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20 June 1943 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 20 June 1943 was a Sunday.
- 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 20 June is Gemini.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 20 June 1943 fell in the Year of the Goat.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for June is Pearl.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 20 June 1943 was Waning Gibbous.
On this day: 20 June
- 1942 The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp.
- 1944 World War II: The Battle of the Philippine Sea concludes with a decisive U.S. naval victory. The lopsided naval air battle is also known as the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot".
- 1944 World War II: During the Continuation War, the Soviet Union demands unconditional surrender from Finland during the beginning of partially successful Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive. The Finnish government refuses.
- 1944 The experimental MW 18014 V-2 rocket reaches an altitude of 176 km, becoming the first man-made object to reach outer space.
- 1945 The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to the U.S. under Operation Paperclip.
Famous people born on June 20
- Nicole Kidman, American-Australian actress (born 1967)
- John Goodman, American actor (born 1952)
- Lionel Richie, American singer, songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor (born 1949)
- Frank Lampard, English footballer (born 1978)
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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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