page_title: March 1943
section_title: March 23, 1943 (Tuesday)
hierarchical_section_title: March 1943 / March 23, 1943 (Tuesday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Vicodin tablets Italiano: Pillole di Vicodin. Русский: Таблетки викодина
context_page_description: The following events occurred in March 1943:
context_section_description: A combination of hydrocodone and acetaminophen, known by various trade names including Vicodin and Lortab, was first approved for use in the United States by the Food and Drug Administration.
  The British troopship RMS Windsor Castle was torpedoed and sunk off Algiers by a German Heinkel He 111 aircraft.  With the aid of the Royal Navy destroyers HMS Whaddon, HMS Eggesford, and HMS Douglas, all but one of the 2,700 people on board were rescued before the ship sank.
  Parliamentary elections were allowed in Denmark by Werner Best and the Nazi occupation authorities.  The Social Democratic Party won 66 of the 148 seats available, and the Danish Nazi party candidates received only 3.3% of the vote.
  The Xerces Blue butterfly (Glaucopsyche xerces) was seen for the last time, and is presumed to have become extinct, its habitat in the sand dunes near San Francisco Bay having been destroyed by the growth of the California city.
  British Commandos carried out Operation Roundabout, a raid on a bridge over a Norwegian fjord, but the mission was unsuccessful when one of the accompanying Norwegian soldiers dropped the magazine for his machine gun and alerted the German guards.
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