Heads Up! With the millennium looming, the list-makers seem to have inherited the earth. First, the American Film Institute drew up a register of the 100 greatest American films ever made. Random House's Modern Library chased the idea a few months later with its own list of the 100 best works of fiction of the century, and next month it promises to name the 100 best works of nonfiction . Last month, the Freedom Forum's Newseum compiled a roster of the 100 top stories of the century , and this week New York University's journalism department pegged the century's 100 best works of American journalism . Not to be left behind, we've plundered the extensive newspaper archives at the Columbia University School of Journalism, our Nexis account, and even Peter Jennings' new best-selling book to assemble a more compelling--and concise--look at the 100 high points of the century. Your mileage may vary, so if you've come across an important headline that we've overlooked, please send it to 100TopHeds@slate.com. Click to read the best of the nominations. 1901: Near-Sighted Teddy Roosevelt Bags President McKinley on Safari 1903: Wright Brothers Announce 3-Second Meal Service on All 12-Second Flights 1908: President Taft Calls for Federal Legislation To Enlarge Doorways, Railway Seats, Bathtubs 1912: Albania Lapses Into Anarchy 85 Years Too Soon 1912: Shipping Magnate Declares Titanic -Iceberg Merger Successful 1913: Congress Creates IRS "To Unite Nation Against Common Enemy" 1914: Panama Canal Opens New Era of Global Trade in Panama Hats 1914: Fighting Breaks Out Between War Correspondents 1915: German Submarine Fires Warning Torpedo Into Lusitania 1916: Army Physicians Laud Mustard Gas as First Inhalable Condiment 1917: President Wilson Vows To Make World Safe for Robber Barons 1918: Lenin Orders Pictures of Czar's Family Put on Milk Cartons 1918: Wife's Honeymoon Antics Give Gandhi Idea of Passive Resistance 1919: Congress Votes for Prohibition, Celebrates With First Toast in Congressional Speakeasy 1919: Senate Rejects Treaty of Versailles for Having Suspicious Foreign-Sounding Name 1920: Women Experience Futility of Voting Firsthand 1921: Humane Loophole in Immigration Quotas Lets Some Foreigners Enter U.S. as Livestock 1925: Heisenberg Says Uncertainty Principle May or May Not Be Greatest Discovery Ever 1927: Parisian Hijacker Forces Charles Lindbergh To Make Nonstop Transatlantic Flight at Gunpoint 1927: Supreme Court Rules Films Do Not Have Right To Remain Silent 1928: Babe Ruth Seldom Gets to First, Admits Wife 1929: Stock Market Crash Linked to Jews, Blacks, Catholics, Radicals, Foreigners, and Anyone Who Looks Funny 1929: Al Capone Denies Murder for Profit Allegations, Insists Gangland Slayings "Purely for Fun" 1933: U.S. Goes off Gold Standard, Adopts Moldy Crust of Bread Standard 1933: FDR's "The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is Eleanor" Speech Calms Nation 1933: New Deal, Same Deck 1933: First Woman Cabinet Member, Frances Perkins, Celebrates by Getting Coffee for Other Cabinet Members 1934: Newborn Ralph Nader Files Suit Against Mother for Ejecting Him Into Hostile, Unsafe Environment 1935: Alcoholics Anonymous Sells First Mailing List to Smirnoff 1935: National Labor Relations Act Recognizes Workers' Right To Be Fired Collectively 1935: Remaining Chinese Communists Receive "I Survived the Long March" T-Shirts 1936: Moscow Show Trials Notably Lacking in Good Show Tunes 1936: Spanish Civil War Erupts as Bullfighters, Flamenco Dancers Clash Over Limited Supply of Tights 1937: Jobless Rate Tops 110 Percent With Many Unemployed at More Than One Occupation 1937: Over-Excited Hindenburg Announcer Explodes 1938: Chamberlain Calls Hitler "The Nicest Totalitarian Maniac I've Ever Appeased" 1939: Poland Invades Itself 1939: Lou Gehrig Has Lou Gehrig's Disease; "With My Name, I Figured It Was Only a Matter of Time," Says Yankee First Baseman 1940: Millions of Women Enter Work Force for Lower Pay, Longer Hours; "It's the Greatest Thing Since Slavery!" Say Industry Leaders 1940: Leon Trotsky Dies in First Ice Pick-Assisted Suicide 1941: "Neither a Borrower Nor a Lender Be" Clause Added to Lend-Lease Act 1941: Japanese Stir-Fry Pearl Harbor 1942: French Resistance Waiters Bravely Refuse to Refill Nazi Officers' Coffee Cups 1943: Oklahoma! Admitted to Union; Sprightly Musical To Replace Boring Actual State 1944: Allied Soldiers Hear of Nude French Sunbathing, Storm Normandy Beaches 1945: Stalin "Genuinely Touched" by Gift of Eastern Europe at Potsdam Surprise Party 1947: FAA Charges Drunken UFO Pilot in Roswell Crash 1948: Truman Defeats Dewey; Huey and Louie Have Yet To Concede 1950: U.S. Blamed for Starting Hopeless Asian Land War 15 Years Too Soon 1954: Some TV Couples May Be Sleeping Together, Say Insiders 1956: U.S.S.R. Asks Hungary if It Has Parking Spaces for 10,000 Tanks 1956: Thousands of Innocent Soviet Corpses Thrilled by Posthumous Rehabilitation 1958: First Hospice Allows Patients To Die in Homelike Setting--Surrounded by Greedy, Hateful Relatives 1959: Congressional Quiz Show Investigators Stunned by Revelation That Not Everything on TV Is Real 1960: U-2 Shot Down Over U.S.S.R.; Infant Bono Unhurt 1961: CIA Markets Bay of Pigs Blooper Reel 1962: Thousands of Innocent Trees Die To Make Silent Spring a Best Seller 1963: JFK Accidentally Struck Down by Flying Zapruder Lens Cap 1964: Rockefellers, Kennedys Conscientiously Object to War on Poverty 1966: Marshall McLuhan Caught Reading 1966: Robert McNamara Commended by PTA for Applying New Math to U.S. Casualty Figures 1968: Martin Luther King Jr., RFK Assassinated Separately but Equally 1968: Hippies, Beatniks Sign Historic Personal Hygiene Ban 1968: Nonproliferation Treaty Strictly Limits Nuclear Weapons to Nations That Can Afford Them 1969: Teddy Kennedy Charged With "Leaving the Scene of a Successful Cover-Up" 1970: Near-Perfect Neil Young Guitar Solo Ruined by Addition of Second Note 1972: J. Edgar Hoover Buried in Simple but Elegant Black Dress 1973: Liz Taylor Will Use New Bar Code Technology To Track Husbands 1973: Entire Consumer Product Safety Commission Dies in Pinto Explosion 1974: Ford Pardons Nixon for Plaid Trousers 1974: Good News: Smelly Ozone Layer Disappearing 1977: IBM Monopoly Threatens Free Market, Warns Head of Tiny Start-Up Microsoft 1979: U.S. Embassy in Iran Under New Management 1981: MTV Brings Western Civilization to Official Halt 1981: Reagan Shot En Route to NRA Fund-Raiser 1981: Sandra Day O'Connor Receives Congratulatory Pat on the Behind From Fellow Justices 1984: "Mondale Fever" Sweeps Minnesota, District of Columbia 1985: "We Are the World" Gives Hope to Rock Has-Beens Starving for a Hit 1987: Ollie North Wins Daytime Emmy 1988: Democratic Platform Not High Enough To Make Dukakis Visible 1989: Chinese Authorities Kick Off "Keep Tiananmen Square Clean" Week With Special Tank Sweepers 1989: Scientist Achieves Cold Fusion on Honeymoon 1991: Iraqi Army Stages Spirited 3/8-of-a-Second Counteroffensive 1993: "For God's Sake, Use a Decent Camera!" Pleads Extraterrestrial 1994: Abstinence TV Spots Boost Teen Celibacy to a Record 0.0002 percent 1996: Desperate Postmaster General Tries To Hand Deliver E-Mail 1997: AOL Offers 50 Hours of Free Downtime 1998: Wave of 1970s Nostalgia Drives up Oil Prices 1998: Primitive Amazon Tribe Still Using Apple IIs 1998: Visa To Assume National Debt for 5.9 percent, No Annual Fee 1998: Hair Club for Men Must Admit Women, High Court Rules 1998: "Bad Luck Gene" Identified 1998: China's Abacuses Still Reeling From Year 2000 B.C. Problem 1999: Internet Fills up Last 3 percent of Terrifying Void of Existence 1999: ACLU Targets Lactose Intolerance 1999: Harvard To Accept Mortal Kombat Scores in Place of SATs 1999: Western Union Introduces Singing Mammogram 1999: FDA Approves Nicotine Eye Patch 1999: Drugs Win Drug War 1999: Turnout for Apocalypse Lighter Than Expected; Most Prefer To Be Elsewhere When World Ends Is there an important headline that we've overlooked? Please send your nominations to 100TopHeds@slate.com. Click to read the best of the nominations.