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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

• January 30, 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.
• February 5, 1943 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Sheep in Chinese astrology.
• February 14, 1943 – World War II: Tunisia Campaign – General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim’s Fifth Panzer Army launches a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia.
• April 25, 1943 – The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted.
• June 12, 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.
• July 19, 1943 – World War II: Rome is heavily bombed by more than 500 Allied aircraft, inflicting thousands of casualties.
• August 31, 1943 – USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
• October 13, 1943 – World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany.
• October 21, 1943 – The Provisional Government of Free India is formally declared by Subhas Chandra Bose.
• 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?

• February 5, 1943 – Michael Mann, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• February 9, 1943 – Joe Pesci, American actor, singer, and producer
• March 9, 1943 – Trish Van Devere, American actress
• March 15, 1943 – The Iron Sheik, Iranian-American wrestler and actor
• March 22, 1943 – George Benson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Fuse One)
• April 24, 1943 – Hew Pike, English general
• July 11, 1943 – Oscar D'León, Venezuelan bass player (Dimensión Latina)
• July 26, 1943 – Mick Jagger, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (The Rolling Stones and SuperHeavy)
• October 1, 1943 – Angèle Arsenault, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
• November 7, 1943 – Joni Mitchell, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist