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John F. Kennedy gets inaugurated. He is now the 35th president of the United States. -
Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space. He was a soviet pilot traveling on Vostok 1. -
JFK ends trades in Cuba. This was in response to certain actions taken by Cuban Government. -
Aboard the 'Friendship 7', John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth. He orbited the Earth 3 times and safely landed in the Atlantic Ocean over the coarse of 5 hours. -
Marilyn Monroe, a famous actress and model, sang happy birthday to John F Kennedy. This was during a Democratic fundraiser at New York's Madison Square Garden. -
John F. Kennedy is alerted about Soviet missiles in Cuba. He then announces the 'Cuban Missile Crisis'. -
The US pledges not to invade Cuba. They also secretly remove missiles from Turkey. -
A letter written by Martin Luther King Jr. The letter highlighted the point that sometimes civil disobedience is an appropriate response to injustice. -
A field secretary for the NAACP, and one of the Civil Rights Movement's most well known activists gets shot while outside his house. His wife, Myrlie, found him and he was rushed to the hospital. He was denied entry due to his race, and initially died. -
The president of South Vietnam (Ngô Đình Diệm) gets assassinated by the CIA. This took place in a US-supported coup. -
While in Dallas trying to attempt to gain democratic support, John F. Kennedy got shot in the head aside his wife, Jacquelyn Kennedy. The killer was Lee Harvey Oswald. -
Lee Harvey Oswald gets shot by Jack Ruby. He was shot in the basement of the Dallas police station. -
John F Kennedy gets buried. The burial took place at Arlington Nation Cemetery. -
The first three men touched the surface of the moon, fulfilling a promise John F Kennedy had made 10 years prior. Their names were Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins.