Timeline (PJW)

Timeline for President John Wayne.

1952

 * July 11: Actor and national icon John Wayne accepts the Republican nomination for the presidential election.
 * July 26: Governor of Illinois Adlai Stevenson becomes the Democratic nominee for the upcoming presidential election.
 * November 4: John Wayne defeats Stevenson in the presidential election, ending twenty years of the Democrat party in the White House.

1953

 * January 20: John Wayne is sworn in as the 34th President of the United States.
 * March 5: Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union, dies.
 * June 19: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed after being convicted of spying for the Soviet Union.