John F Kennedy Timeline
Birth of John F. Kennedy in Brookline, Massachusetts.
May 29, 1917
Kennedy family moves to Riverdale, N.Y.
JFK enrolls in Choate.
JFK graduates from Choate, ranked 64th in a class of 112.
JFK enrolls in Princeton; he drops out due to illness later that year.
JFK attends Harvard University.
1936 - 1940
JFK enters the U.S. armed forces.
JFK serves on, and then commands, a Motor Torpedo Boat
August 2, 1943
JFK is discharged from the Navy.
March 1, 1945
JFK wins the Democratic primary for Massachusetts' 11th Congressional District.
June 17, 1946
JFK is elected to the House of Representatives.
JFK defeats Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. to win election to the United States Senate
JFK marries Jacqueline Bouvier.
September 12, 1953
JFK wins the Democratic nomination for president
JFK defeats Nixon and becomes president.
November 8, 1960
Birth of John F. Kennedy, Jr.
November 25, 1960
John F. Kennedy is sworn in as President of the United States.
January 20, 1961
JFK announces the establishment of the Peace Corps.
Attempted U.S.-backed invasion of Cuba ends in disaster at the Bay of Pigs.
JFK and Nikita Khrushchev hold a summit in Vienna.
JFK forces the steel industry to eliminate a price increase.
Kennedy delivers a speech at Rice University
September 12, 1962
The U.S. gets photos of Soviet missile emplacements in Cuba
October 16, 1962
JFK announces naval quarantine of Cuba.
October 22, 1962
Soviet Union agrees to remove its missiles from Cuba.
October 28, 1962
Kennedy delivers "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in West Berlin
June 26, 1963
U.S. and Soviet Union agree to a nuclear test-ban treaty.
August 5, 1963
JFK is assassinated while riding through the streets of Dallas, TX
November 22, 1963
Kennedy's funeral service is held.
November 25, 1963