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Reagan is elected to become president.
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John Hinckley tried to kill Reagan, but the bullet shell was an inch away from his heart and recovers quickly.
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Reagan leaves from the hospital when he was healing from the assassination attemp by John Hinkley.
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Ronald Reagan anounces that the U.S. will create B-1 bombers and MX missiles. It is part of building up the millitary.
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Ronald Reagan had signed a five cent tax inrease for a gallon of gasoline into a law.
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Ronald Reagan meets the Soviet leader Gorbachev at Geneva, Switzerland to discuss reducing both countries stockpiles of nuclear weapons.
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Mikhail Gorbachev goes to Washington D.C. to meet Ronald Reagan. They sign a treaty called the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
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President Reagan leaves office while the public cast him as the most popular president since President Franklin D. Roosevelt.