John F. Kennedy

John F.Kennedy is born in Brookline, MA

May 29, 1917

Our 35th president of the United States is born Brookline, MA.

John F. Kennedy

Period: May 29, 1917 to Nov 22, 1963

J.F.K's family moves to Riverdale, N.Y

Sep 1, 1927

John F. Kennedy graduates from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 1940

Jun 19, 1940

J.F.K is wounded while helping crewmembers on a ship back to shore from a shipwreck

Aug 3, 1943

·JFK is elected to the House of Representatives.

Nov 1, 1946

J.FK is elected to Congress

Nov 5, 1946

JFK is elected to a third term in the House.

Nov 1, 1950

J.F.K becomes U.S. Senator

Nov 4, 1952

Kennedy is marries Jaqueline Bouvier

Sep 12, 1953

J.F.K goes into second back surgery, almost dieing in the process.

Feb 1, 1955

Caroline Bouvier Kennedy, JFK's daughter, is born.

Nov 27, 1957

J.F.K is elected president

Nov 8, 1960

Birth of John F. Kennedy, Jr.

Nov 25, 1960

John F. Kennedy is sworn in as President of the United States.

Jan 20, 1961

Kennedy establishes Peace Corps

Mar 1, 1961

The US invades Cuba at the Bay of Pigs

Apr 17, 1961

JFK and Nikita Khrushchev hold a summit in Vienna.

Jun 1, 1961

Kennedy pledges the U.S will put a man on the moon

Sep 12, 1962

Kennedy guides the nation through the Cuban Missile Crisis

Oct 16, 1962

JFK announces naval quarantine of Cuba.

Oct 22, 1962

Soviet Union agrees to remove its missiles from Cuba.

Oct 28, 1962

JFK calls civil rights struggle a "moral crisis" for America.

Jun 1, 1963

J.F.K sends the Alabama National Guard to the University of Alabama

Jun 11, 1963

Kennedy signs the Partial test ban treaty

Oct 7, 1963

John F. Kennedy is assasinated

Nov 22, 1963