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HT: 1943-  World War II :  Tehran Conference : U.S.  President   Franklin D. Roosevelt , British  Prime Minister   Winston Churchill  and Soviet  Premier  Joseph Stalin  met in  Tehran, Iran , to discuss war strategy. Tehran Conference The "Big Three" at the Tehran Conference Left to right: Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. The  Tehran Conference  ( codenamed   Eureka ) was a strategy meeting of  Joseph Stalin ,  Franklin D. Roosevelt , and  Winston Churchill  from 28 November to 1 December 1943, after the  Anglo-Soviet Invasion of Iran . It was held in the  Soviet Union 's embassy in  Tehran ,  Iran . It was the first of the  World War II conferences  of the "Big Three"  Allied  leaders (the  Soviet Union , the  United States , and the  United Kingdom ). It closely followed the  Cairo Conference  whi...
HT: 1874- Chaim Weizmann, Belarusian-Israeli chemist and politician; 1st president of Israel was born. 1st  President of Israel Early life Edit Weizmann was born in the village of  Motal , located in what is now  Belarus  and at that time part of the  Russian Empire . He was the third of 15 children born to Oizer and Rachel Czemerinsky Weizmann. His father was a timber merchant. From ages four to eleven, he attended a traditional  cheder , or Jewish religious elementary school, and he began studying  Hebrew  as a child. At the age of 11, he entered high school Pinsk , where he displayed a talent for science, especially chemistry. While in Pinsk, he also became active in the  Hovevei Zion  groups there. He graduated with honors in 1892, and decided to pursue chemistry as a profession. Studies Edit In 1892, Weizmann left for  Germany  to study chemistry. He began his studies at the  Polytechnic Insti...