WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JUNE 1943
Find out what all happened January to June 1943

World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island. (18. April 1943)

World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war. (14. January 1943)

The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson's birth. (13. April 1943)

The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted. (25. April 1943)

Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York. (11. January 1943)

World War II: In London, England, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station. (3. March 1943)

Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time. (23. January 1943)

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

World War II: The VIII Bomber Command dispatched ninety-one B-17s and B-24s to attack the U-Boat construction yards at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. This was the first American bombing attack on Germany of the war. (27. January 1943)

First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom. (5. March 1943)

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

The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia. (15. January 1943)

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

The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków. (13. March 1943)

World War II: The Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begins. (15. January 1943)

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common carriers and public utilities. (8. April 1943)

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

World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated. (14. February 1943)

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