What is 1943?
{{Year nav|1943}} {{Year in various calendars|1943}} '''1943''' ([[Roman numerals|MCMXLIII]]) was a [[common year starting on Friday]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]], the 1943rd year of the [[Common Era]] (CE) and ''[[Anno Domini]]'' (AD) designations, {{Year article header/year number|1943}} == Events == ===January - March === *[[January 4]] – End of term for [[Culbert Olson]], 29th [[List of Governors of California|Governor of California]]. [[Earl Warren]] follows him. *[[January 11]] – The [[United States]] and [[United Kingdom]] give up territorial rights in [[China]]. *[[January 11]] – General Juanto dies in [[Argentina]] – [[Ramon Castillo]] succeeds him *[[January 12]] – [[Jan Campert]], [[Netherlands|Dutch]] journalist and writer, dies in Neuengamme concentration camp *[[January 14]] – [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] becomes the first [[President (United States)|President of the United States]] to travel by [[airplane]] while in office ([[Miami, Florida]] to [[Morocco]] to meet with [[Winston Churchill]] to discuss [[World War II]]). *[[January 15]] – [[World War II]]: [[Japan]]ese are driven off [[Guadalcanal]]. *[[January 15]] – The world's largest office building, [[The Pentagon]], is dedicated ([[Arlington, Virginia]]). *[[January 18]] – [[World War II]]: [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] officials announce they have broken the [[Wehrmacht]]'s [[siege of Leningrad]]. *[[January 18]] – The [[Jew]]s in the [[Warsaw Ghetto]] rise up for the first time, starting the [[Warsaw Ghetto Uprising]]. *[[January 23]] – [[World War II]]: [[United Kingdom|British]] forces capture [[Tripoli]] from the [[Nazi]]s. *[[January 23]] – In [[Spearfish, South Dakota]], temperature rises from -20 to +7 degrees Celsius in two minutes *[[January 23]] – [[Duke Ellington]] plays at [[New York City]]'s [[Carnegie Hall]] for the first time. *[[January 24]] – World War II: [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and [[Winston Churchill]] conclude a conference in [[Casablanca]]. *[[January 27]] – World War II: