1943
ID: 1525
Harry Laughlin dies during epileptic seizure (ironic given his campaign against epileptics)
ID: 1525
1943
ID: 1526
Dr. Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer establishes 'Zwillingslager' (twins camp) at Auschwitz
ID: 1526
1943
ID: 1527
Hofmann discovers psychoactive properties of LSD
ID: 1527
1943
ID: 1528
13th Waffen Mountain Division 'Handschar' formed - Muslim SS unit
ID: 1528
1943
ID: 1529
14th Waffen Grenadier Division 'Galicia' formed from Ukrainian volunteers
ID: 1529
1943
ID: 1530
Peak Golden Lily burial operations - Major tunnel complexes in Luzon, POW labor executed for secrecy
ID: 1530
1943
ID: 1531
IG Farben employs 177,000 foreign workers and prisoners across 93 countries
ID: 1531
1943
ID: 1532
California Senate classifies ACLU as 'communist front' - 'at least 90 percent of its efforts expended on behalf of communists'
ID: 1532
1943
ID: 1533
ENIAC computer project begins using mathematical logic for automated calculation
ID: 1533
1943
ID: 1534
Silicones first produced commercially by Corning and General Electric
ID: 1534
1943
ID: 1535
Synthetic rubber (styrene-butadiene) begins large-scale commercial production in United States
ID: 1535
1943
ID: 1536
Typhoid fever deaths: 0.5 per 100,000 (98% decline from 1900)
ID: 1536
1943
ID: 1537
Anderson study: Polio 2.5x more prevalent in tonsillectomized children
ID: 1537
1943
ID: 4240
IBM dedicates all production to Allied war effort - punch card machines used for military logistics and calculations
ID: 4240
1943
ID: 1523
June 29, 1943
Pope Pius XII issues encyclical 'Mystici Corporis' on Church as Body of Christ
ID: 1523
1943
ID: 1524
September 30, 1943
Pope Pius XII issues 'Divino Afflante Spiritu' on biblical studies
ID: 1524
1943
ID: 3772
October 1943
Danish rescue of Jews - population helps 7,200 Jews escape to Sweden, unique in Nazi-occupied Europe
ID: 3772
1943
ID: 4293
December 1943
Tommy Flowers completes Colossus Mark I at Bletchley Park - first programmable electronic computer for codebreaking
ID: 4293