President Project
...adopts the ¡§Law of Sea¡¨ 1983 „X US troops invade Grenada „X Pope John Paul Visits Poland 1985 „X Live Aid concerts are held in England and the US to provide famine relief to Ethiopia „X British discover a hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica 1986 „X Stock markets around the world crash „X US and USSR sign INF treaty banning short and medium range nuclear missiles in Europe 1987 „X Terrorists blow up a Pan American 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all aboard and several people on land Cyr2 Jimmy Carter, 39th president 1977 „X Carter issues a pardon to most of those who evaded the draft in order to avoid going to Vietnam „X Carter pressures NATO allies to re-arm „X Carter and Panamanian president sign the Panama Canal 1978 „X The senate ratifies the second Panama Canal treaty 1979 „X Sadat and Begin sign the historic-Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty on the White House lawn „X A nuclear reactor accident at the Three Mile Island power plant in Pennsylvania causes widespread alarm „X President Carter and Soviet Premier sign the SALT II arms control agreement in Vienna „X The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan 1980 „X The president urges a boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow „X Iraq invades Iran „X Reagan dfeays Carter 51% to 41% in the popular vote, and 489 electoral votes to 49 Cyr4 George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st president 1989 „X Bush orders military invasion of Panama in order to topple the entrenched government of General Manuel Antonio Noriega. 1990 „X Bush meets with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Paris and signs a mutual nonaggression pact, a symbolic conclusion to the Cold War. ...