Opening of Tehrān Conference

The Tehrān 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. 1943. 

Mauritania declared its independence and left the French Community. 1960. 

Albanian national delegates, led by Ismail Qemal, issued the Vlorë proclamation, which declared Albania‘s independence. 1912. 

Wilhelm Reiss became the first climber to reach the top of Cotopaxi, the world’s highest active volcano, in Ecuador. 1872. 

Famed English poet and dramatist William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway. 1582.