Marquis Who's Who Millennium Magazine

12 MILLENNIUM 1 9 4 0 Charlie Chaplin, an actor famous for his silent films, makes "The Great Dictator," a movie in which he ridicules Adolf Hitler and first speaks coherent dialogue 1940 President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares war against the Japanese empire three hours after his Infamy Speech on December 8 in response to the devastating assault on Pearl Harbor on December 7 1941 Elizabeth Taylor, a 12-year-old actress at the time, co-stars with a horse in the film "National Velvet" 1944 Jean-Paul Sartre, a French philosopher, publishes "Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology," diving into his existential philosophy 1943 J. Robert Oppenheimer, a U.S. physicist, is appointed director of the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon 1942