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Jimmy Carter was a Democrat and former Governor of Georgia. He was the 39th president of the United States on November 2, 1976. Carter secured 50.1% of the Popular vote and 297 electoral votes. His term ran from January 20, 1977 to January 20, 1981. Before he lost his re-election bid to Ronald Regan -
On May 25, 1977 Star Wars was in theaters. Only at 32-43 theaters across the United States. It brought in roughly $1.5 million dollars. This movie broke house records. And overall grossed over $755 million dollars worldwide during its theater lifetime -
The Iran hostages crisis began on November 4, 1979. When 66 Americans some diplomates and other civilians personal were taken hostage at the Embassy of the United States in Tehran. 52 of them were held until January 20, 1981. It was an 444 day standoff. 13 hostages were released because they were women and African Americans -
On May 18, 1980 at 8:32 am. Mount St. Helen errors. It had an explosive eruption of an index of 5. It was the first to occur in the contiguous United States since 1915 with the smaller eruption of Lassen Park in California -
On March 30, 1981, Ronald Regan the president of the United States. The was shot and wounded by John Hickley Jr. While outside of the Washington Hilton in Washington D.C. -
This centered on arms trafficking to Iran between 1981-1986. It was a political scandal during President Ronald Regan’s administration in the 1980’s -
On January 28, 1986. The space shuttle challenger broke apart about 73 seconds into its flight. This ended up killing all seven crew members onboard. The aircraft disintegrated about 45,000 feet in the air. This was the first fatal accident involving an American spacecraft while in flight -
On April 26,1986 reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Reactor. The people tried to get it as hot as they could. And when the reactor got to hot they failed at cooling the Reactor down. It was the most expensive dossier in history. This disaster caused from 4,000 - 16,000 deaths -
George H.W. Bush was elected the 41st President of the United States. November 8, 1988. He was the first vice president to be elected directly to the presidency since Martin Van Buren in 1836 -
The wall fell on November 9, 1989 during the Peaceful Revolution. It was caused by political changes in Eastern Europe. And pressure on the East German goverment -
The Gulf War began on August 2, 1990. This happened when Iraqi forces invaded and occupied Kuwait. There were two operations. Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm. Both lasted 6 months and 3 weeks -
It was a series of riots and civil disturbances during April and May of 1992. A man George Holiday videotaped Rodney King getting beaten with excessive force -
It was the 1992 U.S. Olympic Men’s Basketball Team. It was the first team to feature active NBA players. They won gold in Barcelona. They were led by superstars Micheal Jordan, Magic Johnson, and Larry Bird. They had an average winning margin of 44 points. They were coached by Chuck Daly -
He was elected on 1992. And then again in 1996. He was sworn in as the 42nd president of the United States on January 20, 1993. He was president from 1993 to 2001 -
Google was founded on September 4, 1998. Larry Page and Sergey Brin found it so they could market their web based search engine. They operated out of a garage in Mento Park, California. Google was really born from their 1996 “BackRub” project at Stanford University. The company celebrates its birthday on September 27th every day -
On September 11, 2001, 19 al-Qaddafi terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes. About 2,977 people died from the plane crashes. Flight 11 hit the North tower. Flight 175 hit the South tower. South tower fell at 9:59 am. The North tower fell at 10:28 am. Flight 77 hit the western of the Pentagon. Flight 93 crashed in a field near Shanksville
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