On December 7, 1941 — while much of Europe was already embroiled in war — the Empire of Japan launched a surprise attack on the U.S. Navy’s base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt received word of the attack as he finished lunch that Sunday, and had planned to spend part of the afternoon with his stamp album. (An avid philatelist, FDR’s stamp collection was once valued at auction to be worth a respectable $80,000.)
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