WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO MAY 1943
Find out what all happened January to May 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. (30. January 1943)

World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad comes to conclusion as Soviet troops accept the surrender of 91,000 remnants of the Axis forces. (2. February 1943)

World War II: The VIII Bomber Command dispatched ninety-one B-17s and B-24s to attack the U-Boat construction yards at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. This was the first American bombing attack on Germany of the war. (27. January 1943)

World War II: Insertion of Operation Gunnerside, Norway. (16. February 1943)

World War II: The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China. (11. January 1943)

World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany. (22. February 1943)

World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated. (14. February 1943)

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

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

Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time. (23. January 1943)

World War II: Tunisia Campaign – General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim's Fifth Panzer Army launches a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia. (14. February 1943)

World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis captures the 200-ton sailing vessel Agios Stefanos and mans her with part of her crew. (17. January 1943)

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common carriers and public utilities. (8. April 1943)

The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków. (13. March 1943)

World War II: The Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begins. (15. January 1943)

American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies. (20. February 1943)

The Saturday Evening Post publishes the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms in support of United States President Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union address theme of Four Freedoms. (20. February 1943)

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

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