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Couldn’t resist, too crucial of a detail. 39th President of the U.S. and the first peanut farmer to end up becoming a president.
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The third-generation MBT finally began serving the U.S. military. This tank would play a key role in many worldwide conflicts in years to come.
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A helicopter collided with a C-130 tanker, killing 8 U.S. soldiers.
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Mt. St. Helens violently exploded and boosted an enormous cloud of ash into the atmosphere. The eruption killed 57.
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Hostile Islamic radicals held U.S. ambassadors hostage for 444 days, leading Jimmy Carter to break relations with Iran.
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40th U.S. President.
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The Columbia became the first reusable spacecraft to make it to space and reenter.
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Sally Ride is named the first American female astronaut in the NASA
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Two suicide bombers attacked peace-keeping troops, including U.S. military peacekeepers. This attack resulted in the troops being pulled out completely.
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Reagan reenters the election, beating Mondale and becoming the 40th president for another term.
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7 crew members lost their lives in a sudden and catastrophic failure of the space shuttle’s structural integrity.
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Reagan delivers his famous speech signaling the coming of the fall of the U.S.S.R. and Communist dominance within Eastern Europe.
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The 1988 election went to George H.W. Bush.
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An American-European Airline flight was critically damaged by a bomb laid by Libyan terrorists and crashed, killing all 259 souls on board.
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A 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck San Francisco, destroying much of the city and injuring over 3,000 people.
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“Papa” George Bush declares the war to be officially over at the Malta Summit conference with Gorbachev.
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Iraq invades Kuwait; U.S. deploys military to protect its rich Middle Eastern oil resources.
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Desert Shield’s forces begin to engage hostile Iraqis. For the first time, the M1 Abrams begins soundly beating Russian designed tanks such as the T72A.
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Iraqi troops fled Kuwait after setting fire to hundreds of oil fields. Kuwait was liberated and George H.W. Bush declared as ceasefire.
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William Jefferson Clinton won the 1992 election against George H.W. Bush, becoming one of the first New Democrats to become president.
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A free trade regulations treaty involving United States, Canada, and Mexico, was signed by each country’s parliament.
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An alleged concealment of an affair with Monica Lewinsky of the White House led the House to impeach Clinton, but he was acquitted by the Senate.
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Uh, yeah. I am historic, evidently.
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A computer bug reset many computers to display 0000, 9999 or 1900 as the date instead of 2000, which led many to believe that mass hysteria and equipment shut down would occur in the year 2000 leading to the apocalypse.
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Son of H.W. Bush wins the 2000 election against Al Gore.
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Two Boeing 757s and two 767s from American and United were hijacked and hurled into the Twin Towers, Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania. This changed aviation security worldwide forever.
