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Politics : Idea Of The Day

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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49471)11/28/2005 8:49:37 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Read Replies (1) of 50167
 
Idea Of The Day

Opening of Tehran Conference


1943: The Tehran 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.




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.

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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