1978: NOAA announces gender-neutral hurricane naming system
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On Nov. 5, 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected for an unprecedented third presidential term. Roosevelt ran on a platform of maintaining American neutrality in foreign wars, but was prompted to take military action after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Certain wartime decisions by Roosevelt proved controversial, such as the demand of unconditional surrender of the Axis powers, which some claim prolonged the war.
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