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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 3, 1943 – The SS 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 10, 1943 – World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.
• February 18, 1943 – The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
• March 14, 1943 – World War II: The Kraków Ghetto is “liquidated”.
• April 7, 1943 – The Holocaust: In Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city of Terebovlia to the nearby village of Plebanivka where they are shot dead and buried in ditches.
• August 27, 1943 – World War II: Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.
• September 7, 1943 – World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea.
• November 15, 1943 – The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put “on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps”. (See Porajmos.)
• November 22, 1943 – World War II: Cairo Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.

Who Were Born On 1943?

• January 26, 1943 – Jean Knight, American singer
• February 11, 1943 – Stan Szelest American keyboard player (The Band) (d. 1991)
• February 27, 1943 – Mary Frann, American actress (d. 1998)
• March 30, 1943 – Ken Forssi, American bass player (The Surfaris and Love) (d. 1998)
• April 5, 1943 – Max Gail, American actor and director
• June 28, 1943 – Donald Johanson, American paleontologist and academic
• June 30, 1943 – Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supremes) (d. 1976)
• July 11, 1943 – Howard Gardner, American psychologist and academic
• July 17, 1943 – LaVyrle Spencer, American author and educator
• August 7, 1943 – Mohammed Badie, Egyptian religious leader