1943 in History (Part 6)

Events in History

Events 501 - 561 of 561

Oct 30 Molotov-Eden-Cordell Hull accord over operations at UN

Oct 30 Soviet forces under Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin commenced offensive on the 4th Ukranian Front
Oct 31 World War II: F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception.
Nov 1 Dim-out ban lifted in San Francisco Bay area
Nov 1 US troops land on Bougainville Island on Solomon Island
Nov 2 Jewish ghetto of Riga Latvia is destroyed
Nov 3 P-47D Thunderbolt shot down above North Holland
Nov 5 Vatican in Rome bombed by unknown source
Nov 6 Soviet troops land on Kertsj peninsula
Nov 6 Soviet forces reconquer Kiev

Nov 6 Stalin says: "The issue of German fascism is lost"

Nov 8 France arrests government of Lebanon after they abolish the French mandate
Nov 11 US air raid on Rabaul, Papua New Guinea

Nov 12 Landwacht (NSB-political party) forms in Netherlands
Nov 14 J Postma, C Schalker, D Goulooze arrested for leading illegal CPN
Nov 16 World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway.
Nov 18 First US ambassador to Canada, Ray Atherton, nominated
Nov 18 444 British bombers attack Berlin
Nov 18 U-211 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
Nov 19 U-536 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
Nov 20 U-538 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
Nov 20 US forces land on Tarawa & Makin Atoll in Gilbert Island
Nov 21 7 Belgian ministers in London criticise King Leopold III for surrendering to Germany

Nov 22 FDR, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan

Nov 22 France officially recognises the independence of Lebanon, releasing the imprisoned Lebanese government
Nov 22 RAF begins air bombing of Berlin
Nov 22 US troops land on Abemada, Gilbert Island
Nov 23 1st printing of illegal "Warheid"
Nov 23 British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operations
Nov 23 US forces take control of Tarawa, Gilbert Island & Makin from Japanese
Nov 25 U-600 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
Nov 27 Conference of Tehran (Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin)
Nov 28 FDR, Churchill & Stalin met at Tehran to map out strategy
Nov 29 Partisan Tito forms temporary government in Jajce, Bosnia
Nov 29 U-86 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
Nov 29 US aircraft carrier Hornet launched
Dec 1 FDR, Churchill & Stalin agree to Operation Overlord (D-Day)
Dec 2 First RSHA (Reichssicherheitshauptamt -Nazi Reich Security Head Office) transport out of Vienna reaches Birkenau camp

Dec 3 Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy begins
Dec 4 -Dec 6] 2nd conference of Cairo: FDR, Winston Churchill and Turkish President İsmet İnönü
Dec 4 Yugoslavian resistance forms provisionary government under Dr Ribar
Dec 8 John Van Druten's "Voice of the Turtle" premieres in NYC
Dec 10 British 8th Army (1st Canadian Infantry Division) occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy
Dec 13 150 US Marauders bomb Schiphol
Dec 16 "Tamiami Champion" (New York to Florida) trains collide, kills 73 & injures 200
Dec 17 Transport 63 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
Dec 19 Military coup in Bolivia
Dec 20 "Internationale" is no longer USSR National Anthem

Dec 23 Gen Bernard Montgomery told he is appointed commandant for D-day

Dec 24 US President FDR appoints General Eisenhower Supreme Commander of the Allied forces

Dec 26 Earl Claus von Stauffenberg vain with bomb to Hitlers headquarter

Dec 27 France transfers most of her powers in Lebanon to Lebanese government
Dec 27 German warship "Scharnhorst" sinks in Barents Sea
Dec 27 Montgomery discusses Overlord with Eisenhower & Bedell Smith
Dec 28 All Kalmyk inhabitants of the Republic of Kalmukkie deported by the Soviet Union to Central Asia and Siberia. Many die en route.
Dec 30 Subhash Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair