FDR Dedicates His Library
(Monday, June 30, 1941) — U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated today the $350,000 library which bears his name with a declaration of faith in the future of free America.
Category Archives: 1940s
LBJ narrowly loses special Senate election
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LBJ Campaign 1941
(Saturday, June 28, 1941) — Texas Governor and radio personality W. Lee “Pappy” O’Daniel narrowly defeated U.S. Rep. Lyndon Johnson today for the U.S. Senate in a special election by only 1,311 votes (click here to watch “American Experience: The Presidents: LBJ” — the 1941 race starts at 16:12)
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Lou Gehrig dies of rare disease
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(Monday, June 2, 1941, 10:10 p.m ET) — Lou Gehrig, baseball’s “Iron Horse,” died today at his home in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, New York, of a degenerative disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). He was 37.
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FDR proclaims ‘unlimited national emergency’
(Tuesday, May 27, 1941, 9:30 p.m. ET) — Amid rising world tensions, President Roosevelt tonight proclaimed an “unlimited national emergency.” Click here to watch video of the address.
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Bismarck sinks Hood
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Destruction of the Hood from "Sink the Bismarck"(1960)
(Saturday, May 24, 1941) — The German battleship Bismarck sank the British dreadnought Hood today in the North Atlantic during the World War II Battle of the Denmark Strait.
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Bob Dylan born in Duluth
(Saturday, May 24, 1941) — Robert Allen Zimmerman, better known as Bob Dylan, the iconic singer-songwriter, poet, and painter, was born today in St. Mary’s Hospital in Duluth, Minnesota.
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Ho Chi Minh forms Viet Minh
(Monday, May 19, 1941) — The Viet Minh was formed today at Pac Bo by Ho Chi Minh to seek independence for Vietnam from the French Empire.
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‘Meet John Doe’ opens in USA
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(Saturday, May 3, 1941) — Meet John Doe, a comedy drama film directed and produced by Frank Capra and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck, opened today in the U.S. The film is about a “grassroots” political campaign, created unwittingly by a newspaper columnist and pursued by a wealthy businessman.
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Machine army shown by Reds
"The World At War: Barbarossa (June – December 1941)" (May Day in Moscow @ 7:48)
(Thursday, May 1, 1941) — Masses of truck-borne infantry and new motorized artillery were star attractions today at Soviet Russia’s traditional May Day parade in Red Square today; and Defence Commissar S. K. Timoshenko told spectators that the Red Army was mobilized against “accidents” and “the tricks of our foreign enemies.”
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Soviets, Japan sign neutrality accord
"The World at War - Banzai!: Japan (1931–1942)," April 13, 1941 @ 8:31
(Sunday, April 13, 1941) — Japan and the Soviet Union today signed the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact.
