October 1943 calendar

October 1943
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in October 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 October 1943: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of October 1943?

Events

01 Oct 1943 Allied forces captured Naples during WWII
02 Oct 1943 Japanse troops leave Kolombangara, Solomon Island
03 Oct 1943 British 8th army lands at Termoli, East Italy
04 Oct 1943 Corsica freed by Free French
05 Oct 1943 US air raid on Wake
06 Oct 1943 Battle at Vella Lavella, Solomon Island
07 Oct 1943 WWII: The Naples post office explosion kills 100.
08 Oct 1943 Great-Britain establishes bases on Azores
10 Oct 1943 US bombers accidentally strike Enschede Neth, causing 151 deaths
11 Oct 1943 New York Yankees beat Saint Louis Cardinals 4 games to 1, in 40th World Series, 10th World Series win - New York Yankees become first team to win ten World Series.
12 Oct 1943 US bombs Rabaul, New Britain
13 Oct 1943 Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany
14 Oct 1943 400 Jews escape in uprising at Sobibor extermination Camp in Poland
16 Oct 1943 Anti Jewish riot in Rome
17 Oct 1943 Liberators sink U-540 and U-631
18 Oct 1943 US bombing of Bougainville, Solomon Island
19 Oct 1943 Conference of foreign ministers in Moscow
20 Oct 1943 The cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by Allied aircraft at Suda Bay, Crete, and sunk. 2,098 Italian prisoners of war drown with it.
21 Oct 1943 Lucie Aubrac and others in her French Resistance cell liberate Raymond Aubrac from Gestapo imprisonment.
22 Oct 1943 World War II: in the Second firestorm raid on Germany, the Royal Air Force conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless.
23 Oct 1943 1st Jewish transport out of Rome reaches camp Birkenau
24 Oct 1943 Anti-Nazi Clandestine Radio Soldatsender Calais begins transmitting.
25 Oct 1943 Burma railroad completed and opens
26 Oct 1943 World War II: First flight of the Dornier Do 335 ''Pfeil''.
28 Oct 1943 U-220 sinks
29 Oct 1943 3 allied officers escape out camp Stalag Luft 3
30 Oct 1943 Italian director Federico Fellini marries actress Giulietta Masina
31 Oct 1943 Washington Redskins' Sammy Baugh passes for six touchdowns versus Brooklyn (48-10).

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Jeffrey MacDonald
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Lance Rentzel
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Joanna Shimkus
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