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President Jimmy Carter enacts a grain embargo on the USSR, which results in falling prices of grain and affects American farmers.
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The US places an oil embargo on Libya in response for Libyan support of terrorist groups.
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Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its first trip after spending 6 days in space.
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73 seconds after launch, the Challenger disintegrates, killing all 7 aboard, including a civilian schoolteacher who had won a competition.
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George Bush is elected President of the United States, easily defeating his opponent, Michael Dukakis.
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Space Shuttle Discovery puts the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.
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Bill Clinton is elected President, defeating incumbent President George Bush and Ross Perot.
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US President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin Accords, which stop the countries from aiming nuclear arms at each other and decommission nuclear arsenal in Ukraine.
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President Bill Clinton signs the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which is going to stop all testing of all civilian and military nuclear technology.
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The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India in response to two nuclear tests they conduct at Pokhran.
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On September 11th, 2001, four hijacked passenger aircraft crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and one is forced down in a field in Pennsylvania. These terrorist attacks begins the War on Terror.