1943

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Years: 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946

Contents

[edit] Events

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

[edit] Films released

[edit] Hit songs

  • "As Time Goes By" by Rudy Vallee
  • "I've Heard That Song Before" by Harry James
  • "In the Blue of the Evening" by Tommy Dorsey
  • "Paper Doll" by Mills Brothers
  • "Pistol Packin' Mama" by Al Dexter
  • "Sunday, Monday or Always" by Bing Crosby
  • "Taking a Chance On Love" by Benny Goodman
  • "There Are Such Things" by Tommy Dorsey
  • "When the Lights Go On Again" by Vaughn Monroe
  • "You'll Never Know" by Dick Haymes

[edit] New books

  • Adam of the Road - Elizabeth Janet Gray
  • The Apostle - Sholem Asch
  • Citizen Tom Paine - Howard Fast
  • Claudius the God - Robert Graves
  • Crux Ansata - H. G. Wells
  • Earth's Last Citadel - C. L. Moore
  • The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
  • Gremlins - Roald Dahl
  • A Haunted House and other stories - Virginia Woolf (published anonymously)
  • Le Képi - Colette
  • The Lady in the Lake - Raymond Chandler
  • The Last of Summer - Kate O'Brien
  • The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • The Nature and Destiny of Man - Reinhold Niebuhr
  • Mr. Mirakel - E. Phillips Oppenheim
  • The Ship - C.S. Forester
  • The Raven - Chancellor Williams
  • Rhadopis of Nubia - Naguib Mahfouz
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
  • Victoria Grandolet - Henry Bellamann
  • The White Face - Carl Offord

[edit] Nobel Prizes