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By Series - Great Events: 1900-2001

1. 117,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Are Found Near South African Lagoon
2. Abscam Trial Ends in Convictions
3. Afghan Peace Pact Fails to End Bloodshed
4. Afghanistan Has Ancient Buddhist Monuments Destroyed
5. African National Congress (ANC) Wins South African Elections
6. AIDS Scientists and Activists Meet in Amsterdam
7. Algeria Cracks Down on Islamic Militants
8. America Online Agrees to Buy Time Warner
9. Angolan Government Shares Power with UNITA Rebels
10. Antarctic Survey Team Confirms Ozone Depletion
11. APEC Nations Endorse Global Free Trade
12. Apollo-Soyuz Rendezvous Inaugurates International Cooperation in Space
13. Arab Oil Embargo Precipitates Energy Crisis
14. Arab Terrorists Kill Eleven Israeli Athletes at Munich Olympics
15. Armenia and Azerbaijan Sign Cease-Fire Agreement
16. Arsonists Burn Thirty Black Church in Eighteen Months
17. Assisted-Suicide Specialist Kevorkian Is Found Guilty of Murder
18. Astronauts Renovate Hubble Telescope
19. Astronomers Detect Black Hole
20. Astronomers Detect Planets Orbiting Another Star
21. Astronomers Discover Solar System with Three Planets
22. Astronomers See Light from Object 12.2 Billion Light-Years Away
23. AT&T Divestiture Takes Effect
24. Atlas-Centaur Rocket Is Developed
25. Atomic-Powered Submarine Nautilus Is Launched
26. Australia Votes Against Becoming a Republic
27. Aviator Earhart Disappears in Flight over South Pacific
28. Bacon Designs First Fuel Cell
29. Banach Sets Stage for Abstract Spaces
30. Barnay Develops Rotary Dial Telephone
31. Beijing Hosts U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women
32. The Bell Curve Raises Charges of Renewed Racism
33. Bell Labs Develops Photovoltaic Cell
34. Bell Labs Introduces Electronically Amplified Hearing Aids
35. Bell System Demonstrates Long-Distance Television
36. Bell’s X-1 Rocket Plane Breaks Sound Barrier
37. Benedictus Develops Laminated Glass
38. Berlusconi Resigns as Prime Minister of Italy
39. Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party Returns to Power
40. Black Nationalist Leader Malcolm X Is Assassinated
41. Bocage Devises Theory of Tomography
42. Bomb Damages Florence’s Uffizi Gallery
43. Bourbaki Circle Publishes Éléments de mathématique
44. Brazilian Police Massacre Rio Slum Dwellers
45. Brazil’s Ailing Economy Gets $41.5 Billion in International Aid
46. Bridgestone Apologizes for Tires That Caused Numerous Deaths
47. Britain Announces Mad Cow Disease Has Infected Humans
48. British Queen Elizabeth Begins Paying Taxes After Castle Fire
49. Burton’s Thermal Cracking Process Improves Gasoline Production
50. Bush Builds First Differential Analyzer