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** The Roosevelt Island Tramway in New York City was the first aerial tramway in North America used by commuters as a mode of mass transit ( See Transportation in New York City ).
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** Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated to an unprecedented fourth term as President of the United States.
** President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs executive order 9066 allowing the United States military to define areas as exclusionary zones.
** WWII: War in the Pacific: U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and ROC leader Chiang Kai-Shek meet at the Cairo Conference to discuss ways to defeat Japan.
** The Great Depression officially ends in the United States: With unemployment figures falling fast due to WWII-related employment, U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes the Works Progress Administration
** In Washington, D. C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
** WWII: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.
** WWII: General Douglas MacArthur is named commander of all U. S. forces in the Philippines ; the Philippines Army is ordered nationalized by President Roosevelt.
** President Franklin D. Roosevelt attends the dedication of Thomas Jefferson's head at Mount Rushmore.
** WWII: U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions with his " Stab in the Back " speech during the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.
** WWII: U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Naval Expansion Act into law, which aims to increase the United States Navy's tonnage by 11 %.
** Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a fireside chat to the nation, declares that the United States must become " the great arsenal of democracy.
** Archibald Roosevelt, American conservative political activist, son of President Theodore Roosevelt ( b. 1894 )
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** International Air Transport Association for Baker Army Air Field ( abandoned ), Baker Island, United States Minor Outlying Islands
** Tōkai Kisen operates Seven Island, running between Tokyo and Izu Islands, via Tateyama or Yokosuka.
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** The Stewart Island Southern Brown Kiwi, Apteryx australis lawryi, is a subspecies of Tokoeka from Stewart Island.
** Nelson Mandela and 7 others are sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa, and sent to the Robben Island prison.
** Colin Ferguson opens fire with his Ruger 9 mm pistol on a Long Island Rail Road train, killing 6 and injuring 19.
** Sandline affair: Australian newspapers publish stories that the government of Papua New Guinea has brought mercenaries onto Bougainville Island.
** Operation Grapple: At Malden Island in the Pacific, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb, which fails to detonate properly.
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