Explore the major historical events, famous births, and notable deaths that occurred in the year 1943. This year saw 256 significant events. 50 notable figures were born. 3 notable figures passed away.
Claus Philipp Maria Justinian Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg was a German army officer who is best known for his failed attempt on 20 July 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the Wolf's Lair, part of…
Negro Baseball League star Josh Gibson suffers a nervous breakdown and is admitted to the hospital for rest and treatment; he is released in time for preseason training
Adolf Hitler declares "Total War" against the Allies
Soviets announce they have broken the long siege of Leningrad by Nazi Germany by opening a narrow land corridor, though the siege is not fully lifted until a year later
Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus (23 September 1890 – 1 February 1957) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) during World War II who is best known for his surrender of the German 6th Army…
The Royal Italian Army (Italian: Regio Esercito) was the land forces of the Kingdom of Italy during World War II. It was active from 1940 until the end of the war in 1945.
The military history of the United Kingdom in World War II covers the Second World War against the Axis powers, starting on 3 September 1939 with the declaration of war by the United Kingdom and…
Model Bettie Page (19) weds high school sweetheart Billy Neal in Gallatin, Tennessee
At the beginning of the Pacific War in December 1941, which was during World War II, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was the third most powerful navy in the world, and Japan's naval air service was...
US Marine Corps aviator and astronaut John Glenn (21) weds high school sweetheart Anna Margaret Castor
Actress Claire Trevor (34) weds Navy lieutenant Cyclos William Dunsmoore in Tijuana, Mexico
The North African campaign of World War II took place in North Africa from 11 June 1940 to 13 May 1943, fought between the Allies and the Axis powers.
Operation Chastise: No. 617 Squadron RAF begins the famous Dambusters Raid, bombing the Möhne and Eder dams in the Ruhr Valley with bouncing bombs
A mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beats up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting the week-long Zoot Suit Riots
Actress Greer Garson (38) divorces first husband Edward Snelson (39) due to disagreements over permanent residence
English comic actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin (54) weds English-American actress Oona O'Neill (18), until his death in 1977
American actor Jackie Coogan (28) divorces actress Flower Parry after almost 2 years of marriage
William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey (June 24, 1895 – May 31, 1983), nicknamed Kid Blackie and The Manassa Mauler, was an American boxer who competed from 1914 to 1927, and was world heavyweight champion...
The Battle of Kursk, also called the Battle of the Kursk Salient, was a major World War II Eastern Front battle between the forces of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union near Kursk in southwestern...
Musical film "Stormy Weather," directed by Andrew L. Stone and starring Bill Robinson, Lena Horne, and Fats Waller (singing "Ain't Misbehavin'"), premieres in the US
Operation Gomorrah: RAF begins bombing Hamburg (until 3rd August), creating a firestorm and killing 42,600 people
Victor Emmanuel III (Italian: Vittorio Emanuele Ferdinando Maria Gennaro di Savoia; 11 November 1869 – 28 December 1947) was King of Italy from 29 July 1900 until his abdication on 9 May 1946.
Operation Gomorrah: RAF bombing over Hamburg causes a firestorm that kills 42,600 German civilians
Battle of Kursk, the largest tank battle in history, ends after 50 days as the Soviet Union defeats Germany; over 10,000 tanks take part, and nearly 250,000 combatants are killed
American "Gilda" actress Rita Hayworth (24) weds American actor-director-wunderkind Orson Welles (28); divorce in 1947
Italy entered World War II on 10 June 1940 by invading France, joining the German offensive already in progress.
The Burma Railway, also known as the Siam–Burma Railway, Thai–Burma Railway and similar names, or as the Death Railway, is a 415 km (258 mi) railway between Ban Pong, Thailand, and Thanbyuzayat,...
Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey
British Children's writer Enid Blyton marries 2nd husband surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters at City of Westminster registry office, London
55th UK Prime Minister David Lloyd George (80) weds second wife Frances Stevenson
Kenesaw Mountain Landis (November 20, 1866 – November 25, 1944) was an American jurist who served as a United States federal judge from 1905 to 1922 and as the first commissioner of baseball from...
American "I'll Walk Alone" singer and actress Dinah Shore (27) weds American actor George Montgomery (27); divorce in 1963
US President FDR appoints General Eisenhower as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces
Kalmyk inhabitants of the Republic of Kalmykia are deported by the Soviet Union to Central Asia and Siberia, with many dying en route
University of Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team begins a 129-game home game winning streak that ends in 1955, incorporating NCAA titles in 1948, 1949, and 1951
1st missing persons telecast (NYC)
The 1943 season was the Chicago Bears' 24th in the National Football League. The team failed to match on their 11–0 record from 1942 and finished at 8–1–1, under temporary co-coaches Hunk Anderson...
Japanese government in Java limits sale & use of motorcars
The Treaty between the United States and China for the Relinquishment of Extraterritorial Rights in China was a bilateral treaty signed by the United States and the Republic of China on January 11,...
Frankfurters replaced by Victory Sausages (mix of meat & soy meal)
The Pentagon is the headquarters building of the United States Department of Defense, in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.
-60°F (-51°C), Island Park Dam, Idaho (state record)
Tin Can Drive Day in the US, salvage collected for the war effort
Lead, South Dakota, temperature is 52°F, while 1.5 miles away Deadwood records -16°F
Admiral of the Fleet (ADMF) is a five-star naval officer rank and the highest rank of the Royal Navy, formally established in 1688.
66.34 cm (26.12") precipitation over 24 hour period in Hoegees Camp, California (state record)
The Detroit Red Wings (colloquially referred to as the Wings) are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit.
Jewish patients, nurses and doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau
1st US air attack on Germany (Wilhelmshafen)
Chic Blackhawks beats NY Rangers 10-1, Max Bentley scores 4 goals
New Zealand cruiser Kiwi collides with Japanese submarine I-1 at Guadalcanal
Members of the Dutch Protestant resistance against the German occupation begin publishing underground newspaper "Trouw" (Loyal) in the Netherlands
Chile breaks off relations with Germany & Japan
German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier
"The Four Chaplains" drown after giving up their life jackets to others as the US Army transport ship Dorchester sinks in the North Atlantic [1]
The Good Person of Szechwan (German: Der gute Mensch von Sezuan, first translated less literally as The Good Man of Setzuan) is a play written by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, in collaboration...
Amsterdam resistance group CS-6 shoots nazi general Seyffardt
1st Spitfire in action above Darwin, Australia, Mu Ki-46 shot down
Shoe rationing begins in US (may purchase up to 3 more pairs in 1942)
Red Army recaptures Kursk on the eastern front
"Manifesto of Algerian People" calls for equality & self-determination
Transport #47 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
German offensive against US troops through de Faid-pass, Tunisia begins, starting the Battle of Sidi Bou Zid
-32°F (-36°C), Falls Village, Connecticut (state record)
1st edition of Dutch resistance newspaper "Trouw"
German tanks under Major General Karl Buelowius attack Kasserine Pass, Tunisia
The Battle of Kasserine Pass was a series of engagements which took place from 19–24 February 1943 around Kasserine Pass, a 2-mile-wide (3.2 km) gap in the Grand Dorsal chain of the Atlas Mountains...
Dutch RC bishops protest against persecution of Jews
The German resistance to Nazism (German: Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus) included unarmed and armed opposition and disobedience to the Nazi regime by various movements, groups and...
German troops pull back through Kasserine-pass Tunisia
Major General Omar Bradley arrives in Dakar & Marrakesh
Texas League announces it will quit for the duration of WW II
Vietminh forms Indo Chinese Democratic Front
German assault moves to Beja, North Tunisia
The Rosenstrasse Protest, a rare mass public demonstration in Germany against the Third Reich's deportation of Jews in Berlin; the protest by non-Jewish wives and relatives of detained Jewish men lasts a week and results in the release of approximately 1,800 captives
Jewish old age home for disabled in Amsterdam raided
Treblinka was the second-deadliest extermination camp to be built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II, second only to Auschwitz.
Anti-fascist strikes in Italy
allied bombers attack German city of Nuremberg, a centre for military production
Delft, Netherlands anti-Nazi resistance group Pahud de Mortanges wiped out
Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands
Soviet troops liberate Wjasma
Baseball approves official ball (with cork & balata)
Allied reconnaissance flight over Java
Ships Elin K (Norway) and Zaanland (Netherlands) torpedoed by German U-boats and sink
Aldemarin (Ned) & Fort Cedar Lake (US) torpedoed & sinks
British merchant vessel "Canadian Star" is torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic by German U-boat U-221, 34 die with 54 survivors [1]
The Battle of the Mareth Line or the Battle of Mareth was an attack in the Second World War by the British Eighth Army (General Bernard Montgomery) in Tunisia, against the Mareth Line held by the...
German submarine U-69 was the first Type VIIC U-boat of the German Navy (Kriegsmarine) during World War II.
Dutch SS police chief Hans Albin Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children
German counterattack on US lines in Tunisia
97% of all Dutch physicians strike against Nazi registration
Battle of Komandorski Islands, naval battle between American navy and Japanese Imperial forces in the Pacific Ocean, ends inconclusively
Meat (784 gram/week, 2 kilogram for GI's), butter & cheese rationed in US during WW II
British 1st army recaptures Sejenane
US errantly bombs Rotterdam, kills 326
Jan Dieters, Dutch politician, resistance fighter, and a leading member of Communist Party of the Netherlands, is arrested by the Nazis
WWII: US Army Air Force bomber 'Lady Be Good' fails to return to Soluch, Libya base after its maiden flight; presumed lost at sea, wreck was discovered in desert 15 years later [1]
British & US armies link up in Africa during WW II
NFL Draft: Frank Sinkwich from University of Georgia first pick by Detroit Lions
12 Jewish patients of Herren Loo-Lozenoord escape Nazis
American helicopter designer Frank Piasecki, Vertol founder, flies his 1st (single-rotor) craft [1]
Allies conquer Soussa, North-Africa
Catholic University Nijegen closes
Metropolitan Life Insurances issues a $225 million check to Chase
40 NZ bombers attack Haarlem, Netherlands (85 killed)
The North African campaign of World War II took place in North Africa from 11 June 1940 to 13 May 1943, fought between the Allies and the Axis powers.
British & US offensive directed at Tunis and Bizerta
The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket instituted
After the Munich Agreement, the Soviet Union pursued a rapprochement with Nazi Germany.
1st performance of Marc Blitzstein's "Freedom Morning"
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, neo-orthodox theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church.
Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp for Jews forms
The military history of the United States during World War II covers the nation's role as one of the major Allies in their victory over the Axis powers.
German troops vacate Jefna, Tunisia
US Postmaster General Frank C. Walker invents Postal Zone System
British 1st army opens assault on Tunis
British 11th Hussars occupy Tunis
Admiral Cunningham of British fleet: "Sink, burn & destroy; let nothing pass"
5th Panzer Army (German: 5. Panzerarmee) was the name of two different German armoured formations during World War II.
The Italian campaign of World War II, also called the Liberation of Italy following the German occupation in September 1943, consisted of Allied and Axis operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to...
Australian Hospital Ship Centaur sinks off the coast of Queensland after being struck by torpedo fired by Japanese submarine; 268 of 332 medical personnel and civilian crew aboard die
Halifax bombers sinks U-463
The Allied invasion of Sicily, also known as the Battle of Sicily and Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II in which Allied forces invaded the Italian island of Sicily in July 1943...
Berlin is declared "Judenrien" (free of Jews)
Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
Fastest 9 inning AL baseball night game (89 mins), Chicago White Sox beat visiting Washington Senators, 1-0
RAF scatters 1st copies of "The Flying Hollander"
-24] 826 Allied bombers attack Dortmund
The French Resistance (French: La Résistance [la ʁezistɑ̃s]) was a collection of groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy regime in France during the Second World War.
"Archie" comic strip 1st broadcast on radio
Leslie Howard Steiner (3 April 1893 – 1 June 1943) was an English actor, director, producer and writer.
99th Pursuit Squadron flies 1st combat mission (over Italy)
German occupiers arrest Louvain University's chancellor
FDR becomes 1st US President to visit a foreign country during wartime
WWII: British invades Pantelleria, a tiny island south of Sicily
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) forms in Chicago, Illinois
SS Police in Amsterdam sentence 12 resistance fighters to death for the fire-bombing at the census records bureau in March
NFL's Philadelphia Eagles & Pittsburgh Steelers merge, (dissolves on Dec 5)
Chubb Crater (now called Pingualuit Crater) discovered in northern Quebec (3½ km diameter)
The 1967 Detroit riot, also known as the 12th Street Riot and the Detroit Uprising, was the bloodiest of the urban riots in the United States during the "long, hot summer of 1967".
Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Reichskommissar in the Netherlands, orders mass arrests of Dutch physicians
Elly Dammers throws Dutch record spear (41,43m)
Germany begins withdrawing U-boats from North Atlantic in anticipation of the Allied invasion of Europe
"Pay-as-you-go" - 1st withholding tax from paychecks
Gulf of Biskaje: Liberator bombers sinks U-126
German submarine U-558 was a Type VIIC U-boat in the service of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II.
The Battle of Kula Gulf took place in the early hours of 6 July 1943 during World War II.
2nd day of Battle of Kursk, USSR: Operation Citadel: 25,000 Germans killed
4th day of Battle of Kursk, USSR: Operation Citadel - Nazi General Model uses last tank reserve
During the Pacific War, Allied forces conducted air raids on Japan from 1942 to 1945, causing extensive destruction to the country's cities and killing between 241,000 and 900,000 people.
The Battle of Stalingrad (17 July 1942 – 2 February 1943) was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, beginning when Nazi Germany and its Axis allies attacked and became locked in a...
The Battle of Kula Gulf took place in the early hours of 6 July 1943 during World War II.
RAF bombs Germany rocket base Peenemunde
The Allied invasion of Sicily, also known as the Battle of Sicily and Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II in which Allied forces invaded the Italian island of Sicily in July 1943...
World War II (1939–1945) involved sustained strategic bombing of railways, harbours, cities, workers' and civilian housing, and industrial districts in enemy territory.
Jacques Lusseyran (19 September 1924 – 27 July 1971) was a French author and political activist.
The US 45th Infantry Division occupies the north coast of Termini, Sicily
°F (49°C) in Tishmoningo, Oklahoma (state record)
The Allied bombing of Hamburg during World War II included numerous attacks on civilians and civic infrastructure.
Nazis evacuate Hollandsche Schouwburg in Amsterdam
US 45th Infantry Division occupies San Stefano di Camastra in Sicily
Several Catholic countries and populations fell under Nazi domination during the period of the Second World War (1939–1945), and ordinary Catholics fought on both sides of the conflict.
British Sunderland seaplanes sink German submarines U-454 and U-383
Armed revolt by 800 prisoners at Treblinka Extermination Camp: crematorium destroyed; 200 escape the compound, but only 100 survive
British premier Winston Churchill travels to Canada on the Queen Mary
Sicily: Three US A-36s bomb British headquarters
The 1st Infantry Division (1ID) is a combined arms division of the United States Army, and is the oldest continuously serving division in the Regular Army.
Red Army recaptures Bogodukhov
Common Chiefs of Staff meet in Quebec
Red Army recaptures Chuhuiv, near Kharkiv
The Philadelphia Experiment was an alleged event claimed to have been witnessed by an ex-merchant mariner named Carl M.
The Red army recaptures Spas-Demensk from the German army in Kaluga Oblast, Russia
During the Pacific War, Allied forces conducted air raids on Japan from 1942 to 1945, causing extensive destruction to the country's cities and killing between 241,000 and 900,000 people.
The Aleutian Islands campaign was a military campaign fought between 3 June 1942 and 15 August 1943 on and around the Aleutian Islands, part of the US Territory of Alaska, in the American Theater of...
British bombers attack Peenemünde (development base for the V-weapons)
Belgian church excommunicates Nazi collaborator Léon Degrelle
Japan leaves Aleutian Islands
The Third Battle of Kharkov was a series of battles on the Eastern Front of World War II, undertaken by Nazi Germany's Army Group South against the Soviet Red Army, around the city of Kharkov between...
Philadelphia A's drop AL record-tying 20th game in a row, then win the second game
10th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 27, Washington 7 (48,471 attendees)
Danish Navy scuttles its warships so as not to be taken by Germany
1st battle of Essex/new Yorktown: US assault on Marcus Island
Sicily (Italian and Sicilian: Sicilia), officially the Sicilian Region, is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea and one of the twenty regions of Italy, situated south of the Italian Peninsula...
Italy entered World War II on 10 June 1940 by invading France, joining the German offensive already in progress.
The US airlands at Nadzab, New Guinea
"Congressional Limited" train derails near Frankford, Philadelphia, killing 79
Fifteen German JU-88s sink Italian flagship Roma
Lieutenant-General Omar Bradley flies from Algiers to Marrakech and Prestwick
Taranto, historically also called Tarent in English, is a coastal city in Apulia, Southern Italy.
Jewish ghettos of Minsk and Lida, Belarus, are liquidated
German counterattack at Salerno
The history of the New York Yankees Major League Baseball (MLB) team spans more than a century. Frank J.
The Eighth Army was a field army of the British Army during the Second World War. It was formed as the Western Army on 10 September 1941, in Egypt, before being renamed the Army of the Nile and then...
Load of "ammunition in transit" explodes at Norfolk Naval Air Station
Dutch athlete Fanny Blankers-Koen (25) breaks jumping world record of 6.25 m (20ft 6.06in); record stands until 1954
Liberator bomber sinks U-338
The Battle of Arundel Island was fought from 27 August – 21 September 1943, primarily between United States Army and Imperial Japanese Army forces on Arundel Island during the New Georgia campaign in...
British dwarf submarines attack German battleship Tirpitz
The Holocaust saw the ghettoization, robbery, deportation and mass murder of Jews in occupied Poland by Nazi Germany.
Smolensk is a city and the administrative center of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Dnieper River, 360 kilometers (220 mi) west-southwest of Moscow.
The second Smolensk operation (code naming "Suvorov"; 7 August – 2 October 1943) was a Soviet strategic offensive operation conducted by the Red Army as part of the Summer-Autumn Campaign of 1943.
Anti-fascist opposition begins in Naples
First Silbertanne murder by German occupiers in Meppel
World War II (1939–1945) involved sustained strategic bombing of railways, harbours, cities, workers' and civilian housing, and industrial districts in enemy territory.
Japanese troops leave Kolombangara, Solomon Islands
British 8th Army lands at Termoli, East Italy
US air raid on Wake: Japanese execute 98 US prisoners in retaliation
Vella Lavella is an island in the Western Province of Solomon Islands. It lies to the west of New Georgia, but is considered one of the New Georgia Group. To its west are the Treasury Islands.
One Touch of Venus is a 1943 musical with music written by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ogden Nash, and book by S. J.
The Azores, officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores, is an autonomous region of Portugal, in the Atlantic Ocean about 1,400 km (870 miles) west of mainland Portugal.
US bombers accidentally strike Enschede, Netherlands, causing 151 deaths
The bombing of Rabaul in November 1943 here refers to a series of concentrated air raids conducted by the allied military in World War II, against the major Japanese stronghold in New Guinea located...
The history of Poland from 1939 to 1945 encompasses primarily the period from the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union to the end of World War II.
Anti-Jewish riot in Rome
The Solomon Islands campaign was a major campaign of the Pacific War during World War II.
The Third Moscow Conference between the major Allies of World War II took place during October 18 to November 11, 1943, at the Moscow Kremlin and Spiridonovka Palace.
German occupiers liquidate the ghetto of Minsk, Belarus, transporting the last remaining 4,000 Jews to their deaths at the Nazi extermination camp Maly Trostinets
First Jewish transport out of Rome reaches extermination camp Birkenau
The Burma Railway, also known as the Siam–Burma Railway, Thai–Burma Railway and similar names, or as the Death Railway, is a 415 km (258 mi) railway between Ban Pong, Thailand, and Thanbyuzayat,...
The Dornier Do 335 Pfeil (Arrow) is a heavy fighter built by Dornier for Germany during World War II.
German submarine U-220 was a Type XB submarine of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. The U-boat was laid down on 16 June 1941 at the Germaniawerft yard at Kiel as yard number 626,...
Stalag Luft III (German: Stammlager Luft III; literally "Main Camp, Air, III"; SL III) was a Luftwaffe-run prisoner-of-war (POW) camp during the Second World War, which held captured Western Allied...
Allied Foreign Ministers Conference ends in Moscow between Vyacheslav Molotov of Russia, Britain's Antony Eden, and Cordell Hull of the US
The Washington Commanders are a professional American football franchise based in the Washington metropolitan area.
Dim-out ban lifted in San Francisco Bay area
Riga ( REE-gə) is the capital, primate, and largest city of Latvia and the second largest in the Baltics.
WWII: Vatican in Rome bombed from the air; no one claims responsibility, later investigations point to fascist opeartives attempting to disable the radio transmitter
"Catulli Carmina (Songs of Catullus)", the second work of Carl Orff's Trionfi cantata trilogy premieres at the Leipzig Opera
Last scoreless tie in the NFL, Detroit Lions 0, NY Giants 0
Lebanon, officially the Lebanese Republic, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.
The bombing of Rabaul in November 1943 here refers to a series of concentrated air raids conducted by the allied military in World War II, against the major Japanese stronghold in New Guinea located...
Landwacht (NSB-political party) forms in Netherlands
Anti-Nazi clandestine radio Soldatensender Calais begins broadcasting
WW II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway
Berlin, the capital of Germany, was subject to 363 air raids during the Second World War.
German submarine U-536 was a Type IXC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was laid down at the Deutsche Werft (yard) in Hamburg as yard number 354 on 13 March 1942,...
7 Belgian ministers in London criticise King Leopold III for surrendering to Germany
The Battle of Berlin (November 1943 to March 1944) was a bombing campaign against Berlin by RAF Bomber Command, along with raids on other German cities to keep German defences dispersed.
1st printing of illegal "Warheid"
U-600 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
German submarine U-869 was a Type IXC/40 U-boat of the German Navy (Kriegsmarine) during World War II; her keel was laid down 5 April 1943 by Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG Weser of Bremen.
At the end of the Tehran Conference, the Big Three (Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt) agree that the invasion of Normandy should take place in May 1944
First RSHA (Reichssicherheitshauptamt - Nazi Reich Security Head Office) transport out of Vienna reaches Birkenau camp
9th Heisman Trophy Award: Angelo Bertelli, Notre Dame (QB)
British 8th Army (1st Canadian Infantry Division) occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy
US Marauders bomb Schiphol
"Tamiami Champion" (New York to Florida) trains collide, kills 73 & injures 200
Transport 63 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America.
"Internationale" is no longer used as USSR National Anthem
Manufacturers get permission to use synthetic rubber for baseball core
Engelbert Humperdinck's "Hansel & Gretel" becomes 1st complete opera to be telecast (WGRB, Schenectady, New York)
Scharnhorst was a German capital ship, alternatively described as a battleship or battlecruiser, of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine.
France transfers most of her powers in Lebanon to Lebanese government
Phillies trade Babe Dahlgren to Pitts for Babe Phelps & cash
Doris Kearns Goodwin, American biographer and historian, known for american biographer and historian, was born on 1943-01-04.
Jim Croce, American musician, known for american singer-songwriter, was born on 1943-01-10. James Joseph Croce (January 10, 1943 – September 20, 1973) was an American folk and rock singer-songwriter.
Janis Joplin, American musician, known for american singer, was born on 1943-01-19. Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer and songwriter.
Sharon Tate, American actress and model, known for american actress and model, was born on 1943-01-24.
Nolan Bushnell, American businessman and engineer, known for american businessman and engineer, was born on 1943-02-05. Nolan Kay Bushnell is an American businessman and electrical engineer.
Joseph Stiglitz, American economist and nobel laureate, known for american economist and nobel laureate, was born on 1943-02-09.
Joe Pesci, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1943-02-09. Joseph Frank Pesci is an American actor.
Mitch McConnell, American politician and attorney, known for american politician and attorney, was born on 1943-02-20.
Phil Esposito, Canadian athlete, known for canadian ice hockey player, executive, was born on 1943-02-20.
George Harrison, English musician, known for english musician, was born on 1943-02-25.
Lynn Redgrave, American american actress, known for british and american actress, was born on 1943-03-08. Lynn Rachel Redgrave (8 March 1943 – 2 May 2010) was a British and American actress.
Bert Campaneris, American athlete, known for cuban baseball player, was born on 1943-03-09.
Ratko Mladić, Serbian serbian war criminal, known for serbian war criminal, was born on 1943-03-12.
Barry Levinson, American filmmaker, known for american filmmaker, was born on 1943-04-06. Barry Lee Levinson is an American film director, producer and screenwriter.
Jacob Zuma is born
Richard M. Daley is born
Barbra Streisand, American singer and actress, known for american singer and actress, was born on 1943-04-24.
Andreas Baader, German far-left militant leader, known for german far-left militant leader, was born on 1943-05-06.
Gale Sayers, American football player, known for american football player, was born on 1943-05-30.
Henry Hill mobster, known for american mobster, was born on 1943-06-11. Henry Hill Jr.
Thabo Mbeki is born
Paul McCartney, English musician, known for english musician, was born on 1943-06-18. Sir James Paul McCartney is an English musician.
Christine McVie, English musician, known for british musician, was born on 1943-07-12. Christine Anne McVie was an English musician.
Harrison Ford, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1943-07-13. Harrison Ford is an American actor.
Margaret Smith Court, Australian athlete, known for australian former tennis player, was born on 1943-07-16.
Isabel Allende, American chilean-american writer, known for chilean-american writer, was born on 1943-08-02. Isabel Angélica Allende Llona is a Chilean-American writer.
Ken Norton athlete, known for american boxer, was born on 1943-08-09. Kenneth Howard Norton Sr.
Pervez Musharraf is born
Nancy Richey is born
Ray Floyd is born
Tom Dreesen is born
Emmerson Mnangagwa is born
Joe Morgan, American athlete, known for american baseball player and analyst, was born on 1943-09-19.
Sani Abacha is born
Marty Schottenheimer, American athlete, known for american football player and coach, was born on 1943-09-23.
Amitabh Bachchan, New Zealand actor, known for indian actor, was born on 1943-10-11. Amitabh Bachchan (né Srivastava; born 11 October 1942) is an Indian actor who works in Hindi cinema.
Penny Marshall, American actress, director, and producer, known for american actress, director, and producer, was born on 1943-10-15.
Judith Sheindlin, American court-show arbitrator, known for american court-show arbitrator, was born on 1943-10-21.
Stefanie Powers, American actress, known for american actress, was born on 1943-11-02.
Jean Shrimpton, English model and actress, known for english model and actress, was born on 1943-11-07. Jean Rosemary Shrimpton is an English model and actress.
Ángel Cordero Jr. is born
Robert F. Engle, American economist and nobel laureate, known for american economist and nobel laureate, was born on 1943-11-10. Robert Fry Engle III is an American economist and statistician.
Martin Scorsese, American filmmaker, known for american filmmaker, was born on 1943-11-17. Martin Charles Scorsese is an American filmmaker.
Linda Evans is born
Calvin Klein, American fashion designer, known for american fashion designer, was born on 1943-11-19. Calvin Richard Klein is an American fashion designer.
Joe Biden is born
Ferguson Jenkins, Canadian athlete, known for canadian baseball pitcher, was born on 1943-12-13. Ferguson Arthur "Fergie" Jenkins is a Canadian former professional baseball pitcher and coach.
Hu Jintao is born
John Denver musician, known for american singer, was born on 1943-12-31. Henry John Deutschendorf Jr.
René Préval is born
George Washington Carver botanist and inventor, known for american botanist and inventor, died on 1943-01-05.
Nikola Tesla, American serbian-american engineer and inventor, known for serbian-american engineer and inventor, died on 1943-01-07.
Marie Krogh dies
Claus Philipp Maria Justinian Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg was a German army officer who is best known for his failed attempt on 20 July 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the Wolf's Lair, part of…
Negro Baseball League star Josh Gibson suffers a nervous breakdown and is admitted to the hospital for rest and treatment; he is released in time for preseason training
Adolf Hitler declares "Total War" against the Allies
Soviets announce they have broken the long siege of Leningrad by Nazi Germany by opening a narrow land corridor, though the siege is not fully lifted until a year later
Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus (23 September 1890 – 1 February 1957) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) during World War II who is best known for his surrender of the German 6th Army…
The Royal Italian Army (Italian: Regio Esercito) was the land forces of the Kingdom of Italy during World War II. It was active from 1940 until the end of the war in 1945.
The military history of the United Kingdom in World War II covers the Second World War against the Axis powers, starting on 3 September 1939 with the declaration of war by the United Kingdom and…
Model Bettie Page (19) weds high school sweetheart Billy Neal in Gallatin, Tennessee
At the beginning of the Pacific War in December 1941, which was during World War II, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was the third most powerful navy in the world, and Japan's naval air service was...
US Marine Corps aviator and astronaut John Glenn (21) weds high school sweetheart Anna Margaret Castor
Actress Claire Trevor (34) weds Navy lieutenant Cyclos William Dunsmoore in Tijuana, Mexico
The North African campaign of World War II took place in North Africa from 11 June 1940 to 13 May 1943, fought between the Allies and the Axis powers.
Operation Chastise: No. 617 Squadron RAF begins the famous Dambusters Raid, bombing the Möhne and Eder dams in the Ruhr Valley with bouncing bombs
A mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beats up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting the week-long Zoot Suit Riots
Actress Greer Garson (38) divorces first husband Edward Snelson (39) due to disagreements over permanent residence
English comic actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin (54) weds English-American actress Oona O'Neill (18), until his death in 1977
American actor Jackie Coogan (28) divorces actress Flower Parry after almost 2 years of marriage
William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey (June 24, 1895 – May 31, 1983), nicknamed Kid Blackie and The Manassa Mauler, was an American boxer who competed from 1914 to 1927, and was world heavyweight champion...
The Battle of Kursk, also called the Battle of the Kursk Salient, was a major World War II Eastern Front battle between the forces of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union near Kursk in southwestern...
Musical film "Stormy Weather," directed by Andrew L. Stone and starring Bill Robinson, Lena Horne, and Fats Waller (singing "Ain't Misbehavin'"), premieres in the US
Operation Gomorrah: RAF begins bombing Hamburg (until 3rd August), creating a firestorm and killing 42,600 people
Victor Emmanuel III (Italian: Vittorio Emanuele Ferdinando Maria Gennaro di Savoia; 11 November 1869 – 28 December 1947) was King of Italy from 29 July 1900 until his abdication on 9 May 1946.
Operation Gomorrah: RAF bombing over Hamburg causes a firestorm that kills 42,600 German civilians
Battle of Kursk, the largest tank battle in history, ends after 50 days as the Soviet Union defeats Germany; over 10,000 tanks take part, and nearly 250,000 combatants are killed
American "Gilda" actress Rita Hayworth (24) weds American actor-director-wunderkind Orson Welles (28); divorce in 1947
Italy entered World War II on 10 June 1940 by invading France, joining the German offensive already in progress.
The Burma Railway, also known as the Siam–Burma Railway, Thai–Burma Railway and similar names, or as the Death Railway, is a 415 km (258 mi) railway between Ban Pong, Thailand, and Thanbyuzayat,...
Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey
British Children's writer Enid Blyton marries 2nd husband surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters at City of Westminster registry office, London
55th UK Prime Minister David Lloyd George (80) weds second wife Frances Stevenson
Kenesaw Mountain Landis (November 20, 1866 – November 25, 1944) was an American jurist who served as a United States federal judge from 1905 to 1922 and as the first commissioner of baseball from...
American "I'll Walk Alone" singer and actress Dinah Shore (27) weds American actor George Montgomery (27); divorce in 1963
US President FDR appoints General Eisenhower as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces
Kalmyk inhabitants of the Republic of Kalmykia are deported by the Soviet Union to Central Asia and Siberia, with many dying en route
University of Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team begins a 129-game home game winning streak that ends in 1955, incorporating NCAA titles in 1948, 1949, and 1951
1st missing persons telecast (NYC)
The 1943 season was the Chicago Bears' 24th in the National Football League. The team failed to match on their 11–0 record from 1942 and finished at 8–1–1, under temporary co-coaches Hunk Anderson...
Japanese government in Java limits sale & use of motorcars
The Treaty between the United States and China for the Relinquishment of Extraterritorial Rights in China was a bilateral treaty signed by the United States and the Republic of China on January 11,...
Frankfurters replaced by Victory Sausages (mix of meat & soy meal)
The Pentagon is the headquarters building of the United States Department of Defense, in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.
-60°F (-51°C), Island Park Dam, Idaho (state record)
Tin Can Drive Day in the US, salvage collected for the war effort
Lead, South Dakota, temperature is 52°F, while 1.5 miles away Deadwood records -16°F
Admiral of the Fleet (ADMF) is a five-star naval officer rank and the highest rank of the Royal Navy, formally established in 1688.
66.34 cm (26.12") precipitation over 24 hour period in Hoegees Camp, California (state record)
The Detroit Red Wings (colloquially referred to as the Wings) are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit.
Jewish patients, nurses and doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau
1st US air attack on Germany (Wilhelmshafen)
Chic Blackhawks beats NY Rangers 10-1, Max Bentley scores 4 goals
New Zealand cruiser Kiwi collides with Japanese submarine I-1 at Guadalcanal
Members of the Dutch Protestant resistance against the German occupation begin publishing underground newspaper "Trouw" (Loyal) in the Netherlands
Chile breaks off relations with Germany & Japan
German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier
"The Four Chaplains" drown after giving up their life jackets to others as the US Army transport ship Dorchester sinks in the North Atlantic [1]
The Good Person of Szechwan (German: Der gute Mensch von Sezuan, first translated less literally as The Good Man of Setzuan) is a play written by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, in collaboration...
Amsterdam resistance group CS-6 shoots nazi general Seyffardt
1st Spitfire in action above Darwin, Australia, Mu Ki-46 shot down
Shoe rationing begins in US (may purchase up to 3 more pairs in 1942)
Red Army recaptures Kursk on the eastern front
"Manifesto of Algerian People" calls for equality & self-determination
Transport #47 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
German offensive against US troops through de Faid-pass, Tunisia begins, starting the Battle of Sidi Bou Zid
-32°F (-36°C), Falls Village, Connecticut (state record)
1st edition of Dutch resistance newspaper "Trouw"
German tanks under Major General Karl Buelowius attack Kasserine Pass, Tunisia
The Battle of Kasserine Pass was a series of engagements which took place from 19–24 February 1943 around Kasserine Pass, a 2-mile-wide (3.2 km) gap in the Grand Dorsal chain of the Atlas Mountains...
Dutch RC bishops protest against persecution of Jews
The German resistance to Nazism (German: Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus) included unarmed and armed opposition and disobedience to the Nazi regime by various movements, groups and...
German troops pull back through Kasserine-pass Tunisia
Major General Omar Bradley arrives in Dakar & Marrakesh
Texas League announces it will quit for the duration of WW II
Vietminh forms Indo Chinese Democratic Front
German assault moves to Beja, North Tunisia
The Rosenstrasse Protest, a rare mass public demonstration in Germany against the Third Reich's deportation of Jews in Berlin; the protest by non-Jewish wives and relatives of detained Jewish men lasts a week and results in the release of approximately 1,800 captives
Jewish old age home for disabled in Amsterdam raided
Treblinka was the second-deadliest extermination camp to be built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II, second only to Auschwitz.
Anti-fascist strikes in Italy
allied bombers attack German city of Nuremberg, a centre for military production
Delft, Netherlands anti-Nazi resistance group Pahud de Mortanges wiped out
Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands
Soviet troops liberate Wjasma
Baseball approves official ball (with cork & balata)
Allied reconnaissance flight over Java
Ships Elin K (Norway) and Zaanland (Netherlands) torpedoed by German U-boats and sink
Aldemarin (Ned) & Fort Cedar Lake (US) torpedoed & sinks
British merchant vessel "Canadian Star" is torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic by German U-boat U-221, 34 die with 54 survivors [1]
The Battle of the Mareth Line or the Battle of Mareth was an attack in the Second World War by the British Eighth Army (General Bernard Montgomery) in Tunisia, against the Mareth Line held by the...
German submarine U-69 was the first Type VIIC U-boat of the German Navy (Kriegsmarine) during World War II.
Dutch SS police chief Hans Albin Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children
German counterattack on US lines in Tunisia
97% of all Dutch physicians strike against Nazi registration
Battle of Komandorski Islands, naval battle between American navy and Japanese Imperial forces in the Pacific Ocean, ends inconclusively
Meat (784 gram/week, 2 kilogram for GI's), butter & cheese rationed in US during WW II
British 1st army recaptures Sejenane
US errantly bombs Rotterdam, kills 326
Jan Dieters, Dutch politician, resistance fighter, and a leading member of Communist Party of the Netherlands, is arrested by the Nazis
WWII: US Army Air Force bomber 'Lady Be Good' fails to return to Soluch, Libya base after its maiden flight; presumed lost at sea, wreck was discovered in desert 15 years later [1]
British & US armies link up in Africa during WW II
NFL Draft: Frank Sinkwich from University of Georgia first pick by Detroit Lions
12 Jewish patients of Herren Loo-Lozenoord escape Nazis
American helicopter designer Frank Piasecki, Vertol founder, flies his 1st (single-rotor) craft [1]
Allies conquer Soussa, North-Africa
Catholic University Nijegen closes
Metropolitan Life Insurances issues a $225 million check to Chase
40 NZ bombers attack Haarlem, Netherlands (85 killed)
The North African campaign of World War II took place in North Africa from 11 June 1940 to 13 May 1943, fought between the Allies and the Axis powers.
British & US offensive directed at Tunis and Bizerta
The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket instituted
After the Munich Agreement, the Soviet Union pursued a rapprochement with Nazi Germany.
1st performance of Marc Blitzstein's "Freedom Morning"
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, neo-orthodox theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church.
Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp for Jews forms
The military history of the United States during World War II covers the nation's role as one of the major Allies in their victory over the Axis powers.
German troops vacate Jefna, Tunisia
US Postmaster General Frank C. Walker invents Postal Zone System
British 1st army opens assault on Tunis
British 11th Hussars occupy Tunis
Admiral Cunningham of British fleet: "Sink, burn & destroy; let nothing pass"
5th Panzer Army (German: 5. Panzerarmee) was the name of two different German armoured formations during World War II.
The Italian campaign of World War II, also called the Liberation of Italy following the German occupation in September 1943, consisted of Allied and Axis operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to...
Australian Hospital Ship Centaur sinks off the coast of Queensland after being struck by torpedo fired by Japanese submarine; 268 of 332 medical personnel and civilian crew aboard die
Halifax bombers sinks U-463
The Allied invasion of Sicily, also known as the Battle of Sicily and Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II in which Allied forces invaded the Italian island of Sicily in July 1943...
Berlin is declared "Judenrien" (free of Jews)
Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
Fastest 9 inning AL baseball night game (89 mins), Chicago White Sox beat visiting Washington Senators, 1-0
RAF scatters 1st copies of "The Flying Hollander"
-24] 826 Allied bombers attack Dortmund
The French Resistance (French: La Résistance [la ʁezistɑ̃s]) was a collection of groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy regime in France during the Second World War.
"Archie" comic strip 1st broadcast on radio
Leslie Howard Steiner (3 April 1893 – 1 June 1943) was an English actor, director, producer and writer.
99th Pursuit Squadron flies 1st combat mission (over Italy)
German occupiers arrest Louvain University's chancellor
FDR becomes 1st US President to visit a foreign country during wartime
WWII: British invades Pantelleria, a tiny island south of Sicily
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) forms in Chicago, Illinois
SS Police in Amsterdam sentence 12 resistance fighters to death for the fire-bombing at the census records bureau in March
NFL's Philadelphia Eagles & Pittsburgh Steelers merge, (dissolves on Dec 5)
Chubb Crater (now called Pingualuit Crater) discovered in northern Quebec (3½ km diameter)
The 1967 Detroit riot, also known as the 12th Street Riot and the Detroit Uprising, was the bloodiest of the urban riots in the United States during the "long, hot summer of 1967".
Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Reichskommissar in the Netherlands, orders mass arrests of Dutch physicians
Elly Dammers throws Dutch record spear (41,43m)
Germany begins withdrawing U-boats from North Atlantic in anticipation of the Allied invasion of Europe
"Pay-as-you-go" - 1st withholding tax from paychecks
Gulf of Biskaje: Liberator bombers sinks U-126
German submarine U-558 was a Type VIIC U-boat in the service of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II.
The Battle of Kula Gulf took place in the early hours of 6 July 1943 during World War II.
2nd day of Battle of Kursk, USSR: Operation Citadel: 25,000 Germans killed
4th day of Battle of Kursk, USSR: Operation Citadel - Nazi General Model uses last tank reserve
During the Pacific War, Allied forces conducted air raids on Japan from 1942 to 1945, causing extensive destruction to the country's cities and killing between 241,000 and 900,000 people.
The Battle of Stalingrad (17 July 1942 – 2 February 1943) was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, beginning when Nazi Germany and its Axis allies attacked and became locked in a...
The Battle of Kula Gulf took place in the early hours of 6 July 1943 during World War II.
RAF bombs Germany rocket base Peenemunde
The Allied invasion of Sicily, also known as the Battle of Sicily and Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II in which Allied forces invaded the Italian island of Sicily in July 1943...
World War II (1939–1945) involved sustained strategic bombing of railways, harbours, cities, workers' and civilian housing, and industrial districts in enemy territory.
Jacques Lusseyran (19 September 1924 – 27 July 1971) was a French author and political activist.
The US 45th Infantry Division occupies the north coast of Termini, Sicily
°F (49°C) in Tishmoningo, Oklahoma (state record)
The Allied bombing of Hamburg during World War II included numerous attacks on civilians and civic infrastructure.
Nazis evacuate Hollandsche Schouwburg in Amsterdam
US 45th Infantry Division occupies San Stefano di Camastra in Sicily
Several Catholic countries and populations fell under Nazi domination during the period of the Second World War (1939–1945), and ordinary Catholics fought on both sides of the conflict.
British Sunderland seaplanes sink German submarines U-454 and U-383
Armed revolt by 800 prisoners at Treblinka Extermination Camp: crematorium destroyed; 200 escape the compound, but only 100 survive
British premier Winston Churchill travels to Canada on the Queen Mary
Sicily: Three US A-36s bomb British headquarters
The 1st Infantry Division (1ID) is a combined arms division of the United States Army, and is the oldest continuously serving division in the Regular Army.
Red Army recaptures Bogodukhov
Common Chiefs of Staff meet in Quebec
Red Army recaptures Chuhuiv, near Kharkiv
The Philadelphia Experiment was an alleged event claimed to have been witnessed by an ex-merchant mariner named Carl M.
The Red army recaptures Spas-Demensk from the German army in Kaluga Oblast, Russia
During the Pacific War, Allied forces conducted air raids on Japan from 1942 to 1945, causing extensive destruction to the country's cities and killing between 241,000 and 900,000 people.
The Aleutian Islands campaign was a military campaign fought between 3 June 1942 and 15 August 1943 on and around the Aleutian Islands, part of the US Territory of Alaska, in the American Theater of...
British bombers attack Peenemünde (development base for the V-weapons)
Belgian church excommunicates Nazi collaborator Léon Degrelle
Japan leaves Aleutian Islands
The Third Battle of Kharkov was a series of battles on the Eastern Front of World War II, undertaken by Nazi Germany's Army Group South against the Soviet Red Army, around the city of Kharkov between...
Philadelphia A's drop AL record-tying 20th game in a row, then win the second game
10th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 27, Washington 7 (48,471 attendees)
Danish Navy scuttles its warships so as not to be taken by Germany
1st battle of Essex/new Yorktown: US assault on Marcus Island
Sicily (Italian and Sicilian: Sicilia), officially the Sicilian Region, is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea and one of the twenty regions of Italy, situated south of the Italian Peninsula...
Italy entered World War II on 10 June 1940 by invading France, joining the German offensive already in progress.
The US airlands at Nadzab, New Guinea
"Congressional Limited" train derails near Frankford, Philadelphia, killing 79
Fifteen German JU-88s sink Italian flagship Roma
Lieutenant-General Omar Bradley flies from Algiers to Marrakech and Prestwick
Taranto, historically also called Tarent in English, is a coastal city in Apulia, Southern Italy.
Jewish ghettos of Minsk and Lida, Belarus, are liquidated
German counterattack at Salerno
The history of the New York Yankees Major League Baseball (MLB) team spans more than a century. Frank J.
The Eighth Army was a field army of the British Army during the Second World War. It was formed as the Western Army on 10 September 1941, in Egypt, before being renamed the Army of the Nile and then...
Load of "ammunition in transit" explodes at Norfolk Naval Air Station
Dutch athlete Fanny Blankers-Koen (25) breaks jumping world record of 6.25 m (20ft 6.06in); record stands until 1954
Liberator bomber sinks U-338
The Battle of Arundel Island was fought from 27 August – 21 September 1943, primarily between United States Army and Imperial Japanese Army forces on Arundel Island during the New Georgia campaign in...
British dwarf submarines attack German battleship Tirpitz
The Holocaust saw the ghettoization, robbery, deportation and mass murder of Jews in occupied Poland by Nazi Germany.
Smolensk is a city and the administrative center of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Dnieper River, 360 kilometers (220 mi) west-southwest of Moscow.
The second Smolensk operation (code naming "Suvorov"; 7 August – 2 October 1943) was a Soviet strategic offensive operation conducted by the Red Army as part of the Summer-Autumn Campaign of 1943.
Anti-fascist opposition begins in Naples
First Silbertanne murder by German occupiers in Meppel
World War II (1939–1945) involved sustained strategic bombing of railways, harbours, cities, workers' and civilian housing, and industrial districts in enemy territory.
Japanese troops leave Kolombangara, Solomon Islands
British 8th Army lands at Termoli, East Italy
US air raid on Wake: Japanese execute 98 US prisoners in retaliation
Vella Lavella is an island in the Western Province of Solomon Islands. It lies to the west of New Georgia, but is considered one of the New Georgia Group. To its west are the Treasury Islands.
One Touch of Venus is a 1943 musical with music written by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ogden Nash, and book by S. J.
The Azores, officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores, is an autonomous region of Portugal, in the Atlantic Ocean about 1,400 km (870 miles) west of mainland Portugal.
US bombers accidentally strike Enschede, Netherlands, causing 151 deaths
The bombing of Rabaul in November 1943 here refers to a series of concentrated air raids conducted by the allied military in World War II, against the major Japanese stronghold in New Guinea located...
The history of Poland from 1939 to 1945 encompasses primarily the period from the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union to the end of World War II.
Anti-Jewish riot in Rome
The Solomon Islands campaign was a major campaign of the Pacific War during World War II.
The Third Moscow Conference between the major Allies of World War II took place during October 18 to November 11, 1943, at the Moscow Kremlin and Spiridonovka Palace.
German occupiers liquidate the ghetto of Minsk, Belarus, transporting the last remaining 4,000 Jews to their deaths at the Nazi extermination camp Maly Trostinets
First Jewish transport out of Rome reaches extermination camp Birkenau
The Burma Railway, also known as the Siam–Burma Railway, Thai–Burma Railway and similar names, or as the Death Railway, is a 415 km (258 mi) railway between Ban Pong, Thailand, and Thanbyuzayat,...
The Dornier Do 335 Pfeil (Arrow) is a heavy fighter built by Dornier for Germany during World War II.
German submarine U-220 was a Type XB submarine of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. The U-boat was laid down on 16 June 1941 at the Germaniawerft yard at Kiel as yard number 626,...
Stalag Luft III (German: Stammlager Luft III; literally "Main Camp, Air, III"; SL III) was a Luftwaffe-run prisoner-of-war (POW) camp during the Second World War, which held captured Western Allied...
Allied Foreign Ministers Conference ends in Moscow between Vyacheslav Molotov of Russia, Britain's Antony Eden, and Cordell Hull of the US
The Washington Commanders are a professional American football franchise based in the Washington metropolitan area.
Dim-out ban lifted in San Francisco Bay area
Riga ( REE-gə) is the capital, primate, and largest city of Latvia and the second largest in the Baltics.
WWII: Vatican in Rome bombed from the air; no one claims responsibility, later investigations point to fascist opeartives attempting to disable the radio transmitter
"Catulli Carmina (Songs of Catullus)", the second work of Carl Orff's Trionfi cantata trilogy premieres at the Leipzig Opera
Last scoreless tie in the NFL, Detroit Lions 0, NY Giants 0
Lebanon, officially the Lebanese Republic, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.
The bombing of Rabaul in November 1943 here refers to a series of concentrated air raids conducted by the allied military in World War II, against the major Japanese stronghold in New Guinea located...
Landwacht (NSB-political party) forms in Netherlands
Anti-Nazi clandestine radio Soldatensender Calais begins broadcasting
WW II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway
Berlin, the capital of Germany, was subject to 363 air raids during the Second World War.
German submarine U-536 was a Type IXC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was laid down at the Deutsche Werft (yard) in Hamburg as yard number 354 on 13 March 1942,...
7 Belgian ministers in London criticise King Leopold III for surrendering to Germany
The Battle of Berlin (November 1943 to March 1944) was a bombing campaign against Berlin by RAF Bomber Command, along with raids on other German cities to keep German defences dispersed.
1st printing of illegal "Warheid"
U-600 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
German submarine U-869 was a Type IXC/40 U-boat of the German Navy (Kriegsmarine) during World War II; her keel was laid down 5 April 1943 by Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG Weser of Bremen.
At the end of the Tehran Conference, the Big Three (Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt) agree that the invasion of Normandy should take place in May 1944
First RSHA (Reichssicherheitshauptamt - Nazi Reich Security Head Office) transport out of Vienna reaches Birkenau camp
9th Heisman Trophy Award: Angelo Bertelli, Notre Dame (QB)
British 8th Army (1st Canadian Infantry Division) occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy
US Marauders bomb Schiphol
"Tamiami Champion" (New York to Florida) trains collide, kills 73 & injures 200
Transport 63 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America.
"Internationale" is no longer used as USSR National Anthem
Manufacturers get permission to use synthetic rubber for baseball core
Engelbert Humperdinck's "Hansel & Gretel" becomes 1st complete opera to be telecast (WGRB, Schenectady, New York)
Scharnhorst was a German capital ship, alternatively described as a battleship or battlecruiser, of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine.
France transfers most of her powers in Lebanon to Lebanese government
Phillies trade Babe Dahlgren to Pitts for Babe Phelps & cash
Doris Kearns Goodwin, American biographer and historian, known for american biographer and historian, was born on 1943-01-04.
Jim Croce, American musician, known for american singer-songwriter, was born on 1943-01-10. James Joseph Croce (January 10, 1943 – September 20, 1973) was an American folk and rock singer-songwriter.
Janis Joplin, American musician, known for american singer, was born on 1943-01-19. Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer and songwriter.
Sharon Tate, American actress and model, known for american actress and model, was born on 1943-01-24.
Nolan Bushnell, American businessman and engineer, known for american businessman and engineer, was born on 1943-02-05. Nolan Kay Bushnell is an American businessman and electrical engineer.
Joseph Stiglitz, American economist and nobel laureate, known for american economist and nobel laureate, was born on 1943-02-09.
Joe Pesci, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1943-02-09. Joseph Frank Pesci is an American actor.
Mitch McConnell, American politician and attorney, known for american politician and attorney, was born on 1943-02-20.
Phil Esposito, Canadian athlete, known for canadian ice hockey player, executive, was born on 1943-02-20.
George Harrison, English musician, known for english musician, was born on 1943-02-25.
Lynn Redgrave, American american actress, known for british and american actress, was born on 1943-03-08. Lynn Rachel Redgrave (8 March 1943 – 2 May 2010) was a British and American actress.
Bert Campaneris, American athlete, known for cuban baseball player, was born on 1943-03-09.
Ratko Mladić, Serbian serbian war criminal, known for serbian war criminal, was born on 1943-03-12.
Barry Levinson, American filmmaker, known for american filmmaker, was born on 1943-04-06. Barry Lee Levinson is an American film director, producer and screenwriter.
Jacob Zuma is born
Richard M. Daley is born
Barbra Streisand, American singer and actress, known for american singer and actress, was born on 1943-04-24.
Andreas Baader, German far-left militant leader, known for german far-left militant leader, was born on 1943-05-06.
Gale Sayers, American football player, known for american football player, was born on 1943-05-30.
Henry Hill mobster, known for american mobster, was born on 1943-06-11. Henry Hill Jr.
Thabo Mbeki is born
Paul McCartney, English musician, known for english musician, was born on 1943-06-18. Sir James Paul McCartney is an English musician.
Christine McVie, English musician, known for british musician, was born on 1943-07-12. Christine Anne McVie was an English musician.
Harrison Ford, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1943-07-13. Harrison Ford is an American actor.
Margaret Smith Court, Australian athlete, known for australian former tennis player, was born on 1943-07-16.
Isabel Allende, American chilean-american writer, known for chilean-american writer, was born on 1943-08-02. Isabel Angélica Allende Llona is a Chilean-American writer.
Ken Norton athlete, known for american boxer, was born on 1943-08-09. Kenneth Howard Norton Sr.
Pervez Musharraf is born
Nancy Richey is born
Ray Floyd is born
Tom Dreesen is born
Emmerson Mnangagwa is born
Joe Morgan, American athlete, known for american baseball player and analyst, was born on 1943-09-19.
Sani Abacha is born
Marty Schottenheimer, American athlete, known for american football player and coach, was born on 1943-09-23.
Amitabh Bachchan, New Zealand actor, known for indian actor, was born on 1943-10-11. Amitabh Bachchan (né Srivastava; born 11 October 1942) is an Indian actor who works in Hindi cinema.
Penny Marshall, American actress, director, and producer, known for american actress, director, and producer, was born on 1943-10-15.
Judith Sheindlin, American court-show arbitrator, known for american court-show arbitrator, was born on 1943-10-21.
Stefanie Powers, American actress, known for american actress, was born on 1943-11-02.
Jean Shrimpton, English model and actress, known for english model and actress, was born on 1943-11-07. Jean Rosemary Shrimpton is an English model and actress.
Ángel Cordero Jr. is born
Robert F. Engle, American economist and nobel laureate, known for american economist and nobel laureate, was born on 1943-11-10. Robert Fry Engle III is an American economist and statistician.
Martin Scorsese, American filmmaker, known for american filmmaker, was born on 1943-11-17. Martin Charles Scorsese is an American filmmaker.
Linda Evans is born
Calvin Klein, American fashion designer, known for american fashion designer, was born on 1943-11-19. Calvin Richard Klein is an American fashion designer.
Joe Biden is born
Ferguson Jenkins, Canadian athlete, known for canadian baseball pitcher, was born on 1943-12-13. Ferguson Arthur "Fergie" Jenkins is a Canadian former professional baseball pitcher and coach.
Hu Jintao is born
John Denver musician, known for american singer, was born on 1943-12-31. Henry John Deutschendorf Jr.
René Préval is born
George Washington Carver botanist and inventor, known for american botanist and inventor, died on 1943-01-05.
Nikola Tesla, American serbian-american engineer and inventor, known for serbian-american engineer and inventor, died on 1943-01-07.
Marie Krogh dies