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The Challenger Disaster
The full team of seven astronauts including one teacher suffered a fatal crash after the space shuttle disintegrated seventy-three seconds after take off -
Mount Saint Helens Eruption
The Active Volcano, Mount Saint Helens, in Washington State began a series of small eruptions that culminated in one large eruption covering a good portion of the continental United States in ash. -
Ronald Reagan wins the Presidency
Reagan, a Republican from California, took office following a landslide victory over Democratic incumbent President Jimmy Carter. -
Super Mario Bros
Super Mario Bros. is a platform game developed and published by Nintendo. The successor to the 1983 arcade game Mario Bros. and the first in the Super Mario series, it was released in 1985 for the Famicom in Japan. -
The Berlin Wall torn down
The Berlin Wall that separated hundreds of Families in East and West Berlin after Easter German officials realized they could no longer control the Expanding ideas of the West. -
The Cold War ends
After decades of Hostility between the US and the Soviet Union, The Iron Curtain would fall as the Union was divided up into many smaller provinces that sought there own new kinds of freedom. -
The Oklahoma City Bombing
A Federal Building in Oklahoma City was blown up by Alfred P. Murrah killing 168 people. -
Columbine
The Columbine High School massacre was a school shooting and attempted bombing at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado, United States. The perpetrators, twelfth grade students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, murdered 12 students and one teacher. -
9/11
A terrorist action in which two planes were flown into the two world trade centers and one into the pentagon resulting in the death of 2977 American citizens.