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1943 Calendar

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•  January 15, 1943 – World War II: The Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begins.
•  January 18, 1943 – Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
•  January 23, 1943 – World War II: Australian and American forces finally defeat the Japanese army in Papua. This turning point in the Pacific War marks the beginning of the end of Japanese aggression.
•  January 24, 1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.
•  February 3, 1943 – The USAT 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.
•  February 5, 1943 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Sheep in Chinese astrology.
•  February 18, 1943 – Joseph Goebbels delivers his Sportpalast speech.
•  February 20, 1943 – American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
•  February 27, 1943 – The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
•  November 22, 1943 – Lebanon gains independence from France.

•  January 1, 1943 – Don Novello, American actor
•  January 14, 1943 – Shannon Lucid, American astronaut
•  January 24, 1943 – Peter Struck, German politician
•  February 24, 1943 – Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer (d. 1984)
•  February 26, 1943 – Bill Duke, American actor and director
•  June 17, 1943 – Burt Rutan, American aerospace engineer
•  June 22, 1943 – Brit Hume, American news anchor
•  October 4, 1943 – Jimy Williams, American baseball manager
•  October 6, 1943 – Michael Durrell, American actor
•  October 22, 1943 – Jan de Bont, Dutch film director