal Air Force]] prisoners of war escape by tunnel "Harry" from [[Stalag Luft III]] in Silesia this night. Only 3 men (2 Norwegians and a Dutchman) return to the UK; of those recaptured, 50 are summarily executed soon afterwards, in the [[Stalag Luft III murders]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Paul|last=Brickhill|authorlink=Paul Brickhill|title=[[The Great Escape (book)|The Great Escape]]|publisher=Norton|year=1950}}</ref>
* [[March 27]] &ndash; In Sweden, [[Ruben Rausing]] patents [[Erik Wallenberg]]'s method of packaging milk in paper, origin of the international company [[Tetra Pak]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Sedig|first=Kjell|year=2002|title=Swedish Innovations|location=Stockholm|publisher=The Swedish Institute|page=45|isbn=91-520-0910-6}}</ref>