Magellan reaches the Pacific, William Shakespeare gets hitched, the Grand Ole Opry debuts, Olympic gymnast Nadia Comaneci defects, and Jeffrey Dahmer is killed in prison, all on this day.
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U.S. Signal Corps photo
1943: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet at the Soviet Embassy in Tehran, Iran, to discuss World War II strategy. It was the first of the World War II conferences held between all of the "Big Three" Allied leaders.