December 1943 calendar

Events

• 01 Dec 1943 FDR, Churchill and Stalin agree to Operation Overlord (D-Day)
• 02 Dec 1943 A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks numerous cargo and transport ships, including an American Liberty ship, the John Harvey, with a stockpile of World War I-era mustard gas.
• 03 Dec 1943 9th Heisman Trophy Award: Angelo Bertelli, Notre Dame (quarterback).
• 04 Dec 1943 Second conference of Ca?ro: US President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Turkish President In�nn.
• 05 Dec 1943 NFL Philadelphia Eagle-Pittsburgh Steelers merger dissolves.
• 07 Dec 1943 Cairo: President Roosevelt travels back to the US
• 10 Dec 1943 British 8th Army occupies Orsogna / Ortona Italy
• 13 Dec 1943 150 US Marauders bomb Schiphol.
• 17 Dec 1943 Transport 63 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
• 19 Dec 1943 Military coup in Bolivia.
• 20 Dec 1943 A military coup is staged in Bolivia.
• 22 Dec 1943 WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, National Institute of Arts & Letters
• 23 Dec 1943 First telecast of a complete opera (Hansel and Gretel), Schenectady, New York.
• 24 Dec 1943 FDR appoints General Eisenhower Supreme Commander of Allied forces
• 26 Dec 1943 British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst
• 27 Dec 1943 German warship Scharnhorst sinks in Barents Sea
• 28 Dec 1943 All inhabitants of Kalmukkie are deported, about 70,000 killed.
• 30 Dec 1943 Subhas Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.

Famous Birthday

• Jim Morrison

  American singer, songwriter, poet and cult figure, the founding member and lead singer of the legendary rock group "The Doors," a top band...

• Eva Joly

  Norwegian-born French magistrate («Juge d'instruction») and politician for Europe Écologie–The Greens.

• Keith Richards

  British musician, who formed "The Rolling Stones" with Mick Jagger in July 1962, one of the most famous groups of the wide-open '60s who...

• John Denver

  American folk singer, recording artist, club performer and actor.

• John Kerry

  American politician and attorney, this U.S.

• Hanna Schygulla

  Katowice Silesia, Poland -- Actress (Love is Colder than Death).

• Ben Kingsley

  English actor.

• Queen Silvia of Sweden
• Noëlla Pontois

  French dancer, a famed ballerina.

• Sophie Agacinski

  French actress, mostly TV and movies.

• John Bennett Ramsey
• Rick Danko

  Canadian musician, a singer and bass player with "The Band," formed in 1961 of four Canadians and an American southerner.

• René van der Linden
• Jean-Noël Kerdraon
• Walter Spanghero

  French rugby player, leader of the Spanghero tribe.

• Pan Am Flight 103
• Tarja Halonen

  Finnish politician, the first Finnish woman president.

• Graham Knight
• Anne Vanderlove
• Blandine Kriegel
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Famous Deaths

• Hobart Bosworth

  Actor (Woman of Affairs, Big Parade), dies at 76.

• Fats Waller

  American musician (Born 1904).

• John Bouber [Blom]

  Actor / Author (Bluejackets), dies at 22.

• Theo[dorus J] Thijssen

  Dutch writer (Kees de Jongen), dies at 64.

• Ilona Durigo

  Hungarian singer, dies at 62.

• Raymond Huntington Woodman

  Composer, dies at 82.

• Carlo Mierendorff

  German politician/antifascist, dies at age 46.

• Thomas W "Fats" Waller

  American jazz pianist, dies in Kansas City, Missouri at age 39.

• Hermann Lohr

  Composer, dies at 72.

• John Harvey Kellogg

  American surgeon and breakfast food manufacturer (Born 1852).

• Georges Dufrenoy

  French post-impressionnist painter (Born 1870).

• Beatrix Potter

  English writer (Born 1866).

• Steve Evans

  American baseball player (Born 1885).

• Damrong Rajanubhab

  Thai prince and historian (Born 1862).

• Nordahl Grieg

  Norwegian journalist author poet and playwright (d. 1943).

• William H Singer

  American painter/collector (Singer Museum), dies at age 75.

• Firmin Baes

  Flemish painter, dies at 69.

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