September 1943

Friday 03:

World War II: Mainland Italy is invaded by Allied forces for the first time in the war.

Sunday 05:

World War II: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment under U.S. General Douglas MacArthur lands and occupies Nazdab in Papua New Guinea.

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.

Saturday 11:

World War II: start of the liquidation of the Ghettos in Minsk and Lida by the Nazis

Sunday 12:

Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest by German commando Otto Skorzeny

Monday 13:

Chiang Kai-shek elected president of the Republic of China.

Friday 17:

Russian city of Bryansk liberated from Nazis.

Saturday 18:

The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibór.

Wednesday 29:

U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the British ship Nelson off the shore of Malta.