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On January 19, 1981, the hostages were released on January 20, 1981, minutes after President Reagan completed his 20‑minute inaugural address after being sworn in, and the 52 American hostages were released to U.S. personnel.
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The first inauguration of Ronald Reagan as the 40th president of the United States was held on Tuesday, January 20, 1981, at the West Front of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.
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Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. in Washington, D.C. as he was returning to his limousine after a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton.
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Reagan has consistently opposed the embargo on the grounds that it is unfair to farmers, demanding that they shoulder a burden he says should be borne more generally. In addition, a decision on whether to sell grain to the Soviet Union has to be made before Sept. 30, when a five-year agreement under which the United States agreed to sell at least 6 million metric tons of grain annually to the Soviets expires.
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On August 5, following the PATCO workers' refusal to return to work, the Reagan administration fired the 11,345 striking air traffic controllers who had ignored the order and banned them from federal service for life.
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Sandra Day O'Connor was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Reagan on August 19, 1981, thus fulfilling his 1980 campaign promise to appoint the first woman to the highest court in the United States.
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President Reagan announced that he will seek Congress' approval to build 100 MX land-based missiles and 100 B1 bombers under a $180.3 billion program to upgrade the nation's nuclear forces.
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two years before the collapse of communist regimes across Eastern Europe, President Ronald Reagan lifted all U.S. sanctions against Poland.
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President Ronald Reagan delivered his first State of the Union address in a televised prime-time speech on January 26, 1982.
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Ronald Reagan addressed members of the British Parliament in London. His speech at Westminster Hall harkened back to Winston Churchill’s 1946 “Sinews of Peace” address in Fulton, Missouri. Churchill’s speech provided many of the key concepts of an emerging Cold War with the Soviet Union; thirty-four years later Reagan presented his vision for how it might end.
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TEFRA was created in order to reduce the budget gap by generating revenue through the closure of tax loopholes and introduction of tougher enforcement of tax rules, as opposed to changing marginal income tax rates
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