1980 - 2001

By janetfernando
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    1980 - 2001

  • Refugee Act

  • Mount St. Helens eruption killing 57

  • Ronald Reagan (40th President)

  • Iran Hostage Crisis Ends

  • Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan

  • Space Shuttle Columbia is launched

  • A hotel walkway collapses in Kansas City killing 114

  • 241 U.S. Marines are killed by suicide bomb in Lebanon

  • U.S. invasion of Grenada begins

  • U.S. invasion of Grenada ends

  • Ronald Reagan re-elected

  • Iran–Contra affair begins

  • Gramm–Rudman–Hollings Balanced Budget Act

  • Space Shuttle Challenger - kills 7 crew members

  • Firearm Owners Protection Act

  • Fox Broadcasting Company Founded

  • Tax Reform Act of 1986

  • Iran–Contra affair ends

  • Black Monday - Stock market crash

  • Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

  • Yellowstone fires

  • George Bush (41st President)

  • Exxon Valdez oil spill

  • President Bush declares a "War on Drugs."

  • Loma Prieta earthquake

  • Hubble Space Telescope

  • Gulf War Begins

  • Cold War Ends

  • Gulf War Ends

  • World Wide Web Launched

  • Hurricane Andrew

  • Bill Clinton (42nd President)

  • 1993 World Trade Center bombing

  • North American Free Trade Agreement

  • Don't ask, don't tell

  • Oklahoma City bombing

  • 1995 Chicago heat wave

  • Khobar Towers bombing

  • TWA Flight 800 explodes killing 230 people

  • Centennial Olympic Park bombing

  • Bill Clinton Re-election

  • 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak

  • EgyptAir Flight 990

  • George Bush (23rd President)

  • Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001

  • No Child Left Behind Act

  • 9/11 Attacks

  • 2001 anthrax attacks

  • War in Afghanistan is launched

  • Patriot Act

  • American Airlines Flight 587 crashes