‘Day of Infamy’ Speech Given by FDR After Pearl Harbor

On December 8, 1941

President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his “Day of Infamy” speech to the US Congress – a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

This Day in History - December 8

1921

Eamon de Valera publicly repudiated the Anglo-Irish Treaty.

1953

Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his 'Atoms for Peace' speech at the United Nations in New York.

2010

SpaceX became the first private company to launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft.

2013

Metallica became the first band to have performed on all seven continents when they held a concert in Antarctica.

1987

US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed a treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles.

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