She was the John Harvey, one of those Atlantic sea-horses that had sailed to Bari to bring beans, bombs, and bullets to the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, to Field Marshal Montgomery's Eighth Army then racing up the calf of the boot of Italy in that early December of 1943.

It was the night of December 2, 1943, and it was growing dark in Bari.

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.

The Daily Telegraph and the Morning Post on 21 December 1943 wrote that he had been saved by penicillin.

Helen Beatrix Potter ( 28 July 186622 December 1943 ) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children ’ s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.

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.

In December 1943, President Roosevelt decided that Eisenhower — not Marshall — would be Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.

* " Flying Plywood With A Sting ": Popular Science article, December 1943

On 24 December 1943, Tribune published, under the authorship of " John Freeman " – possibly in reference to the British politician – the short essay " Can Socialists Be Happy?

The camp was dismantled by December 1943.

The Mk I Colossus was built between March and December 1943 by Tommy Flowers and his colleagues at the Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill in London and then shipped to Bletchley Park in January 1944.

In December 1943, a third resistance organization, an anticommunist, anti-German royalist group known as Legaliteti, took shape in Albania's northern mountains.

Harry Julius Shearer ( born December 23, 1943 ) is an American actor, humorist, writer, voice artist, musician, author, radio host and filmmaker.

Shearer was born December 23, 1943 in Los Angeles, California, the son of Dora Warren ( née Kohn ), a book-keeper, and Mack Shearer.

Jean Philippe Rushton ( born December 3, 1943 ) is a Canadian psychology professor at the University of Western Ontario who is most widely known for his work on racial group differences, such as research on race and intelligence, race and crime, and the application of r / K selection theory to humans in his book Race, Evolution and Behavior ( 1995 ).

James Logan Jones, Jr. ( born December 19, 1943 ) is the former United States National Security Advisor and a retired United States Marine Corps General.

50 stills from the filming in Krün near Mittenwald were later found and from these, surviving prisoners were able to identify 29 camp inmates who worked for Riefenstahl and were then deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in the first weeks of March 1943 following Himmler ’ s December 1942 decree.

Through this door, 64 prisoners escaped on 25 December 1943.

Peter Guralnick ( born December 15, 1943, in Boston, Massachusetts ) is an American music critic, writer on music, and historian of US American popular music, who is also active as an author and screenwriter.

* Tehran Conference, 28 November to 1 December 1943

The Army Air Forces in World War II, Volume Two: Europe, Torch to Pointblank, August 1942 to December 1943.

During the early period of American involvement in World War II ( December 7, 1941 – September 22, 1943 ), the Purple Heart was awarded both for wounds received in action against the enemy and for meritorious performance of duty.

During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany Frisch was imprisoned in Bredtveit concentration camp from 17 October 1943, then in Berg concentration camp from 22 November 1943, then in Grini concentration camp from 9 December 1943 to 8 October 1944.

* Rosa Parks Day ( United States ) ( see December 1 )

On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled.

Seat layout on the bus where Parks sat, December 1, 1955.

After working all day, Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus around 6 p. m., Thursday, December 1, 1955, in downtown Montgomery.

On the day of Parks ' trial — December 5, 1955 — the WPC distributed the 35, 000 leaflets.

Parks on a Montgomery bus on December 21, 1956, the day Montgomery's public transportation system was legally integrated.

But the best and certainly a more nearly contemporary analogy is with Rosa Parks ' refusal to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in December 1955, which sparked the modern civil rights movement.

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks ( the " mother of the Civil Rights Movement ") refused to give up her seat on a public bus to make room for a white passenger.

" On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Following a December 1966 recording session in which he was involved in a heated argument with Mike Love ( who vehemently criticized his lyrics for the song " Cabin Essence ") Parks ' involvement in SMiLE effectively ceased and he officially withdrew from the project in early 1967.

It is one of Tasmania's newer National Parks, having been declared on 27 December 1989.

In December 1994, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee officially extended the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves Australia ( CERRA ) World Heritage Area over the Scenic Rim ( including Main Range, Mount Barney, Lamington and Springbrook National Parks and Goomburra Forest Reserve ) and the rainforests of northern New South Wales.

Larry Parks ( December 13, 1914 – April 13, 1975 ) was an American stage and movie actor.

Seat layout on the bus where Parks sat, December 1, 1955.

The campaign lasted from December 1, 1955, when Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person, to December 20, 1956, when a federal ruling, Browder v. Gayle, took effect, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses to be unconstitutional.

On Thursday, December 1, 1955, Parks was sitting in the frontmost row for black people.

Found guilty on December 5, Parks was fined $ 10 plus a court cost of $ 4 ', but she appealed.

As an officer of the Montgomery, Alabama NAACP, he organized the first mass meeting of the Montgomery Bus Boycott to protest Rosa Parks ' arrest on December 1, 1955.

On December 2, 1955, in response to the arrest of his NAACP co-worker Rosa Parks, Abernathy and his friend, Martin Luther King, organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott and co-founded the American Civil Rights Movement.

Cooder performed with Bob Dylan and Van Dyke Parks on the documentary broadcast on December 13, 2009 on the History Channel.

In December 2008, Vernon De Maynard, ( Chair – Clapham Park West Residents Association ( CPWRA )) contacted Lambeth Parks to find out why the pond and community garden had been allowed to fall into a state of disrepair.

The Manaslu Conservation Area, declared as such in December 1998 under the National Parks and Wild Life Conservation Act, subsumes Manaslu within it.

* December 11 — William Parks, geologist and paleontologist ( died 1936 )