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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. The previous day, the Empire of Japan attacked United States military bases at Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, and declared war on ...
Daniel Ken Inouye (/ iːˈnoʊˌeɪ / ee-NOH-ay, [1] Japanese: 井上 建, [2] September 7, 1924 – December 17, 2012) was an American attorney, soldier, and politician who served as a United States senator from Hawaii from 1963 until his death in 2012. Beginning in 1959, Inouye was the first U.S. Representative for the State of Hawaii, and a ...
The attack on Pearl Harbor[nb 3] was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, in the United States, just before 8:00 a.m. (local time) on Sunday, December 7, 1941. At the time, the United States was a neutral country in World War II.
Navy Cross. Purple Heart. Combat Action Ribbon. Doris "Dorie" Miller (October 12, 1919 – November 24, 1943) was a U.S. Navy sailor who was the first Black recipient of the Navy Cross and a nominee for the Medal of Honor. As a mess attendant second class [ 1 ][ 2 ] in the United States Navy, Miller helped carry wounded sailors to safety during ...
His father was a soil conservation agent for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and his mother was a softball star in the 1930s; [17] Cheney was one of three children. He attended Calvert Elementary School [18] [19] before his family moved to Casper, Wyoming, [20] where he attended Natrona County High School.
In 1994, the United States Congress, by Pub. L. 103–308, 108 Stat. 1169, designated December 7 of each year as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. [1] The joint resolution was signed by President Bill Clinton on August 23, 1994. It became 36 U.S.C. § 129 (Patriotic and National Observances and Ceremonies) of the United States Code. [2]
The Final Countdown (film) The Final Countdown. (film) The Final Countdown is a 1980 American science fiction war film about a modern nuclear-powered aircraft carrier that travels through time to the day before the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. Produced by Peter Douglas and Lloyd Kaufman (founder of Troma Entertainment) and directed ...
Greaves was born in Brooklyn, New York, on August 24, 1906. He received a B.S. in business administration, magna cum laude, from Syracuse University in 1929. [1] He then enrolled in graduate courses in economics at Columbia University and New York University. Greaves became the financial editor and research economist for the United States News ...