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| 1944 |
| | | Fancy Free becomes On the Town, a Broadway musical by Leonard Bernstein, directed by Jerome Robbins | |
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| 1944 |
| | | The World Bank and IMF are conceived at an international conference in the USA, at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire | |
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| 1944 |
| | | 12-year-old Elizabeth Taylor co-stars with a horse in the film National Velvet | |
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| 1944 |
| | | Boston writer Robert Lowell publishes his first book of poems, Land of Unlikeness | |
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| 1944 |
| | | Jorge Luis Borges publishes Fictions, a collection of short stories | |
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| 1944 |
| | | The separate poems forming T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets are brought together for the first time as a single volume, published in New York | |
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| 1944 |
| | | Laurence Olivier directs and stars in a patriotic film of Henry V with stirring music by William Walton | |
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| 1944 |
| | | An uprising in Guatemala brings in a revolutionary junta and a left-wing programme of reform | |
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| 1944 |
| | | Aaron Copland's ballet Appalachian Spring has choreography by Martha Graham | |
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| January |
| | | US general Dwight Eisenhower is appointed to command the Allied invasion of Normandy | |
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