Birthdate: I was born 08.28.1996, in Oslo, Norway. On this specific day Princess Diana and Prince Charles got a divorce. The price of a gallon of gas in the US, was 1.251 in August, the minimum federal wage was , the median family income was about 35 492 dollars. A popular movie in august 1996 was Matilda, based on Roald Dahl's book with the same name. The temperature that day was about 72 and cloudy.
Date of most recent birthday: 08.28. 2013, was my 17th birthday, and my first birthday celebrated somewhere else that wasn't Norway. I just moved to Lakeway, Austin and I celebrated my birthday to go out and eat a small dinner with a new friend I made here.
That day there were the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, where over 200
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Clinton Impeachment: December 19, 1998, Bill Clinton, 42ndpresident of the United States, got impeached for perjury and official wrongdoing, for lying under vow and hindering justice. First Clinton was accused of making illegal loans for Whitewater Development, when he was still just the governor of Arkansas. When Clinton was president, he got charged with sexual harassment, having sexual relationship with 21 year old Monica Lewinsky, and denying it. It later got proven that he lied, and the Senate voted for him to take him away from office.
NAFTA: The early 1994, an agreement called North American Free Trade Agreement, got signed by Canada’s Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, the US’s president George Bush and Mexico’s President Carlos Salinas. It made trilateral rules based trade bloc in North America. It outdated the Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement and largest free trade area based on population. Gulf War 1991: In August 1990, Saddam Hussein, Iraq's dictator's, army invaded Kuwait, because of it's riches of oil. This made the US concerned that Iraq's main goal was to capture Saudi Arabia and take all the oil. To beat back this action, President Bush sent troops over to the area, and on January 16, 1996 the US and other allied troops attacked, expelling Hussein's troops from Kuwait. This victory was the first big war since Vietnam.
Iraqi War 2002: After the 9/11 attacks President Bush declared a “war of
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is an international agreement between Canada, America and Mexico. This agreement took effect in January 1994 and was signed by President Bill Clinton. This agreement brought great changes in trade volumes and open new opportunities for millions of labours. Later, in January 2008 according to the schedule all duties and restrictions were eliminated. About 45,000 tariffs were eliminated in 1994 and only 3000 were left until 1999.
After 27 months of negotiation, the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a trade agreement between the three north American countries: Canada, United States, and Mexico, was put into effect on January 1st 1994. NAFTA was developed to increase trade among the three north American countries while simultaneously promoting each countries’ economy growth. However, the United States faces a new government, and President Trump believes that NAFTA should be renegotiated to modernize the trade agreement instead of removing U.S participation. Some of these renegotiations, include: Trade in goods, Investment, Digital Trade, Cross-Border Data Flows, Government Procedure, etc, take into account the changes in the economy since 1994. This new
In 1999, for the second time in American history, the President of the United States was impeached. For those who don’t know, impeachment means to bring a government official to trial over accusations of illegal or shameful activity. President William Jefferson Clinton, more commonly known as Bill Clinton, took office in 1992 as a leader who had promised to bring a more honest and better government to the American people. This Democratic politician would have his two terms in office defined by self-inflicted shameful events. Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky would go down as one of the most talked about scandals known to man.
I was born on October 23rd, 1999 very early in the morning the very first person to carry me was my dad. When I two years old me and my mom moved to Las Vegas, and lived there for about 6 years then soon move back to California. That was in early the early 2000’s when that happened . Few years past by then my sister was born June 23rd, 2005. I was staying with my cousin at the time until she was born then I went to see my sister on the day she was born.
The NAFTA was a trade agreement between the United States, Mexico, and Canada. It was signed into office in 1993. Granting free trade and no tariff tax on products being imported into the United States. NAFTA was heavily criticized by Ross Perot, who argued that Americans would hear a “giant sucking sound”
In the year 1998, Clinton was investigated and then accused of improperly using money from the company Whitewater Development and using it to fund one of his previous campaigns. However, what made the public hostile towards Clinton would have to be the discovery that he possibly had an affair with White House Intern, Monica Lewinsky. He even lied about it under a presidential oath on national television, despite their being clear evidence. It was after these two events that the demand to impeach President Clinton arose. When it came down to the final vote of the Senate in 1999, both impeachment requests did not receive 2/3 vote from the Senate. Clinton would escape impeachment and be able to finish off his term.
On march 9th, 1997, the rapper Notorious Big was shot to death in LA during a drive by shooting. On the day I was born, the price per gallon in gas was $1.46. Also during this time, the federal minimum wage was $5.05. The median family income around the time I was born was about $30,000 to $40,000. The most popular movie during the week of my birthday was Jungle 2 Jungle, released on March 7th 1997 and generating $59,925,026 altogether. On the day of march 9th, country wide, the temperature ranged from 99 degrees in California, and -43 degrees in Alaska.
For this assignment I chose Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton was impeached on two charges: lying under oath and obstruction of justice. Mr. Clinton lied under oath about his affair with Monica Lewinsky, but that was not the grounds for impeachment.
On August 2, 1990, Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, attacked Kuwait as a result of overproduction of oil in Kuwait, which had cost Iraq an estimated $14 billion a year when oil process of obtaining the
In Brooklyn New York at the Brookdale Hospital Medical Center at 10:30 AM Monday morning on February 18, 1985 I was born. That makes my star sign Aquarius which obviously makes me a bit of an oddball. Definitely a person who moves to the beat of my own drum. At the time of my birth Ronald Reagan was the president and, he too was born in the month of February, February 4th 1911 to be exact. Reagan was in his 4th year of his first term in February 1985. Suprisingly on the 18th of February 1985 it seeems as though not much happened on that date, apart from me being born, but there were somewhat interesting things happening during the week and month of my birthday. For example, if anyone is a movie buff or enjoys 80’s films, the movie Witness
The North American Free Trade Agreement or as its most commonly known NAFTA “is a comprehensive rules-based agreement between the United States, Canada, and Mexico”, that came into effect on January 1,1994. All three countries signed it in December of 1992; later on November of 1993 it was ratified by the United States congress. NAFTA was not only used in cutting down on tariffs between both countries but it also help deal with issues such as Transportation, Border Issues, and Environmental Issues between these two countries. NAFTA changed some tariffs immediately and within fifteen years other tariffs will fall to zero. NAFTA was not created to just lower tariffs it was also created to open protected sectors in agriculture, energy,
In 1992, the United States, Canada, and Mexico signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This agreement eliminated most tariffs and trade barriers between the three countries. NAFTA was inspired by the European Economic Community (1952-1993), which had eliminated tariffs among its members. In 1988, a free trade agreement was made between the United States and Canada, so the agreement in 1992 was just an extension of the original agreement to Mexico. In August 1992, the countries reached a preliminary agreement, and On December 17, 1992, the leaders of the three countries signed the final agreement. It went into effect on January 1, 1994 after being ratified in all three countries in 1993. The tariffs were gradually removed over
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion and occupation of neighboring Kuwait in early August 1990. Alarmed by these actions, fellow Arab powers such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt called on the United States and other Western nations to intervene. Hussein defied United Nations Security Council demands to withdraw from Kuwait by mid-January 1991 and the Persian Gulf War began with a massive U.S.-led air offensive known as Operation Desert Storm4. After 42 days of relentless attacks by the allied coalition in the air and on the ground, U.S. President George H.W. Bush declared a cease-fire on February 28; by that time, most Iraqi forces in Kuwait had either surrendered or run away. Though the Persian Gulf War was initially considered an unqualified success for the international coalition, simmering conflict in the troubled region led
I thought my birth year was special all because of my birthday? After all these years I’ve never realized other important events that had happened on my birth year. There are so many interesting events that had happened on my birthday. It was very hard to choose from many interesting subjects such as sports, movies, and actors/actress. My decision that I chose was to do a combination and pick 3 of the most interesting subjects that happened during the year of 1994. At first I wanted to do events on my exact birthday September 23, 1994, but they did not have very interesting events so I had the choice of doing events on the year of 1994.
The NAFTA is a comprehensive free trade agreement between Canada, Mexico and the US covering, among other things, goods, services, government procurement and investment.