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Movie history events from 1943
Col Nicholson leads the construction of a bridge while a prisoner-of-war. (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist are born. (Brokeback Mountain)
Homer Wells meets Candy Kendall when she decides to have an abortion, and he is inspired to leave the orphanage for a time. (St. Clouds, Maine) (The Cider House Rules)
Tracy di Vicenzo (later Tracy Bond) is born. (For Your Eyes Only)
Benjamin Buford 'Bubba' Blue is born to a poor shrimping family. (Bayou Le Batre, Louisiana) (Forrest Gump)
2000 British soldiers lie marooned awaiting certain death, unless two giant guns on the island of Navarone can be disarmed. (Kheros, Mediterranean) (Guns of Navarone)
President Roosevelt forms the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense to fight Hitler. (Hellboy)
A wormhole in time is opened to 1984. (The Philadelphia Experiment)
A major volcano erupts from a cornfield. (Mexico) (Volcano)
Thursday 11th February: Dwight D Eisenhower promoted to General. (Ike)
March: Work begins by British POWs on building a bridge over the River Kwai to help run supplies between Bangkok and Rangoon. (Burma) (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
Friday 12th March: George S Patton promoted to Lieutenant General. (Patton)
Saturday 13th March: Amon Goeth liquidises the Jewish ghettos and moves Jews to Plaszow concentration camp. (Schindler's List)
Thursday 22nd April: Angus MacMorrow finds an egg which would later hatch into a water horse. (Scotland, UK) (The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep)
Wednesday 12th May: The bridge on the River Kwai is due to be finished. (Burma) (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
Monday 17th May: The Memphis Belle flies its 25th bombing mission. (Memphis Belle)
Wednesday 16th June: Charlie Chaplin marries Oona O'Neill. (Chaplin)
Thursday 17th June: Harry Stimson phones Harry S Truman and politely asks him not to make inquiries about a defense plant in Pasco, Washington. (Truman)
Tuesday 29th June: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt writes a letter marked “secret” to leading Manhattan Project physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. (The Beginning or the End)
Saturday 10th July: The Allies begin their invasion of Axis-controlled Europe with landings on the island of Sicily, off mainland Italy. (Patton)
Monday 26th July: Mick Jagger is born. (Dartford, England) (Stoned)
Sunday 1st August: Japanese destroyer rams an American patrol torpedo boat, slicing it in two - other American PT boats in the area assume the crew is dead; 2 crewmen were killed, but 11 survived, including Lt. John F. Kennedy. . (PT-109)
Tuesday 17th August: Patton and his 7th Army arrive in Messina several hours before British Field Marshal Montgomery and his 8th Army. (Sicily) (Patton)
Monday 4th October: Heinrich Himmler, addresses the squad leaders of his Nazi secret police, attempting to fill them with pride for the work they've accomplished-the murder of more than 1 million Jews in German-occupied Russia during a one-and-a-half-year period. (The Eagle Has Landed)
Monday 15th November: Heinrich Himmler makes public an order that Gypsies and those of mixed Gypsy blood are to be put on "the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps." (Hitler)
Sunday 26th December: British warships sink the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst after the discovery of its mission to attack an Anglo-American convoy to Russia. (Arctic Ocean) (Ike: Countdown to D-Day)