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1944 In Estonia
This article lists events that occurred during 1944 in Estonia. Incumbents *Nikolai Karotamm - First Secretary of the Communist Party of Estonia Events * Otto Tief was captured by Soviet forces; Jüri Uluots and members of the Tief government escaped to Sweden. *30 January – '' Battle of Narva'': The first Soviet units crossed Estonian border. *24 February – '' Battle of Narva'': Estonian volunteers launched a counterattack at Narva river. *6 March – World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Narva in Estonia, destroying almost the entire old town. *9 March – World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia. *26 July – '' Battle of Narva'': The Soviets captured Narva. *29 July – ''Battle of Tannenberg Line'': The Estonian and German counterattack stopped Soviet advance towards Tallinn. *26 August – The Soviets captured most of Tartu, what became frontline city for almost a month. *September – although German troops were expelled from Estonia, the local ant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1944
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command 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 – WWII: Philippine Commonwealth troops enter the province of Ilocos Sur in northern Luzon and attack Japanese forces. * January 11 ** President of the United States 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 – WWII: Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle begin a 2-day conference in Marrakech. * January 14 – WWII: Sovi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helle-Reet Helenurm
Helle-Reet Helenurm (26 January 1944 – 23 February 2003) was an Estonian actress whose career began in 1968 in theatre. She also performed as a radio, television, and film actress until her death, aged 59, of cancer. Early life and education Helle-Reet Helenurm was born in the town of Paide in Järva County, the only child of Udo and Ilse Helenurm (''née'' Petron), during the German occupation of Estonia in World War II. Following the reoccupation of Estonia by the Soviet Union in 1944, when she was just several months old, her father fled the country and settled in Germany and she was raised solely by her mother, who worked as an accountant. She knew little about her father until she was a teenager and didn't meet him until later in life. After establishing contact with him, the two subsequently remained in touch with one another until her death in 2003. Helenurm graduated from secondary school in Paide in 1962 and studied English and music at the Tallinn Pedagogical Insti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1944 In Europe
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – 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 – WWII: Philippine Commonwealth troops enter the province of Ilocos Sur in northern Luzon and attack Japanese forces. * January 11 ** President of the United States 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 – WWII: Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle begin a 2-day conference in Marrakech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940s In Estonia
Year 194 ( CXCIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Septimius and Septimius (or, less frequently, year 947 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 194 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus and Decimus Clodius Septimius Albinus Caesar become Roman Consuls. * Battle of Issus: Septimius Severus marches with his army (12 legions) to Cilicia, and defeats Pescennius Niger, Roman governor of Syria. Pescennius retreats to Antioch, and is executed by Severus' troops. * Septimius Severus besieges Byzantium (194–196); the city walls suffer extensive damage. Asia * Battle of Yan Province: Warlords Cao Cao and Lü Bu fight for control over Yan Province; the battle lasts for over 100 days ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1944 In Estonia
This article lists events that occurred during 1944 in Estonia. Incumbents *Nikolai Karotamm - First Secretary of the Communist Party of Estonia Events * Otto Tief was captured by Soviet forces; Jüri Uluots and members of the Tief government escaped to Sweden. *30 January – '' Battle of Narva'': The first Soviet units crossed Estonian border. *24 February – '' Battle of Narva'': Estonian volunteers launched a counterattack at Narva river. *6 March – World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Narva in Estonia, destroying almost the entire old town. *9 March – World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia. *26 July – '' Battle of Narva'': The Soviets captured Narva. *29 July – ''Battle of Tannenberg Line'': The Estonian and German counterattack stopped Soviet advance towards Tallinn. *26 August – The Soviets captured most of Tartu, what became frontline city for almost a month. *September – although German troops were expelled from Estonia, the local ant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1872
Events January–March * January 12 – Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first ruler crowned in that city in over 500 years. * February 2 – The government of the United Kingdom buys a number of forts on the Gold Coast, from the Netherlands. * February 4 – A great solar flare, and associated geomagnetic storm, makes northern lights visible as far south as Cuba. * February 13 – Rex, the most famous parade on Mardi Gras, parades for the first time in New Orleans for Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia. * February 17 – Filipino priests José Burgos, Mariano Gomez and Jacinto Zamora, collectively known as Gomburza, are executed in Bagumbayan Fields, Manila, Philippines by the authorities of New Spain, on charges of subversion arising from the 1872 Cavite mutiny. * February 20 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City. * March 1 – In the United States, Yellowstone National Park (once dubbed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Pitka
Johan Pitka, VR I/1, (also Juhan Pitka; 19 February 1872 – 22 November 1944) was an Estonian entrepreneur, sea captain and a rear admiral (1919). He was the Commander of the Estonian Navy in the Estonian War of Independence. Johan Pitka was one of the main characters in organizing the Defence Forces of the newly established Estonian Republic in November 1918, at the end of World War I, when the German occupational forces started to move out of Estonia, and there was a threat of the invasion of the newly established Red Army. Johan Pitka was the creator and main organizer of the Estonian Defence League, Estonian armoured trains, armoured cars and the Estonian Navy. He was appointed the Commander of the Estonian Navy in December 1918 and led it through the victorious Estonian War of Independence without losing a ship. Due to his commitment to his country, Johan Pitka is often called "the Spirit of the Estonian War of Independence" for this. Early life Pitka studied at K� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
November 22
Events Pre-1600 * 498 – After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore. * 845 – The first duke of Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon. * 1307 – Pope Clement V issues the papal bull '' Pastoralis Praeeminentiae'' which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets. * 1574 – Spanish navigator Juan Fernández discovers islands now known as the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile. 1601–1900 *1635 – Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launch a pacification campaign against native villages, resulting in Dutch control of the middle and south of the island. *1718 – Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard attacks and boards the vessels of the British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") off the coast of North Carolina. The casualties on both s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1873
Events January–March * January 1 ** Japan adopts the Gregorian calendar. ** The California Penal Code goes into effect. * January 17 – American Indian Wars: Modoc War: First Battle of the Stronghold – Modoc Indians defeat the United States Army. * February 11 – The Spanish Cortes deposes King Amadeus I, and proclaims the First Spanish Republic. * February 12 ** Emilio Castelar, the former foreign minister, becomes prime minister of the new Spanish Republic. ** The Coinage Act of 1873 in the United States is signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant; coming into effect on April 1, it ends bimetallism in the U.S., and places the country on the gold standard. * February 20 ** The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco. ** British naval officer John Moresby discovers the site of Port Moresby, and claims the land for Britain. * March 3 – Censorship: The United States Congress enacts the Comstock Law, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Leesment
Hans Leesment (13 February 1873 – 26 August 1944 in Tallinn) was an Estonian general. From 1919 up until 1940, he was a founder, and the president, of the Estonian Red Cross. On 24 February 1933 he was promoted to the rank of major general Major general (abbreviated MG, maj. gen. and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. The disappearance of the "sergeant" in the title explains the apparent confusion of .... References External linksTerviseleht 1873 births 1944 deaths People from Mulgi Parish People from Kreis Pernau Estonian Lutherans Christian People's Party (Estonia) politicians Members of the Estonian Constituent Assembly Members of the Riigikogu, 1923–1926 Members of the Riigikogu, 1926–1929 Members of the Riiginõukogu Estonian major generals Estonian military doctors Red Cross personnel University of Tartu alumni Russian military personnel of the Russo-Japanese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August 26
Events Pre-1600 * 683 – Yazid I's army kills 11,000 people of Medina including notable Sahabas in Battle of al-Harrah. *1071 – The Seljuq Turks defeat the Byzantine army at the Battle of Manzikert, and soon gain control of most of Anatolia. *1278 – Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolf I of Germany defeat Ottokar II of Bohemia in the Battle on the Marchfeld near Dürnkrut in (then) Moravia. *1303 – Chittorgarh falls to the Delhi Sultanate. *1346 – At the Battle of Crécy, an English army easily defeats a French one twice its size. *1444 – Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs: A vastly outnumbered force of Swiss Confederates is defeated by the Dauphin Louis (future Louis XI of France) and his army of 'Armagnacs' near Basel. *1542 – Francisco de Orellana crosses South America from Guayaquil on the Pacific coast to the mouth of the Amazon River on the Atlantic coast. 1601–1900 *1642 – Dutch–Portuguese War: Second Battle of San ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Õhtuleht
''Õhtuleht'' (''Evening Paper'') is the largest daily newspaper in Estonia. It is a tabloid newspaper. The newspaper is published in Tallinn in the Estonian language. History and profile ''Õhtuleht'' was established in 1944. On 3 July 2000 two rival tabloid papers in Estonia, ''Õhtuleht'' and '' Sõnumileht'' (''The Messenger''), merged, becoming ''SL Õhtuleht''. Since 6 October 2008 the name was shortened back to ''Õhtuleht''. The paper has a liberal-conservative political stance. It is owned by Eesti Meedia which also owns '' Postimees'' and which in turn is owned by Schibsted Schibsted Media Group is an international media group. The company has its headquarters in Oslo, Norway, and is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. The CEO is Kristin Skogen Lund. In 2019, Schibsted spun off the majority of their online marketp ..., a Norwegian media group, and by Ekspress Grupp. ''Õhtuleht'' is available online at Ohtuleht.ee. Initially, at first the online version was just ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
