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four airplanes were hijacked and two destroyed the twin towers in NYC, one crashed into the Pentagon, and the fourth was crahed in a field in PA after the passenges on board took over the aircraft.
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Mount St. Helens became the largest and most destructive volcanic eruption in U.S. history.
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Reagon elected as president
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The Iran hostage crisis negotiations were negotiations in 1980 and 1981 between the United States Government and the Iranian Government to end the Iranian hostage crisis. The 52 American hostages, seized from the US Embassy in Tehran in November 1979
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She is the first female member of the Supreme Court.
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Challenger Explosion CNN Video the space shuttle Challenger exploded during lift off, killing all on board including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.
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Simplified the tax code and broadedned the tax base. It was referred to as "Reagan tax cuts".
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Agreement between US and USSR. Limits ground intermidiate range nuclear weapons
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wins presidency