CHRONOLOGY
1943
Dated events from the historical database.
1943-01-09 — First Flight of the Lockheed Constellation1943-02-02 — Battle of Stalingrad Ends1943-02-09 — Battle of Guadalcanal Ends1943-02-18 — Construction Begins on the First Y-12 Production Building at Oak Ridge1943-03-05 — First Flight of the Gloster Meteor1943-03-22 — Major Construction Begins at the Hanford Industrial Complex1943-04-09 — Contract Signed to Build ENIAC1943-04-19 — Warsaw Ghetto Uprising1943-05-13 — Axis Surrender in Tunisia1943-06-29 — First Flight of the First Production B-29 Built at Wichita1943-07-05 — Battle of Kursk1943-07-10 — Allied Landings in Sicily1943-07-25 — Fall of Mussolini's Regime1943-08-14 — Big Inch Oil Pipeline Completed1943-09-03 — Allied Invasion of Mainland Italy1943-09-08 — Italian Armistice Announced1943-09-09 — Allied Landings at Salerno1943-09-10 — German Forces Occupy Rome1943-09-16 — Allied Forces Link Up near Salerno1943-09-25 — Red Army Retakes Smolensk1943-09-28 — Four Days of Naples Uprising1943-09-29 — Polymer Corporation Begins Industrial Production of Synthetic Rubber1943-10-01 — Rescue of the Danish Jews1943-10-13 — Italy Declares War on Germany1943-10-19 — Discovery of the Antibiotic Streptomycin1943-11-03 — Willow Run Completes Its 1,000th B-24 Bomber1943-11-04 — X-10 Graphite Reactor Begins Operation at Oak Ridge1943-11-06 — Liberation of Kyiv1943-11-28 — Tehran Conference