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| The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001. |
| Sept. 29 | |
| The National Foundation of the Arts and Humanities was established to encourage and aid the arts and artists. | 1 |
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| New immigration laws fixed the annual quota of immigrants at 120,000 from the Western Hemisphere, without establishing national quotas, and at 170,000 from the rest of the world, not more than 20,000 to come from any one country. This spurred a new wave of largely non-European immigration; by 1985, only 10 percent of immigrants would be of European origin, in contrast to 90 percent in 1965. | 2 |
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| The Higher Education Act for the first time provided federal scholarship aid for undergraduates. | 3 |
| Griswold v. Connecticut. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned state laws against the sale of contraceptives to married adults. | 4 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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