Timeline
1904 - Roosevelt, one of the most popular presidents in his nation's history, had vowed never to run again after winning his second term in the White House in 1904.
1909 - As a freshman, he and his father (recently out of office as President) - both of whom loved nature and outdoor sports - went on a safari in Africa
1912 - The line outside Madison Square Garden started to form at 5:30 p.m., just as an orange autumn sun was setting in New York City on Halloween Eve, 1912.election day
1913 - In December 1913, Roosevelt, then 55, and a small group of men embarked on a journey to explore and map Brazil's River of Doubt. Almost from the start, the expedition went disastrously wrong. He went on a losing streak.
1914 - through the Brazilian Wilderness, recounted the father-and-son expedition into the Amazon Basin Brazilian jungle in 1913–14
(1916–2000) , Jr. was the mastermind of the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) Operation Ajax, which orchestrated the coup against Iran's democratically-elected Mohammed Mossadegh administration, and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi,
1917 - As he was about to be transferred to a Russian branch, the U.S. entered the World War.
1919 - "Many of his critics could account for his leaving the Republican Party and heading another, only on the theory that he was moved by a desire for revenge," William Roscoe Thayer, Roosevelt's friend and one of his earliest biographers, wrote in 1919
1940 - At the end of 1940, he returned to England and was discharged from the army on health grounds on 2 May 1941, by which time he had once again reached the rank of captain
1953 - The Shah of Iran, to Iran's Peacock Throne in August 1953 for the purpose of returning Western control of Middle Eastern oil supplies.
Sources:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1207799-1,00.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4986859
http://www.enotes.com/topic/Kermit_Roosevelt
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