Major Events of 1943

  • Surrender at Stalingrad
  • Bombing of Germany
  • Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
  • Battle of Kursk
  • Palermo
  • Quebec Conference
  • Allies Land in Italy
  • Teheran Conferance

    Sports

    NCAA Football: Notre Dame Record: 9-1-0
    Heisman Trophy: Angelo Bertelli, notre dame, QB points: 648
    Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings vs. Boston Bruins Series: 4-0
    World Series: New York Yankees vs. ST. Louis Cardinals Series: 4-1

    Popular Movies

    1. Arsenic and Old Lace
    2. Cover Girl
    3. Destination Tokyo
    4. Dragon Seed
    5. For Whom The Bell Tolls
    6. The Gang's All Here
    7. Girl Crazy
    8. Going My Way
    9. Guadalcanal Diary
    10. A Guy Named Joe

    Academy Awards

    Best Picture: "Casablanca - Michael Curtiz"
    Best Director: Michael Curtiz ... "Casablanca"
    Best Actor: Paul Lukas ... "Watch on the Rhine"
    Best Actress: Jennifer Jones ... "The Song of Bernadette"

    Nobel Prizes

    Chemistry
    DE HEVESY, GEORGE, Hungary, Stockholm University, Sweden, b. 1885, d. 1966: "for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes"

    Literature
    The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

    Peace
    The prize money was allocated to the Main Fund (1/3) and to the Special Fund (2/3) of this prize section.

    Physiology or Medicine
    The prize was divided equally between: DAM, HENRIK CARL PETER, Denmark, Polytechnic Institute, Copenhagen, b. 1895, d. 1976: "for his discovery of vitamin K"; and DOISY, EDWARD ADELBERT, U.S.A., Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, b. 1893, d. 1986: "for his discovery of the chemical nature of vitamin K"

    Physics
    STERN, OTTO, U.S.A., Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburg, PA, b. 1888 (in Sorau, then Germany), d. 1969: "for his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton."

    Pulitzer Prizes

    Drama: Thornton Wilder ... "The Skin of Our Teeth"
    Fiction: Upton Sinclair ... "Dragon's Teeth"
    History: Esther Forbes ... "Paul Revere and the World He Lived In"
    International Reporting: Ira Wolfert ... "North American Newspaper Alliance"
    Public Service: "Omaha (NE) World-Herald"

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