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Eyewitness history
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Watergate
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President nixon re-elected
Nixon is Re-elected by a land Slide -
18.5 of tape found missing
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Nixon Resignes
Nixon resigned after the Watergate scandal and about to be impeached -
Saigon Falls
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President carter elected into office
Jimmy Carter was elected into his first term -
US embassy taken hostage
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John Lennon Murdered
Was shot late at night 4 times in the back by mark chapman -
President Reagan Sworn into office and hostages released
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OJ simpson Trials convicted not guilty
Oj was covicted of killing his wife but in a long trial he was cnvicted not guilty of any charges -
Challenger explosion
2 minutes after lift off an engine malfunction caused it to explode killing all on board -
Chernobyl Disaster
Chernobyl was a nucleor plant which one of the reactors misfunctioned and exploded and is now one of the largest nucleour disatsers ever -
Tianamen Square
Big raly sparks after a communist driven country no longewr thinks that it is fair -
Berlin Wall comes down
The wall was 96 miles long and seperated east and west then on nov 9 they announced you could legally cross and peole took chisels and destroyed it -
Operation Desert Storm
Gerge HW Busch sent in troops after Sudam invaded Suadi Arabia -
Magic Johnson says he has Aids
He announced to the nation and basketball world that you do not have to be gay to have aids and now has increased the awarness and research -
Okalahoma City Bombing
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Internet was invented
Bill Gates invinted this with windows and it quickley became the hip and new thing to be on and was introduced at the computer convention -
Princess Diana Dies
Diana was the icon of every girl and they all wanted to be like her and she was sadly killed by a drunk driver while in the back of her car -
Bill Clinton Confessed to an affair
Bill Clinton confesses to having an affair with his secretary -
Twin towers Attacked
Terroists attacked the twin towers with two hijacked planes early in the morning and later crashed one in pennsylvania and also into the Pentagon -
Amercians start to enter Iraq
George Busch Sends troops into Iraq following the Atacks on 9/11 and the was still has not ended
