(Saturday, May 6, 1944) — Kathleen Kennedy, the 24-year-old fourth child of Joseph and Rose Kennedy and a younger sister of future U.S. President John F. Kennedy, today married William “Billy” Cavendish, the Marquess of Hartington, in a civil ceremony at the Caxton Hall Registry Office in Westminster, London, England.
Her eldest brother Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., whom she had grown close to during the last year of his life, was the only member of the Kennedy family to attend the ceremony.
Video: 'Footage - Gandhi - 1944 May 6, #01'
(Saturday May 6, 1944) — Indian nationalist leader Mohandas K. Gandhi was unconditionally released by British authorities today “wholly on medical grounds” from a prison at Toona, India, after 21 months of internment for advocating only passive resistance to the Japanese. Doctors prescribed rest for his blood infection.
Video: 'Gaslight' (trailer)
(Thursday, May 4, 1944) — Gaslight, a mystery-thriller film about a newlywed who fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion, opened today at the Capitol in New York City.
Directed by George Cukor, the film starred Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Dame May Whitty and Angela Lansbury.
Video: 'Going My Way' (trailer)
(Wednesday, May 3, 1944) — Going My Way, a musical comedy-drama film about a young priest who revitalizes a failing parish and brings new life to the elder priest, premiered tonight at the Paramount in New York City.
Directed by Leo McCarey, the film starred Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald and Risë Stevens.
Video: 'World War II Food Rationing: "Prices Unlimited" 1944 Office of War Information 11min'
(Wednesday, May 3, 1944; during World War II) — U.S. wartime rationing of most grades of meats ended today. However, rationing returned by year’s end.
Video: 'Anne Frank - The Whole Story (2001) 2/2' (Apr. 15, 1944, at 19:56)
(Saturday, April 15, 1944, 9:30 p.m. local time; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — On Anne Frank’s 650th day in hiding in a secret apartment behind her father’s business in German-occupied Amsterdam, the 14-year-old girl received her first kiss while on a “date” with Peter van Pels.
(Tuesday, March 28, 1944, 1:10 p.m. EWT; during World War II) — U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 62, was referred to Dr. Howard Bruenn, a cardiologist at Bethesda Naval Hospital who, today diagnosed hypertensive heart disease during an examination at Bethesda Naval Hospital (click here to watch video about today’s examination, starting at 3:35:01).
Video: '24 3 1944 Le Fosse Ardeatine silvia nascetti'
(Thursday, March 23, 1944; during World War II) — In occupied Rome, the Nazis executed more than 300 civilians today in reprisal for an attack by Italian partisans the day before that had killed 32 German soldiers.
(Tuesday, March 21, 1944) — Comedian Charlie Chaplin went on trial today in Los Angeles, accused of transporting former protegee Joan Barry across state lines for immoral purposes. Chaplin was acquitted, but he lost a paternity suit despite tests showing he wasn’t the father of Barry’s child.
Video: 'Battlefield S5/E3 - The Battle for Monte Cassino' (Mar. 15, 1944, at 1:21:50)
(Wednesday, March 15, 1944, 8:30 a.m. CET; during the Battle of Monte Cassino, part of the Winter Line and the battle for Rome of the Italian Campaign of World War II) — Allied bombers again raided German-held Monte Cassino today. Continue reading Allied bombers raid German-held Monte Cassino again 70 years ago this hour (Mar 15 1944)
