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Birth
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Prohibiton of Alchohol Repealed
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Modern Timer Toaster Invented
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Women's Sufferage Established
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Polygraph (Lie Detector) Invented
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Kennedy Family Moves to Riverdale NY
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Pennicilin Discovered
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Date For Congress and President Commencment Fixed
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Frequency Modulated (FM) Radio Invented
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18th Ammendment Repealed
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JKF Graduated From Choate (High School)
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JFK Attends Harvard
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JFK Tours Europe
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JFK Enters U.S. Navy
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JFK PT Boat Disaster
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Chemotharapy Started
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Joseph Kennedy Jr. (JFK's Brother) Is Killed
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JFK Elected to the House of Reps.
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Last Case of Smallpox Occured
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Pacemaker Invented
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JFK Elected to Senate
JFK defeats Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. to win election to the United States Senate. In the presidential election, Dwight Eisenhower and his running mate, Richard Nixon, defeat Adlai Stevenson. -
JFK Married Jacqulen Bouvier
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First Pacemaker Invented
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First Hovercraft Invented
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JFK Publishes "Profiles In Courage"
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Caroline Kennedy Is Born
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Elected President
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JFK Jr. Is Born
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Inaugurated 35th President
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Representation of Washington D.C. in Electoral College
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First Audio Cassette Invented
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Recognition of Tobaco as a Health Hazzard
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Death