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Tghis is the day that Eleanor Roosevelt was born
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Eleanor's parents passed away
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Eleanor marries Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who later becomes president of the United States
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her first child is born
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Franklin Jr, who dies shortly afterward
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Franklin becomes paralized from Polio
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Great Depression
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Franklin Roosevelt becomes president, Eleanor becomes the first lady of the United States
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, US enters into the war
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies while convalescing in Warm Springs, Georgi
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Eleanor is elected as head of the United Nations Human Rights Commission; She begins to draft the Declaration of Human Rights; She initiates the creation of Americans for Democratic Action, a group which focuses on domestic social reform and resistance against Russia and the developing Cold War.
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Eleanor passes away with tuberculosis