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1: German 1st Panzer Division withdraws from the Terek River area in southern Russia to prevent encirclement. [1]2: Americans and Australians recapture Buna, New Guinea. [1]5: Eighteen countries issue a declaration in London stating their determination to "combat and defeat the plundering by the enemy Powers of the territories which have been overrun or brought under enemy control" and to take ...
1943 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1943rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 943rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 43rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1940s decade.
August 1, 1943: American B-24s carry out first bombing of German oil production Operation Tidal Wave began as a group of 177 American B-24 Liberator bombers, with 1,726 total crew, departed from Libya to make the first bombing of the oil refineries at Ploieşti, Romania, the major supplier of fuel to Germany. The mission temporarily halted oil ...
The following events occurred in March 1943: . March 13, 1943: Liquidation completed of 10,000 Jews from Krakow Ghetto March 1, 1943: First war ration point tokens issued by U.S. government [1] March 2–4, 1943: U.S. and Australian forces sink 12 Japanese Navy ships in battle at Bismarck Sea March 27, 1943: U.S. War Department announces the existence of the first rocket-launcher weapon, the ...
January 15 – The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, headquarters of the Department of War, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia. January 23 Duke Ellington plays at New York City's Carnegie Hall for the first time.
Earth Day is on April 22, but really, it should be every day—saving the planet should be a daily occurrence! From conservation to wildlife to politics, test your environmental and historical ...
The Outline of the Post-War New World Map was a map completed before the attack on Pearl Harbor [1] and self-published on February 25, 1942 [2] by Maurice Gomberg of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It shows a proposed political division of the world after World War II in the event of an Allied victory in which the United States of America, the ...
October 14, 1943: Death camp inmate Leon Feldhendler leads uprising and mass escape from Sobibor October 5, 1943: Josh Gibson and Homestead Grays win Negro World Series October 22, 1943: Bombing of Kassel kills 10,000 October 11, 1943: Bill Dickey and New York Yankees win MLB World Series. The following events occurred in October 1943: