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The official 30-day mourning period for assassinated U.S. President John F Kennedy comes to a close.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy is shot at 12:30 p.m. while riding in an open-top limousine in a motorcade through downtown Dallas. Eighty minutes after the assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested and later charged with murder. |
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President Kennedy signs The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in Washington, D.C.: |
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Kennedy visits West Berlin and gives his public speech known for its famous phrase "Ich bin ein Berliner." |
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JFK orders the Alabama National Guard to the University of Alabama in order to protect two African-American students who won a court order to attend the college. |
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US President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation of Cuba, following the Soviet removal of nuclear missiles. |
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President Kennedy orders a naval blockade to stop Soviet ships from transporting nuclear armaments to Cuba. Cuban Missile crisis begins. |
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U.S. President John F. Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food & drugs. |
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Nikita Khrushchev and John F. Kennedy finish their meeting in Vienna on the issues of disarmament, Germany, Laos and nuclear testing. It ends badly. |
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The Peace Corps is created by a bill signed by President John F. Kennedy. |
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John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th President of the United States. Robert Frost recites "The Gift Outright" during the ceremony. |
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In the U.S. general election Democrat John Kennedy defeats Republican Richard Nixon in a very close race. |
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Jack Kennedy debates Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the first of four televised meetings. |
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The Democratic party nominates John F. Kennedy to be its candidate for President. |
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John F. Kennedy announces his democractic candidacy for president of the United States. |
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JFK undergoes surgery the back injury he incurred during the attack on PT-109 incident in 1943. |
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Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy of Massachusetts married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, a reporter for the Washington Times Herald, at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island |
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John Kennedy is honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy with the rank of Lieutenant. |
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JFK is awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal and Purple Heart for his actions while in command of PT-109. |
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Lt. Kennedy's PT-109, cruising west of New Georgia near the Solomon Islands, is rammed by a Japanese Destroyer. Lt. Kennedy, despite grave injuries, leads the survivors through perilous waters to safety on an island. |
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At age 24, John Kennedy he is sworn in to the U.S. Navy with the rank of Ensign, joining the Office of Naval Intelligence. |
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Jack Kennedy volunteers for service in the United States Army, but is rejected due to his injured back which he begins to strengthen. |
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Jack Kennedy's thesis "Appeasement in Munich" is published as a book entitled Why England Slept. It details Britain's failure to prepare itself against Nazi Germany. |
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Jack Kennedy graduates cum laude from Harvard University. |
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Rose Kennedy, mother of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and senators Robert and Edward Kennedy, is born. |
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