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Ronald Reagan became the 40th president of the United States, after running for the republican party and winning the election against his opponent, democrat, Jimmy Carter. -
The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster was a fatal incident in the United States space program, where the space shuttle broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard. The crew consisted of five NASA astronauts and two payload specialists. -
Reagan signed into law the Immigration Reform and Control Act in 1986. The hopes for the act were that it would first deal with the millions of undocumented immigrants already in the United States and then because of that reduce illegal immigration into the United States going forward. -
Republican George H.W. Bush beat out his opponent, Democrat Michael Dukakis, to become the 41st president of the United States. -
San Francisco earthquake of 1989, also known as the Loma Prieta earthquake, was a major earthquake that struck the San Francisco Bay Area, California resulting in 63 deaths, nearly 3,800 injuries, and an estimated $6 billion in property damage. It was the strongest earthquake to hit the area since the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. -
This amendment basically prohibited changes in Congressional salaries to take effect until after the next election cycle. More technically stated: “No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect until an election of representatives shall have intervened.” -
The Columbine High School massacre was a school shooting and attempted bombing that occurred at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado. The shooters, twelfth-grade students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, murdered 12 students and one teacher. This is the fourth-deadliest school shooting in US history. -
Republican candidate George W. Bush won the disputed election, defeating Democratic nominee Al Gore. Bush became the 43rd president of the United States. -
The September 11 attacks, were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Wahhabi terrorist group Al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks included 4 commercial airplanes, two flying into the twin towers in New York City causing them to fall to their destruction. The next plane crashed into the pentagon, and the final plane was supposed to crash into the White House, but the passengers diverted the plane to a field in Pennsylvania.