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William J. Clinton Event Timeline
William J. Clinton (42) Event Timeline
01/20/1993 – 01/20/2001
11/03/1992
Election Day. William J. Clinton wins the 1992 Presidential Election with 43% of the popular vote and 69% of the electoral vote, defeating incumbent George H. W. Bush and Independent Candidate H. Ross Perot.
1993
01/01/1993
Czechoslovakia peacefully divides into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
01/20/1993
Inaugural Address.
01/21/1993
Henry G. Cisneros confirmed as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, first Hispanic to hold that position.
01/22/1993
End of Zoë Baird nomination fiasco (“nannygate”). Clinton had announced the nomination of corporate attorney Zoë Baird as Attorney General on 12/24/1992. Baird revealed that she had not paid Social Security due for a nanny for two years. A growing controversy ensued. Clinton announced that Baird had written requesting withdrawal of her nomination on this date.
01/22/1993
Issues a series of orders reversing Reagan directives on abortion and family planning: “Mexico City” Policy; “Title X Gag Rule;” Fetal Tissue in research; Abortions in Military Hospitals; Importation of RU-486.
01/25/1993
Appoints First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton to lead healthcare re
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Bill Clinton / Bill Clinton - Key Events
Terrorists bomb American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 people, including 20 Americans. United States intelligence believes that Osama bin Laden, a Saudi exile and alleged terrorist leader, is behind the attacks. On August 20, the U.S. military, on orders from President Clinton, launch reprisal strikes on “terrorist related facilities” in Afghanistan, bin Laden's country of residence, and Sudan. The attacks on Sudan, however, come under particular scrutiny, as a number of international observers and members of the Sudanese government contend that the United States destroyed a civilian pharmaceutical facility, and not a chemical weapons plant, as the Clinton administration reported.
Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania Bombed
The morning news on August 7, 1998, greeted Americans with a shocking report: a truck bomb had demolished the U.S. embassy in downtown Nairobi, Kenya. More than 200 people, twelve of them American citizens, had been killed. Minutes later, another truck bomb went off outside the American embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killing eleven people. The combined attacks resulted in more than 5,000 injuries.
Investigators, working closely with officials in both embassy nations, ultimately picked