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Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Events of 1943

January

• January 4 - End of term for Culbert Olson, 29th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Earl Warren.
• January 11
  • The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China.
  • General Juanto dies in Argentina - Ramón Castillo succeeds him
• January 12 - Dutch journalist and writer Jan Campert, dies in Neuengamme concentration camp
• January 13 - Helmut Schenk is the first person to use an ejection seat from an aircraft
• January 14 - Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel by airplane while in office (Miami, Florida to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill to discuss World War II).
• January 15
  • WWII: Japanese are driven off Guadalcanal.
  • The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.
• January 18
  • WWII: Soviet officials announce they have broken the Wehrmacht's siege of Leningrad.
  • Beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
• January 23
  • WWII: British forces capture Tripoli from the Italians.
  • Duke Ellington plays at New York City's Carnegie Hall for the first time.
    • Critic and commentator Alexander Woollcott suffers an eventually fatal heart attack during a regular broadcast of the CBS Radio roundtable program "People's Platform".
• January 27 - WWII: 50 bombers mount the first all American air raid against Germany (Wilhelmshaven was the target).
• January 29 - German police arrest alleged necrophiliac Bruno Ludke

February

• February 2 - WWII: In Russia, the Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end with the surrender of the German 6th Army.
• February 3 - WWII:
  • The death of the Four Chaplains when their ship was struck by a torpedo
  • The US State Department writes that Middle-East oil is "the greatest single prize in all history."
• February 7 - WWII: In the United States, it is announced that shoe rationing will go into effect in two days.
• February 8 - WWII: Battle of Guadalcanal - United States forces defeat Japanese troops.
• February 10 - March 3 - Mohandas Gandhi keeps a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment
• February 11 - General Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
• February 14 - WWII:
  • Rostov-na-Donu, Russia is liberated.
  • Battle of the Kasserine Pass - German General Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses in Tunisia; it is the United States' first major battle defeat of the war.
• February 16 - WWII: Soviet Union reconquers Kharkov, but is later driven out in the Third Battle of Kharkov
• February 18
  • In a speech at the Berlin Sportpalast German Propagandaminister (Propaganda Minister) Joseph Goebbels declare a "Total War" against the allies
  • The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
• February 20
  • American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
  • The Mexican volcano Parícutin is born in a farmer's cornfield.
• February 22 - Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
• February 27 - The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, United States explodes, killing 74 men.
• February 28 - Operation Gunnerside, 6 Norwegians led by Joachim Ronneberg successfully attack the heavy water plant Vemork.

March

• March 1 - Heinz Guderian becomes the Inspector-General of the Armoured Troops for the German Army.
• March 2 - WWII: Battle of the Bismarck Sea - United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships.
• March 3 - 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station in London.
• March 8 - WWII: American forces are attacked by Japanese troops on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that will last five days.
• March 13
  • WWII: On Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700.
  • Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.
• March 19 - Frank Nitti suicides
• March 22 - WWII: The entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by the German occupation forces.
• March 23- the drug in Vicodin and Lortab is made in Germany.
• March 26 - WWII: Battle of Komandorski Islands - In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
• March 31 - Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! opens on Broadway, heralds a new era in "integrated" stage musicals, becomes an instantaneous stage classic, and goes on to be Broadway's longest-running musical up to that time (1948).

April

• April 3 - Shipwrecked steward Poon Lim is rescued by Brazilian fishermen after he has been adrift for 130 days
• April 13 - WWII: Radio Berlin announces the discovery by Wehrmacht of mass graves of Poles killed by Soviets in the Katyn massacre.
• April 19 - Albert Hofmann self administers the drug LSD for the first time in history, and records the details of his trip.
• April 22 - Albert Hofmann writes his first report about the hallucinogenic properties of LSD, which he first synthesized in 1938.
• April 25 - Easter occurs on the latest possible date. Last time 1886 next time 2038.
• April 27 - The U.S. Federal Writers' Project is shuttered.

May

• May 9-12 - Japanese troops carries out the Changjiao massacre in Changjiao, Hunan, China.
• May 11 - WWII: American troops invade Attu in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.
• May 12 - Trident Conference begins in Washington, D.C. with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill taking part.
• May 13 - WWII: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrend

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