1943

January 14 - Churchill and Roosevelt meet for ten days in Casablanca to discuss strategy for World War II.

February 3 - Liquor is banned from all U.S. Army establishments.

February 7 - Shoe rationing begins in the U.S.

March 26 - Elsie S. Ott is the first woman awarded the U.S. Air Force Medal at Bowman Field, Kentucky.

March 31 - Meat, fat and cheese rationing is begun in the U.S.

April 6 - The British and the U.S. armies link up after Rommel's retreat in North Africa.

April 13 - The Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. is dedicated.

May 7 - U.S. troops capture Bizerte, Tunisia.

May 27 - Edwin James Barclay of the Republic of Liberia is the first President of a black African country to visit the U.S.

June 29 - U.S. forces land in New Guinea and raid the Solomon Islands.

July 10 - U.S., British, Canadian and French troops invade Sicily, Italy.

August 4 - Rosalie Thorn is the first female awarded the Navy Expert Pistol Shot Medal.

December 17 - The Chinese Exclusion Act, which had imposed strict immigration standards on the Chinese, is repealed.

December 23 - The Corvina becomes the first U.S. submarine sunk by an enemy submarine.