WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO OCTOBER 1943
Find out what all happened July to October 1943

A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston, Texas, kills 55 people. (7. September 1943)

Double Tenth Incident in Japanese-controlled Singapore (10. October 1943)

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

World War II: Kharkov is liberated as a result of the Battle of Kursk. (23. August 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)

Burma Railway (Burma-Thailand Railway) is completed. (17. October 1943)

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

World War II: An F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception by a USN or USMC aircraft. (31. October 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: Start of the liquidation of the Ghettos in Minsk and Lida by the Nazis. (11. September 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: Naples falls to Allied soldiers. (1. October 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: The Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world's largest tank battle, begins in Prokhorovka village. (4. July 1943)

World War II: The Russian city of Bryansk is liberated from Germans. (17. September 1943)

José P. Laurel takes the oath of office as President of the Philippines (Second Philippine Republic). (14. October 1943)

The Provisional Government of Free India formally declared war on Britain and the United States of America. (24. October 1943)

Prisoners at the Nazi German Sobibor extermination camp in Poland revolt against the Germans, killing eleven SS guards, and wounding many more. About 300 of the Sobibor Camp's 600 prisoners escape, and about 50 of these survive the end of the war. (14. October 1943)

World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibór. (18. September 1943)

World War II: The Nazi puppet state the Italian Social Republic is founded. (23. September 1943)