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made it unlawful to discharge any pollutant from a point source into navigable waters, unless a permit was obtained: EPA's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit program controls discharges.
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American Hostages held in Iran released
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Reagan becomes president
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Trickle down economics/reaganomics
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Assassination attempt, Reagan wounded but recovered.
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Grain Embargo against the Soviet Union was enacted by Jimmy Carter in January 1980 in response to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. It remained in effect until Ronald Reagan ended it in 1981 upon taking the office of president.
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Reagan appointed first woman into congress
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B1 stealth bomber and MX ICBM ($180.3 Billion)
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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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created in order to reduce the budget gap by generating revenue through closure of tax loopholes, introduction of tougher enforcement of tax rules
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President Reagan ordered a series of economic reprisals against the Polish government yesterday and warned that he is prepared to impose more serious sanctions against both Poland and the Soviet Union if "the outrages in Poland do not cease."
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first speech by an American president to a meeting of both houses of the British Parliament
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The Strategic Defense Initiative, nicknamed the "Star Wars program", was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons.
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Social Security reform becomes law
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241 US service personnel – including 220 Marines and 21 other service personnel – are killed by a truck bomb at a Marine compound in Beirut, Lebanon
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The U.S. and a coalition of six Caribbean nations invaded the island nation of Grenada
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Reagan prohibited all trade with Nicaragua
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illegally sold old arms to Khomeini government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo.
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The two leaders met for the first time to hold talks on international diplomatic relations and the arms race.
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Farmer Dale Burr of Lone Tree, Iowa, walked into the Hills Bank and Trust and killed his banker. Before leaving for town, he had shot and killed his wife. When he returned home, he shot and killed a neighbor, then killed himself.
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Space Shuttle exploded and Reagan gave speech to honor them
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Reagan delivers his first State of the Union
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The law imposed sanctions against South Africa and stated five preconditions for lifting the sanctions that would essentially end the system of apartheid, which the latter was under at the time.
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resulted in a sweeping nuclear arms-control agreement in which the nuclear weapons of both sides would be dismantled.
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Democrats gained 8 seats and stole majority in senate
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concluded that CIA Director William Casey, who supported the Iran-Contra arrangement, should have taken over the operation and made the president aware of the risks and notified Congress as legally required.
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Gorbachev, tear down this wall
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Ends cold war
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President Reagan will soon announce rules prohibiting abortions and abortion counseling by family planning programs that receive Federal funds
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Reagan and Gorbachev finalized the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
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Gives last speech before leaving office after 2 terms