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Americans were taken hostage after militant Iranian students stormed the U.S embassy over shah's tension, leading to the hostages being held for 444 days until the U.S paid a ransom of 8 billion dollars. -
Reagan was sworn into office and became the 40th president of the United States -
Reagan proposed to congress to increase defense spending and decrease taxes and domestic spending -
Ronald Reagan was shot by John W. Hinkley Jr after he gave his speech at the Washington Hilton hotel -
Reagan lifts the grain embargo that Jimmy carter placed on the Soviet Union. -
Reagan fired over 13,000 PATCO air traffic controllers after they went on strike. By doing so they violated the law and as much as Reagan didn't want to fire them he must uphold the law. -
Nominated by Reagan to become the supreme court justice, making her the first woman to sit on the supreme court -
The United States will start to produce B-1 bomber and MX missiles in order to build up the military -
Regan imposes economic sanctions under the impositions of martial law -
Reagan called for “New Federalism”, advocating less federal spending and more state initiative to solve social and economic problems -
Reagan becomes the first U.S. President to address the combined Houses of Parliament, taking Britain's side in the Falkland Islands conflict with Argentina -
reduce the budget gap by generating revenue through the closure of tax loopholes, the introduction of tougher enforcement of tax rules -
Reagan urges the development of the Strategic Defense Initiative and attempts to create a high-technology anti-ballistic missile shield to protect the United States from nuclear attack. -
President Reagan signs social security into law -
A truck over 2000 lbs of explosives barreled through the capital of Lebanon killing 241 servicemen -
U.S. forces invade the island nation of Grenada to overthrow the military government and vanquished the small town with little to no effort -
Eases tensions on a loan-guarantee program, but rejects provisions for additional funding -
A trade embargo was placed on Nicaragua in an attempt to undermine the Sandinista government. (This embargo was later found to be in violation of international law) -
“The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives,” Reagan said. “We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and ‘slipped the surly bonds of earth’ to ‘touch the face of God.'” - Washinton Post -
Limited economic sanctions against South Africa after the South African government declares martial law. -
Democrats gain control of the senate -
Reagan informs Congress that the United States secretly sold arms to Iran in violation of federal laws prohibiting arms deals with Iran. The administration denies that the sales were part of an attempt to secure the release of American hostages held by Iranian-backed forces. -
A water pollution administration that creates grants for construction of sewage treatment works, requires the establishment of water quality criteria -
CIA Director William Casey, who supported the Iran-Contra arrangement, should have taken over the operation, made the president aware of the risks, and notified Congress as legally required. -
"Gorbachev, tear down this wall" -
INF Treaty ( The final treaty eliminated an entire class of nuclear weapons, restricting the deployment of both intermediate and short-range land-based missiles worldwide.) -
a bill that would prohibit the use of federal money for Medicaid abortions for the poor, coverage of abortions in health insurance plans for government workers, research on abortion, and population control programs abroad that promote abortion -
a summit meeting between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev -
President Reagen bids a farewell to the presidency