WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO AUGUST 1943
Find out what all happened February to August 1943

In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines clash with Latino youths in the Zoot Suit Riots. (3. June 1943)

The Parícutin volcano begins to form in Parícutin, Mexico. (20. February 1943)

The Detroit Race Riot breaks out and continues for three more days. (20. June 1943)

World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily – German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily. (11. July 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)

World War II: Operation Husky – Allied forces perform an amphibious invasion of Sicily. (9. July 1943)

World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the coast of Queensland. (14. May 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)

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)

World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government in exile in London from the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility. (13. April 1943)

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

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

Holocaust: In Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city of Terebovlia to the nearby village of Plebanivka where they are shot dead and buried in ditches. (7. April 1943)

World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands – In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska. (27. March 1943)

The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Auschwitz concentration camp. (24. May 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)

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: Battle of the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins. (19. February 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)