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1096 - Crusades to Holy Land start
1271-95 - Marco Polo’s travels in Far East
1492 - Columbus reaches America
1497-98 - John Cabot’s explorations
1498 - Vasco da Gama reaches India
1513 - Balboa reaches Pacific Ocean
1519 - Cortez lands in Mexico
1519-22 - Magellan’s ships circle earth
1531-35 - Pizarro conquers Incas
1534 - Cartier makes first voyage
1539-42 - DeSoto explores Southeast U.S.
1588 - English defeat Spanish Armada
1607 - Jamestown is founded
1609 - Hudson explores Hudson River
1619 - First women arrive at Jamestown
1619 - First Africans arrive in Virginia
1619 - First meeting of the Virginia House of Burgesses
1620 - Mayflower Compact
1624 - Virginia becomes a royal colony
1630 - Massachusetts Bay Colony founded
1632 - Maryland is chartered
1636 - Harvard is founded
1636 - Roger Williams founds Providence
1639 - Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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1643 - New England Confederation formed
1647 - Massachusetts passes school law
1649 - Maryland Act of Toleration
1651-63 - Principal Navigation Acts passed by Parliament
1663 - Carolina is chartered
1664 - New Netherlands becomes New Jersey and New York
1673 - Exploration of upper Midwest U.S. and Canada by Joliet and Marquette
1675-76 - Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia
1679 - New Hampshire is chartered
1681 - Pennsylvania is chartered
1681-82 - Exploration of Mississippi area by LaSalle
1682 - Delaware granted to William Penn
1686 - Dominion of New England created
1689 - Glorious Revolution in England and the end of the Dominion
1693 - College of William and Mary founded in Williamsburg
1701 - Yale University founded
1732 - Georgia is chartered
1733 - Molasses Act passed by Parliament
1735 - Zenger trial
1750 - Iron Act passed by Parliament
1754 - French and Indian War starts
1754 - Albany Plan of Union proposed by Franklin
1754 - Columbia University founded
1755 - British General Braddock defeated disastrously by French and Indians
1756 - William Pitt heads British government
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1759 - British capture Quebec
1763 - Treaty of Paris that ends French and Indian War
1763 - Proclamation of 1763
1764 - Sugar Act
1764 - Currency Act
1765 - Stamp Act and founding of the Sons of Liberty
1766 - Repeal of Stamp Act
1767 - Townshend Acts
1770 - Boston Massacre
1772 - Committees of Correspondence founded
1773 - Tea Act
1773 - Boston Tea Party
1774 - First Continental Congress
1775 - Fighting at Lexington and Concord
1775 - Second Continental Congress
1775 - Battle of Breed’s (Bunker) Hill
1776 - Paine’s "Common Sense" appears
1776 - Declaration of Independence
1776 - American victory at Trenton
1777-78 - Howe occupies Philadelphia
1777 - Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga
1778 - Treaty of Alliance with France
1781 - Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown
1781 - Articles of Confederation go into effect
1783 - Treaty of Paris
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1785 - Land Ordinance
1786-87 - Shays’ Rebellion in Massachusetts
1787 - Northwest Ordinance
1787 - Constitution is drafted
GEORGE WASHINGTON IN OFFICE: 1789-1797
1789 - Congress created Departments of State, Treasury, and War
1789 - United States courts are organized
1790 - Assumption Bill is passed
1791 - Bill of Rights is ratified
1791 - Vermont enters the Union
1791 - Bank of the United States chartered
1791 - Lancaster Turnpike is begun
1792 - Kentucky enters the Union
1793 - Proclamation of Neutrality
1794 - Whiskey Rebellion is put down
1794 - Jay’s Treaty with Britain
1795 - Pinckney’s Treaty with Spain
1796 - Tennessee enters the Union
JOHN ADAMS IN OFFICE: 1791-1801
1797 - XYZ Affair angers Americans
1798 - Navy Department is created
1798 - Eleventh Amendment is ratified
1798 - Alien and Sedition Acts passed by Congress
1798-99 - Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
1801 - Marshall becomes Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
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THOMAS JEFFERSON IN OFFICE: 1801-1809
1803 - Ohio enter the Union
1803 - Marbury vs. Madison
1803 - Louisiana Purchase adds vast territory to the U.S.
1804 - Twelfth Amendment ratified
1804-06 - Lewis and Clark’ Corps of Discovery expedition to the Pacific
1805 - Tripolitan War (Barbary Pirates)
1807 - Embargo Act
JAMES MADISON IN OFFICE: 1809-1817
1809 - Non-Intercourse Act
1811 - Battle of Tippecanoe
1811 - National Road begins
1812 - Louisiana enters the Union
18112-14 - War of 1812 is fought with Britain
1814 - Treaty of Ghent ends war
1815 - Battle of New Orleans
1816 - Second Bank of the United States is chartered
1816 - Indiana enter the Union
JAMES MONROE IN OFFICE: 1817-1825
1817-25 - "Era of Good Feelings"
1817 - Mississippi enters the Union
1818 - Rush-Bagot Treaty with Britain
1818 - Illinois enters the Union
1818 - Convention of 1818 settles part of Canadian-U.S. border
1819 - McCulloch vs. Maryland (1819)
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1819 - Dartmouth College vs. Woodward (1819)
1819 - Alabama enters the Union
1819 - Adams-Onis Treaty (Florida Treaty)
1819 - Panic of 1819 (first financial/economic panic in U.S. History)
1820 - Missouri Compromise
1820 - Maine enters the Union
1821 - Missouri enters the Union
1821 - First public high school opens
1821 - Cohens vs. Virginia (1821)
1823 - Monroe Doctrine
1824 - Gibbons vs. Ogden (1824)
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS IN OFFICE: 1825-1829
1825 - Erie Canal opens
1828 - "Tariff of Abominations" (Tariff of 1828)
1828 - Work begins on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
ANDREW JACKSON IN OFFICE: 1829-1837
1830 - Webster-Hayne Debate
1831 - Nat Turner slave uprising in Virginia
1831 - First issue of the "Liberator"
1832 - Tariff of 1832
1832 - Ordinance of Nullification
1832 - Jackson vetoes re-chartering of the Second Bank of the U.S.
1833 - Compromise Tariff of 1833
1836 - Texas declares its independence from Mexico
1837 - Michigan enters the Union
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MARTIN VAN BUREN IN OFFICE: 1837-1841
1837 - Business panic and beginning of depression
1837 - Horace Mann starts school reform
1838 - Oberlin admits women students
1841 - Jackson Era ends
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON IN OFFICE: MAR 4 TO APR 4, 1841
1841 - Harrison dies in office (first to do so)
JOHN TYLER IN OFFICE: 1841 TO 1845
1842 - Massachusetts recognizes legal rights of labor unions to exist
1842 - Webster-Ashburton Treaty
1845 - Florida enters the Union
JAMES K. POLK IN OFFICE: 1845-1849
1845 - Texas enter the Union
1846 - Buchanan-Packingham Treaty settles Oregon border with Britain
1846 - Iowa enters the Union
1846 - Congress declares war on Mexico
1846 - Wilmot Proviso is presented in the U.S. Senate
1847 - Mormons settle at Great Salt Lake
1848 - Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo ends the Mexican War
1848 - Women’s Rights convention at Seneca Falls, N.Y.
1848 - Wisconsin enters the Union
ZACHARY TAYLOR IN OFFICE: 1849-1850
1849 - Gold Rush in California
1850 - Taylor dies
MILLARD FILLMORE IN OFFICE: 1850-1853
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1850 - Compromise of 1850
1850 - California enters the Union
1852 - Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published
FRANKLIN PIERCE IN OFFICE: 1853-1857
1853 - Gadsden Purchase approved
1853 - Matthew Perry arrives in Japan
1854 - Kansas-Nebraska Act
1854 - Republican Party is formed
1856 - "Bleeding Kansas"
JAMES BUCHANAN IN OFFICE: 1857-1861
1857 - Scott vs. Sanford (1857) – "Dred Scott Case"
1858 - Lincoln-Douglas Debates
1858 - Minnesota enters the Union
1859 - John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry Arsenal
1859 - Oregon enters the Union
1860 - South Carolina secedes from the Union
1861 - Kansas enters the Union
1861 - The Confederate States of America is formed
1861 - Morrill Tariff Act
ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN OFFICE: 1861-1865
1861 - South fires on Fort Sumter and Civil War soon begins (1861-1865)
1861 - First Battle of Bull Run
1862 - Ironclad naval Battle between the Monitor vs. Virginia
1862 - Battle of Second Bull Run
1862 - Battle of Antietam
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1862 - Emancipation Proclamation
1862 - Union forces reach Vicksburg, Mississippi
1862 - Homestead Act
1862 - Morrill Land-Grant Act for agricultural and mechanical studies
1862 - Department of Agriculture is formed
1863 - Battle of Gettysburg
1863 - General Grant takes Vicksburg
1863 - West Virginia enters the Union
1864 - Sherman takes Atlanta, Georgia
1864 - Nevada enters the Union
1865 - Freedman’s Bureau is created
1865 - General Lee surrenders to General Grant at Appomattox, VA.
1865 - Lincoln is assassinated at Ford’s Theater
ANDREW JOHNSON IN OFFICE: 1865-1869
1865 - Johnson recognizes four reconstructed state governments
1865 - Thirteenth Amendment is ratified
1865-86 - Indian Wars on the Great Plains
1866 - National Labor Union is formed
1867 - Nebraska enters the Union
1867 - U.S. purchases Alaska from Russia
1867 - Congressional Reconstruction plan begins
1867 - Grange is formed
1868 - Fourteenth Amendment is ratified
1868 - Johnson is impeached by the House, but acquitted by the U.S. Senate
ULYSSES S. GRANT IN OFFICE: 1869-1876
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1869 - First transcontinental railroad completed
1869 - Knights of Labor founded
1870 - Fifteenth Amendment ratified
1870-71 - Force Acts
1872 - Amnesty Act
1872 - Credit Mobilier Scandal
1873 - Nationwide economic depression
1875 - Specie Resumption Act
1876 - Colorado enters the Union
1876 - Centennial Exhibition
1876-77 - "Granger Cases" decided
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES IN OFFICE: 1877-1881
1877 - Troops withdrawn from the South
1877 - Series of massive railroad strikes
1878 - Bland-Allison Act
1880-90 - New Immigration from eastern and southern Europe
JAMES A. GARFIELD IN OFFICE: MAR. 4 - SEPT. 4, 1881
1881 - Garfield is assassinated
CHESTER A. ARTHUR IN OFFICE: 1881-1885
1882 - Chinese Exclusion Act
1883 - Stand Oil Trust organized
1883 - Pendleton Act sets up Civil Service System
GROVER CLEVELAND IN OFFICE: 1885-1889
1886 - Presidential Succession Act
1886 - A.F. of L. is organized
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1886 - Haymarket Square Riot in Chicago
1887 - Interstate Commerce Act
1887 - Hatch Act
1887 - Dawes Severalty Act ("Americanize" the Indians)
BENJAMIN HARRISON IN OFFICE: 1889-1893
1889 - Washington, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota enter the Union
1890 - Wyoming, Idaho enter the Union
1890 - McKinley Tariff
1890 - Sherman Antitrust Act
1890 - Sherman Silver Purchase Act
1891 - Populist Party is officially organized
1892 - Homestead Steel Strike
GROVER CLEVELAND IN OFFICE: 1893-1897
1893 - Panic (Depression) of 1893 - #2 in US History
1893 - Sherman Silver Purchase Act is repealed
1893 - World’s Fair is held in Chicago
1894 - Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act
1894 - Pullman Strike
1894 - Huge Republican gains in Congress
1895 - Cubans rebel against Spanish
1896 - William Jennings Bryan is free silver candidate for president
1896 - Utah enters the Union
1896 - Plessy vs. Ferguson
1896 - Gold discovered in Klondike
WILLIAM MCKINLEY IN OFFICE: 1897-1901
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1897 - Dingley Tariff
1898 - Spanish-American War
1898 - Treaty of Paris gives U.S. Puerto Rico, Guam, Wake Islands, Philippines
1898 - U.S. annexes Hawaii
1899 - First Hague Conference
1899-01 - Filipino Uprising
1899-01 - Open Door policy proclaimed
1900 - Boxer Rebellion
1901 - Platt Amendment (Cuba)
1901 - McKinley is assassinated
THEODORE ROOSEVELT IN OFFICE: 1901-1909
1901 - Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
1901-02 - Pan-American Conference
1902 - Newlands Reclamation Act
1902 - Drago Doctrine is announced
1902 - American forces withdrawn from Cuba
1903 - Elkins Act
1903 - Canal Zone is acquired by the U.S.
1903 - Wright Brothers and the Kitty Hawk Flyer
1903 - Department of Commerce and Labor is created
1903 - Wisconsin adopts direct primary
1904 - Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine
1904 - Northern Securities Company ruling by the Supreme Court
1905 - Treaty of Portsmouth
1906 - Pure Food and Drug Act
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1906 - Meat Inspection Act
1906 - Burke Act modifies the Dawes Severalty Act
1906 - Pan-American Conference
1907 - Oklahoma enters the Union
1907 - "Gentleman’s Agreement" with Japan
1907 - Second Hague Conference
1908 - White House Conservation Conference
1908 - Danbury Hatters ruling
WILLIAM H. TAFT IN OFFICE: 1909-1913
1909 - Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act
1910 - Mann-Elkins Act
1910 - Pan-American Conference
1911 - Transcontinental plane flight
1912 - New Mexico, Arizona enter Union
1912 - Progressive Party is formed
1912 - First state minimum-wage law
1913 - Sixteenth Amendment ratified
WOODROW WILSON IN OFFICE: 1913-1921
1913 - Seventeenth Amendment ratified
1913 - Underwood-Simmons Tariff Act
1913 - Federal Reserve Act
1914 - World War I begins in Europe
1914 - Panama Canal opens to ships
1914 - Federal Trade Commission is established
1914 - Clayton Antitrust Act
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1916 - Jones Act
1917 - Russian Revolution
1917 - US enters WWI
1917 - Smith-Hughes Act
1917 - Smith-Lever Act
1917 - US buys Virgin Islands
1918 - WWI ends
1918 - Wilson presents Fourteen Points
1919 - Eighteenth Amendment ratified
1919 - "Palmer Raids"
1919 - Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations created
1920 - Nineteenth Amendment
WARREN G. HARDING IN OFFICE: 1921-1923
1921 - Bureau of the Budget created
1921 - Veterans' Bureau created
1921-22 - Washington Naval Conference
1921 & 24 - Laws restricting immigration
1922 - Mussolini seizes power in Italy
1922 - Fordney-McCumber Tariff
1923 - Harding dies of a stroke
CALVIN COOLIDGE IN OFFICE: 1923-1929
1923 - Pan-American Conference
1924 - Teapot Dome Scandal
1924 - Veterans' Bonus Bill passed
1924 - All American Indians given citizenship
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1927 - McNary-Haugen Bill vetoed to help farmers
1928 - Kellogg-Briand Pact
1928 - Pan-American Conference
HERBERT HOOVER IN OFFICE: 1929-1933
1929 - Stock Market Crash
1930 - Public works programs started (slowly)
1930 - Hawley-Smoot Tariff
1931 - Japan invades Manchuria
1932 - Reconstruction Finance Corporation is created
1932 - Stimson Doctrine is announced
1932-33 - Federal Reserve powers increased
1933 - Hitler comes to power in Germany
1933 - Twentieth Amendment ratified
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT IN OFFICE: 1933-1945
1933 - Civilian Conservation Corps is created
1933 - Agricultural Adjustment Act
1933 - Roosevelt declared "Bank Holiday"
1933 - National Industrial Recovery Act goes into effect
1933 - Tennessee Valley Authority is created
1933 - U.S. recognizes the USSR
1933 - Good Neighbor Policy is announced
1933 - Twenty-First Amendment ratified
1934 - Roosevelt begins "Off the Gold Standard"
1934 - Securities and Exchange Commission is created
1934 - Indian Reorganization Act (Howard-Wheeler Act)
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1934 - Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act (with Latin America)
1934 - Platt Amendment cancelled
1935 - Works Progress Amendment is created
1935 - NIRA declared unconstitutional
1935 - National Labor Relations Act
1935 - Social Security Act
1935-37 - Neutrality Acts
1936 - Agricultural Adjustment Act declared unconstitutional
1936 - Pan-American Conference
1937 - "Court-Packing" Scheme
1937-38 - "Roosevelt" Recession
1938 - CIO separates from the AF of L
1938 - Fair Labor Standards Act
1938 - Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
1938 - Declaration of Lima
1939 - Germany invades Poland (WWII begins)
1939 - Neutrality Acts of 1937 amended
1940 - France signs armistice with Germany
1941 - "Four Freedoms" Speech by FDR
1941 - Lend-Lease Act and Program
1941 - Hitler attacks the USSR
1941 - Atlantic Charter states war aims
1941 - Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (U.S. in WWII)
1942 - Corregidor surrenders to Japanese
1942 - Marines invade Guadalcanal
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1942 - Allied invasion of North Africa
1942 - Office of Price Administration is established
1942 - Battle of Midway
1943 - Allied invasion of Italy
1943 - Cairo and Teheran Conferences
1944 - Allies invade Normandy, France (D-Day)
1944 - France is liberated
1945 - Yalta Conference
1945 - FDR dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Georgia
HARRY S TRUMAN IN OFFICE: 1945-1953
1945 - San Francisco Conference (UN)
1945 - War ends in Europe
1945 - Atomic bombs destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1945 - Truman signs the UN Charter
1945 - World War II ends
1946 - Philippines become independent
1946 - Wage and price controls ended
1947 - Truman Doctrine is announced
1947 - Marshall Plan is proposed
1947 - Taft-Hartley Act
1947 - Presidential Succession Act
1948-49 - Berlin Airlift
1949 - Point Four Program
1949 - NATO formed
1949 - Communists control China
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1950 - Internal Security Act
1950 - Korean War starts
1951 - Twenty-Second Amendment ratified
1952 - U.S. tests hydrogen bomb
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER IN OFFICE: 1953 - 1961
1953 - Department of Health, Education, and Welfare created
1953 - States get control of offshore oil
1953 - Korean War armistice signed ending the war
1954 - Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education - segregated public schools unconstitutional
1954 - West Germany is admitted to NATO
1954 - Both U.S. & USSR have hydrogen bombs
1955 - Summit Conference (U.S. & USSR)
1956 - Suez Canal Crisis in Egypt
1957 - Civil Rights Commission created
1957 - Sputnik in orbit
1958 - Explorer I launched by U.S.
1958 - National Defense and Education Act
1958 - National Defense Highway Act (Eisenhower Interstate Highway System)
1958 - Congress admits Alaska to the Union
1958-59 - Berlin Conference
1959 - St. Lawrence Seaway is opened
1959 - Congress admits Hawaii to the Union
1960 - Summit Conference called off after U-2 Spy Plane incident that year
JOHN F. KENNEDY IN OFFICE: 1945-1953
1961 - Peace Corps established
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1961 - Alliance for Progress with Latin America started
1961 - First Soviet cosmonaut orbits earth
1961 - Invasion of Cuba fails
1961 - Berlin Wall built
1962 - First American orbits the earth
1962 - U.S. troops enter Vietnam (not advisors)
1962 - Trade Expansion Act
1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis
1963 - Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (only can test underground)
1963 - Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas
LYNDON B. JOHNSON IN OFFICE: 1963-1969
1964 - Economic Opportunity Act
1964 - Civil Rights Act
1964 - Twenty-fourth Amendment ratified
1965 - Voting Rights Act
1965 - Medicare established
1965 - Vietnam War escalates
1965 - Department of Housing and Urban Development established
1966 - National Organization for Women (NOW) is founded
1966 - Department of Transportation created
1967 - Racial disturbances occur in several large cities
1967 - Twenty-Fifth Amendment is ratified
1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy are assassinated
1968 - Tet Offensive by Vietcong
1968 - Vietnam peace talks begin in Paris
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RICHARD M. NIXON IN OFFICE: 1969-1974
1969 - American troop withdrawals from Vietnam begin
1969 - American astronauts land on the Moon
1971 - President Nixon visits Communist China and the Soviet Union
1972 - Furman vs. Georgia
1972 - Roe vs. Wade
1972 - Watergate Conspiracy and Scandal begins
1973 - Vice-President Spiro Agnew resigns
1973 - Vietnam cease-fire
1974 - Nixon resigns and Gerald Ford becomes President
GERALD R. FORD IN OFFICE: 1974-1977
1974 - Ford pardons Nixon
1975 - Mayaguez Incident
1975 - Vietnam falls
1976 - U.S. bicentennial celebrated
1976 - U.S. Viking spacecraft lands on Mars
JIMMY CARTER IN OFFICE: 1977-1981
1977 - Carter announces plan to pardon Vietnam draft evaders
1977 - Department of Energy created
1978 - Panama Canal treaties approved (returning Canal Zone to Panama in 1997)
1978 - Carter proposes voluntary wage and price guidelines
1978 - Bakke vs. University of California at Davis
1978 - Carter meets with Begin of Israel and Sadat of Egypt at Camp David for peace talks
(All receive the Nobel Peace Prize)
1979 - Revolution in Iran; American hostages seized in November at U.S. Embassy
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1979 - Accident at Three Mile Island nuclear plant
1979 - Gasoline shortages in U.S.
1979 - Soviet Union invades Afghanistan
1980 - "Carter Doctrine" announced
1980 - U.S. cuts off grain shipments to Soviet Union and boycotts Olympics to protest
Afghanistan invasion
1980 - U.S. mission to free hostages in Iran fails miserably
1980 - "Freedom Flotilla" of Cuban refugees arrives in U.S.
RONALD REAGAN IN OFFICE: 1981-1989
1981 - Iran releases U.S. hostages
1981 - Reagan survives assassination attempt
1981 - Flight of first space shuttle Columbia
1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court
1983 - U.S. invades Grenada to stop communism
1983 - U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon blown up (peace-keepers)
1986 - Space Shuttle Challenger explodes approximately two minutes into its flight
1986 - Iran-Contra Scandal (Colonel Oliver North - key figure)
GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH IN OFFICE: 1989-1993
1989 - Communism falls throughout Europe (including the Berlin Wall)
1990 & 1991 - Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm (Kuwait invaded by Iraq)
1989 - Exxon Valdez (off coast of Alaska) oil spill becomes the worst in U.S. History
BILL CLINTON IN OFFICE: 1993-2001
1993 - Appoints Janet Reno as first female to the Attorney General post
1993 - Leader David Koresh and the Branch Davidian cult commit suicide (80 people) in
Waco, TX (ATF blamed)
1995 - Murrow Federal Building in Oklahoma City blown up by anti-govt militiaman Timothy
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McVeigh. Over 200 killed in worst domestic terrorist act in U.S. History. McVeigh
executed!
1996 - Clinton sends in peacekeepers to Bosnia as part of NATO force
1998 - Monica Lewinsky Affair and the Impeachment of President Bill Clinton (second in
U.S. History)
GEORGE W. BUSH IN OFFICE: 20012001 - Bush defeats Democrat Al Gore even though Gore gets the popular vote
2001 - Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda commit the largest and deadliest attack on the U.S.
in history. Over 2000 Americans and foreigners are killed as civilian airplanes are
used as missiles. Both of the World Trade Center buildings are destroyed along with
heavy destruction to the Pentagon. Bush orders Operation Enduring Freedom to
destroy the Talaban rule in Afghanistan who was supporting Bin Laden and the
terrorists.
2003 - Operation Iraqi Freedom - the U.S., the British and others attack Iraq to remove
Saddam Hussein from power. In Dec. 2003 he was captured. Before and after his capture,
many insurgent
groups try to destroy the interim govt. The first elections in Iraqi history are scheduled for
January 2005.
2003 - North Korea tries to blackmail U.S. and other nations with its on and off nuclear
weapons program.
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