Today in History for May 1943

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 64 of 64

1st - 1st edition of illegal "The Free Artist" appears in Amsterdam
1st - 69th Kentucky Derby: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 2:04
1st - Food rationing begins in US
1st - German Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes
1st - German plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta
1st - Rauter signs unofficial death sentence
2nd - German troops vacate Jefna Tunisia
3rd - Pulitzer prize awarded to Upton Sinclair (Dragon's Teeth)
3rd - Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed
3rd - US 1st armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia
4th - NL Ford Frick demonstrates revised balata ball to reporters by bouncing it on his office carpet ball proves to be 50% livelier
5th - Postmaster General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System
6th - British 1st army opens assault on Tunis
7th - British 11th Huzaren occupies Tunis Tunisia
7th - Dutch men 18-35 obliged to report to labor camps
7th - Liberty Ship George Washington Carver, named after scientist, launched
7th - US 1st Armour division occupies Ferryville Tunisia
7th - US 9th Infantry division occupies Bizerta/Bensert Tunisia
8th - 69th Preakness: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 1:57.4
8th - Adm Cunningham of Brit fleet: "Sink, burn & destroy; let nothing pass"
9th - 5th German Pantser army surrenders in Tunisia
9th - Rotschild-Haddassh University Hospital opens
11th - Hermann Goering-division in Tunisia surrenders
11th - US 7th div lands on Attu, Aleutian, (1st US territory recaptured)
12th - Axis forces in North Africa surrender
British war time Prime Minister Winston Churchill 12th - British premier Winston Churchill arrives in US
12th - German troops in Tunisia North Africa surrender
13th - German & Italian forces in Africa surrender
13th - German occupiers confiscate all radios
14th - Sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur off the coast of Queensland, by a Japanese submarine.
15th - Halifax bombers sinks U-463
15th - Warsaw ghetto uprising ends, in it's destruction
15th - Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International).
16th - -17th] RAF bombs Möhne & Eder (Battle of Ruhr)
16th - German troops destroy synagogue of Warsaw
16th - Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends after 30 days of fighting
17th - The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC.
17th - World War II: the Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams.
18th - Allied bombers attack Pantelleria in the Mediterranean Sea
19th - Berlin is declared "Judenrien" (free of Jews)
Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin 19th - Churchill pledges England's full support to US against Japan
20th - French, British & US victory parade in Tunis Tunisia
21st - Fastest 9 inning AL baseball game (89 mins), White Sox beat Senators
22nd - 1st jet fighter is tested
22nd - RAF scatters 1st copies of "The Flying Hollander"
22nd - Stalin disbands Komintern
23rd - -24] 826 Allied bombers attack Dortmund
23rd - Thomas Mann begins writing his novel Dr Faustus
24th - Admiral Donitz stops U-boat in Atlantic Ocean
24th - U-441 shoots Sunderland seaplane down over Gulf of Biskaje
25th - Riot at Mobile Ala shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers
25th - Trident conference in Wash DC (operation plan '43 against Japan)
26th - 1st president of a black country to visit US (Edwin Barclay, Liberia)
26th - Jews riot against Germany in Amsterdam
26th - Premier Churchill & General Marshall fly from US to North Africa
Novelist Thomas Mann 27th - French defiance under Jean Moulin meets secretly in Paris
27th - US forbid racial discrimination in war industry
28th - British militia reaches Tito
29th - Confederacy of Algiers (Churchill-Marshall-Eisenhower)
29th - Meat & cheese rationed in US
30th - French general De Gaulle arrives in Algiers
30th - US troops reconquer Attu Aleutians
31st - "Archie" comic strip 1st broadcast on radio
31st - Cards Mort Cooper pitches 1st of back-to-back one-hitters

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 78 of 78

1st - Joy Harmon, St Louis Mo, actress (Cool Hand Luke)
3rd - John Costello, historian
4th - Nickolas Ashford, SC, singer (Ashford & Simpson-Solid as a Rock)
4th - Stella Parton, sister of Dolly Parton/singer (A Woman's Touch)
4th - Mikhail Chemiakin, Russian painter
5th - Michael Palin, England, comedian (Monty Python, Fish Called Wanda)
5th - Raphael, Spanish singer
6th - Andreas Baader, leader of the German organization Red Army Faction (d. 1977)
7th - Christopher Taylor White, rocker
7th - Peter Horak, jetboat jumper
7th - Rick West, [Richard Westwood], rocker (Brian Poole & Tremeloes)
7th - Peter Carey, Australian author
8th - Paul Samwell-Smith, rocker (Yardbirds-For Your Love)
8th - Rick Samwell-Smith, rocker (Yardbirds-For Your Love)
8th - Toni Tennille, Montgomery Ala, female Beachboy (Capt & Tennille)
9th - Bruce Milner, rocker (Every Mother's Son)
9th - Maurice Foster, cricketer (West Indies batsman of 70's)
9th - Tommy Roe, rocker
10th - Bruce Raymond, jockey
10th - James Earl Chaney, US civil rights activist
10th - Andrzej Badeński, Polish athlete (400 metres) (d. 2008)
10th - David Clennon, American actor
10th - Richard Darman, American economist
11th - Arnie Satin, rocker
11th - George Edwards, composer
11th - Les Chadwick, bassist (Gerry & Pacemakers-Ferry Crossed the Mersy)
11th - Nancy Greene, Canada, giant slalom (Olympic-gold-1968)
11th - Juliet Harmer, English actress
12th - David Walker, rock keyboardist (Gary Lewis & Playboys-Diamond Ring)
12th - Linda Dano, LA California, actress (Felicia Gallant-Another World)
13th - Mary Wells, Detroit, singer (My Guy)
14th - Alan B Mollohan, (Rep-D-WV, 1983- )
14th - Dereck "Lek" Leckenby, guitarist
14th - Elizabeth Ray, Marshall NC, congressman Wayne Hays' lover
14th - Jack Bruce, Lanarkshire Scotland, bassist (Cream-White Room)
14th - Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland
15th - Harve Brosten, comedy writer/producer/director (All in the Family)
16th - Dan Coats, (Rep-R-IN, 1981- )
16th - Jon Jost, director (All the Vermeers in NY)
17th - Johnny Warren, Australian Footballer (d. 2004)
17th - Vicky Moscholiou, Greek singer (d. 2005)
18th - James Reiher, American professional wrestler
20th - Deryck Murray, cricket wicket-keeper (West Indian 1963-80)
20th - Ian Vallance, CEO (British Telecom)
20th - Tison Street, composer
20th - Al Bano, Italian singer
21st - Hilton Valentine, rock guitarist (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
22nd - Tommy John, pitcher (Yankee/Dodger)
22nd - Betty Williams, Northern Irish political activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
22nd - Gesine Schwan, German politician and science professor
23rd - John Newcombe, Australia, tennis pro (Wimbledon 1967, 70, 71)
23rd - Lars-Ake Nilsson, diplomat
23rd - Norman Johnson, singer/songwriter
23rd - Peter Kenilorea, PM Solomon Islands
24th - James Levine, British conductor
24th - Gary Burghoff, American actor
25th - John "Poli" Palmer, rocker (Family K)
25th - Leslie Uggams, NYC, singer/actress (Leslie Uggams Show, Roots)
25th - Poli Palmer, rocker (Family)
25th - Sally Jesse Raphael, TV talk show host (Sally) [or Feb 25]
25th - Wynand C Malan, South African lawyer/NP/DP-politician
25th - Jessi Colter, American singer
26th - Erica G Terpstra, Oly swimmer/Dutch MP (VVD)
27th - Bruce Weitz, Norwalk Ct, actor (Hill St Blues, Death of a Centerfold)
27th - Cilla Black, Liverpool England, rock vocalist (You're My World)
28th - Dennis Riley, composer
28th - Liz Edgar, horse show jumper
28th - Ray Mitchell, governor (Albany Prison, England)
28th - Tony Mansfield, [Anthony Bookbinder], rock drummer (Billy J Kramer)
28th - Elena Souliotis, Greek soprano (d. 2004)
29th - Bob Edgar, (Rep-D-PA, 1975-87)
29th - E Thomas Coleman, (Rep-R-MO, 1976- )
29th - Terry Pavey, editor (TV Times)
29th - Robert W. Edgar, Theologian
30th - Gale Sayers, NFL running back (Chicago Bears)
31st - Earl of Macclesfield
31st - Joe Namath, PA, NFL QB (NY Jets), $400,000 man (1969 Superbowl)
31st - Sharon Gless, LA California, actress (Chris Cagney-Cagney & Lacey)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 15 of 15

1st - Johan Oscar Smith, Norweigian Christian leader and founder of Smith's Friends (b.1871)
3rd - Leslie Heward, composer, dies at 45
8th - Mordicai Anielewicz, commander of Warsaw ghetto uprising, killed
10th - Andre Bertulot, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged
10th - Arnaud/Armand Fraiteur, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged
10th - Maurice-Albert Raskin, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged
12th - Albert Stoessel, composer, dies at 48
14th - Henri La Fontaine, Belgian Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1854)
16th - Alfred Hoche, German psychiatrist (b. 1865)
17th - Montagu Love, actor (Wind), dies at 65
19th - Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter (b. 1865)
24th - Vladimir I Nemirovitch-Dantshenko, Russian playwright, dies at 84
25th - Nils von Dardel, Swedish post-impressionist painter (b. 1888)
26th - Edsel Ford, owner (Ford Motor Company), dies at 49
29th - Hermann Hans Wetzler, composer, dies at 72