Today in History for July 1943

Months in 1943: January February March April May June August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 60 of 60

1st - "Pay-as-you-go" - 1st withholding tax from paychecks
2nd - Gulf of Biskaje: Liberator bombers sinks U-126
2nd - Indians score 12 runs in 4th inning & beat Yankees 12-0
2nd - Lt Charles Hall, becomes 1st black pilot to shoot down Nazi plane
3rd - Liberator bombers sinks U-628
5th - Battle of Gulf of Kula
5th - Battle of Koersk, USSR begins (6,000 tanks)
5th - Liberator bombers sink U-535 in Gulf of Biskaye
5th - US invasion fleet (96 ships) sails to Sicily
6th - 2nd day of battle at Kursk: 25,000 German killed
6th - US destroyer William D Porter [Willie Dee] launched
7th - -10] Japanese premier Hideki Tojo visits Java
7th - 3rd day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Dubrova
7th - Erich Hartmann shoots 7 Russian aircraft at Kursk
7th - Liberator bombers sinks U-517
7th - U-951 sunk
8th - 4th day of battle at Kursk: Gen Model uses last tank reserve
8th - British air raid sinks U-232
8th - NSB-leader A Mussert meets with Heinrich Himmler
8th - US invasion fleet passes Bizerta Tunisia
9th - 5th day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Verchopenje
9th - British air raid sinks U-435
10th - 6th day of battle at Kursk
10th - US, British and Canadian forces invade Sicily in WW II (Operation Husky)
11th - 7th day of battle at Kursk
11th - Counter attack by Hermann Goering Armour division in Sicily
11th - US 45th Division occupies airport Comiso Sicily
11th - US 82nd Airborne division shot at, by "friendly fire" in Sicily
11th - Massacres of Poles in Volhynia.
12th - Battle of Kolombangara (2nd battle of Gulf of Kula)
12th - National Committee Freies Deutschland forms
12th - Pope Pius XII receives German ambassador baron von Weizsacker
12th - Russian offensive at Orel
12th - Tank battle at Prochorowka - Russians beat Nazis, about 12,000 die
13th - 11th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Shibe Park, Philadelphia
13th - Greatest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000 tanks take part, 2,900 were lost by Germany
17th - RAF bombs Germany rocket base Peenemunde
18th - British assault on Catania Sicily
18th - Giants & Phillies strand record 30 baserunners, NY wins, 10-6
19th - 500 allied air forces raid Rome during WW II
US Admiral Chester Nimitz 20th - Joint Chiefs of Staff question adm Nimitz (landing Gilbert Island)
22nd - US forces led by Gen George Patton liberate Palermo Sicily
23rd - Battle of Koersk, USSR ends in Nazi defeat (6,000 tanks)
23rd - US 45th Infantry division occupies north coast of Termini
24th - RAF bombs Hamburg (20,000 dead)
25th - 1st warship named for a Black person, SS Leonard Roy Harmon, launched
25th - Benito Mussolini captured, dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II
25th - Opposition group Zwaantje forms in Delfzijl
25th - RAF bombs Fokker airplane factory in Amsterdam
26th - 120°F (49°C), Tishmoningo, Oklahoma (state record)
26th - Otto Skorzeny's commando group arrives in Rome
27th - 772 British bombers attack Hamburg
28th - Italian Facist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns
28th - Pres FDR announces end of coffee rationing in US
28th - World War II: Operation Gomorrah: The British bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.
Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini 29th - 1 million inhabitants flee Hamburg
29th - Nazi's evacuate Hollandsche Theater in Amsterdam
30th - Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie released (Girl Crazy)
30th - US 45th Infantry division occupies San Stefano
31st - Transport nr 58 departs with French Jews to nazi Germany

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 76 of 76

1st - Jeff Wayne, musician
2nd - Walter Godefroot, Belgian cyclist
3rd - Kurtwood Smith, New Lisbon, Wisconsin, American actor (That '70s Show, Robocop)
3rd - Gary Waldhorn, actor (To the Camp & Back)
3rd - Geraldo Rivera, [Gerry Rivers], NYC, news personality (20/20, Geraldo)
3rd - Judith Durham, singer
3rd - Norman E Thagard, Marianna Fl, MD/astro (STS 7, 51-B, 30, 42, 71, Mir)
4th - Al "Blind Owl" Wilson, rock guitarist/vocalist (Canned Heat)
4th - Dave Rowberry, rocker (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
4th - Emerson Boozer, NFL running back (NY Jet)/sportscaster
4th - Konrad "Conny" Bauer, German musician
4th - Milan Máčala, Czech football coach
5th - Robbie Robertson, [Jamie], Toronto Canada, rock guitarist (Band)
5th - Curt Blefary [Curtis Le Roy], Brooklyn, New York, American baseball player (1965 AL rookie of year, The Sporting News Rookie of the Year)
7th - Toto Cutugno, Italian singer
7th - Joel Siegel, American film critic (d. 2007)
8th - Faye Wattleton, St Louis Mo, sociologist/pres (Planned Parenthood)
9th - John H Casper, Greenville SC, USAF/astronaut (STS 36, 54, 62, 77)
10th - Arthur Ashe, tennis pro (1968 US Open, 1975 Wimbledon)
10th - Jerry Miller, Tacoma Wa, rock guitarist (Moby Grape)
11th - Susan Seaforth Hayes, SF, actress (Days of our Life, Young & Restless)
11th - Oscar D'León, Venezuelan musician
12th - Bruce Taylor, cricketer (big-hitting NZ all-rounder 1965-73)
Rock vocalist Christine McVie (12th) 12th - Christine McVie, Lancashire, rock vocalist (Fleetwood Mac-Got A Hold on Me)
12th - Ernie Anastos, Nashua NH, news anchor (WCBS, WABC)
12th - Paul Silas, NBAer (Boston Celtic, Seattle SuperSonic)
12th - Walter Murch, American film editor
13th - Danny Lockin, Lanai, Hawaii, actor/dancer (Hello Dolly), (d. 1977)
14th - Lynn Loring, NYC, actress (Patty-Fair Exchange, Barbara-FBI)
15th - Diligenti quintuplets, Buenos Aires, Argentina
15th - Jocelyn Burnell, astronomer
16th - Jimmy Johnson, NFL coach (Dallas Cowboys, Miami Dolphins)
16th - Stanley Gebler Davies, journalist/drinker
16th - Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban poet (d. 1990)
18th - Bobby Sherman, Santa Monica California, singer (Shindig, Here Comes Brides)
18th - Calvin Peete, Detroit MI, PGA golfer (1979 Greater Milwaukee Open)
18th - Robin McDonald, Scotland, rock guitarist (Billy J Kramer & Dakotas)
19th - Roy Dunbard Bridges Jr, Atlanta Ga, Col USAF/astro (STS 51-F, 61-F)
20th - Dennis Yost, Detroit, Michigan, vocalist (The Classics IV), (d. 2008)
20th - Chris Amon, Grand Prix racer
20th - Wendy Richard, English actress
21st - David Downing, NYC, actor (Backstairs at the White House)
21st - Edward Herrmann, Wash DC, actor (Day of the Dolphin, Reds)
21st - Jerry McGee, New Lexingon OH, PGA golfer (1975 Pensacola Open)
22nd - Bobby Sherman, actor/singer (Seattle)
22nd - Jimmy Castor, rocker
22nd - Yoran Ben Ami, Israel, producer/president (Triumph Pictures)
22nd - Kay Bailey Hutchison, U.S. Senator from Texas
23rd - Tony Joe White, rocker
23rd - Dr. Randall Forsberg, American nuclear freeze advocate (d. 2007)
24th - Henk Vos, chemical analyst/Dutch politician (PvdA) 2nd Chamber
24th - Jim McCarty, rocker (Yardbirds)
24th - Lyudmila Bragina, USSR, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1972)
25th - Janet Margolin, NYC, actress (Take the Money & Run, David & Lisa)
25th - Jim McCarty, Liverpool, rock drummer (Yardbirds-For Your Love)
25th - Roy Acuff Jr, rocker
26th - Mick Jagger, English, rock vocalist (Rolling Stones)
26th - Peter Hyams, director (2010, Capricorn 1, Relic, Timecop)
26th - Roger Smalley, composer
27th - Al Ramsey, NJ, rocker (Gary Lewis & the Playboys-This Diamond Ring)
27th - Stu Gilliam, Detroit, actor/comedian (Roll Out, Harris & Company)
Hall of Fame Basketball/US Senator Bill Bradley (28th) 28th - Bill Bradley, Crystal City Ms, Basketball player (NY Knicks), Democratic US Senator (1979-1997)
28th - Lawrence Elkins, football player FL (Houston Oilers)
28th - Mike Bloomfield, Chicago Ill, blues guitarist/singer (Analine)
28th - Richard Wright, Hatch End, Middlesex, English singer/songwriter (Pink Floyd-Time, Echoes)
29th - Charles Hallahan, actor (Hunter)
29th - Ingrid Kramer, Dresden Germany, diver (Olympic-gold-1964)
29th - Roz Kelly, Mt Vernon NY, actress (Owl & Pussycat, Happy Days)
29th - David Taylor, English snooker player
30th - Henri-François Gautrin, Quebec politician
31st - Carla Glasgow, LPGA golfer
31st - Lobo, [Kent Lavoie], rocker
31st - Stephanie Forrester (Bold & the Beautiful)
31st - Susan Flannery, NYC, actress (Leslie Stewart-Dallas)
31st - William Bennett, US Secretary of Education (1985-88)/drug tsar
31st - Sab Shimono, Japanese-American actor

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

5th - Actress Betty Grable (26) weds big band leader Harry James (27)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 24 of 24

1st - Auguste Reitsma, Dutch resistance fighter (census director), executed
1st - C Bakker, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1st - C L Barentsen, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1st - Coos Hartogh, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1st - Cor Roos, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1st - Henri Halberstadt, Dutch resistance fighter (census dir), executed
1st - Johan Brouwer, hispanist/writer/Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1st - Koen Limperg, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1st - Sam Bloemgarten, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1st - Willem Arondeus, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1st - Willem Brouwer, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
4th - Wladyslaw Sikorski, gen/PM of Poland in exile (1939-43), dies at 62
8th - Harry Oakes, Canadian ruler of Bahamas, murdered
8th - Jean "Max" Moulin, French resistance fighter, executed
10th - Arthur Finlay Nevin, composer, dies at 72
13th - Kurt Huber, German philosopher/resistance fighter, dies at 50
14th - Johannes F "Frits" Bakker Sr, actor, dies at 74%
21st - Charles William Paddock, 100m runner (Olympic-gold-1920), dies at 42
23rd - Emanuel Querido, publisher (Sobibor), dies
23rd - Meijer de Hond, [Emanuel Querido], rabbi (Sobibor), dies
27th - Godfrey Cripps, cricketer (1st Currie Cup-winning captain), dies
27th - H B G Austin, cricketer (capt of 1923 WI team to England), dies
30th - Benjamin James Dale, composer, dies at 58
31st - Hedley Verity, cricketer (144 wickets in 40 Tests), dies in POW camp