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Redefining America
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Jimmy Carter becomes president
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President Jimmy Carter mediates Egyptian-Israeli peace settlement
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Three Mile Island nuclear plant accident
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Ronald Reagan is elected fortieth president
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American hostages are released from Iran
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President Reagan is shot in assassination attempt
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Doctors diagnose the first cases of AIDS
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IBM releases its first personal computer
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Sandra Day O’Connor is sworn in as the first female Supreme Court justice
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The word Internet is first used
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Regan proposes “Star Wars” missile defense system
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Iran–Contra affair
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Al-Qaeda founded by Osama bin Laden
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George Bush is elected forty-first president
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The Exxon Valdez
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Berliners begin to tear down the Berlin Wall
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Iraqi troops invade and occupy Kuwait
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Police beating motorist Rodney King
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Soviet Union is dissolved; Cold War ends
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Democrat Bill Clinton is elected forty-second president
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Terrorists bomb World Trade Center
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North American Free Trade Agreement
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Bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City
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Dolly the sheep is cloned
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Impeachment of President Bill Clinton
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United States transfers control of Panama Canal to Panama
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Hillary Rodham Clinton wins a seat for the United States Senate
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Researchers decode the human genome
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Republican candidate George W. Bush becomes the forty-third president
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Tiger Woods becomes the first golfer to hold all four major golf titles
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9/11 terrorist attack kills thousands of civilians
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War on Terrorism on the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan
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United States State Department issues its report in the War on Terror
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The War in Iraq begins
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Saddam Hussein, former leader of Iraq, is captured in a small bunker
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Hurricane Katrina strikes the Gulf Coast
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Steroids Scandal in baseball
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President Bush signs a $700 billion bailout bill
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Barack Obama becomes the first African American president
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The H1N1 virus, named the Swine Flu
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Jobless claims climb above 10.0%
