WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO OCTOBER 1943
Find out what all happened June to October 1943

A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston, Texas, kills 55 people. (7. September 1943)

World War II: German forces begin a massive offensive against the Soviet Union at the Battle of Kursk. Also known as Operation Citadel (5. July 1943)

World War II: Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II. (27. August 1943)

Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army within the Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Volhynia) peak. (11. July 1943)

World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibór. (18. September 1943)

World War II: The O.B.S. (German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone) in Frascati is bombed by USAAF. (8. September 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: An F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception by a USN or USMC aircraft. (31. October 1943)

World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy concludes when Heinrich von Vietinghoff, commander of the German Tenth Army, orders his troops to withdraw from Salerno. (16. September 1943)

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

World War II: Kharkov is liberated as a result of the Battle of Kursk. (23. August 1943)

World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins. (17. August 1943)

World War II: German forces begin their occupation of Rome. (10. September 1943)

World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio. (25. July 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 Rayleigh bath chair murder occurred in Rayleigh, Essex, England. (23. July 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)

The Pennsylvania Railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, killing 79 people and injuring 117 others. (6. September 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: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews. (18. September 1943)