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Jimmy Carter, a Democrat and former Georgia governor, was elected the 39th President of the United States on November 2, 1976, defeating incumbent Republican Gerald Ford. -
The original Star Wars (Episode IV: A New Hope) premiered in theaters on May 25, 1977. -
An island that had a nuclear meltdown but they caught it just in time so there wasn’t any mayor damage -
In March 1980, a series of volcanic explosions and pyroclastic flows began at Mount St. Helens in Skamania County, Washington, United States. The phreatic blasts escalated for nearly two months until a catastrophic explosive eruption took place on May 18, 1980, at 8:32 a.m. -
The 52 American hostages held in Tehran were released on January 20, 1981, ending a 444-day crisis that began on November 4, 1979. The captives were freed moments after Ronald Reagan's inauguration, following the negotiation of a deal that unfroze billions in Iranian assets. -
On March 30, 1981, Ronald Reagan, the president of the United States, was shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. in Washington, D.C., as Reagan was returning to his limousine after a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton hotel. -
The Iran–Contra affair, also referred to as the Iran–Contra scandal, the Contragate, Iran Initiative, or simply Iran–Contra, was a political scandal in the United States that centered on arms trafficking to Iran between 1981 and 1986, facilitated by senior officials of the Reagan administration. -
On January 28, 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members. -
On 26 April 1986, reactor no.4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, exploded -
George H.W. Bush was elected the 41st President of the United States on November 8, 1988, defeating Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis. As the incumbent Vice President under Ronald Reagan, he won with 53.4% of the popular vote and 426 electoral votes. -
The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall on Film The Berlin Wall fell on 9 November 1989. -
The Persian Gulf War began with Iraq's invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990, prompted by oil disputes, leading to the U.S.-led coalition's defensive Operation Desert Shield. -
Rodney king was a guy that was beaten by the police over 50 times and it started the La riots -
The 1992 U.S. Olympic Basketball "Dream Team" was the first American Olympic squad to feature active NBA players, dominating the Barcelona Games to win gold with an 8-0 record, winning by an average of 44 points. Competing in 1992, this iconic team included 11 future Hall of Famers like Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, and Larry Bird. -
Bill Clinton, a Democrat and former Governor of Arkansas, was elected the 42nd President of the United States on November 3, 1992. -
Google was founded on September 4, 1998, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to market their search engine, which evolved from the "BackRub" research project (1996) at Stanford University. -
On December 19, 1998, the U.S. House of Representatives impeached President Bill Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice stemming from the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. -
On September 11, 2001, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes, launching coordinated attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.