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1941 - In Washington, DC, the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1950 - University of California, Berkeley researchers announce the creation of element 98, which they name "Californium". 1958 - The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.
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March 17 - President Roosevelt holds a press conference in which he speaks against a congressional movement to abolish the 40 hour work week. [105] Roosevelt also states his intent to ask Congress the following day for an increase of seventeen and a half billion toward army warplanes.
Camp TERA began on June 10, 1933, with 17 young women from New York. Currently Bear Mountain State Park in New York, the site had 12 camps for CCC enrollees in 1934. FDR visited camp sp-20 [12] that year to review the corps. He spent time at the recreation center, mess hall, barracks and camp library, praising the more than 200 enrollees for ...
The 1935 State of the Union address was given by the 32nd President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the 74th United States Congress.Presiding over this joint session was the House speaker, Jo Byrns, accompanied by John Nance Garner, the vice president, in his capacity as the president of the Senate. [1]
March 17 is the 76th day of the year (77th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 289 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 45 BC ...
FDR is a 2023 American miniseries. The three-part miniseries chronicles the life of Franklin D. Roosevelt , the thirty-second President of the United States and premiered on May 29, 2023, on History .
The term was coined in a July 24, 1933 radio address by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. However, he referred to the 100-day session of the 73rd United States Congress from March 9 to June 17, rather than the first 100 days of his administration. [1] [2]