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2011 Event - Aretha Franklin, singer and the 'Queen of Soul', announces she has overcome medical ailments and plans to return to the stage

2000 Death - Franklin Garrett, American Historian

1997 Death - Colin Franklin, doctor, dies at 67

1997 Event - Franklin Quest Senior Golf Championship

1996 Death - Robert Franklin Overmyer, astronaut (STS-5, STS-51-B), dies at 59

1996 Death - Neil Franklin, soccer star, dies at 74

1995 Death - David Melvin English Franklin, singer, dies at 52

1988 Death - Franklin D. Roosevelt,, Jr., Representative-D-New York 1949 - 1955, dies on 74th birthday

1988 Death - Carolyn Franklin, singer/songwriter/son of Aretha, dies at 43

1987 Event - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts 1st female artist Aretha Franklin

1982 Event - South Bend, Indiana jury acquits self-avowed racist Joseph Paul Franklin

1981 Event - Joseph Paul Franklin, avowed racist, sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 2 black joggers in Salt Lake City

1979 Event - Tony Franklin of Philadelphia Eagles kicks 59-yard field goal

1979 Event - 105th Preakness: Ron Franklin aboard Spectacular Bid wins in 1:54.2

1979 Event - 105th Kentucky Derby: Ron Franklin on Spectacular Bid wins in 2:02.4

1976 Death - Alberta Franklin, silent screen actress, dies at 79

1976 Event - Franklin Mint strikes 1st gold coins for Netherlands Antilles

1974 Event - Gold legal in U.S., Franklin Mint strikes Panama's Gold 100 balboa coin

1974 Event - "Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing" by Aretha Franklin peaks at #47

1972 Event - Aretha Franklin sings at Mahalia Jackson's funeral

1971 Event - Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as Supreme Court justice

1970 Birthday - Randall Evans, Franklin Virginia, 100m/200m runner

1970 Birthday - Ian Franklin, CFL cornerback for the Edmonton Eskimos

1970 Birthday - Keith Franklin, WLAF linebacker for the Amsterdam Admirals

1969 Event - Aretha Franklin arrested for disturbing peace in Detroit

1968 Death - Franklin C Fry, U.S. minister (World Rad of Church), dies

1968 Birthday - Franklin Langham, Augusta, Georgia, Nike golfer, 1993 Permian Basin Open

1968 Event - "Ben Franklin in Paris" closes at Lunt Fontanne New York City after 215 performances

1967 Birthday - Harvey Franklin, WLAF WR for the Amsterdam Admirals

1967 Event - Aretha Franklin's "Respect" reaches #1

1967 Event - Aretha Franklin releases "Respect"

1967 Event - Aretha Franklin records "Respect"

1965 Birthday - Brent Franklin, Barrie Ont, Canadian Tour golfer, 1992 Japan Open-2nd

1964 Event - "Ben Franklin in Paris" opens at Lunt Fontanne New York City for 215 performances

1962 Event - President Franklin D. Roosevelt accepted an honorary degree from Yale

1962 Death - E. Franklin Frazier, American Sociologist

1962 Birthday - Trevor Franklin, cricketer, opened for New Zealand mid-80's

1960 Birthday - Don Franklin, actor, Seaquest 2032, Noah Dixon-The Young Riders

1960 Death - Franklin P Adams, columnist (Information Please), dies at 78

1959 Event - Edward Franklin Albee's "zoo story," premieres in Berlin

1958 Death - Franklin Pangborn, dies at 69

1956 Birthday - Tony Franklin, NFL kicker, Philadelphia Eagles, New England Patriots

1952 Birthday - David Pack, born in Los Angeles, California, musician, producer, Grammy-Award winning record producer for Wynnona, Aretha Franklin, Kenny Loggins, Phil Collins, Music Director for President Bill Clinton's Inaugurations, 1992 and 1996, cofounder, lead vocalist for band, Ambrosia

1952 Event - Franklin National Bank issues 1st bank credit card

1950 Death - Franklin Dyall, dies at 76

1950 Birthday - Franklin R. Chang-Diaz, born in Costa Rica, astronaut, STS-61C, 34,46,60,75, sk:91

1950 Birthday - Pamela Franklin, Tokyo, Japan, actress, Satan's School for Girls

1949 Birthday - Franklin Ajaye, BKln, New York, comedian/actor, Jazz Singer, Car Wash

1949 Birthday - Franklin Raines, American Businessman

1948 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt advisor Alger Hiss accused to be a "communist"

1946 Event - 1st issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime

1945 Birthday - Robert Knight, born in Franklin, Tennessee, singer, rocker, debuted with the Paramounts, recorded hit, signature song, Everlasting Love

1945 Event - U.S. aircraft carrier Franklin heavy damaged in Japanese air raid

1945 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt buried on grounds of Hyde Park home

1945 Death - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President (D) (1933-1945), dies at 63

1945 Death - Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

1945 Event - 800 killed as Kamikaze attacked USS Franklin off Japan

1945 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt announces success of Yalta Conference

1945 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt sworn-in for an unprecedented 4th term as president

1944 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt wins 4th term in office, defeating Thomas E Dewey (R)

1944 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill meet in Canada at 2nd Quebec Conference

1944 Event - President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated for an unprecedented 4th term at Dem convention

1944 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt says he would run for a 4th term

1944 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt signs "GI Bill of Rights", Servicemen's Readjustment Act

1944 Birthday - Carolyn Franklin, U.S. singer and songwriter, Baby Baby Baby, Angel

1944 Birthday - Bonnie Franklin, Santa Monica Cal, TV actress, Ann-1 Day at a Time

1943 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt appoints General Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces

1943 Event - President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces end of coffee rationing in U.S.

1943 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes 1st U.S. President to visit a foreign country during wartime

1943 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Jefferson Memorial

1943 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry

1943 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill confer in Casablanca concerning WW II

1942 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration

1942 Birthday - Melvin Franklin, Montgomery Alabama, rocker, Temptations

1942 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt forms Office of Economic Stabilization

1942 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)

1942 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt creates Office of War with Elmer Davis as head

1942 Birthday - Aretha Franklin, born in Memphis, Tennessee, Respect

1942 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt orders men between 45 and 64 to register for non military duty

1942 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt orders detention and internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans

1942 Event - Congress advises Franklin D. Roosevelt that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the U.S. war effort

1942 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt asks commissioner to continue baseball during WW II

1942 Death - Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American Clergyman

1941 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot on sight

1941 Event - Atlantic Charter signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill

1941 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill sign Atlantic Charter

1941 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill's 2nd meeting at Placentia Newfoundland

1941 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan

1941 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt demands Japanese troops out of Indo-China

1941 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination

1941 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt declares state of emergency due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor

1941 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Lend-Lease Bill to lend money to Britain

1940 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt re-elected president

1940 Event - President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) wins unprecedented 3rd term beating Wendell Willkie (R)

1940 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Selective Training and Service Act (1st peacetime draft)

1940 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister William M. King agree to joint defense commission

1940 Event - Democratic Convention nominates Franklin D. Roosevelt for a 3rd term

1939 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt lays cornerstone of Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C.

1939 Birthday - Franklin Jones, American Celebrity

1939 Event - Albert Einstein informs Franklin D. Roosevelt of possibilities of atomic bomb

1939 Birthday - Franklin A Sonn, union leader, South African workers

1939 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt declares "limited national emergency" due to war in Europe

1939 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt declares U.S. neutrality at start of WW II in Europe

1939 Event - NBC/RCA 1st public TV demo with Franklin D. Roosevelt at opening of New York World's Fair

1938 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Thousand Islands Bridge connecting U.S. and Canada

1937 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt visits Grand Coulee Dam construction site in Washington State

1937 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Bonneville Dam on Columbia River (Oregon)

1937 Event - Senate rejects Franklin D.. Roosevelt proposal to enlarge Supreme Court

1937 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt signs act of neutrality

1937 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes enlarging Supreme Court, "court packing" plan failed

1936 Event - President Franklin D. Roosevelt wins landslide victory over Alfred M. Landon

1936 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary

1936 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam

1936 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt gives FBI authority to pursuit fascists and communists

1936 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt signs 2nd neutrality act

1935 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims Philippine Islands a free commonwealth

1935 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act prohibiting export of U.S. arms to belligerents

1935 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt signs National Labor Relations Act

1935 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt ordersa federal gold vault to be built at Fort Knox Kentucky

1935 Birthday - Raoul Franklin, chancellor, City University London

1934 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)

1934 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt became 1st President to travel through Panama Canal

1934 Event - 1st sitting U.S. president to visit South America, Franklin D. Roosevelt in Colombia

1934 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions

1934 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Home Owners Loan Act

1934 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt devalus dollar in relation to gold at $35 per ounce

1933 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt creates Federal Alcohol Control Administration

1933 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt creates Civil Works Administration

1933 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt authorizes 1st swimming pool built inside the White House

1933 Event - Mount Davidson Cross lit by Franklin D. Roosevelt via telegraph

1933 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt announces U.S. will leave gold standard

1933 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt makes wine and beer with up to 3.2% alcohol legal

1933 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt conducts his 1st fireside chat

1933 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a nationwide bank holiday

1933 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims 10-day bank holiday

1933 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugrated as 32nd president, pledges to pull U.S. out of Depression and says "We have nothing to fear but fear itself."

1933 Event - President-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt

1932 Event - Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D) elected 32nd president for 1st time

1932 Event - New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt visits LA

1932 Birthday - Robert [Franklin] Adams, U.S., sci-fi author, Castaways in Time

1932 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt makes 1st presidential nominating conventional acceptance speech

1932 Event - New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated for president at Dem Convention in Chicago

1930 Birthday - Carl Franklin, Richmond California, actor, Fantastic Journey

1928 Birthday - Franklin Cover, Cleveland, actor, Tom-The Jeffersons

1928 Death - Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert, composer, dies at 59

1927 Birthday - Franklin "Bud" Held, javelin world champ, 1949, 51, 53-55

1922 Birthday - Neil Franklin, soccer star

1921 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt stricken with polio at summer home on Canadian Is of Campobello

1919 Birthday - Franc [Franklin E] Essed, Suriname agricultural eng, Oper Grasshopper

1915 Event - Franklin K Mathiews, presents idea of "Book Week"

1915 Birthday - John Hope Franklin, historian

1914 Birthday - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., born in Campobello Island, Canada,Representative-D-New York 1949 - 1955, son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

1910 Birthday - Eric Franklin, Indian civil servant

1909 Birthday - Shirley Franklin, American Politician

1906 Birthday - Franklin Garrett, American Historian

1905 Event - Eleanor Roosevelt marries Franklin D. Roosevelt in NY

1904 Birthday - Clifford P. Case, born in Franklin Park, New Jersey, Senator-R-New Jersey 1955 - 1979, Representative-R-New Jersey 1945 - 1953

1900 Birthday - Franklin C Fry, U.S. minister, Lutheran World Relief

1897 Birthday - John Franklin Enders, Conn, microbiologist, polio-Nobel 1954

1895 Birthday - Dave Franklin, New York City, composer, Hop-a-long Cassidy

1894 Birthday - E. Franklin Frazier, American Sociologist

1894 Birthday - E Franklin Frazier, sociologist

1894 Event - 37 miners killed at Franklin, Washington

1889 Birthday - Franklin Pangborn, Newark, actor, My Best Gal, Hats Off, Easy Living

1882 Birthday - Franklin D. Roosevelt, born in Hyde Park, New York, 32nd President, D, 1933 - 1945

1881 Birthday - Franklin P Adams, born in Chicago, Illinois, columnist, Information Please

1881 Birthday - Franklin P. Adams, American Journalist

1869 Birthday - Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American Clergyman

1869 Death - Franklin Peirce, 14th president 1853 - 1857, dies in Concord, New Hampshire at 64

1868 Birthday - Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert, composer

1864 Event - Battle of Franklin, TN

1864 Event - Battle of Franklin, Tennessee: Confederate attack fails, 7,700 casualities

1863 Death - Benjamin Franklin "Grimes" Davis, Union major, dies in battle at 30

1863 Event - Battle of Franklin's Crossing, Virginia, Deep Run

1863 Death - Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 35

1863 Event - Rebel General Earl Van Dorn attacks at Franklin, Tennessee

1860 Event - 1st White settlement in Idaho, Franklin

1852 Event - Franklin Pierce elected as president of U.S.

1847 Event - 1st U.S. postage stamps go on sale, 5 cents Franklin and 10 cents Washington, New York City

1839 Birthday - Gustavus Franklin Swift, founded Swift and Co

1836 Event - Coin Press invented by Franklin Beale

1836 Birthday - Benjamin Franklin Potts, Major General Union volunteers

1831 Birthday - John Franklin Miller, Major General Union volunteers

1828 Birthday - Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton, Brigadier General, Confederate Army

1823 Birthday - William Buel Franklin, Major General Union volunteers

1823 Birthday - Franklin Gardner, Major General Confederate Army

1820 Birthday - Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, Major General Confederate Army

1820 Birthday - John Franklin Farnsworth, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1818 Birthday - Benjamin Franklin Butler, Major General Union volunteers

1813 Birthday - Montgomery Blair, Franklin County, Kentucky, lawyer, Dred Scot V Sandford

1812 Birthday - Benjamin Franklin Sands, Commander Union Navy

1804 Birthday - Franklin Pierce, Hillsboro, New Hampshire, D, 14th President, 1853 - 1857

1800 Birthday - Benjamin Franklin Wade, MC, Union

1800 Birthday - Franklin Buchanan, Admiral, Confederate Navy

1790 Death - Benjamin Franklin, statesman and inventor, dies at 84

1789 Event - Ben Franklin writes "Nothing . . . certain but death and taxes"

1789 Event - President-elect George Washington moves into Franklin House, New York

1789 Event - Franklin College founded

1786 Birthday - John Franklin, British explorer, Arctic

1785 Event - Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals

1784 Event - Eastern Tennessee settlers declare their area an independent state and name it Franklin; a year later the Continental Congress rejects it

1784 Event - Ben Franklin expresses unhappiness over eagle as America's symbol

1775 Event - 1st Postmaster General: Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania takes office

1773 Event - Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace"

1762 Event - 1st female (Ann Franklin) U.S. newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury

1753 Event - Benjamin Franklin receives Godfrey Copley-Penny

1752 Event - Ben Franklin's performs his kite-flying experiment

1752 Event - Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning-what a shock!

1742 Event - Benjamin Franklin invents his Franklin stove

1741 Event - Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, 2nd U.S. magazine begins publishing

1732 Event - Benjamin Franklin under the name Richard Saunders begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack"

1731 Event - In Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin opens 1st U.S. library

1730 Event - Benjamin Franklin marries Miss Read

1726 Event - Benjamin Franklin returns to Philadelphia from England

1726 Event - Benjamin Franklin sails back to Philadelphia

1725 Event - Benjamin Franklin arrives in London

1724 Event - Benjamin Franklin arrives in London

1706 Birthday - Benjamin Franklin, Boston, kite flyer, statesman, and inventor

1702 Death - Thomas Franklin, English smith/uncle of B Franklin, dies

1702 Death - Thomas Franklin, English smith/uncle of B Franklin, dies

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