Timeline January 1943

Events in January 1943 9

• 1856 – 1943 Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) Died 7 January 1943, aged 86 Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor and engineer whose alternating current induction motor and polyphase system underpin modern power distribution. He also pioneered radio, wireless power transmission and high-voltage devices. He died alone and in debt in a room at the Hotel New Yorker.
• 1887 – 1943 Nikolai Vavilov (1887-1943) Died 26 January 1943, aged 55 Nikolai Vavilov was a Soviet botanist and geneticist who identified the centres of origin of cultivated plants and built a world-leading seed bank. He opposed Trofim Lysenko's pseudoscience, and in 1940 he was arrested. He died of starvation in Saratov prison.
• 1889 – 1943 R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943) Died 9 January 1943, aged 53 Robin George Collingwood was an English philosopher, historian and archaeologist of Roman Britain. His works include The Principles of Art and The Idea of History, which was published after his death. He argued that historians must re-enact past thought.
• 1943 – 1946 McGill University Completed his bachelor's degree (1943) and PhD (1946) in chemistry at McGill University. His doctoral research involved the chemical behaviour of explosives during wartime.
• 1943 Casablanca Conference Churchill and Roosevelt demand unconditional surrender Churchill and Roosevelt met in Casablanca, Morocco from January 14-24, 1943. They agreed on the Allied strategy and announced they would accept nothing less than the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers.
• 1943 Casablanca Conference Roosevelt and Churchill demand unconditional surrender Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill met at Casablanca in French Morocco to plan the next phase of Allied strategy. They agreed to invade Sicily after the North African campaign ended. Roosevelt announced that the Allies would accept only the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers.
• 1943 Sliced bread is banned A wartime measure to save wax paper and steel The public complained so loudly that the ban was lifted after 47 days.
• 1943 Janis Joplin born in Port Arthur, Texas Gulf Coast An outsider in a Texas oil town.
• 1943 Duke Ellington premieres Black, Brown and Beige at Carnegie Hall Tone parallel A long-form portrait of Black American history.