What is april 23 1943?

On April 23, 1943, several significant events took place:

1. The Royal Navy submarine HMS Seraph arrived in Gibraltar after completing a covert mission to transport General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander, to a secret meeting in North Africa. This meeting was a crucial part of the planning for the upcoming Allied invasion of Sicily.

2. The Nazi SS began liquidating the Warsaw Ghetto in occupied Poland. Around 2,000 Jews were killed on the first day of the operation, and the remainder were either sent to concentration camps or killed in street battles over the next month.

3. Tokyo was bombed by the US Army Air Forces for the first time. The raid was relatively small but caused significant damage and civilian casualties. It was the beginning of a sustained bombing campaign against Japan that would continue until the end of the war.

4. The Russian poet and author Boris Pasternak completed his novel "Doctor Zhivago." The book would later become a classic of 20th-century literature and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958.