Categories - Science
- Canada Bans Commercial Fishing in Lakes St. Clair and Erie
- Canada Establishes the Experimental Lakes Area
- Captain James Cook
- Captive-Bred Condors and Ferrets Are Reintroduced into the Wild
- Caribbean Volcano Erupts, Destroying Much of Island of Montserrat
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Carl Sagan
- Carlson Invents Xerography
- Carothers Patents Nylon
- Carrel Develops a Technique for Rejoining Severed Blood Vessels
- Carson Publishes Silent Spring
- Carter Discovers the Tomb of Tutankhamen
- The Cassette for Recording and Playing Back Sound Is Introduced
- Cassinelli and Associates Discover R136a, the Most Massive Star Known
- Cech Demonstrates That RNA Can Act as an Enzyme
- Cerletti and Bini Develop Electroconvulsive Therapy for Treating Schizophrenia
- Chadwick Discovers the Neutron
- Chaim Weizmann
- Challenger Accident
- Chandrasekhar Calculates the Upper Limit of a White Dwarf Star’s Mass
- Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
- Chapman Determines the Lunar Atmospheric Tide at Moderate Latitudes
- Charles Babbage
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Willson Peale
- Charles-Édouard Guillaume
- Chemical and Biological Warfare
- Cherenkov Discovers the Cherenkov Effect
- Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
- The Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor Explodes
- China Announces Birth-Rate Reduction Plans
- China Conducts Atmospheric Nuclear Test
- China Detonates Powerful Nuclear Device
- China Explodes Its First Nuclear Bomb
- Chloramphenicol Is Discovered
- Chlorination of the U.S. Water Supply Begins
- Chlorofluorocarbons Are Banned in the United States
- Christiaan Huygens
- The City Initiates the Study of Urban Ecology
- Claude Bernard
- Clewell Corrects Hydrocephalus by Surgery on a Fetus
- Clinton Blocks Ban on Late-Term Abortions
- Clinton Convenes the Forest Summit
- Clyde William Tombaugh
- Cohen and Boyer Develop Recombinant DNA Technology
- Cohen Begins Research on Neutron Bomb
- Colin Maclaurin
- Colombia Legalizes Some Private Use of Drugs
- Columbia’s Second Flight Proves the Practicality of the Space Shuttle
- Common Ancestor of Humans and Neanderthals Found in Spain
