Presidents

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  • Carter and Panamanian President Omar Torrijos Herrera sign the Panama Canal Treaty, handing control of the canal to Panama in 1999 and guaranteeing the canal’s neutrality.

  • Carter signs the Camp David Accords producing “a framework for peace” in the Middle East.

    The Camp David meetings are landmark negotiations between Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian prime minister Anwar Sadat.

  • Carter signs the National Energy Act, deregulating natural gas prices and paving way for similar progress with oil.

  • The United States and China establish formal diplomatic realtions for the first time since 1949.

  • The 444-day Iran Hostage Crisis begins when Iranian students take hostage the staff of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in response to the Shah of Iran’s medical stay in the U.S.

  • Carter negotiates final terms for release of hostages from the Iran Hostage Crisis.

  • American hostages from the 444-day Iran Hostage Crisis are released.

  • President Reagan signs the tax cut bill, the Economic Recovery Tax Act (ERTA).

  • The Missing Children Act and the Victim & Witness Protection Act is signed, providing rights to parents with missing children and protection for crime victims and witnesses.

  • The Nuclear Waste Policy Act is signed, establishing a national radioactive waste disposal program.

  • Iran-Contra scandal breaks when it is confirmed that members of the Reagan administration funded Nicaraguan anti-communist guerilla Contras by selling arms to Iran.

  • The Disaster Assistance Act is signed, providing federal aid to farmers affected by the drought.

  • Bush announces U.S. military action in Panama leading to the capture of renegade dictator Manuel Noriega.

  • Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, prohibiting discrimination based on disabilities.

  • Bush deploys U.S. forces for the defense of Saudi Arabia.

  • Bush signs the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, deemed to be the most significant environmental legislation ever passed.

    The Amendments seek ways to reduce smog and atmospheric pollution, which includes prohibiting the use of leaded gasoline in motor vehicles by the end of 1995.

  • The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is signed.

  • Clinton signs the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), lowering tariffs and other trade restrictions between the U.S., Canada and Mexico over 15 years.

  • A tower of the World Trade Center in New York is damaged by a terrorist bomb.

  • A missile attack is launched against Iraqi intelligence headquarters in Baghdad in retaliation for an alleged Iraqi plot to assassinate former President George Bush.

  • Clinton signs bill providing for major reforms to the nation’s welfare system, limiting lifetime welfare benefits to five years and giving more control to states.

  • Clinton denies allegations that he had a sexual relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

  • President Clinton, Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sign the Wye River Memorandum authorizing withdrawal of Israeli forces from parts of the occupied West Bank.

  • Signs the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001. Some of the Act’s benefits included reduced federal income taxes, increased education benefits and child tax credits, and reduced marriage taxes.

  • In the deadliest attack on home soil, terrorists hijack four airplanes, crashing three of them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

    The fourth plane crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after its passengers attempted to overtake the hijackers. It is believed that the plane was meant to crash into the U.S. Capitol or the White House.

  • The War in Afghanistan begins.

  • Bush signs the No Child Left Behind Act.

  • The Department of Homeland Security is formed.

  • Signs the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003. Some of this Act’s provisions included accelerating the cuts passed in the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001.

  • Clinton announces the lifting of the nineteen-year trade embargo against Vietnam, stating that the South East Asian nation is cooperating with the U.S. in helping to locate over 2,000 Americans still listed as missing since the Vietnam War. The two countr

  • Hurricane Katrina, the deadliest hurricane since 1928, makes landfall in southeast Louisiana.

  • Signs the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, a bill aimed at helping America weather a financial crisis.

  • Obama announces that companies receiving large amounts of federal bailout money through the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) program must cap top executive pay at US$500,000.[35] Obama signs the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act

  • Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), a $787 billion recovery program for the U.S. economy. The bill included $70 billion in tax cuts, consisting of an $800 tax credit for 129 million working households, and an expansion of the C

  • Obama announces that Osama bin Laden has been killed.

  • In a speech delivered to a joint session of Congress, Obama presents the American Jobs Act, his plan to create jobs and revive the economy

  • Occupy Wall Street