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MAY 29, 1917: Born in Brookline, Mass., the son of Joe and Rose Kennedy (Fitzgerald) and the great-grandson of Irish immigrants.
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NOV. 5, 1946: Elected as a U.S. representative for the 11th Congressional District in Boston at age 29. He is re-elected in 1948 and 1950.
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JULY 13, 1960: Receives the Democratic nomination for president.
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Kennedy appears with Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the first televised presidential debate in U.S. history.
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John F. Kennedy is the youngest man to be elected President of the United States of American and the first Catholic. He is sworn into presidency on January 20, 1961 where he says "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
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NOV. 22, 1963 (FRIDAY): John Fitzgerald Kennedy is shot at 12:30 p.m. while riding in an open-top limousine in a motorcade through downtown Dallas. He is pronounced dead at 1 p.m. at Parkland Memorial Hospital. Eighty minutes after the assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested. Later Oswald is charged with murder.
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NOV. 25, 1963 (MONDAY): John Fitzgerald Kennedy is buried in Arlington National Cemetery with his son Patrick and his daughter Arabella.
