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John F. Kennedy

president of the United States from 1961 to 1963 (1917–1963)

27 dated entries naming John F. Kennedy, drawn from 9 separate years between 1917 CE and 1967 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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20th century

  • 1917May 29 – John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (d. 1963)source
  • 1939October 18 – Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of President John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)source
  • 1943August 2 – WWII: John F. Kennedy's PT boat PT-109 is run down by Japanese destroyer Amagiri.source
  • 1943August 5 – John F. Kennedy and crew are found by Solomon Islands coastwatchers Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana, with their dugout canoe.source
  • 1960November 8 – 1960 United States presidential election: In a close race, Democratic U. S. Senator John F. Kennedy is elected over Republican U. S. Vice President Richard Nixon, to become (at 43) the second youngest man to serve as President of the United States, and the youngest man elected to this position.source
  • 1960September 26 – 1960 United States presidential debates: The two leading candidates in the 1960 United States presidential election, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, participate in the first live televised presidential debate.source
  • 1961April 27 – President Kennedy urges newspapers to consider national interest in times of struggle against "a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy", in an address before the American Newspaper Publishers Association.source
  • 1961December 5 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy gives support to the Volta Dam project in Ghana.source
  • 1961February 15 – United States President John F. Kennedy warns the Soviet Union to avoid interfering with the United Nations' pacification of the Congo.source
  • 1961January 20 – John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th President of the United States, becoming the second-youngest president to be sworn in.source
  • 1961January 25 – In Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential news conference. In it, he announces that the Soviet Union has freed the two surviving crewmen from the July 1 1960 RB-47 shootdown incident involving a USAF reconnaissance aircraft and a MiG-19 over the Barents Sea.source
  • 1961January 30 – President John F. Kennedy delivers his first State of the Union Address.source
  • 1961July 25 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy gives a widely watched TV speech on the Berlin Crisis, warning "we will not be driven out of Berlin." Kennedy urges Americans to build fallout shelters, setting off a four-month debate on civil defense.source
  • 1961June 4 – Vienna summit: John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev meet during two days in Vienna. They discuss nuclear tests, disarmament and Germany.source
  • 1961March 13 – United States President John F. Kennedy proposes a long-term "Alliance for Progress", between the United States and Latin America.source
  • 1961May 25 – Apollo program: U.S. President Kennedy announces, before a special joint session of Congress, that the United States "should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth".source
  • 1962December 2 – Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to make a pessimistic public comment on the war's progress.source
  • 1962November 17 – Dulles International Airport, in Washington, D.C., is dedicated by President John F. Kennedy.source
  • 1962October 16 – Cuban Missile Crisis begins when U.S. President Kennedy is told of photographs (taken from U-2 flights) showing Soviet nuclear weapon installations being constructed on Cuba in the Caribbean. A stand-off ensues for 12 days between the United States and the Soviet Union, threatening the world with nuclear war.source
  • 1962September 12 – President John F. Kennedy, in his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University, reaffirms that the U.S. will put a man on the Moon by the end of the decade.source
  • 1963June 26 – John F. Kennedy gives his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in West Berlin, Germany.source
  • 1963June 4 – President of the United States John F. Kennedy signs Executive Order 11110, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to continue issuing silver certificates.source
  • 1963November 22 – Assassination of John F. Kennedy: In a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, U.S. President John F. Kennedy is fatally shot by Lee Harvey Oswald, and Governor of Texas John Connally is seriously wounded at 12:30 CST. Upon Kennedy's death, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson becomes the 36th president of the United States.source
  • 1963November 22 – John F. Kennedy, American politician, 35th President of the United States (assassinated) (b. 1917)source
  • 1963October 1 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy toasts Emperor Haile Selassie at a luncheon in Rockville, Maryland.source
  • 1964September 24 – The Warren Commission, the first official investigation of the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, submits its written report.source
  • 1967March 14 – The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.source

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