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Birth
Dwight D. Eisenhower was born in Denison Texas. -
Moving
When Dwight was a year and a half old, his family moved back to Abilene -
Death of a brother
In Abilene, Dwight's 3-year-old brother Paul died of diphtheria when Dwight was 6 years old -
Graduation
Eisenhower graduated from high school in 1909 -
Joined Westpoint
In 1911, Dwight landed an appointment at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, where attendance was free of charge. -
College Graduation
In 1915, Eisenhower proudly graduated from West Point at the top of his class, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant. -
Getting Married
Eisenhower was stationed in Texas, where he met and started dating 18-year-old Mamie Geneva Doud from Denver, Colorado. The couple married nine months later, on July 1, 1916. Eisenhower was promoted to first lieutenant on his wedding day. -
Death of a son
In 1921, tragedy struck at home, when the Eisenhowers' firstborn son, Doud Dwight, died of scarlet fever at the age of 3. -
Return to U.S.
Eisenhower returned to the United States in early 1940. -
Chief of staff for the Third Army
In 1941, after a transfer to Fort Sam Houston, Eisenhower became chief of staff for the Third Army -
D. Day
June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy -
Army Chief
In 1945 Eisenhower was appointed army chief of staff. -
President of University
In 1947, he was elected president of Columbia University -
Supreme Commander
He became the first Supreme Allied Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1951 -
Retirement from Army
In 1952 Eisenhower retired from active service and returned to Abilene to announce his candidacy for the Republican Party nomination. -
President
In 1952 he was elected U.S. president. -
Peace to Korea
In 1953 he orchestrated an armistice that brought peace to South Korea's border -
Geneva Peace talk
In 1955, Eisenhower met with Russian, British and French leaders at Geneva to further quell the threat of atomic war. -
Second Term
In 1956 Eisenhower was a reelected to a second term, winning by an even wider margin than in his first election -
Signing the civil rights act
signing the 1957 Civil Rights Act and setting up a permanent Civil Rights Commission. -
Farewell address
Poised to depart office in January of 1961, Eisenhower gave a televised farewell address in which he warned the nation against the dangers of the Cold War -
Retirement
He served two terms before retiring to Gettysburg in 1961 -
Death
Eisenhower died on March 28, 1969, at the Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C. -
Re naming of airport
The mid continent air port was renaimed the D.D. Eisenhower airport.
