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Sunday, March 5, 1933 "National Inaugural Prayer Service" at Washington National Cathedral. Presided over by Episcopal Bishop James Edward Freeman of Washington. Thursday, January 20, 1977 James Carter had a half-hour interfaith prayer service at the Lincoln Memorial in the morning (8am) before the main ceremony; he did not attend.
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]
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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.
One of his final stays in Florida was 91 years ago this month when President-elect Roosevelt spoke in downtown Miami on Feb. 15, 1933 — 17 days before his scheduled inauguration at the U.S. Capitol.
In August 1939, amid the Great Depression, Fred Lazarus Jr., head of Federated Department Stores (which would later become Macy's), lobbied President Franklin D. Roosevelt to move Thanksgiving a week earlier, to the second to last Thursday of November instead of the last Thursday of November, to make the Christmas shopping season last longer and help boost retail sales.
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.