Timeline September 1943

Events in September 1943 8

• 1877 – 1943 Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) Died 2 September 1943, aged 66 Marsden Hartley was an American Modernist painter. He is known for his German military paintings and his later landscapes of Maine. He was part of Alfred Stieglitz's circle.
• 1943 Italian armistice announced Italy surrenders to the Allies Italy signed an armistice with the Allies at Cassibile in Sicily on 3 September, and it was announced publicly on 8 September. Germany immediately occupied northern and central Italy and disarmed the Italian army. The King and Badoglio fled Rome to Brindisi.
• 1943 Italy surrenders Armistice signed with the Allies Italy signed an armistice with the Allies on September 8, 1943, withdrawing from the war. Germany immediately occupied northern and central Italy and rescued Mussolini in a daring raid.
• 1943 Allied landings at Salerno Operation Avalanche puts Allied troops on the Italian mainland The US Fifth Army landed at Salerno, south of Naples. German counterattacks almost drove the beachhead back into the sea. The landing held, and Allied forces entered Naples on 1 October.
• 1943 Gran Sasso raid German commandos free Mussolini German glider-borne troops landed at the Campo Imperatore hotel on the Gran Sasso, where Benito Mussolini was being held. They freed him without a shot being fired. Mussolini was flown to Germany and later installed as head of a puppet state in northern Italy.
• 1943 – 1998 Sani Abacha (1943-1998) Died 8 June 1998, aged 54 Sani Abacha, the military dictator who ruled Nigeria from 1993 until his death, died suddenly on 8 June 1998, reportedly of a heart attack. His rule was marked by widespread human rights abuses and the execution of activist Ken Saro-Wiwa.
• 1943 Italian Social Republic established Mussolini heads a German puppet state in northern Italy Mussolini proclaimed a new Fascist state in German-occupied northern Italy, with its government based at Salò on Lake Garda. It depended entirely on German support. It lasted until the German surrender in Italy in 1945.
• 1943 – present Lech Wałęsa Solidarity Leader Co-founder of the Solidarity movement and the first democratically elected President after Communism.