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A mountain in Washington State erupted after an earthquake. IT was a volcano that ended up killing 57 people.
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Ronald Reagan served as the US 40th President and served two terms.
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Sandra Day O'Connor becomes a US Supreme court member and is the first female member.
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In flight, the Challenger exploded killing all flight crew members on board. This included school teacher Christa McAuliffe.
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Famous speech "tear down this wall" given by President Ronald Reagan ordered Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall which separated east and west Germany.
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Iraq invaded Kuwait. The US responded in launching operation Desert Storm.
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The Cold War ended with the dismantlement of the USSR and other countries controlled by the state. A secret coup held Gorbachev and dismantled the communist party.
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A terrorist effort to implicit fear in americans after they hijacked four airplanes and crashed two of them into the twin towers. This killed many and is considered one of the saddest days in us history. It changed the way the government control transportation in security and cyber security efforts to stop such events from happening again.
