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Date	Event
January 11, 1943	The Republic of China agrees to the Sino-British New Equal Treaty and the Sino-American New Equal Treaty.
January 11, 1943	Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York City.
January 14, 1943	World War II: Japan begins Operation Ke, the successful operation to evacuate its forces from Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
January 14, 1943	World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war.
January 15, 1943	World War II: The Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begins.
January 15, 1943	The Pentagon is dedicated in Arlington County, Virginia.
January 17, 1943	World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis captures the 200-ton sailing vessel Agios Stefanos and mans her with part of her crew.
January 18, 1943	Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
January 21, 1943	As part of Operation Animals, British SOE saboteurs destroy the railway bridge over the Asopos River, and guerrillas of the Greek People's Liberation Army ambush and destroy a German convoy at the Battle of Sarantaporos.
January 22, 1943	World War II: Australian and American forces defeat Japanese army and navy units in the bitterly fought Battle of Buna–Gona.
January 23, 1943	World War II: Troops of the British Eighth Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German–Italian Panzer Army.
January 24, 1943	World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.
January 27, 1943	World War II: The Eighth Air Force sorties ninety-one B-17s and B-24s to attack the U-boat construction yards at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. This was the first American bombing attack on Germany.
January 29, 1943	World War II: The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, USS Chicago (CA-29) is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
January 31, 1943	World War II: German field marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed two days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of the war's fiercest battles.
February 2, 1943	World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end when Soviet troops accept the surrender of the last organized German troops in the city.
February 3, 1943	The SS Dorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survive.
February 7, 1943	World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allied forces in the Guadalcanal Campaign.
February 9, 1943	World War II: Pacific War: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.
February 10, 1943	World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.
February 14, 1943	World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated.
February 14, 1943	World War II: Tunisia Campaign: General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim's Fifth Panzer Army launches a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia.
February 16, 1943	World War II: In the early phases of the Third Battle of Kharkov, Red Army troops re-enter the city.
February 18, 1943	World War II: The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
February 18, 1943	World War II: Joseph Goebbels delivers his Sportpalast speech.
February 19, 1943	World War II: Battle of Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins.
February 20, 1943	American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
February 20, 1943	The Saturday Evening Post publishes the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms in support of United States President Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union address theme of Four Freedoms.
February 22, 1943	World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany.
February 23, 1943	The Cavan Orphanage fire kills thirty-five girls and an elderly cook.
February 23, 1943	Greek Resistance: The United Panhellenic Organization of Youth is founded in Greece.
February 27, 1943	The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
February 27, 1943	The Holocaust: In Berlin, the Gestapo arrest 1,800 Jewish men with German wives, leading to the Rosenstrasse protest.
March 2, 1943	World War II: Allied aircraft defeat a Japanese attempt to ship troops to New Guinea.
March 3, 1943	World War II: In London, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station.
March 4, 1943	World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the south-west Pacific comes to an end.
March 4, 1943	World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos, one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army, begins. It ends on 6 March with the surrender of an entire Italian battalion and the liberation of the town of Grevena.
March 5, 1943	First Flight of the Gloster Meteor, Britain's first combat jet aircraft.
March 6, 1943	Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series.
March 6, 1943	World War II: Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel launches the Battle of Medenine in an attempt to slow down the British Eight Army. It fails, and he leaves Africa three days later.
March 6, 1943	World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos, one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army, ends with the surrender of an entire Italian battalion, the bulk of the garrison of the town of Grevena, leading to its liberation a fortnight later.
March 13, 1943	The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.
March 14, 1943	The Holocaust: The liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto is completed.
March 15, 1943	World War II: Third Battle of Kharkiv: The Germans retake the city of Kharkiv from the Soviet armies.
March 19, 1943	Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard.
March 21, 1943	Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through; von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion.
March 22, 1943	World War II: The entire village of Khatyn (in what is the present-day Republic of Belarus) is burnt alive by Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118.
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: United States Army Air Forces bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1,300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. Their target was the Erla factory one kilometer from the residential area hit.
April 7, 1943	The Holocaust in Ukraine: In Terebovlia, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress and march through the city to the nearby village of Plebanivka, where they are shot and buried in ditches.
April 7, 1943	Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation.
April 7, 1943	The National Football League makes helmets mandatory.
April 8, 1943	U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common carriers and public utilities.
April 8, 1943	Otto and Elise Hampel are executed in Berlin for their anti-Nazi activities.
April 13, 1943	World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile in London and the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.
April 13, 1943	The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson's birth.
April 16, 1943	Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers the hallucinogenic effects of the research drug LSD. He intentionally takes the drug three days later on April 19.
April 18, 1943	World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
April 19, 1943	World War II: In German-occupied Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.
April 19, 1943	Albert Hofmann deliberately doses himself with LSD for the first time, three days after having discovered its effects on April 16.
April 26, 1943	The Easter Riots break out in Uppsala, Sweden.
April 30, 1943	World War II: The British submarine HMS Seraph surfaces near Huelva to cast adrift a dead man dressed as a courier and carrying false invasion plans.
May 13, 1943	World War II: Operations Vulcan and Strike force the surrender of the last Axis troops in Tunisia.
May 14, 1943	World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the coast of Queensland.
May 15, 1943	Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International).
May 16, 1943	The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
May 16, 1943	Operation Chastise is undertaken by RAF Bomber Command with specially equipped Avro Lancasters to destroy the Mohne, Sorpe, and Eder dams in the Ruhr valley.
May 17, 1943	World War II: Dambuster Raids commence by No. 617 Squadron RAF.
May 22, 1943	Joseph Stalin disbands the Comintern.
May 30, 1943	The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Zigeunerfamilienlager (Romani family camp) at Auschwitz concentration camp.
June 1, 1943	BOAC Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing British actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that it was actually an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
June 3, 1943	In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines attack Latino youths in the five-day Zoot Suit Riots.
June 4, 1943	A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo.
June 12, 1943	The Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). Around 1,180 Jews are led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and shot.
June 19, 1943	The Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL merge for one season due to player shortages caused by World War II.
June 20, 1943	The Detroit race riot breaks out and continues for three more days.
June 20, 1943	World War II: The Royal Air Force launches Operation Bellicose, the first shuttle bombing raid of the war. Avro Lancaster bombers damage the V-2 rocket production facilities at the Zeppelin Works while en route to an air base in Algeria.
June 24, 1943	US military police attempt to arrest a black soldier in Bamber Bridge, England, sparking the Battle of Bamber Bridge mutiny that leaves one dead and seven wounded.
June 25, 1943	The Holocaust: Jews in the Częstochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis.
June 25, 1943	The left-wing German Jewish exile Arthur Goldstein is murdered in Auschwitz.
July 1, 1943	The City of Tokyo and the Prefecture of Tokyo are both replaced by the Tokyo Metropolis.
July 4, 1943	World War II: The Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world's largest tank battle, begins in the village of Prokhorovka.
July 4, 1943	World War II: In Gibraltar, a Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into the sea in an apparent accident moments after takeoff, killing sixteen passengers on board, including general Władysław Sikorski, the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army and the Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile; only the pilot survives.
July 5, 1943	World War II: An Allied invasion fleet sails for Sicily (Operation Husky, July 10, 1943).
July 5, 1943	World War II: German forces begin a massive offensive against the Soviet Union at the Battle of Kursk, also known as Operation Citadel.
July 9, 1943	World War II: The Allied invasion of Sicily begins, leading to the downfall of Mussolini and forcing Hitler to break off the Battle of Kursk.
July 10, 1943	World War II: Operation Husky begins in Sicily.
July 11, 1943	Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army within the Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Volhynia) peak.
July 11, 1943	World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily: German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.
July 12, 1943	German and Soviet forces engage in the Battle of Prokhorovka, one of the largest armored engagements 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.
July 19, 1943	World War II: Rome is heavily bombed by more than 500 Allied aircraft, inflicting thousands of casualties.
July 22, 1943	World War II: Allied forces capture Palermo during the Allied invasion of Sicily.
July 22, 1943	World War II: Axis occupation forces violently disperse a massive protest in Athens, killing 22.
July 23, 1943	The Rayleigh bath chair murder occurred in Rayleigh, Essex, England.
July 23, 1943	World War II: The British destroyers HMS Eclipse and HMS Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMS Newfoundland.
July 24, 1943	World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes bomb the city 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.
July 25, 1943	World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by the King (encouraged by the Grand Council of Fascism) and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
July 28, 1943	World War II: Operation Gomorrah: The Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg, Germany causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.
August 1, 1943	World War II: Operation Tidal Wave also known as "Black Sunday", was a failed American attempt to destroy Romanian oil fields.
August 2, 1943	The Holocaust: Jewish prisoners stage a revolt at Treblinka, one of the deadliest of Nazi death camps where approximately 900,000 persons were murdered in less than 18 months.
August 2, 1943	World War II: The Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. president, saves all but two of his crew.
August 15, 1943	World War II: Battle of Trahili: Superior German forces surround Cretan partisans, who manage to escape against all odds.
August 17, 1943	World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission.
August 17, 1943	World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.
August 17, 1943	World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.
August 17, 1943	World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program.
August 23, 1943	World War II: Kharkiv is liberated by the Soviet Red Army for the second time after the Battle of Kursk.
August 27, 1943	World War II: Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.
August 27, 1943	World War II: Aerial bombardment by the Luftwaffe razes to the ground the village of Vorizia in Crete.
August 28, 1943	Denmark in World War II: German authorities demand that Danish authorities crack down on acts of resistance. The next day, martial law is imposed on Denmark.
August 29, 1943	World War II: German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government.
August 31, 1943	USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
September 3, 1943	World War II: British and Canadian troops land on the Italian mainland. On the same day, Walter Bedell Smith and Giuseppe Castellano sign the Armistice of Cassibile, although it is not announced for another five days.
September 5, 1943	World War II: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Lae Nadzab Airport, near Lae in the Salamaua–Lae campaign.
September 6, 1943	The Monterrey Institute of Technology is founded in Monterrey, Mexico as one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America.
September 6, 1943	Pennsylvania Railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, killing 79 people and injuring 117 others.
September 7, 1943	A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston kills 55 people.
September 7, 1943	World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea.
September 8, 1943	World War II: The Armistice of Cassibile is proclaimed by radio. OB Süd immediately implements plans to disarm the Italian forces.
September 9, 1943	World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
September 10, 1943	World War II: In the course of Operation Achse, German troops begin their occupation of Rome.
September 11, 1943	World War II: German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohija ending the Italian occupation of Corsica.
September 12, 1943	World War II: Benito Mussolini is rescued from house arrest by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.
September 14, 1943	World War II: The Wehrmacht starts a three-day retaliatory operation targeting several Greek villages in the region of Viannos, whose death toll would eventually exceed 500 persons.
September 16, 1943	World War II: The German Tenth Army reports that it can no longer contain the Allied bridgehead around Salerno.
September 18, 1943	World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
September 30, 1943	The United States Merchant Marine Academy is dedicated by President Roosevelt.
October 1, 1943	World War II: After the Four Days of Naples, Allied troops enter the city.
October 3, 1943	World War II: German forces murder 92 civilians in Lingiades, Greece.
October 5, 1943	Ninety-eight American POWs are executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
October 6, 1943	World War II: Thirteen civilians are burnt alive by a paramilitary group in Crete during the Nazi occupation of Greece.
October 8, 1943	World War II: Around 30 civilians are executed by Friedrich Schubert's paramilitary group in Kallikratis, Crete.
October 13, 1943	World War II: Marshal Pietro Badoglio announces that Italy has officially declared war on Germany.
October 14, 1943	World War II: Prisoners at Sobibor extermination camp covertly assassinate most of the on-duty SS officers and then stage a mass breakout.
October 14, 1943	World War II: The United States Eighth Air Force loses 60 of 291 B-17 Flying Fortresses during the Second Raid on Schweinfurt.
October 14, 1943	World War II: The Second Philippine Republic, a puppet state of Japan, is inaugurated with José P. Laurel as its president.
October 16, 1943	Holocaust in Italy: Raid of the Ghetto of Rome.
October 17, 1943	The Burma Railway (Burma–Thailand Railway) is completed.
October 17, 1943	Nazi Holocaust in Poland: Sobibór extermination camp is closed.
October 19, 1943	The cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by Allied aircraft at Crete and sunk. Two thousand and ninety-eight Italian prisoners of war drown with it.
October 19, 1943	Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
October 21, 1943	World War II: The Provisional Government of Free India is formally established in Japanese-occupied Singapore.
October 22, 1943	World War II: In the second firestorm raid on Germany, the RAF conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless.
October 31, 1943	World War II: An F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception by a United States Navy or Marine Corps aircraft.
November 1, 1943	World War II: The 3rd Marine Division, United States Marines, landing on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands, secures a beachhead, leading that night to a naval clash at the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay.
November 3, 1943	World War II: Five hundred aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshaven harbor in Germany.
November 5, 1943	World War II: Bombing of the Vatican.
November 6, 1943	World War II: The 1st Ukrainian Front liberates Kyiv from German occupation.
November 15, 1943	The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".
November 18, 1943	World War II: Battle of Berlin: Four hundred and forty Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF loses nine aircraft and 53 air crew.
November 19, 1943	Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.
November 20, 1943	World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins: United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.
November 22, 1943	World War II: Cairo Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.
November 22, 1943	Lebanon gains independence from France, nearly two years after it was first announced by the Free French government.
November 23, 1943	World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
November 23, 1943	World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces.
November 24, 1943	World War II: At the battle of Makin the USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.
November 25, 1943	World War II: Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina is re-established at the State Anti-fascist Council for the National Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
November 26, 1943	World War II: HMT Rohna is sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria.
November 28, 1943	World War II: Tehran Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran, to discuss war strategy.
November 29, 1943	The second session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ), held to determine the post-war ordering of the country, concludes in Jajce (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina).
December 2, 1943	World War II: A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks numerous cargo and transport ships, including the American SS John Harvey, which is carrying a stockpile of mustard gas.
December 4, 1943	World War II: In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile.
December 4, 1943	World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes down the Works Progress Administration, because of the high levels of wartime employment in the United States.
December 5, 1943	World War II: Allied air forces begin attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow.
December 8, 1943	World War II: The German 117th Jäger Division destroys the monastery of Mega Spilaio in Greece and executes 22 monks and visitors as part of reprisals that culminated a few days later with the Massacre of Kalavryta.
December 13, 1943	World War II: The Massacre of Kalavryta by German occupying forces in Greece.
December 15, 1943	World War II: The Battle of Arawe begins during the New Britain campaign.
December 17, 1943	All Chinese are again permitted to become citizens of the United States upon the repeal of the Act of 1882 and the introduction of the Magnuson Act.
December 24, 1943	World War II: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower is named Supreme Allied Commander for the Operation Overlord.
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.
December 28, 1943	Soviet authorities launch Operation Ulussy, beginning the deportation of the Kalmyk nation to Siberia and Central Asia.
December 28, 1943	World War II: After eight days of brutal house-to-house fighting, the Battle of Ortona concludes with the victory of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division over the German 1st Parachute Division and the capture of the Italian town of Ortona.
December 30, 1943	Subhas Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.