What day of the week was February 23, 1944?

The day of the week February 23rd, 1944 fell on was a Wednesday.

Bernard Cornwell the English author was born on 23 February in 1944. As was John Sandford the American author , Johnny Winter the American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2014) .

Leo Baekeland the Belgian-American chemist (b. 1863) died on this day in 1944. As did Oszkár Gerde the two-time Olympic gold medalist in fencing in 1908 and 1912, murdered at Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp (b. 1883) .

The Soviet Union begins the forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people from the North Caucasus to Central Asia.