Depression era restrictions on the private ownership of gold in the US were removed.
The prohibition, as well as government price setting of Gold, had come into effect in 1933.
South African Kugerrands and Canadian gold coins immediately became very popular as a hedge against inflation.
France ended its state monopoly on television.
Catfish Hunter signed with the Yankees, becoming baseball's highest paid player at that point.
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Constantine VI, the Metropolitan of Derkoi, was elected as the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
Prior to his election, Turkey had warned that they regarded him as subject to deportation as he was an immigrant to what was now Turkey.
All but one of the owners of the teams in the American League presented a statement to Commissioner Landis that actions would be taken to bring League President Ban Johnson's behavior to heel. He had been criticizing Landis, but ceased to do so.
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The late Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Noble Prizes for 1943 and1944 were awarded, in New York, to Isidor Isaac Rabi (United States), Chemistry to Otto Hahn (Germany), Physiology or Medicine to Joseph Erlanger and Herbert Spencer Gasser (United States), Literature to Johannes V. Jensen (Denmark) and the Peace Prize to the International Committee of the Red Cross, Otto Stern of the United States for Physics, George de Hevesy (Germany) for Chemistry and Carl Peter Henrik Dam (Denmark) and Edward Adelbert Doisy (United States) for Physiology or Medicine.
They had not been awarded since 1939.
The William S. Ladd was sunk by kamikazes off of Leyte.
On Leyte, the 77th Division took Ormoc.
The French and Soviet governments signed a twenty year treaty of cooperation in Moscow.
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The 7th Army reached the Rhine. The 3d Army reached Saarlautern. The 9th Army took Leiffarth and Roerdorf.
Army won the Army Navy Game. The crowed of 66,659 included 30,000 members of the general public who were admitted on the condition of living within 8.3 miles of the game in Baltimore and buying a $25.00 war bond.
Twenty Seven year old professional Japanese baseball player Eiji Sawamura（沢村栄治）was killed when a troopship he was on was sunk on this day in 1944. He'd been drafted into the Japanese Army in 1939, but released each season to play baseball.
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Two V-2 rockets hit London, resulting in 174 deaths in a rocketry terror attack.
Much like what the Russians are doing to Ukraine now.
Japanese defenses arrested US progress on Leyte. Japanese resistance had been consistently very stiff.
The British crossed the Cosina River in Italy.
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Kenesaw Mountain Landis died at age 78. He was the first Commissioner of Baseball, having been appointed to that position in 1920, and still occupied it at the time of his death.
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Ralph C. Smedley founded The Toastmasters International club in Santa Ana, California.
Big Train pitched four shutout innings as a relief pitcher in a game regarded as one of the greatest in baseball history.
Voting became compulsory in Australia.
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The Sonderkommando Revolt occurred at Auschwitz when the Jewish detailed prisiones rose up with makeshift weapons. Three SS guards were killed, 200 members of the Sonderkommando, but hundreds of prisoners, all of whom were soon captured and executed, briefly escaped.
Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon signed the Alexandria Protocol leading to the establishment of the Arab League in March of the following year.
The Red Army commenced the Petsamo–Kirkenes offensive in the Petsamo region ceded by Finland and Norway.
The St. Louis Cardinals beat the St. Louis Browns 5 to 1 in game four of the 1944 World Series.
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A conference between the United Kingdom and Egypt on Egyptian independence ended without success.
The New York Giants scandal resulted in American League president Ben Johnson, upset over an inadequate investigation in his view, calling Kenesaw Mountain Landis a "wild-eyed, crazy nut".
Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States, and the only President to live to age 100, was born in Plains Georgia.
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Widely admired personally, he was not a terribly successful President and served one term.
Governor Ross was dying.
Ireland's Defence Forces (Óglaigh na hÉireann) were formed by the unification of the Irish Army, the Irish Naval Service, the Irish Air Corps and the Reserve Defence Forces,'
Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis banned New York Giants player Jimmy O'Connell and coach Cozy Dolan due to a bribery scandal.
From Michaelnoir on Reddit's 100 Years Ago today:
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The newspapers were tracking the condition of Gov. William B. Ross.
Estonians, some in the Red Army, and some in German Estonian units, others in Waffen SS units fought each other at Porkuni.
The Red Army units prevailed.
This presents the complicated picture of the war in the Baltics. The Soviets were widely disposed by most residents of the Baltic States, but there were, and always had been, Baltic communists who saw the Soviet Union as an ally. Estonian resistance to Soviet occupation, on the other hand, had started with the pre World War Two Soviet invasion and continued on after World War Two in the form of the Estonian Forest Brothers.
The Germans had never desired any sort of independence for Estonia and had not supported it in any sense.
Interestingly, during the war, Finland never came into play in this even though the Estonians are a Baltic Finnic people and in the 1920s there had been serious considerations given to an Estonian Finnish union, with such efforts being committedly opposed by the Soviets. The East Karelian Uprising of 1921-22 fit into this, as that territory lay between the two nations to some degree and was occupied by Finnic people as well.
The Battle of Rimini ended in a Canadian, Greek and New Zealander victory.
The Satsuki was sunk by US aircraft in Manila Bay.
The Cardinals took the National League Pennant for the third time in a row, defeating the Boston Braves.
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Jim Bottomley of the St. Louis Jim Cardinals set a major league baseball record for RBIs in a single game with 12, during a 17–3 win over the Brooklyn Robins. In 1993 the record was tied, but it has never been beaten.
Betty Joan Perske, known on the screen as Lauren Bacall, was born in the Bronx.
Both of her parents were of Eastern European Jewish ancestry, with her mother having been born in Romania. Her mother had adopted the maiden name of Bacall, that she later adopted as a screen name. Her parents divorced when she was five, and she no longer saw her father. She uniformly came across as a highly intelligent, graceful, figure on the screen.
She married Humphrey Bogart in 1947 when she was 20 and he was 45. It was his fourth, and last, marriage. She'd marry Jason Robards after Bogart's death, but her second marriage would end in divorce.
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Premiered on this day in 1924. It had been filmed on location. Anna Mae Wong, the famous Chinese American actress, was cast as an Inuit.
It was a bad day for police officers:
Deputy Constable J. Edward Brown:
Police Officer Francis X. "Buck" Roy
Patrol Inspector James F. Mankin
Walter "Big Train" Johnson was chosen Major League Baseball's Most Valuable Player
The first American baseball game played in London was held at the Lord’s Cricket Ground.
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