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2000
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Dawn of Millenium
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Y2K Bug.
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Instead of severe warnings of the
Millennium bug over the probable failures of the computer systems very few
problems arose.
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Jan. 14
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Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology and Peter Beyer of University of Frieberg.
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A new variety of Rice engineered to
have a high percentage of Beta carotene to give Vitamin A :
dubbed ‘Golden rice’.
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Mar.
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Completion of the genome of the
fruit fly.
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Jun.
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Rough draft of the Human Genome
Project announced.
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Oct.
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Angelo Vesconi.. It.
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Turned mouse stem cells into muscle
cells.
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Nov.
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Kew Gardens.
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Millennium seed bank was opened with
1.8 billion seed species.
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20/
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Honda.
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Introduced a human like Robot.
ASIMO.
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2001
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Jan. 15
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Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.
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Launching of Wikipedia, the free on line encyclopaedia.
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Feb.
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NASA.
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Shoemaker lands on an asteroid.
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Mar.
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Dr. Dennis
Slamon.
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After12years of research , ‘Herceptin’ was approved for breast cancer.
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Apr. 28.
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Dennis
Tito. 61-year-old
California millionaire, former NASA engineer.
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First Space tourist. He spent
nearly eight days in orbit as a crew member of, a mission to the
International Space Station. The fare: …..$
20 million.
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May.
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Inter Government Panel on Climate
Change. IPCC.
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Introduced the third report.
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June.
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Sudbury Neutrino Observatory.
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Observatory located 2100 m
underground in Sudbury, Canada discovered
that the ‘Neutrinos’ have mass.
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Oct. 23
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Apple
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Introduced the ‘iPod’.
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2002
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Apr.
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Astronomers
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Detected organic compounds in a gas
cloud 26,000 light years away.
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May.
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NASA
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Odyssey probe found ice, water on
Mars.
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Nov.
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China.
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SARS epidemic in Guang Deng
province.
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Dec.
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Genome of the mouse was published.
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2003
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Feb
1
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NASA
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Columbia
shuttle exploded killing all seven astronauts.
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11/
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WMAP
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Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy
Probe mapped out Cosmic Background Radiation.
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Mar.
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Italy
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Humanoid foot prints found. Age: 350,000Years. Oldest find.
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Apr.
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Completion of Human Genome Project.
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Oct.
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China
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Sent an astronaut to space. Yang Livei.
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Dec.
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First draft of the Chipanzee
genome.
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2004
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Mar.
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NASA
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Published the Hubble Ultra Deep
Field Photos.
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May.
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Stockholm.
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Conference on Persistent Organic
Pollutants. They banned some chemicals.
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June
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Mathew Nagle
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First person to get a brain:
computer interface. He was able to control a computer by his brain.
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21/
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Space ship 1
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First private space craft to reach
space.
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Oct.
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Andre Greim, K Novositov .. Rus/US.
Shared the Physics Noble Prize 2010.
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Created sheets of Graphene, an amazing form of Carbon allotrope.
Many times stronger than steel and the best known conductor of heat and
electricity, yet lighter than other materials.
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2005
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Jan.
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Astronomers
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Discovered a rocky mass larger than
Pluto beyond Neptune.
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14/
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Huygens probe landed on Titan, a
moon of Saturn.
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Feb.
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Discovered a probable Dark matter
galaxy.
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Mar.
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Mary
Schweitzer
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Obtained soft tissue from a
dinosaur.
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Apr.
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A 380, largest passenger plane,
commenced service. Capacity over 800 passengers.
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Nov.
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France
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Partial face transplant.
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2006
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Jan.
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NASA
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Star dust brought samples from
Comet Wild-2.
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19/
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NASA
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New Horizon; Probe off to Pluto.
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29/
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Ice cube
Observatory.
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Detected the first Neutrino.
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Apr.
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HD DVD format launched.
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Aug.
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Pluto designated as a dwarf planet.
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28/
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Australia
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HPV Vaccine approved.
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Sep.
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Ethiopia
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3.3 million old humanoid skull
discovered.
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Oct.
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Astronomers
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Reported test result of a rigorous
test of theory of relativity through observations of a double Pulsar.
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30/
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Publication of Economic
consequences of Global warming.
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2007
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Apr.
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IPCC
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Fourth assessment report published.
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24/
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Evidence of a habitable exo-planet.
Discovered water in another.
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Human heart valve grown from Human
bone stem cells.
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June.
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Mongolia
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Giant bird like Dinosaur
discovered.
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29/
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Apple
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Released the first smart phone…
iPhone.
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Oct.
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Craig
Winter.
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Synthesized a copy of a chromosome
from a bacterial one.
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Nov.
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Obtained stem cells from normal
cells.
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2008
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Feb
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Svalbard
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Global seed vault in Norway.
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Sep.
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Large Hadron Collider opened.
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20/
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First version of the Android
operating system.
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Oct.
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Human micro biome project to study
all microbes in the human body.
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2009
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Mar.
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Launch of Kepler to search for Earth
like exo-planets.
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May.
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Jorn
Hurum… Nor.
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$7 million year old human ancestor
was discovered. Darwinus masilae.
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July
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ETH
Zurich.
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Announced a transistor made from
one atom.
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Aug.
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Amino acid was found in a comet.
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Oct.
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Scientists
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Discovered 4.4 million yesr old
ardipithecus ramidus.
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2010
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Feb.
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IBM
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Created the fast switching graphene
transistor.
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Mar.
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Spain
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Implanted a complete face.
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Apr.
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Apple
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Introduced the Tablet Computer.
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May.
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Australia
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Created a transistor from seven
atoms of Phosperous.
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21/
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Craig
Venter
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Created the first life form from
million DNA base pairs,
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July.
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Bertram
Piccard.SW.
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Solar Impulse Air craft made 26
hour flight using energy only from the sun.
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Sep.
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Gliese581g exo-planet considered to be habitable.
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Dec.
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US
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First commercially owned space
craft launched..
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2011
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Mar.11
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Japan –North
eastern coast.
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A
magnitude 9.0 earthquake hits 130 kilometers off Japan's the Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear power plants.
Seven
tsunamis, some as high as 15 meters damage the nuclear plants. Officials
evacuate thousands of people living within a three-kilometer radius.
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May.
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NASA
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Gravity probe B found support for Einstein’s
General theory of relativity.
|
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June.
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Mapped the land below East
Antarctic Ice sheet.
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Jul.
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Implant of trachea using stem
cells.
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Aug.
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Discovery of 3.4 billion year old microfossils.
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Sep.
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China
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First step taken in building a
space station.
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2012
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Feb
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USA,
Australia.
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Produced a transistor from one
atom.
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May.
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NASA
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Voyager 1 leaves the solar syste.
First man made object to achieve it.
|
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June
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Internet protocol IPVG commenced.
|
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July. 4
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CERN
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Strong evidence obtained for the
particle Higg’s boson.
|
|
Aug. 6
|
NASA
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Curiosity Rover sends beautiful
images from Mars.
|
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Aug. 25
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Yuri Gagarin died at the age 82
yrs.
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|
Sep.
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NASA.
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Obtained Deep Field Image.
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2013
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Bird flu infects humans.
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Feb.
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NASA
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Curiosity Rover drilled Mars.
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