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Jan 30, 1882	Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born at Hyde Park, New York, now a national historic site
1905	On Saint Patrick's Day, Franklin Delano Roosevelt married Eleanor Roosevelt
1910	Franklin Delano Roosevelt won election to the New York Senate
1913	Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy by President Woodrow Wilson with Josephus Daniels as Secretary of the Navy
1920	Franklin Delano Roosevelt nominated for Vice President on the Democratic ticket, with James M. Cox of Ohio as the Democrats' choice for President. Despite a vigorous campaign, the Cox/Roosevelt ticket is soundly defeated in the November national election in a Republican year at the voting booths
1921	Franklin Delano Roosevelt stricken with polio (poliomyelitis) at summer home on Canadian island of Campobello
1924	Franklin Delano Roosevelt reemerges as a national political figure, delivering the nomination speech for New York Governor Alfred E. Smith, the famous "Happy Warrior" speech
1928	In another otherwise Republican electoral year, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected Governor of New York
1929	Franklin Delano Roosevelt becomes Governor of New York
1932	Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected President for 1st time, becoming the 32nd US President
1933	US President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt survives assassination attempt
1933	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt inaugurated as 32nd President, pledges to pull America out of Depression & says "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"
1933	Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR
1933	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt announces US will leave the gold standard
1933	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt conducts his 1st "fireside chat"
1933	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt creates Federal Alcohol Control Administration
1933	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt creates the Civil Works Administration
1933	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declares a nationwide bank holiday
1933	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt makes wine & beer with up to 3.2% alcohol legal
1933	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaims 10-day bank holiday
1934	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt devalues the dollar in relation to gold at $35 per ounce
1934	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs Federal Credit Union Act establishing credit unions
1935	The US Rural Electrification Administration (REA) was created through executive order by President F. D. Roosevelt which offered loans to cooperatives and power districts in order to finance supply of power to rural areas
1935	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicates Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
1935	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaims the Philippine Islands a free commonwealth
1935	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs an act prohibiting export of US arms to belligerents
1936	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam
1936	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary
1936	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs 2nd neutrality act
1936	Franklin Delano is re-elected for his second term as US President
1937	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicates Bonneville Dam on Columbia River (Oregon)
1937	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt proposes enlarging Supreme Court, "court packing" plan failed
1937	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs act of neutrality
1937	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt visits Grand Coulee Dam construction site in Washington State
1938	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicates Thousand Islands Bridge connecting US & Canada
1939	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declares "limited national emergency" due to war in Europe
1939	Albert Einstein - Teller and Szilard send a letter to President Roosevelt informing him of German atomic research and the potential for a bomb which prompts Roosevelt to form a special committee to investigate the military implications of atomic research
1940	Franklin Delano is re-elected for his third term as US President
1941	Charles Lindbergh, charges "the British, the Jewish & the Roosevelt administration" are trying to get the US into WW II
1941	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issues Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination
1941	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaimes an "unlimited national emergency" due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor
1941	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs Lend-Lease Bill (lend money to Britain)
1941	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "4 Freedoms" speech (speech, worship, from want & from fear)
1942	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt asks commissioner to continue baseball during WWII
1942	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans
1942	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt orders men between 45 & 64 to register for non military duty
1943	Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan
1943	Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin met at Tehran to map out strategy
1943	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt appoints General Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces
1943	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt becomes 1st US pres to visit a foreign country during wartime
1943	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicates Jefferson Memorial
1943	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry
1943	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs withholding tax bill into law
1943	British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, French General de Gaulle and US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt meet in Casablanca concerning WWII
1944	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs "GI Bill of Rights" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act)
1944	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt wins 4th term in office, defeating Thomas E Dewey
Apr 12, 1945	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies at Warm Springs, Georgia, of a cerebral hemorrhage
1945	US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt buried on grounds of Hyde Park home
1945	World War II ended in Europe less than a month after the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2002	The Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Center, Inc. is founded to promote the life and legacy of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the New Deal
Jul 24, 2004	The Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Center Museum has its Grand Opening, held in the Great Hall of Union Station in Worcester, Massachusetts, attended by hundreds of veterans and citizens as well as a distinguished group of speakers