Labels:text | font | screenshot | number | menu OCR: CHRONOLOGY MAY 29, 1917 Bom John Fitzgerald Kennedy, in Brookline, Massachusetts. AUGUST 1943 Awarded Purple Heart for gallantry as a wartime naval officer. NOVEMBER 4, 1952 Elected as U.S. senator for the state of Massachusetts. SEPTEMBER 12, 1953 Marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier (to become Jacqueline Onassis) in Newport, Rhode Island. MAY 6, 1957 Awarded Pulitzer prize for his book "Profiles of Courage." NOVEMBER 9, 1960 Elected president by margin of 113,000 votes out of a total of 69 million cast. Lyndon B. Johnson is his vice president. MARCH 1,1961 Establishes Peace Corps. OCTOBER 1962 Successful showdown with U.S.S.R. over Cuban missile crisis. AUGUST 5,1963 Signs nuclear test-ban treaty with U.S.S.R. and Britain. NOVEMBER 22, 1963 Shot during a visit to Dallas, Texas; dies from his wounds.
