Timeline June 1943

Events in June 1943 6

• 1868 – 1943 Karl Landsteiner (1868-1943) Died 26 June 1943, aged 75 Karl Landsteiner was an Austrian-American pathologist who discovered the ABO blood groups, which made safe blood transfusion possible. He received the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He later co-discovered the Rh factor.
• 1893 – 1943 Leslie Howard (1893-1943) Died 1 June 1943, aged 50 Leslie Howard was an English actor and director known for Gone with the Wind, Pygmalion and The Scarlet Pimpernel. German fighters shot down his civilian airliner, BOAC Flight 777, over the Bay of Biscay while he was flying home from Lisbon. Everyone on board was killed.
• 1943 – 1945 Woody Guthrie serves in the Merchant Marine Second World War Sails with fellow singer Cisco Houston. His guitar reads This Machine Kills Fascists.
• 1943 – 1946 US Army Service in World War II Became a naturalised US citizen and served in the US Army during World War II, working in military intelligence in the European theatre.
• 1943 Zoot Suit Riots Servicemen attack Mexican American youths in Los Angeles US servicemen roamed Los Angeles attacking young Mexican Americans who wore zoot suits. They stripped and beat their victims, and the police largely arrested the victims rather than the attackers. The violence ended after military authorities declared the city off-limits to personnel.
• 1943 Detroit race riot Three days of racial violence in Detroit Violence broke out at Belle Isle in Detroit and spread across the city, which was under strain from wartime migration and housing shortages. Thirty-four people were killed, 25 of them Black. Federal troops restored order.