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Posts Tagged ‘Franklin D Roosevelt’
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Patriots Point Celebrates USS Yorktown’s 75th Anniversary
Posted: Apr 18, 2018It took former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt two tries to break the champagne bottle against the hull of the USS Yorktown CV-10 when she christened the ship she sponsored in […]
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Bathtub & Torpedo, Republicans and the Tehran Conference
Posted: Nov 28, 2011On 28 November 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Premier Joseph Stalin and Prime Minister Winston Churchill met for a series of talks at the Soviet Embassy in Tehran, Iran. The […]
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Josephus Daniels and Naval Aviation 1914
Posted: Jan 10, 2011He was the founder and editor of the Raleigh News and Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina, and had little previous experience with the Navy. As a supporter of Woodrow Wilson in 1911, […]
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United States Declares War on the Imperial Japanese Empire, 1941
Posted: Dec 08, 2010Interestingly, the United States declared war on the same date that the Japanese Imperial Navy attacked Pearl Harbor. Because of the International Dateline, the Japanese attack came on 08 December […]