FDR's First Fireside Chat: 60 Million Americans Listen to Their President
Franklin D. Roosevelt stepped to the microphone to deliver his inaugural fireside chat, directly addressing the panic of the Great Depression with a calm, conversational tone. This broadcast immediately restored public confidence in the banking system, prompting millions of Americans to return their deposited funds and stabilizing a collapsing financial sector within days.
March 12, 1933
93 years ago
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What Else Happened on March 12
Der zweite Jerusalemer Tempel ist vollendet und wird eingeweiht.
É completada a construção do Segundo Templo de Jerusalém;
Heron von Alexandria erwähnt eine Mondfinsternis über der Stadt Alexandria.
Belisarius held Rome with just 5,000 men against an Ostrogothic army of 150,000. For over a year, Vitiges surrounded the city, cutting aqueducts and starving th…
consécration de la construction de l'abbaye de Fulda.
The French monk elected pope in 1088 couldn't even enter Rome for a year — his rival already occupied the papal throne. Odo of Châtillon, who took the name Urba…
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