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Clinton inaugurated
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is inaugurated as the 42nd President of the United States of America -
Explosion at the world trade center
Sis people are killed and more than a thousand suffer injury's after a bomb planted under the world trade center in New York city explodes. The bomb marks the beginning of a string of threats against the United States made during the Clinton administration by both foreign and domestic terrorists. -
Navy attacks Baghdad
The U.S. Navy, under President Clinton's orders, attacks Iraqi intelligence operations in downtown Baghdad after learning that Iraqis had plotted to kill former President Bush during his April 1993 visit to Kuwait. The twenty-three tomahawk missiles fired reportedly kill eight people. -
Clinton unveils healthcare plan
President Clinton unveils a plan for universal health care that would fix what he called a “badly broken” system. Clinton emphasizes that under his plan, all Americans would have high quality health care and would be able to choose their physicians. -
Vietnam trade embargo lifted
President Clinton ends the nineteen-year old trade embargo against Vietnam, noting that Vietnam is indeed trying to locate 2,238 Americans listed as missing in action since the Vietnam War. -
China trade status renewed
President Clinton renews China's Most Favored Nation trade status, even though China has not made as much progress on human rights issues as he had hoped. -
Israel-Jordan talks
President Clinton meets with Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and King Hussein of Jordan. The talks result in Israel and Jordan agreeing in principle to end nearly fifty years of official antagonism. -
Oklahoma City bombed
In an act of domestic terrorism, a bomb planted in a truck parked in front of the Alfred P. Merah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, kills 168 people and causes massive structural damage. In the days following the tragedy, Clinton, in widely-praised efforts, speaks with victims and to the country about how to recover physically, emotionally, and spiritually from the attack. -
Emergency loans to Mexico
President Clinton authorizes the U.S. Treasury Department to make an emergency loan of up to $20 billion to Mexico to forestall a financial crisis threatening the interconnected Mexican and American economies. -
NATO begins strikes on Serbia
NATO, with a strong contingent of American forces, begins two weeks of air attacks on Serbian positions for on going attempts to eliminate tsarism in the middle east. -
Whitewater fraud trail
In the first trial to result from the Whitewater investigation, Jim and Susan McDougal, and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker--Clinton's friends and former business partners in the Whitewater affair--are convicted of fraud. -
UN bans nuclear weapons testing
An overwhelming majority of United Nations members, including the United States, agree to a treaty banning all nuclear weapons testing -
Clinton reelected
President Clinton, with 49 percent of the vote, defeats Senator Bob Dole (R-KS), with 41 percent of the vote, for the presidency. Clinton becomes the first Democratic President since Franklin Roosevelt to win reelection to a second term. -
Clinton denies Lewinsky allegations
News breaks that President Clinton may have had a sexual relationship with a former White House intern named Monica Lewinsky. Clinton, adamantly denying the allegations, states, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.” -
House votes to impeach Clinton
the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Bill Clinton on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. -
Clinton acquitted
The Senate acquits President Clinton on both articles of impeachment, rejecting one article and splitting evenly on the second.