1943
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s - 1940s - 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s
Years: 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 - 1943 - 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948
Events
- 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 driven off Guadalcanal
- The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated (Arlington, Virginia).
- January 18 -
- World War II: Soviet officials announce they have broken the Nazi siege of Leningrad.
- The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto
- January 23 - World War II: British forces capture Tripoli from the Nazis.
- January 24 - World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.
- January 27 - World War II: 50 bombers mount the first all American air raid against Germany (Wilhlemshaven was the target).
- February 1 - World War II: Vidkun Quisling appointed Premier of Norway by the Nazi occupiers
- February 2 - End of the Battle of Stalingrad in Russia.
- 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 Kursk - the Russian army captures the city
- World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal - United States forces defeat Japanese troops.
- February 11 - General Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
- January 11 - The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China.
- April 22 - Albert Hofmann writes his first report about the hallucinogenic properties of LSD, which he first synthesized in 1938 [1].
- April 25 - Easter occurs on the latest possible date. Last time 1886 next time 2038.
- July 25 - In Italy the Gran Consiglio del Fascismo retires its consent to Mussolini; Mussolini is arrested and the power is given to Maresciallo d'Italia Gen. Pietro Badoglio.
- September 3 - Italy is invaded by the Allied forces during World War II
- September 8 - Maresciallo d'Italia Gen. Pietro Badoglio subscribes the armistice with Allied troops.
- December 24 - US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the supreme Allied commander.
- December 30 - Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.
- Development of the Colossus computer by British to break German encryption (see History of computing).
Art, Culture & Fashion
- 1943 in film
- 1943 in literature
- The Nature and Destiny of Man by Reinhold Niebuhr
- Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
- 1943 in music
- January 23 - Duke Ellington plays at New York City's Carnegie Hall for the first time.
- Oklahoma! the musical premieres
- 1943 in sports
- 1943 in television
- December 23 - The first complete opera, Hansel and Gretel, is telecast, by WRGB in Schenectady.
- The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is formed
Births
- January 2 - Baris Manco, Turkish celebrity
- January 4 - Doris Kearns Goodwin, writer
- January 10 - Jim Croce, singer (+ 1973)
- January 11 - Jim Hightower, radio host, author
- January 12 - Ray Manzarek, keyboardist for The Doors
- January 19 -
- January 24 - Sharon Tate, actress (+ 1969)
- January 25 - Tobe Hooper, director
- January 30 - Marty Balin, musician
- February 3 - Blythe Danner, actress
- February 5 -
- Nolan Bushnell, video game pioneer
- Craig Morton, American football star
- February 6 - Fabian Forte, singer
- February 7 - Gareth Hunt. actor
- February 11 - Ian Cameron, British brigadier
- February 25 - George Harrison, musician, member of The Beatles
- March 9 - Bobby Fischer, chess player
- March 15 - David Cronenberg, director
- May 31 - Joe Namath (Pro American Football Hall of Famer: quarterback)
- May 31 - Sharon Gless (actress)
- June 17 -- Newt Gingrich, United States politician
- August 17 - Robert De Niro, United States actor
- August 30 - Jean-Claude Killy, skier
- October 2 - Franklin Rosemont, co-founder of the Surrealist Movement in the United States
- November 7 - Joni Mitchell, musician
Deaths
- January 5 - George Washington Carver, educator, activist, botanist
- January 23 - Alexander Woolcott, bon vivant
- March 28 - Sergei Rachmaninov, composer and pianist
- August 28 - King Boris III of Bulgaria
- Physics - Otto Stern
- Chemistry - George de Hevesy
- Medicine - Henrik Carl Peter Dam, Edward Adelbert Doisy 1939 - Gerhard Domagk
- Literature - not awarded
- Peace - not awarded