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August 1–2 – Harlem riot of 1943, a race riot. August 3 – WWII : John F. Kennedy 's patrol torpedo boat PT-109 is rammed by a destroyer. August 5 – WWII : John F. Kennedy and crew are found by Solomon Islanders coastwatchers Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana with their dugout canoe .
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.
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 ...
1 January Total ban on civilians travelling to the Isle of Wight (continues until 25 August 1944).; Utility furniture first becomes available. [1]14 January – to counter a "serious increase" in U-boat operations the Royal Air Force switches its bombing campaign from industrial targets to U-boat bases in France attacking Lorient and Cherbourg-Octeville.
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 ...
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 345–0 to approve the appropriation of $71,510,438,873 for the U.S. Army, the biggest supply bill in history. [66] The Harvard Corporation rejected a recommendation, by the faculty of the Harvard Medical School, to admit women to the college's M.D. program. The Corporation would allow the admission of ...
1943 – Detroit, Michigan race riots; 1943 – Allied invasion of Sicily; 1943 – Allied invasion of Italy; 1943 – Cairo Conference; 1943 – Casablanca Conference; 1943 – Tehran Conference (meeting between the leaders of USSR, UK, and US to discuss D-day) 1944 – Battle of Monte Cassino; 1944 – Dumbarton Oaks Conference; 1944 – G.I ...
November 28, 1943: Joseph Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill meet for Tehran Conference November 22, 1943: Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet at the Cairo Conference November 6, 1943: Japan's Hideki Tojo hosts puppet state leaders at Greater East Asia Conference in Tokyo November 8, 1943: Lebanon's leaders briefly declare independence (shown is the parliament ...