November 1943 in Montana
• November 1 – American Marines landed on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.
• November 5 – American carrier planes and heavy bombers attacked Japanese warships at Rabaul.
• November 7 – A natural gas explosion in Anaconda leveled a block–long federal housing project, injuring two.
• November 11 – Henry L. Myers, former U.S. Senator from Montana (1911-1923) and associate justice of the Montana Supreme Court (1927-1929), died in Billings.
• November 17 – Two Great Northern “speeder” cars carrying members of a track repair crew crashed 35 miles east of Libby, with three killed and 12 injured.
• November 20 – U.S. Marines landed on Tarawa Atoll and Makin Island.
• November 22 – President Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo.
•November 23 – A fire caused $11,000 in damages at the Albemarle Apartment building in Butte.
• November 25 – The Missoula Spartans defeated the Billings Broncs for the state football title.
• November 28 – Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt met in Tehran and agreed on the planned invasion of Europe.
Montana History Calendar 1930s
December 1943 (coming soon)
Learn more about what was happening October 1943 in Montana and check out Montana’s Home Front During World War II
