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George Lucas and Lucasfilm LLC released the highest-grossing movie of the century. -
Jimmy Carter was elected the 39th president of the United States. -
John Warnock Hinckley Jr. is an American man who attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan as he left the Hilton Hotel in Washington, -
The largest American nuclear disaster. A cooling malfunction caused part of the core to melt in Reactor 2. Some radioactive gas was released into the air, and the nearby cities were evacuated. -
a massive lateral pyroclastic blast in washington, then a column of gray ash began to boil upwards, rising as high as 80,000 feet. -
An international crisis that began in November 1979 when militants seized 66 U.S. citizens in Tehrān and held 52 of them hostage for more than a year. The crisis took place in the wake of the Iranian Revolution -
A secret operation in which the US government secretly sent weapons to a known enemy and sent financial aid to a rebel force. -
The Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard. The spacecraft disintegrated 46,000 feet above the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida. -
Steam and hydrogen explosions at the Chernobyl plant's Unit 4 in Ukraine led to a rupture in the reactor vessel and a fire that lasted 10 days. -
George H.W. Bush was elected 41st president of the United States. -
The fall of the Berlin Wall was the first step towards German reunification. In 1989, political changes in Eastern Europe and civil unrest in Germany put pressure on the East German government to loosen some of its regulations on travel to West Germany. -
It was a war waged by coalition forces from 35 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.
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The widely broadcast video caused outrage around the country and triggered a national debate on police brutality. Rodney King was released without charges, and on March 15 Sergeant Koon and officers Powell, Wind, and Briseno were indicted by a Los Angeles grand jury in connection with the beating. -
Bill Clinton was elected the 42nd president of the United States. -
Google is an American search engine company, founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page. -
Clinton was impeached for lying to Congress under oath about his sexual affairs with his intern. -
On September 11th, four planes were hijacked by Iranian terrorists and used as weapons against the American people. One crashed into the Pentagon, one crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after the occupants attacked the terrorists, and two crashed into each of the twin towers.