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1943: Opening of Tehr¨¡n Conference .The Tehr¨¡n Conference, attended by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, at which Stalin pressed for an invasion of France, opened this day in 1943.More events on this day2000:The parliament of The Netherlands passed a bill permitting euthanasia under specified conditions. |
1961:Gridiron football player Ernie Davis of Syracuse University became the first African American to win the prestigious Heisman Trophy. |
1960:Mauritania declared its independence and left the French Community. |
1919:Lady Astor became the first woman elected to the British House of Commons. |
1912:Albanian national delegates, led by Ismail Qemal, issued the Vlorë proclamation, which declared Albania's independence. |
1908:French social anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, a leading exponent of structuralism, was born in Belgium. |
1872:Wilhelm Reiss became the first climber to reach the top of Cotopaxi, the world's highest active volcano, in Ecuador. |
1820:German philosopher Friedrich Engels, coauthor with Karl Marx of The Communist Manifesto (1848), was born. |
1582:Famed English poet and dramatist William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway. |
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