* 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 U. S. Taxpayers Party, now known as the Constitution Party, nominated former aide to President Ronald Reagan and Chairman of The Conservative Caucus Howard Phillips for President.

In 1976, Ronald Reagan, who was trailing President Gerald R. Ford in the presidential delegate count, announced prior to the Republican National Convention that, if nominated, he would select Senator Richard Schweiker as his running mate.

* July 16 – Former California Governor and actor Ronald Reagan is nominated for U. S. President, at the

It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Ronald Colman ) and Best Art Direction.

In 1930, Ronald Colman was nominated for an Academy Award in the Acting category for his work in this film and in Bulldog Drummond ( 1929 ).

In February 1981, President Ronald Reagan appointed Koop as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health with the promise, fulfilled a year and nine months later, that he would be nominated as Surgeon General.

After serving as Ronald Reagan's foreign policy adviser in his 1980 campaign and later in his Cabinet, the longtime Democrat-turned-Republican was nominated as the U. S. ambassador to the United Nations and became the first woman to hold this position.

President Ronald Reagan nominated him to a judgeship on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama in 1986, but the Senate confirmation failed after it was alleged that he had made racist remarks to a colleague.

Earthquake was nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction ( Alexander Golitzen, E. Preston Ames, Frank R. McKelvy ) and Best Sound ( Ronald Pierce, Melvin Metcalfe, Sr .).

In 1987 Sessions was nominated to succeed William H. Webster as FBI Director by President Ronald Reagan and was sworn in November 2, 1987.

Joe Louis Arena was the site of the 1980 Republican National Convention where Ronald Reagan was nominated as the Republican candidate for President of the United States.

In 1946 he joined the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in Los Angeles, where he was a senior partner when in 1980 he was nominated Attorney General by then President-Elect Ronald Reagan.

The convention nominated President Gerald Ford for a full term, but only after narrowly defeating a strong challenge from former California Governor Ronald Reagan.

On August 4, 1983, President Ronald Reagan nominated Spiers to be Under Secretary of State for Management.

His successor, Alex R. Munson, was nominated by President Ronald Reagan, and confirmed by the Senate in 1988.

In May 1986, Trost was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to succeed Admiral James D. Watkins as Chief of Naval Operations.

After returning from a two year sabbatical at Harvard University, on March 29, 1985, President Ronald Reagan nominated Blackwill to Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be the chief negotiator of the United States of America with the Warsaw Pact for the Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions talks.

* 1980-The national economic malaise of the 1970s culminated in Detroit hosting the Republican National Convention which nominated Ronald Reagan who stayed at the Renaissance Center while in Detroit.

On 4 April 1985, he was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to be the next Administrator of the DEA.

She is also a Fox News analyst, Chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity, has a syndicated column that appears in newspapers nationwide each week, and sits on the Board of Directors of two Fortune 1000 companies: Pilgrims Pride and ABM Industries Inc. Chavez was the highest-ranking woman in President Ronald Reagan's White House, and was the first Latina ever nominated to the United States Cabinet, when President George W. Bush nominated her Secretary of Labor.

The convention nominated President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H. W. Bush for reelection.

According to an article by Legal Affairs Editor Jeffrey Rosen in The New Republic, " The phrase comes from a 1995 article by Douglas Ginsburg, a federal appeals court judge in Washington, D. C., whom Ronald Reagan unsuccessfully nominated to the Supreme Court after the Senate rejected Bork.

On January 30, 1984, after a brief return to the University of Virginia School of Law, Wilkinson was nominated to the Fourth Circuit by Ronald Reagan.

In 1973, the Leader of the Opposition nominated Mishra for the position of Chief Justice, in opposition to Sir Ronald Kermode, who was favoured by the government.