Timeline November 1943

Events in November 1943 13

• 1895 – 1943 Lorenz Hart (1895-1943) Died 22 November 1943, aged 48 Lorenz Hart was an American lyricist who wrote songs with Richard Rodgers, including Blue Moon, My Funny Valentine and The Lady Is a Tramp. Their partnership ended as Hart's alcoholism worsened. He died of pneumonia days after a revival of A Connecticut Yankee opened.
• 1943 – 2017 Sam Shepard (1943-2017) Died 27 July 2017, aged 73 American playwright, actor, and director who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Buried Child and was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in The Right Stuff. His plays, including True West and Fool for Love, reshaped American theater. He died of complications from ALS.
• 1943 Red Army liberates Kiev Soviet forces retake the Ukrainian capital Soviet troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front recaptured Kiev after crossing the Dnieper. Kiev was the third-largest city in the Soviet Union and had been under German occupation since 1941. The Germans had destroyed large parts of the city before retreating.
• 1943 – present Joni Mitchell Singer-songwriter, painter Canadian musician and painter — Both Sides, Now, Big Yellow Taxi, Blue — one of the most influential songwriters of the 20th century.
• 1943 Joni Mitchell born in Fort Macleod, Alberta Roberta Joan Anderson Grows up in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
• 1943 – present Michael Byrne British Character Actor English character actor whose seven-decade career encompassed the National Theatre, over 170 film and television roles, and some of cinema's most memorable villains. He played a ruthless Nazi in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the elderly dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, and a rapist soldier in Braveheart. He worked alongside Laurence Olivier and Maggie Smith at the National Theatre and appeared in a string of major war films including The Eagle Has Landed, A Bridge Too Far and Force 10 from Navarone.
• 1943 Michael Byrne born in London Born Michael Byrne in London, England, to Helen Byrne of Kilkenny, Ireland, a single mother. Raised in wartime and postwar London.
• 1943 Battle of Tarawa US Marines take Betio atoll at heavy cost US Marines landed on Betio in the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands. Coral reefs stranded the landing craft, and the garrison fought almost to the last man. About 1,000 Americans and nearly all of some 4,700 defenders died in 76 hours of fighting.
• 1943 – present Billie Jean King The Pioneer Winner of 12 singles majors and advocate for gender equality; won the "Battle of the Sexes".
• 1943 Cairo Conference Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek set war aims against Japan Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss the war against Japan. The Cairo Declaration said that Japan would be stripped of territories it had seized, including Manchuria, Taiwan and Korea. It also promised that Korea would become independent in due course.
• 1943 Lebanon gains independence France releases Lebanon's imprisoned leaders Free French authorities had arrested Lebanon's president and ministers after the country amended its constitution to end the French mandate. After strikes and international pressure, the leaders were released on 22 November. The date is celebrated as Lebanon's Independence Day.
• 1943 Tehran Conference Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill meet for first time Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill met in Tehran from November 28 to December 1, 1943 — the first meeting of the "Big Three". They agreed on the opening of a second front in Western Europe in 1944.
• 1943 Tehran Conference The first meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin met together for the first time, in Tehran. They agreed that the Western Allies would invade northern France in May 1944. Stalin promised to join the war against Japan after Germany was defeated.