By Series - Great Events: 1900-2001

  1. Demonstrations Publicize China’s Occupation of Tibet
  2. Diet Drugs Are Pulled from U.S. Market
  3. Dionne Sisters Are First Quintuplets to Survive
  4. Disabled Golfer Wins Right to Use Golf Cart in Tournaments
  5. Disney Company Announces Plans to Acquire Capital Cities/ABC
  6. DNA Tests Indicate That Jefferson Fathered Slave’s Child
  7. Dolby Invents Noise Reducer for Music Recording
  8. Dow Corning Agrees to Pay Women with Faulty Breast Implants
  9. Dow Corning Seeks Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
  10. Dow Jones Industrial Average Tops 10,000
  11. Du Pont Introduces Neoprene
  12. East European Nations Dissolve Warsaw Pact
  13. East Timor Votes for Independence
  14. Ebola Epidemic Breaks Out in Zaire
  15. Edison Develops First Alkaline Storage Battery
  16. Egypt and Israel Sign Peace Treaty
  17. Egypt and Syria Join to Form United Arab Republic
  18. Egyptian Government Troops Attack Islamists
  19. Egypt’s President Sadat Is Assassinated
  20. El Salvador Holds Elections
  21. El Salvador’s Civil War Ends
  22. Elections Increase Speculation About China’s Future
  23. Electric Refrigerators Revolutionize Home Food Preservation
  24. Environmental Protection Agency Bans Pesticide Chlorpyrifos
  25. Enzyme Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease
  26. Episcopal Church Ordains Its First Woman Priest
  27. Esaki Demonstrates Electron Tunneling in Semiconductors
  28. Ethiopian Famine Gains International Attention
  29. Ethnic Strife Plagues Soviet Union
  30. European Union Accepts Turkey as Candidate for Membership
  31. Europeans Agree on Euro Currency
  32. Evidence of Martian Ocean Is Reported
  33. Explosion Tears Hole in U.S. Destroyer Cole, Killing Seventeen
  34. Exxon and Mobil Merge to Form World’s Largest Oil Company
  35. Exxon Valdez Spills Crude Oil Off Alaska
  36. FBI Arrests Suspected Unabomber
  37. FDA Approves Sale of Mifepristone for Nonsurgical Abortion
  38. Federal Court Rules Microsoft a Monopoly
  39. Fijian Rebels Attempt Coup
  40. Fire in Boston’s Coconut Grove Nightclub Kills 492 People
  41. First Cameron Press Begins Operation
  42. First Commercial Airliners Begin Operating
  43. First Commercial Atomic-Powered Ship, Savannah, Is Launched
  44. First Diesel Locomotive Is Tested
  45. First Digital High-Definition Television Signals Are Broadcast
  46. First Electronic Telephone Switching System Begins Operation
  47. First Household Robot, Hero 1, Is Invented
  48. First Nonstop Around-the-World Balloon Trip Is Completed
  49. First Patient Undergoes Gene Therapy
  50. First Tidal Power Plant Begins Operation