Addressing congress ( and the nation ) about Pearl Harbor.
After the sudden attack on the US by Japan which is better known as the "Pearl Harbor Attack" in which Japanese Imperial Navy in a surprise attack bombed the US Naval base at Pearl Harbor on the 7th of Dec, 1941.
At that time the 32nd President of the US Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave a brief 7min speech to the Congress and the country about the sudden attack that took more than 2000 American lives and sunk/destroyed a number of battleships, destroyers and cruisers.
This speech came to be known in history as the "Infamy speech or day of infamy speech addressed on 8th Jan,1941, a day after the attacks in which he started describing it as 'a day which will live on in infamy'.
Considered one of the most famous US political speeches of the 20th century the Congress within an hour signed a declaration of war against Japan, and marked US's entry into the 2nd World War.
On December 8, 1941, President Roosevelt asked Congress for a declaration of war against Japan. He opened his remarks with the following passage: "Yesterday, December 7, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy -- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan." This declaration of war marked the United States's official entry into World War II.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, about the 7th December 1941, the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese navy.
Actually, the correct quote is "a DATE that will live in infamy"
FDR - "A day that will live in infamy."
Decenber 7th, 1941..."A Date That Will Live In Infamy" - FDR
The assassin lived a life of infamy, for all the people he killed. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, FDR called December 7, 1941 a day that would live in the annals of infamy.
December 7, 1941. FDR "A day that will live in infamy."
dec. 8 That was actually 7 th December,1941, -the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
"Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan ." ~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt .
THE ANSWER IS PRESIDENT Franklin ROOSEVELT Presindent Franklin Roosevelt was the one who said December 7, 1941 "A Date Which Will Live In Infamy."
I'll leave two Related Links - one with the entire speech, and another with the effects after the speech.
The date that Roosevelt gave the speech was December 18, 1941. The time he gave his speech I do not know. Sorry. : )You can listen to his speech on this web site www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html.
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. FDR's nothing to fear speech, FDR's day of infamy speech. JFK"s ask not speech. There are a lot of them.
December 7th 1941, "...this day will go down in infamy..." FDR
I dont really understand the question... could you clarify... sorry :) I think I know what you mean, and the answer is 7th December 1941 ("A day that will live in infamy" - FDR), when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.