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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.
The Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, or Prayer Pilgrimage to Washington, was a 1957 demonstration in Washington, D.C., an early event in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. It was the occasion for Martin Luther King Jr. 's Give Us the Ballot speech.
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.
March 17. Evacuation Day. Saint Patrick's Day. World Sleep Day. March 18. ... American Chocolate Week, National Anonymous Giving Week - March 19 to 25: National Introverts Week - March 20 to 26.
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3rd Sunday in January: National Sanctity of Human Life Day; various March/April: Education and Sharing Day (based on Hebrew calendar) February 15: Susan B. Anthony Day; March 10: Harriet Tubman Day; March 19: National Day of Honor [5] March 25: Greek Independence Day [6] March 29: National Vietnam War Veterans Day [7] [8] March 31: Cesar Chavez ...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt first used what would become known as fireside chats in 1929 as Governor of New York. [5] His third gubernatorial address—April 3, 1929, on WGY radio—is cited by Roosevelt biographer Frank Freidel as being the first fireside chat. [6] As president he continued the tradition, which he called his fireside chats. The ...