WHAT HAPPENED IN 1943.
Look what happened the 1943.

World War II: In Gibraltar, a Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into the sea in an apparent accident moments after takeoff, killing sixteen passengers on board; only the pilot survives. (4. July 1943)

World War II: An Allied invasion fleet sails for Sicily (Operation Husky, July 10, 1943). (5. July 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: Operation Husky – Allied forces perform an amphibious invasion of Sicily. (9. July 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: Allied invasion of Sicily – German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily. (11. July 1943)

World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka – German and Soviet forces engage in one of the largest tank engagements of all time. (12. July 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)

World War II: Rome is heavily bombed by more than 500 Allied aircraft, inflicting thousands of casualties. (19. July 1943)

World War II: Allied forces capture the Italian city of Palermo. (22. July 1943)

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

World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings. (24. July 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: Operation Gomorrah – The British bomb Hamburg, Germany causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians. (28. July 1943)

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

World War II: the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. President, saves all but two of his crew. (2. August 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: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily. (17. 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: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program. (17. August 1943)