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By Series - Great Events: 1900-2001

51. Calderón Sol Is Elected President of El Salvador
52. California Voters Reject Bilingual Education
53. Californians Vote to Limit Aid to Undocumented Immigrants
54. Cambodians Accept U.N. Peace Plan
55. Canada Creates Nunavut Territory
56. Caribbean Volcano Erupts, Destroying Much of Island of Montserrat
57. China Adopts New Economic System
58. China and Japan Sign Ten-Year Peace Treaty
59. China Detains Thousands in Falun Gong
60. China Detonates Powerful Nuclear Device
61. China Seizes Downed U.S. Reconnaissance Plane
62. China Sentences “Gang of Four”
63. Chinese Government Selects Tibet’s Panchen Lama
64. Chinese Immigrants Are Detained in New York
65. Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping Dies
66. Church of England Ordains Women
67. Churchill Becomes British Prime Minister
68. CIA Official Admits Espionage Activity
69. Citadel Graduates First Woman Cadet
70. Civil War Intensifies in Sudan
71. Clarkson Becomes Governor-General of Canada
72. Clinton Announces U.S. Bailout of Mexico
73. Clinton Blocks Ban on Late-Term Abortions
74. Clinton Creates Eighteen New National Monuments
75. Clinton Denounces Racial Profiling
76. Clinton Is Reelected
77. Clinton Signs Bill to Raise Minimum Wage
78. Clinton Signs Brady Gun Control Law
79. Clinton Signs Line-Item Veto Bill
80. Clinton Vetoes Bill Reversing Taxpayer “Marriage Penalty”
81. Clinton Visits Vietnam
82. Coast Guard Rescues Cuban Refugee Elián González
83. Cohen Begins Research on Neutron Bomb
84. Colombia Legalizes Some Private Use of Drugs
85. Common Ancestor of Humans and Neanderthals Found in Spain
86. Commonwealth of Independent States Faces Economic Woes
87. Commonwealth of Independent States Strengthens Economic Ties
88. Computers Meet Y2K with Few Glitches
89. Congress Approves Overhaul of Internal Revenue Service
90. Congress Bans Covert Aid to Nicaraguan Contras
91. Congress Reduces Federal Farm Subsidies and Price Supports
92. Congress Rejects President Clinton’s Health Plan
93. Controversy Arises over Estrogen and Heart Attacks
94. Coolidge Patents Tungsten Filament
95. Court Rules That Food and Drug Administration Cannot Regulate Tobacco
96. Crystal Sets Lead to Modern Radios
97. Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary Join NATO
98. Decline in U.S. AIDS Death Rate Slows
99. Defense Missile Fails Test and Clinton Shelves System Development
100. Democratic Fund-Raiser Pleads Guilty to Making Illegal Contributions