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Franklin Delano Roosevelt born in Hyde Park, NY
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FDR enrolls in Harvard University.
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Franklin's father, James Roosevelt, dies at the age of 72.
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Franklin Roosevelt receives his A.B. from Harvard University.
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Roosevelt enters Columbia Law School
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Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt get married and take a honeymoon trip to Europe.
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Admitted to the New York Bar Association and becomes clerk in the law firm of Carter, Led-yard, and Mil-burn
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Elected to the New York State Senate from the 26th District
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Sworn in as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in the Woodrow Wilson Administration
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Defeated in Democratic primary, for the U.S. Senate by James W. Gerard.
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Undertakes inspection tour of Haiti and Santo Domingo.
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Promotes deployment of 230-mile long minefield between Orkney Islands and Norway designed to bottle up German U-boat fleet in the North Sea
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Returns to active work in the law firm of Emmet, Marvin & Roosevelt, and at the same time becomes the vice-president in charge of the New York office of the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland, the third largest surety bonding company in the country
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Stricken with poliomyelitis at Campobello, New Brunswick, Canada. Transferred to Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, for the start of a long recuperation process, largely unsuccessful. He never again walked unaided.
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Publishes his first book. Whither Bound
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New York State Democrats nominate FDR for governor.
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Elected governor of New York over Republican challenger Albert Ottinger.
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Reelected governor of New York, defeating Republican opponent Charles H. Tuttle.
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Calls a special session of Congress and proclaims a. bank holiday to beg in March 6. Congress sits for "hundred days" from March 9 to June 16 and enacts into law the principal New Deal measures.
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Democratic Party nominates him for president on the fourth ballot at its convention in Chicago. John Nance Garner is vice-president.
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Flies from Albany to Chicago to accept nomination; pledges "a new deal for the American people.”
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Elected president, defeating Herbert Hoover.
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Unhurt in assassination attempt by Giuseppe Zangara in Miami, Florida.
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FDR inaugurated; addresses the nation on his plans to fight the depression stating that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Also pledges the United States to the Good Neighbor policy.
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Signs the Economy Act, reducing the salaries of federal employees
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Signs Beer-Wine Revenue Act which amends the Volstead Act to legalize the manufacture and sale of beer and wine, and levies a $5.00 per barrel tax
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Recommends to Congress the creation of a Tennessee Valley Authority.
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Signs the National Industrial Recovery Act, which establishes the National Recovery Administration and the Public Works Administration.
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Signs the Trade Agreements Act which authorizes him to cut tariffs by up to 50% for those nations that accorded the U.S. the most favored nation treatment.
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Signs National Housing Act which establishes Federal Housing Administration.
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Asks Congress to enact legislation to assist the needy and unemployed.
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Signs Emergency Relief Appropriation Act which provides for large-scale national works program for jobless employees. Major agencies of the program are the Public Works Administration and the Works Progress Administration, renamed Work Projects Administration in 1939.
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Sets up National Youth Administration to provide jobs for youths aged 16 to 25
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Signs the Neutrality Act which imposes a mandatory arms embargo against all belligerents.
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Roosevelt is reelected, defeating Alfred M. Land on of Kansas.
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Fighting breaks out between Japanese and Chinese troops at the Marco Polo Bridge near Peking.
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Delivers speech in Chicago calling for a "quarantine" of aggressor nations
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Congress passes Minimum Wages and Hours Bill.
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Signs the emergency appropriation bill for national defense.
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Pledges full support for any American nation which is attacked by hemispheric outsiders.
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Sends message to Hitler and Mussolini seeking formal assurance that they will not invade 31 independent nations.
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Becomes first president to appear on television, addressing the opening ceremonies of the New York World’s Fair.
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Receives letter dated August 2, 1939 from Albert Einstein which discusses the possibility of an atomic bomb. Creates President's Advisory Committee on Uranium the following day to explore the potentialities of atomic energy.
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Accepts Democratic Party's "draft" for the presidency and agrees to run for an unprecedented third term. Demands Henry Wallace as vice-president.
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Germany invades Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg and France.
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France signs armistice with Germany at Compiegne.
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Meets with Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King to plan joint defense measures. Joint Defense Board established.
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FDR overrides advice of Joint Board of the Army and Navy and decides to extend full military assistance to Great Britain.
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Japan signs a three-power pact with Germany and Italy, pledging mutual assistance in the event of war with a nation not then a belligerent.
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Elected to a third term, defeating Wendell Willie.
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Establishes the Office of Scientific Research and Development to coordinate the U.S. scientific effort, including radar, proximity fuse, sonar and the atomic bomb. Development of the bomb was transferred later to the Army under the Manhattan District project.
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United States embargoes gas, oil, and metal shipments to Japan and freezes Japanese assets in the U.S.
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His mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, dies at age 86.
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Dispatches Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt on a 25,000 mile trip to installations in the South Pacific war zone
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Japan handed its first major defeat at the battle of Midway, which checks the Japanese advance across the central Pacific.
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FDR decides to execute TORCH, the invasion of north Africa
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Roosevelt, Church ill and Stalin meet at Tehran and agree that the invasion of Normandy is main objective in 1944.
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Roosevelt in Christmas radio message announces the appointment of General Eisenhower as supreme commander of Overlord-the invasion of France.
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Allied forces invade France. FDR goes on radio to announce cross-Channel invasion is under way; leads nation in prayer for speedy victory.
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Roosevelt nominated for a fourth term. Drops Wallace and accepts Harry Truman as vice-president.
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France, Belgium and Luxembourg liberated by General Eisenhower’s Allied Forces
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U.S. Tenth Army invades Okinawa, main island of the Ryukyu, 360 miles southwest of Japan.
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Roosevelt dies at Warm Spring, Georgia.
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