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The Mt. St. Helens volcano eurrpts
Killing 57 people and devasting nearly $3 billion acres of land, the Mt. St. Helens volcano erupted in Washington State. -
Ronald Reagan wins the 1980 election
The former governor of California, Ronald Reagan, won the 1980 presidential election in a landslide. -
The first woman in space
The very first woman to travel to space is astronaut Sally Ride. -
The Louisiana World Exposition of 1984
In New Orleans, The Louisiana World Exposition was held in 1984. It became the last world fair to be held in the U.S. because it experienced tremendous financial trouble. -
Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan had a meeting
This was the first meeting in about six years between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The two men talked with one another in a five-hour conference meeting in Geneva, Switzerland in 1985. -
The Challenger Space Shuttle explodes
After lifting off at Cape Canaveral, Florida, the seven members of the Challenger Space Shuttle were killed due to the shuttle exploding in mid-air in 1986. -
George H. W. Bush wins the presidential election
President Reagan's vice president, George Bush, won the presidential term as a Republican in 1988. -
Bill Clinton becomes the 42nd president
The Democratic candidate, Clinton, defeated Bush in the 1992 election for president. -
The Iraq Liberation Act
This act is passed by Congress in 1999. It states that America desperately wanted to take Saddam Hussein out of power and instead replace Iraq with a democracy. -
The 2000 Census
The 2000 census calculated that there were currently 281,421,906 people living in America at the time. -
911
The Al-Qaeda organization hijacked four planes in the U.S. in 2001, under the leadership of Osama Bin Laden. Two crashed into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in New York City.