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Passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act
This act was signed into law by president George H. W. Bush and was intended to protect against discrimination based on disability. Disabilities should include both mental and physical ones which don't need to be severe or permanent. The law states that employers shouldn't discriminate through job application procedures, hiring, advancement and discharge of employees, job training , and other terms, conditions,and privileges of employment. An individual also shouldn't be discriminated with.. -
Passage of the Americans with disabilities Act Part #2
with regard to the full and equal enjoyment of goods, services, facilities, or accommoddations and etc. -
Confirmation of Clarence Thomas Part #1
On July 1, 1991, President George H. W. Bush nominated Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court to replace Thurgood Marshall, who announced his retirement.Toward the end of the confirmation hearings, sexual harassment allegations by Anita Hill, a law professor who had previously worked under Thomas, were leaked to the media. Thomas was still confirmed by a narrow majority of 52 to 48. -
Confirmation of Clarence Thomas Part #2
He denied all acusations and said, "I deny each and every single allegation against me today that suggested in any way that I had conversations of a sexual nature or about pornographic material with Anita Hill, that I ever attempted to date her, that I ever had any personal sexual interest in her, or that I in any way ever harassed her." -
U.S. Soldiers in Somalia / Blackhawk Down Part #1
On the 25th of September, Aidid's men shot down a 101st Airborne Division Black Hawk with an RPG and killed three crew members at New Port near Mogadishu.The Battle of Mogadishu was part of Operation Gothic Serpent and was fought on the 3rd and 4 October 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia, between forces of the United States, supported by UNOSOM II, and Somali militiamen loyal to the president-to-be Mohamed Farrah Aidid, who had support from armed civilians. The initial operation of 3 October 1993,... -
U.S. Soldiers in Somalia / Blackhawkdown Part #2
...intended to last an hour, but became an overnight standoff and rescue operation extending into daylight hours of 4 October to rescue the crew of the crashed blackhawk helicopter. Soldiers during the battle attempted to capture Aidid's foreign minister Omar Salad Elmi and his top political advisor, Mohamed Hassan Awale.After the battle, the bodies of several of the conflict's U.S. casualties were dragged throught the streets of Samlia but were eventually returned back to the U.S. -
Passage of North American Free Trade Agreement Part #1
The Passage of North American Free Trade Agreement is an agreement which created a trilateral trade bloc in north america between the three countries of Canada, Mexico, and the United States. It was signed by U.S. president George H. W. Bush, Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney, and Mexican president Carlos Salinas. The agreement brought the immediate elimination of tariffs on more than one-half of Mexico's exports to the U.S. and more than one-third of U.S. exports to Mexico. This trade... -
Passage of North American Free Trade Agreement Part #2
This trade agreement still supports over 140,000 small and medium-sized businesses in the U.S. who depend on exporting their products to Canada and Mexico. -
O.J. Simpson Trial
the O.J. trial was a criminal trial held at the Los Angeles County Superior Court, in which former National Football League star and actor O. J. Simpson was tried on two counts of murder for the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and waiter Ronald Lyle Goldman.Simpson hired a high-profile defense team, led by Robert Shapiro and Johnnie Cochran, and that also included F. Lee Bailey, Alan Dershowitz, Robert Kardashian, Shawn Holley, and Carl E. Dou.Lawyers convinced the LAPD to allow... -
O.J. Simpson Trial Part #2
...Simpson to turn himself in. instead of this Simpson fled his house in a white Ford Bronco which lead in a police chace. during the chase he had a gun to his head and was threatening to end his life. At the end of the trial, Simpson was found not guilty even though theres was a lot of evidence against him. -
Unabomber Attacks and Arrest Part #1
On April 13, 1996, Theodore (Ted) Kaczynski was arrested at his tiny cabin in the woods outside Lincoln, Montana. The arrest brought to a close a nearly 18-year-long manhunt for a figure known as the Unabomber. There was more than 9,000 evidence photos, in connection with a series of explosive devices, mostly mail bombs, that killed three people and injured others. On January 22, 1998, Kaczynski pled guilty to these crimes and began serving a life sentence in a Colorado prison.This ended... -
Unabomber Attacks and Arrest Part #2
..the career of a troubled man who had entered Harvard at age 16. -
Explosion of TWA Flight 800
TWA flight 800 was a Boeing 747-100 which exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York. All 230 people on board were killed and the flight was then called the third-deadliest aviation accident in U.S. territory. The FBI announced that no evidence had been found of a criminal act and closed active investigation. Victims and wreckage were recovered by scuba divers and ROVs. -
Olympic Park Bombing
The Centennial Olympic Park bombing was a terrorist bomb attack on the Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia.The blast directly killed 1 person and injured 111 others, It was the first of four bombings committed by Eric Robert Rudolph.President Bill Clinton denounced the explosion as an "evil act of terror" and vowed to do everything possible to track down and punish those responsible. Despite the bombing, officials and athletes agreed that the games should continue. -
NATO Bombing in Yugoslavia
The NATO bombing of Yugoslavia was a military operation against the Serbian people and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War. The operation was apparently made to stop human rights abuses in Kosovo. This was the first time that NATO used military force without the approval of the UN Security Council.The bombing killed more than 528 civilians, and destroyed bridges, industrial plants, public buildings, private businesses, barracks and military installations. -
Columbine Shooting Part #1
The Columbine High School massacre was a school shooting that occurred on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Colorado. In addition to the shootings, the attack involved a fire bomb to divert firefighters, propane tanks converted to bombs placed in the cafeteria, 99 explosive devices, and carbombs.senior students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, murdered 12 students, one teacher and injured 21 additional people... -
Columbine Shooting Part #2
the shooting resulted in an increased emphasis on school security with zero tolerance policies,and a moral panic over goth culture, gun culture, and social outcasts.
