Bull Moose Goes Down - A TL

[Captain Chaos]

02/07/1940 – RKO release Walt Disney's second full-length animated film, Pinocchio.
02/20/1940 – Tom and Jerry make their debut in Puss Gets the Boot.
02/27/1940 – Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14.
03/02/1940 -  Cartoon character Elmer Fudd makes his debut in the animated short Elmer's Candid Camera.
04/01/1940 - April Fools' Day is also the census date for the 16th U.S. Census.
04/07/1940 - Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
04/12/1940 - Opening day at Jamaica Racetrack features the use of pari-mutuel betting equipment, a departure from bookmaking heretofore used exclusively throughout New York state. Other NY tracks follow suit later in 1940.
04/21/1940 - Take It or Leave It makes it debut on CBS Radio, with Bob Hawk as host.
04/23/1940 - A fire at the Rhythm Night Club in Natchez, Mississippi kills 198.
05/15/1940-  The very first McDonald's restaurant opens in San Bernardino, California.
Women's stockings made of nylon are first placed on sale across the U.S. Almost five million pairs are bought on this day.
05/16/1940-  U.S. President Robert A. Taft, addressing a joint session of Congress, asks for an extraordinary credit of approximately $900 million to finance construction of at least 50,000 airplanes per year.
05/29/1940 – The Vought XF4U-1 makes its first flight.
06/10/1940 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions with his speech during the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.
06/14/1940 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Naval Expansion Act into law, which aims to increase the United States Navy's tonnage by 11%.
06/16/1940 – The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is held for the first time in Sturgis, South Dakota.
06/24/1940 – Conservative Party begins its national convention in Philadelphia and renominates Robert A. Taft as its candidate for president.
07/01/1940 - The doomed first Tacoma Narrows Bridge opens for business, built with an 8-foot (2.4 m) girder and 190 feet (58 m) above the water, as the third longest suspension bridge in the world.
07/15/1940 - Progressive Party begins its national convention in Chicago, and nominates Sen. Burton K. Wheeler for president.
07/27/1940 – Bugs Bunny makes his debut in the Oscar-nominated cartoon short, A Wild Hare.
08/04/1940 – Gen. John J. Pershing, in a nationwide radio broadcast, urges all-out aid to Britain in order to defend the Americas, while Charles Lindbergh speaks to an isolationist rally at Soldier Field in Chicago.
09/02/1940 – An agreement between America and Great Britain is announced to the effect that 50 U.S. destroyers needed for escort work will be transferred to Great Britain. In return, America gains 99-year leases on British bases in the North Atlantic, West Indies and Bermuda.
09/12/1940 – The Hercules Munitions Plant in Succasunna-Kenvil, New Jersey explodes, killing 55 people.
09/16/1940 – The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 is signed into law by Franklin D. Roosevelt, creating the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.
 The draft registration of approximately 16 million men begins in the United States.
09/26/1940 – The United States imposes a total embargo on all scrap metal shipments to Japan.
10/29/1940 – The Selective Service System lottery is held in Washington, D.C..
11/05/1940: Conservative incumbent Robert A. Taft narrowly defeats Progressive challenger Burton K. Wheeler.
(NOTE: Yes, I'm using old color scheme now)

President Robert A. Taft (C-OH)/Vice-President Styles Bridges (C-NH) 266 EV, 50% PV
Sen. Burton K. Wheeler (P-MT)/Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace (P-IA) 265 EV, 49.9% PV
11/07/1940 – In Tacoma, Washington, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge (nicknamed the "Galloping Gertie") collapses in a 42-mile-per-hour (68 km/h) wind storm, causing the center span of the bridge to sway. When it collapses, a 600-foot-long (180 m) design of the center span falls 190 feet above the water, killing Tubby, a black male cocker spaniel dog.
11/11/1940 – Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in U.S. Midwest.
11/12/1940 – Case of Hansberry v. Lee, 311 U.S. 32 (1940), decided, allowing a racially restrictive covenant to be lifted.
11/13/1940 – Walt Disney's Fantasia is released. It is the first box office failure for Disney, though it eventually recoups its cost years later, and becomes one of the most highly regarded of Disney's films.
11/16/1940 – An unexploded pipe bomb is found in the Consolidated Edison office building.
12/08/1940 – The Chicago Bears, in what will become the most one-sided victory in National Football League history, defeat the Washington Redskins 73–0 in the 1940 NFL Championship Game.
12/17/1940 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt, at his regular press conference, first sets forth the outline of his plan to send aid to Great Britain that will become known as Lend-Lease.
12/29/1940 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a fireside chat to the nation, declares that the United States must become "the great arsenal of democracy."
12/30/1940 – California's first modern freeway, the future State Route 110, opens to traffic in Pasadena, California, as the Arroyo Seco Parkway (now the Pasadena Freeway).

I didn't know that the USA can have two Presidents at the same time.

[Captain Chaos]

01/04/1941 – The short subject Elmer's Pet Rabbit is released, marking the second appearance of Bugs Bunny, and also the first to have his name on a title card.
01/06/1941 – The keel of the USS Missouri is laid at the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn.
01/10/1941 – Lend-Lease is introduced into the U.S. Congress.
01/13/1941 – All persons born in Puerto Rico since this day are declared U.S. citizens by birth, through U.S. federal law 8 U.S.C. § 1402.
01/20/1941 – Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes swears in U.S. President Robert A. Taft for his second term.
01/27/1941 – U.S. Ambassador to Japan Joseph C. Grew passes on to Washington a rumor overheard at a diplomatic reception about a planned surprise attack upon Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
02/04/1941 – The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
02/08/1941– The U.S. House of Representatives passes the Lend-Lease Act (260–165).
02/09/1941 – Winston Churchill, in a worldwide broadcast, asks the United States to show its support by sending arms to the British: "Give us the tools, and we will finish the job."
02/14/1941 – Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura begins his duties as Japanese ambassador to the United States.
03/01/1941 - W47NV begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee, becoming the first FM radio station.
 Arthur L. Bristol becomes Rear Admiral for the U.S. Navy's Support Force, Atlantic Fleet.
03/08/1941 – The U.S. Senate passes the Lend-Lease Act (60–31).
03/11/1941 – President Taft signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
03/16/1941 – A fleet of U.S. warships arrive in Auckland, New Zealand on a goodwill visit. On March 20, they visit Sydney, Australia.
03/17/1941 – In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Robert A. Taft.
03/22/1941 – Washington's Grand Coulee Dam begins to generate electricity.
03/27/1941 – Japanese spy Takeo Yoshikawa arrives in Honolulu, Hawaii and begins to study the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor.
03/30/1941 – All German, Italian, and Danish ships anchored in United States waters are taken into "protective custody".
04/09/1941 – The U.S. acquires full military defense rights in Greenland.
04/10/1941 – The U.S. destroyer Niblack, while picking up survivors from a sunken Dutch freighter, drops depth charges on a German U-Boat.
04/15/1941 – The U.S. begins shipping Lend-Lease aid to China.
05/01/1941 – Orson Welles' film Citizen Kane premieres in New York City.
The first Series E "War Bonds" and Defense Savings Stamps go on sale in the United States, to help fund the greatly increased production of military equipment.
05/06/1941 - At California's March Field, entertainer Bob Hope performs his first USO Show.
05/15/1941 – Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak begins as the New York Yankee center fielder goes one for 4 against Chicago White Sox pitcher Eddie Smith.
05/21/1941 – 950 miles off the coast of Brazil, the freighter SS Robin Moor becomes the first United States ship sunk by a German U-boat.
05/27/1941 – President Taft proclaims an "unlimited national emergency."
06/14/1941 – All German and Italian assets in the United States are frozen.
06/16/1941 -  All German and Italian consulates in the United States are ordered closed and their staffs to leave the country by July 10.
06/20/1941 - The United States Army Air Forces come into being, taking over the former United States Army Air Corps.
Walt Disney's live-action animated feature, The Reluctant Dragon, is released.
07/07/1941 – American forces take over the defense of Iceland from the British.
07/26/1941 – In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, U.S. President Robert A. Taft orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.
General Douglas MacArthur is named commander of all U.S. forces in the Philippines; the Philippines Army is ordered nationalized by President Roosevelt.
07/30/1941 - The U.S. gunboat Tutuila is attacked by Japanese aircraft while anchored in the Yangtze River at Chungking. Japan apologizes for the incident the following day.
08/01/1941 -  U.S. President Taft bans the export of U.S. aviation fuel from the western hemisphere except to Britain and allies
08/06/1941 - Six-year-old Elaine Esposito undergoes an appendectomy and lapses into a coma that lasts for a record-breaking 37 years until her death in 1978.
08/09/1941 – Robert A. Taft and Winston Churchill meet at Argentia, Newfoundland and Labrador. The Atlantic Charter is created as a result.
08/12/1941 - By one vote (203–202), the U.S. House of Representatives passes legislation extending the draft period for selectees and the National Guard from 1 year to 30 months.
08/31/1941 – The Great Gildersleeve debuts on NBC Radio.
09/04/1941 – The USS Greer becomes the first United States ship fired upon by a German submarine in the war, even though the United States is a neutral power. Tension heightens between the nations as a result.
09/27/1941 – The first Liberty Ship, the SS Patrick Henry, is launched at Baltimore, Maryland.
09/29/1941 – The first Moscow Conference begins; U.S. representative Averell Harriman and British representative Lord Beaverbrook meet with Soviet foreign minister Molotov to arrange urgent assistance for Russia.
10/17/1941 - The destroyer USS Kearny is torpedoed and damaged near Iceland, killing 11 sailors (the first American military casualties of the war).
10/23/1941 – Walt Disney's animated film Dumbo is released.
10/30/1941 – Franklin D. Roosevelt approves US$1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
10/31/1941 – After 14 years of work, drilling is completed on Mount Rushmore.
The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 United States Navy sailors.
11/10/1941 – Britain and USA declare war on Japan.
11/24/1941 – The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French.
11/26/1941– U.S. President Robert A. Taft signs a bill establishing the 4th Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States (this partly reverses a 1939 action by Taft that changed the celebration of Thanksgiving to the third Thursday of November).
11/27/1941 – A group of young men stop traffic on U.S. Highway 99 south of Yreka, California, handing out fliers proclaiming the establishment of the State of Jefferson.
12/01/1941 – World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol under the authority of the United States Army Air Force.
12/04/1941 – The State of Jefferson is declared in Yreka, California, with John C. Childs as a governor.
12/07/1941 – The Japanese Navy launches a surprise attack on the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor.
12/08/1941 – Franklin Roosevelt gives his Infamy Speech.
12/11/1941 – Japanese troops land at Wake Island.
Italy declares war on the United States.
12/12/1941 – Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States.
The United States seizes the French ship SS Normandie.
12/20/1941 -  Admiral Ernst King is appointed C-in-C of the US fleet
12/26/1941 – Winston Churchill becomes the first British Prime Minister to address a joint session of the U.S. Congress.

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