Teddy Prog Dead, Illegal New Deal, Flagrant FDR

On this day: January 6

The Supreme Court of the U.S. rules the 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act unconstitutional in the case U.S. v. Butler et al. (1936)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech (1941)

The first Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma (1953)

b: Hristo Botev (1848), Carl Sandburg (1878), Ferenc Szálasi (1897); d: Theodore Roosevelt (1919), Ida Tarbell (1944)

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