1943 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1943?
- 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 2, 1943 – World War II: Battle of the Bismarck Sea – United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships.
- March 5, 1943 – First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom.
- March 13, 1943 – World War II: In Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700.
- March 27, 1943 – World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands – In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
- April 5, 1943 – World War II: American bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. The target is the Erla factory one kilometer from the residential area hit.
- April 13, 1943 – The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson’s birth.
- April 19, 1943 – World War II: In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
- May 15, 1943 – Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International).
- June 4, 1943 – A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo.
- July 5, 1943 – World War II: An Allied invasion fleet sails for Sicily (Operation Husky, July 10, 1943).
- July 12, 1943 – World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka – German and Soviet forces engage in the largest tank engagement of all time.
- July 24, 1943 – World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, those of the Americans by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
- August 29, 1943 – German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government.
- September 11, 1943 – World War II: German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohija.
- September 29, 1943 – World War II: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the Royal Navy battleship HMS Nelson off Malta.
- October 31, 1943 – World War II: An F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception.
- November 5, 1943 – Bombing of the Vatican.
- 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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