On July 16, 1943, Pravda reported: " Mikhoels and Feffer received a message from Chicago that a special conference of the Joint initiated a campaign to finance a thousand ambulances for the needs of the Red Army.

He and Solomon Mikhoels traveled to the United States in 1943 in a well-documented fund-raising trip.

Feffer had been an informer for the NKVD ( predecessor of the KGB ) since 1943.

The American concert singer and actor Paul Robeson met Feffer on July 8, 1943 in New York during a Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee event chaired by Albert Einstein, one of the largest pro-Soviet rallies ever held in the United States.

Despite the successful rehabilitation of over a half million disabled persons in the first eleven years after 1943, the existing program was still seen to be inadequate to cope with the nation's backlog of an estimated two million disabled.

* 1943 – World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program.

* 1943 – The, the first U. S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.

On December 30, 1943, during the Japanese occupation, Subhas Chandra Bose, who was controversially allied with the Japanese, first raised the flag of Indian independence.

* 1943 – Bicycle Day – Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.

The first confirmed outbreak outside of Africa occurred in Cyprus in 1943.

The Victory Garden, that initial ten-page story published in April, 1943 was the first of about 500 stories featuring the Disney ducks Barks would produce for Western Publishing over the next three decades, well into his purported retirement.

Included in that collection were “ Judgment Night ” ( first published in August and September, 1943 ), the lush rendering of a future galactic empire with a sober meditation on the nature of power and its inevitable loss ; “ The Code ” ( July, 1945 ), an homage to the classic Faust with modern theories and Lovecraftian dread ; “ Promised Land ” ( February, 1950 ) and “ Heir Apparent ” ( July, 1950 ) both documenting the grim twisting that mankind must undergo in order to spread into the solar system ; and “ Paradise Street ” ( September, 1950 ), a futuristic take on the Old West conflict between lone hunter and wilderness-taming settlers.

* To Al Jorden, a trombonist whom she first met when he was in Barney Rapp's Band, from March 1941 to 1943.

In 1943, Jimmy Savile launched the world's first DJ dance party by playing jazz records in the upstairs function room of the Loyal Order of Ancient Shepherds in Otley, England.

Wollheim edited the first science fiction anthology to be mass-marketed, The Pocket Book of Science Fiction ( 1943 ).

In 1943 Tommy Flowers designed and built the Colossus, the world's first fully functional, electronic, digital and programmable computer.

By March 1943, the first National Conference of the Communist Party elected Hoxha formally as First Secretary.

The term Neorealism was used for the first time for Luchino Visconti ’ s Ossessione ( 1943 ): it is considered by many to be the first Italian neorealist film.

* 1943 – The Saturday Evening Post publishes the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms in support of United States President Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union address theme of Four Freedoms.

The first five months of 1943 witnessed thousands of arrests and executions as the Gestapo exercised their powers over the German public.

This was augmented on 24 June 1943 by a long cable between Cemaes Bay in Anglesea and Port Erin, which had the world's first submerged repeater, laid by HMCS Iris.

* 1943 – Ashraf Aman, first Pakistani to reach the summit of K2

* 1943 – The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U. S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.

* 1943 – Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time.

* 1943 – In Diamond, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of an African American.

* 1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel via airplane while in office when he travels from Miami, Florida to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill.

* 1943 – Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.

He first gained worldwide fame in the Orson Welles films Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), The Magnificent Ambersons ( 1942 ), and Journey into Fear ( 1943 ), for which Cotten was also credited with the screenplay.

In late summer 1943, the SIS provided the GRU with an official report of the activities of German agents in Bulgaria and Romania, soon to be invaded by the Red Army.

After gaining independence in 1943, the Lebanese government formed an official delegation in 1944 to negotiate with the French the terms related to handing over the LAF.

Hochhuth's next play, Soldiers, Necrology on Geneva ( 1967 ), alleged that Winston Churchill was responsible for the death of the Polish Prime Minister, General Władysław Sikorski, in an airplane crash in 1943, contradicting the official version of events as an accident, and claiming that General Sikorski had been murdered on Churchill's orders.

Even though until the German putsch in August 1943, Christian's official speeches reflected the government's official policy of cooperation with the occupying forces, this did not prevent him from being seen as a man of " mental resistance ".

A confidential report from the Nazis at the time shows that in April 1943, he identified as a " collaborationist ", during " personal or official conversations.

An official history of Eglin AFB's early years cites 2 October 1943 as the date of this accident.

During the Spanish Civil War, the Nationalist forces received a powerful Telefunken transmitter as a gift of Nazi Germany to aid their propaganda efforts, and until 1943 Radio Nacional de España collaborated with the Axis powers to retransmit in Spanish news from the official radio stations of Germany and Italy.

In November 1943, at the official opening of the new Public Library of New South Wales building, William McKell, the New South Wales Premier, announced that the Library Act would be fully proclaimed from 1 January 1944.

On 1 November 1943 Bäke was promoted to Oberstleutnant der Reserve Colonel and his command of the regiment was made official.

Grand Strategy ( 6 vol 1956-60 ), official overview of the British war effort ; Volume 1: Rearmament Policy ; Volume 2: September 1939-June 1941 ; Volume 3, Part 1: June 1941-August 1942 ; Volume 3, Part 2: June 1941-August 1942 ; Volume 4: September 1942-August 1943 ; Volume 5: August 1943-September 1944 ; Volume 6: October 1944-August 1945

In May 1943, a try-out for the invasion of France, Exercise Spartan, took place and although his brigade performed well, there was no official recognition.

After the outbreak of war Lowry served as a volunteer fire watcher and became an official war artist in 1943.

Other familiar titles are: Anzio by Edward Dmytryk, in 1968, his last Hollywood film appearance ; The North Star ( 1943 ), directed by Lewis Milestone with a script by playwright Lillian Hellman, with Erich von Stroheim ; Edge of Darkness ( 1943 ), also by Milestone, his first film role, where he played his first film German soldier role, opposite Judith Anderson ; Wilson ( 1944 ), where he played the German ambassador to Washington, D. C. during World War I, Count von Bernstorff ; The Cross of Lorraine ( 1943 ), with Gene Kelly ; The Hitler Gang, playing the Nazi official Alfred Rosenberg and Romanoff and Juliet ( 1961 ), written, directed and starring Peter Ustinov, and an Italian-American adaptation of Homer's Iliad, Helen of Troy ( 1956 ), directed by Robert Wise, with Rossanna Podesta, Jacques Sernas, and in two featured roles, Tonio Selwart playing opposite a then almost unknown Brigitte Bardot, in 1956.

Continuing investigations disclosed that Dickinson had borrowed money from banks and business associates in New York up until 1941 ; however, in 1943, she was reported to have had in her possession a large number of $ 100 bills, four of which were traced to Japanese official sources that had received the money prior to the war.

From June 1943 on, an official conversion kit was produced for the Junkers Ju 88 and Dornier Do 217N fighters.

Deutsches Reich () was the official name for Germany from 1871 to 1943 in the German language, it translates literally in English to " German Empire " and appropriately " German Realm ".

This name was made the official state name only during the last two years ( 1943 – 45 ) of Nazi rule under Adolf Hitler.

Before 25 November 1943, when the official title of the regime was adopted, the names Republican State of Italy and Republican National State () were variously used.

With Ted Jolliffe as their first leader, the party nearly won the 1943 Ontario provincial election, winning 34 seats and forming the official opposition for the first time.

In 1943, when Schumacher was near death, his brother-in-law succeeded in persuading a Nazi official to have him released into his custody.

Early in 1943, a senior Japanese official in Alor Setar sent orders to Tunku to have all the trees on a rubber estate felled and have to the land planted with cotton, using forced labour.

The Home Guard's first official kill was shot down on Tyneside in 1943.