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Ronald W. Reagan becomes the 40th president of the United States of America.
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President Reagan addresses the public about a satellite-based defense system designed to destroy incoming missiles and warheads in space.
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The National Coal Council is formed to advise on ways to improve cooperation in areas of coal research, production, transport, marketing, and use.
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Congress approves an amendment designating Yucca Mountain, Nevada, as the only site to be considered for high-level nuclear waste repository.
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George H.W. Bush becomes the 41st president of the United States of America.
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President Bush declares the end of the Cold War at the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Iraq invades Kuwait. The Department of Energy announces plans to increase oil production and decrease consumption to counter Iraqi-Kuwait oil loss.
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Bill Clinton becomes the president of the United States of America.
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The North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement, involving Mexico, Canada, and the United States, goes into effect.
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A car parked in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, loaded with a powerful bomb, exploded completely demolishing a third of the building and killing 168 people, including 19 children under the age of 6 years old. Tim Mcveigh, the driver and lead terrorist of the bombing, was arrested only an hour and a half after the bombing on separate charges, and found to be guilty of the terrorist act later.
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The fourth deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, leaving 15 people dead, including the shooters.
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The most lethal terrorist acts in U.S. history. On the morning of September 11, 2001, four planes were hijacked; one flying into the Pentagon, two flying into the World Trade Center towers, and one crashing in a field in Pennsylvania--which was thought to have been headed to a number of possible targets, the White House or Capitol Hill being two of them. The total number of deaths from this one day add up to nearly 3,000 lives.
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