World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces. Date: November 23, 1943 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 23 📅 Events on this day in 1943 📅 On This Day (Today)
World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Date: November 23, 1943 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 23 📅 Events on this day in 1943 📅 On This…
Lebanon gains independence from France, nearly two years after it was first announced by the Free French government. Date: November 22, 1943 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 22 📅 Events on this day in 1943 📅 On This Day (Today)
World War II: Cairo Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan. Date: November 22, 1943 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 22 📅 Events on this day in 1943 📅 On This…
World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins: United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns. Date: November 20, 1943 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 20 📅 Events on this day in 1943 📅 On…
The Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt. Date: November 19, 1943 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 19 📅 Events on this day in 1943 📅 On This Day (Today)
World War II: In the first action of the Berlin Air Offensive, four hundred and forty Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF loses nine aircraft and 53 air crew. Date: November 18, 1943 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 18 📅 Events…
The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps". Date: November 15, 1943 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 15 📅 Events on this day in 1943 📅 On This Day (Today)
An agreement for the founding of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration is signed by 44 countries in the White House, Washington, D.C. Date: November 9, 1943 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 9 📅 Events on this day in 1943 📅 On This Day (Today)
World War II: The 1st Ukrainian Front liberates Kyiv from German occupation. Date: November 6, 1943 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 6 📅 Events on this day in 1943 📅 On This Day (Today)