Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on 30 January 1882 in Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site. An American Democratic politician, Roosevelt served as governor of New York and was elected the 32nd president in 1932, during the Great Depression. His New Deal programmes expanded the role of the federal government through relief, public works, banking reform and Social Security. He was elected four times, the only president to serve more than two terms, and led the country through most of the Second World War, working with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin and signing the Lend-Lease Act. Paralysed by polio at the age of thirty-nine, he used a wheelchair in private. He died in April 1945, shortly before the end of the war in Europe.
Before and after
- 4 December 1881Founding of HEC Paris
- 1882Founding of Burnley F.C.
- from 1882 to 1918Kingdom of Serbia
- 25 January 1882Birth of Virginia Woolf
- 30 January 1882Birth of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 2 February 1882Birth of James Joyce
- 19 March 1882Construction of Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family
- 24 March 1882Robert Koch identifies the tuberculosis bacillus
- 19 April 1882Death of Charles Darwin
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- from August 1899 to September 1901Boxer Rebellion
- from 8 October 1912 to 18 July 1913Balkan Wars
The era
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