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The fireside chats were a series of evening radio addresses given by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, between 1933 and 1944.Roosevelt spoke with familiarity to millions of Americans about recovery from the Great Depression, the promulgation of the Emergency Banking Act in response to the banking crisis, the 1936 recession, New Deal initiatives, and the course of ...
Iran declared war on Japan retroactive to the previous day. [2] The German XXIV (24th) Panzer Corp launched a counteroffensive on the Eastern Front around Lauban. [3] The Ninth United States Army captured Mönchengladbach. [4] The horror-drama film The Picture of Dorian Gray starring Albert Lewin, George Sanders and Hurd Hatfield premiered in ...
April 8 - President Roosevelt designates the upcoming May 17 as "I Am An American Day". [123] The War Production board announces a small scale conversion of drinking liquor to industrial alcohol. [124] April 9 - The Department of Commerce reports an uptake of 52% in American merchandise exports from corresponding months of the previous year. [125]
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt An excerpt from the speech where Roosevelt says "... a date which will live in infamy". The "Day of Infamy" speech , sometimes referred to as the Infamy speech , was a speech delivered by Franklin D. Roosevelt , the 32nd president of the United States , to a joint session of Congress on December 8, 1941.
Last photograph of Roosevelt, taken the day before his death (April 11, 1945) After returning to the United States from the Yalta Conference, Roosevelt addressed Congress on March 1, [206] and many were shocked to see how old, thin and frail he looked. He spoke while seated in the well of the House, an unprecedented concession to his physical ...
"On this day, I was reborn. I now have two birth dates; the original one on March 15 and the new one is on 7 October.” Rada and his brother Raif, 39, were caterers at the Nova festival, close to ...
WWII: President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his "Infamy Speech" to a Joint session of the United States Congress at 12:30 p.m. EST (17.30 GMT). Transmitted live over all four major national networks, it attracts the largest audience ever for an American radio broadcast, over 81% of homes. [34]
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