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.

In December 1943, Parks became active in the Civil Rights Movement, joined the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP, and was elected secretary.

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.

In August 2008, it was announced that the Solomon Islands intended to open a High Commission in Suva, and in December the government of Fiji announced that it had " formally endorsed the establishment of a Resident Diplomatic Mission in Suva by the Government of the Solomon Islands ".

* December 8 – Mission La Purisima Concepcion is founded by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, becoming the 11 mission in the California mission chain.

* December 4 – Mission Santa Barbara is founded by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, becoming the 10th mission in the California mission chain.

December 4: Mission Santa Barbara is founded.

The United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina ( UNMIBH ) was an international organization formed under the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1035 on 21 December 1995.

It completed its mandate on 31 December 2002, when it was succeeded by the European Union Police Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In December 2008, the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo ( EULEX ) assumed most of UNMIK's roles, assisting and supporting the Kosovo authorities in the rule of law area, specifically in the police, judiciary and customs areas.

On December 9, Cos and the bulk of his men withdrew into the Alamo Mission on the outskirts of Bexar.

Father Amúrrio performed the Mission's first baptism on December 19 of that year ( a total of 4, 639 souls were converted at the Mission between 1776 and 1847.

On December 14, 1818, the French privateer Hipólito Bouchard, sailing under the flag of the " United Provinces of Rio de la Plata " ( Argentina ), brought his ships La Argentina and Santa Rosa to within sight of the Mission ; aware that Bouchard ( today known as " California's only pirate ") had recently conducted raids on the settlements at Monterey and Santa Barbara, Comandante Ruíz had sent forth a party of thirty men ( under the leadership of a young Spanish lieutenant named Santiago Argüello ) to protect the Mission at first news of the approach on the 13th.

Mission San Rafael Arcángel was founded in the present day location of San Rafael, California, on December 14, 1817, by Father Vicente De Sarria, as a medical asistencia (" sub-mission ") of the San Francisco Mission to treat their sick population.

Mission Santa Barbara was founded on December 4, 1786 in what is now Santa Barbara.

The San Simeon Earthquake of December 22, 2003 caused severe damage to the sanctuary at Mission San Miguel.

Mission Santa Barbara was dedicated December 4, 1786, the feast day of Saint Barbara ..

In a special election on December 3, 2002, residents voted to re-consolidate with the surrounding city of Mission, Kansas, in which the houses and street had originally been built beginning in 1937.

* 1964-In separate incidents, rebels in the Congo kill missionaries Paul Carlson, Phyllis Rine and Irene Ferrel as well as brutalizing missionary doctor Helen Roseveare ; Carlson is featured on December 4 Time magazine cover ; Hans von Staden of the Dorothea Mission proposes to Patrick Johnstone that he write the book now titled Operation World

* 1982-Story on " The New Missionary " makes December 27 cover of Time magazine ; Andes Evangelical Mission ( formerly Bolivian Indian Mission </ ref > merges into SIM ( formerly Sudan Interior Mission </ ref >

During the great geomagnetic storm of March 1989, four of the Navy's navigational satellites had to be taken out of service for up to a week, the U. S. Space Command had to post new orbital elements for over 1000 objects affected, and the Solar Maximum Mission satellite fell out of orbit in December the same year.

At the end of 2007 the EU Police Mission was extended for another two years ( from 1 January 2008 to 31 December 2009 ).

In December 1944, following the death of Field Marshal Sir John Dill, Wilson was relieved as Supreme Commander, promoted field marshal and sent to Washington to be Chief of the British Joint Staff Mission, a post he took up in January 1945.

To celebrate their 20th anniversary as a band, Shellac will return to ATP to curate once more in December 2012-so far choosing Wire, Scrawl, Mission Of Burma, The Ex + Brass Unbound, Red Fang, Shannon Wright, The Membranes, Alix, Bear Claw, Helen Money, Dead Rider, Arcwelder, Neurosis, Mono, Melt Banana, Uzeda, Prinzhorn Dance School, Three Second Kiss, Buke and Gase, Oxbow, Nina Nastasia, Zeni Geva, Bottomless Pit, Pinebender and STNNNG to play alongside them, with more to be confirmed.