President Franklin Roosevelt said this in his speech to the United States Congress on December 8, 1941, the day after the unprovoked Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. He actually used the word date as opposed to day.
he actually said a "date" that will live in infamy, and he was talking about December 7th, the day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour.
The "day that will live on in infamy" is the phrase that described the attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941
It was a day that would live on in infamy.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D Roosevelt
"a date which will live in infamy"
This is a day that will live in infamy.
He called it the "date that would live in infamy."
Sunday, December 7, 1941 . . . a day that will live in infamy.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Infamy" means "great wickedness, disgrace, notoriety". The attack on Pearl Harbor was "sudden, and deliberate". Hence, a day that "will live in infamy". Roosevelt's words were well-chosen.
FDR - "A day that will live in infamy."