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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 1–2 – 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 .
12: The Battle of Prokhorovka begins; [1] [4] the largest tank battle in human history and part of the Battle of Kursk, it is the pivotal battle of Operation Citadel. 13: Hitler calls off the Kursk offensive, but the Soviets continue the battle. [1] [4] 19: The Allies bomb Rome for the first time. [1]
In August 1943, the Polish village of Gaj, near Kovel, was burned and some 600 people were massacred, and 438 people were killed, including 246 children, in Ostrówki. In July 1943, a total of 520 Polish villages were attacked, killing 10,000–11,000 Poles. At the same time, the killings in the eastern part of the county continued. [104]
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 24, 1943: At Casablanca, Roosevelt and Churchill declare they will accept nothing less than the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers. January 30, 1943: Admiral Erich Raeder resigns as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine due to growing dissatisfaction with Adolf Hitler following Germany's defeat in the Battle of the Barents Sea ...
The 1943 Detroit race riot took place in Detroit, Michigan, from the evening of June 20 through to the early morning of June 22.It occurred in a period of dramatic population increase and social tensions associated with the military buildup of U.S. participation in World War II, as Detroit's automotive industry was converted to the war effort.
A riot took place in Harlem, New York City, on August 1 and 2 of 1943, after a white police officer, James Collins, shot and wounded Robert Bandy, an African American soldier; and rumors circulated that the soldier had been killed. The riot was chiefly directed by Black residents against white-owned property in Harlem.