1943 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1943?
- January 15, 1943 – The world’s largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.
- February 3, 1943 – The USAT Dorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survived. The Chapel of the Four Chaplains, dedicated by President Harry Truman, is one of many memorials established to commemorate the Four Chaplains story.
- February 5, 1943 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- February 19, 1943 – World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins.
- February 22, 1943 – World War II: Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
- April 25, 1943 – The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted.
- May 11, 1943 – World War II: American troops invade Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.
- May 24, 1943 – Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
- 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.
- July 14, 1943 – In Diamond, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of an African American.
- August 17, 1943 – World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission.
- August 23, 1943 – World War II: Kharkov liberated as a result of the Battle of Kursk.
- August 28, 1943 – World War II: in Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started.
- September 5, 1943 – World War II: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Nazdab, near Lae in the Salamaua-Lae campaign.
- September 10, 1943 – World War II: German forces begin their occupation of Rome.
- September 23, 1943 – World War II: The Nazi puppet state the Italian Social Republic is founded.
- October 17, 1943 – Burma Railway (Burma-Thailand Railway) is completed.
- October 22, 1943 – World War II: in the Second firestorm raid on Germany, the Royal Air Force conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless.
- November 24, 1943 – World War II: The USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.
- December 26, 1943 – World War II: German warship Scharnhorst is sunk off of Norway’s North Cape after a battle against major Royal Navy forces.
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