WHAT HAPPENED IN 1943.
Look what happened the 1943.

World War II: Kharkov is liberated as a result of the Battle of Kursk. (23. August 1943)

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

World War II: in Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation starts. (28. August 1943)

German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government. (29. August 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: 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: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Lae_Nadzab_Airport, near Lae in the Salamaua–Lae campaign. (5. September 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)

The Pennsylvania Railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, killing 79 people and injuring 117 others. (6. September 1943)

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

World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea. (7. September 1943)

World War II: The O.B.S. (German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone) in Frascati is bombed by USAAF. (8. September 1943)

World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the Allied armistice with Italy. (8. September 1943)

World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy. (9. September 1943)

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

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

World War II: Start of the liquidation of the Ghettos in Minsk and Lida by the Nazis. (11. September 1943)

World War II: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny. (12. September 1943)

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

World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy concludes when Heinrich von Vietinghoff, commander of the German Tenth Army, orders his troops to withdraw from Salerno. (16. September 1943)