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December 17 - The Chinese Exclusion Act, which had imposed strict immigration standards on the Chinese, is repealed.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