WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO JUNE 1943
Find out what all happened May to June 1943

British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing the actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that its shooting down was an attempt to kill the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. (1. June 1943)

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

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

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

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

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

World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces. (13. May 1943)

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

World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set Monday, May 1, 1944 as the date for the Normandy landings ("D-Day"). It would later be delayed over a month due to bad weather. (19. May 1943)

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

World War II: The British destroyers HMS Eclipse and HMS Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMS Newfoundland. (23. June 1943)

World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the coast of Queensland. (14. 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)

Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). 1,180 Jews are led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and shot. (12. June 1943)

In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines clash with Latino youths in the Zoot Suit Riots. (3. June 1943)

The Holocaust: Jews in the Częstochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis. (25. June 1943)

Joseph Stalin disbands Comintern. (22. May 1943)