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1943 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2027. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1943 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1943

• February 5, 1943 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Sheep in Chinese astrology.
• March 4, 1943 – World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the south-west Pacific comes to an end.
• March 21, 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.
• April 19, 1943 – Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.
• May 15, 1943 – Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International).
• May 19, 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.
• June 25, 1943 – The Holocaust: Jews in the Częstochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis.
• July 24, 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.
• October 22, 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.
• November 24, 1943 – World War II: The USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.

Who Were Born On 1943?

• January 15, 1943 – Margaret Beckett, English metallurgist and politician; Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• March 23, 1943 – Sharon Presley, American author and academic
• May 9, 1943 – Colin Pillinger, English astronomer, chemist, and academic (d. 2014)
• May 21, 1943 – Hilton Valentine, English guitarist and songwriter (The Animals)
• July 7, 1943 – Toto Cutugno, Italian singer-songwriter
• July 21, 1943 – Fritz Glatz, Austrian race car driver (d. 2002)
• October 18, 1943 – Christine Charbonneau, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
• October 29, 1943 – Don Simpson, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1996)
• December 14, 1943 – Emmett Tyrrell, American journalist, author, and publisher, founded The American Spectator
• December 22, 1943 – Paul Wolfowitz, American banker and politician, 25th United States Deputy Secretary of Defense