WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO DECEMBER 1943
Find out what all happened February to December 1943

World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews. (18. September 1943)

The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC. (17. May 1943)

World War II: American troops invade Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces. (11. May 1943)

World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy. (9. September 1943)

World War II: the Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams. (17. May 1943)

The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Auschwitz concentration camp. (24. May 1943)

World War II: the entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces. (22. March 1943)

The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson's birth. (13. April 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. (7. February 1943)

The Detroit Race Riot breaks out and continues for three more days. (20. June 1943)

Tokyo City merges with Tokyo Prefecture and is dissolved. Since then, no city in Japan has had the name "Tokyo" (present-day Tokyo is not officially a city). (1. July 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. (2. December 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. (2. August 1943)

World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka – German and Soviet forces engage in one of the largest tank engagements of all time. (12. July 1943)

World War II: Rome is heavily bombed by more than 500 Allied aircraft, inflicting thousands of casualties. (19. July 1943)

A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo. (4. June 1943)

World War II: In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile. (4. December 1943)

World War II: In Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews. (19. April 1943)

Prisoners at the Nazi German Sobibor extermination camp in Poland revolt against the Germans, killing eleven SS guards, and wounding many more. About 300 of the Sobibor Camp's 600 prisoners escape, and about 50 of these survive the end of the war. (14. October 1943)

World War II: After eight days of brutal house-to-house fighting, the Battle of Ortona concludes with the victory of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division over the German 1st Parachute Division and the capture of the Italian town of Ortona. (28. December 1943)