President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces unlimited national state of emergency

Columbus Weather Almanac Thursday, May 27 The 147th day of the year 218 days left Today in history President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces a state of unlimited national emergency in response to Nazi Germany’s threats of world domination on May 27, 1941. In a speech on this day, he repeated his famous remark from a speech he made in 1933 ...

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