Timeline Tuesday 19 October 1943

Events on Tuesday 19 October 1943 2

• 1943 Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers The Allies agree on a future international organisation The foreign ministers of the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union met in Moscow. The resulting Moscow Declarations committed the Allies to create a general international organisation and to restore Austria's independence. They also pledged to punish German war crimes.
• 1943 Streptomycin discovered The first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis Albert Schatz, a graduate student in Selman Waksman's laboratory at Rutgers University, isolated streptomycin from soil bacteria. It was the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis. Waksman received the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the work.