On September 25, 2013, the Kindle Fire HD was upgraded as the third generation Fire, priced at US$139, and the Kindle Fire HDX was introduced. The Kindle Fire HDX had an improved graphics engine, double the memory, and triple the processor speed of the previous model.
Washington, wary of the dangers posed by an individual's becoming entrenched in the presidency, created a two-term tradition that remained intact until Franklin Delano Roosevelt's third consecutive election in 1940.
A+E Networks. On this day in 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who first took office in 1933 as Americaâs 32nd president, is nominated for an unprecedentedthird term. Roosevelt, a Democrat, would eventually be elected to a record four terms in office, the only U.S. president to serve more than two terms.his Day in History: 07/18/1940 - FDR Nominated for a 3rd Term. In a This Day in History video, learn that on July 18, 1986, the Titanic was finally seen under the sea. After sinking into the icy North Atlantic upon striking an iceberg, the Titanic hadn't been seen for seventy-four years.