June 17 » The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
September 28 » Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own.
October 29 » In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
December 3 » In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
December 10 » The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
Day of death September 13, 1943
The temperature on September 13, 1943 was between 17.1 °C and 26.0 °C and averaged 20.5 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
February 20 » American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
July 4 » World War II: The Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world's largest tank battle, begins in the village of Prokhorovka.
July 5 » World War II: German forces begin a massive offensive against the Soviet Union at the Battle of Kursk, also known as Operation Citadel.
August 2 » The Holocaust: Jewish prisoners stage a revolt at Treblinka, one of the deadliest of Nazi death camps where approximately 900,000 persons were murdered in less than 18 months.
August 27 » World War II: Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.
November 22 » World War II: Cairo Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.
Day of burial September 17, 1943
The temperature on September 17, 1943 was between 9.0 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
January 18 » Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
February 14 » World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated.
June 20 » World War II: The Royal Air Force launches Operation Bellicose, the first shuttle bombing raid of the war. Lancaster bombers damage the V-2 rocket production facilities at the Zeppelin Works while en route to an air base in Algeria.
July 11 » Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army within the Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Volhynia) peak.
September 7 » A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston kills 55 people.
December 5 » World War II: Allied air forces begin attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow.
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