1980-2001

By jamesfeng

  • Refugee Act

    An Act to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise the procedures for the admission of refugees, to amend the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 to establish a more uniform basis for the provision of assistance to refugees, and for other purposes.

  • Iran Releases Hostages

  • MTV

  • Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981

    An act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to encourage economic growth through reduction of the tax rates for individual taxpayers, acceleration of the capital cost recovery of investment in plant, equipment, and real property, and incentives for savings, and for other purposes.

  • Sandra Day O'Connor

    Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • 1983 Beirut barracks bombing

  • Chrysler Unveils Mini-Vans

  • Presidential Election 1984

  • Ninendo Entertainment System Released

  • Challenger Crash

    exploded during lift off, killing all on board including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.

  • Tax Reform Act of 1986

    An Act to reform the internal revenue laws of the United States.

  • Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

  • Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing

  • Bush declares a "War on Drugs"

  • 1989 San Francisco Earthquake

  • Cold War Ends

  • Hubble Space Telescope Launched

    Launched during a Space Shuttle Discovery mission. The telescope allows us to see faster into space.

  • 27th Amendment is Ratified

  • The Storm of the Century

    300 people are dead after one of the worst billiards in history hits the East Coast causing $6 billion in damages.

  • Oklahoma City Bombing

    The Oklahoma City Bombing was an attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. 168 people were killed including 19 children under the age of 6. It was the worst tragedy on US soil before 9/11.

  • Centennial Olympic Park Bombing

  • Y2K Computer Problem

    Problem with computers that raise the date back to 1900 after 1999. The problem arose from many computes using 2 digit dates.

  • 9/11 Terrorist Attacks

    On September 11, 2001 four airplanes were hijacked and two destroyed the twin towers in NYC, one crashed into the Pentagon, and the fourth was crashed in a field in PA after the passages on board took over the aircraft.