FDR Elected to Record Fourth Term
On November 7, 1944, Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first and only U.S. President elected to a fourth term.
On November 7, 1944, Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first and only U.S. President elected to a fourth term.
On October 31, 1940, the nearly four-month-long Battle of Britain came to an end.
On October 25, 1940, Benjamin O. Davis Sr. was appointed the first African-American general in US Army.
On October 20, 1944, General Douglas MacArthur fulfilled his promise to return to the Philippines.
After nearly six years of a world at war, the Japanese surrendered on August 14, 1945, effectively ending World War II.
When the Nazis were defeated in World War II, Germany was divided into two countries. Shortly after midnight on August 13, 1961, East German soldiers laid barbed wire and bricks, creating the Berlin Wall.
On August 9, 1944, the U.S. Forest Service created Smokey Bear to encourage people to prevent forest fires.
On July 28, 1935, Boeing’s Model 299, as it was called at the time, embarked on its first flight from a Seattle airfield. The plane would go on to be one of the most famous used during World War II.
Staff Sergeant Esther McGowin Blake raised her right hand and enlisted in the first minute women were allowed to join the U.S. Air Force on July 8, 1948. In doing so, she paved the way for a new generation of women’s military service.