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(Sunday, August 10, 1941, 10:00 a.m. Newfoundland Daylight Time; during World War II) — U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill attended attended religious services today aboard the British battleship Prince of Wales at Placentia Bay in Newfoundland on the second day of the four-day the Atlantic Conference.

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Churchill chose the hymns for the service, which included “Onward Christian Soldiers.”

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Roosevelt and Churchill would end their meeting — their first of 11 during the conflict — by issuing a joint policy statement on Aug. 14, 1941, that came to be known as the Atlantic Charter.

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It set out the end goals of a global war that the United States would enter four months later: no territorial aggrandizement; no territorial changes made against the wishes of the people; self-determination; restoration of self-government to those deprived of it; reduction of trade restrictions; global cooperation to secure better economic and social conditions for all; freedom from fear and want; freedom of the seas; and abandonment of the use of force, as well as disarmament of aggressor nations.

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The charter’s adherents would the Declaration by United Nations on Jan. 1, 1942, which was the basis for the modern United Nations.