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August 1944

The following events occurred in August 1944: August 1, 1944 (Tuesday)The Polish resistance Home Army began the Warsaw Uprising against Nazi occupation forces.The Battle of Tinian ended in American victory.The Philadelphia transit strike began.Sergio Osmeña became 4th President of the Philippines.Scientists in the United Kingdom said that DDT had been found to act as an anti-malarial insecticide.The biographical film Wilson starring Alexander Knox as the 28th President of the United States Woodrow Wilson was released.Anne Frank makes her last diary entry.Born:Yury Romanenko, cosmonaut, in Orenburg Oblast, USSRDied:Manuel L. Quezon, 65, President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines from 1935 until his deathAugust 2, 1944 (Wednesday)The Germans launched 316 V-1 flying bombs at London, the highest single-day total yet.

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