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Four policemen acquitted of assaulting and beating Rodney King · Killing of Latasha Harlins; Racial tension in Los Angeles. -
Reagan waves to the crowd immediately before being shot in an assassination attempt after exiting Washington Hilton Hotel. -
Terrorist action taken by Iran involving an attack on the American embassy in Tehran.
Fifty-three United States diplomats and citizens were held hostage in Iran -
he film's success led Lucas to make it the basis of an elaborate film serial. With the backstory he created for the sequel, Lucas decided that the series would be a trilogy of trilogies. -
accident caused no injuries or deaths. In addition, experts concluded that the amount of radiation released into the atmosphere was too small to result in discernible direct health effects to the population in the vicinity of the plant -
a series of volcanic explosions and pyroclastic flows began at Mount St. Helens in Skamania County, Washington, United States. -
He’s a Democrat from Georgia he took office on his victory over Republican incumbent president Gerald Ford in the 1976 presidential election.
His presidency ended his landslide defeat in the 1980 presidential election to Republican Ronald Reagan after one term in office. -
was the result of a flawed reactor design that was operated with inadequately trained personnel. -
The effort to support the Contras was one component of the Reagan Doctrine, which called for providing military support to movements opposing Soviet-supported, communist governments -
from Texas and the incumbent vice president for two terms under President Ronald Reagan, took office following his landslide victory over Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential election -
was the first step towards German reunification. political changes in Eastern Europe and civil unrest in Germany put pressure on the East German government to loosen some of its regulations on travel to West Germany. -
He was formally impeached by the House on two charges perjury and obstruction of justice on December 19, 1998. The specific charges against Clinton were lying under oath and obstruction of justice -
took nearly two months to recover the remains from the ocean floor about 18 miles off the shore of Cape Canaveral Florida.
cremated remains of the seven Challenger astronauts were buried at Arlington National Cemetery -
Charles Barkley (Phoenix Suns)
Larry Bird (Boston Celtics)
Clyde Drexler (Portland Trail Blazers)
Patrick Ewing (New York Knicks)
Magic Johnson (previously of the Los Angeles Lakers)
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defeating the incumbent Republican Party president George H. W. Bush, and the independent businessman Ross Perot. He became the first president to be born in the Baby Boomer generation. -
It used nearly half of Stanford's entire network bandwidth. BackRub is written in Java and Python and runs on several Sun Ultras and Intel Pentiums running Linux. -
The World trade killed about 2,977 people and from the 90 nations 2,753 people were killed in New York 184 people were killed at the Pentagon and 40 people were killed on Flight 93