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He was inaugurated as 40th President of the United States at the West front of Washington D.C. This was the first inauguration to be held in the west side of the building.
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The hostages were taken on November 4 1979, they released them a couple of hours after the inaugural address delivered by Reagan.
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President Reagan delivers a speech in the beginning of his time as President before a joint meeting. This speech and meeting was about economic recovery.
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President Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. in Washington, D.C. as he was returning to his limousine after a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel. The attacker thought he could impress the actress Jodie Foster since he was obsessed by her.
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It was established in January 1980 by Jimmy Carter in response to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. In this date Reagan lifted it
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The union declared a strike which was illegal and the Reagan Administration had to decertificate it afterwards
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She was nominated my Reagan that so fulfilled his promise to appoint the first woman in the Supreme Court.
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Reagan declares that he asked for 100 MXs and 100 B1 bombers to upgrade the national's nuclear forces.
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The speech lasted 40 minutes and it was broadcast in radio and television.
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It was the first speech by an American president to a meeting of both houses of the British Parliament, President Ronald Reagan presents his hope for a future that would "leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history."
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The final version was signed by Ronald Reagan on this date. This act wa developed between the summers of 1981 and 1982 to "save" the economy to go back in recess.
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It was nicknamed the "Star Wars program" and it was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons
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241 US service personnel are killed by a truck bomb at a Marine compound in Beirut, Lebanon. Three hundred service members had been living at the four-story building at the airport in Beirut.
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The U.S. and a coalition of six Caribbean nations invaded the island nation of Grenada, 100 miles north of Venezuela. Codenamed Operation Urgent Fury by the U.S. military, it resulted in military occupation within a few days
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It has been described as "one of the key pieces of social welfare legislation" enacted toward the end of Reagan's first term in office.
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Made to prohibit all trade between the U.S. and Nicaragua, it was intended to undermine the Sandanista government which came to power in 1979
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Senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to the Khomeini government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo.
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It is the first meeting between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. It was held in Geneva, Switzerland
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When President Ronald Reagan heard about the Challenger explosion the morning of January 28, 1986, he was preparing to give the State of the Union address that very night. He postponed the speech for the following week, and instead directly addressed the nation on the disaster
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It has remained in history as a near successful attempt of leaders of nuclear powers to agree on complete elimination of nuclear weapons
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The Democrats won a net gain of eight seats to recapture control of the United States Senate, taking back the chamber for the first time since the 1980 elections
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The Commission's report, 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.
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Reagan spoke near the wall in front of Berlin's famous Brandenburg Gate.
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U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, or INF Treaty. This landmark agreement proposed to eliminate all intermediate and short-range ground-based missiles and launchers from Europe.
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President Reagan announced rules prohibiting abortions and abortion counseling by family planning programs that receive Federal funds.
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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.
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The final speech of President Reagan, the 40th President of the United States of America.
