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Birth
John Fitzgerald Kennedy also know as JFK has a birthday on May 29 1917 -
Moving
Kennedy family moves to Riverdale, New York -
The Great Depression
Stock market crashes and that triggers the Great Depression -
Highschool
JFK enrolls in Choate -
Graduation
JFK graduates from Choate, ranked 64th in a class of 112 -
Collage
JFK attends Harvard University -
WWII
Outbreak of WWII in Europe -
Military Service
JFK enters the U.S. Armed Forces -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, compelling the U.S. to enter World War II. -
Commanding
JFK serves on, and then commands, a Motor Torpedo Boat, or PT Boat, in the South Pacific. -
Naval Hospital
JFK enters Boston's Chelsea Naval Hospital with a lower back condition. -
Dad's Death
Joseph Kennedy, Jr. is killed while flying a mission over Europe. -
Discharged
JFK is discharged from the Navy. -
House of representatives election
JFK is elected to the House of Representatives. -
Winning the Democratic primary for Mass.
JFK wins the Democratic primary for Massachusetts' Eleventh Congressional District. -
McCarthyism
Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy claims to have a list of Communists employed in the State Department. The era of "McCarthyism" begins. -
Marriage
JFK marries Jacqueline Bouvier. -
Daughter of JFK
Caroline Bouvier Kennedy, JFK's daughter, is born. -
Democratic nomination
JFK wins the Democratic nomination for president and picks Lyndon Johnson as his running mate. -
JFK becomes President
JFK defeats Nixon and becomes president. -
JFK has a son
Birth of John F. Kennedy, Jr. -
Bay of Pigs
Attempted U.S.-backed invasion of Cuba ends in disaster at the Bay of Pigs. -
JFK is sworn as President
John F. Kennedy is sworn in as President of the United States. -
Quarantine of Cuba
JFK announces naval quarantine of Cuba. -
Agreement of the Soviet Union
Soviet Union agrees to remove its missiles from Cuba. -
Moral crisis
JFK calls civil rights struggle a "moral crisis" for America. -
Military dictatorship
U.S.-backed coup overthrows the government of South Vietnam, replaces it with a military dictatorship. -
Nuclear test-ban treaty
U.S. and Soviet Union agree to a nuclear test-ban treaty. -
JFK is assassinated
JFK is assassinated while riding through the streets of Dallas, Texas -
New President
Lyndon B. Johnson becomes President after JFK assassination