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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.
• April 7, 1943 – Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation.
• April 18, 1943 – World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
• June 23, 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.
• July 11, 1943 – Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army within the Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Volhynia) peak.
• August 2, 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.
• October 19, 1943 – The cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by Allied aircraft at Souda Bay, Crete, and sunk. Two thousand ninety-eight Italian prisoners of war drown with it.
• October 24, 1943 – The Provisional Government of Free India formally declares war on Britain and the United States of America.
• November 18, 1943 – World War II: Battle of Berlin: Four hundred forty Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF loses nine aircraft and 53 air crew.
• December 2, 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.

Who Were Born On 1943?

• March 25, 1943 – Paul Michael Glaser, American actor and director
• April 6, 1943 – Max Clifford, English journalist and publicist
• May 16, 1943 – Marko Kravos, Italian-Slovenian poet and translator
• August 16, 1943 – Sharon Baird, American actress and dancer
• September 7, 1943 – Beverley McLachlin, Canadian lawyer and jurist, 17th Chief Justice of Canada
• September 27, 1943 – Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta
• October 5, 1943 – Ben Cardin, American lawyer and politician
• November 5, 1943 – Percy Hobson, Australian high jumper
• December 21, 1943 – André Arthur, Canadian journalist and politician
• December 23, 1943 – Ron Allen, American baseball player