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| 1931 | With millions out of work, others without food, wages depressed, and the country in a major depression, President Hoover, in his annual message to Congress, says he thinks it would be a good idea to raise taxes!
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| 1977 | Congress bans U.S. manufacture of nearly all aerosol products containing fluorocarbons {pdf} which allegedly pose a threat to the ozone layer. Other countries do not follow. (We needed a replacement for the Cranberry crisis which had fizzled)
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| 1987 | President Reagan and Party Leader Gorbachev sign a treaty agreeing to eliminate medium-range intermediate nuclear weapons in their arsenals.
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| 1991 | Republics Declare End of Soviet Union: leaders of three of the 15 Soviet Republics, Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin, Ukrainian President Leonid M. Kravchuk and the Belarusian leader Stanislav Shushkevich, released a declaration known as the Belavezha Accords, which declared that the Soviet Union was to be dissolved and succeeded by the Commonwealth of Independent States, a loose confederation of former Soviet states.
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| 1993 | NAFTA - legislation to implement the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) signed by President Clinton, to go into effect at the beginning of 1994.
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| 1998 | In "KNOWLES v. IOWA", the Supreme Court ruled police cannot be given blanket authority to search people and their cars without consent after ticketing them for routine traffic violations. [If they ask, "Just say NO"]
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| 2000 | The Florida Supreme Court orders manual recounts to begin in Gore's election challenge and adds 383 votes to his total.
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