Philadelphia in World War II

The atlas holds 10 people and 11 moments here, from 1939 to 1945. The most recorded lives are Kwame Nkrumah, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Richard Nixon.

Notable people

  1. Bertrand Russell

    in 1941

    1 moment here

    Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, was an English philosopher, mathematician, logician, writer, and public campaigner.…

  2. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

    in 1944

    1 moment here

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt was an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as New York state senator, assistant secretary of the Navy,…

  3. Gerald Ford

    in 1943

    1 moment here

    Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr.) was the 38th president of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977 after having served as…

  4. Grace Kelly

    in 1942

    1 moment here

    American actress Grace Patricia Kelly became an internationally prominent film star in the early 1950s, then Princess of Monaco after her 1956…

  5. Herbert Hoover

    in 1940

    1 moment here

    Herbert Clark Hoover was an American mining engineer, international relief administrator, U.S.…

  6. Isaac Asimov

    in 1942

    1 moment here

    American writer and biochemist best known for science fiction, popular-science writing, and the Foundation and Robot series.…

  7. Kwame Nkrumah

    from 1939 to 1943

    2 moments here

    Ghanaian nationalist leader, Pan-Africanist, and political theorist who led the Gold Coast to independence as Ghana in 1957.…

  8. Richard Feynman

    in 1941

    1 moment here

    American theoretical physicist known for foundational work in quantum electrodynamics, the path-integral formulation of quantum mechanics, and…

  9. Richard Nixon

    in 1945

    1 moment here

    Richard Milhous Nixon was an American lawyer, naval officer, congressman, senator, vice president, and the 37th president of the United States.…

  10. Sergei Rachmaninoff

    in 1941

    1 moment here

    Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Born in the Novgorod Governorate of the Russian Empire, he studied and worked chiefly in Saint…

Moments

  1. 1939 Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Kwame Nkrumah
  2. 1940 Foreign-policy address in Philadelphia Herbert Hoover
  3. 1941 Lecturing at the Barnes Foundation Bertrand Russell
  4. 1941 Ballistics work at Frankford Arsenal Richard Feynman
  5. 1941 Recording at the Philadelphia Academy of Music Sergei Rachmaninoff
  6. 1942 East Falls childhood performance Grace Kelly
  7. 1942 Civilian chemist at the Philadelphia Navy Yard Isaac Asimov
  8. 1943 Graduate degrees at Penn Kwame Nkrumah
  9. 1943 USS Monterey pre-commissioning detachment Gerald Ford
  10. 1944 Campaigns through Philadelphia in the rain Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  11. 1945 Bureau of Aeronautics office Richard Nixon

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