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  President Ronal Reagan signs the a bill liberalizing California's abortion law. This was an issue he had to deal with and this was his way of solving the issue.
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  American workers were taken hostage for 444 days. Luckly none were injured.
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  Ronald Reagan sends budget proposal for fiscal year 1982 to congress. This involved cuttting programs that helped with people having financial difficulty.
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  The Economic Recovery Program was made. The program ends uo being Sussessful
note: There is no specific day available in the research that this happened, but for sure it occured in 1981 - 
  
  Ronald Reagan sends in the National Guard to break up a strike at the University of California at Berkley.