* 1986 – In retaliation for the April 5 bombing in West Berlin that killed two U. S. servicemen, U. S. president Ronald Reagan orders major bombing raids against Libya, killing 60 people.

* 1981 – Ronald Reagan fires 11, 359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.

After John Hinckley's attempted assassination of U. S. President Ronald Reagan, first lady Nancy Reagan commissioned astrologer Joan Quigley to act as the secret White House astrologer.

* 1984 – " We begin bombing in five minutes "-United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio.

* 1988 – Japanese American internment: U. S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $ 20, 000 payments to Japanese Americans who were either interned in or relocated by the United States during World War II.

In 1986, U. S. President Ronald Reagan ( who survived an assassination attempt himself ) ordered the Operation El Dorado Canyon air raid on Libya in which one of the primary targets was the home residence of Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi.

Assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan

The treaty was undisturbed until Ronald Reagan announced his Strategic Defense Initiative ( SDI ) on March 23, 1983.

Governor and Mrs. Clinton attend the Dinner Honoring the Nation's Governors in the White House with President Ronald Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan, 1987.

Many Democrats who had supported Ronald Reagan and Bush in previous elections switched their support to Clinton.

His 373 judicial appointments are the second most in American history behind those of Ronald Reagan.

He finished with an approval rating of 68 %, which matched those of Ronald Reagan and Franklin D. Roosevelt as the highest ratings for departing presidents in the modern era.

In a 2006 Quinnipiac University poll asking respondents to name the best president since World War II, Clinton ranked number two behind Ronald Reagan.

He also received numerous other awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom presented to him on February 23, 1983 by President Ronald Reagan.

After years of extensive lobbying for federal dollars, a 1987 public works bill appropriating funding for the Big Dig was passed by U. S. Congress, but it was subsequently vetoed by President Ronald Reagan as being too expensive.

On January 8, 1982, just before the case was to be heard by the U. S. Supreme Court, President Ronald Reagan authorized his Treasury and Justice Departments to ask that the BJU case be dropped and that the previous court decisions be vacated.

Both Ronald Reagan ( left ) and Strom Thurmond ( right ) played influential roles in the political life of BJU

Ronald Reagan spoke at the school in 1980, although the Joneses supported his opponent, John Connally, in the South Carolina primary.

The battle over disposition of People's Park resulted in a month-long occupation of Berkeley by the National Guard on orders of then-Governor Ronald Reagan.

His reputation underwent a renaissance during the Ronald Reagan Administration, but the ultimate assessment of his presidency is still divided between those who approve of his reduction of the size of government programs and those who believe the federal government should be more involved in regulating and controlling the economy.

* Ronald Reagan visited the retreat more than any other president.

In 1984, Ronald Reagan hosted the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher.

Image: President Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at Camp David 1986. jpg | British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President Ronald Reagan walk at Camp David in 1986.

The term " countercult apologetics " first appeared in Protestant Evangelical literature as a self-designation in the late 1970s and early 1980s in articles by Ronald Enroth and David Fetcho, and by Walter Martin in Martin Speaks Out on the Cults.

The English historian Ronald Hutton noted that by the dawn of the 21st century, there were four separate definitions of the term which appeared to be in use.

Because Ronald Reagan had Alzheimer's disease, his wife Nancy appeared on the segment in place of him.

It frequently appeared on LP with a companion piece, Decca's 1941 adaptation of Dickens's A Christmas Carol, starring Ronald Colman as Scrooge.

Inspired by the film Bedtime for Bonzo, in which Ronald Reagan appeared with a chimp, Bell greeted Bush's election with a cartoon entitled " Bigtime for Bonzo ", depicting Bush as Reagan's chimp.

It would be nearly 70 years later, in 1900, before another biography of Lawrence appeared, this time by Lord Ronald Gower.

All the presidents since Ronald Reagan have appeared, as well as other political and media figures.

Ronald Colman had first appeared in films in England in 1917 and 1919 for Cecil Hepworth, and subsequently with the old Broadwest Film Company in The Snow of the Desert.

Though the character was dropped during the streamlining of the characters in the mid-1980s, he did appear in McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure where he invented a rocketship to take Ronald and his friends to Magical Moon and appeared in M. C.

He appeared only in " The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald ", where he was animated with puppetry.

Later, randomized experiments appeared in agriculture, due to Jerzy Neyman and Ronald A. Fisher.

Knox's first biography, entitled The Life of Ronald Knox, was the work of his friend and literary executor, Evelyn Waugh, and appeared two years after his death.

In 2009 appeared The Wine of Certitude: A Literary Biography of Ronald Knox by David Rooney, which followed two recent studies, Ronald Knox as Apologist: Wit, Laughter and the Popish Creed ( 2007 ) and Second Friends: C. S. Lewis and Ronald Knox in Conversation ( 2008 ), both by Milton Walsh.

Although her stage appearances tended to run naturally towards Shakespeare and the classics, including Ibsens Hedda Gabler, Chekhov's The Three Sisters, Marlowe, Racine, Gorky, Brecht, she has also appeared in plays by Genet, Pinter, Ronald Harwood, Nicholson, Albee and others.

He starred in a number of two-reel short subjects and appeared in several B-pictures, including two with Ronald Reagan and three with James Cagney ( Torrid Zone, The Fighting 69th, and The Strawberry Blonde ).

Ronald Numbers says that: " Hindu Creationists have insisted on the antiquity of humans, who they believe appeared fully formed as long, perhaps, as trillions of years ago.

Mycroft appeared twice, once in 1965 in The Bruce-Partington Plans and played by Derek Francis and in 1968 in The Greek Interpreter and played by Ronald Adam.

In addition to his regular role in Neighbours, Donovan appeared as " Happy Houston " in the 1988 Australian World War II mini-series The Heroes, based on the historical novel by Ronald McKie.

Other well-known actors have appeared in guest roles, including Denis Lawson, Anthony Sher, Ian McNeice, Andrew Tiernan, Samuel West, Christian Coulson, Cherie Lunghi, Greg Wise and Ronald Pickup.

He had a walk-on in an early episode of the 1960s series The Saint ( credited as ' Ronald Corbett ') and appeared in films including Rockets Galore!

** Ronald McDonald also appeared in the Virgin Interactive game Mick & Mack as the Global Gladiators, where the titular characters are sucked into a comic in a McDonalds restaurant.

Her detailed study of Ronald Firbank, Prancing Novelist A Defence Of Fiction In The Form Of A Critical Biography In Praise Of Ronald Firbank, appeared in 1973.