1943
This is an article about the year 1943. For the Nintendo game, see 1943 .
1943 is a common year starting on Friday .
Events
January
January 4 - End of term for Culbert Olson , 29th Governor of California . He is succeeded by Earl Warren .
January 11 - The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China .
January 11 - General Juanto dies in Argentina - Ramon Castillo succeeds him
January 12 - Jan Campert , Dutch journalist and writer, dies in Neuengamme concentration camp
January 13 - Richard Moll , actor
January 14 - Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel by airplane while in office (Miami, Florida to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill to discuss World War II ).
January 15 - World War II : Japanese are driven off Guadalcanal .
January 15 - The world's largest office building, The Pentagon , is dedicated (Arlington, Virginia ).
January 18 - World War II : Soviet officials announce they have broken the Wehrmacht 's siege of Leningrad .
January 18 - The Jews in the Warsaw ghetto rise up for the first time.
January 23 - World War II : British forces capture Tripoli from the Nazis .
January 23 - In Spearfish, South Dakota , temperature rises from -20 to +7 degrees Celsius in two minutes
January 23 - Duke Ellington plays at New York City 's Carnegie Hall for the first time.
January 24 - World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca .
January 27 - World War II: 50 bombers mount the first all American air raid against Germany (Wilhelmshaven was the target).
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November
November 1 - World War II: In Operation Goodtime , United States Marines land on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands .
November 2 - World War II: In the early morning hours, American and Japanese ships fight the inconclusive Battle of Empress Augusta Bay off Bougainville .
November 2 - World War II: British troops, in Italy, reach the Garigliano River .
November 15 - Porajmos : German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies and "part-Gypsies" were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps ."
November 16 - World War II: After flying from Britain , 160 American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German -controlled Vemork , Norway .
November 16 - World War II: Japanese submarine sinks surfaced USA submarine USS Corvina near Truk
November 18 - World War II: 440 Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF lost nine aircraft and 53 aviators.
November 20 - World War II: Battle of Tarawa begins - United States Marines land on Tarawa and Makin atolls in the Gilbert Islands and take heavy fire from Japanese shore guns.
November 22 - World War II: War in the Pacific - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt , British Prime Minister Winston Churchill , and ROC leader Chiang Kai-Shek meet in Cairo , Egypt , to discuss ways to defeat Japan .
November 22 - Lebanon gains independence from France .
November 23 - The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg was destroyed. It was rebuilt in 1961 and called the Deutsche Oper Berlin .
November 25 - World War II : Americans and Japanese fight the naval Battle of Cape St. George between Buka and New Ireland .
November 28 - World War II: Tehran Conference - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt , British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran to discuss war strategy (on November 30 they established an agreement concerning a planned June 1944 invasion of Europe codenamed Operation Overlord ).
November 29 - Second session of AVNOJ , the Anti-fascist council of national liberation of Yugoslavia , is held in Jajce , Bosnia and Herzegovina , determining the post-war ordering of the country.
December
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Births
January
January 2 - Baris Manco , Turkish celebrity
January 4 - Doris Kearns Goodwin , writer
January 6 - Terry Venables , football (soccer) manager
January 10 - Jim Croce , singer (d. 1973 )
January 11 - Jim Hightower , radio host, author
January 16 - Brian Ferneyhough , composer
January 18 - Kay Granger , American politician
January 19 - Janis Joplin , blues singer (d. 1970 )
January 19 - Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
January 24 - Sharon Tate , actress (d. 1969 )
January 25 - Tobe Hooper , director
January 26 - César Gutiérrez , Major League Baseball player (d. 2005 )
January 30 - Marty Balin , musician
February
February 2 - Erkan Genis , impressionist artist
February 3 - Blythe Danner , actress
February 4 - Alberto_João_Jardim , politician
February 5 - Nolan Bushnell , video game pioneer
February 5 - Craig Morton , US football star
February 6 - Fabian Forte , singer
February 7 - Gareth Hunt . actor
February 9 - Joe Pesci , actor
February 10 - Frank-Patrick Steckel , theater director
February 11 - Ian Cameron , British brigadier
February 12 - Samuel Karokikki , Nauruan athlete (d. 2004 )
February 13 - Geoff Edwards , game show host
February 14 - Maceo Parker , musician (P-Funk)
February 15 - Elke Heidenreich , journalist and writer
February 18 - Graeme Garden , writer, comedian, actor
February 20 - Mike Leigh , director
February 21 - David Geffen , producer
February 23 - Fred Biletnikoff , US football star, coach
February 24 - Hristo Prodanov , Bulgarian mountaineer
February 25 - George Harrison , musician, member of The Beatles (d. 2001 )
February 26 - Bill Duke , actor
February 27 - Morten Lauridsen , composer
March
March 1 - Gil Amelio , former CEO of National Semiconductor and Apple Computer , now a venture capitalist
March 2 - Peter Straub , American author
March 8 - Lynn Redgrave , English actress
March 9 - Bobby Fischer , American chess player
March 9 - Charles Gibson , American television journalist
March 15 - David Cronenberg , director
March 19 - Mario Monti , aka "Super Mario"
March 22 - Bruno Ganz , actor
March 26 - Bob Woodward , American journalist
March 29 - Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou, aka Vangelis , new age musician
March 29 - Eric Idle , actor, writer, composer
March 29 - John Major , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
March 31 - Christopher Walken , actor
April
May
May 8 - Toni Tennille , singer
May 10 - Richard (Dick) Darman , government bureaucrat and businessman
May 14 - Jack Bruce , bass guitarist
May 14 - Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson , president of Iceland
May 17 - Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin , later Raja of Perlis and Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia .
May 22 - Betty Williams , politician, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize for Peace
May 23 - John Newcombe , tennis player
May 31 - Joe Namath , American football quarterback
May 31 - Sharon Gless , actress
June
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November
November 7 - Joni Mitchell , musician
November 19 - Aurelio Monteagudo , Major League Baseball player (d. 1990 )
December 8 - James Douglas Morrison, later known as Jim Morrison , US singer, songwriter, poet (d. 1971 )
December 11 - John Kerry , politician
December 13 - Ferguson Jenkins , Baseball Hall of Famer
December 17 - Ron Geesin , musician
December 18 - Keith Richards , guitarist for The Rolling Stones
December 23 - Harry Shearer , actor, voice actor
December 24 - Tarja Halonen , President of Finland
December 31 - John Denver , American musician
Deaths
January-June
January 5 - George Washington Carver , American educator, activist, and botanist
January 7 - Nikola Tesla , physicist
January 23 - Alexander Woollcott , bon vivant
February 14 - David Hilbert , mathematician
February 17 - Armand J. Piron , jazz musician (b. 1888 )
March 3 - George Thompson , English cricketer (b. 1877 )
March 12 - Gustav Vigeland , Norwegian sculptor
March 13 - Stephen Vincent Benet , American poet (b. 1898 )
March 28 - Sergei Rachmaninoff , Russian composer and pianist
April 18 - Isoroku Yamamoto , Japanese admiral
May 26 - Edsel Ford , son of Henry Ford
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