Learning the alphabet occurs over time; a child must learn each letterâs name, shape (upper-and lowercase letters) and common sound. This typically occurs in stages, beginning with a toddler singing the alphabet song.
Rosemary Kennedy, the third child and first daughter of Rose and Joseph P. Kennedy, was born in the middle of a virulent Spanish influenza sweeping the country in September 1918. Pregnant women had feared the influenza affecting their unborn children.
John F. Kennedy, Jr. was born in November of 1960, and died, along with his wife Carolyn and her sister, in an airplane crash, in July of 1999. Patrick Bouvier Kennedy was born 5 1/2 weeks prematurely, on August 7, 1963 and died of Respiratory Distress Syndrome on August 9, 1963.