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French pharmaceutical company Roussel-Uclaf for the development of mifepristone
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the US would boycott the Moscow Olympics if Soviet troops did not withdraw from Afghanistan within one month. 65 countries and regions invited did not take part in the 1980 Olympics.
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provides for the decontrol of crude oil and refined petroleum products.
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NASA's space shuttle Columbia blasted off
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Ronald Wilson Reagan served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989
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Sony introduced the CDP-101, the first CD audio player to market, on October 1, 1982 at $900
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The first wireless products were under the name WaveLAN. They are the ones credited with inventing Wi-Fi. Came to light in 1991
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strategic defensive system against potential nuclear attacks—as originally conceived, from the Soviet Union. The SDI was first proposed by President Ronald Reagan in a nationwide television
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terrorist attacks that occurred in Beirut, Lebanon, during the Lebanese Civil War when two truck bombs struck separate buildings housing United States and French military forces—members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon killed 241 US Americans
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Ended 12/15/1983 Ronald Reagan dispatched a heavy- fire- power invasion force to the island of Grenada, where a military coup had killed the prime minister and brought Marxists to power; demonstrated dominance of the U.S in the Caribbean
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Created by Steve Jobs was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature two old known then, but still unpopular features
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former vice president and presidential candidate Walter Mondale, seen as an underdog, selected Ferraro to be his running mate in the upcoming election.
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Congress bars further aid to contras in light of discovery that C.I.A. has been involved in mining of Nicaraguan harbors.
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Reagan ran against Walter Mondale , who chose Geraldine Ferraro the 1st woman for VP. Reagan won by a landslide
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Becomes chief justice of the Supreme Court; 16 the Chief Justice until his death in 2005
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he NASA shuttle orbiter mission STS-51-L and the tenth flight of Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members, which consisted of five NASA astronauts, one payload specialist and a civilian school teacher. Broadcasted on live television
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Reagan and Gorbachev shake hands after signing the INF Treaty ratification during the Moscow Summit
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English scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web wrote the first web browser in 1990
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Oil spill was a manmade disaster that occurred when Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker owned by the Exxon Shipping Company, spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil
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These protests were put down by government troops In response, a number of pro-democracy organizations were formed by overseas Chinese student activists,
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his convictions were vacated and reversed, and all charges against him dismissed in 1991. North is primarily remembered for his term as a National Security Council staff member during the Iran-Contra affair,
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as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders.
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Ended Jan 31, 1990
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dramatic limit in economic growth ended 1991 March
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The world's first space telescope was then launched on; Worlds largest telescope
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Ended 8/4/1990 iraq invades its neighbor Kuwait, because off oil production and debt repayment
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Ended Feb 28, 1991 The U.S. fought against Iraq when they illegally invaded Kuwait.
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West Germany and East Germany ended 45 years of division that began in the aftermath of World War II by reuniting to become one nation.
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For U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
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officially granting self-governing independence to the Republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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American politician and humanitarian activist who served from 1993 to 2001 as the 42nd President of the United States.
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terrorists drove a truck bomb underneath the towers and detonated it killed 6
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made official in 1993 by the Digital HDTV Grand Alliance, a group of television, electronic equipment, communications
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A trade agreement between North America that reduce tariffs, eliminate trade barriers, create a common market, and increase trade/investment.
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was an Internet radio company founded as AudioNet in September 1995 by Christopher Jaeb. First online radio station
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was the 53rd quadrennial presidential election.
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developer Tomislav Uzelac of Advanced Multimedia Products invented the AMP MP3 Playback Engine, the first successful MP3 player
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An American political scandal involving President Bill Clinton and intern Monica Lewinsky. (inappropriate relations)
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Ended Dec 22 1998 was a response to threats by Iraq's president Saddam Hussein to shoot down U-2 spy planes, and violate the no-fly zone set up over his country.
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Articles of Impeachment toward Bill Clinton
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After confessing up to the affair The house of Representatives Voted to impeach Bill Clinton, Five week impeachment trial. Dec 19, 1998 to Feb 12 1999 Charged with lying under oath
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United States presidential election was the 54th quadrennial presidential election. George W bush vs Al Gore
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Terrorist attack Twin towers 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States.
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in response to the September 11 attacks, President George W. Bush announced that airstrikes targeting Al Qaeda and the Taliban had begun in Afghanistan.
