Subcategories - Business

  1. Upton Sinclair Publishes The Jungle
  2. USA Today Is Launched
  3. Value-Added Taxes Bring a More Efficient Tax System to Europe
  4. Van Gogh’s Irises Sells for $53.9 Million
  5. Viacom Buys Columbia Broadcasting System
  6. Video Rental Outlets Gain Popularity
  7. VisiCalc Spreadsheet Software Is Marketed
  8. Voest Develops the Basic Oxygen Process for Steelmaking
  9. Volkswagen Opens the First Foreign-Owned U.S. Auto Plant
  10. Vons Opens Its First Tianguis Marketplace
  11. The Wagner Act Promotes Union Organization
  12. The Wagner Act Requires Employers to Accept Collective Bargaining
  13. The Wall Street Journal Prints the Dow Jones Industrial Average
  14. Walt Disney
  15. Walter Dill Scott Publishes The Theory of Advertising
  16. Wartime Tax Laws Impose an Excess Profits Tax
  17. Watt Expands Energy Leasing on the Outer Continental Shelf
  18. WEAF Airs the First Paid Radio Commercial
  19. West African Gold First Reaches North Africa
  20. West Germany Bans Immigration of Workers from Outside the EEC
  21. The Wheeler-Lea Act Broadens FTC Control over Advertising
  22. Whitney Invents the Cotton Gin
  23. The Wholesome Poultry Products Act Is Passed
  24. William Randolph Hearst
  25. The World Health Organization Condemns Use of Infant Formula
  26. World Leaders Confer on the Environment and Development
  27. The Y2K Crisis Finally Arrives
  28. The Yankees Acquire Babe Ruth
  29. Yugo Begins Selling Cars in the United States
  30. “Peace” Virus Attacks Mac Computers