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The hostages that were captured during the raid of the American embassy in Iran were released on the day of Ronald Reagan's inaguration. -
Ronald Reagan becomes the 40th president of the US -
Reagan proposes increased defense spending, decreased taxes, and domestic spending in speech to Congress. -
Reagan is shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. when he was returning to his limousine after a speaking engagement. -
Reagan lifts a grain embargo imposed on Soviet Union by President Carter. -
Reagan administration fired 11,345 striking air traffic controllers who had ignored the order to return to work after their refusal, and banned them from federal service for life. -
Ronald Reagan appointed her to fulfill his promise of electing the first woman to the highest court in the US -
Reagan asks 100 MX land-based missiles and 100 B1 bombers under a $180.3 billion program to upgrade the nation's nuclear forces. -
Reagan imposes economic sanctions on Poland following that government's imposition of martial law. -
Reagan calls for “New Federalism” in his State of the Union address, advocating less federal spending and more state initiative to solve social and economic problems. -
President Ronald Reagan presents his hope for a future that would "leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history." -
Act passed to cut the budget deficit through federal spending cuts, tax increases, and reform measures. -
Proposed missile defense system intended to protect the US from attacks by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons. -
US service personnel are killed by a truck bomb at a Marine compound in Beirut, Lebanon -
The US invaded Grenada because of the house arrest and execution of the previous leader and second Prime Minister of Grenada Maurice Bishop, and the establishment of the Revolutionary Military Council with Hudson Austin as Chairman. -
Farm credit crises pose serious a threat to U.S. agriculture. The Reagan administration eases rules on a loan-guarantee program, but rejects provisions for additional funding. -
Embargo that prohibited all trade between the U.S. and Nicaragua as a strategy intending to undermine the Sandanista government. -
A secret U.S. arms deal that traded missiles and other arms to free some Americans held hostage by terrorists in Lebanon, but also used funds from the arms deal to support armed conflict in Nicaragua.
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For the first time in eight years, the leaders of the Soviet Union and the United States hold a summit conference. They seemed to develop a sincere and close relationship.
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Reagan makes a speech about the explosion of the Challenger -
The law imposed sanctions against South Africa and stated five preconditions for lifting the sanctions that would essentially end the system of apartheid, which the latter was under at the time. -
Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavik, Iceland, to continue discussions about curbing their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe.
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The Democrats win control of Senate, the first time during Reagan's tenure that both houses of Congress are in Democratic hands. -
Congress overrides Reagan's veto of the Water Quality Control Act, allowing the EPA to regulate pollutants in U.S. waters -
Concluded that CIA Director William Casey should have taken over the operation and made the president aware of the risks and notified Congress as legally required. -
Berlin Wall Speech was a speech delivered by United States President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin. It's famous line was "Gorbachev, tear down this wall". -
U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. The treaty proposed to eliminate all intermediate and short-range ground-based missiles and launchers from Europe. -
A summit meeting between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Reagan leaves office