WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO SEPTEMBER 1943
Find out what all happened April to September 1943

German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government. (29. August 1943)

The Pennsylvania Railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, killing 79 people and injuring 117 others. (6. September 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: 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: The Russian city of Bryansk is liberated from Germans. (17. September 1943)

The USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned. (31. August 1943)

World War II: Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II. (27. August 1943)

The Monterrey Institute of Technology, one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America, is founded in Monterrey, Mexico. (6. September 1943)

World War II: German forces begin their occupation of Rome. (10. September 1943)

The Municipal Theatre of Corfu is destroyed during an aerial bombardment by Luftwaffe. (13. September 1943)

World War II: Operation Mincemeat: The submarine HMS Seraph surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer. (30. April 1943)

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

World War II: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Lae_Nadzab_Airport, near Lae in the Salamaua–Lae campaign. (5. September 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)

The Holocaust: Jews in the Częstochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis. (25. June 1943)

World War II: German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohija. (11. September 1943)

World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews. (18. September 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: The Allied invasion of Italy begins on the same day that U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the Royal Navy battleship HMS Nelson off Malta. (3. September 1943)

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