Categories - Economics

  1. Chávez Forms Farm Workers’ Union and Leads Grape Pickers’ Strike
  2. Chávez is Jailed for Organizing an Illegal Lettuce Boycott
  3. China Adopts New Economic System
  4. China Begins Its First Five-Year Plan
  5. Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping Dies
  6. Chisholm Trail Opens
  7. Cigarette Advertising is Banned from American Television and Radio
  8. The CIO Begins Unionizing Unskilled Workers
  9. The Civil Rights Act of 1968 Outlaws Discrimination in Housing
  10. The Civil Rights Act Prohibits Discrimination in Employment
  11. Clara Zetkin
  12. Clarence Saunders Introduces the Self-Service Grocery
  13. Clinton Announces U.S. Bailout of Mexico
  14. Clinton Signs Bill to Raise Minimum Wage
  15. Clinton Vetoes Bill Reversing Taxpayer “Marriage Penalty”
  16. Coca-Cola Introduces a New Formula
  17. Coco Chanel
  18. Cod War
  19. Commercial City of Jenne Is Founded on Niger River
  20. Commercial Radio Broadcasting Begins
  21. Common Market Is Formed
  22. Commonwealth of Independent States Faces Economic Woes
  23. Commonwealth of Independent States Strengthens Economic Ties
  24. Community Antenna Television Is Introduced
  25. Compact Disc Players Are Introduced
  26. Compact Discs Reach the Market
  27. Company of New France Is Chartered
  28. Computers Meet Y2K with Few Glitches
  29. Concorde Flies Passengers at Supersonic Speeds
  30. The Concorde Flies Passengers at Supersonic Speeds
  31. Congress Addresses Oil-Spill Liability
  32. Congress Approves Overhaul of Internal Revenue Service
  33. Congress Authorizes Private Carriers for Airmail
  34. Congress Bans Covert Aid to Nicaraguan Contras
  35. Congress Bans Importation of African Slaves
  36. Congress Begins Hearings on Cost Overruns for the C-5A Galaxy
  37. Congress Centralizes Regulation of U.S. Commercial Air Traffic
  38. Congress Creates the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
  39. Congress Creates the Small Business Administration
  40. Congress Deregulates Banks and Savings and Loans
  41. Congress Enacts the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
  42. Congress Establishes the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
  43. Congress Formally Apologizes to Japanese Internees
  44. Congress Gives Tax Breaks to Financiers of Small Businesses
  45. Congress Limits the Use of Billboards
  46. The Congress of Industrial Organizations Is Formed
  47. Congress of Industrial Organizations Is Founded
  48. Congress Passes the Agricultural Marketing Act
  49. Congress Passes the Clayton Antitrust Act
  50. Congress Passes the Consumer Credit Protection Act