Across the United States, the country recoiled on this date in 1941 at the alarming news of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and the declaration of war by the Japanese. Pearl Harbor was then a largely unknown location to most Americans. A shocked President Franklin Delano Roosevelt would famously announce on radio that the surprise raid was “a date that will live in infamy.” The famous phrase is still one of the most heart wrenching and well-known exclamations in history.