WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO OCTOBER 1943
Find out what all happened February to October 1943

In Diamond, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of an African American. (14. July 1943)

Joseph Stalin disbands Comintern. (22. May 1943)

World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission. (17. August 1943)

World War II: U.S. captures Solomon Islands. (4. October 1943)

The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC. (17. May 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 cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by Allied aircraft at Suda Bay, Crete, and sunk. 2,098 Italian prisoners of war drown with it. (20. October 1943)

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

World War II: The Nazi puppet state the Italian Social Republic is founded. (23. September 1943)

World War II: General Dwight D. Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe. (11. February 1943)

World War II: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny. (12. September 1943)

World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany. (13. October 1943)

World War II: The Russian city of Bryansk is liberated from Germans. (17. September 1943)

World War II: Operation Gomorrah – The British bomb Hamburg, Germany causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians. (28. July 1943)

The USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned. (31. August 1943)

Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in the The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series. (6. March 1943)

Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka. (2. August 1943)

The Rayleigh bath chair murder occurred in Rayleigh, Essex, England. (23. July 1943)

The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin. (27. February 1943)