Reagan

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  • The social security

    The Social Security Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt on August 14, 1935. In addition to several provisions for the general welfare, the new Act created a social insurance program designed to pay retired workers age 65 or older a continuing income after retirement.

  • Water Quality Control Act

    The Clean Water Act (CWA) establishes the basic structure for regulating discharges of pollutants into the waters of the United States and regulating quality standards for surface waters.

  • Soviet grain embargo lifted

    The United States 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.

  • Reagan and air-traffic controllers strike

    On August 5, following the PATCO workers' refusal to return to work, the Reagan administration fired the 11,345 striking air traffic controllers. They had ignored the order and banned them from federal service for life.

  • Fifty-two American hostages held in Iran released

    An agreement having been made, the hostages were released on January 20, 1981, minutes after the inauguration of the new U.S. president, Ronald Reagan.

  • Reagan inaugurated

    Reagan inaugurated speech

  • Reagan shot

    A federal judge has approved the unconditional release next year of John Hinckley Jr., who wounded President Ronald Reagan and three others outside a Washington, D.C., hotel in a failed assassination attempt in 1981.

  • Reagan and air-traffic controllers strike

    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.

  • Sandra Day O’Connor nominated to Supreme Court

    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.

  • Reagan delivers his first State of the Union

    President Ronald Reagan delivered his first State of the Union address in a televised prime-time speech on January 26, 1982.

  • Reagan Address British Parliament

    Reagan Addresses British Parliament On June 8, 1982, in the first speech by an American president to a meeting of both houses of the British Parliament.

  • Tax Equity & Fiscal Responsibility Act

    The Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 (TEFRA) is a law passed in 1982 that was designed to reduce the federal budget deficit through a combination of tax increases, spending cuts, and tax reform measures.

  • Strategic Defense Initiative

    Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), by the name of Star Wars, proposed U.S. strategic defensive system against potential nuclear attacks—as originally conceived, by the Soviet Union. The SDI was first proposed by President Ronald Reagan in a nationwide television address on March 23, 1983.

  • Suicide bombers attack U.S. Marines in Lebanon (1983)

    The Beirut Barracks Memorial honors the 241 American service members who lost their lives in the October 23, 1983 bombing of a U.S. Marines Corps barracks.

  • Invasion of Grenada

    The United States invasion of Grenada began at dawn on 25 October 1983. The United States and a coalition of six Caribbean nations invaded the island nation.

  • Farm credit crises (Feb 1985)

    For the period 1985-88, the federal government paid more than $50 billion directly to farmers. During this period, government payments were

  • Reagan, Gorbachev hold summit in Switzerland

    The Geneva Summit of 1985 was a Cold War-era meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. It was held on November 19 and 20, 1985, between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. The two leaders met for the first time to hold talks on international diplomatic relations and the arms race.

  • U.S. illegally sells arms to Iran (Iran-Contra Affair)

    Between 1981 and 1986, senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to the Khomeini government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo. The administration hoped to use the proceeds of the arms sale to fund the Contras in Nicaragua.

  • Spending speech (increase defense, decrease taxes)

    Reagan signed the Tax Reform Act of 1986 (which simplified the tax code by reducing rates and removing several tax breaks) and the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (which enacted sweeping changes to U.S. immigration law and granted amnesty to three million illegal immigrants).

  • Space Shuttle Challenger explosion (Reagan Speech)

    The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and "slipped the surly bonds of earth" to "touch the face of God."

  • South African sanctions

    The Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 was a law enacted by the United States Congress.

  • Reagan and Gorbachev meet in Iceland

    The Reykjavík Summit was a summit meeting between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, held in Reykjavík, Iceland, on 11–12 October 1986.

  • Democrats gain seats (Nov 1986)

    Democrats won the national popular vote for the House of Representatives by a margin of 7.7 percentage points, making a net gain of five seats. Despite Democratic congressional gains, in the gubernatorial elections, the Republican Party picked up a net of eight governorships.

  • Tower Commission concludes report (1987)

    The Commission's report, published on February 27, 1987, 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.

  • Berlin Wall Speech in West Berlin (1987)

    Gorbachev, tear down this wall", also known as the Berlin Wall Speech, was a speech delivered by United States President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on June 12, 1987.

  • Sanctions on Poland

    Reagan noted the Polish government had lifted martial law, freed thousands of political prisoners, and refrained from mass arrests since a broad

  • Reagan prohibits abortion assistance (1988)

    In the first formal step of what promises to be a major legal battle, the Reagan Administration today prohibited most of the nation's family planning clinics from providing advice or other assistance that would help women obtain abortions.

  • Reagan prohibits abortion assistance (1988)

    In the first formal step of what promises to be a major legal battle, the Reagan Administration today prohibited most of the nation's family planning clinics from providing advice or other assistance that would help women obtain abortions.

  • Reagans Visit Soviet Union

    President Ronald Reagan, while walking through Red Square and the Kremlin in Moscow, declared that the Cold War with

  • Gorbachev, Reagan sign treaty (1987)

    US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev signed the treaty on 8 December 1987. The US Senate approved the treaty on 27 May 1988, and Reagan and Gorbachev ratified it on 1 June 1988. Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan sign the INF Treaty.

  • Reagan says farewell

    In 1989, after two terms in office, Ronald Reagan delivered this farewell speech. This is the 34th time I'll speak to you from the Oval Office and the last.