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Allan Hills A81005, the first lunar meteorite found on Earth, is discovered in the Allan Hills at the end of the Transantarctic Mountains by John Schutt and Ian Whillans during the ANSMET meteorite gathering expedition
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all 9 planets align on the same side of the Sun.
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Allen Hill and colleagues at the University of Oxford develop a glucose biosensor
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First report of anti-human monoclonal antibody production.
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First reports of HIV as a possible cause of AIDS, by independent virology teams led by Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo
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Pioneer 10 passes the orbit of Neptune, becoming the first man-made object to travel beyond the major planets of the solar system.
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Dr. John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.
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Peter Kramer[3] and Dan Shechtman[4] publish their discoveries of what will soon afterwards be named quasicrystals
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The first commercial Internet domain name, in the top-level domain .com, is registered in the name symbolics.com by Symbolics Inc., a computer systems firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Scientists of the British Antarctic Survey announce discovery of the ozone hole
