{"id":1489,"date":"2014-07-01T15:22:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T21:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2014-09-19T18:46:38","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T00:46:38","slug":"august-1944-montana-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/august-1944-montana-2\/","title":{"rendered":"August 1944 in Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2022 August 1 \u2013 The Helena rodeo opened.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 August 2 \u2013 Miners Field Day was celebrated in Butte.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 August 7 \u2013 The 13th annual Northern Montana Fair opened to record attendance in Great Falls. A pilot died when his A-20 crashed 14 miles from Great Falls.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 August 8 \u2013 A woman taxi driver was beaten and robbed of $33 in Great Falls.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 August 13 \u2013 The Midland Empire Fair opened in Billings. A strike closed the Pierce Packing Co. in Billings after the company hired a non-union carpenter. The company sued the union for $150,000 damages.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 August 14 \u2013 The Cole Brothers Circus performed in Great Falls.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 August 15 \u2013 Three drowned in the Thompson River.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 August 18 \u2013 Five\u2013year\u2013old Charlie Crocker of Great Falls was flown to St. Louis for emergency surgery to remove a tooth stuck in his bronchial passage.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 August 22 \u2013 State Treasurer Thomas E. Carey was found dead of an apparent heart attack in a Spokane hotel room.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 August 23 \u2013 The week-long Pierce Packing strike ended in Billings after the company fired the non-union carpenter whose hiring led to the strike.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 August 25 \u2013 French and American troops entered Paris.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 August 29 \u2013 Soviet and Polish authorities revealed the atrocities committed by the Nazis at Majdanek concentration camp, where 1.5 million people were murdered.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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