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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  which had taken place on 22–26 November 1943, and preceded the 1945  Yalta  and  Potsdam  conferences. Although the three leaders arr

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 Institute  of  Darmstadt . To earn a living while studying, he worked as a  Heb