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Watergate Scandal
The Watergate scandal was a political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement. The scandal eventually led to the resignation of Richard Nixon, the President of the United States, on August 9, 1974, the only resignation of a U.S. President. -
Microsoft Invented
Paul Allen and Bill Gates, childhood friends with a passion in computer programming, were seeking to make a successful business utilizing their shared skills. Bill Gates was the CEO of it and Paul came up with the name for it. -
Saigon Falls
The event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the start of a transition period leading to the formal reunification of Vietnam into a communist state. There were so many people who wanted to get out of Vietnam at this point and the U.S. did not know what to do with all of them. -
American Airlines Flight 191
American Airlines Flight 191 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, to Los Angeles International Airport. It crashed after takeoff from O'Hare International Airport killing all 271 aboard and 2 on the ground, making it the deadliest aviation incident on U.S. soil. -
Iran Hostage Crisis
The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States where 66 Americans were held hostage for 444 days from November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981, after a group of Islamist students and militants took over the American Embassy in Tehran in support of the Iranian Revolution. -
John Lennon killed
John Lennon was shoot and killed outside his apartment. Chapman pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 20 years to life; as of 2011, he remains in prison, having been denied parole six times. -
Ronald Reagan
This is when he gave his first address to the nation. He was a very good president and helped the U.S. a lot during his time in office. Some one tried to assaninte him during his presidency. -
AIDS discovered
This was the first time anyone had ever really heard about AIDs which is an HIV. People were really scared for there lives. People thought that only gay men could get this disease but when magic Johnson got it and became a spokes person for it people listened and became aware of it. -
Challenger Disaster
This was a very sad day for the people of america. Many people watched as the space shuttle went up but many also watched as it came down. There was a very bad explosion that killed all seven of the crew members. one of them was also a school teacher. -
Berlin Wall destruction
the Wall in its entirety was not torn down immediately. Starting that evening and in the days and weeks that followed, people came to the wall with sledgehammers or otherwise hammers and chisels to chip off souvenirs, demolishing lengthy parts of it in the process and creating several unofficial border crossings. -
Oklahoma City bombing
The Oklahoma City bombing was a terrorist bomb attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City.The Oklahoma blast claimed 168 lives, including 19 children under the age of 6, and injured more than 680 people. -
McCaughey Septuplets
The siblings are the world's first set of septuplets to survive infancy. They were born nine weeks prematurely in Des Moines to Kenny and Bobbi McCaughey. -
9/11 Terrorist Attack
Early on the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 hijackers took control of four commercial airliners. At 8:46 a.m., five hijackers crashed American Airlines Flight 11 into the World Trade Center's North Tower (1 WTC), and at 9:03 a.m., another five hijackers crashed United Airlines Flight 175 into the South Tower (2 WTC). -
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest and most destructive Atlantic hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It is the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall. At least 1,836 people died in the actual hurricane and in the subsequent floods, making it the deadliest U.S. hurricane since the 1928. -
Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011, shortly after 1 am local time by a United States special forces military unit. The operation, code-named Operation Neptune Spear, was ordered by United States President Barack Obama and carried out in a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operation by a team of United States Navy SEALs.
