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Shortly before his third birthday, he contracted Scarlet Fever.
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J.F.K attended Choate Boarding School
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J.F.K. takes command of a patrol boat while stationed in the South Pacific.
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J.F.K.'s patrol boat collides with a Japanese destroyer and is sunk.
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J.F.K. loses his brother Joe to a fight while he is in Europe.
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J.F.K. is elected to congress as a representative of Massachusett's District 11.
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J.F.K. loses his sister Kathleen in a tragic plane crash.
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J.F.K. is elected to the U.S. Senate.
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J.F.K. marries Jaqueline Bouvier
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J.F.K. loses the nomination for Vice President.
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Becomes a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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Birth of daughter Caroline Kennedy
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First televised debate to help J.F.K. win his presidential bid.
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Elected as President of the United States.
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Birth of John Franklin Kennedy Jr.
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Upon being sworn in, President Kennedy delivers his "Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country," speech.
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President Kennedy creates the Peace Corps through Executive Order.
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President Kennedy issues a threat to Cuba and the Soviet Union.
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The Soviet Union pulls all missles out of Cuba.
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President Kennedy makes the first civil rights decision.
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The first treaty signed by the United States and Soviet Union to ban nuclear testing.
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President Kennedy loses his son Patrick to a lung ailment three days after his birth.
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President Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald from a window in the Texas Book Depository Building in Dailey Plaza.
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Graduates Harvard University with a degree in International Affairs.
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Enlists in the Navy