Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
June 6 – President John F. Kennedy gives the commencement address at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. June 11 – President John F. Kennedy gives the commencement address at Yale University. June 15 – Port Huron Statement completed. June 25 – United States Supreme Court rulings: Engel v.
The presidency of William Henry Harrison, who died 31 days after taking office in 1841, was the shortest in American history. [9] Franklin D. Roosevelt served the longest, over twelve years, before dying early in his fourth term in 1945. He is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. [10]
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, and John F. Kennedy talk during the president's May 19, 1962, early birthday party, where Monroe publicly serenaded Kennedy with "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" Kennedy was single in the 1940s while having relationships with Danish journalist Inga Arvad [436] and actress Gene Tierney. [437]
February 20: John Glenn, aboard the Friendship 7 space capsule, becomes the first American to orbit the Earth. February 12 – As Commander-in-chief, Kennedy commutes the military death sentence of seaman Jimmie Henderson to life imprisonment, marking the last time in the 20th century that an American president was faced with such a decision (As of 28 July 2008, the most recent such decision ...
John F. Kennedy's tenure as the 35th president of the United States began with his inauguration on January 20, 1961, and ended with his assassination on November 22, 1963. . Kennedy, a Democrat from Massachusetts, took office following his narrow victory over Republican incumbent vice president Richard Nixon in the 1960 presidential elect
(Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden turned 82 years old on Wednesday, an age milestone never before reached by a sitting commander in chief. The president had no public events on his Wednesday ...
Roosevelt is the only American president to have served more than two terms. Following ratification of the Twenty-second Amendment in 1951, presidents—beginning with Dwight D. Eisenhower —have been ineligible for election to a third term or, after serving more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected president, to a ...
1967 – 25th Amendment establishes succession to the presidency and procedures for filling a vacancy in the office of the vice president; 1967 – American Samoa becomes self-governing under a new constitution; 1968 – On March 31, incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation on television that he will not seek re-election.