US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed a treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles.
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Someone tried to shoot President Ronald Reagan.
The US gross national debt exceeded $1 trillion.
Sandra Day O'Connor is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush declared an end to the Cold War.
Mikhail Gorbachev was elected as the Soviet Union's first President.