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In 1943, at the age of eighteen, Richard Burton ( who had now taken his teacher's surname but would not change it by deed poll for several years ), was allowed into Exeter College, Oxford for a special term of six months study, made possible because he was an air force cadet obligated to later military service.
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From 1940 to 1943, the Italian Royal Navy ( Regia Marina Italiana ) established BETASOM, a submarine base at Bordeaux.
She died on 22 December 1943 at her home in Near Sawrey at age 77, leaving almost all her property to the National Trust.
Potter died of complications from pneumonia and heart disease on 22 December 1943 at Castle Cottage.
The thermosetting phenolic resin was at one point considered for the manufacture of coins, due to a shortage of traditional material ; in 1943, Bakelite and other non-metal materials were tested for usage for the one cent coin in the US before the Mint settled on zinc-coated steel.
In the summer of 1943 the Wehrmacht launched another combined forces offensive operation – Zitadelle ( Citadel ) – against the Soviet salient at Kursk.
In 1943, Pasternak was finally granted permission to visit the soldiers at the front.
During the summer of 1943 – 44, he played for tips at the Maxwell Street market in a band with Earl Hooker.
In 1943 he married Ethelwyn Edith Graves ( born 1915 ), a nurse tutor at Middlesex Hospital, with whom he was to have two children.
Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill met at the Cairo Conference ( 1943 ) | Cairo Conference in 1943 during World War II. With the attack on Pearl Harbor and the opening of the Pacific War, China became one of the Allied Powers.
For the years 1942 – 1943 Alston was stationed in the army at Fort Huachuca in Arizona.
Filet crochet by an internee at Manzanar War Relocation Center, 1943.
* 1943 – Subhas Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.
Blyton and Darrell Waters married at the City of Westminster Register Office on 20 October 1943, and she subsequently changed the surname of her two daughters to Darrell Waters.
Besides those six camps, there existed the little-known Maly Trostenets extermination camp, at Minsk, Belarus, in the anti-Communist Lokot Republic ( July 1942 – August 1943 ) established in the Nazi-occupied USSR ; similar camps existed at Warsaw and Janowska.
The camps at Treblinka, Bełżec, and Sobibor, were constructed during Operation Reinhard ( October 1941 – November 1943 ), for the extermination of Poland's Jews.
( 1942 ), We Dive at Dawn ( 1943 ), Millions Like Us ( 1943 ) and The Way Ahead ( 1944 ).
Opinion is divided on the noir status of several of Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers from the era ; at least four qualify by consensus: Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ), Notorious ( 1946 ), Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ), and The Wrong Man ( 1956 ).
The Four Freedoms Monument was created in 1941, and was dedicated at Madison Square Garden in New York in 1943.
* 1943 – A fire breaks out at St. Joseph's Orphanage, County Cavan, Ireland, killing 36 people ( 35 of whom are children ).
In November 1943, Orwell was appointed literary editor at Tribune, where his assistant was his old friend Jon Kimche.
After completing the 10-month course, he was commissioned as an ensign in the U. S. Naval Reserve at Corpus Christi, Texas on June 9, 1943, just three days before his 19th birthday, which made him the youngest naval aviator to that date.
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William Hearst died in 1951, at age 88, and was succeeded by Richard E. Berlin as chief executive officer ; Berlin had served as president of the company since 1943.
A member of Doriot's fascist Parti Populaire Français from age 20, Maurice Duverger completed his studies in from the Bordeaux Department of Law in 1942, before lecturing in law at Poitiers in 1942, and Bordeaux in 1943 ( where he would, in 1948, found the Institut d ' Études Politiques as its first director ).
Stassen had been elected governor of Minnesota at the age of 31 ; he resigned as governor in 1943 to serve in the wartime Navy.
In 1943 Altman joined the United States Army Air Forces at the age of 18.
In 1943, at the age of 19, he dropped out of school, and joined the U. S. Navy, where he eventually became interested in pharmacology .< ref name =" nyt ">
Her second husband, whom she married ( at age 39 ) in 1943, was Richard Ney ( 1916 – 2004 ), the younger actor ( 27 years old ) who played her son in Mrs. Miniver.
He died in 1943 at the age of seventeen when his truck was ambushed by Chetniks.
In 1943, American Decca ushered in the age of the original cast album in the United States, when they released an album set of nearly all the songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma !, performed by the same cast who appeared in the show on Broadway, and using the show's orchestra, conductor, chorus, and musical and vocal arrangements.
Although he started drawing at an early age, Franquin got his first actual drawing lessons at École Saint-Luc in 1943.
To the surprise of his family, Liam decided to seek election to Dáil Éireann in the 1943 general election and was elected as a Teachta Dála ( TD ) for Dublin County at the age of 23, sitting in the 11th Dáil alongside his father W. T. Cosgrave who was one of the founders of the Irish Free State in the 1920s.
Lyman was excommunicated on November 12, 1943 at age 73.
Drum upon his mandatory retirement at age 64 in October 1943.
By 1943, at the age of 27, she was already playing mother roles, in such movies as A Tree Grows In Brooklyn.
She did not get the part, but in 1943, at age 18, she appeared in a bit part in the film The Gang's All Here.
She herself fought a long battle with tuberculosis to which she succumbed to in 1943 at the age of 52.
Klavdiya Kalugina, one of the youngest Soviet female snipers ( age 17 at the start of her military service in 1943 )
At the age of 19 she appeared in her first film, Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour ( 1943 ).
Edsel Ford died due to stomach cancer in 1943 at ' Gaukler Point ' in Grosse Pointe Shores at the age of 49.
He dropped out of high school at age 17 to join the Navy in 1943 and was stationed on repair vessels in the South Pacific.
In 1943 at the age of 16, he was accepted into Jack Teagarden's band, and because of his youth he became Teagarden's ward.
At the age of thirty, he enrolled in the Territorial Army, and was dispatched to the Gold Coast from 1942 to July 1943.
He returned to Sydney, moving in with his sister in March, 1943, where he became increasingly ill ( as well as temperamental and difficult ) until his premature death at the age of 25 on 23 July of that same year.
In 1943, at the age of 17, he won the Leventritt award and the Philadelphia Youth Award.
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