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Events on Thursday 22 June 1944 2
1944GI Bill signedServicemen's Readjustment Act becomes lawPresident Roosevelt signed the act giving returning American veterans funds for college, unemployment pay and low-cost home loans. Millions of veterans used it to attend university. It reshaped American higher education and suburban housing.
1944Operation BagrationSoviet offensive destroys German Army Group CentreThe Red Army launched a massive summer offensive in Belarus. It shattered German Army Group Centre and inflicted one of the worst defeats in German military history. Soviet forces advanced hundreds of kilometres to the Vistula and the edge of East Prussia.