https://padlet.com/2515881/rhfbmotnbi4dvjf8 en-us 2021-12-17 20:44:39 UTC 2021-12-18 20:32:19 UTC hello@padlet.com 2515881 https://padlet.com/2515881/rhfbmotnbi4dvjf8/wish/1954302148 John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th president]]> 2021-12-17 21:21:08 UTC https://padlet.com/2515881/rhfbmotnbi4dvjf8/wish/1954302148 2515881 https://padlet.com/2515881/rhfbmotnbi4dvjf8/wish/1954303534 President Kennedy is assassinated
in Dallas, Texas. He is succeeded in office by his vice president, Lyndon B. Johnson.]]> 2021-12-17 21:23:14 UTC https://padlet.com/2515881/rhfbmotnbi4dvjf8/wish/1954303534 2515881 https://padlet.com/2515881/rhfbmotnbi4dvjf8/wish/1954305702 President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act.]]> 2021-12-17 21:26:50 UTC https://padlet.com/2515881/rhfbmotnbi4dvjf8/wish/1954305702 2515881 https://padlet.com/2515881/rhfbmotnbi4dvjf8/wish/1954309036 Nixon makes historic visit to Communist China. The U.S. and Soviet Union sign strategic arms control agreement known as SALT I. Five men, all employees of Nixon's reelection campaign, are caught breaking into rival Democratic headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, DC.]]> 2021-12-17 21:32:10 UTC https://padlet.com/2515881/rhfbmotnbi4dvjf8/wish/1954309036 2515881 https://padlet.com/2515881/rhfbmotnbi4dvjf8/wish/1954310980 House Judiciary Committee recommends to full House that Nixon be impeached on grounds of obstruction of
justice, abuse of power, and contempt of Congress. Nixon resigns and he is succeeded in office by his
vice president, Gerald Ford. Nixon is granted an unconditional pardon by President Ford.]]> 2021-12-17 21:35:28 UTC https://padlet.com/2515881/rhfbmotnbi4dvjf8/wish/1954310980 2515881 https://padlet.com/2515881/rhfbmotnbi4dvjf8/wish/1954312552 Jimmy Carter is inaugurated as the 39th president. President Carter signs a treaty agreeing to turn control of Panama Canal over to Panama on Dec. 31, 1999.]]> 2021-12-17 21:38:20 UTC https://padlet.com/2515881/rhfbmotnbi4dvjf8/wish/1954312552 2515881 https://padlet.com/2515881/rhfbmotnbi4dvjf8/wish/1954314186 Ronald Reagan is inaugurated as the 40th president. U.S. hostages held in Iran are released after 444 days in captivity. President Reagan is shot in the chest by John Hinckley, Jr.]]> 2021-12-17 21:41:17 UTC https://padlet.com/2515881/rhfbmotnbi4dvjf8/wish/1954314186 2515881 https://padlet.com/2515881/rhfbmotnbi4dvjf8/wish/1955024756 President Bush and Russian president Boris Yeltsin meet at Camp David and formally declare an end to the cold war.]]> 2021-12-18 20:07:56 UTC https://padlet.com/2515881/rhfbmotnbi4dvjf8/wish/1955024756 2515881 https://padlet.com/2515881/rhfbmotnbi4dvjf8/wish/1955028481 President Clinton orders a missile attack against Iraq in retaliation for alleged plot to assassinate former President Bush. Eighteen U.S. soldiers are killed in ambush by Somali militiamen in Mogadishu. President Clinton signs the North American Free Trade Agreement into law.]]> 2021-12-18 20:15:28 UTC https://padlet.com/2515881/rhfbmotnbi4dvjf8/wish/1955028481 2515881 https://padlet.com/2515881/rhfbmotnbi4dvjf8/wish/1955032921 In his first State of the Union address, President Bush labels Iran, Iraq, and North Korea an axis of evil, and declares that the U.S. will wage war against states that develop weapons of mass destruction (Jan. 29). President Bush signs legislation creating a new cabinet department of Homeland Security.]]> 2021-12-18 20:25:01 UTC https://padlet.com/2515881/rhfbmotnbi4dvjf8/wish/1955032921 2515881 https://padlet.com/2515881/rhfbmotnbi4dvjf8/wish/1955035048 After months of campaigning and primary races, Barack Obama and John McCain are finally chosen as the presidential nominees for the Democratic and Republican parties respectively.]]> 2021-12-18 20:29:54 UTC https://padlet.com/2515881/rhfbmotnbi4dvjf8/wish/1955035048 2515881 https://padlet.com/2515881/rhfbmotnbi4dvjf8/wish/1955036129 Adam Lanza, age 20, forces his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Connecticut, and kills 26 people, including 20 children between the ages of six and seven. Then Lanza takes his own life while still inside the school.]]> 2021-12-18 20:32:12 UTC https://padlet.com/2515881/rhfbmotnbi4dvjf8/wish/1955036129