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Carter was a Democrat from Georgia who took office, winning the election against Gerald Ford -
The very first Star Wars movie premiered -
The Three Mile Island nuclear plant had two pressurized light-water reactors. part of the core of Reactor 2 melted down due to a cooling malfunction. The accident was caused by a combination of personnel error, design deficiencies, and component failures. The reactor shut down automatically after about one second due to a minor malfunction in the secondary cooling circuit -
series of volcanic explosions and pyroclastic flows began at Mount St. Helens in Skamania County, Washington, United States. -
The 52 American hostages held at the US Embassy in Tehran since November 1979 were released after negotiations between the US and Iranian governments -
President of the United States Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. in Washington, D.C. -
senior administration officials secretly facilitated the illegal sale of arms to Iran, which was subject to an arms embargo at the time. The administration hoped to use the proceeds of the arms sale to fund the Contras, -
the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard. The spacecraft disintegrated above the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida. -
the Number Four RBMK reactor at the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl, Ukraine, went out of control during a test at low-power, leading to an explosion and fire that demolished the reactor building and released large amounts of radiation into the atmosphere. -
during the Peaceful Revolution, marked the beginning of the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the figurative Iron Curtain, as East Berlin transit restrictions were overwhelmed and discarded. -
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. -
The original USA Olympic team was also known as the “dream team” this team consisted of Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Karl Malone, Patrick Ewing, Charles Barkley, Scottie Pippen and of course, Michael Jordan -
During that time, the United States was facing an economic downturn, and Clinton's promise of economic recovery resonated with voters. -
Rodney King was pulled over for speeding. 4 cops got out and started beating him to death and tasing him. Everyone started riots over it and finally the four cops got arrested -
Stanford University PhD students Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The search engine was originally called Backrub, but the creators changed the name to Google. -
Clinton was the second U.S. president to face a Senate impeachment trial, after Andrew Johnson. An impeachment inquiry was opened into Clinton -
Bush, a Republican from Texas and the incumbent vice president for two terms under President Ronald Reagan -
9/11 was a an attack on out country early in the morning. A plane was hijacked and crashed into one of the world trade centers. A while after another plane was crashed into the second World Trade Center. In the midst of all that happening. A plane was again hijacked and crashed into the pentagon. There was one more plane that was getting hijacked while it was in the air others on the plane managed to stop them and crashed it into the middle of nowhere in Pennsylvania.