1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar).

Events

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January

• January 4 - End of term for Culbert Olson, 29th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Earl Warren.
• January 11 - The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China.
• January 11 - General Juanto dies in Argentina - Ramón Castillo succeeds him
• January 12 - Jan Campert, Dutch journalist and writer, dies in Neuengamme concentration camp
• January 13 - Herr Schenke makes the first emergency ejection from an aircraft
• January 14 - Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel by airplane while in office (Miami, Florida to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill to discuss World War II).
• January 15 - World War II: Japanese are driven off Guadalcanal.
• January 15 - The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated (Arlington, Virginia).
• January 18 - World War II: Soviet officials announce they have broken the Wehrmacht's siege of Leningrad.
• January 18 - The Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto rise up for the first time, starting the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
• January 23 - World War II: British forces capture Tripoli from the Nazis.
• January 23 - Duke Ellington plays at New York City's Carnegie Hall for the first time.
• January 27 - World War II: 50 bombers mount the first all American air raid against Germany (Wilhelmshaven was the target).
• January 29 - German police arrest necrophiliac Bruno Ludke

February

• February 2 - World War II: In Russia, the Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end with the surrender of the German 6th Army.
• February 3 - World War II: The death of the Four Chaplains when their ship was struck by a torpedo.
• February 7 - World War II: In the United States, it is announced that shoe rationing will go into effect in two days.
• February 8 - World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal - United States forces defeat Japanese troops.
• February 10 - March 3 - Mohandas Gandhi keeps a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment
• February 11 - General Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
• February 14 - World War II: Rostov-na-Donu, Russia is liberated.
• February 14 - World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass - German General Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses in Tunisia; it is the United States' first major battle defeat of the war.
• February 16 - World War II: Soviet Union reconquers Kharkov, but is later driven out in the Third Battle of Kharkov
• February 18 - In a speech at the Berlin Sportpalast German Propagandaminister (Propaganda Minister) Joseph Goebbels declare a "Total War" against the allies
• February 18 - The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
• February 20 - American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
• February 22 - Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
• February 27 - The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, United States explodes, killing 74 men.
• February 28 - Operation Gunnerside, 6 Norwegians led by Joachim Ronneberg successfully attack the heavy water plant Vemork.

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frankp316 (Frank Pozen) Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:47:45 -0000
Really enjoyed watching the 1943 classic film Sahara starring Humphrey Bogart this morning on TCM.
Peeping Humphrey Bogart in "Sahara" (Columbia, 1943); now playing on Turner Classic Movies.
FabulousThomasJ (Tom Kidd) Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:23:49 -0000
Peeping Humphrey Bogart in "Sahara" (Columbia, 1943); now playing on Turner Classic Movies.
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