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U.S. rescue attempt to save hostages in Tehran fails.
An ill-fated military operation to rescue the 52 American hostages held in Tehran ends with eight U.S. servicemen dead and no hostages rescued. -
Reagan Inauguration
Actor Ronald Reagan becomes the 40th President -
Bobby Sands begins hunger strike
The Sunday before Sands began his strike, 3,500 people marched through west Belfast. During the first hunger strike four months earlier the marchers had numbered 10,000. -
NASA STS-3 Mission
Demonstrate safe re-launch and safe return of the orbiter and crew. Verify the combined performance of the entire shuttle vehicle - orbiter, solid rocket boosters and external tank. -
Cruise Missiles
The Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM) is an American-developed weapon classified as a cruise missile, which is an unmanned jet-propelled aircraft that uses guidance systems to seek and destroy targets. -
1st Un-tethered Space Walk
During NASA Space Shuttle mission STS-41-B, astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart made the first untethered spacewalk using the manned maneuvering unit (MMU). -
Reagan Inauguration
Reagan's 2nd term begins -
Columbia Eruption
Multiple tremors were recorded and geologists from around the world traveled to Colombia to observe the situation. The following November, an eruption of steam and ash caused ice, rocks and mud to cascade down the mountain. -
Space Shuttle Challenger
NASA shuttle orbiter undertaking mission STS-51-L and the tenth flight of Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members, which consisted of five NASA astronauts, one payload specialist and a civilian school teacher. -
Reagan Berlin Wall Speech
"Tear down this wall!" is a line from a speech made by U.S. President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin calling for the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961. -
NASA resumes space shuttle flights
Grounded after the Challenger disaster, with Space Shuttle Discovery. But is later down the road able to perform space shuttle launches. -
Japanese emperor Hirohito
Hirohito was the 124th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession. -
George H.W. Bush Inauguration
Bush becomes the 41st President of the U.S. -
Hubble Space Telescope placed in orbit
The finished telescope parts were moved into storage. Hubble workers continued to tweak the telescope during the delay, improving the solar batteries and upgrading other systems. -
Berlin Wall comes down
As the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders. -
Bill Clinton Becomes President
The 1992 United States presidential election was the 52nd quadrennial presidential election. Democratic Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas defeated incumbent Republican President George H. W. Bush, independent businessman Ross Perot of Texas, and a number of minor candidates. -
Bill Clinton Inauguration
Former Governor of Arkansas becomes the 42nd President of the U.S. -
World Trade Center bombing
World Trade Center bombing was a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, when a truck bomb detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. -
Forrest Gump
Slow-witted Forrest Gump has never thought of himself as disadvantaged, and thanks to his supportive mother, he leads anything but a restricted life. -
Quebec defeats referendum on independence
Quebec independence referendum was the second referendum to ask voters in the Canadian French-speaking province of Quebec whether Quebec should proclaim national sovereignty and become an independent country, with the condition precedent of offering a political and economic agreement to Canada. -
STS-72 Space Shuttle Mission
STS-72 was a Space Shuttle Endeavour mission to capture and return to Earth a Japanese microgravity research spacecraft known as Space Flyer Unit. -
President Clinton's 2nd Term starts
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Hong Kong's Independence
Hong Kong independence is a movement that advocates Hong Kong becoming an independent sovereign state. -
Microsoft becomes the biggest company in the world
Microsoft Corp. surpassed Apple Inc. to become the world's most valuable publicly traded company. All it took was a $300 billion rout. After briefly claiming the top spot on Monday, Microsoft shares rose 0.6 percent Tuesday, pushing the company's market value to $828.1 billion at the close. -
NATO Begins Bombing Yugoslavia
The NATO bombing of Yugoslavia was the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's military operation against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War. -
Republican candidate Texas Governor George W. Bush Becomes President
Republican candidate Texas Governor George W. Bush defeats Democratic Vice President Al Gore in the closest election in history, but the final outcome is not known for over a month because of disputed votes in Florida. -
George W. Bush Inauguration
Former governor of Texas becomes the 43rd President of the U.S. -
September 11 attacks
The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.
