Franklin D Roosevelt, Thirty-second U.S. President
(1933-1945)
Statehood
48 Continental United States of America, see 1959 for next addition
The Pentagon completed in Arlington, Virginia just outside Washington D.C. It is the largest office building in the world.
- Entertainment:
Stage Play - Oklahoma!
Composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II first
of nine Broadway musicals that marked a revolution in musical drama
and ran until 1948. Movie produced in 1955.
Food: National Wartime Nutrition Program establishes Basic 7
Food Groups as good nutrition guidelines for Americans.
Anderson, Jean
American Century Cookbook. p 243
Military:
Holocaust
was the systematic annihilation of six million Jews by the Nazi
regime during
World War II