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Events on the year of 1943 in history

Events
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01 Jan 1943 Count Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to Lieutenant Colonel
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01 Jan 1943 Negro League star Josh Gibson suffers a nervous breakdown
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03 Jan 1943 1st missing persons telecast (NYC)
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03 Jan 1943 Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa
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04 Jan 1943 Thomas Mann completes his tetralogy, "Joseph & His Brothers"
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05 Jan 1943 Teams agrees to start season later due to WWII
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05 Jan 1943 William H Hastie, civilian aide to secretary of war, resigns to protest segregation in armed forces
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09 Jan 1943 Japanese government in Java limits sale and use of motorcars
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10 Jan 1943 Russian offensive against German 6th/4th Armies near Stalingrad
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10 Jan 1943 1st US President to visit a foreign country in wartime-FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco
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11 Jan 1943 Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York City.
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11 Jan 1943 World War II: The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China.
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11 Jan 1943 US & Britain relinquish extraterritorial rights in China
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12 Jan 1943 Frankfurters replaced by Victory Sausages (mix of meat & soy meal)
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13 Jan 1943 Hitler declares "Total War"
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13 Jan 1943 US infantry captures Galloping Horse-ridge Guadalcanal
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13 Jan 1943 Russian offensive at Don under General Golikov
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13 Jan 1943 Hitler declares "Total War"
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13 Jan 1943 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Casablanca
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14 Jan 1943 Alex Smart (Mont) is 1st NHLer to score hat trick in his 1st game
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14 Jan 1943 World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel by airplane while in office when he travels from Miami to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill.
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14 Jan 1943 World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war.
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14 Jan 1943 World War II: Japan begins Operation Ke, the successful operation to evacuate its forces from Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
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14 Jan 1943 Heinrich Himmler views Warsaw
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14 Jan 1943 FDR & Winston Churchill confer in Casablanca concerning WWII
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14 Jan 1943 Alex Smart (Montr
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15 Jan 1943 The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.
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15 Jan 1943 World War II: The Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begins.
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15 Jan 1943 1st transport of Jews from Amsterdam to concentration camp Vught
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15 Jan 1943 Japanese driven off Guadalcanal
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15 Jan 1943 1,000 workers complete the air conditioning system for the Pentagon
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16 Jan 1943 Red Army recaptures Pitomnik airport at Stalingrad
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16 Jan 1943 German 2nd SS-Pantzer division evacuates Charkow
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16 Jan 1943 1st US air raid on Ambon
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16 Jan 1943 -60
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17 Jan 1943 World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis captures the 200-ton sailing vessel Agios Stefanos and mans her with part of her crew.
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17 Jan 1943 Tin Can Drive Day
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18 Jan 1943 US rations bread and metal
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18 Jan 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
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18 Jan 1943 Soviets announce they broke the long Nazi siege of Leningrad
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18 Jan 1943 Presliced bread sale banned to reduce bakery demand for metal parts
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18 Jan 1943 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis
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19 Jan 1943 Joint Chiefs of Staff decide on invasion in Sicily
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20 Jan 1943 Lead SD, temp is 52
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20 Jan 1943 Operation-Weiss Assault of German, Italian, Bulgarian & Croatian
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21 Jan 1943 Vice-admiral Cunningham appointed British Admiral of the Fleet
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21 Jan 1943 Soviet forces reconquer Gumrak airport near Stalingrad
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21 Jan 1943 Soviet forces reconquer Worosjilowsk
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22 Jan 1943 66.3 cm precipitation at Hoegees Camp, California (state record)
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22 Jan 1943 Joint Chiefs of Staff determine invasion in Sicily for July 10th
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22 Jan 1943 Temperature rises 49
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23 Jan 1943 66.34 cm (26.12"), Hoegees Camp, California (state record)
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23 Jan 1943 World War II: The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse on Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal Campaign ends.
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23 Jan 1943 Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time.
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23 Jan 1943 World War II: Australian and American forces finally defeat the Japanese army in Papua.
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23 Jan 1943 World War II: Troops of Montgomery's Eighth Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German–Italian Panzer Army.
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23 Jan 1943 66.34 cm (26.12"), Hoegees Camp CA (state precipitation record)
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23 Jan 1943 Detroit Red Wings scores NHL record 8 goals in 1 period
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23 Jan 1943 British 8th army marches into Tripoli
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23 Jan 1943 Japanese Mount Austen on Guadalcanal captured
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24 Jan 1943 Jewish patients / nurses / doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau
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24 Jan 1943 World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.
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24 Jan 1943 Hitler orders nazi troops at Stalingrad to fight to death
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27 Jan 1943 World War II: The VIII Bomber Command dispatched ninety-one B-17s and B-24s to attack the U-Boat construction yards at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. This was the first American bombing attack on Germany of the war.
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27 Jan 1943 1st US air attack on Germany (Wilhelmshafen)
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28 Jan 1943 Forward Doug Bentley sets NHL record with 5 points in a game
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28 Jan 1943 Chicago Blackhawks beats New York Rangers 10-1, Max Bentley scores 4 goals
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29 Jan 1943 The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
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29 Jan 1943 New Zealand's Kiwi cruiser collides with Japanese sub I-1 at Guadalcanal
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29 Jan 1943 Sidney Kingsley's "Patriots" premieres in New York City NY
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30 Jan 1943 World War II: Second day of the Battle of Rennell Island. The USS Chicago is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedoes.
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30 Jan 1943 6 British Mosquito's daylight bomb Berlin
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30 Jan 1943 German assault on French in Tunisia
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30 Jan 1943 German under officers shot down in Haarlem Netherlands
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30 Jan 1943 Hitler promotes Friedrich von Paul to General - field marshal
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30 Jan 1943 Illegal opposition newspaper Loyal begins publishing
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30 Jan 1943 USS Chicago sinks in Pacific Ocean
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31 Jan 1943 World War II: German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed 2 days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of the war's fiercest battles.
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31 Jan 1943 39 U boats sunk this month (203,100 ton)
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31 Jan 1943 Chile breaks contact with Germany & Japan
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31 Jan 1943 General Friedrich von Paul surrenders to Russian troops at Stalingrad
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01 Feb 1943 German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian Premier
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01 Feb 1943 Mussert forms pro Nazi shadow cabinet (Neth)
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02 Feb 1943 Battle of Stalingrad ends with final surrender of the German army
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02 Feb 1943 Cubs return to original uniform after experimenting with a vest
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02 Feb 1943 German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad, turning point of WWII
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02 Feb 1943 World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad comes to conclusion as Soviet troops accept the surrender of 91,000 remnants of the Axis forces.
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03 Feb 1943 4 chaplains drown after giving up their life jackets to others
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03 Feb 1943 The SS Dorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survived. The Chapel of the Four Chaplains, dedicated by President Harry Truman, is one of many memorials established to commemorate the Four Chaplains story.
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05 Feb 1943 Amsterdam resistance group CS-6 shoots Nazi General Seyffardt
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05 Feb 1943 Clandestine Radio Atlantiksender, Germany, 1st transmission
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06 Feb 1943 1st Spitfire in action above Darwin, Australia, Mu Ki-46 shot down
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07 Feb 1943 Shoe rationing begins in US (may purchase up to 3 more pairs in 1942)
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07 Feb 1943 World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allied forces in the Guadalcanal Campaign.
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08 Feb 1943 Red Army recaptures Kursk
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09 Feb 1943 FDR orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry
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09 Feb 1943 German riots at "plutocratenzoontjes, " 1,200 in Vught Camp
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09 Feb 1943 Japanese evacuate Guadalcanal, ends epic battle
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09 Feb 1943 Nazis arrest Dutch sons of rich parents
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09 Feb 1943 NL seeks buyer for Phillies, as owner Gerry Nugent, falls in arrears
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09 Feb 1943 World War II: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.
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10 Feb 1943 "Manifesto of Algerian People" calls for equality and self-determination
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10 Feb 1943 World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.
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10 Feb 1943 8th Army sweeps through North Africa to Tunisia
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10 Feb 1943 Van der Veen Resistance starts fire in Amsterdam employment bureau
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11 Feb 1943 World War II: General Dwight D. Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
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11 Feb 1943 General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe
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11 Feb 1943 Transport nr 47 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
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12 Feb 1943 General Eisenhower departs Algiers to Tebessa
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13 Feb 1943 German assault on Sidi Bou Zid Tunisia, General Eisenhower visits front
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13 Feb 1943 Women's Marine Corps created
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14 Feb 1943 World War II: Tunisia Campaign – General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim's Fifth Panzer Army launches a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia.
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14 Feb 1943 World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated.
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14 Feb 1943 German offensive through de Faid-pass Tunisia
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14 Feb 1943 Soviets recapture Rostov
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15 Feb 1943 Women's camp Tamtui on Ambon (Moluccas) hit by allied air raid
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16 Feb 1943 Sign on Munich facade: "Out with Hitler! Long live freedom!" done by "White Rose" student group, caught on 2 / 18, beheaded on 2 / 22
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16 Feb 1943 World War II: Insertion of Operation Gunnerside, Norway.
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16 Feb 1943 World War II: Red Army troops re-enter Kharkov.
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16 Feb 1943 -32
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16 Feb 1943 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill gets pneumonia
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16 Feb 1943 Red army conquers Kharkov
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16 Feb 1943 Withdrawing Africa Corps reaches Mareth-line in North-Africa
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17 Feb 1943 Dutch churches protest at Seyss-Inquart against persecution of Jews
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17 Feb 1943 General-Major Bradley flies to Washington DC
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17 Feb 1943 Hitler visits field marshal von Mansteins headquarters in Zaporozje
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17 Feb 1943 New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio, enlists into the US army
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18 Feb 1943 1st edition of Dutch resistance newspaper "Trouw"
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18 Feb 1943 Munich resistance group "White Rose" captured by Nazis
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18 Feb 1943 Joseph Goebbels delivers his Sportpalast speech.
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18 Feb 1943 The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
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18 Feb 1943 Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (Chilean General/dictator) marries Lucia Hiriart
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18 Feb 1943 William D Cox buys Philadelphia Phillies
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19 Feb 1943 World War II: Battle of Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins.
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19 Feb 1943 German tanks under Brigadier General Buelowius attack Kasserine Pass Tunesia
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20 Feb 1943 The Saturday Evening Post publishes the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms in support of United States President Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union address theme of Four Freedoms.
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20 Feb 1943 The Parícutin volcano begins to form in Parícutin, Mexico.
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20 Feb 1943 American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
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20 Feb 1943 New volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer's corn patch (M
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20 Feb 1943 Allied troops occupy Kasserine pass in Tunisia
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20 Feb 1943 Phil Wrigley & B Rickey charter All-American Girls Softball League
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21 Feb 1943 Dutch Roman Catholic bishops protest against persecution of Jews
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21 Feb 1943 German offensive at Western Dorsalgebergte Tunisia
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22 Feb 1943 World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany.
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23 Feb 1943 Greek Resistance: The United Panhellenic Organization of Youth is founded is Greece.
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23 Feb 1943 A fire breaks out at St. Joseph's Orphanage, County Cavan, Ireland, killing 36 people (35 of whom are children).
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23 Feb 1943 General-Major Bradley arrives in Dakar & Marrakesh
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23 Feb 1943 German troops pull back through Kasserine-pass Tunisia
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24 Feb 1943 General-Major Bradley flies to Algiers
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24 Feb 1943 Texas League announces it will quit for the duration of WWII
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25 Feb 1943 Vietminh forms Indo Chinese Democratic Front
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26 Feb 1943 German assault moves to Beja North Tunisia
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27 Feb 1943 The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin.
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27 Feb 1943 The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
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28 Feb 1943 "Porgy and Bess" opens on Broadway with Anne Brown and Todd Duncan
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28 Feb 1943 "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway with Anne Brown & Todd Duncan
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28 Feb 1943 63 U Boats (359,300 ton) sinks this month
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01 Mar 1943 Jewish old age home for disabled in Amsterdam raided
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02 Mar 1943 1st transport from Westerbork Netherlands to Sobibor concentration camp
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02 Mar 1943 Sea battle in Bismarck Sea finishes, US and Australia win
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02 Mar 1943 World War II: Battle of the Bismarck Sea: United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships.
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03 Mar 1943 Bomb fleeing crowd falls into London shelter; 173 die
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03 Mar 1943 US defeats Japan andwins Battle of Bismark Sea
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03 Mar 1943 World War II: In London, England, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station.
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04 Mar 1943 Transport nr 50 departs with French Jews to Maidanek / Sobibor
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04 Mar 1943 World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the south-west Pacific comes to an end.
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05 Mar 1943 Anti fascist strikes in Italy
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05 Mar 1943 RAF bombs Essen Germany
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05 Mar 1943 First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom.
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06 Mar 1943 Battle at Medenine, North-Africa: Rommels assault attack
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06 Mar 1943 Sukarno asks for cooperation with Japanese occupiers
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06 Mar 1943 Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in the The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series.
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07 Mar 1943 General Major Patton arrives in Djebel Kouif Tunisia
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08 Mar 1943 335 allied bombers attack Neurenberg
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08 Mar 1943 Limited gambling legalized in Mexico
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08 Mar 1943 US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
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08 Mar 1943 US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Arthur Vaughn
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09 Mar 1943 Delft opposition group-Pahud de Mortanges overthrown
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09 Mar 1943 Greek Jews of Salonika are transported to Nazi extermination camps
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11 Mar 1943 Nazi Militia forms in the Netherlands
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12 Mar 1943 Soviet troops liberate Wjasma
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13 Mar 1943 Baseball approves official ball (with cork & balata)
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13 Mar 1943 The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.
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13 Mar 1943 Failed assassin attempt on Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight
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13 Mar 1943 Frank Dixon wins Knights of Columbus mile (4: 9.6)
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14 Mar 1943 World War II: The Kraków Ghetto is "liquidated".
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15 Mar 1943 World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov – the Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.
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15 Mar 1943 Allied reconnaissance flight over Java
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15 Mar 1943 Red Army evacuates Kharkov
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16 Mar 1943 Elin K (No) andZaanland (Neth) torpedoed andsinks
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16 Mar 1943 Elin K (No) & Zaanland (Netherlands) torpedoed & sinks
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17 Mar 1943 Aldemarin (Ned) and Fort Cedar Lake (US) torpedoed and sinks
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17 Mar 1943 F Hugh Herbert's "Kiss & Tell" premieres in New York NY
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18 Mar 1943 James Oglethorpe (US) & Terkolei (Netherlands), torpedoed & sinks
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18 Mar 1943 Red Army evacuates Belgorod
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19 Mar 1943 Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard.
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19 Mar 1943 Airship Canadian Star torpedoed & sinks
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20 Mar 1943 British offensive against Mareth-line
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20 Mar 1943 German U-384 bombed & sinks
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21 Mar 1943 Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through. Von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion.
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21 Mar 1943 Assassination attempt on Hitler fails
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21 Mar 1943 British 8th army opens assault on Mareth line, Tunisia
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22 Mar 1943 World War II: the entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces.
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22 Mar 1943 Dutch work week extended to 54 hour
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22 Mar 1943 Obligatory work for woman ends in Belgium
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22 Mar 1943 SS police chief Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children
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23 Mar 1943 German counter attack on US lines in Tunisia
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25 Mar 1943 97% of all Dutch physicians strike againt Nazi registration
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25 Mar 1943 Jimmy Durante & Garry Moore premiere on radio
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26 Mar 1943 Elsie S Ott becomes 1st woman awarded US Air Force Medal
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26 Mar 1943 1st woman to receive air medal (US army nurse Elsie S Ott)
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26 Mar 1943 Battle of Komandorski Islands, Pacific Ocean
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27 Mar 1943 World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands: In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
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27 Mar 1943 Assassination attempt on Van de Peat at Amsterdams census bureau
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27 Mar 1943 Blue Ribbon Town (with Groucho Marx) 1st heard on CBS Radio
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27 Mar 1943 US begins assault on Fondouk-pass, Tunisia
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29 Mar 1943 Meat, butter and cheese rationed in US during WWII
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29 Mar 1943 Meat, butter & cheese rationed in US during WWII (784 gram/week, 2 kilogram for GI's)
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30 Mar 1943 5th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: University of Wyoming beat Georgetown 46-34
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30 Mar 1943 British 1st army recaptures Sejenane
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31 Mar 1943 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical "Oklahoma!" opens on Broadway
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31 Mar 1943 US errantly bombs Rotterdam, kills 326
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03 Apr 1943 Jan Dieters (leader of illegal CPN) arrested
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05 Apr 1943 Allies bomb Mortsel
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05 Apr 1943 Japanese troops conquer Indin
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05 Apr 1943 Poon Lim found after being adrift 133 days
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05 Apr 1943 World War II: American bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1,300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. Their target was the Erla factory one kilometer from the residential area hit.
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06 Apr 1943 British and US army link up in Africa during WWII
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06 Apr 1943 British offensive at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia
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06 Apr 1943 Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN) arrested
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07 Apr 1943 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met for an Axis conference in Salzburg
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07 Apr 1943 British / US troops make contact at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia
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07 Apr 1943 Lt Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg seriously wounded at allied air raid
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07 Apr 1943 NFL adopts free substitution rule
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07 Apr 1943 Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation.
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07 Apr 1943 The Holocaust: In Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city of Terebovlia to the nearby village of Plebanivka where they are shot dead and buried in ditches.
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08 Apr 1943 Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, founder of Sanbo Kyodan, receives dharma
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08 Apr 1943 Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya convicted of involvement with Mau Mau
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08 Apr 1943 Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games
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08 Apr 1943 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common carriers and public utilities.
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10 Apr 1943 12 Jewish patients of Herren Loo-Lozenoord escape Nazi's
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10 Apr 1943 General Montgomery occupies Sfax Tunisia
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11 Apr 1943 Frank Piasecki, Vertol founder, flies his 1st (single-rotor) craft
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12 Apr 1943 Allies conquer Soussa, North-Africa
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12 Apr 1943 Dutch Catholic University Nijmegen closed
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13 Apr 1943 The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson's birth.
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13 Apr 1943 World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile in London from the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.
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13 Apr 1943 FDR dedicates Jefferson Memorial
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13 Apr 1943 Catholic University Nijegen closes
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13 Apr 1943 Nazi's discover mass grave of Polish officers near Katyn
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14 Apr 1943 Generals Alexander/Eisenhower/Anderson/Bradley discuss assault on Tunis
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14 Apr 1943 James Gow & A d'Usseau's "Tomorrow the World", premieres in NYC
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15 Apr 1943 Metropolitan Life Insurance issues a $225 million check to Chase
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16 Apr 1943 40 New Zealand bombers attack Haarlem Netherlands (85 killed)
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17 Apr 1943 Admiral Yamamoto flies from Truk to Rabaul
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17 Apr 1943 SS-Lieutenant-General J
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18 Apr 1943 World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
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19 Apr 1943 Jews attack Nazi occupation forces at Warsaw Ghetto
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19 Apr 1943 World War II: In Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.
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19 Apr 1943 Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.
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19 Apr 1943 Jews attack Nazi occupation forces at Warsaw Ghetto under Mordechai Anielewicz
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20 Apr 1943 Atlanta Braves manager Casey Stengel is struck by a taxi, fractures a leg
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22 Apr 1943 German counter attack in North-Tunisia
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22 Apr 1943 RAF shoots down 14 German transport planes over Mediterranean Sea
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23 Apr 1943 British and US offensive directed at Tunis / Bizerta
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25 Apr 1943 The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted.
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26 Apr 1943 The Easter Riots break out in Uppsala, Sweden.
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27 Apr 1943 Lou Jansen & Jan Dieters arrested, lead illegal CPN party in Holland
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27 Apr 1943 Soviet Union breaks contact with Polish government exiled in London
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28 Apr 1943 1st performance of Marc Blitzstein's "Freedom Morning"
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28 Apr 1943 German-Italian counter offensive in North-Africa
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28 Apr 1943 US 34th Division occupies Djebel el Hara North Tunisia
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29 Apr 1943 Dietrich Bonh
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29 Apr 1943 No
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29 Apr 1943 US 34th Division occupies Hill 609, North Tunisia
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30 Apr 1943 World War II: Operation Mincemeat: The submarine HMS Seraph surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer.
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30 Apr 1943 Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp for Jews forms
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30 Apr 1943 Dutch strike against forced labor in Nazi Germany's war industry
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30 Apr 1943 No
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01 May 1943 1st edition of illegal "The Free Artist" appears in Amsterdam
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01 May 1943 69th Kentucky Derby: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 2:04
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01 May 1943 Food rationing begins in US
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01 May 1943 German plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta
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01 May 1943 German Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes
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01 May 1943 Rauter signs unofficial death sentence
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02 May 1943 German troops vacate Jefna Tunisia
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03 May 1943 Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed
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03 May 1943 US 1st armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia
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04 May 1943 NL Ford Frick demonstrates revised balata ball to reporters by bouncing it on his office carpet ball proves to be 50% livelier
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05 May 1943 Postmaster General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System
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06 May 1943 British 1st army opens assault on Tunis
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07 May 1943 British 11th Huzaren occupies Tunis Tunisia
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07 May 1943 Dutch men 18-35 obliged to report to labor camps
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07 May 1943 Liberty Ship George Washington Carver, named after scientist, launched
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07 May 1943 US 1st Armour division occupies Ferryville Tunisia
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07 May 1943 US 9th Infantry division occupies Bizerta / Bensert Tunisia
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08 May 1943 69th Preakness: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 1:57.4
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08 May 1943 Adm Cunningham of British fleet: "Sink, burn & destroy; let nothing pass"
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09 May 1943 5th German Pantser army surrenders in Tunisia
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09 May 1943 Rotschild-Haddassh University Hospital opens
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11 May 1943 World War II: American troops invade Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.
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11 May 1943 Hermann Goering-division in Tunisia surrenders
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11 May 1943 US 7th division lands on Attu, Aleutian, (1st US territory recaptured)
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12 May 1943 Axis forces in North Africa surrender
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12 May 1943 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in US
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12 May 1943 German troops in Tunisia North Africa surrender
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13 May 1943 World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.
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13 May 1943 German & Italian forces in Africa surrender
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13 May 1943 German occupiers confiscate all radios
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14 May 1943 World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the coast of Queensland.
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15 May 1943 Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International).
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15 May 1943 Halifax bombers sinks U-463
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15 May 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising ends, in it's destruction
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16 May 1943 The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
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16 May 1943 German troops destroy synagogue of Warsaw
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16 May 1943 Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends after 30 days of fighting
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16 May 1943 RAF bombs M
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17 May 1943 World War II: the Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams.
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18 May 1943 Allied bombers attack Pantelleria in the Mediterranean Sea
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19 May 1943 Berlin is declared "Judenrien" (free of Jews)
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19 May 1943 World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set Monday, May 1, 1944 as the date for the Normandy landings ("D-Day"). It would later be delayed over a month due to bad weather.
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19 May 1943 Churchill pledges England's full support to US against Japan
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20 May 1943 French, British & US victory parade in Tunis Tunisia
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21 May 1943 Fastest 9 inning American League baseball game (89 minutes), White Sox beat Senators
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22 May 1943 RAF scatters 1st copies of "The Flying Hollander"
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22 May 1943 Joseph Stalin disbands Comintern.
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22 May 1943 1st jet fighter is tested
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22 May 1943 Stalin disbands Komintern
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23 May 1943 Thomas Mann begins writing his novel Dr Faustus
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23 May 1943 826 Allied bombers attack Dortmund
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23 May 1943 In Dr Faustus, Serenus Zeitblom begins his biography of Adrian Leverk
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24 May 1943 The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
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24 May 1943 Admiral D
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24 May 1943 U-441 shoots Sunderland seaplane down over Gulf of Biskaje
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25 May 1943 Riot at Mobile AL shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers
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25 May 1943 Trident conference in Washington DC (operation plan '43 against Japan)
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26 May 1943 1st president of a black country to visit US (Edwin Barclay, Liberia)
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26 May 1943 Jews riot against Germany in Amsterdam
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26 May 1943 Premier Churchill & General Marshall fly from US to North Africa
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27 May 1943 French defiance under Jean Moulin meets secretly in Paris
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27 May 1943 US forbids racial discrimination in war industry
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28 May 1943 British militia reaches Tito
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29 May 1943 Confederacy of Algiers (Churchill-Marshall-Eisenhower)
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29 May 1943 Meat & cheese rationed in US
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30 May 1943 French General De Gaulle arrives in Algiers
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30 May 1943 US troops reconquer Attu Aleutians
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31 May 1943 "Archie" comic strip 1st broadcast on radio
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31 May 1943 Cardinals Mort Cooper pitches 1st of back-to-back one-hitters
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01 Jun 1943 Germany shoots down a civilian flight from Lisbon to London, all die
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01 Jun 1943 Pirates Rip Sewell 1st throws his dew-drop (eephus) ball in a game
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01 Jun 1943 British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing the actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that its shooting down was an attempt to kill the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
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02 Jun 1943 99th Pursuit Squadron flies 1st combat mission (over Italy)
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02 Jun 1943 German assault on Sebastopol Krim, begins
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03 Jun 1943 United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration forms
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03 Jun 1943 In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines clash with Latino youths in the Zoot Suit Riots.
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04 Jun 1943 Race riots in LA
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04 Jun 1943 A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo.
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05 Jun 1943 75th Belmont: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 2:28.2
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09 Jun 1943 "Pay-as-you-go" (withholding) US income tax deductions authorized
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10 Jun 1943 FDR becomes 1st US pres to visit a foreign country during wartime
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10 Jun 1943 FDR signs withholding tax bill into law (this is W-2 Day!)
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11 Jun 1943 British invades Pantelleria (tiny island south of Sicily)
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11 Jun 1943 Heinrich Himmler orders liquidation of Polish ghettos
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12 Jun 1943 Himmler orders extermination of all Polish ghettos
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12 Jun 1943 Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). Around 1,180 Jews are led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and shot.
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15 Jun 1943 Congress of racial Equality (CORE) forms
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16 Jun 1943 Race riot in Beaumont Texas (2 die)
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17 Jun 1943 Player-manager Joe Cronin of Red Sox hits two 3-run pinch home runs
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18 Jun 1943 SS Police in Amsterdam sentence for 12 resistance fighter to death (Jewish, communists, homosexuality) at the Census Bureau
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19 Jun 1943 "Shiek Of Arahy" Spike Jones and City Slickers peaks at #19
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19 Jun 1943 NFL's Phila Eagles & Pitts Steelers merge, (disolves on Dec 5)
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20 Jun 1943 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded
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20 Jun 1943 Detroit race riot kills 35
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20 Jun 1943 German round up Jews in Amsterdam
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20 Jun 1943 National Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) organizes
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20 Jun 1943 The Detroit Race Riot breaks out and continues for three more days.
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20 Jun 1943 New Qu
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20 Jun 1943 Sweden's Gunther Hagg beats favorite Greg Rice by 35 yards in
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21 Jun 1943 Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit 30 dead
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22 Jun 1943 WEB DuBois becomes 1st Black member of National Institute of Letters
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23 Jun 1943 Dutch artsens protest against Nazis
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23 Jun 1943 World War II: The British destroyers HMS Eclipse and HMS Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMS Newfoundland.
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24 Jun 1943 Allies begin 10-day bombing on Hamburg
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25 Jun 1943 Crematory III at Birkenau is finished
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25 Jun 1943 Racial unrest in Detroit
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25 Jun 1943 Seyss-Inquart orders mass arrests of Dutch physicians
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25 Jun 1943 The Holocaust: Jews in the Częstochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis.
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27 Jun 1943 Elly Dammers throws Dutch record spear (41, 43m)
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27 Jun 1943 Fanny Blankers-Koen runs Dutch record 200m (24.5)
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29 Jun 1943 Germany begins withdrawing U-boats from North Atlantic in anticipation of the Allied invasion of Europe
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29 Jun 1943 Pope Pius XII encyclical Mystic Corporis (mystic body of Christ)
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29 Jun 1943 US forces landed at Nassau Bay, near Salamaua, New Guinea
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30 Jun 1943 Gen MacArthur begins Operation Cartwheel (island-hopping)
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01 Jul 1943 "Pay-as-you-go" - 1st withholding tax from paychecks
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01 Jul 1943 Tokyo City merges with Tokyo Prefecture and is dissolved. Since this date, no city in Japan has the name "Tokyo" (present-day Tokyo is not officially a city).
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02 Jul 1943 Gulf of Biskaje: Liberator bombers sinks U-126
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02 Jul 1943 Indians score 12 runs in 4th inning and beat Yankees 12-0
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02 Jul 1943 Lt Charles Hall, becomes 1st black pilot to shoot down Nazi plane
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03 Jul 1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-628
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04 Jul 1943 World War II: The Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world's largest tank battle, begins in Prokhorovka village.
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04 Jul 1943 World War II: In Gibraltar, a Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into the sea in an apparent accident moments after takeoff, killing sixteen passengers on board; only the pilot survives.
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05 Jul 1943 Battle of Gulf of Kula
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05 Jul 1943 Battle of Koersk, USSR begins (6,000 tanks)
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05 Jul 1943 Liberator bombers sink U-535 in Gulf of Biskaye
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05 Jul 1943 US invasion fleet (96 ships) sails to Sicily
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05 Jul 1943 World War II: An Allied invasion fleet sails for Sicily (Operation Husky, July 10, 1943).
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05 Jul 1943 World War II: German forces begin a massive offensive against the Soviet Union at the Battle of Kursk, also known as Operation Citadel.
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06 Jul 1943 2nd day of battle at Kursk: 25,000 German killed
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06 Jul 1943 US destroyer William D Porter [Willie Dee] launched
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07 Jul 1943 3rd day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Dubrova
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07 Jul 1943 Erich Hartmann shoots 7 Russian aircraft at Kursk
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07 Jul 1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-517
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07 Jul 1943 U-951 sunk
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08 Jul 1943 4th day of battle at Kursk: General Model uses last tank reserve
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08 Jul 1943 British air raid sinks U-232
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08 Jul 1943 NSB-leader A Mussert meets with Heinrich Himmler
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08 Jul 1943 US invasion fleet passes Bizerta Tunisia
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09 Jul 1943 5th day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Verchopenje
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09 Jul 1943 British air raid sinks U-435
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09 Jul 1943 World War II: Operation Husky – Allied forces perform an amphibious invasion of Sicily.
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10 Jul 1943 US and Britain invade Sicily in WWII (Operation Husky)
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10 Jul 1943 US & Britain invade Sicily in WW II
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11 Jul 1943 Counter attack by Hermann Goering Armour division in Sicily
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11 Jul 1943 US 45th Division occupies airport Comiso Sicily
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11 Jul 1943 US 82nd Airborne division shot at, by "friendly fire" in Sicily
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11 Jul 1943 Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army within the Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Volhynia) peak.
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11 Jul 1943 World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily – German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.
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12 Jul 1943 Battle of Kolombangara (2nd battle of Gulf of Kula)
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12 Jul 1943 National Committee Freies Deutschland forms
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12 Jul 1943 Russian offensive at Orel
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12 Jul 1943 Tank battle at Prochorowka - Russians beat Nazis, about 12,000 die
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12 Jul 1943 World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka – German and Soviet forces engage in one of the largest tank engagements of all time.
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13 Jul 1943 11th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Shibe Park, Philadelphia
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13 Jul 1943 1st All Star night game (AL beats NL 5-4 at Shribe Pk, Phila)
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14 Jul 1943 In Diamond, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of an African American.
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18 Jul 1943 British assault on Catania Sicily
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18 Jul 1943 Giants and Phillies strand record 30 baserunners, New York wins, 10-6
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19 Jul 1943 500 allied air forces raid Rome during WWII
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19 Jul 1943 World War II: Rome is heavily bombed by more than 500 Allied aircraft, inflicting thousands of casualties.
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20 Jul 1943 Joint Chiefs of Staff question Admiral Nimitz (landing Gilbert Island)
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22 Jul 1943 US forces led by General George Patton liberate Palermo Sicily
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22 Jul 1943 World War II: Allied forces capture the Italian city of Palermo.
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22 Jul 1943 Allied forces captured Palermo, Sicily
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23 Jul 1943 Battle of Koersk, USSR ends in Nazi defeat (6,000 tanks)
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23 Jul 1943 US 45th Infantry division occupies north coast of Termini
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23 Jul 1943 The Rayleigh bath chair murder occurred in Rayleigh, Essex, England.
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23 Jul 1943 World War II: The British destroyers HMS Eclipse and HMS Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMS Newfoundland.
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24 Jul 1943 RAF bombs Hamburg (20,000 dead)
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24 Jul 1943 World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
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25 Jul 1943 1st warship named for a Black person, SS Leonard Roy Harmon, launched
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25 Jul 1943 Benito Mussolini captured, dismissed as Premier of Italy during WWII
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25 Jul 1943 Opposition group Zwaantje forms in Delfzijl
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25 Jul 1943 RAF bombs Fokker airplane factory in Amsterdam
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25 Jul 1943 World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
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26 Jul 1943 120
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27 Jul 1943 772 British bombers attack Hamburg
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28 Jul 1943 President FDR announces end of coffee rationing in US
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28 Jul 1943 Italian Facist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns
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29 Jul 1943 1 million inhabitants flee Hamburg
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30 Jul 1943 US 45th Infantry division occupies San Stefano
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30 Jul 1943 Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie released (Girl Crazy)
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01 Aug 1943 Japan declares Burma Independence under U Ba Maw
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01 Aug 1943 Race riot in Harlem New York City
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01 Aug 1943 Sunderland seaplanes sink U-454 and U-383
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02 Aug 1943 Armed revolt breaks out in Treblinka
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02 Aug 1943 RAF bombs Hamburg
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02 Aug 1943 Sunderland seaplanes sinks U-706 and U-106
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02 Aug 1943 Uprising at Treblinka Concentration Camp (crematorium destroyed)
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02 Aug 1943 Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka.
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02 Aug 1943 World War II: the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. President, saves all but two of his crew.
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03 Aug 1943 Gen Patton slaps a US GI in the hospital accusing him of cowardice
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03 Aug 1943 Nazi occupiers attack city Orel, leave it in fire
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04 Aug 1943 British Premier Churchill travels on the Queen Mary to Canada
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04 Aug 1943 Russian units reach suburbs of Orel
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04 Aug 1943 USAF bombs Germans in Troina
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05 Aug 1943 Soviet forces reconquer Orel and Bjelgorod
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06 Aug 1943 US 1st Infantry division occupies node Troina Sicily
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07 Aug 1943 Red Army recaptures Bogodukov
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08 Aug 1943 Common Chiefs of staff meet in Quebec
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08 Aug 1943 US amphibians land at St. Agata on North coast of Sicily
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08 Aug 1943 Vegetables and fruit rationed in Holland
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10 Aug 1943 Dutch submarine attacks Island Hertenbeest in NW Bali
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10 Aug 1943 Gen Patton calls injured soldier "cowardly"
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10 Aug 1943 Hitler watches lynching of allied pilots
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11 Aug 1943 Red Army recaptures Tchukujev, at Kharkov
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11 Aug 1943 US amphibians land at Brolo on north coast of Sicily
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13 Aug 1943 Red army recaptures Spas-Demensk
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14 Aug 1943 1st allied air raid on Borneo
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14 Aug 1943 US 45th Division occupies Falcone 40 km outside of Messina
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15 Aug 1943 Allies land on Kiska Aleutians
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16 Aug 1943 1st Long Tom bombs on Italian mainland (from Sicily)
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16 Aug 1943 Bulgarian Czar Boris III visits Adolf Hitler
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17 Aug 1943 Gen Patton enters Messina, completing conquest of Sicily by Allies
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17 Aug 1943 US 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17O at attack on Regensburg / Schweinfurt
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18 Aug 1943 Carl Hubbell wins his 253rd and final game, all with Giants
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18 Aug 1943 Final convoy of Jews from Salonika Greece arrive at Auschwitz
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19 Aug 1943 US air raid on German bases at Gilze-Rijen / Vlissingen
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21 Aug 1943 Gromyko named USSR-ambassador in Washington
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21 Aug 1943 Japan leaves Aleutian Islands
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22 Aug 1943 Soviet troops free Karkov
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23 Aug 1943 Red army recaptures Charkow
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24 Aug 1943 Philadelphia Athletics drop AL record tying 20th game in a row, win the 2nd game
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25 Aug 1943 10th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 27, Washington 7 (48,471)
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25 Aug 1943 German occupiers impose 72-hour work week
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25 Aug 1943 Lord Mountbatten appointed Supreme Allied Commander in SE Asia
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25 Aug 1943 Red Army under General Vatutin recaptures Achtyrka
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25 Aug 1943 US forces overran New Georgia in Solomon Islands during WW II
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28 Aug 1943 Denmark, declares a universal strike against Nazi occupiers
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28 Aug 1943 Mussolini transfered from La Maddalena Sardinia to Gran Sasso
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28 Aug 1943 World War II: In Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation starts.
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29 Aug 1943 Denmark scuttles their warships so as not to be taken by Germany
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29 Aug 1943 German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government.
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31 Aug 1943 1st battle of Essex / new Yorktown: US assault on Marcus Island
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31 Aug 1943 Japanse occupiers intern Jewish Congregation of Sorabajo
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31 Aug 1943 The USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
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03 Sep 1943 British 8th army lands in South Italy (Messina)
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03 Sep 1943 General Castellano signs cease fire treaty in Sicily
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03 Sep 1943 World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy begins on the same day that U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign the Armistice of Cassibile aboard the Royal Navy battleship HMS Nelson off Malta.
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05 Sep 1943 57th US Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats A Louise Brough (63 57 63)
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05 Sep 1943 US airland at Nadzab, New-Guinea
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05 Sep 1943 World War II: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Lae Nadzab Airport, near Lae in the Salamaua–Lae campaign.
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06 Sep 1943 "Congressional Limited" train derails near Frankfort Pa, kills 79
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06 Sep 1943 63rd US Mens Tennis: J R Hunt Seaman beats Jack Kramer (63 68 108 60)
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06 Sep 1943 The Monterrey Institute of Technology, one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America, is founded in Monterrey, Mexico.
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06 Sep 1943 Pennsylvania Railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, killing 79 people and injuring 117 others.
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07 Sep 1943 987 Dutch Jewish transported to Auschwitz Concentration Camp
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07 Sep 1943 Fire in decrepit old Gulf Hotel kills 45 (Houston Texas)
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07 Sep 1943 A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston, kills 55 people.
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07 Sep 1943 World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea.
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08 Sep 1943 Gen Eisenhower announce unconditional surrender of Italy in WWII
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08 Sep 1943 Italy surrenders to Allies in WWII
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08 Sep 1943 Lieutenant General Bradley flies to Carthago / Algiers Sicily
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08 Sep 1943 World War II: The O.B.S. (German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone) in Frascati is bombed by USAAF.
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08 Sep 1943 World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the Allied armistice with Italy.
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09 Sep 1943 Italy surrenders to Allies
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09 Sep 1943 Lieutenant General Bradley flies from Algiers to to Marrakech / Prestwick
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09 Sep 1943 Red Army occupies Bachmatsj
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09 Sep 1943 US, British and French troops land in Salerno (operation Avalanche)
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09 Sep 1943 World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
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10 Sep 1943 British 8th army occupies Tarente
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10 Sep 1943 German troops occupied Rome and took over the protection of Vatican City
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10 Sep 1943 Italian fleet anchors at Malta
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10 Sep 1943 Lieutenant General Bradley arrives in Prestwick / London
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10 Sep 1943 World War II: German forces begin their occupation of Rome.
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11 Sep 1943 Allied arm forces conquerors Salerno
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11 Sep 1943 Jewish ghettos of Minsk and Lida Belorussia liquidated
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11 Sep 1943 Last German Q / pirate ship sinks near Easter Island
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11 Sep 1943 US and Australian troops join in Salamaua, New Guinea
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11 Sep 1943 World War II: German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohija.
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11 Sep 1943 World War II: Start of the liquidation of the Ghettos in Minsk and Lida by the Nazis.
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12 Sep 1943 Free French lands on Corsica
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12 Sep 1943 German paratroopers, on orders of Adolf Hitler, seize former Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini who was being held prisoner by the government
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12 Sep 1943 Waffen-SS (Skorzeny) frees Mussolini at Gran Sasso
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12 Sep 1943 World War II: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.
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13 Sep 1943 German counter attack at Salerno
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13 Sep 1943 Having been Generalissimo since 1928, Chiang Kai-shek elected President
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13 Sep 1943 The Municipal Theatre of Corfu is destroyed during an aerial bombardment by Luftwaffe.
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13 Sep 1943 Chiang Kai-shek became president of China
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14 Sep 1943 Comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara marries
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14 Sep 1943 World War II: The Wehrmacht starts a three-day retaliatory operation targeting several Greek villages in Viannos, whose death toll would exceeded 500 persons.
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14 Sep 1943 Yanks clinch pennant #14
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15 Sep 1943 Benito Mussolini forms a rival fascist government in Italy
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15 Sep 1943 Concentration Camp Kauwen in Lithuania opens
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15 Sep 1943 Concentration Camp Vaivara in Estonia opens
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16 Sep 1943 Soviet army under general Vatutin reconquer Romny
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16 Sep 1943 World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy concludes when Heinrich von Vietinghoff, commander of the German Tenth Army, orders his troops to withdraw from Salerno.
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17 Sep 1943 Load of "ammunition in transit" explodes at Norfolk Naval Air Station
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17 Sep 1943 Red Army recaptures Brjansk
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17 Sep 1943 World War II: The Russian city of Bryansk is liberated from Germans.
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18 Sep 1943 Cardinals clinch NL pennant
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18 Sep 1943 Hitler orders deportation of Danish Jews (unsuccessful)
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18 Sep 1943 World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibór.
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18 Sep 1943 World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
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19 Sep 1943 Fanny Whiteers-Koen breaks jumping world record
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19 Sep 1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-341
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20 Sep 1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-338
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21 Sep 1943 Arundel (Solomon Island) in US hands
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21 Sep 1943 Russian 13th / 61st Army reconquer Chyernigov
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21 Sep 1943 Soviet forces reach Dnjepr
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21 Sep 1943 Lynch Triangle (Square) in the Bronx named
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22 Sep 1943 British dwarf submarines attack Tirpitz
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22 Sep 1943 Destroyer Itchen torpedoed and sinks
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22 Sep 1943 Destroyer Keppel sinks U-229
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23 Sep 1943 World War II: The Nazi puppet state the Italian Social Republic is founded.
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24 Sep 1943 Soviet forces reconquer Smolensk
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25 Sep 1943 Russian troops liberate Smolensk
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27 Sep 1943 Anti-fascism opposition begins in Naples
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27 Sep 1943 Dutch opposition newspaper "The Slogan" publishes KZ-Lower letter
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29 Sep 1943 1st Silbertanne-murder by German occupiers in Meppel
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29 Sep 1943 German riots at Amsterdam Jews
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29 Sep 1943 Zjadovs 5th Gardeleger / Managarovs 53rd Army reconquer Kremenchug
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29 Sep 1943 Eisenhower & Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice
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30 Sep 1943 Pope Pius XII encyclical on Divine spirit
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01 Oct 1943 Allied forces captured Naples during WWII
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01 Oct 1943 Averell Harriman named US ambassador to Moscow
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01 Oct 1943 Germans attack Jews in Denmark
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01 Oct 1943 World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers.
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02 Oct 1943 Japanse troops leave Kolombangara, Solomon Island
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02 Oct 1943 Yankees sweep 14th doubleheader of year, beating Browns, 5-1 and 7-6
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03 Oct 1943 British 8th army lands at Termoli, East Italy
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03 Oct 1943 Operations begin at PETA Java, defending (Japanese) fatherland
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04 Oct 1943 Corsica freed by Free French
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04 Oct 1943 German occupiers forbid flying of kites (6 month jail sentence)
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04 Oct 1943 World War II: U.S. captures the Solomon Islands from the Japanese.
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05 Oct 1943 US air raid on Wake
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05 Oct 1943 Ninety-eight American POW's executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
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06 Oct 1943 Battle at Vella Lavella, Solomon Island
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06 Oct 1943 Himmler wants acceleration of "Final Solution"
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08 Oct 1943 Great-Britain establishes bases on Azores
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10 Oct 1943 US bombers accidentally strike Enschede Neth, causing 151 deaths
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10 Oct 1943 Double Tenth Incident in Japanese-controlled Singapore
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10 Oct 1943 Chiang Kai-shek takes oath of office as president of China
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11 Oct 1943 NY Yankees beat Cards 4 games to 1, in 40th World Series, 10th WS win - NY Yankees become 1st team to win 10 World Series
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12 Oct 1943 US bombs Rabaul, New Britain
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13 Oct 1943 Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany
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13 Oct 1943 World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany.
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13 Oct 1943 Italy declares war on former ally Germany
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14 Oct 1943 400 Jews escape in uprising at Sobibor extermination Camp in Poland
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14 Oct 1943 Japan declares Philippine Independence (premier / President Jose Laurel)
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14 Oct 1943 Outbreak attempt in Sobibor Concentration Camp
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14 Oct 1943 US 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17 during assault on Schweinfurt
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14 Oct 1943 Prisoners at the Nazi German Sobibór extermination camp in Poland revolt against the Germans, killing eleven SS guards, and wounding many more. About 300 of the Sobibor Camp's 600 prisoners escape, and about 50 of these survive the end of the war.
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14 Oct 1943 World War II: The American Eighth Air Force loses 60 B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers in aerial combat during the second mass-daylight air raid on the Schweinfurt ball bearing factories in western Nazi Germany.
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14 Oct 1943 José P. Laurel takes the oath of office as President of the Philippines (Second Philippine Republic).
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16 Oct 1943 Anti Jewish riot in Rome
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16 Oct 1943 Jewish quarter of Rome surrounded by Nazis, they are sent to Auschwitz
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16 Oct 1943 US 1st Army establishes headquarter in Bristol
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16 Oct 1943 Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens city's new subway system
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17 Oct 1943 Liberators sink U-540 and U-631
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17 Oct 1943 The Burma Railway (Burma–Thailand Railway) is completed.
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17 Oct 1943 The Holocaust: Sobibór extermination camp is closed.
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18 Oct 1943 US bombing of Bougainville, Solomon Island
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19 Oct 1943 Conference of foreign ministers in Moscow
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19 Oct 1943 Theater Guild presentation of "Othello" opens at Shubert
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19 Oct 1943 Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
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19 Oct 1943 Yankee 2nd baseman Joe Gordon announces retirement (hates NY)
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20 Oct 1943 The cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by Allied aircraft at Souda Bay, Crete, and sunk. 2,098 Italian prisoners of war drown with it.
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21 Oct 1943 The Provisional Government of Free India is formally declared by Subhas Chandra Bose.
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22 Oct 1943 World War II: in the Second firestorm raid on Germany, the Royal Air Force conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless.
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23 Oct 1943 1st Jewish transport out of Rome reaches camp Birkenau
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23 Oct 1943 Burma railway opens
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24 Oct 1943 The Provisional Government of Free India formally declares war on Britain and the United States of America.
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24 Oct 1943 Anti-nazi Clandestine Radio Soldatsender Calais begins transmitting
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25 Oct 1943 Burma railroad completed and opens
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26 Oct 1943 World War II: First flight of the Dornier Do 335 "Pfeil".
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28 Oct 1943 U-220 sinks
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29 Oct 1943 3 allied officers escape out camp Stalag Luft 3
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30 Oct 1943 Italian director Federico Fellini marries actress Giulietta Masina
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30 Oct 1943 Molotov-Eden-Cordell Hull accord over operations at UN
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30 Oct 1943 Soviet forces under Tolbuchin stick Sivash-bay about
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31 Oct 1943 Washington Redskin Sammy Baugh passes for 6 touchdowns vs. Brooklyn (48-10)
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31 Oct 1943 World War II: An F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception by a USN or USMC aircraft.
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01 Nov 1943 Dim-out ban lifted in SF Bay area
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01 Nov 1943 US troops land on Bougainville Island on Solomon Island
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01 Nov 1943 World War II: In the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, United States Marines, the 3rd Marine Division, land on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.
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01 Nov 1943 World War II: In support of the landings on Bougainville, U.S. aircraft carrier forces attack the huge Japanese base at Rabaul.
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02 Nov 1943 Jewish ghetto of Riga Latvia is destroyed
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03 Nov 1943 P-47D Thunderbolt shot down above North-Holland
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03 Nov 1943 World War II: 500 aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshaven harbor in Germany.
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04 Nov 1943 France arrests government of Lebanon
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05 Nov 1943 World War II: Bombing of the Vatican.
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06 Nov 1943 Russian troops land on Kertsj peninsula
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06 Nov 1943 Soviet forces reconquer Kiev
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06 Nov 1943 Stalin says: "The issue of German fascism is lost"
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07 Nov 1943 Detroit Lions 0, New York Giants 0; last scoreless tie in NFL
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11 Nov 1943 Spud Chandler wins AL MVP; Stan Musial wins NL MVP
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11 Nov 1943 US air raid on Rabaul
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12 Nov 1943 Landwacht (NSB-political party) forms in the Netherlands
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14 Nov 1943 Chicago Bear Sid Luckman passes for 7 touchdowns vs. New York Giants (56-7)
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14 Nov 1943 J Postma, C Schalker, D Goulooze arrested for leading illegal CPN
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18 Nov 1943 444 British bombers attack Berlin
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18 Nov 1943 U-211 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
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18 Nov 1943 1st US ambassador to Canada, Ray Atherton, nominated
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19 Nov 1943 U-536 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
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20 Nov 1943 U-538 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
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20 Nov 1943 US forces land on Tarawa & Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Island
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21 Nov 1943 7 Belgian ministers in London sentence King Leopold III
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22 Nov 1943 Lebanon declares independence from French administration
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22 Nov 1943 RAF begins air bombing of Berlin
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22 Nov 1943 US troops land on Abemada, Gilbert Island
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22 Nov 1943 FDR, Churchill & Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan
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23 Nov 1943 1st printing of illegal "Warheid"
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23 Nov 1943 British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operation
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23 Nov 1943 Phils owner William D Cox is permanently banned from baseball for having bet on his own team
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23 Nov 1943 US forces take control of Tarawa, Gilbert Island and Makin from Japanese
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23 Nov 1943 US forces seized control of Tarawa & Makin from Japanese
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25 Nov 1943 U-600 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
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26 Nov 1943 World War II: HMT Rohna is sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria.
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27 Nov 1943 31st CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Flying Wildcats defeat Winn Bombers, 23-14
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27 Nov 1943 Conference of Teheran (Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin)
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28 Nov 1943 World War II: Tehran Conference – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran, to discuss war strategy.
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28 Nov 1943 FDR, Churchill & Stalin met at Tehran to map out strategy
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29 Nov 1943 Partisan Tito forms temporary government in Jajce Bosnia
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29 Nov 1943 U-86 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
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29 Nov 1943 US aircraft carrier Hornet launched
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29 Nov 1943 World War II: The second session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ), held to determine the post-war ordering of the country, concludes in Jajce in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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01 Dec 1943 FDR, Churchill and Stalin agree to Operation Overlord (D-Day)
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02 Dec 1943 1st RSHA transport out of Vienna reaches Birkenau camp
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02 Dec 1943 World War II: A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks numerous cargo and transport ships, including the American SS John Harvey, which is carrying a stockpile of World War I-era mustard gas.
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03 Dec 1943 9th Heisman Trophy Award: Angelo Bertelli, Notre Dame (QB)
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03 Dec 1943 Strike of Monte Cassino, Italy begins
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04 Dec 1943 Commissioner Landis announces any baseball club may sign Negroes
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04 Dec 1943 Yugoslavian resistance forms provisionary government under Dr Ribar
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04 Dec 1943 World War II: In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile.
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04 Dec 1943 World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes down the Works Progress Administration, because of the high levels of wartime employment in the United States.
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05 Dec 1943 NFL Philadelphia Eagle-Pitts Steeler merger disolves
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05 Dec 1943 World War II: Allied air forces begin attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow.
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07 Dec 1943 Cairo: President Roosevelt travels back to the US
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10 Dec 1943 British 8th Army occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy
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13 Dec 1943 World War II: The Massacre of Kalavryta by German occupying forces in Greece.
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13 Dec 1943 150 US Marauders bomb Schiphol
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15 Dec 1943 World War II: The Battle of Arawe begins during the New Britain Campaign.
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16 Dec 1943 "Tamiami Champion" trains collide, kills 73 and injures 200
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17 Dec 1943 All Chinese are again permitted to become citizens of the United States with the repealing of the Act of 1882 and the introduction of the Magnuson Act.
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17 Dec 1943 Transport 63 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
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19 Dec 1943 Military coup in Bolivia
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20 Dec 1943 "International" is no longer USSR National Anthem
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22 Dec 1943 WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, National Institute of Arts & Letters
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22 Dec 1943 Manufacturers get permission to use synthetic rubber for baseball core
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23 Dec 1943 1st telecast of a complete opera (Hansel & Gretel), Schenectady, New York
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23 Dec 1943 General Montgomery told he is appointed commandant for D-day
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24 Dec 1943 World War II: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower is named Supreme Allied Commander for the Invasion of Normandy.
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24 Dec 1943 FDR appoints General Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces
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24 Dec 1943 Terence Rattigan's "While the Sun Shines" premieres in London
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26 Dec 1943 Earl Claus von Stauffenberg vain with bomb to Hitlers headquarter
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26 Dec 1943 World War II: German warship Scharnhorst is sunk off of Norway's North Cape after a battle against major Royal Navy forces.
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26 Dec 1943 British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst
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26 Dec 1943 Chicago Bears win NFL championship
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27 Dec 1943 German warship "Scharnhorst" sinks in Barents Sea
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27 Dec 1943 France transfers most of her powers in Lebanon to Lebanese government
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27 Dec 1943 Montgomery discusses Overlord with Eisenhower & Bedell Smith
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28 Dec 1943 World War II: After eight days of brutal house-to-house fighting, the Battle of Ortona concludes with the victory of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division over the German 1st Parachute Division and the capture of the Italian town of Ortona.
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28 Dec 1943 All inhabitants of Kalmukkie deported, about 70,000 killed
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30 Dec 1943 Subhas Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.
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30 Dec 1943 Phillies trade Babe Dahlgren to Pittsburgh for Babe Phelps & cash
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31 Dec 1943 NYC's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at the Paramount Theater
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