The Ox-Bow Incident
Release year: 1943
Directed by: William A. Wellman
Starring: Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes, Anthony Quinn
Country: United States of America
May 1943 calendar
Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in May 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 May 1943: find out below
Historical Events
Which were the important events of May 1943?
Events
- 01 May 1943 Rauter signs unofficial death sentence
- 02 May 1943 German troops vacate Jefna Tunisia.
- 03 May 1943 Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed
- 05 May 1943 Postmaster General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System.
- 06 May 1943 British 1st Army opens assault on Tunis, Tunisia.
- 07 May 1943 British 11th Huzaren occupies Tunis Tunisia
- 08 May 1943 Adm Cunningham of British fleet: Sink, burn & destroy
- 09 May 1943 5th German Panser army surrenders in Tunisia.
- 11 May 1943 US 7th division lands on Attu, Aleutian, (first US territory recaptured).
- 12 May 1943 Axis forces in North Africa surrender
- 13 May 1943 German occupiers confiscate all radios
- 14 May 1943 A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the coast of Queensland.
- 15 May 1943 Halifax bombers sinks U-463
- 16 May 1943 Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends after 30 days of fighting
- 17 May 1943 The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC.
- 18 May 1943 Allied bombers attack Pantelleria in the Mediterranean Sea.
- 19 May 1943 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill pledges England's full support to US against Japan.
- 20 May 1943 French, British and US victory parade in Tunis, Tunisia.
- 22 May 1943 Stalin disbands Komintern.
- 23 May 1943 Thomas Mann begins writing his novel Dr Faustus
- 24 May 1943 U-441 shoots Sunderland seaplane down over Gulf of Biskaje
- 25 May 1943 Riot at Mobile Alabama shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers.
- 26 May 1943 Premier Churchill and General Marshall fly from US to North Africa
- 27 May 1943 US forbids racial discrimination in war industry.
- 28 May 1943 British militia reaches Tito.
- 29 May 1943 Confederacy of Algiers (Churchill-Marshall-Eisenhower)
- 30 May 1943 French general De Gaulle arrives in Algiers
- 31 May 1943 "Archie" comic strip first broadcast on radio.
Famous Birthday
Italian singer actor and winemaker (Al Bano and Romina Power).
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British comedian, actor and writer.
French tv animator, actor, journalist and estate-agent.
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Famous Deaths
Composer, dies at 45.
Composer, dies at 48.
Composer, dies at 72.
Belgian resistance fighter, hanged.
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Movies
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The More the Merrier
Release year: 1943
Directed by: George Stevens
Starring: Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn, Richard Gaines
Country: United States of America
Ossessione
Release year: 1943
Directed by: Luchino Visconti
Starring: Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Dhia Cristiani, Elio Marcuzzo
Country: United States of America
This Land Is Mine
Release year: 1943
Directed by: Jean Renoir
Starring: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak
Country: United States of America
Five Graves to Cairo
Release year: 1943
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Starring: Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim
Country: United States of America