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Bill Clinton Elected President
Clinton won the 1992 presidential election against Republican incumbent George H. W. Bush and billionaire populist Ross Perot, who ran as an independent on a platform that focused on domestic issues -
Jimmy Carter Elected President
Carter, A democrat from Georgia, took office following his narrow victory over Gerald Ford in 1976. His presidency ended following his landslide defeat in the 1980 election to Ronald Reagan, after one term in office -
Star Wars Movie Premier
It was released in a small number of movie theatres in the United States on May 25, 1977, and quickly became a surprise blockbuster hit, leading to it being expanded to a much wider release. Star Wars opened to positive reviews with praise for its special effects -
Three Mile Island Meltdown
The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown of the Unit 2 reactor of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station -
Mount. St. Helens Eruption
On March 27, 1980, a series of volcanic explosions and pyroclastic flows began at Mount St. Helens in Skamania County, Washington, United States. A series of phreatic blasts occurred from the summit and escalated until a major explosives eruption took place on May 18, 1980 -
Iran Hostages Released
The hostages were formally released into U.S custody the day after the signing of the Algiers Accords, just minutes after American President Ronald Reagan was sworn into office -
Assassination Attempt on President Reagan
Reagan was seriously wounded by a revolver bullet that ricocheted off the side of the presidential limousine and hit him in the left underarm, breaking a rib, puncturing a lung, and causing serious internal bleeding -
Iran/ Contra Affair
The Iran-contra affair, often referred to as the Iran-Contra scandal, was a political scandal in the U.S. that occurred during the second term of the Reagan administration -
Challenger Shuttle Explosion
On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard. The spacecraft disintegrated 46,000 feet above the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida -
Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
The Chornobyl disaster began on April 26, 1986, with the explosion of the no. 4 reactor of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR, close to the border with the Byelorussian SSRm in the Soviet Union -
George H.W. Bush Elected President
Bush, a Republican from Texas and the incumbent vice president for two terms under Ronald Reagan took office following his victory over Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential election -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, during the Peaceful Revolution, marked the beginning of the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the figurative Iron Curtain, as East Berlin transit restrictions were overwhelmed and discarded -
Start of the Persian Gulf War
the Gulf War was a war waged by coalition forces from 35 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait -
Original U.S.A. Olympic Basketball Dream Team
The 1992 U.S. men's Olympic basketball team, nicknamed the "Dream Team", was the first American Olympic team to feature active professional players from the NBA. The team has been described as the greatest sports team ever assembled -
Rodney King Decision & L.A. Riots
The Rodney King riots exploded a few hours after the verdicts as both African Americans and Latinos vented their rage at the police, white pedestrians and motorists, and Korean American businesspeople as well as their shops and stores -
Launch of Google
Google was founded on September 4, 1998, by American computer scientists Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were PhD students at Stanford university in California -
Bill Clinton Impeached by the House of Representatives
Clinton was the second U.S. president to face a Senate impeachment trial, after Andrew Johnson. An impeachment inquiry was opened into Clinton on October 8, 1998. He was formally impeached by the House on two charges on December 19, 1998 -
World Trade Center/Pentagon/Shanksville, PA Attackse
On September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists from the Islamic extreme group hijacked four commercial aircraft and crashed two of them in the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center complex in New York City. There were also 2 other planes hijacked on the same day. One crashed into the Pentagon, and the other was expected to hit the Whitehouse, but a group of civilians took control of the plane and were able to crash land it in the fields of Pennsylvania.