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Inaugurated as the 40th President of the U.S.
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Serves as Vice President
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Begins broadcasting music videos after midnight.
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Introduces the IBM-PC personal computer, the IBM 5150. It was designed by twelve engineers and designers under Don Estridge of the IBM Entry Systems Division. It sold for $1,565 in 1981.
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Dedicated in Washington, D.C., holding the names of the more than 58,000 killed or missing in action during the conflict.
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Becomes the first American woman in space when she and four others are on board the second flight of the space shuttle Challenger.
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Becomes the new leader of the U.S.S.R., and leads the country in a series of new policies including a more consultative government style of glasnost and the economic and political restructuring of perestroika.
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The Soviet War in Afghanistan was essential to the full radicalization of Osama bin Laden and many of his followers.
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Forms Al Quada
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American vessels an also attacked Iranian vessel laying mines in the Persian Gulf and sank an Iranian mine laying ship on charges of explosion. Iraq accepted the resolution since it had lost much of its land while Iraq did not comply with it since it was very close to victory and did not want to lose its gains.
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Inaugurated as the 41st President.
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Trying to oust Gen.Manuel Noriega
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Launches the invasion of Kuwait
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Civil Rights Activist who got stabbed in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York.
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Caused by Iraqi forces.
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Becomes 42nd President.
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First African American woman to recite a poem at the inauguration of a U.S. President.
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Creating a free trade zone between Canada, the United States, and Mexico.
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Happened in Khobar, Saudi Arabia kills nineteen U.S. military personnel, destroying the majority of a six building apartment complex that was home to the 440th Fighter Wing. It was carried out by Islamic terrorists seeking removal of the U.S. presence in Saudi Arabia.
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Inaugurated as the 43rd President
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Islamic fundamentalist terrorists hijack four U.S. airliners and crash them into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in New York City. The attack of two planes levels the World Trade Center and the crash of one plane inflicts serious damage to the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, causing nearly 3,000 deaths.
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President George Bush and Tony Blair yesterday warned the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in the starkest terms that preparations for the war against them were complete and attacks could be launched at any time.
