What Happened in 1943
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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Herzogenbusch Concentration Camp Begins Operation
Herzogenbusch concentration camp (Dutch: Kamp Vught, German: Konzentrationslager Herzogenbusch) was a Nazi concentration camp located in Vught near... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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'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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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"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... Read more
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Operation Iskra
Operation Iskra (Russian: Операция Искра, Operatsia Iskra; English translation - Operation Spark) was a Soviet military operation conducted by the... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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.... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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"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... Read more