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
É completada a construção do Segundo Templo de Jerusalém;
Der zweite Jerusalemer Tempel ist vollendet und wird eingeweiht.
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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