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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
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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 7, 1943 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allied forces in the Guadalcanal Campaign.
- February 16, 1943 – World War II: Insertion of Operation Gunnerside, Norway.
- February 27, 1943 – The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
- July 4, 1943 – World War II: In Gibraltar, a Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into the sea in an apparent accident moments after takeoff, killing sixteen passengers on board; only the pilot survives.
- August 23, 1943 – World War II: Kharkov is liberated as a result of the Battle of Kursk.
- September 18, 1943 – World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
- 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.
- December 24, 1943 – World War II: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower is named Supreme Allied Commander for the Invasion of Normandy.
Who Were Born On 1943?
- January 18, 1943 – Dave Greenslade, English keyboard player (Greenslade, Colosseum, and IF)
- February 8, 1943 – Creed Bratton, American actor and singer (The Grass Roots)
- March 11, 1943 – Arturo Merzario, Italian race car driver
- March 23, 1943 – Lee May, American baseball player and coach
- April 29, 1943 – Brenda Dean, Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde, English union leader and politician
- May 29, 1943 – Robert W. Edgar, American educator and politician (d. 2013)
- September 27, 1943 – Randy Bachman, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Guess Who, Ironhorse, Bachman–Turner Overdrive, Bachman & Turner, and Brave Belt)
- October 6, 1943 – Richard Caborn, English engineer and politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics
- October 9, 1943 – Jimmy Montgomery, English footballer and coach
- December 21, 1943 – Walter Spanghero, French rugby player