1943 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1943?
- January 18, 1943 – Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
- January 29, 1943 – The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
- February 5, 1943 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- February 23, 1943 – A fire breaks out at St. Joseph’s Orphanage, County Cavan, Ireland, killing 36 people (35 of whom are children).
- March 5, 1943 – First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom.
- March 15, 1943 – World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov – the Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.
- March 25, 1943 – Start of the American amphibious landings in the Philippines a turning point in the Pacific War.
- April 30, 1943 – World War II: Operation Mincemeat: The submarine HMS Seraph surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer.
- May 14, 1943 – A Japanese submarine sinks Ship AHS off the coast of Queensland.
- July 11, 1943 – Massacres of Poles in Volhynia.
- July 12, 1943 – World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka – German and Soviet forces engage in the largest tank engagement of all time.
- 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 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.
- October 5, 1943 – 98 American POW’s executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
- October 14, 1943 – The American Eighth Air Force loses 60 B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers in aerial combat during the second mass-daylight air raid on the Schweinfurt ball-bearing factories in western Nazi Germany.
- 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.
- December 2, 1943 – A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks numerous cargo and transport ships, including an American Liberty ship, the John Harvey, with a stockpile of World War I-era mustard gas.
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