WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO OCTOBER 1943
Find out what all happened January to October 1943

World War II: The Kraków Ghetto is "liquidated". (14. March 1943)

World War II: Battle of the Bismarck Sea – United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships. (2. March 1943)

World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca. (24. January 1943)

World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins. (19. February 1943)

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

World War II: Red Army troops re-enter Kharkov. (16. February 1943)

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

Burma Railway (Burma-Thailand Railway) is completed. (17. October 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. (7. September 1943)

The Parícutin volcano begins to form in Parícutin, Mexico. (20. February 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)

José P. Laurel takes the oath of office as President of the Philippines (Second Philippine Republic). (14. October 1943)

German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government. (29. August 1943)

Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International). (15. May 1943)

The Holocaust: Sobibor extermination camp is closed. (17. October 1943)

Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends. (16. May 1943)

World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov – the Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting. (15. March 1943)

World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel by airplane while in office when he travels from Miami to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill. (14. January 1943)

The American Eighth Air Force loses 60 B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers in aerial combat during the second mass-daylight air raid on the Schweinfurt ball-bearing factories in western Nazi Germany. (14. October 1943)

World War II: Troops of Montgomery's 8th Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German-Italian Panzer Army. (23. January 1943)