WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO APRIL 1943
Find out what all happened February to April 1943

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

World War II: American bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. The target is the Erla factory one kilometer from the residential area hit. (5. April 1943)

Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in the The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series. (6. March 1943)

World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov – the Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting. (15. March 1943)

Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through. Von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion. (21. March 1943)

Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard. (19. March 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: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated. (14. February 1943)

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

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

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

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

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

World War II: Red Army troops re-enter Kharkov. (16. February 1943)

World War II: In Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews. (19. April 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)

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

World War II: the entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces. (22. March 1943)