WHAT HAPPENED IN 1943.
Look what happened the 1943.

World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allied forces in the Guadalcanal Campaign. (7. February 1943)

World War II: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal. (9. February 1943)

World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor. (10. February 1943)

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

World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated. (14. February 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: Red Army troops re-enter Kharkov. (16. February 1943)

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

The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement. (18. February 1943)

Joseph Goebbels delivers his Sportpalast speech. (18. February 1943)

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

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

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

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

A fire breaks out at St. Joseph's Orphanage, County Cavan, Ireland, killing 36 people (35 of whom are children). (23. February 1943)

Greek Resistance: The United Panhellenic Organization of Youth is founded is Greece. (23. February 1943)

The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men. (27. February 1943)

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

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