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President Carter won the election. The first to win every state in the Deep South. -
The original Star Wars movie premiered in theatres on May 25, 1977. Many people loved it. -
There were just a bunch of errors going on at the power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. There was a small leak of radioactive material, and everyone made a big deal out of it I think. -
The mountain erupts and kills thousands of people and animals. It was devastating. -
There were 52 Americans held hostage by Iran. They were released hours after President Reagan's inauguration. -
John Hinckley tried to shoot Reagan. He tried to impress a young actor. That is not how you do that. -
A secret sale of arms to Iran. The profits went to Nicaragua. -
They decided to send teachers to space. The Challenger exploded 73 seconds after takeoff, killing them, including Christa McAuliffe. -
A nuclear power plant in Ukraine had exploded due to a low-power test and a few other things. -
Rodney King was savagely beaten by police. The four policemen were found not guilty. -
He won the election. He became the 41st president. -
The Berlin Wall fell. This ended the Cold War. Reagan also made a speech about this, saying, "Mr. President, tear down this wall!" -
An armed conflict started between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the United States. -
It was a basketball team that consisted of many different basketball players, like Michael Jordan, Chris Mullin, and Charles Barkley, along with many others. They were brought together for the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. -
President Clinton was elected in 1992. He was the first president born in the baby boomer generation. -
Google was a search engine created by two Stanford University graduate students, Larry and Sergey. It was developing as Backrub, but eventually became Google. -
President Clinton was impeached on two different charges, perjury and obstruction of justice. He also had allegations that he had an affair with Monica Lewinsky. -
There was a terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, where three planes crashed. Two of the planes hit the twin towers of the World Trade Center, and the last one into the Pentagon. Now they do background checks when you want to learn to fly a plane, yay!