1943 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1943?
- January 18, 1943 – Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
- January 23, 1943 – World War II: Australian and American forces finally defeat the Japanese army in Papua. This turning point in the Pacific War marks the beginning of the end of Japanese aggression.
- February 5, 1943 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- February 18, 1943 – The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
- February 19, 1943 – World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins.
- March 5, 1943 – First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom.
- March 13, 1943 – The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.
- March 14, 1943 – World War II – The Kraków Ghetto is 'liquidated'.
- March 22, 1943 – World War II: the entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces.
- 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.
- July 22, 1943 – World War II: Allied forces capture the Italian city of Palermo.
- 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.
- September 5, 1943 – World War II: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Nazdab, near Lae in the Salamaua-Lae campaign.
- September 12, 1943 – World War II: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.
- October 4, 1943 – World War II: U.S. captures Solomon Islands.
- November 3, 1943 – World War II: 500 aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshafen harbor in Germany.
- November 5, 1943 – Bombing of the Vatican.
- November 6, 1943 – World War II: the Soviet Red Army recaptures Kiev. Before withdrawing, the Germans destroy most of the city’s ancient buildings.
- November 26, 1943 – World War II: HMT Rohna sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria.
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