1943 Events

1943 Charlie Chaplin Marries Oona O'Neill
During Chaplin's legal trouble over the Barry affair, he met Oona O'Neill, daughter of Eugene O'Neill, and married her on 16 June 1943. He was fifty-four; she had just turned eighteen. Th...
1943 Malcolm X is ordered to register for military
In 1943, the U.S. draft board ordered Little to register for military service.[38] He later recalled that he put on a display to avoid the draft by telling the examining officer that he c...
1943 Maya Angelou Gives Birth to Guy Johnson
When Angelou was 13, she and her brother returned to live with her mother in San Francisco. During World War II, she attended George Washington High School and studied dance and drama on ...
1943 Richard Nixon Serves Active Duty in the U.S. Navy
Nixon was eligible for an exemption from military service, both as a Quaker and through his job working for the OPA, but he did not seek one and was commissioned into the United States Na...
1943 Ronald Reagan is Narrator in "Cadet Classification"
1943 Rosa Parks first incident on segregated bus
For years, the black community had complained that the situation was unfair, and Parks was no exception: "My resisting being mistreated on the bus did not begin with that particular arres...
1943 Shriver Graduates from Stanford University
She was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Roehampton, London, England; and Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York. After graduating from Stanford University with a Bachel...
1943 'The Stranger' is Published
For Camus, life has no rational meaning or order. We have trouble dealing with this notion and continually struggle to find rational structure and meaning in our lives. This struggle to f...
1943 Theodor Seuss Geisel Joins the Army
In 1942, Geisel turned his energies to direct support of the U.S. war effort. First, he worked drawing posters for the Treasury Department and the War Production Board. Then, in 1943, he ...
1943 Jan Herzogenbusch Concentration Camp Begins Operation
Herzogenbusch concentration camp (Dutch: Kamp Vught, German: Konzentrationslager Herzogenbusch) was a Nazi concentration camp located in Vught near the city of 's-Hertogenbosch, in the Ne...
1943 Jan 4 Joseph Stalin Is Named Time Magazine's 'Person Of The Year' For A Second Time
"The year 1942 was a year of blood and strength. The man whose name means steel in Russian, whose few words of English include the American expression "tough guy" was the man of 1942. Only..." —Time Magazine
1943 Jan 7 Nikola Tesla Dies
Tesla died of heart failure alone in room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel, on 7 January 1943. Despite having sold his AC electricity patents, Tesla died with significant debts. Later that ye...
1943 Jan 12
to 1943 Jan 30
 Operation Iskra
Operation Iskra (Russian: Операция Искра, Operatsia Iskra; English translation - Operation Spark) was a Soviet military operation conducted by the Red Army's Leningrad and Volkhov Fronts,...
1943 Jan 12 "Shadow Of A Doubt" Is Released
Shadow of a Doubt is a 1943 thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson and Alma Reville. It stars Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, MacDonald Carey, Pa...
1943 Jan 21 Philippine Clipper Crashes into Mountainous Terrain, Killing 19
This is the story of the last flight of the “Philippine Clipper” which crashed on the California coast near Booneville after arriving from Honolulu, Hawaii. On board that final fligh...
1943 Feb 2 Surviving German Forces, now Starving, Sick, and Low on Ammunition, Surrender at Stalingrad
The Germans inside the pocket retreated from the suburbs of Stalingrad to the city itself. The loss of the two airfields, at Pitomnik on 16 January 1943 and Gumrak on either 25 January, o...
1943 Feb 10 Remaining Australian Forces Evacuated from Portuguese Timor Leaving Japanese to Occupy the Island
By the end of 1942, the chances of the Allies re-taking Timor were remote, as there were now 12,000 Japanese troops on the island and the commandos were coming into increasing contact wit...
1943 Feb 18 Joseph Goebbels Delivers His Sportpalast (Total War) Speech
"Except for Hitler's most successful public meetings, I had never seen an audience so effectively roused to fanaticism. Back in his home, Goebbels astonished me by analyzing what had seeme..." —Albert Speer
1943 Feb 19
to 1943 Mar 15
 Third Battle of Kharkov
The Third Battle of Kharkov was a series of offensive operations on the Eastern Front of World War II, undertaken by the German Army Group South against the Red Army, around the city of K...
1943 Feb 25 George Harrison is Born
The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960 and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. From 1962 the...
1943 Mar Construction is Completed on Kaiserwald Concentration Camp
Kaiserwald was a Nazi German concentration camp near the Riga suburb of Mežaparks in Latvia. Kaiserwald was built in March, 1943, during the period that the German army occupied Latvia...
1943 Mar 4 15th Academy Awards
The 15th Academy Awards was held in the Cocoanut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Best Picture honors went to the film Mrs. Miniver. The ceremony is most famous for the speec...
1943 Mar 15 Germans Begin Deportations of Thessaloniki Jews
On March 15, 1943, the Germans began deporting the Jews from Thessaloniki. Every three days, freightcars crammed with an average of 2,000 Thessaloniki Jews headed toward Auschwitz-Birken...
1943 Mar 24 Allied Forces Begin Operation Strangle to Disrupt German Supply Routes in Italy
Operation Strangle was a series of air operations during the Italian Campaign of World War II by the United States Fifteenth and Twelfth Air Forces to interdict German supply routes in It...
1943 Mar 26 "The More The Merrier" Is Released
The More the Merrier is a 1943 comedy film made by Columbia Pictures which makes fun of the housing shortage during World War II, especially in Washington, D.C.. It stars Jean Arthur, Joe...
1943 Mar 27 Battle of the Komandorski Islands
When dawn broke on the morning of March 26, the American task force was east of the International Date Line, (so it was actually March 27) 180 miles west of Attu and a hundred miles sout...
1943 Mar 30 Wyoming Beats Georgetown in NCAA Men's Basketball Championship
The 1943 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 8 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. ...
1943 Apr 8 Detroit Red Wings win Stanley Cup
The 1943 Stanley Cup Final was a best-of-seven series between the Boston Bruins and the Detroit Red Wings. The Red Wings, appearing in their third straight Finals, would win the series 4–...
1943 Apr 10 Ronald Reagan Appears as Lieutenant Ames in "The Rear Gunner"
Burgess Meredith plays a small-town Kansas boy who fulfills his dream of becoming a U.S. bomber gunner. This patriotic short also features Ronald Reagan as Meredith's commanding officer.
1943 Apr 14 Joseph Stalin's Son Yakov Dzhugashvili Commits Suicide
THE truth behind the mysterious death of Stalin's son, Yakov Dzhugashvili, in a German concentration camp has finally been unravelled by Russian historians. For years German propagandi...
1943 May Gerald Ford is Assigned to Sea Duty on the USS Monterey
Applying for sea duty, Ford was sent in May 1943 to the pre-commissioning detachment for the new aircraft carrier USS Monterey, at New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey. F...
1943 May 11
to 1943 May 30
 Battle of Attu
The Battle of Attu took place May 11, 1943 – May 30, 1943 on Attu Island off of Alaska as part of the Aleutian Islands Campaign during the Pacific War of World War II. Fought entirely bet...
1943 May 14 Sinking of AHS Centaur
The Centaur was sunk by a Japanese submarine off the Queensland coast in 1943. With only 64 of the 332 people on board surviving, it was the highest casualty list of any merchant ship ...
1943 May 16 "Ossessione" Is Released
Ossessione (Obsession) is a 1942 film based on the novel, The Postman Always Rings Twice, by James M. Cain. Luchino Visconti’s first feature film, it is considered by many to be the first...
1943 May 21 "The Ox-Bow Incident" Is Released
The Ox-Bow Incident is a 1943 western movie directed by William A. Wellman and starring Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes, Anthony Quinn, William Eythe, Harry Morgan and Jane Da...
1943 Jun Belzec Extermination Camp is Dismantled by Jewish Forced Laborers
By late spring 1943, Jewish forced laborers, guarded by the SS and police and their auxiliaries, had completed the task of exhuming the bodies and burning them and had dismantled the camp...
1943 Jun 1 British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777a is Attacked by Eight German Junker Ju 88's
BOAC Flight 777a, a scheduled British Overseas Airways Corporation civilian airline flight on 1 June 1943 from Portela Airport in Lisbon, Portugal to Whitchurch Airport near Bristol, Unit...
1943 Jun 1 Frank Sinatra signs with Columbia Records
In 1943, he signed with Columbia Records as a solo artist with initially great success, particularly during the musicians' recording strikes. Sinatra signed with Columbia on June 1, 1943,...
1943 Jun 8 Battleship Mutsu Explosion
On Tuesday 8 June 1943 the Mutsu was moored at the Battleship Division 2 flagship buoy No.2 in the Hashirajima fleet anchorage approximately 3 km south-west of the island of Hashirajima a...
1943 Jun 10 "The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp" Is Released
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) is a film by the British film making team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger under the banner of The Archers. It stars Roger Livesey, Debo...
1943 Jul 4 Battle of Kursk Begins
The Battle of Kursk refers to German and Soviet operations on the Eastern Front of World War II in the vicinity of the city of Kursk in July and August 1943. It remains both the largest s...
1943 Jul 9 Allied Invasion of Sicily (Operation Husky) Begins
The Allied invasion of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky, was a major World War II campaign, in which the Allies took Sicily from the Axis (Italy and Nazi Germany). It was a large scale a...
1943 Jul 10 Allied Forces Make Seaborne Landings at Sicily
The strong wind also made matters difficult for the amphibious landings but also ensured the element of surprise as many of the defenders had assumed that no-one would attempt a landing i...
1943 Jul 10 Jerry Miller is born
Jerry Miller (born July 10, 1943 in Tacoma, Washington) is an American songwriter, guitarist and vocalist. He performs as a solo artist and as a member of the Jerry Miller Band. He is als...
1943 Jul 14 "For Whom The Bell Tolls" Film Is Released
For Whom the Bell Tolls is a 1943 film in Technicolor based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway. It stars Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff and Katina Paxinou. This was Ingrid Bergm...
1943 Jul 17 Victory Through Air Power
Victory Through Air Power is a 1942 book by Alexander P. de Seversky, and a 1943 Walt Disney Technicolor animated feature film based on the book. de Seversky appeared in the film which wa...
1943 Jul 25 Benito Mussolini Arrested after being Ousted by Grand Council of Fascism
Italy's position became more and more untenable. After the defeat at El Alamein in 1942 the Axis troops had to retreat to Tunisia where they were finally defeated in the Tunisia Campaign....
1943 Jul 25 Italian Grand Council of Fascism Votes to Depose Mussolini
On 25 July 1943, a few weeks after the allied invasion of Sicily and bombing of Rome, the Italian Grand Council of Fascism voted to depose Mussolini and replace him with Marshal Pietro Ba...
1943 Jul 26 Mick Jagger Born in Dartford, Kent, England
Jagger was born into a middle class family at the Livingstone Hospital, in Dartford, Kent, England. His father, Basil Fanshawe ("Joe") Jagger (13 April 1913 - 11 November 2006), and his p...
1943 Jul 28 American Airlines' Flagship Ohio Crashes, Killing 18
Flight 63 originated at and left Cleveland about 17:42.The flight was cleared to Memphis with intermediate stops scheduled at Columbus, Dayton, Cincinnati, Louisville and Nashville. The D...