Page 19: Historical Events In 1943

Oct 29   Adrianus M de Young, writer (Merijntje Gijzen's youth), murdered at 55.   

Oct 29   Donald Simpson, film producer.   

Oct 30   Italian director Federico Fellini marries actress Giulietta Masina.   

Oct 31   Max Reinhardt, Austrian stage manager (Turandot), dies   

Oct 31   Wash Redskin Sammy Baugh passes for 6 touchdowns vs Bkln (48-10)   

Nov 01   Dim-out ban lifted in San Francisco Bay area.   

Nov 01   Dim-out ban lifted in SF Bay area.   

Nov 02   In a few days, 50000 Jews in the Lublin region are deported and shot in ditches behind the Majdanek gas chambers   

Nov 02   Jewish ghetto of Riga Latvia is destroyed   

Nov 03   Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 8th Symphony premieres in Moscow   

Nov 04   France arrests government of Lebanon   

Nov 05   -6] Vatican bombed   

Nov 05   Louis Schelfhout, Dutch painter/graphic artist, dies at 62.   

Nov 06   Michael Schwerner, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964   

Nov 06   Russian troops land on Kertsj peninsula   

Nov 07   Detroit Lions 0, NY Giants 0; last scoreless tie in NFL   

Nov 07   Dwight Frye, actor (Vampire Bat, Dracula), dies at 44.   

Nov 09   Bernhard Lichtenberg, German clergyman/antifascist, dies at 67.   

Nov 10   The U.S. State Department demolishes FDR's plan to set up refugee camps in North Africa and Southern Europe   

Nov 12   Brian Hyland, Queens NY, rocker (She Wore an Itsy Bitsy ... Bikini)   

Nov 12   Landwacht (NSB-political party) forms in Netherlands   

Nov 14   Chic Bear Sid Luckman passes for 7 touchdowns vs NY Giants (56-7).   

Nov 16   Marcel Verhamme, Belgian resistance fighter, executed.   

Nov 16   World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway   

Nov 17   Paul Charles Rene Landormy, composer, dies at 74.   

Nov 18   1st US ambassador to Canada, Ray Atherton, nominated.   

Nov 19   Andre Antoine, French stage manager (Theatre Antoine), dies at 85   

Nov 19   U-536 sinks in Atlantic Ocean.   

Nov 20   U-538 sinks in Atlantic Ocean   

Nov 20   US forces land on Tarawa and Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Island   

Nov 21   7 Belgian ministers in London sentence King Leopold III.   

Nov 21   Jacques Laffite, French Grand Prix driver is born.   

Nov 22   Billie Jean King (Moffitt) (tennis 20 Wimbledon titles).   

Nov 22   FDR, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan.   

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Jan 02   Barış manço: Turkish singer and television producer    

Jan 04   Tom wilkinson: Cfl qb (edmonton eskimos)   

Jan 04   Doris kearns goodwin: American writer   

Jan 05   Eusebio de silva ferreira: Mozamb/port soccer star (europa cup 1 1962)   

Jan 05   Ferreira da silva eusebio: Brazilan intl soccer player   

Jan 06   Osvaldo soriano: Writer   

Jan 06   Paul james nunn: Mountaineer   

Jan 06   Terry venables: British soccer player/manager   

Jan 01   Colonel andrew summers rowan: U.s. military officer who gave "a message to garcia" (b. 1857)   

Jan 03   Sir walter james: Premier of western australia (b. 1863)   

Jan 05   George washington carver: Famous black scientist,    

Jan 07   Nikola tesla: Yugoslavian physicist (tesla motor),    

Jan 08   Richard hillary: Australian spitfire pilot and author (b. 1919)   

Jan 09   Robin g collingwood: English philosopher (roman britain),   

Jan 10   Agustin p justo y rolon: Pres argentina (1931-38),   

Jan 11   Carlo tresca: Ny's italian newspaper editor/anti-fascist, murdered