1943 - A colourful chain of events

1943 and Herman Fokker is writing his diaries. This list describes the year in a few facts that build an interesting picture of flux and instability (read as change). It sufficiently captures the idea of AEON "New Age" I think... You have it in a nutshell. War is in full scale. LSD is invented, Two colonies escape European power, the "Philidelphia Experiment" happens. Please contribute to this list so we can create a "gestalt" around the time of his writing

January 1943
Monday 11: The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China.
Thursday 14: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel via airplane while in office (Miami, Florida to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill to discuss World War II).
Friday 15: The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated (Arlington, Virginia). Saturday 23: Duke Ellington plays at New York City's Carnegie Hall for the first time.
Sunday 24: World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.

February 1943
Monday 01: World War II: Vidkun Quisling appointed Premier of Norway by the Nazi occupiers. Tuesday 02: World War II: The last Nazi forces surrender to the Soviets following the Battle of Stalingrad.
Thursday 04: Battle of Stalingrad ends. Monday 08: United States forces defeat Japanese troops.
Monday 22: Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.

March 1943
Tuesday 02: United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships. Friday 05: First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in Britain.
Monday 08: World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that will last five days.
Monday 15: the Germans retook the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.
Friday 26: In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.

April 1943
Tuesday 13: The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, DC, on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth.
Friday 16: Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD. Monday 19: Bicycle Day ; Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.
Thursday 22: Albert Hofmann writes his first report about the hallucinogenic properties of LSD. Friday 30: World War II: Operation Mincemeat – The submarine HMS Seraph surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer.

May 1943
Tuesday 11: World War II: American troops invade Attu in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.
Saturday 15: Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International).
Sunday 16: World War II: The Dambuster Raids by RAF 617 Squadron on German dams. Monday 17: The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC.
Wednesday 19: World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set Monday, May 1, 1944 as the date for the cross-English Channel landing (D-Day would later be delayed over a month due to bad weather).

June 1943
Tuesday 01: A civilian flight from Lisbon to London is shot down by the Germans during World War II, killing all aboard, including actor Leslie Howard.
Thursday 03: A mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beats up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting a week-long race riot (see Zoot Suit Riots).
Friday 04: Military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo.
Saturday 19: Race riots occur in Beaumont, Texas, United States.

July 1943
Friday 09: Allied forces perform an amphibious invasion of Sicily.
Wednesday 14: In Joplin, Missouri, George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of an African American.
Monday 19: World War II: Rome is bombed by the Allies for the first time in the war.
Sunday 25: World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
Wednesday 28: The British bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.

August 1943
Monday 02: PT-109, with future president of the United States Lieutenant John F. Kennedy aboard, sinks.
Wednesday 11: First Quebec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, T. V. Soong and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.
Tuesday 17: World War II: The US 7th Army under General George S. Patton arrive in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.
Sunday 29: German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves Danish government.
Tuesday 31: The USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named for a black person, is commissioned.

September 1943
Tuesday 07: A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston, Texas, kills 55 people.
Wednesday 08: World War II: Julius Fucik is executed by Nazis.
Thursday 09: World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
Friday 10: German forces began their occupation of Rome during World War II.
Sunday 12: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest by German commando Otto Skorzeny

October 1943
Thursday 07: Japan executes 100 American prisoners on Wake Island.
Wednesday 13: World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany.
Tuesday 19: Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
Friday 22: Kassel: RAF conducts an air raid on the city of 236,000 people, killing 10,000, rendering 150,000 homeless. Second firestorm raid in Germany
Thursday 28: The Philadelphia Experiment supposedly occured.

November 1943
Monday 15: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps." (see Porajmos)
Tuesday 16: World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vermork, Norway.
Saturday 20: United States Marines land on Tarawa and Makin atolls in the Gilbert Islands and take heavy fire from Japanese shore guns.
Monday 22: Lebanon gains independence from France.
Sunday 28: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran to discuss war strategy.

December 1943
Saturday 04: Great Depression ends in the United States: With unemployment figures falling fast due to World War II-related employment, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes the Works Progress Administration.
Friday 24: US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the supreme Allied commander
Sunday 26: The German warship Scharnhorst sinks off the coast of North Cape in Norway after being attacked by the British Royal Navy late the previous evening.
Thursday 30: Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.