Edward Ted Kennedy Events

1932 Feb 22 Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy is born in Boston
Kennedy was born at St. Margaret's Hospital in the Dorchester section of Boston, Massachusetts, the youngest of nine children of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald, who were both ...
1951 May Edward Kennedy is Caught Cheating on an Exam and Leaves Harvard
Chatter about how Ted had been kicked out of Harvard for cheating — proof in many minds of his inferior ability — finally forced JFK to intercede. The president summoned the Globe's top p...
1958 Nov 29 Edward Kennedy Marries Virginia Joan Bennett
While still in law school, Kennedy met Virginia Joan Bennett, known as Joan, while delivering a speech at Manhattanville College in October 1957. She was a senior there, had worked as a m...
1962 Nov 6 Edward Kennedy is Elected US Senator from Massachusetts
Many people expected Ted to drop his Senate plans. The Kennedy advisers in Washington certainly hoped he would. They especially dreaded a bruising battle with McCormack, who was the favor...
1964 Jun 19 Edward Kennedy Survives Plane Crash with Broken Back
On June 19, 1964, Kennedy was a passenger in a private Aero Commander 680 from Washington to Massachusetts that crashed on final approach into an apple orchard in bad weather, in the west...
1965 Nov 8 Ted Kennedy Wins Passage of a Bill Establishing the National Teacher Corps as Part of the Higher Education Act
The Higher Education Act of 1965 (Pub. L. No. 89-329) (the "HSA") was legislation signed into United States law on November 8, 1965 as part of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society dom...
1968 Jun 8 Edward Kennedy Delivers Eulogy at Brother Robert's Funeral
Ted spent much of the night before Bobby's funeral driving around New York with his close college friend and former aide, John Culver, who was now a congressman. By now, Culver knew that ...
1969 Jul 18 The Chappaquiddick Bridge Incident
At Chappaquiddick, having been drinking and partying with young women aides of his brother Robert Kennedy, Senator Kennedy, at this time a married man and a father, slipped away with 28-y...
1969 Jul 25 Edward Kennedy Delivers a Televised Address Explaining his Actions at Chappaquiddick
On July 25, Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and was given a sentence of two months in jail, suspended. That night, he gave a national broadcast in which he said...
1979 Nov Edward Kennedy Announces Candidacy for 1980 Presidential Nomination
Kennedy finally threw his hat into the ring for the Democratic nomination in the 1980 presidential election by launching an unusual, insurgent campaign against the incumbent Carter, a mem...
1980 Ted Kennedy Authors the Refugee Act of 1980
The Refugee Act is a 1980 United States federal law that reformed United States immigration law and admitted refugees on systematic basis for humanitarian reasons. A 1985 ceiling of 70,00...
1980 Aug 12 Edward Kennedy Withdraws Bid for Presidency
"For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end. For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall neve..." —Ted Kennedy
1987 Jul 1 Edward Kennedy Delivers "Robert Bork's America" Speech, Earning Him the Title of 'Liberal Lion'
"Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in m..." —Ted Kennedy
1991 Mar Edward Kennedy's Nephew, William Kennedy Smith, is Accused of Rape After Attending Night Club with His Uncle
In 1991, Smith was tried and acquitted on a charge of rape. He was represented by prominent Miami-based criminal defense attorney Roy Black. The trial attracted extensive media coverage b...
1991 Jun 11 A Conservative Political Group Files Ethics Complaint Against Edward Kennedy Relating to His Nephew's Alleged Rape
A conservative political group filed an ethics complaint yesterday against Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, saying that he violated Senate rules by his actions related to an investigation of a rap...
1991 Oct 11 Ted Kennedy Remains Conspicuously Silent During Anita Hill Testimony at Clarence Thomas Supreme Court Hearings
On October 11, 1991, Hill was called to testify during the hearing. Ten years earlier, in 1981, Hill had become an attorney-adviser to Clarence Thomas at the United States Department of E...
1994 Oct 13 A Senate Ethics Committee Dismisses Allegations of Sexual Harassment and Drug Use Against Edward Kennedy
The Senate Ethics Committee said yesterday that it had found no support for a former aide's allegations that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy had sexually harassed several women staff members. T...
1996 Aug 21 Major Health Care Bill, Sponsored by Edward Kennedy and Nancy Kassebaum, is Signed into Law
"The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act shows what happens as Sen. Kassebaum said and Sen. Kennedy said when we work together, when we cross party lines and put the intere..." —President Bill Clinton
2002 Jan No Child Left Behind, Co-Sponsored by Edward Kennedy, is Signed into Law by George W. Bush
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (Pub.L. 107-110, 115 Stat. 1425, enacted January 8, 2002), often abbreviated in print as NCLB and sometimes shortened in pronunciation to "nicklebee",...
2004 Apr 5 Edward Kennedy Calls Iraq "George Bush's Vietnam"
Senator Edward M. Kennedy said yesterday that President Bush's Iraq policy is ''ridiculous" and disputed Bush's statement that the 2004 reelection validated the war. Iraq is ''Bush's Viet...
2007 May Senator Edward Kennedy's Longtime Goal of Raising Federal Minimum Wage is Realized
With little fanfare, Congress yesterday approved the first increase in the federal minimum wage in nearly a decade, voting to boost wages for America's lowest-paid workers from $5.15 to $...
2008 Jan 28 Edward Kennedy Announces Endorsement of Barack Obama in 2008 Presidential Race
Kennedy initially stated that he would support John Kerry again should he run for president in 2008, but in January 2007, Kerry said he would not. Kennedy then remained neutral as the 200...
2008 May 20 Edward Kennedy Diagnosed with Cancerous Brain Tumor
On May 17, 2008, Kennedy suffered a seizure, and then another one as he was rushed from the Kennedy Compound to Cape Cod Hospital and then by helicopter to Massachusetts General Hospital ...
2008 Aug 25 Edward Kennedy Addresses DNC in Denver
The operation and follow-up treatments left Kennedy thinner, prone to seizures, weak and short on energy, and hurt his balance. Kennedy made his first post-illness public appearance on Ju...
2009 Jan 20 Edward Kennedy Attends Obama Inauguration but Collapses at Celebratory Luncheon
Kennedy's office confirmed that on Wednesday morning he left Washington Hospital Center, where he had been resting overnight for observation. A spokeswoman says he was in good spirits and...
2009 Jan 20 Senator Robert Byrd is Removed from Barack Obama's Inaugural Luncheon
Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., the oldest member of the Senate, was so upset and distraught from what he had witnessed, that he needed to be taken out of the room. The two senators have been ...
2009 Aug 25 Edward "Ted" Kennedy Dies at Age 77
(CNN) -- Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy, the patriarch of the first family of Democratic politics, died late Tuesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, after a lengthy battle...
2009 Aug 27 Mourners Pay Last Respects to Edward Kennedy as Body is Transported to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Where It Awaits Burial
Thousands of people, many waving American flags and some wiping away tears, lined parts of the 70-mile route from Hyannis Port, Mass., to the city where the Kennedy family dynasty began. ...
2009 Aug 28 Mourners Wait in Line for Hours to View Edward Kennedy Casket at John F. Kennedy Library
They arrived again at dawn on Friday morning, mourners wishing to honor Senator Edward M. Kennedy and his life’s work with a lingering glance, a whispered prayer, a sign of the cross. ...
2009 Aug 29 Edward Kennedy is Buried in Arlington National Cemetary, Alongside His Brothers
As a soft twilight fell over the nation's capital, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was laid to his final rest Saturday in a ceremony on a sloping site in Arlington National Cemetery. Kennedy's ...
2009 Aug 29 Edward Kennedy's Funeral is Held in Boston
"Today we say goodbye to the youngest child of Rose and Joseph Kennedy, The world will long remember their son Edward as the heir to a weighty legacy, a champion for those who had none, th..." —President Obama
2009 Sep 23 Massachusetts House Authorizes Governor Patrick to Appoint Interim Replacement for Late Senator Kennedy
If Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick wants the power to quickly name a temporary replacement for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, it's going to be up to him to do it. The Massachusetts Hou...
2009 Sep 24 Paul G. Kirk, a Longtime Kennedy Ally, Chosen as Kennedy's Interim Successor
Paul Kirk is expected to get the immediate attention of top Democrats in Washington looking for all the troops they can find for the upcoming battle over legislation to overhaul the natio...
2009 Sep 25 Paul G. Kirk is Appointed Interim Senator to Fill Late Edward Kennedy's Seat
A Massachusetts judge on Friday rejected a Republican request to delay the swearing in of Edward M. Kennedy's temporary replacement in the Senate. The state GOP had argued that Gov. Deva...
2010 Jun 14 FBI Releases Thousands of Pages of Documents Surrounding Late Senator Edward Kennedy
The FBI on Monday released more than 2,200 pages of documents on the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) focusing on the FBI’s relationship with the senator from 1961 to 1985, USA Today re...
2010 Aug 25 Ted Kennedy is Remembered on the Anniversary of His Death
On the first anniversary of Senator Edward M. Kennedy's death, Ted Kennedy Jr. spoke at a ceremony naming a community health center for his father, recalling the late senator's lifelong w...