At the age of 43

• 01-March-1961 : President of the United States John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
• 15-February-1961 : President Kennedy warns the Soviet Union to avoid interfering with the United Nations pacification of the Congo.http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Reference+Desk/Selected+Milestones+in+the+Presidency+of+John+F.+Kennedy.htm
• 30-January-1961 : President John F. Kennedy delivers his first State of the Union Address.
• 26-January-1961 : John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician, the first woman to hold this appointment.
• 25-January-1961 : In Washington, DC John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential news conference. In it, he announces that the Soviet Union has freed the 2 surviving crewmen of a USAF RB-47 reconnaissance plane shot down by Soviet flyers over the Barents Sea July 1, 1960 (see RBRB47H shot down).
• 20-January-1961 : Patrice Lumumba is assassinated. John F. Kennedy becomes the 35th President of the United States.
• 13-July-1960 : U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy is nominated for President at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, California.
• 07-June-1960 : U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy wins the California Democratic primary.
• 15-November-1943 : Porajmos: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies and "part"partGypsies" be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps."
• 23-January-1943 : Duke Ellington plays at New York City's Carnegie Hall for the first time.