Editing 1943

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== Events ==
* January 30 - [[Karl Dönitz]] is appointed Supreme Commander of the German Navy, replacing [[Erich Raeder]].
* February 11 - [[Amon Göth]] is appointed commandant of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
* March 1 - The Nazi Party establishes the [[Belarusian Central Council]] to govern occupied Belarus.
* March 20 - [[Mao Zedong]] is named Chairman of the [[Communist Party of China]].
* April 14 - [[SMERSH]] is founded.
* May 30 - [[Josef Mengele]] is assigned to [[Auschwitz Birkenau]] [[concentration camp]].
* July 14 - The [[Horace T. West|Biscari]] [[John T. Compton|Massacre]] takes place.
* July 25 - [[Benito Mussolini]] is removed from power by the Grand Council of Fascism. The [[National Fascist Party]] is subsequently disbanded.
* September 12 - Benito Mussolini is rescued from imprisonment by the [[Nazi Party]].
* September 23 - Benito Mussolini declares the formation of the [[Italian Social Republic]], based in Salò, Northern Italy.
* October 14 - [[Imperial Japan]] establishes the [[Second Philippine Republic]] in the Philippines.
* October 19 - [[Treblinka extermination camp]] is closed down.
* November 3 to 4 - [[Operation Harvest Festival]], the largest single day massacre of Jews in [[World War II]], takes place when over 43,000 Jews are shot-gunned to death by the ''[[Schutzstaffel]]'', the ''[[Ordnungspolizei]]'' and Ukrainian collaborators in Sonderdienst formations at Majdanek, Trawniki and Poniatowa concentration camps in occupied Poland.

== Births ==
=== Villain births ===
* February 13 - [[Brandon Astor Jones]]
* February 15 - [[Griselda Blanco]]
* February 22 - [[Otoya Yamaguchi]]
* March 12 - [[Ratko Mladić]]
* April 6 - [[Max Clifford]]
* April 12 - [[Robert Durst]]
* May 18 - [[Jimmy Snuka]]
* June 8 - [[William Calley]]
* June 11 - [[Henry Hill]]
* June 17 - [[Franklin Delano Floyd]]
* August 11 - [[Pervez Musharraf]]
* August 23 - [[Rodney Alcala]] & [[Roberto D'Aubuisson]]
* September 20 - [[Sani Abacha]]
* November 7 - [[Khalifa Haftar]]
* November 22 - [[Gary Heidnik]]
* November 23 - [[Denis Sassou Nguesso]]
* November 27 - [[Gene Leroy Hart]]
* December 1 - [[Van Roosevelt Solomon]]
* December 23 - [[Terrance Peder Rasmussen]]
* December 27 - [[John Robinson]]
* Unknown - [[Wayne Butler]]

=== Victim births ===
* January 3 - Frances Brown
* Janruary 24 - Sharon Tate
* May 30 - James Chaney
* August 11 - Abigail Folger
* November 23 - Andrew Goodman
* December 31 - Patricia Grimes

== Deaths ==
=== Villain deaths ===
* January 26 - [[Harry Laughlin]]
* February 26 - [[Theodor Eicke]]
* April 18 - [[Isoroku Yamamoto]]
* July 5 - [[Viktoras Jacenevicius]]
* September 15 - [[John Schrank]]

=== Victim deaths ===