Eunice Kennedy Shriver Events

1921 Jul 10 Eunice Mary Kennedy is Born
She was the fifth of the Kennedy children and the third daughter. The tragedies that repeatedly struck the family began in her earliest years. Her oldest brother, Joseph, was killed in th...
1943 Shriver Graduates from Stanford University
She was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Roehampton, London, England; and Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York. After graduating from Stanford University with a Bachel...
1953 May 23 Eunice Kennedy Marries Sargent Shriver
On May 23, 1953, she married Sargent Shriver in a Roman Catholic ceremony at Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, New York.[4] Her husband served as the U.S. Ambassador to France f...
1968 Shriver Creates the Special Olympics
The first International Special Olympics Games were held in Chicago in 1968. Anne McGlone Burke, a physical education teacher with the Chicago Park District, began with the idea for a one...
1995 Shriver Appears on the 1995 Commemorative Special Olympics Silver Dollar
Uncovering America's Heritage... Coin by Coin 1995 Special Olympics Commemorative Silver Dollar Hi, everyone! It's me, Plinky. For June, I have a very special coin about very spec...
2008 Mar 3 Institute Renamed the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
A longtime advocate for children's health and disability issues, Shriver was a key founder of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), a part of the National ...
2009 Aug 11 Eunice Kennedy Shriver Dies at 88
"With enormous conviction and unrelenting effort, Eunice Kennedy Shriver has labored on behalf of America’s least powerful people, those with mental retardation…Her decency and goodness ha..." —President Ronald Reagan, March 24, 1984