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Dwight D. Eisenhower was born in Denison Texas.
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When Dwight was a year and a half old, his family moved back to Abilene
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In Abilene, Dwight's 3-year-old brother Paul died of diphtheria when Dwight was 6 years old
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Eisenhower graduated from high school in 1909
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In 1911, Dwight landed an appointment at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, where attendance was free of charge.
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In 1915, Eisenhower proudly graduated from West Point at the top of his class, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant.
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Eisenhower was stationed in Texas, where he met and started dating 18-year-old Mamie Geneva Doud from Denver, Colorado. The couple married nine months later, on July 1, 1916. Eisenhower was promoted to first lieutenant on his wedding day.
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In 1921, tragedy struck at home, when the Eisenhowers' firstborn son, Doud Dwight, died of scarlet fever at the age of 3.
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Eisenhower returned to the United States in early 1940.
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In 1941, after a transfer to Fort Sam Houston, Eisenhower became chief of staff for the Third Army
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June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy
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In 1945 Eisenhower was appointed army chief of staff.
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In 1947, he was elected president of Columbia University
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He became the first Supreme Allied Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1951
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In 1952 Eisenhower retired from active service and returned to Abilene to announce his candidacy for the Republican Party nomination.
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In 1952 he was elected U.S. president.
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In 1953 he orchestrated an armistice that brought peace to South Korea's border
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In 1955, Eisenhower met with Russian, British and French leaders at Geneva to further quell the threat of atomic war.
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In 1956 Eisenhower was a reelected to a second term, winning by an even wider margin than in his first election
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signing the 1957 Civil Rights Act and setting up a permanent Civil Rights Commission.
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Poised to depart office in January of 1961, Eisenhower gave a televised farewell address in which he warned the nation against the dangers of the Cold War
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He served two terms before retiring to Gettysburg in 1961
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Eisenhower died on March 28, 1969, at the Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C.
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The mid continent air port was renaimed the D.D. Eisenhower airport.
