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Kennedy announces the Peace Corps
I announced the first project of the newly-organized Peace Corps. It was to assist the Tanganyikan Government in its farm-to-market road surveying program. Today, I am pleased to announce the second project of the Peace Corps: this time in Colombia. The Colombian project will train and assign some sixty-four volunteers in small farming, handicraft, rural construction, and sanitation. -
Executive Order 10914
President Kennedy passed an order to help families in need of food, if they can not afford any. -
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Minimum Wage increase
On this day President Kennedy changed the national minimum wage to $7.25 an hour. This change has been kept the same throughout history up until this day. It was nearly changed by President Obama last year. -
First American In Space
Alan Sheperd was the first American Launched in space. -
Mission to the Moon
On this day Kennedy announced his mission to land on the moon. -
Kennedy proposes Civil Rights
In a televised address to the nation, Kennedy proposes the enactment of civil rights legislation, marking his first decisive action on civil rights. -
Signs the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by atomic bombs marked the end of World War II and the beginning of the nuclear age. As tensions between East and West settled into a Cold War, scientists in the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union conducted tests and developed more powerful nuclear weapons. -
Kennedy assassinated
Kennedy was in Texas and was riding in an open top limo, and he sniped by a lone assassin.