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‘We have faith that future generations will know that here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.’
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Franklin Roosevelt 32nd. U.S. President Served March 4, 1933 – April 12, 1945
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Henry A. Wallace
33rd. U.S. Vice President Served Jan. 20, 1941 – Jan. 20, 1945
World events
• The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China on Jan. 11. • Japanese forces begin to withdraw from Guadalcanal in
the Solomon Islands on Jan. 15. • Soviet officials announce that the Red Army has broken the Wehrmacht’s siege of Leningrad on Jan. 18. • Fifty bombers mount the first all American air raid against Germany on Jan. 27. • Nazi German forces liquidate the Jews of the Kraków Ghetto in Occupied Poland on March 13.
Norman Rockwell’s Rosie the Riveter appears on the Saturday Evening Post’s cover.
• The drugs Vicodin and Lortab are first produced March 23 in Germany. • Admiral Miklós Horthy, the Regent and Head of State for the Kingdom of Hungary, refused a personal request by Germany to deliver 800,000 Hungarian Jews to the Nazis on April 17. • The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins April 19 when Nazi troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up remaining Jews. • The Memphis Belle’s crew becomes the first aircrew in the 8th Air Force to complete its 25-mission tour of duty May 17. • The Allied invasion of Axis-controlled Europe begins July 10 with landings on the island of Sicily off mainland Italy. • Benito Mussolini, the Fascist Prime Minister of Italy since 1925, is arrested July 25
The Zoot Suit Riots erupt in East Los Angeles.
after the Grand Council of Fascism withdraws its support. “Il Duce” is replaced by General Pietro Badoglio. • General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the surrender of Italy to the Allies on Sept. 8. The new government would declare war on Germany on Oct. 13. • President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran to discuss war strategy on Nov. 28. Two days later, they establish an agreement concerning a planned June 1944 invasion of Europe codenamed Operation Overlord. • General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Allied Commander Europe on Dec. 24.
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• The world’s largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Va., on Jan. 15. • Duke Ellington plays at New York City’s Carnegie Hall for the first time Jan. 23. • Shoe rationing begins Feb. 9 in the U.S. • Movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies Feb. 20. • Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!” opens on Broadway on March 31. • Norman Rockwell’s illustration of Rosie the Riveter first appears on the cover of
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The Saturday Evening Post on May 29. • The Zoot Suit Riots erupt June 3 between military personnel and Mexican American youths in East Los Angeles. • John F. Kennedy’s Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by a destroyer Aug. 2. • The alleged Philadelphia Experiment takes place Oct. 28, in which the destroyer escort USS Eldridge was supposed to be rendered invisible to human observers for a brief period. • Edward R. Murrow delivers his classic “Orchestrated Hell” broadcast Dec. 3 over CBS Radio, describing a Royal Air Force nighttime bombing raid on Berlin.
BORN THIS YEAR: Jim Morrison, musician (Dec. 8). Above left: Janis Joplin, musician (Jan. 19); Robert de Niro, actor (Aug. 17); Chevy Chase, actor (Oct. 8); Joni Mitchell, musician (Nov. 7).
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Music
• “Paper Doll,” The Mills Brothers • “Pistol Packin’ Mama,” Al
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