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Mount St Helen
Mount St Helen Erupts -
Reagan Election
Ronald Reagan was elected our 40th president in a landslide victroy against Jimmy Carter -
Technology
Technology during the 1980's -
Attempted Assassination
Reagan was leaving the Washington Hilton Hotel when he was shot at. He was hit and it peirced his lungs and almost hit his heart. -
Embassy Blows up
This was suicide bombing that killed 63 people and injured 17 people. This occured in Beirut, Lebanon. -
Space shuttle Challenger explodes
The shuttle exploded 73 seconds after liftoff. It killed 7 crewmembers. This accident chagned NASA forever. -
U.S. and Libya
US launches air strike against Libya -
Stock market
The stock market Crashed again, it was called black monday. It took only two years for the Dow to completly recover, and had regained all of the value it had lost. -
Bush is Elected
George Bush is elected or 41st president. Bush-Quayle defeats Dukakis-Bentsen, capturing 40 states and 53 percent of the popular vote. -
Panama Flight
The flight was bombed during a flight. -
Berlin Wall
The Berling Wall is torn downt o symbolize the end of the Cold War. -
Bush orders the invasion of Panama
Bush heard that Manuel Noriega was involved in a drug trafficking when he was trying to help get communism out of Central and South America.
