By Series - Great Events: 1900-2001
- Demonstrations Publicize China’s Occupation of Tibet
- Diet Drugs Are Pulled from U.S. Market
- Dionne Sisters Are First Quintuplets to Survive
- Disabled Golfer Wins Right to Use Golf Cart in Tournaments
- Disney Company Announces Plans to Acquire Capital Cities/ABC
- DNA Tests Indicate That Jefferson Fathered Slave’s Child
- Dolby Invents Noise Reducer for Music Recording
- Dow Corning Agrees to Pay Women with Faulty Breast Implants
- Dow Corning Seeks Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
- Dow Jones Industrial Average Tops 10,000
- Du Pont Introduces Neoprene
- East European Nations Dissolve Warsaw Pact
- East Timor Votes for Independence
- Ebola Epidemic Breaks Out in Zaire
- Edison Develops First Alkaline Storage Battery
- Egypt and Israel Sign Peace Treaty
- Egypt and Syria Join to Form United Arab Republic
- Egyptian Government Troops Attack Islamists
- Egypt’s President Sadat Is Assassinated
- El Salvador Holds Elections
- El Salvador’s Civil War Ends
- Elections Increase Speculation About China’s Future
- Electric Refrigerators Revolutionize Home Food Preservation
- Environmental Protection Agency Bans Pesticide Chlorpyrifos
- Enzyme Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease
- Episcopal Church Ordains Its First Woman Priest
- Esaki Demonstrates Electron Tunneling in Semiconductors
- Ethiopian Famine Gains International Attention
- Ethnic Strife Plagues Soviet Union
- European Union Accepts Turkey as Candidate for Membership
- Europeans Agree on Euro Currency
- Evidence of Martian Ocean Is Reported
- Explosion Tears Hole in U.S. Destroyer Cole, Killing Seventeen
- Exxon and Mobil Merge to Form World’s Largest Oil Company
- Exxon Valdez Spills Crude Oil Off Alaska
- FBI Arrests Suspected Unabomber
- FDA Approves Sale of Mifepristone for Nonsurgical Abortion
- Federal Court Rules Microsoft a Monopoly
- Fijian Rebels Attempt Coup
- Fire in Boston’s Coconut Grove Nightclub Kills 492 People
- First Cameron Press Begins Operation
- First Commercial Airliners Begin Operating
- First Commercial Atomic-Powered Ship, Savannah, Is Launched
- First Diesel Locomotive Is Tested
- First Digital High-Definition Television Signals Are Broadcast
- First Electronic Telephone Switching System Begins Operation
- First Household Robot, Hero 1, Is Invented
- First Nonstop Around-the-World Balloon Trip Is Completed
- First Patient Undergoes Gene Therapy
- First Tidal Power Plant Begins Operation
