1941:Rosemary Kennedy, the oldest daughter of Joseph and Rose Kennedy, who was mentally disabled, is institutionalised for the rest of her life after a lobotomy reduced her abilities. She died in 2005.
- 1944:Joseph Kennedy jnr, the oldest of the nine Kennedy children, dies at the age of 29 in a plane crash over the English Channel during the second World War while flying a mission for the US air force.
- 1 948:Kathleen Kennedy Cavendish, the fourth of the Kennedy children, killed in a plane crash in France at 28.
- 1963:President John Kennedy assassinated on November 22nd in Dallas, Texas, aged 46.
- 1964:Senator Edward Kennedy, the youngest in the family, narrowly escapes death in a plane crash that killed an aide.
- 1968:Senator Robert Kennedy assassinated on June 5th in Los Angeles at 42, just after he won California's Democratic presidential primary election.
- 1969:Edward Kennedy drives off a bridge on his way home from a party on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts. An aide in the car with him, Mary Jo Kopechne, dies in the accident.
- 1984:David Kennedy, a son of Robert, dies of a drug overdose at 28.
- 1997:Another of Robert Kennedy's sons, Michael, dies in a skiing accident in Colorado, at 39.
- 1999:John Kennedy jnr, along with his wife and sister-in-law are all killed when the plane he was flying crashed in the waters off Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. – (Reuters)