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The Social Security Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt -
The Clean Water Act (CWA) establishes the basic structure for regulating discharges of pollutants into the waters of the United States and regulating quality standards for surface waters. -
senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to the Khomeini government of the Islamic Republic of Iran -
hostages were released -
This was the first inauguration to be held on the building's west side. -
increased defence spending, and decreased taxes and domestic spending in a speech to Congress -
John Hinckley, Jr., fired his .22 calibre revolver with “devastator” bullets at the President -
It remained in effect until Ronald Reagan ended it in 1981 upon taking the office of president. -
the Reagan administration fired the 11,345 striking air traffic controllers -
Sandra Day O'Connor was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Reagan -
approval to build 100 MX land-based missiles and 100 B1 bombers under a $180.3 billion program to upgrade the nation's nuclear forces. -
The Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982, also known as TEFRA -
The Polish government has announced sanctions against 50 Russian and Belarusian individuals and entities -
first State of the Union address in a televised prime -
the first speech by an American president to a meeting of both houses of the British Parliament -
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), byname Star Wars, proposed U.S. strategic defensive system against potential nuclear attacks -
241 American service members who lost their lives in the bombing of a U.S. Marines Corps barracks -
President Ronald Reagan, citing the threat posed to American nationals on the Caribbean nation of Grenada -
An agricultural bank is defined as a bank in which farm loans make up 25 per cent -
impose a trade embargo on Nicaragua -
The Geneva Summit of 1985 was a Cold War-era meeting in Geneva, Switzerland -
Democrats won the national popular vote for the House of Representatives by a margin of 7.7 percentage points, making a net gain of five seats. Despite Democratic congressional gains, in the gubernatorial elections, the Republican Party picked up a net of eight governorships. -
a law enacted by the United States Congress. 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. -
The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honoured us by the manner in which they lived their lives. 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." -
The Reykjavík Summit was a summit meeting between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev -
concluded that CIA Director William Casey, who supported the Iran-Contra arrangement, should have taken over the operation and made the president aware of the risks and notified Congress as legally required. -
Gorbachev, tear down this wall", also known as the Berlin Wall Speech, was a speech delivered by United States President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin -
Reagan and Gorbachev signed the INF Treaty in Washington, D.C. The final treaty eliminated an entire class of nuclear weapons, restricting the deployment of both intermediate and short-range land-based missiles worldwide. -
In the first formal step of what promises to be a major legal battle, the Reagan Administration today prohibited most of the nation's family planning clinics from providing advice or other assistance that would help women obtain abortions -
Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. The Moscow Summit was a summit meeting between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev. -
This is the 34th time I'll speak to you from the Oval Office and the last.