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52 American diplomats and citizens working at the embassy in Iran are taken hostages. They were held hostages for 444 days.
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This was the mass migration of Cubans into the United States. Castro gave permission to Cubans wishing to leave to emigrate into the US. Around 125,000 Cubans reached Florida.
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He became the 40th President of the United States.
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President Reagan is shot in the chest John Warnock Hinckley Jr. and survives.
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The first U.S. President to address the Diet, which is Japan's national legislature, is President Reagan.
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President Ronald Reagan signed a secret order that permitted the sale of arms to Iran.
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He became the 41st President of the United States.
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The Berlin Wall falls on November 9, 1989.
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Germany begins its process of reunification in 1990 after the fall of Berlin Wall.
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Pat Buchanan said a speech that the United States was a suffering a culture war. According to Pat Buchanan, the United States could not decide their stand on the following topics: "abortion on demand, a litmus test for the Supreme Court, homosexual rights, discrimination against religious schools, women in combat units."
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He became the 42nd President of the United States.
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President Clinton extended a $20 billion loan to help Mexico prevent financial collapse.
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The US Department of Justice and twenty state attorneys filed a lawsuit against Microsoft for violating the Sherman Act.
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Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked four American airplanes and performed suicide attacks against the US. One airplane hit the Pentagon, two exploded on the Twin Towers, and the fourth crashed on a field in Pennsylvania. 2,996 were killed including the 19 hijackers.