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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.
March 17 is the 76th day of the year (77th in leap years) ... 2007 – John Backus, American mathematician and computer scientist, designed Fortran (b. 1924)
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.
March 17: Saint Patrick's Day (Christianity); Anniversary of the Unification of Italy Dorchester Heights Monument 1864 – Second Schleswig War : In an attempt to end a Danish blockade, Eduard von Jachmann led a Prussian squadron in an attack against a Danish fleet led by Edvard van Dockum .
The first 100 days of the Franklin D. Roosevelt presidency began on March 4, 1933, the day Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated as the 32nd president of the United States.He had signaled his intention to move with unprecedented speed to address the problems facing the nation in his inaugural address, declaring: "I am prepared under my constitutional duty to recommend the measures that a ...
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 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]
Hyde Park on Hudson is a 2012 historical drama film directed by Roger Michell.The film stars Bill Murray as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Samuel West as King George VI, Olivia Colman as his wife Queen Elizabeth and Laura Linney as Margaret "Daisy" Suckley, a cousin and childhood friend of the President.