1943 Sun Bowl, Aftermath
The Cowboys played in four bowl games before the decade ended - with three in one year. The Bombers were stationed to Colorado Springs, Colorado the following year.


1943 Surprise Hurricane
The 1943 Surprise hurricane was the first hurricane to be entered by a reconnaissance aircraft. The first tracked tropical cyclone of the 1943 Atlantic hurricane season, this system developed as a tropical storm while situated over the northeastern Gulf of Mexico on July 25. The storm gradually strengthened while tracking westward and reached hurricane status late on July 26. Thereafter, the hurricane curved slightly west-northwestward and continued intensifying. Early on July 27, it became a Category 2 hurricane on the modern-day Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale and peaked with winds of 105 mph (165 km/h). The system maintained this intensity until landfall on the Bolivar Peninsula in Texas late on July 27. After moving inland, the storm initially weakened rapidly, but remained a tropical cyclone until dissipating over north-central Texas on July 29.


1943 Surprise Hurricane
Because the storm occurred during World War II, information and reports were censored by the Government of the United States and news media. Advisories also had to be cleared through the Weather Bureau office in New Orleans, resulting in late releases. This in turn delayed preparations ahead of the storm. In Louisiana, the storm produced gusty winds and heavy rains, though no damage occurred. The storm was considered the worst in Texas since the 1915 Galveston hurricane. Wind gusts up to 132 mph (212 km/h) were reported in the Galveston-Houston area. Numerous buildings and houses were damaged or destroyed. The storm caused 19 fatalities, 14 of which occurred after two separate ships sunk. Overall, damage reached approximately $17 million (1943 USD; adjusted for inflation, $268,823,063.58 as of September, 2021).


1943 Surprise Hurricane, Meteorological history
A partial atmospheric circulation was observed over the extreme Southeastern United States and the eastern Gulf of Mexico as early as July 23. However, an area of disturbed weather went unnoticed until July 25, when wind shifts from southeast to northeast were observed in Burrwood and New Orleans in Louisiana, as well as Biloxi, Mississippi. Around 1800 UTC, a tropical storm developed approximately 110 miles (180 km) southeast of the Mississippi River Delta. Moving westward at about 7 mph (11 km/h), the storm strengthened and became a hurricane late on July 26. Early on the following day, the storm strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane on the modern-day Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale. Around that time, the storm also attained its maximum sustained wind speed of 105 mph (165 km/h).


1943 Surprise Hurricane, Meteorological history
Later on July 27, the first ever reconnaissance aircraft flight into a hurricane occurred. An eye feature with a width of 9–10 miles (14–16 km) was observed during the flight. Around 1800 UTC on July 27, the storm made landfall on the Bolivar Peninsula in Texas with winds of 105 mph (165 km/h). The system was described by the Weather Bureau as, "a small intense storm accompanied by full hurricane winds". Around the time of landfall, a barometric pressure of 967 mbar (28.6 inHg) was observed.


1943 Surprise Hurricane, Meteorological history
Early on July 28, the system weakened to a Category 1 hurricane, then a tropical storm about six hours later. Later that day, the storm began curving northwestward over east-central Texas. Early on July 29, it weakened further to a tropical depression. Around 0000 UTC on the following day, the storm dissipated near Whitt, Texas.


1943 Surprise Hurricane, Hurricane hunting
This was the first hurricane to be intentionally flown into by a reconnaissance aircraft. During the morning hours of July 27, British pilots were training at Bryan Field in Bryan, Texas and were alerted about a hurricane approaching the Galveston area. Upon becoming informed that the planes would need to be flown away from the storm, they criticized this policy. Instead, Colonel Joe Duckworth made a bet with the British pilots that he could fly his AT-6 Texan trainer directly into the storm.


1943 Surprise Hurricane, Hurricane hunting
Duckworth requested that Lt. Colonel Ralph O'Hair, the only navigator at the field, fly into the hurricane with him. Because neither Duckworth nor O'Hair believed that the headquarters would approve the flight, they decided to proceed without permission. Thus, Duckworth and O'Hair became the first hurricane hunters. O'Hair later compared the weather encountered during the flight to "being tossed about like a stick in a dog's mouth". After returning to Bryan Field, Lt. William Jones-Burdick requested to fly into the hurricane with Duckworth, while O'Hair decided to exit the aircraft.


1943 Surprise Hurricane, Censorship
The hurricane occurred during World War II, with activity from a German U-boat expected in the Gulf of Mexico. As a result, ship reports were silenced. At the time, the Weather Bureau relied primarily on ship and land weather station observations for issue storm warnings. Additionally, advisories had to be cleared through the Weather Bureau office in New Orleans, Louisiana, causing them to be released hours late; moreover the advisories contained no forecast information, which would have allowed for preparation before the storm struck.


1943 Surprise Hurricane, Censorship
The news media after the hurricane was heavily censored by the government due to national security, as information could not be leaked to the Axis powers about the loss of production of war materials. Reportedly, the Federal Bureau of Investigation shut down a telegraph office in La Porte after a telegram was sent containing information about damage from the hurricane. The only news of this storm was published in Texas and Louisiana. After the loss of life in this storm, the Government of the United States has never censored hurricane advisories again.


1943 Surprise Hurricane, Impact and aftermath
In Louisiana, light winds were observed, with gusts of 36 mph (58 km/h) at both Burrwood and Lake Charles. Locally heavy rains were reported in some areas, with a 24-hour precipitation total of 7.65 inches (194 mm) in DeQuincy on July 28.


1943 Surprise Hurricane, Impact and aftermath
The storm brought strong winds to Texas, with gusts up to 132 mph (212 km/h) reported at the cooling towers at the Shell Oil Refinery in Deer Park and the Humble Oil Refinery in Baytown. Four towers were destroyed at the latter, while other damage there reduced production of toluene, which is a precursor to TNT. Some towers were also toppled at the Shell Oil Refinery in Deer Park. As these were the primary refineries producing aviation fuel for World War II, it was decided that news about this loss of production should be censored.


1943 Surprise Hurricane, Impact and aftermath
A number of other oil derricks were destroyed throughout Chambers and Jefferson counties. At Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base near Houston, strong winds blew off the top of a hangar, destroyed five planes, and injured at least 22 cadets. Thousands in the Houston were left without telephone and electrical service, which caused all three radio stations in the area to go off air. The nearby Houston Yacht Club also suffered heavy damage. At Point Bolivar, located on the Bolivar Peninsula, nearly all homes were destroyed by the high winds.


1943 Surprise Hurricane, Impact and aftermath
The high school's physical education building in La Porte, which was originally a three story building, was reduced to only one floor after windows shattered and the support beams toppled, causing the roof to collapse. At nearby Morgan's Point, a water tower was knocked over. On Galveston Island, a number of brick businesses, buildings, and churches collapsed.


1943 Surprise Hurricane, Impact and aftermath
Heavy rainfall was observed in some areas of eastern Texas, with up to 19 inches (480 mm) in Port Arthur. There, numerous homes were flooded with 6 to 24 inches (150 to 610 mm) of water, which included damage to furnishings, electric motors and automobiles. In downtown Galveston, a number of streets were inundated with rainwater, though flooding damage was relatively minor. Two children's polio hospitals suffered leaking roofs and water damage, forcing patients to be evacuated by staff and University of Texas Medical Branch students.


1943 Surprise Hurricane, Impact and aftermath
About 90 percent of all house and buildings in Texas City suffered either water damage or complete destruction, including plant sites producing war materials. However, they were discouraged from going to shelters due to a polio epidemic there. In Galveston Bay, wind-driven waves flooded the western and southern shores. However, northerly winds across the bay resulted in tides being extremely low. On Galveston Island, a storm surge of 6 feet (1.8 m) was observed. Offshore, the United States Army Corps of Engineers’s hopper dredge, Galveston, broke up after being smashed against the north jetty, causing 11 fatalities.


1943 Surprise Hurricane, Impact and aftermath
The tug Titan began sinking offshore Port Arthur. Three members of the crew drowned after attempting to board a rubber raft, while another person died before the remainder of the crew reached the shore. Overall, the storm killed 19 people and caused $17 million (1943 USD) in damage to the Houston area.


1943 Surprise Hurricane, Impact and aftermath
Following the storm, residents were warned to boil their water and be cautious of potential food contamination due to electrical outages. The War Production Board regional office in Dallas offered relief to the victims of the storm. In La Porte, a makeshift hospital was set up in city hall. At Point Bolivar, where nearly all houses were destroyed, the now-destitute residents were transported by the Galveston chapter of the American Red Cross to Galveston for housing.


1943 Svenska Cupen
Svenska Cupen 1943 was the third season of the main Swedish football Cup. The competition was concluded on 3 October and 14 November 1943 with the Final, held at Råsunda Stadium, Solna in Stockholms län. IFK Norrköping drew 0–0 against AIK and won the replay 5–2 at Norrköping a month later before an attendance of 19,595 spectators.


1943 Svenska Cupen, Second round
The 8 matches in this round were played on 9 and 11 July 1943.


1943 Svenska Cupen, Quarter-finals
The 4 matches in this round were played on 16 July and 18 July 1943.


1943 Svenska Cupen, Semi-finals
The semi-finals in this round were played on 25 July and 12 September 1943.


1943 Svenska Cupen, Final
The final was played on 3 October at the Råsunda Stadium followed by the replay on 14 November 1943 at Norrköping.


1943 Swedish Ice Hockey Championship
The 1943 Swedish Ice Hockey Championship was the 21st season of the Swedish Ice Hockey Championship, the national championship of Sweden. Hammarby IF won the championship.


1943 Swiss federal election
Federal elections were held in Switzerland on 31 October 1943. The Social Democratic Party emerged as the largest party in the National Council, winning 56 of the 194 seats.


1943 Swiss federal election, Results, Council of the States
In several cantons the members of the Council of the States were chosen by the cantonal parliaments.


1943 São Paulo FC season
The 1943 football season was São Paulo's 14th season since club's existence.


1943 TCU Horned Frogs football team
The 1943 TCU Horned Frogs football team represented Texas Christian University (TCU) in the 1943 college football season. The Horned Frogs finished the season 2–6 overall and 1–4 in the Southwest Conference. The team was coached by Dutch Meyer in his tenth year as head coach. The Frogs played their home games in Amon G. Carter Stadium, which is located on campus in Fort Worth, Texas.


1943 Taça de Portugal Final
The 1943 Taça de Portugal Final was the final match of the 1942–43 Taça de Portugal, the 5th season of the Taça de Portugal, the premier Portuguese football cup competition organized by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF). The match was played on 20 June 1943 at the Campo das Salésias in Lisbon, and opposed two Primeira Liga sides: Benfica and Vitória de Setúbal. Benfica defeated Vitória de Setúbal 5–1 to claim their second Taça de Portugal.


1943 Temple Owls football team
The 1943 Temple Owls football team was an American football team that represented Temple University as an independent during the 1943 college football season. In its fourth season under head coach Ray Morrison, the team compiled a 2–6 record and was outscored by a total of 163 to 65. The team played its home games at Temple Stadium in Philadelphia.


1943 Texas A&M Aggies football team
The 1943 Texas A&M Aggies football team represented Texas A&M University during the 1943 college football season.


1943 Texas Longhorns football team
The 1943 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin during the 1943 college football season. Before the season began, Tom Landry left the Longhorns and joined the Army Air Corps.


1943 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team
The 1943 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Tech during the 1943 college football season.


1943 The Hartlepools by-election
The Hartlepools by-election of 1943 was held on 1 June 1943. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, William George Howard Gritten. It was won by the Conservative candidate Thomas George Greenwell, who was not opposed by a Liberal or a Labour candidate due to the war time electoral truce where the main parties pledged not to oppose each other's candidates until the end of the Second World War.


1943 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship
The 1943 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship was the 53rd staging of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Tipperary County Board in 1887.


1943 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship
Éire Óg Annacarty won the championship after a 4-03 to 2-04 defeat of Moycarkey-Borris in the final. It remains their only championship title.


1943 Toronto municipal election
Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on January 1, 1943. Incumbent Frederick J. Conboy was acclaimed as mayor. There was a very low voter turnout, but the election was a victory for the left as the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and Communist Party each won two seats.


1943 Toronto municipal election, Toronto mayor
For the second time in a row no one chose to run against incumbent Frederick J. Conboy and he was acclaimed as mayor.


1943 Toronto municipal election, City council
Results taken from the January 2, 1943 Globe and Mail and might not exactly match final tallies.


1943 Tosya–Ladik earthquake
The 1943 Tosya–Ladik earthquake occurred at 00:20 local time on 27 November, near Tosya, Kastamonu Province, in northern Turkey. The earthquake had an estimated moment magnitude of 7.5 and a maximum felt intensity of between IX–X (Violent to Extreme) on the Mercalli intensity scale.


1943 Tosya–Ladik earthquake, Casualties
A variety of casualty estimates have been provided for this event. The United States' National Geophysical Data Center's significant earthquake database and the USGS' PAGER loss estimate database both list 4,020 fatalities, while the Belgian Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters' EM-DAT database, and Kubat et al. 2008 show 2,824. Utsu 2002 lists 4,020 as its primary entry while also acknowledging estimates of 2,824 and 5,000.


1943 Tottori earthquake
The Tottori earthquake (鳥取地震, Tottori jishin) occurred in Tottori prefecture, Japan at 17:36 local time on September 10, 1943. Although the earthquake occurred during World War II, information about the disaster was surprisingly uncensored, and relief volunteers and supplies came from many parts of the Empire of Japan, including Manchukuo.


1943 Tottori earthquake
The Tottori earthquake had its epicenter offshore from Ketaka District, now part of Tottori, and registered a magnitude of 7.0 on the Moment magnitude scale. The seismic intensity was recorded as 6 in Tottori city, and 5 as far away as Okayama on the Inland Sea. The center of Tottori city, with many antiquated buildings was the hardest hit, with an estimated 80% of its structures damaged or destroyed. As the earthquake struck in the evening when most kitchens had fires lit in preparation for the evening meal, fires broke out in 16 locations around the city. With water mains damaged, citizens formed bucket brigades to prevent fires from spreading; however, the death toll was 1083 killed, including numerous Zainichi Koreans working in the nearby Aragane Copper Mines.


1943 Tottori earthquake
Two magnitude 6.2 earthquakes had occurred in the same area earlier that year on March 4 and 5, but did not do significant damage.


1943 Tour de Hongrie
The 1943 Tour de Hongrie was the 13th edition of the Tour de Hongrie cycle race and was held from 24 to 26 June 1943. The race started in Budapest and finished in Kolozsvár. The race was won by István Liszkay.


1943 Tschammerpokal
The 1943 Tschammerpokal was the 9th season of the annual German football cup competition. It was the last time the tournament was held. After the war it was reconstituted as the DFB-Pokal. 32 teams competed in the final tournament stage of five rounds. In the final held on 31 October 1943 in the Adolf-Hitler-Kampfbahn (Stuttgart) First Vienna FC defeated LSV Hamburg 3–2 after extra time.


1943 Tschammerpokal Final
The 1943 Tschammerpokal Final decided the winner of the 1943 Tschammerpokal, the 9th season of Germany's knockout football cup competition. It was played on 31 August 1943 at the Adolf-Hitler-Kampfbahn in Stuttgart. First Vienna won the match 3–2 against LSV Hamburg after extra time, to claim their 1st cup title.


1943 Tschammerpokal Final, Route to the final
The Tschammerpokal began the final stage with 34 teams in a single-elimination knockout cup competition. There were a total of five rounds leading up to the final. In the qualification round, all but two teams were given a bye. Teams were drawn against each other, and the winner after 90 minutes would advance. If still tied, 30 minutes of extra time was played. If the score was still level, a replay would take place at the original away team's stadium. If still level after 90 minutes, 30 minutes of extra time was played. If the score was still level, a second replay would take place at the original home team's stadium. If still level after 90 minutes, 30 minutes of extra time was played. If the score was still level, a drawing of lots would decide who would advance to the next round.


1943 Tschammerpokal Final, Route to the final
Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).


1943 Tulane Green Wave football team
The 1943 Tulane Green Wave football team represented Tulane University as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 1943 college football season. Led by second-year head coach Claude Simons Jr., the Green Wave played their home games at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans. Tulane finished the season with an overall record of 3–3 and a mark of 1–1 in conference play, tying for second in the SEC.


1943 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team
The 1943 Tulsa Golden Hurricane team represented the University of Tulsa during the 1943 college football season. In their third year under head coach Henry Frnka, the Golden Hurricane compiled a 6–0–1 record in the regular season, including lopsided victories over SMU (20-7), Texas Tech (34-7), Oklahoma (20-6), Utah (55-0), Oklahoma State (55-6), and Arkansas (61-0). They lost to Georgia Tech, 20-18, in the 1944 Sugar Bowl.


1943 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team, Rankings
The AP released their first poll on October 4. The Golden Hurricane made their first appearance as a ranked team on October 25.


1943 Turkish National Division
The 1943 National Division was the 6th edition of the Turkish National Division. Fenerbahçe won their third title.


1943 Turkish general election
General elections were held in Turkey on 28 February 1943. They were the last single-party elections in the country, as the Republican People's Party was the single-party in the country at the time.


1943 Turkish general election, Electoral system
The elections were held under the Ottoman electoral law passed in 1908, which provided for a two-stage process. In the first stage, voters elected secondary electors (one for the first 750 voters in a constituency, then one for every additional 500 voters). In the second stage the secondary electors elected the members of the Turkish Grand National Assembly.


1943 U.S. National Championships (tennis)
The 1943 U.S. National Championships (now known as the US Open) was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor grass courts at the West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills in New York City, United States. The tournament ran from 1 September until 6 September. It was the 63rd staging of the U.S. National Championships and due to World War II it was the only Grand Slam tennis event of the year.


1943 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Men's Singles
Joseph R. Hunt defeated  Jack Kramer  6–3, 6–8, 10–8, 6–0


1943 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Men's Doubles
Jack Kramer /  Frank Parker defeated  Bill Talbert /  David Freeman 6–2, 6–4, 6–4


1943 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Women's Doubles
Louise Brough /  Margaret Osborne defeated  Pauline Betz /  Doris Hart 6–4, 6–3


1943 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Mixed Doubles
Margaret Osborne /   Bill Talbert defeated  Pauline Betz /  Pancho Segura 10–8, 6–4


1943 U.S. National Championships – Men's Singles
Joseph Hunt defeated Jack Kramer 6–3, 6–8, 10–8, 6–0 in the final to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1943 U.S. National Championships.


1943 U.S. National Championships – Women's Singles
First-seeded and reigning champion Pauline Betz defeated second-seeded Louise Brough 6–3, 5–7, 6–3 in the final to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 1943 U.S. National Championships. The tournament was played on outdoor grass courts and held from September 1 through September 4, 1943 at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Queens, New York.


1943 U.S. National Championships – Women's Singles
The draw consisted of 32 players of which eight were seeded.


1943 U.S. National Championships – Women's Singles, Seeds
The eight seeded U.S. players are listed below. Pauline Betz is the champion; others show in brackets the round in which they were eliminated.


1943 UCLA Bruins football team
The 1943 UCLA Bruins football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Los Angeles during the 1943 college football season. In their fifth year under head coach Edwin C. Horrell, the Bruins compiled a 1–8 record (0–4 conference) and finished in last place in the Pacific Coast Conference.


1943 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year
The 1943 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year was the 18th year of greyhound racing in the United Kingdom and Ireland.


1943 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
War time attendances remained strong but there were no known new tracks opened. The only major competitions to take place were again the Scottish Greyhound Derby and Irish Greyhound Derby.


1943 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
The phenomenon that was a continual growth of attendances and annual totalisator turnover was observed once again, attendances paid £60,382,219 in bets on the totalisator alone. An astonishing figure in 1943, especially taking into account the war.


1943 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Ballynennan Moon
Ballynennan Moon continued to be the outstanding performer of the year, he continued where he had left of in 1942 and raced in eighty consecutive weeks of racing. He won the Joe Harmon Memorial Stakes, the Charlton Spring Cup and the Metropolitan Cup.


1943 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Competitions
Bilting Hawk won the Scottish Derby and a new puppy called Ballyhennessy Seal, whelped in April 1942, by Lone Seal out of Canadian Glory, arrived at Catford after his two owners had each paid £50 for the puppy. Within two weeks of his arrival he won the 18th Rochester Stakes, his first race in England. Next he was aimed for the Puppy Derby at Wimbledon Stadium where he won his heat by fourteen lengths in 28.88sec, one of the fastest times ever recorded at the track, and was made even-money favourite to win the event outright. He was unlucky to lose the final by a short head to Allardstown Playboy.


1943 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Competitions
Towards the end of the year, the then Wimbledon racing manager, Con Stevens, introduced a special invitation race for puppy champions. The invitees included Allardstown Playboy; Dark Tiger, the Trafalgar Cup; Erlegh Hero, winner of the British Produce Stakes, Model Dasher, the Midland Puppy Derby winner, Fawn Cherry, winner of the Irish Puppy Derby and Ballyhennessy Seal. The latter won the invitation race leading all the way, to win by one and a half lengths in a time of 28.99sec. Blackwater Cutlet won the London Cup at Clapton by twelve lengths from Ballykildare, just one week after they had dead heated in the Stewards Cup at Walthamstow.


1943 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Competitions
The Golden Crest prize money was reduced due to wartime cutbacks.


1943 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News
Margaret Hyland became one of the few women trainers to hold a licence joined Rochester Stadium.


1943 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Ireland
The Irish Derby would never be run outside of Dublin again which upset the owners of the Irish provincial tracks. The Irish Coursing Club made the decision based on the fact that the capital city offered better facilities and higher prize money. Famous Knight, a red fawn dog started odds on favourite throughout the competition and justified the odds by remaining unbeaten and claiming the final.


1943 USC Trojans football team
The 1943 USC Trojans football team represented the University of Southern California (USC) in the 1943 college football season. In their second year under head coach Jeff Cravath, the Trojans compiled an 8–2 record (5–0 against conference opponents), won the Pacific Coast Conference championship, defeated Washington in the 1944 Rose Bowl, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 155 to 58.


1943 United Australia Party leadership election
The United Australia Party (UAP) held a leadership election on 22 September 1943, following the resignation of Billy Hughes. Robert Menzies, the party's former leader from 1939 to 1941, was elected as his replacement, defeating three other candidates – Thomas White, Allan McDonald, and Percy Spender.


1943 United Australia Party leadership election, Background
Hughes had been elected party leader in 1941, following the defeat of the Coalition government led by Arthur Fadden, the leader of the Country Party. The UAP simultaneously voted to form a "joint opposition" with the Country Party, under Fadden as Leader of the Opposition. Hughes, who had his 80th birthday in 1942, was viewed as a figurehead more than anything else, and the party virtually ceased to exist as a separate entity under his leadership; at one point there were no partyroom meetings for more than a year.


1943 United Australia Party leadership election, Background
At a meeting on 25 March 1943, a spill motion was put forward and defeated 24–15; it had been expected that the vote would be much closer. The following month, Menzies and his supporters formed a ginger group within the UAP, known as the National Service Group, to push for "new and vigorous leadership". They would remain in the party, but no longer attend its meetings, only those of the joint opposition. Hughes denounced them as "a reactionary clique".


1943 United Australia Party leadership election, Election and aftermath
A federal election took place on 21 August 1943, at which the Coalition was defeated in a landslide. Hughes announced his resignation on 22 September, and four candidates stood as his replacement – Menzies, Thomas White, Allan McDonald, and Percy Spender. Spender was eliminated on the first ballot, where Menzies reportedly failed to secure a majority by only a single vote. He won an absolute majority on the second ballot.


1943 United Australia Party leadership election, Election and aftermath
The exact figures were not announced, but it was reported that Menzies obtained 14 votes out of 26 on the second ballot and that White and McDonald shared the remainder "nearly equally". An election was also held for the deputy leadership, which had been vacant since 1939. White, McDonald, Spender, Harold Holt, and William Hutchinson all nominated, but withdrew when Hughes announced he wished to be a candidate, allowing him to be returned unanimously. At the same meeting, the UAP voted to end the joint opposition arrangement with the Country Party. As a result, Menzies replaced Fadden as Leader of the Opposition.


1943 United States House of Representatives elections
There were elections in 1943 to the United States House of Representatives:


1943 United States House of Representatives elections
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1943 United States gubernatorial elections
United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1943, in four states. Kentucky, Louisiana and Mississippi hold their gubernatorial elections in odd numbered years, every 4 years, preceding the United States presidential election year. New Jersey at this time held gubernatorial elections every 3 years, which it would abandon in 1949.


1943 University of Oslo fire
The 1943 University of Oslo fire (Norwegian: aula-brannen) was a fire in the ceremony hall (Universitetets Aula) of the University of Oslo in 1943. Its direct consequences were the closing of the university, and the arrest of 1,166 people; these were chiefly male students. Of these, 644 were sent to German "readjustment" camps, where 17 people died. Initial beliefs that the fire was either a Reichstag fire or perpetrated by communists were wrong; members of the Norwegian resistance movement were responsible.


1943 University of Oslo fire, Background
Universitetets Aula, the ceremony hall, was raised in 1911 at the centennial anniversary of the university. It is a part of the original university campus in downtown Oslo (not Blindern), and was built as an annex to the already existing Domus Media, Domus Academica og Domus Bibliotheca, built between 1841 and 1851. The ceremony hall has been used for lectures, graduation ceremonies and concerts and also features valuable paintings by Edvard Munch.


1943 University of Oslo fire, Background
When Nazi Germany invaded and subsequently occupied Norway in 1940, Universitetets Aula was originally used for Norwegian prisoners of war. The valuable Munch paintings were stored somewhere else. After the war phase was over in Eastern Norway, the university continued mostly as usual until September 1941, when attempts of nazification increased.


1943 University of Oslo fire, Fire
The fire took place on 28 November 1943. The material damage was minimal; the arsonists had called the fire department themselves. A pre-booked concert was held there the next day. However, the Nazi authorities did not take lightly to the incident. Although they immediately suspected communist university students of the incendiarism, the fire gave room for a general crackdown on students, as had been desired by Reichskommissar Josef Terboven for some time. In a meeting at Skaugum on the evening that day, Terboven ordered the closing of the university as well as the arrest of all male students.


1943 University of Oslo fire, Fire
German Wehrmacht officer Theodor Steltzer was to be involved in the arrest, and managed to leak the news to Norwegian resistance member and former University of Oslo research fellow Arvid Brodersen in Hjemmefrontens Ledelse on 29 November. Leaflets were printed and handed out in the morning of 30 November, but many disbelieved it and did not act. 1,166 students were arrested in the action against the students of 30 November. The ceremony hall was used to round up the arrested, and Wilhelm Rediess spoke to the crowd.


1943 University of Oslo fire, Fire
Women were released, whereas the male students and some faculty were sent to temporary concentration camps. After pressure from both the Norwegian resistance, people associated with Nasjonal Samling and even instructions from Berlin, about half of the 1,166 were released whereas 644 were sent to Germany. Of these, 17 perished in "readjustment" camps. The university was closed for the purposes of education, whereas research continued.


1943 University of Oslo fire, Fire
Many had suspected the fire to be a Reichstag fire, perpetrated by Nazis in order to provoke a reaction. In 1949, it surfaced that the fire was started by Norwegian resistance members, specifically people working with the illegal newspaper London-Nytt. The name of perpetrator Petter Moen was revealed as late as in 1993. Whether someone else ordered Moen to do it is still not known, neither are his exact reasons. Petter Moen was arrested for illegal press activity in 1944, and died when shipwrecked in the prisoner transport SS Westfalen.


1943 University of Oslo fire, Fire
Material traces of the fire were still visible as of 2008, when the ceremony hall underwent a lengthy restoration for the university's bicentennial anniversary in 2011.


1943 University of Wales by-election
The University of Wales by-election, 1943 was a parliamentary by-election held in the United Kingdom between 25 and 29 January 1943 for the House of Commons constituency of University of Wales.


1943 University of Wales by-election, Previous MP
The seat had become vacant when the constituency's Liberal Member of Parliament (MP), Ernest Evans (1885–1965) had been appointed a county court Judge in 1942.


1943 University of Wales by-election, Previous MP
Evans was admitted to the bar in 1910 and became a King's Counsel (KC) in 1937.


1943 University of Wales by-election, Previous MP
After serving as private secretary to the Prime Minister David Lloyd George, he was elected as Coalition Liberal MP for Cardiganshire at a by-election in 1921. He held the seat at the 1922 general election as a National Liberal candidate, but was defeated standing as a Liberal at the 1923 general election by the Independent Liberal Rhys Hopkin Morris.


1943 University of Wales by-election, Previous MP
Evans did not stand again in Cardiganshire, but at the 1924 general election he defeated the Christian pacifist George Maitland Lloyd Davies to win the University of Wales constituency as a Liberal.


1943 University of Wales by-election, Candidates
The election took place during the Second World War. Under an agreement between the Conservative, Labour and Liberal parties, who were participating in a wartime coalition, the party holding a seat would not be opposed by the other two at a by-election. Accordingly, the Liberal Party nominated a candidate, but no Labour or Conservative representative was put forward. Plaid Cymru, which was not a party to the electoral agreement, selected a candidate and three independent candidates also stood; so a contested poll took place.


1943 University of Wales by-election, Candidates
The list of candidates below is set out in descending order of the number of votes received at the by-election.


1943 University of Wales by-election, Candidates, Liberal Party
The Liberal Party candidate was Professor William John Gruffydd (1881–1954), who was Professor of Celtic at University College, Cardiff from 1918 until 1946 and then an emeritus professor. He was editor of Y Llenor ("The Literary Man") from 1922 until 1951.


1943 University of Wales by-election, Candidates, Liberal Party
Gruffydd came from a nonconformist, radical family, and took an interest in Welsh politics and social questions. He was at one time a member of Plaid Cymru and served as its deputy vice-president in 1937.


1943 University of Wales by-election, Candidates, Liberal Party
Gruffydd had voiced doubts about Plaid Cymru party president Saunders Lewis' ideas since 1933, and by 1943 he had joined the Liberal party. The "brilliant but wayward" Gruffydd was a favourite with Welsh-speaking intellectuals.


1943 University of Wales by-election, Candidates, Liberal Party
Gruffydd was elected to Parliament as a Liberal MP for the University of Wales seat on 29 January 1943. He and Saunders Lewis had effectively split the Welsh-speaking community. He was comfortably re-elected in the 1945 general election and sat until the abolition of University seats in 1950. He did not stand again for Parliament.


1943 University of Wales by-election, Candidates, Plaid Cymru
Representing Plaid Cymru in the by-election was its President, (John) Saunders Lewis, who had previously contested the University seat at the 1931 general election.


1943 University of Wales by-election, Candidates, Plaid Cymru
Lewis (15 October 1893 – 1 September 1985) was a Welsh poet, dramatist, historian, literary critic and political activist. He was a prominent Welsh nationalist and founder of the Welsh National Party (Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru, later known as Plaid Cymru). Lewis is usually acknowledged as among the most prominent figures of 20th century Welsh-language literature. Lewis was a 1970 Nobel nominee for literature, and in 2005 came 10th in a BBC Wales poll for Wales' "greatest-ever person".


1943 University of Wales by-election, Candidates, Plaid Cymru
The election effectively split the Welsh-speaking intelligentsia, and left Lewis embittered with politics, and he retired from direct political involvement. However, the experience proved invaluable for Plaid Cymru, as they began to refer to themselves, as "for the first time they were taken seriously as a political force." The by-election campaign led directly to "considerable growth" in the party's membership.


1943 Uruguayan Primera División, Overview
It was contested by 10 teams, and Nacional won the championship.


1943 Utah Redskins football team
The 1943 Utah Redskins football team represented the University of Utah during the 1943 college football season. Utah considered cancelling football in 1943 due to World War II. College enrollment dropped significantly as many college-aged men enlisted in the armed services. LeRoy E. Cowles, President of the University of Utah asked that the team continue to play. Armstrong supported Cowles despite having a severe shortage of players. Only Colorado and Utah in the Mountain States Conference maintained a football team in 1943. To play a semblance of a full schedule, Utah played Colorado twice and resorted to playing enlisted men from Fort Warren, Wyoming. The result was Utah's only winless season since going 0–1 in 1895.


1943 Utah Redskins football team, After the season, NFL Draft
Utah had two players selected in the 1944 NFL Draft.


1943 VFA season
The 1943 Victorian Football Association season was not played owing to World War II, which was at its peak at the time.


1943 VFA season, Abandonment of the season
World War II commenced in Europe in September 1939, and had spread to the Pacific in December 1941. The Association had continued with a full program of football in the 1940 and 1941 seasons – with the sole exception that Sandringham had competed as an amateur club in the latter season – but had cancelled the 1942 season when it became clear that the competition would distract from the war effort.


1943 VFA season, Abandonment of the season
By 1943, the state of war had not changed, and the Association decided on 22 February that it would not resume the premiership for the season. The Association premiership would not again be staged until 1945.


1943 VFL Grand Final
The 1943 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Richmond Football Club and Essendon Football Club, held at the Princes Park in Melbourne on 25 September 1943. It was the 47th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1943 VFL season. The match, attended by 42,100 spectators, was won by Richmond by a margin of 5 points, marking that club's fifth VFL premiership victory.


1943 VFL Lightning Premiership
The 1943 VFL Lightning Premiership was an Australian rules football knockout competition played entirely on Saturday 24, July. It was played during a weeks break of the Victorian Football Leagues's 1943 VFL season between rounds 11 and 12 with all games being played at Princes Park. The competition was played as a wartime charities fundraiser between the league's top four clubs. This was the third time a lightning premiership had been contested in the VFL. Approximately 11,000 people attended the three match competition. Essendon won the competition by 8 points, defeating Fitzroy in the final.


1943 VFL season
The 1943 Victorian Football League season was the 47th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.


1943 VFL season, New System
A new system was introduced so that each team received only one bye.


1943 VFL season, New System
There were still 16 rounds. The first 11 had every team competing – after round 11, the bottom placed team would drop out, and a new byeless draw would be made.


1943 VFL season, Premiership season
In 1942, the VFL competition consisted of eleven teams of 18 on-the-field players each (Geelong did not field a team due to wartime rail and road transport restrictions), plus one substitute player, known as the 19th man. A player could be substituted for any reason; however, once substituted, a player could not return to the field of play under any circumstances.


1943 VFL season, Premiership season
Teams played each other in a home-and-away season of 16 rounds. During the first 11 rounds each team played each other once and had one bye. At round 11, the eleventh team on the ladder dropped out of the competition. In the remaining rounds (12 to 16), the other ten teams played 5 matches each.


1943 VFL season, Premiership season
During the 1943 season, the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the Lake Oval, and the Junction Oval were all appropriated for military use. Melbourne shared the Punt Road Oval with Richmond as their home ground, South Melbourne now shared Princes Park with Carlton as their home ground, and St. Kilda now played their home games at Toorak Park (this was possible because there was no VFA competition in 1943). Footscray, however, were able to return to the Western Oval as it was vacated by the defence authorities after a year.


1943 VFL season, Premiership season
Once the 16 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1943 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the Page–McIntyre system.


1943 VFL season, Grand final
Richmond defeated Essendon 12.14 (86) to 11.15 (81), in front of a crowd of 42,100 (approx.) people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).


1943 Vanderbilt Commodores football team
The 1943 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1943 college football season.


1943 Victorian Legislative Council election
Elections were held in the Australian state of Victoria on Saturday 12 June 1943 to elect 17 of the 34 members of the state's Legislative Council for six year terms. MLC were elected using preferential voting. The election was held concurrently with the Legislative Assembly election.


1943 Victorian Legislative Council election, Results, Legislative Council
Victorian Legislative Council election, 12 June 1943Legislative Council << 1940–1946 >>


1943 Victorian Legislative Council election, Candidates
Sitting members are shown in bold text. Successful candidates are highlighted in the relevant colour. Where there is possible confusion, an asterisk (*) is also used.


1943 Victorian state election
The 1943 Victorian state election was held in the Australian state of Victoria on Saturday 12 June 1943 to elect 65 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.


1943 Victorian state election, Background, Country Party unity
At the time of the election, the Country Party was in the process of repairing a split which had taken place in December 1937 after federal MP John McEwen was expelled from the state branch of the party. The splinter group which supported McEwen had formed the Liberal Country Party on 30 March 1938, which contested the 1940 state election as a separate party. By April 1943, the United Country Party and the Liberal Country Party had formed a joint executive, which had unanimously agreed to reunite the parties. Members of the LCP at the time of the election were endorsed and counted as Victorian Country Party candidates separately from the United Country Party, but the unity agreements meant that their seats were counted for Dunstan's UCP.


1943 Victorian state election, Results, Legislative Assembly
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1943 Villanova Wildcats football team
The 1943 Villanova Wildcats football team represented the Villanova University during the 1943 college football season. The head coach was Jordan Olivar, coaching his first season with the Wildcats. The team played their home games at Villanova Stadium in Villanova, Pennsylvania.


1943 Virginia Cavaliers football team
The 1943 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia during the 1943 college football season. The Cavaliers were led by seventh-year head coach Frank Murray and played their home games at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Virginia. They competed as independents, finishing with a record of 3–4–1.


1943 WANFL season
The 1943 WANFL season was the 59th season of the Western Australian National Football League.


1943 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team
The 1943 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team was an American football team that represented Wake Forest University during the 1943 college football season. In its seventh season under head coach Peahead Walker, the team compiled a 4–5 record and finished in fourth place in the Southern Conference.


1943 Washington Homestead Grays season
The 1943 Washington Homestead Grays baseball team represented the Washington Homestead Grays in the Negro National League (NNL) during the 1943 baseball season. The team compiled a 78–23–1 (.770) record, won the NNL pennant, and defeated the Birmingham Black Barons in the 1943 Negro World Series.


1943 Washington Homestead Grays season
Candy Jim Taylor was the team's manager. The team played its home games at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh and Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C.


1943 Washington Homestead Grays season
The team's leading pitchers were Johnny Wright (18–3, 2.54 ERA, 94 strikeouts), Spoon Carter (14–2, 3.83 ERA, 44 strikeouts), Edsall Walker (9–4, 3.36 ERA), and Ray Brown (6–1, 4.10 ERA).


1943 Washington Homestead Grays season
Five of the Grays players were later inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame: Cool Papa Bell; Ray Brown; Josh Gibson; Buck Leonard; and Jud Wilson.


1943 Washington Huskies football team
The 1943 Washington Huskies football team was an American football team that represented the University of Washington during the 1943 college football season. In its second season under head coach Ralph Welch, the team compiled a 4–1 record, finished in third place in the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC), was ranked twelfth in the final AP Poll, lost to USC in the Rose Bowl, and outscored its opponents 150 to 61. Jack Tracy was the team captain.


1943 Washington Huskies football team
With manpower shortages on campuses due to World War II, the other five members of the PCC's Northern Division did not field teams this season (or the next); Washington's sole conference game was on New Year's Day in the Rose Bowl.


1943 Washington Huskies football team, NFL Draft selections
Four University of Washington Huskies were selected in the 1944 NFL Draft, which lasted 32 rounds with 330 selections.


1943 Washington Redskins season
The 1943 Washington Redskins were the defending NFL champions and finished the regular season at 6–3–1. They lost their last three games, including the final two to the New York Giants, and the two teams finished with identical records. Although the Giants had won both games between the teams, the rules of the time called for a tiebreaker playoff game to determine the Eastern division champion. The extra game was held at the Polo Grounds in New York City, which the underdog Redskins won, 28–0.


1943 Washington Redskins season
In a rematch of the previous year's title game, the Redskins met the Chicago Bears in the NFL championship game. This game was played in Chicago at Wrigley Field on December 26, and was won by the host Bears, 41–21.


1943 Washington Redskins season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1943 Washington Senators season
The 1943 Washington Senators won 84 games, lost 69, and finished in second place in the American League. They were managed by Ossie Bluege and played home games at Griffith Stadium.


1943 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1943 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1943 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1943 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1943 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1943 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship
The 1943 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship was the 43rd staging of the Waterford Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Waterford County Board in 1897.


1943 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship
On 19 September 1943, Mount Sion won the championship after a 3-08 to 1-05 defeat of Tallow in the final. This was their fourth championship title overall and their first title since 1940.


1943 Watford by-election
The Watford by-election of 1943 was held on 23 February 1943. The by-election was held due to the elevation to the peerage of the incumbent Conservative MP, Dennis Herbert. It was won by the Conservative candidate William Helmore.


1943 Wayne Tartars football team
The 1943 Wayne Tartars football team represented Wayne University (later renamed Wayne State University) as an independent during the 1943 college football season. The team compiled a 0–3 record and was outscored by opponents, 64 to 0.


1943 Wayne Tartars football team
Joe Gembis was in his 12th year as head coach. Frank Bielman, Jr., was the team captain.


1943 Wayne Tartars football team
As the fall semester began, there was uncertainty as to whether Wayne would be able to field a football team. Many schools had cancelled the football season due to the loss of students to wartime military service. Because Wayne had no Navy or Marine program, and the prior year's players were in the military, the team would have to be formed from incoming freshmen. Coach Gembis noted at the time: "We want to have a football team, even if we play only two games."


1943 Wayne Tartars football team
In late September 1943, a team was formed with 35 players. Coach Gembis arranged for a home and home series with Michigan State Normal and wrote to the commissioner of the Ohio Athletic Conference in search of other opponents.


1943 Wayne Tartars football team
A fourth game was arranged with Otterbein College, but it was cancelled when Otterbein was unable to field a team.


1943 Wayne Tartars football team
At the end of the season, 16 players received varsity letters, and Marshall Chrisjohn was selected as the team's most valuable player. The players receiving varsity letters were: Wallace Bagozzi, Frank Bielman, Francis Blake, Marshall Chrisjohn, Thomas Connor, Fred Cuthrell, Allan Dow, Andrew Edgerton, James Fears, Masis Godoshian, James Hannan, Richard Hartley, Allen Henderson, John Hochstein, Don Olson, and Tony Yangovyian.


1943 West Virginia Mountaineers football team
The 1943 West Virginia Mountaineers football team was an American football team that represented West Virginia University as an independent during the 1943 college football season. In its seventh non-consecutive season under head coach Ira Rodgers, the team compiled a 4–3 record and outscored opponents by a total of 124 to 79. The team played its home games at Mountaineer Field in Morgantown, West Virginia. Robert Dutton was the team captain.


1943 Western Australian state election
Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 20 November 1943 to elect all 50 members to the Legislative Assembly. The Labor Party, led by Premier John Willcock, won a fourth term in office against the Country and Nationalist parties, led by Opposition Leader Arthur Watts and Robert Ross McDonald respectively.


1943 Western Australian state election
The election took place in the midst of World War II, and as such, turnout was considerably down on the previous election. The election was delayed from its intended date of February 1942 by the Legislative Assembly Duration and General Election Postponement Acts (No 51 of 1941, assented 16 January 1942, and No 18 of 1942, assented 9 December 1942) due to the war.


1943 Western Australian state election
In the previous term, two changes of membership occurred at by-elections. George Lambert, the Labor member for Yilgarn-Coolgardie, died on 30 June 1941 and was replaced by former Labor branch secretary Lionel Kelly, running under the "Independent Country" banner. He ultimately joined the Labor Party and became a minister in the Bert Hawke government in the 1950s. In 1943, long-serving and colourful independent Thomas Hughes resigned his seat of East Perth to contest the federal seat of Perth. It was picked up by Labor's Herb Graham. Prior to the election, former Independent Nationalist Arthur Abbott joined the Nationalist Party.


1943 Western Australian state election, Results
Apart from Labor gaining two seats from the Country Party (Avon and Greenough) and one from the Nationalists (Nelson, where Ernest Hoar defeated the incumbent member by just 17 votes), no changes took place at the election. An interesting race in Mount Marshall opened up by the retirement of incumbent Country member Frederick Warner ended with the Country candidate, Hugh Leslie, victorious against the ALP and former minister John Lindsay.


1943 Western Australian state election, Results
Western Australian state election, 20 November 1943Legislative Assembly << 1939–1947 >>


1943 Western Australian state election, Results
To date this is the only time in which a Labor Premier in Willcock has won back to back elections.


1943 Western Michigan Broncos football team
The 1943 Western Michigan Broncos football team represented Western Michigan College of Education (later renamed Western Michigan University) as an independent during the 1943 college football season. In their second season under head coach John Gill, the Broncos compiled a 4–2 record and outscored their opponents, 151 to 89. The team played its home games at Waldo Stadium in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Halfback Bob Mellen was the team captain. Fullback August Camarata received the team's most outstanding player award. The team won two games by over 50 points across the season.


1943 Willoughby state by-election
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Willoughby on 25 September 1943. It was triggered by the death of Edward Sanders (United Australia).


1943 Wisconsin Badgers football team
The 1943 Wisconsin Badgers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Wisconsin in the 1943 Big Ten Conference football season. The team compiled a 1–9 record (1–6 against conference opponents) and finished in eighth place in the Big Ten Conference. Harry Stuhldreher was in his eighth year as Wisconsin's head coach.


1943 Wisconsin Badgers football team
Center Joe Keenan received the team's most valuable player award. Keenan was also the team captain. Ray Dooney led the Big Ten with an average of 39.0 yards per punt.


1943 Wisconsin Badgers football team
The team played its home games at Camp Randall Stadium. During the 1943 season, the average attendance at home games was 14,374.


1943 Wisła Kraków season
The 1943 season was Wisła Kraków's 35th year as a club.


1943 Women's Western Open
The 1943 Women's Western Open was a golf competition held at Glen Oak Country Club, the 14th edition of the event. Patty Berg won the championship in match play competition by defeating Dorothy Kirby in the final match, 1 up.


1943 Woolwich West by-election
The Woolwich West by-election of 1943 was held on 7 November 1943. The byelection was held due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, Kingsley Wood.


1943 Woolwich West by-election
The Conservative Party stood Francis Beech, a member of London County Council. The Independent Labour Party put forward Tom Colyer as a candidate. He was a former Labour Party Parliamentary candidate, who was working as a researcher and author. There was also an independent candidate. Beech won the election with a majority of the votes cast.


1943 Workers' Summer Olympiad
The 1943 Workers' Summer Olympiad, which were to be the seventh edition of the International Workers' Olympiads, were cancelled due to World War II. They were to have been arranged by the Finnish Workers' Sports Federation and held in Helsinki, Finland.


1943 Workers' Summer Olympiad, Nomination and planning
Finnish Workers' Sports Federation decided to apply the 1943 Workers' Summer Olympiads in 1936, right after the Finnish Olympic Committee had lost the bidding process for the 1940 Summer Olympics. The Socialist Workers' Sport International finally awarded the games to Helsinki in 1938. A year later, the city was also nominated the host of the 1940 Olympics as Tokyo rejected the games.


1943 Workers' Summer Olympiad, Nomination and planning
The main venue for both games was to be the 1938 completed Helsinki Olympic Stadium. Although the pre-war sporting life in Finland was split in two and the Finnish Workers' Sports Federation's athletes did not compete at the "bourgeoisie" Olympic Games, the federation took part at the construction project of the Olympic Stadium in addition to be the host of the Workers' Olympiads. Both games were later cancelled due to the war. Unlike the Olympic Movement, the Workers' Olympiads did not recover after the war and the future games were never held.


1943 World Series
The 1943 World Series matched the defending champion St. Louis Cardinals against the New York Yankees, in a rematch of the 1942 Series. The Yankees won the Series in five games for their tenth championship in 21 seasons. It was Yankees manager Joe McCarthy's final Series win. This series was also the first to have an accompanying World Series highlight film (initially, the films were created as gifts to troops fighting in World War II, to give them a brief recap of baseball action back home), a tradition that persists.


1943 World Series
This World Series was scheduled for a 3–4 format because of wartime travel restrictions. The 3–4 format meant there was only one trip between ballparks, but if the Series had ended in a four-game sweep, there would have been three games played in one park and only one in the other.


1943 World Series
Because of World War II, both teams' rosters were depleted. Johnny Beazley, Jimmy Brown, Creepy Crespi, Terry Moore and Enos Slaughter were no longer on the Cardinals' roster. Joe DiMaggio, Phil Rizzuto, Red Ruffing and Buddy Hassett were missing from the Yankees, and Red Rolfe had retired to coach at Dartmouth College.


1943 World Series
Cardinals pitchers Howie Pollet, Max Lanier and Mort Cooper ranked 1–2–3 in the National League in ERA in 1943 at 1.75, 1.90 and 2.30, respectively.


1943 World Series, Summary
AL New York Yankees (4) vs. NL St. Louis Cardinals (1)


1943 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
In Game 1, the Cardinals went up 1–0 in the second against Spud Chandler on Marty Marion's RBI double with two on. In the fourth inning, with runners on first and third and no outs off Max Lanier, Charlie Keller's double-play tied the game, then Joe Gordon's home run put the Yankees up 2–1. The Cardinals tied the game in the fifth inning when Ray Sanders hit a leadoff single, moved to second on an error and scored on Lanier's single. In the sixth inning, after two leadoff singles, a one-out wild pitch by Lanier put the Yankees up 3–2, then Bill Dickey added an insurance run with an RBI single. Chandler pitched a complete game to give the Yankees a 1–0 series lead.


1943 World Series, Matchups, Game 2
The Cardinals' only victory came the same day as the death of Mort and Walker Cooper's father, Robert. Marty Marion's leadoff home run in the third off Tiny Bonham put the Cardinals up 1–0. In the fourth, Stan Musial hit a leadoff single, moved to second on a groundout and scored on Whitey Kurowski's RBI single. Ray Sanders's two-run home run then made it 4–0 Cardinals. In the bottom of the inning, Charlie Keller's sacrifice fly with two on off Mort Cooper put the Yankees on the board. In the ninth, Billy Johnson hit a leadoff double, then scored on Cooper's triple. After a line-out, Nick Etten's RBI groundout cut the Cardinals' lead to one, but Cooper got Joe Gordon to pop out in foul territory to end the game and tie the series 1–1.


1943 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
The Cardinals loaded the bases in the fourth on a single, double and intentional walk off Hank Borowy before Danny Litwhiler drove in two with a single to left, but Borowy allowed no other runs in eight innings. In the sixth, Borowy hit a leadoff double off Al Brazle, moved to third on a sacrifice fly, and scored on an error on Billy Johnson's groundball. In the eighth, the Yankees loaded the bases on a single, fielder's choice and intentional walk before Johnson cleared them with a triple, putting the Yankees up 4–2. They added to their lead on RBI singles by Joe Gordon off Howie Krist and Nick Etten off Harry Brecheen. Johnny Murphy pitched a perfect ninth as the Yankees went up 2–1 in the series.


1943 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
In Game 4, the Yankees struck first when Joe Gordon doubled with two outs in the fourth off Max Lanier and scored on Bill Dickey's single. In the seventh, Marius Russo got two outs, then allowed the Cardinals to load the bases on an error, double and intentional walk before another error on Frank Demaree's groundball tied the game. In the eighth, Russo hit a leadoff double off Harry Brecheen, moved to third on a sacrifice bunt and scored on Frankie Crosetti's sacrifice fly. Russo pitched a complete game to leave the Yankees one win away from the championship.


1943 World Series, Matchups, Game 5
Murry Dickson, who helped close the door for the Cardinals by allowing no hits while on the mound, was on a ten-day pass from the United States Army. Spud Chandler won his second complete game of the series, shutting out the Cardinals despite giving up 10 hits and two walks. Bill Dickey provided the game's only runs on a home run in the sixth after a two-out walk off Mort Cooper.


1943 World Series, Composite box
1943 World Series (4–1): New York Yankees (A.L.) over St. Louis Cardinals (N.L.)


1943 Yale Bulldogs football team
The 1943 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1943 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by second-year head coach Howard Odell, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 4–5 record.


1943 bombing of the Amsterdam civil registry office
The 1943 bombing of the Amsterdam civil registry office was an attempt by members of the Dutch resistance to destroy the Amsterdam civil registry (bevolkingsregister), in order to prevent the Nazis from identifying Jews and others marked for persecution, arrest or forced labour. The March 1943 assault was only partially successful, and led to the execution of 12 participants. Nevertheless, the action likely saved many Jews from arrest and deportation to the extermination camps.


1943 bombing of the Amsterdam civil registry office, Background
Following the 1940 German invasion and occupation of the Netherlands, everyone aged 15 and older was required to carry an identification card, the persoonsbewijs, with them at all times. Jews had to carry a persoonsbewijs marked with a large J. Resistance members soon started to forge identification cards at a large scale – the largest such operation, led by Gerrit van der Veen, produced some 80,000 forged documents. However, forged documents could be easily detected because they could be compared against the records in the civil registries.


1943 bombing of the Amsterdam civil registry office, Background
Some civil servants were willing to falsify records in the civil registry so that they would match up with forged identification cards. Nevertheless, the civil registries remained a potent weapon in the hands of the Nazis to identify members of the Dutch population who were Jewish, potential members of the resistance or people who could be called up for forced labour duty.


1943 bombing of the Amsterdam civil registry office, Background
In 1943, a group of resistance members, led by sculptor Gerrit van der Veen and painter and author Willem Arondeus, meticulously planned to carry out a sabotage attack on the Amsterdam civil registry office, with the aim to destroy the records, without causing any loss of life. The mission was particularly difficult because security at civil registries had been tightened up after a similar assault on an office in Wageningen in late 1942. Security guards were now posted at strategic locations in the Amsterdam civil registry office. The group preparing the attack included a number of local artists and medical students, including several Jews and homosexuals, as well as a group of resistance members behind the clandestine publication Rattenkruid.


1943 bombing of the Amsterdam civil registry office, Bombing
The assault on the civil registry office at Plantage Kerklaan 36, a former concert hall directly adjacent to the main entrance of Artis zoo, took place on the night of 27 March 1943. Disguised in police uniforms, the resistance group approached the security guards and told them that they had come to search the building for explosives. The guards believed their story and let them in. Two medical students then sedated the guards by injecting them with phenobarbital, and the unconscious guards were carried inside the zoo through a back door.


1943 bombing of the Amsterdam civil registry office, Bombing
Once inside the building, the resistance members pulled open all the drawers, piled all of the documents onto the floor and doused them with benzene. They then set off a series of timed explosions, using explosives obtained by resistance operatives from a munitions store at Naarden fortress.


1943 bombing of the Amsterdam civil registry office, Bombing
The explosions set the building ablaze. The fire department (which had been tipped off about the assault) eventually arrived, but delayed putting out the fire. When they did ultimately come into action, they completely doused the building in water in an attempt to cause additional water damage to the records.


1943 bombing of the Amsterdam civil registry office, Bombing
The daring assault had a significant psychological impact on the residents of Amsterdam as well as the Nazi occupiers. However, it was only partially successful in destroying the civil registry. Only 15% of the records were completely destroyed. In total, 800,000 identity cards were destroyed, and 600 blank cards and 50,000 guilders were removed from the building.


1943 bombing of the Amsterdam civil registry office, Aftermath
Following the bombing, the Nazis immediately offered a 10,000 guilder reward to whomever could identify the perpetrators of the assault. Within a week, most of the conspirators had been betrayed to the Nazis and arrested. When Willem Arondeus was arrested in April, he did not reveal the names of his co-conspirators. However the Nazis found a notebook in his apartment listing many of the names, which led to the arrest of most of the resistance members who participated in the assault.


1943 bombing of the Amsterdam civil registry office, Aftermath
The trial against the resistance members who carried out the assault took place in June 1943 at the Tropenmuseum. Willem Arondeus and 13 others were found guilty and sentenced to death. Two received clemency at the last minute; the other 12 were executed on 2 July 1943. Gerrit van Veen managed to escape capture and continued his resistance activities until his 1944 arrest and execution following an assault on an Amsterdam prison.


1943 bombing of the Amsterdam civil registry office, Aftermath
Attorney and co-conspirator Lau Mazirel visited Willem Arondeus in prison shortly before he was executed for his role in the assault. Arondeus, who was openly gay, asked her to "tell the world that gays are no less courageous than anyone else." Mazirel went on to become an early proponent of LGBT rights. At the trial, the defense claimed mitigating circumstances for Sjoerd Bakker, Arondeus' partner, claiming that Arondeus had encouraged Bakker to participate since they were involved in an emotional relationship. However, Bakker refuted that claim and was sentenced to death along with the others.


1943 bombing of the Amsterdam civil registry office, Remembrance
In 1946, a commemorative plaque designed by Willem Sandberg was affixed next to the front door of the building at Plantage Kerklaan 36, in remembrance of the assault and the resistance members who were executed for their role in it.


1943 bombing of the Amsterdam civil registry office, Remembrance
Many of the participants were later honoured by the state of Israel with the title Righteous Among the Nations. In 1984, each member of the group involved in the attack was honoured by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and awarded the Resistance Memorial Cross (Verzetsherdenkingskruis)


1943 bombing of the Amsterdam civil registry office, Remembrance
In 2018 the Verzetsmuseum (Resistance Museum) on Plantage Kerklaan in Amsterdam, across the street from the former civil registry office, held an exhibition to mark the 75th anniversary of the bombing.


1943 college football season
The 1943 college football season concluded with the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame crowned as the nation's No. 1 team by a majority of the voters in the AP Poll, followed by the Iowa Pre-Flight Seahawks as the runner-up. For the third time in the history of the AP Poll, a team that had lost a game was named mythical national champion; (Minnesota (1936) and Ohio State (1942)). Notre Dame lost its final game of the season, a Chicago contest against the Great Lakes Naval Training Center.


1943 college football season
Along the way, however, the Fighting Irish had played one of the toughest college schedules ever, beating two No. 2 ranked teams (Michigan and Iowa Pre-Flight) and two No. 3 ranked teams (Navy and Army). Purdue University would seemingly have a claim on the 1943 Championship as well as the only undefeated team playing a full schedule, but the Purdue athletic department has never pursued the claim.


1943 college football season
In 1943, as many as 131 sportswriters participated in the AP poll, which included, for the first time, "service teams." Drawn from flight schools and training centers for participants in World War II, the service teams played against the colleges. At the same time, a number of universities suspended their football programs. Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Tennessee, and Vanderbilt in the Southeastern Conference did not field teams in 1943. In addition, six Pacific Coast Conference teams (Stanford, Oregon, Oregon State, Washington State, Idaho, and Montana) did not play, nor did Boston College, the Citadel, Duquesne, Fordham, Harvard, Michigan State, Syracuse, and William & Mary.


1943 college football season, September
On September 17, Georgia beat Presbyterian College 25–7. The next day, September 18, Michigan won at Camp Grant, 26–0. Wisconsin lost to Marquette, 33–7, on its way to a 1–9–0 finish.


1943 college football season, September
September 25 Ohio State lost to Iowa Pre-Flight 28–13. Michigan beat Western Michigan 57–6. Notre Dame won at Pitt, 42–0. Army beat Villanova 27–0 and Navy beat North Carolina Pre-Flight, 31–0. Georgia lost at LSU, 34–27. Tulsa beat SMU 20–7, Georgia Tech beat North Carolina 20–7.


1943 college football season, October
October 2 Michigan won at Northwestern 21–7. Notre Dame beat Georgia Tech 55–13. Army defeated Colgate 42–0 and Navy beat Cornell 46–7.


1943 college football season, October
October 9 No. 1 Notre Dame beat No. 2 Michigan, 35–21. No. 3 Army registered another shutout, defeating Temple 51–0. In Baltimore, No. 4 Navy edged  No. 5 Duke, 14–13. No. 6 Penn edged Dartmouth 7–6. No. 7 Purdue went to 4–0–0 with a 19–0 win over Camp Grant.


1943 college football season, October
October 16 No. 1 Notre Dame won at Wisconsin 50–0. No. 2 Army won at Columbia, 52–0. In four games, the Cadets had outscored their opponents 172–0. No. 3 Navy beat Penn State 14–6. No. 4 Penn beat the Lakehurst Naval Air Station 74–6. No. 5 Purdue beat Ohio State 30–7 at a game in Cleveland.


1943 college football season, October
October 23 No. 1 Notre Dame beat Illinois 47–0. No. 2 Army yielded its first points, but won at Yale, 39–7. No. 3 Navy beat Georgia Tech 28–14 in Baltimore. No. 4 Purdue beat Iowa 28–7. No. 5 Penn won at Columbia, 33–0, but dropped from the Top Five. No. 7 USC stayed unbeaten, untied, and unscored upon with a 6–0 win over Pacific.


1943 college football season, October
October 30  In Cleveland, No. 1 Notre Dame beat No. 3 Navy, 33–6. In Philadelphia, No. 2 Army and No. 6 Pennsylvania played to a 13–13 tie. No. 4 Purdue won at Wisconsin, 32–0. No. 5 USC beat California, 13–0, for its sixth straight shutout.


1943 college football season, November
November 6 At Yankee Stadium in New York, No. 1 Notre Dame beat No. 3 Army, 26–0. No. 2 Purdue won at Minnesota, 14–7. No. 4 USC lost at San Diego to the San Diego Navy team. No. 5 Penn lost to No. 7 Navy, 24–7. No. 6 Michigan beat Indiana 23–6. No. 8 Iowa Pre-Flight continued its unbeaten streak with a 46–19 win at Marquette on November 7, and became the first “service team” to ever reach the AP's Top Five.


1943 college football season, November
November 13 No. 1 Notre Dame won at Northwestern 25–6. No. 2 Purdue was idle. No. 3 Navy won at Columbia 61–0. No. 4 Michigan beat Wisconsin 27–0. No. 5 Iowa Pre-Flight beat Camp Grant 28–13.


1943 college football season, November
November 20 No. 1 Notre Dame edged No. 2 Iowa Pre-Flight, 14–13. No. 3 Purdue closed its season undefeated (9–0–0) with a 7–0 win at Indiana. No. 4 Michigan closed its season at 8–1–0 with a 45–7 win over Ohio State. No. 5 Navy was idle. The following week, it closed its season with a 13–0 win over Army in the Army–Navy Game, which took place at West Point. Duke closed its season at 8–1–0 with a 27–6 win over North Carolina.


1943 college football season, November
November 27 No. 1 Notre Dame closed its season with a 19–14 loss to Great Lakes NTC, 19–14, but still finished No. 1 in the final rankings. No. 2 Iowa Pre-Flight beat Minnesota, 32–0, to finish at 9–1–0. No. 3 Michigan, No. 4 Purdue, and No. 5 Duke had finished their seasons, as had No. 6 Navy, which rose to fourth place in the final poll.


1943 in Afghanistan
The following lists events that happened during 1943 in Afghanistan.


1943 in Afghanistan
The Treaty of Saadabad with Turkey, Iran, and Iraq is automatically renewed for a further five years, as none of its signatories has denounced it six months before expiration.


1943 in Afghanistan, June 1, 1943
A new departure is taken by the appointment of the first Afghan minister to the U.S., Abdul Hossein Aziz, who formerly represented his country in Moscow.


1943 in Afghanistan, October 24, 1943
It is learned that negotiations for a treaty of alliance between China and Afghanistan have been completed in Ankara.


1943 in Australia
The following lists events that happened during 1943 in Australia.


1943 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1943.


1943 in Australian literature, Births
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1943 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.


1943 in Australian literature, Deaths
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1943 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.


1943 in Belgium
This is a page of the events in the year 1943 in Belgium.


1943 in Brazilian football
The following article presents a summary of the 1943 football (soccer) season in Brazil, which was the 42nd season of competitive football in the country.


1943 in Brazilian football, Brazil national team
The Brazil national football team did not play any matches in 1943.


1943 in British music
This is a summary of 1943 in music in the United Kingdom.


1943 in British radio
This is a list of events from British radio in 1943.


1943 in British television
This is a list of British television related events from 1943.


1943 in Canada, Historical Documents
Slightly confused 1st Infantry Division invades Sicily against "bewildered" and "sorry looking" Italian defenders


1943 in Canada, Historical Documents
Command crucial, but battles are won "by human beings displaying judgment, coolness and courage" (and in Sicily's "unending heat")


1943 in Canada, Historical Documents
Seaforth Highlanders take Monte San Marco in Italy, despite steep, muddy terrain and intense German fire


1943 in Canada, Historical Documents
Top German generals recognize disadvantages fighting Allies in Italy, including "Canadians clever at making use of terrain"


1943 in Canada, Historical Documents
Canadian infantry and tanks press "a literally yard-by-yard advance" through Ortona streets, houses, and even rooms


1943 in Canada, Historical Documents
Germans leave Ortona and their dead - "Civilians[...]too dazed to realize the enemy had gone; Canadians[...]too tired to care"


1943 in Canada, Historical Documents
Newspaper illustration of RCAF Spitfire planes strafing freight trains in Europe


1943 in Canada, Historical Documents
Photo: Canadians in joint landing operation with U.S. forces against Japanese invaders on Kiska Island, Alaska


1943 in Canada, Historical Documents
"The Jewish reservoir of the East, which was able to counterbalance the western assimilation, no longer exists"


1943 in Canada, Historical Documents
At end of fourth year of war, Prime Minister King calls for greater effort and sacrifice to defeat faltering Axis


1943 in Canada, Historical Documents
National registration certificate of Mrs. Ethel Louise Buck, Spirit River, Alberta


1943 in Canada, Historical Documents
"We are few, very few" - Quebecker laments that there are not enough pacifists in province to even produce their newsletter


1943 in Canada, Historical Documents
Advisory group chair foresees postwar period of more skilled labour, greater production, new products and technology, and huge demand


1943 in Canada, Historical Documents
U.S.-U.K. agreement creates executive committee with Canadian representation to guide nuclear development


1943 in Canada, Historical Documents
Canada wants multilateral general agreement to reduce tariffs, and to encourage U.S.A. and Canada to "buy in order to sell"


1943 in Canada, Historical Documents
Report with proposed economic reforms for benefit of Prairie provinces, adjacent U.S.A., and world at large


1943 in Canada, Historical Documents
Canada threatens to step back if not given more say in new UN Relief and Rehabilitation Organization


1943 in Canada, Historical Documents
Lester Pearson complains to External Affairs about U.S. censorship of official's call from legation in Washington to Ottawa


1943 in Canada, Historical Documents
Government returns about 15% of seized Japanese-Canadian fishing fleet to owners


1943 in Canada, Historical Documents
"So reactionary to Liberal principles" - PM King depressed by cabinet's close-minded attitude to steelworker strike


1943 in Canada, Historical Documents
Cartoon: Hitler says of strikers, "They are really working for me!"


1943 in Canada, Historical Documents
Communist Tim Buck's submission on labour relations to National War Labor Board emphasizes wage policy and collective bargaining


1943 in Canada, Historical Documents
As they fund-raise for bombers, London's Women's Voluntary Services thanks Manitobans for gifts of clothes and mobile canteens


1943 in Canada, Historical Documents
"You can't refuse this cake, it was sent me all the way from Canada" - touring WVS speaker enjoys local hospitality


1943 in Canada, Historical Documents
"Defend[ing] freedom and culture of humanity" - Shostakovich's thank-you for Toronto performance of his Seventh Symphony


1943 in Canada, Historical Documents
Photo: RCAF member meets famed actor who plays "Rochester" on Jack Benny's radio comedy show


1943 in Canadian football
The Winnipeg RCAF Bombers faced the Hamilton Flying Wildcats in the Grey Cup. Hamilton proved to be the better team, returning the coveted trophy to Steeltown for the first time since 1932.


1943 in Canadian football, Canadian Football News in 1943
The WIFU and the IRFU suspended operations for the duration of World War II.


1943 in Canadian football, Regular season, Final regular season standings
Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points


1943 in Canadian football, Grey Cup Championship
31st Annual Grey Cup Game: Varsity Stadium - Toronto, Ontario


1943 in Canadian football, 1943 Western Canada Armed Services Rugby Football League All-Stars
NOTE: During this time most players played both ways, so the All-Star selections do not distinguish between some offensive and defensive positions.


1943 in Canadian football, 1943 Ontario Rugby Football Union All-Stars
NOTE: During this time most players played both ways, so the All-Star selections do not distinguish between some offensive and defensive positions.


1943 in Chile
The following lists events that happened during 1943 in Chile.


1943 in China
Events in the year 1943 in China. The country had an estimated population of 444,801,000 in the mainland and 6,507,000 in Taiwan.


1943 in Estonia
This article lists events that occurred during 1943 in Estonia.


1943 in Greece
This is a list of events that happened in 1943 in Greece.


1943 in Iceland
The following lists events that happened in 1943 in Iceland.


1943 in India, Deaths
15 June – Kushal Konwar, Indian National Congress President of Golaghat, First martyr of Quit India Movement.


1943 in Lebanon
The following lists events that happened during 1943 in Lebanon.


1943 in Liberia
The following lists events that happened during 1943 in Liberia.


1943 in Malaya
This article lists important figures and events in the public affairs of British Malaya during the year 1943, together with births and deaths of prominent Malayans. Japanese forces continued to occupy Malaya.


1943 in Malaya, Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WW2" acronym.


1943 in Mandatory Palestine
Events in the year 1943 in the British Mandate of Palestine.


1943 in Michigan, Top stories
The Associated Press polled editors of its member newspapers in Michigan and ranked the state's top news stories of 1943 as follows:


1943 in Michigan, Population
In the 1940 United States Census, Michigan was recorded as having a population of 5,256,106, ranking as the seventh most populous state in the country. By 1950, Michigan's population had increased by 21.2% to 6,371,766.


1943 in Michigan, Population, Cities
The following is a list of cities in Michigan with a population of at least 20,000 based on 1940 U.S. Census data. Historic census data from 1930 and 1950 is included to reflect trends in population increases or decreases. Cities that are part of the Detroit metropolitan area are shaded in tan.


1943 in Michigan, Population, Counties
The following is a list of counties in Michigan with populations of at least 75,000 based on 1940 U.S. Census data. Historic census data from 1930 and 1950 are included to reflect trends in population increases or decreases.


1943 in Michigan, Companies
The following is a list of major companies based in Michigan in 1943.


1943 in New Zealand
The following lists events that happened during 1943 in New Zealand.


1943 in New Zealand, Incumbents, Government
The 26th New Zealand Parliament concluded, with the Labour Party in government. Labour was re-elected for a third term in the election in November


1943 in New Zealand, Arts and literature, Film
See : Category:1943 film awards, 1943 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1943 films


1943 in New Zealand, Sport, Archery
The New Zealand Archery Association, now Archery New Zealand, is incorporated.


1943 in New Zealand, Sport, Archery
The first national championships are held. From now until 1947 the championships are a postal shoot.


1943 in Norway, Events, Gallery
A reconstruction of the Operation Gunnerside team planting explosives to destroy the cascade of electrolysis chambers.


1943 in Norway, Events, Gallery
160 American bombers bombed this hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork on 16 November.


1943 in Norwegian music
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1943 in Norwegian music.


1943 in South Africa
The following lists events that happened during 1943 in South Africa.


1943 in Sweden, Events
10 March - 27 April – Norwegian Exhibition runs in Stockholm


1943 in Taiwan
Events from the year 1943 in Taiwan, Empire of Japan.


1943 in Turkey, Cabinet
13th government of Turkey (up to 9 Merch)14th government of Turkey (from 9 March)


1943 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1943 to Wales and its people.


1943 in animation
This is a list of events in 1943 in animation.


1943 in architecture
The year 1943 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.


1943 in association football
The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1943 throughout the world.


1943 in baseball
The following are the baseball events of the year 1943  throughout the world.


1943 in chess
The below is a list of events in chess in 1943.


1943 in chess, Team matches
(Tekavčić ½0 Tsvetkov; Šubarić 00 Neikirch; Jerman ½1 Popov; Filipčić 10 Malchev; Jonke ½1 Karastoichev; Petek 1½ Kiprov; Kindij 01 Dimitrov; Licul 10 Kantardzhiev)


1943 in comics
Notable events of 1943 in comics. See also List of years in comics.


1943 in country music
This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1943.


1943 in country music, Top hits of the year
The Billboard did publish a weekly column, "American Folk Records", with raw reports from nationwide jukebox operators, and summaries of the top records in the nation. A tabulation produced 50 top records of the year, and many insights into the strike-depreciated market. Charted songs from 1943 dropped over 50% compared to 1942. "Pistol Packin' Mama" by Al Dexter was easily the top record of the year. Here is a list of the top records.


1943 in country music, Top hits of the year
The top 3 hits of 1942 also ranked high for 1943, but their points were applied to their home year.


1943 in country music, Top hits of the year
Because of the lack of fresh material, many hits from past years made chart returns.


1943 in film
The year 1943 in film featured various significant events for the film industry.


1943 in film, Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1943 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:


1943 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
The year 1943 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.


1943 in jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1943.


1943 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1943.


1943 in motorsport
The following is an overview of the events of 1943 in motorsport including the major racing events, motorsport venues that were opened and closed during a year, championships and non-championship events that were established and disestablished in a year, and births and deaths of racing drivers and other motorsport people.


1943 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1943.


1943 in music, Biggest hit songs
The following songs achieved the highest positions in the National Best Selling Retail Records and Harlem Hit Parade charts and the "American Folk Records" column, all published by "The Billboard" during 1943:


1943 in paleontology
Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1943.


1943 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).


1943 in poetry, Works published in English
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:


1943 in poetry, Works published in other languages
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:


1943 in poetry, Works published in other languages, Indian subcontinent
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:


1943 in poetry, Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:


1943 in poetry, Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:


1943 in professional wrestling
1943 in professional wrestling describes the year's events in the world of professional wrestling.


1943 in radio
The year 1943 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history.


1943 in rail transport
This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1943.


1943 in science
The year 1943 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.


1943 in sports
1943 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.


1943 in sports, Notes
Owing to government bans on weekday sport, the Melbourne Cup was run on a Saturday from 1942 to 1944. The 1943  Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe  was run at Le Tremblay over 2,300 metres.


1943 in television
The year 1943 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1943.


1943 in the Belgian Congo
The following lists events that happened during 1943 in the Belgian Congo.


1943 in the Philippines
1943 in the Philippines details events of note that happened in the Philippines in the year 1943.


1943 in the Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1943 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.


1943 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 1943 in the United Kingdom. The year was dominated by the Second World War.


1943 steel cent
1943 steel cents are U.S. one-cent coins that were struck in steel due to wartime shortages of copper. The Philadelphia, Denver, and San Francisco mints each produced these 1943 Lincoln cents. The unique composition of the coin (low-grade steel coated with zinc, instead of the previously 95%-copper-based bronze composition) has led to various nicknames, such as wartime cent, steel war penny, zinc cent and steelie. The 1943 steel cent features the same Victor David Brenner design for the Lincoln cent which had been in use since 1909.


1943 steel cent, History
Due to wartime needs of copper for use in ammunition and other military equipment during World War II, the United States Mint researched various ways to limit dependence and meet conservation goals on copper usage. After trying out several substitutes (ranging from other metals to plastics) to replace the then-standard bronze alloy, the one-cent coin was minted in zinc-coated steel. This alloy caused the new coins to be magnetic and 13% lighter. They were struck at all three mints: Philadelphia, Denver, and San Francisco. As with the bronze cents, coins from the latter two sites have respectively "D" and "S" mintmarks below the date.


1943 steel cent, History
However, problems began to arise from the mintage. Freshly minted, they were often mistaken for dimes. Magnets in vending machines (which took copper cents) placed to pick up steel slugs also picked up the legitimate steel cents. Because the galvanization process did not cover the edges of the coins, sweat would quickly rust the metal. After public outcry, the Mint developed a process whereby salvaged brass shell casings were augmented with pure copper to produce an alloy close to the 1941–42 composition. This was used for 1944–46-dated cents, after which the prewar composition was resumed. Although they continued to circulate into the 1960s, the mint collected large numbers of the 1943 cents and destroyed them.


1943 steel cent, History
The steel cent is the only regular-issue United States coin that can be picked up with a magnet. The steel cent was also the only coin issued by the United States for circulation that does not contain any copper. (Even U.S. gold coins at various times contained from slightly over 2% copper to an eventual standard 10% copper to increase resistance to wear by making the pure gold coins slightly harder).


1943 steel cent, Related variations, 1943 copper cent
Far ahead of the 1955 doubled die cent in rarity, the 1943 copper cent is one of the notable rarities of the Lincoln cent series. An estimated 40 examples are believed to have been struck, with 13 confirmed to exist. The error occurred when copper planchets were left in the press hopper and press machines during the changeover from copper to steel blanks. Examples were discovered after the War, with the first two in 1947, and another in 1958.


1943 steel cent, Related variations, 1943 copper cent
That example appeared in a 1958 Abe Kosoff sale, but was withdrawn prior to the sale; one mint condition Denver Mint specimen sold for over $1.7 million in 2010. Many people have counterfeited the coin by either copper-plating normal 1943 cents (sometimes as novelties with no intent to defraud), or altering cents from the period, usually 1945, 1948, or 1949-dated coins.


1943 steel cent, Related variations, 1943 copper cent
The copper cents differ from their steel counterparts in four ways:


1943 steel cent, Related variations, 1943 tin cent
In 2019, NGC authenticated a worn 1943 cent composed of 86.41% tin and 8.37% antimony with other trace metals. The coin was discovered by a coin collector in the state of Oregon, who found it in his father's yard c. 1969 and realized it was not attracted to a magnet while searching his coin collection for 1943 copper cents in 2019. It is likely that the coin is an error or was intentionally struck as a pattern in late 1942 using an obverse die intended for the following year, though no documented evidence of a pattern with this composition has been found.


1943 steel cent, Related variations, 1943 tin cent
The coin was found in a badly damaged state, with two large gashes and a slight bend. Believing it to be a steel cent, the discoverer straightened the coin in a bench vise so that it would fit inside a coin album. The coin weighs 2.702 g.


1943 steel cent, Related variations, 1944 steel cent
In an error similar to the 1943 cents, a few 1944 cents were struck on steel planchets left over from 1943. There are two explanations given for why this happened. One explanation is that steel planchets were left in the press hopper and press machines from the previous year mixed in with copper planchets. Another explanation credits the error to the production of 25 million Belgian two franc pieces by the Philadelphia mint after that country's liberation from the Nazis.


1943 steel cent, Related variations, 1944 steel cent
These coins were of the same composition and the same planchets as the 1943 cents, but they differed slightly in weight. In all, 1944 steel cents are fewer in number than their 1943 copper counterparts, and are even more valuable; one such example minted in San Francisco sold for $373,750 in an August 2008 auction held by Heritage Auctions; this was the highest auction price ever for a Lincoln cent until September 23, 2010, when it was superseded by a 1943-D bronze penny.


1943 steel cent, Cost of mintage
Although United States Penny is widely known to hold a higher mintage cost than its face value, the United States actually made a large profit on minting steel coins. In 1943, the cost of a gross ton of steel was $34. With a composition of 2.67498 grams of steel making up 99% of the coin, the 1943 Steel Penny only cost roughly one-ten-thousandth of a dollar.


1943 steel cent, Novelty coins
Since many steel cents corroded and became dull soon after entering circulation, some dealers who sold the coins as novelties improved their appearance by "reprocessing" – stripping off the old zinc coating and then replating them with zinc or chrome. These reprocessed coins are sometimes erroneously described as brilliant uncirculated, or similar terms, by ignorant or unscrupulous online sellers.