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The U.S. Department of Education was created to guarantee equal access to education and educational excellence throughout the nation.
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President Jimmy Carter signed the act to bring thousands of Cuban and small number of Haitian refugees to Florida for better education.
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Attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan, 69 days into his presidency as he was leaving the Washington Hilton Hotel in D.C., Reagan and three others were shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr.
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IBM introduces its PC (personal computer) with Model 5150 operating on system MS-DOS.
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Justice Sandra Day O'Conner became the first woman to be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court at the age of 51 years old.
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After a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans, the V-shaped black granite wall inscribed with 57,939 names of American who died in conflict, arranged in order of death, not by ranking.
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Women were allowed to enroll in Columbia College as undergraduates making it the last Ivy League school to become coeducational.
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This law was passed with the goal to increase the quality of vocational- technical education in the U.S.
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Microsoft Windows 1.0, first independent version of Windows to introduce the internet and interactive media platform.
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Bill Clinton, then Governor of Arkansas, held the first National Education Summit in Charlottesville, Virginia to establish education goals for the nation.
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IDEA was put into place to change the terminology from handicap to disability, and adding additional services to the eligibility list (autism, etc).
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SMART technologies introduced the first interactive whiteboard.
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The Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time in Kremlin, replacing it was the Russian tricolor.
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Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States, was impeached by the House of Representative with two charges; perjury and obstruction of justice.
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Killing spree lead by two students leaving 15 dead and 23 wounded in Littleton, Colorado. Making this shooting the nations' deadliest school shooting incident.
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Beginning of the outcomes based movement of No Child Left Behind
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Nineteen al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial jet airlines on the morning of 9/11. Two crashed into the twin towers in New York City and another into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. The fourth plane crashed in a rural area of Pennsylvania as passengers overtook the hijackers. Total of 2976 victims and 19 terrorist were killed.
