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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in July 1943.
The US president was Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was Winston Churchill (Conservative), Pope Pius XII was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on July 1943: find out below

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Historical Events

Which were the important events of July 1943?

Events

  • 01 Jul 1943 Pay-as-you-go - 1st withholding tax from paychecks
  • 02 Jul 1943 Gulf of Biskaje: Liberator bombers sinks U-126
  • 03 Jul 1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-628
  • 05 Jul 1943 Battle of Koersk, USSR begins (6,000 tanks)
  • 06 Jul 1943 2nd day of battle at Kursk: 25,000 German killed
  • 07 Jul 1943 3rd day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Dubrova
  • 08 Jul 1943 4th day of battle at Kursk: General Model uses last tank reserve
  • 09 Jul 1943 5th day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Verchopenje
  • 10 Jul 1943 US and Britain invade Sicily in WWII (Operation Husky)
  • 11 Jul 1943 Counter attack by Hermann Goering Armour division in Sicily
  • 12 Jul 1943 Battle of Kolombangara (2nd battle of Gulf of Kula)
  • 13 Jul 1943 11th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Shibe Park, Philadelphia
  • 14 Jul 1943 In Diamond, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of an African American.
  • 17 Jul 1943 United Artists releases Disney's animated and live-action feature film Victory Through Air Power to theaters.
  • 18 Jul 1943 British assault on Catania Sicily
  • 19 Jul 1943 500 allied air forces raid Rome during WWII
  • 20 Jul 1943 Joint Chiefs of Staff question Admiral Nimitz
  • 22 Jul 1943 US forces led by General George Patton liberate Palermo Sicily
  • 23 Jul 1943 Battle of Koersk, USSR ends in Nazi defeat (6,000 tanks)
  • 24 Jul 1943 RAF bombs Hamburg (20,000 dead)
  • 25 Jul 1943 1st warship named for a Black person, SS Leonard Roy Harmon, launched
  • 26 Jul 1943 120 degrees F (49 degrees C), Tishmoningo, Oklahoma (state record).
  • 27 Jul 1943 772 British bombers attack Hamburg
  • 28 Jul 1943 President Franklin Roosevelt announces end of coffee rationing in the US.
  • 29 Jul 1943 1 million inhabitants flee Hamburg
  • 30 Jul 1943 Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie released (Girl Crazy)
  • 31 Jul 1943 Transport nr 58 departs with French Jews to Nazi Germany
  • 01 Jul 1943 The City of Tokyo and the Prefecture of Tokyo are both replaced by the Tokyo Metropolis.

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