10 Eventos Eua

21st March 1980 U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United
States will boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

20th January 1981       Ronald Reagan succeeds Jimmy Carter as the40th
President of the United States. Minutes later, Iran releases the
fifty-two Americans who had been held captive for 444 days, ending the
Iran hostage crisis.

30th March 1981 U.S. PresidentRonald Reagan is shot in the chest
outside a Washington D.C. hotel by John Hinckley Junior. Two police
officers and Press Secretary James Brady are also wounded.

19th October 1987       BlackMonday: Stock market levels fall sharply on
Wall Street and around the world.

29th September 1988     NASA resumes space shuttle flights with the Space
Shuttle ‘Discovery‘. Missions had previously beengrounded after the
‘Challenger’ disaster in 1983 had culminated in the death of all seven
crew members.

The Persian Gulf War - one of the quickest and least lethal wars for
the U.S, but thelack of any initiative to get President Hussein would
turn into the Third Persian Gulf War which is also know as the Iraq
Invasion and War for America in 2001

The Great Flood of 1993 - became theworst U.S flooding disaster ever recorded

The 1993 World Trade Center attack - unsuccessful first attempt on the
World Trade Center

  2001 - 9/11: The most important single event of the entiredecade.
On the morning of September 11, 19 suicide Al Qaeda suicide bombers
hijacked four passenger jets in what became the most devastating
foreign invasion ever on American soil. Two of the planeswere flown
into the World Trade Center Twin Towers, while another crashed into
the Pentagon. The fourth ditched into a field in rural Pennsylvania.
In all 2976 people were killed. It marked thestart of America's War
on Terrorism. Britain followed at the heels of the US for the rest of
the decade.

2004 - Creation of Facebook: Even when the big event of the year
occurred on February 4 it...