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Snowfall has occurred further south in the United States only on the high mountains of the state of Hawaii. President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (aka “Tokyo Rose”). January 20 – Jimmy Carter is sworn in as the 39th president of the United States, and Walter F. Mondale is sworn in as the 42nd vice president.
The 95th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. , from January 3, 1977, to January 3, 1979, during the final weeks of Gerald Ford 's presidency and the first two years ...
The 95th United States Congress began on January 3, 1977. There were 11 new senators (six Democrats, five Republicans) and 64 new representatives (45 Democrats, 19 Republicans), as well as one new delegate (a Democrat), at the start of the first session. Additionally, 12 senators (six Democrats, six Republicans) and six representatives (two ...
The United States, which had provided hundreds of millions of dollars in aid, was crucial in supporting the Ferdinand Marcos regime in the Philippines, [96] although during the Carter administration the relationship with the U.S. had soured somewhat when President Carter targeted the Philippines in his human rights campaign. [97]
President Carter begins the conference with an address on the Rockwell B-1 Lancer and answers questions from reporters on it as well as relations between the Soviet Union and the United States, the cruise missile capability of the US, the human rights policy of his administration, the Middle East, support from the Democratic Party, SALT ...
The national debt of the United States increased by about $280 billion, from $620 billion in early 1977 to $900 billion in late 1980. [52] However, because economic growth outpaced the growth in nominal debt, the federal government's debt as a percentage of gross domestic product decreased slightly, from 33.6% in early 1977 to 31.8% in late 1980.
1977 United States gubernatorial elections; ... United States gubernatorial elections were held November 8, 1977, in two states and two territories. Election results
1981–1982 — The killing of 6-year-old Adam Walsh (1981), and the disappearance of Johnny Gosch, a 12-year-old newspaper carrier from Des Moines, Iowa (1982), raise awareness of missing children cases in the United States. 1983 – 241 U.S. Marines are killed by a suicide bomb in Lebanon. 1983 – The United States invades Grenada.