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17 August 1943 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 17 August 1943 was a Tuesday.
- Top Film of 1943
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1943 was For Whom the Bell Tolls.
- Bestselling Novel of 1943
- “The Robe” by Lloyd C. Douglas was No. 1 on Publishers Weekly's US fiction list for 1943.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 17 August is Leo.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 17 August 1943 fell in the Year of the Goat.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for August is Peridot.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 17 August 1943 was Waning Gibbous.
On this day: 17 August
- 1942 World War II: U.S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin.
- 1943 World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.
- 1943 World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.
- 1945 Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta proclaim the independence of Indonesia, igniting the Indonesian National Revolution against the Dutch Empire.
- 1945 The novella Animal Farm by George Orwell is first published.
Famous people born on August 17
- Robert De Niro, American actor, entrepreneur, director, and producer (born 1943)
- Phoebe Bridgers, American singer/songwriter (born 1994)
- Sean Penn, American actor, director, and political activist (born 1960)
- Larry Ellison, American businessman, co-founded the Oracle Corporation (born 1944)
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Events of 1943 in the United States
A selection from Wikipedia's '1943 in the United States'. Not a complete list.
- January 15 – The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, headquarters of the Department of War, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.
- February 14 – WWII: Battle of the Kasserine Pass – German General Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses in Tunisia; it is the United States' first major battle defeat of the war.
- March 31 – Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! opens on Broadway, heralds a new era in "integrated" stage musicals, becomes an instantaneous stage classic, and goes on to be Broadway's longest-running musical up to that time (1948).
Life in the US in 1943
President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Gas (per gallon)
$0.21
Loaf of Bread
$0.09
Average House
$3,300
Weekly Wage
$36
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