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Accepts the Democratic Party Nomination for President at the Convention in Los Angeles. -
Kennedy wins over Vice President Nixon by securing 56.4% of the Electoral College and 49.7% of the popular vote. -
They the Cold War and the missile program. -
The Alliance for Progress aimed to create economic partnerships between the United States and Latin America while preventing the spread of communist power in the area. -
The Bay of Pigs invasion was the failed attempt by US-backed Cuban exiles to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro -
Alan Shepard Jr. becomes the first American in space. -
The Freedom Riders Bus got attacked by a mean group in Anniston, Alabama. They even set one of the buses on fire! Then in Birmingham, the riders were hurt and hit by the bad people. -
Kennedy puts an end to almost all trade with Cuba.
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Marilyn Monroe sang Happy Birthday to the President during a big party at Madison Square Garden. (But his real birthday was 10 days after that!). -
Martin Luther King was put in jail for taking part in the Birmingham protests, and while he was there, he wrote his famous "Letter from Birmingham Jail." -
Congratulates the first group of American climbers to summit Mount Everest. -
Kennedy agrees to a treaty with the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom to limit nuclear testing. -
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while visiting Dallas, Texas with his gorgeous beautiful wife (►__◄) -
Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
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