Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy of Massachusetts marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, a photographer for the Washington Times-Herald, at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island. More than 750 guests attended the ceremony presided over by Boston Archbishop Richard Cushing and featuring Boston tenor Luigi Vena, who sang "Ave Maria." A crowd of 3,000 onlookers waited outside the church for a glimpse of the newlyweds, who were taken by motorcycle escort to their wedding reception at Hammersmith Farm, an estate overlooking Naragansett Bay. Kennedy was elected the 35th president of the United States seven years later.
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Sep 12, 1953:
JFK marries Jacqueline Bouvier
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This Week in History, Sep 12 - Sep 18
- Sep 12, 1953
- Khrushchev elected Soviet leader
- Sep 12, 1953
- JFK marries Jacqueline Bouvier
- Sep 12, 1974
- Violence in Boston over racial busing
- Sep 12, 1977
- Steven Biko dies
- Sep 13, 1759
- Britain victorious on the Plains of Abraham
- Sep 13, 1971
- Massacre at Attica Prison
- Sep 13, 1993
- Israel-Palestine peace accord signed
- Sep 13, 1998
- George Wallace dies
- Sep 14, 1812
- Napoleon enters Moscow
- Sep 14, 1847
- Scott captures Mexico City
- Sep 14, 1975
- American canonized as saint
- Sep 15, 1916
- Tanks introduced into warfare at the Somme
- Sep 15, 1940
- Tide turns in the Battle of Britain
- Sep 15, 1950
- U.S. forces land at Inchon
- Sep 15, 1963
- Four black schoolgirls killed in Birmingham
- Sep 16, 1620
- Mayflower departs England
- Sep 16, 1810
- Mexican War of Independence begins
- Sep 16, 1977
- Maria Callas dies
- Sep 16, 1982
- Massacres at Sabra and Shatila
- Sep 17, 1787
- U.S. Constitution signed
- Sep 17, 1976
- Space Shuttle unveiled
- Sep 17, 1978
- Camp David Accords signed
- Sep 18, 1634
- Anne Hutchinson arrives in the New World
- Sep 18, 1961
- Hammarskjold dies in plane crash
- Sep 18, 1975
- Patty Hearst captured
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