During this period, which has become known as baseball's dead-ball era, Cub infielders Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance were made famous as a double-play combination by Franklin P. Adams ' poem Baseball's Sad Lexicon.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt ( or ; January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945 ), also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States ( 1933 – 1945 ) and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war.

It is not known whether Franklin ever performed his experiment, but on May 10, 1752, Thomas-François Dalibard of France conducted a similar experiment ( using a 40-foot ( 12 m ) iron rod instead of a kite ) and extracted electrical sparks from a cloud.

Franklin James Schaffner ( May 30, 1920July 2, 1989 ) was an American film director best known for such films as Planet of the Apes ( 1968 ), Patton ( 1970 ), Papillon ( 1973 ), and The Boys from Brazil ( 1978 ).

* 1944 – U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G. I.

* March 22 – President Franklin Roosevelt signs an amendment to the Volstead Act known as the Cullen-Harrison Act, allowing the manufacture and sale of " 3. 2 beer " ( 3. 2 % alcohol by weight, approximately 4 % alcohol by volume ) and light wines.

The Democratic nomination went to the well known governor of the largest state, New York's Franklin D. Roosevelt ( FDR ).

Located out of New York, NY, it is unclear when this company started producing crayons but based on a known ad from 1881, they clearly offered wax crayons in boxes of 6, 12, and 18 colors. Surviving boxes from Franklin Mfg Co.

Ben Franklin, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson were known to have regularly eaten and served ice cream.

On February 1, 1960, four students Ezell A. Blair, Jr. ( now known as Jibreel Khazan ), David Richmond, Joseph McNeil, and Franklin McCain from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical College, an all-black college, sat down at the segregated lunch counter to protest Woolworth's policy of excluding African Americans.

Conducted from the roof of the Franklin School to Bell's laboratory at 1325 ' L ' Street, this was the world's first wireless telephone communication ( away from their laboratory ), thus making the Photophone the world's earliest known radiophone and wireless telephone systems.

The earliest known inhabitants of the area that would become Montgomery County were the Mound Builders, Native American peoples who built large earthen mounds, two of which were constructed in southeastern Franklin Township.

Others were the responsibility of Jim Franklin, known for The Goodies, and two episodes in the second series were directed by Alan J. W. Bell, also known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Last of the Summer Wine.

While Benjamin Franklin was a Mason, he was the only member of any of the various Great Seal committees definitively known to be so, and his ideas were not adopted.

At the time of his birth, however, the surrounding area was part of an autonomous territory known as the State of Franklin.

Franklin is best known for her work on the X-ray diffraction images of DNA which led to discovery of DNA double helix.

Earliest known settlers ( by 1840 ) were Samuel Thompson, Robert Moore, John W. Burns, Jeff and Robert Montgomery, Benjamin Stephens, James Young, William Franklin, Isham Pool, and the Tuckers, according to Goodspeed.

The county is named for Jett Thomas, officer in the War of 1812 who is also known for overseeing the construction of the first building at the University of Georgia ( originally referred to as Franklin College and known today as Old College ) as well as the state capitol at Milledgeville.

The names of the known dead were all listed with hometowns in the New York Times, and included these names from Berrien County: Lester Hancock, Arthur Harper, William P. Hayes, Benjamin McCranie, James M. McMillan, Shelly Lloyd Webb, Joe Wheeler, Jim M. Boyett, Lafayette Gaskins, Bennie E. Griner, Robert J. Hancock, George H. Hutto, Thomas J. Simmons, Max Easters, G. Bruce Faircloth, Thomas, H. Holland, Ralph Knight, William McMillan, John Franklin Moore, Wiliam Zeigler, Thomas W. Sirmons, Charley Railey, and Tillman W. Robinson.

Muscle Shoals is known for recording many hit songs from the 1960s to today at FAME Studios, where Aretha Franklin recorded, and Muscle Shoals Sound Studio which developed work for Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, the Rolling Stones and countless others.

Cher, The Rolling Stones, The Osmonds, Aretha Franklin, Bob Seger, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Simon & Garfunkle, The Staple Singers and many others recorded the biggest hits of their careers in this small studio, that remains well known and respected throughout the music industry.

Many farms in Franklin were cleared by the Creek Indians, Well known leader Osceola was born on Red Creek, 10 miles from the Tallapoosa River.

Newport is known as the town in which Sam Walton owned a Ben Franklin store prior to starting Wal-Mart.

* Jones, Jr., Robert W. Nature's Hidden Rainbows: The Fluorescent Minerals of Franklin, New Jersey ( San Gabriel, CA: Ultra-Violet Products, Inc., 1964 ).

Fluorescent minerals of the Franklin mineral district: franklinite ( black ), willemite ( green ), and calcite ( red ).

Fluorescent minerals of the Franklin mineral district: franklinite ( black ), willemnite ( green ), and calcite ( red ).

* Franklin Mineral Museum

* Franklin, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb in the Canberra district of Gungahlin

During Prohibition, local wits named Franklin County the " Moonshine Capital of the World ", a name used today by the local chamber of commerce as a historic identification.

Of architectural interest in Greenpoint are: The Episcopal Church of the Ascension ( Ascension Greenpoint ) ( 1853 ) the oldest church in Greenpoint on Kent Street, The Astral Apartments ( 1885 ) ( NRHP ) on Franklin Street, the Saint Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church ( 1875 ) on Manhattan Avenue, the Eberhard-Faber Pencil Factory on Greenpoint Ave at Franklin St., the Polish Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord ( 1921 ) ( NRHP ) on North 12th Street, the Oliver Hazard Perry School () ( 1867 ) on Norman Avenue ( the oldest continuously operating public school building in New York City ); the Capital One ( formerly Green Point ) Savings Bank ( 1908 ), the Saint Stanislaus Kostka Roman Catholic Church ( 1896 )() on Humboldt Street, which serves as a Catholic shrine for the Polish community, and the synagogue building of Congregation Ahavas Israel ( 1903 ) on Noble Street ( the sanctuary, with stained glass windows and a torah shrine with turn-of the century wood carvings, is currently open only during services on Saturday mornings ).

Duberstein is a trustee of Franklin & Marshall College and Johns Hopkins University and serves as well on a wide range of commissions, task forces, and cultural, educational and volunteer boards: Vice Chairman of the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Harvard University's Kennedy School Harvard's Institute of Politics Senior Advisory Committee, the board of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Ronald Reagan Institute of Emergency medicine, the National Alliance to End Homelessness, Ford's Theater and The American Council on Capital Formation.

* Mount Franklin ( Australian Capital Territory )

The road to Mount Franklin, Australian Capital Territory | A. C. T.

Another one of the 19th century critics of Malthusian theory was Karl Marx who referred to it as " nothing more than a schoolboyish, superficial plagiary of De Foe, Sir James Steuart, Townsend, Franklin, Wallace " ( in Capital, see Marx's footnote on Malthus from Capital-reference below ).

Capital City Airport is a public use airport located one nautical mile ( 1. 85 km ) southwest of the central business district of Frankfort, a city in Franklin County, Kentucky, United States.

Franklin, Illinois is the Burgoo Capital of the World ; they have their annual burgoo cookout over July 3rd and July 4th.

* 1941 – World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.

* 1943 – World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.

Two aircraft carriers, and were simultaneously in commission and in operation during World War II, and Franklin therefore had the distinction of having two simultaneously operational US Navy warships named in his honor.

Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill met at the Cairo Conference ( 1943 ) | Cairo Conference in 1943 during World War II. With the attack on Pearl Harbor and the opening of the Pacific War, China became one of the Allied Powers.

The shield was cast by American metallurgist Dr. Myron MacLain, who was contracted by the U. S. government, from orders of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to create an impenetrable substance to use for tanks during World War II.

United States Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones.

* 1942 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese-Americans to Japanese internment camps.

* 1942 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.

* 1940 – World War II: U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions with his " Stab in the Back " speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.

* 1941 – World War II: in response to the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.

* 1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.

* 1942 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.

* 1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war.

* 1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel via airplane while in office when he travels from Miami, Florida to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill.

President Edwin Barclay ( right ) and U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II, January 1943

* 1941 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.

* 1941 – World War II: U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an " unlimited national emergency ".

* 1943 – World War II: War in the Pacific – U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan ( see Cairo Conference )

* 1944 – World War II: U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US $ 14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.

* 1943 – World War II: Tehran Conference – U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran to discuss war strategy.

* 1939 – World War II: U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons by belligerents.

* 1941 – World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves U. S. $ 1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.

In the United States during World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt recognized that the direct style of propaganda would not win over the American public.

Ursula Franklin, in her 1989 " Real World of Technology " lecture, gave another definition of the concept ; it is " practice, the way we do things around here ".

U. S. president Franklin Delano Roosevelt proposed the agency in June, 1943, to provide relief to areas liberated from Axis powers after World War II ended.