What Happened in 1943

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

"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,... Read more

"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,... Read more

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... Read more

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.... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

"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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

"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... Read more

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.... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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,... Read more

Prisoners at Treblinka Nazi Concentration Camp Stage a Revolt, Allowing Several Hundred to Escape

Jewish inmates organized a resistance group in Treblinka in early 1943. When camp operations neared completion, the prisoners feared they would be... Read more