Historical Events In 1943
May 01 Food rationing begins in US
May 22 RAF scatters first copies of "The Flying Hollander"
May 27 US forbids racial discrimination in war industry
May 18 Allied bombers attack Pantelleria in the Mediterranean Sea
May 03 Pulitzer prize awarded to Upton Sinclair (Dragon's Teeth)
May 12 Axis forces in North Africa surrender (WWII)
May 14 Australian Hospital Ship Centaur sunk by a Japanese submarine off the south Queensland coast The ship was crewed by members of the Australian merchant navy and only 64 of the 333 on board survived
May 15 Halifax bombers sinks U-463
May 25 Riot at Mobile AL shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers
May 09 Rotschild-Haddassh University Hospital opens
May 05 Postmaster General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System
May 11 US 7th division lands on Attu, Aleutian, (1st US territory recaptured)
May 25 Trident conference in Washington DC (operation plan '43 against Japan)
May 12 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in US
May 30 French General De Gaulle arrives in Algiers
May 19 Churchill pledges England's full support to US against Japan
May 16 German troops destroy synagogue of Warsaw
May 01 German Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes
May 31 "Archie" comic strip first broadcast on radio
May 18 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, in an address to the U S Congress, pledges full support in the war against Japan
May 22 Stalin disbands Komintern
May 29 Meat & cheese rationed in US
May 22 The first jet fighter is tested
May 07 US 9th Infantry division occupies Bizerta/Bensert Tunisia
May 06 British first army opens assault on Tunis
May 02 German troops vacate Jefna Tunisia
May 07 Tunis, in North Africa, captured by WW2 Allied forces
May 13 Bureau of Navigation renamed Bureau of Naval Personnel
May 07 British 11th Huzaren occupies Tunis Tunisia
May 16 Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends after 30 days of fighting
May 24 U-441 shoots Sunderland seaplane down over Gulf of Biskaje
May 07 Dutch men 18-35 obliged to report to labor camps
May 24 Admiral Dönitz stops U-boat in Atlantic Ocean
May 07 US first Armour division occupies Ferryville Tunisia
May 26 The first president of a black country to visit US (Edwin Barclay, Liberia)
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