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Period: to
1980-2011
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Grain Embargo
Jimmy Carter proclaims embaro onUSSR with support of the European Commission -
Super Bowl XIV
Pittsburg Steelers become the first team to win four Super Bowls -
XIII Winter Olympics/ Miracle on Ice
Lake Placid, New York, U.S hockey team beats favorotie Soviet Union in semifinals -
Operation Eagle Claw
Attempt to rescue American hostages in Iran. Mission failed and eight troops were killed in a helicopter crash -
Mount St. Helens erupts
killed 57 and caused 3 billion in damage -
Heat Wave
started june 23-sept. 9 killed 1700 -
Staggers Rail Act
Deregulated American Railroads -
Reagan vs. Carter
Reagan wins election -
Lennon
Shot and killed in New York -
Iran Hostage Crisis
Ended after 14 months, 52 Americans released -
Reagan Inaugerated
40th president -
Walter Cronkite
Sings off CBS for last time -
Reagan Shot in Chest
Washington, D.C, not killed -
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AIDS
First recognized case of AIDS -
MLB
Goes on strike, forcing the cancellation of 38% of games -
MTV
Music television launched on cable -
IBM PC
original Model 5150 base price of 1565 -
Sandra Day
First woman on Supreme Court of United States -
Veterans Memorial
Vietnam memorial dedicated in Washington, D.C -
Thriller
Thriller Michael Jackson releases biggest selling album of all time -
Embassy bombing
U.S embassy bombede in Beirut killing 63 -
Suicide Truck-Bombings
Simultaneous bombings destroy French and US Marien Corps barracks in Beirut, killing 241 US service men, 58 French and 6 Civilians -
STS-41-B
Space shuttle Challenger makes the first shuttle landing at the Kennedy Space Center -
Car-Bomb
U.S. Embassy car bomb in Beirut, killed 22 -
1984 Election
Reagan deafeats Mondale -
Mike Tyson
Professional debut in Albany, New York -
March Madness
8-Villanova deafeats 1-Georgetown -
Back to the Future
Opens and ends up being the highest grossing film of 1985, first sucessful film franchise -
Nintendo
Released into U.S stores -
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Bill Buckner
Lets easy ground ball go through legs, looses game 6 to Mets -
Iran-Contra affair
United states selling weapons to Iran in secret -
Berlin Wall
Reagan challenges Soviets to tear down the Berlin Wall -
Black Monday
Stock market crashes in Wall Street and around the world -
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
Signed in Washington, D.C by PResident Ronald Reagan and Mikhaili Gorbachev -
Fort Campbell crash
Two army helicopters collide killing 17 -
Yellowstone Wildfires start
Go through November -
Bush
George H. W Bush wins presidential election -
Exxon Valdez oil spill
Spills 240000 balrrels of oil -
Loma Prieta earthquake
7.1, strikes San Fransisco area, kills 67 people and delays world series 10 days -
Operation Just Cause
Attempt to overthrow Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega -
Hubble Telescope
Put into orbit by the Discovery -
Chemical Weapons Accord
Ended chemical weapon production and began destroying stocks in USSR and USA -
Gulf War
Iraq invades Kuwait -
Jeffrey Dahmer
Arrested after the remains of 11 men and boys are found in his house. -
Cold War Ends
Mikhail Gorbachev resigns and the Soviet Union dissolves -
Rodney King
Riots in L.A -
27th Amendment
Alabama ratifies a 202-year-old proposed amendment. bars the u.s congress from giving itself a midterm pay raise -
Clinton
Gov. of Arkansas defeats Bush and Perot to become 42nd president of the United States -
World Trade Center Bombing
NYC trade center, bomb parked below North Tower kills 6 injures 1000+ -
Waco, Texas
Fed's raid Branch Davidian compound. Four agents and 5 Davidians die. 51 day standoff begins -
Don't ask Don't tell
Clinton policy regarding gays in the American Military -
Peace accord
Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin shake hands after signing a peace accord -
NAFTA
Passes legislative branch in US Canada and Mexico -
OJ simpson
Acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in a civil suit -
Tupac Shakur
Shot five times and robbed after entering the lobby of Quad Recording Studios in Manhattan -
OKC bombing
Federal Building, 168 people killed -
Nagasaki anniversary
50th anniversary -
Summer Olympics 96
Atlanta, Georgia, open -
Desert Strike
US attacks Iraq in reation to the attack on Arbil -
1996 Election
Clinton, Democrat beats Bob dole -
EV1
General Motors releases EV1, the first production of electric car -
Super Bowl XXXI
Packers win first superbowl since 1967 -
Titanic
Highest grossing film of all time until Avatar is realeased by James Cameron -
US. Embassy Bombings
The bombings of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya killed 224 -
Bill Clinton Scandal
Clinton admits in a testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with Monica Lewinsky. -
Mark McGwire
Breaks baseball's single-season home run record, of 61 home runs by Roger Maris in 1961 -
Clinton Impeachment
Bill clinton is found not guilty -
Columbine
Worst high school shooting in American history, in Columbine, CO. 13 people were killed and 21 were injured -
Lance Armstrong
Armstrong wins first Tour de France -
Panama Canal
U.S returns canal to panama as stated in 1977 treaty -
Flight 261
Alaska Airline plane crashes in pacific ocean killing 88 -
Coal sludge spill
250 million gallons spill in Martin County, Kentucky -
Clinton in Vietnam
First sitting president to visit Vietnam -
Bush
wins presidential election vs Gore officially after miscount. -
First Artificial Heart
Robert Tools recieves first self-contained artificial heart -
9/11
Terrorists attack Trade Centers in NY killing 3000+ -
No child left behind act
Signed by George W. Bush helped give education to more kids -
Winter Olympics
Open in Salt Lake City, Utah -
Operation Anaconda
U.S invades Afghanistan -
Iraq War Resolution
Passed by majority of U.S Congress, gave power to President to use Armed Forces against iraq -
Homeland Security Act
Largest department of government, Department of Homeland Security created -
Iraq
US allied forces invaied Iraq -
Saddam Hussein
Former president of Iraq is captured by U.S military -
WWII memorial
dedicated in Washington, D.C -
South Asia disasters
Earthquake of 9.3 hits indonisia and south asia along with a tsunami killing over 200,000 -
Bush
Re-inaugerated -
Pope John Paul II
Dies and over 4 million people go to Vatican to mourn -
Harry Potter
Final book, Harry potter and the Deathly Hollows is released selling over 11 million copies in 24 hours. fastest selling book of all time -
Portrait of Suzanne Bloch
Stolen from Sao paul museum of art -
Obama
Elected as 44th president of U.S.A -
ARRA
Act gave 787 billion dollars in stimulas money to help boost american economy -
Osama Bin Laden
Shot and killed in operation in Afghanistan
