Editing 1943 (section)

===April===
{{Main|April 1943}}
* [[April 3]] – Shipwrecked steward [[Poon Lim]], BEM, is rescued by Brazilian fishermen after being adrift for 133 days.
* [[April 13]] – WWII: Radio Berlin announces the discovery by [[Wehrmacht]] of mass graves of Poles killed by Soviets in the [[Katyn massacre]].
* [[April 19]] 
** [[History of lysergic acid diethylamide]]: [[Albert Hofmann]] self-administers the psychedelic drug [[LSD]] (which he first synthesized in [[1938]]) for the first time in history and records the details of his experience.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.psychedelic-library.org|first=Albert|last=Hofmann|title=LSD — My Problem Child|work=The Psychedelic Library|access-date=2020-01-19}}</ref>
** [[The Holocaust]]: The [[Warsaw Ghetto Uprising]] begins when Nazi troops enter the [[Warsaw Ghetto]] to round up remaining Jews.
* [[April 21]] – WWII:
** [[Aberdeen]], Scotland, experiences its worst bombing, with 125 people killed.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140425115108/http://news.stv.tv/north/222033-aberdeen-suffered-its-own-blitzkrieg-70-years-ago-this-weekend/ Bombing of Aberdeen], news.stv.tv; accessed December 6, 2014.</ref>
** The first German [[Tiger I]] tank is captured in North Africa by British forces.
* [[April 25]] – [[Easter]] occurs on the latest possible date (last time [[1886]]; next time [[2038]]) in the [[Western Christianity|Western Christian Church]].
* [[April 27]] – The U.S. [[Federal Writers' Project]] ceases operation.