1943 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1943?
- January 23, 1943 – Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time.
- February 5, 1943 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- February 9, 1943 – World War II: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.
- February 11, 1943 – World War II: General Dwight Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
- February 18, 1943 – The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
- March 2, 1943 – World War II: Battle of the Bismarck Sea – United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships.
- March 3, 1943 – World War II: In London, England, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station.
- March 13, 1943 – World War II: In Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700.
- May 11, 1943 – World War II: American troops invade Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.
- June 1, 1943 – British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation the downing was an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
- July 4, 1943 – World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world’s largest tank battle at Prokhorovka village.
- August 31, 1943 – The USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
- September 13, 1943 – The Municipal Theatre of Corfu is destroyed during an aerial bombardment by Luftwaffe.
- November 1, 1943 – World War II: Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, United States Marines, the 3rd Marine Division, land on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.
- November 5, 1943 – Bombing of the Vatican.
- November 18, 1943 – World War II– Battle of Berlin: 440 Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF loses nine aircraft and 53 air crew.
- November 25, 1943 – World War II: Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina is re-established at the State Anti-Fascist Council for the People’s Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- November 28, 1943 – World War II: Tehran Conference – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran to discuss war strategy.
- December 4, 1943 – World War II: In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile.
- December 30, 1943 – Subhas Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.
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