| YEAR | LOCATION | New FINDING/ CULTURAL/TECHNIQUE/SocialStimulous |
| 1998 | USA | Viagra and Psuedo-estrogen & Cancer drugs revitalize... Stock Markets too! Think about what it could do for the Rhinoceros, Narwhal, and an assortment of Asian aphrodesiacs!! |
| 1997 | UK | Sheep clone "dolly" sparks debates |
| 1996 | Ethiopia | 2.5-2.6 million year old artifacts found, with skull |
| 1995 | California | Captive Bred condors released into Big Sur |
| 1995 | Solar System | Hubble telescope retrofitted in space, sends highest quality pictures |
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1994 |
France |
Chauvet Cave rediscovered, 20-30,000 year BP- WOW! Rock Art!!! |
| 1992 | France | Douady/Couder: plant primordia/Golden number=(à5-1)/2=phi; 360-phi=137.5 |
| 1991 | Newfoundland / Nova Scotia | Canada's DFO & Government Officials "manage" Atlantic cod demise despite complaints of coastal fishers |
| 1988 | USA | NMFS Regional Fisheries Ecosystem Management Plans buried by Regional Fisheries Councils, showing lack of will by $$$ |
| 1988 | Chile | Dillehay and Collins date artifacts from Monte Verde, So Chile at 33,000 years |
| 1988 | Israel | Finding of ancient modern skeletons in Israel date to 92,000 years. |
| 1987 | Florida | Orange Band, the last dusky seaside sparrow dies of old age in captivity |
| 1987 | California | The last wild California condor is trapped and placed in zoo breeding program |
| 1987 | USA | US Supreme Court rejects equal time concept for creationism as a science |
| 1983 | International | Int. Bureau of Weights &Measures redefines meter:distance light travels/time |
| 1981 | USA | Rat to mouse transgenic transfer successful |
| 1981 | USA | Liquid junction cell11.5% efficient/Solar One 10MW power station finished |
| 1981 | USA | first transgenic transfers between different species occur |
| 1980 | USA | Alvarez et al.: iridium enriched clay layer at Cretacious-Terciary boundary |
| 1980 | USA | Supreme Court OKs patent on microbe developed by GE for oil cleanup |
| 1979 | USA | Spreadsheet Visicalc enabled business applications sans programming skills |
| 1978 | England | First Test tube baby conceived is born to Leslie Brown |
| 1978 | Global | Seasat satellite carries imaging radar system/ocean currents/Ice flow |
| 1978 | USA | Chloroflourocarbons are banned a spray propellants to protect ozone layer |
| 1977 | USA | Apple II is introduced as first assembled personal computer |
| 1977 | Near Galapagos Isls | Corliss/Ballard discover deep sea vents/fauna/Alvin dive |
| 1975 | Feigenbaum discovers "è=4.669", a natural constant relating physical transitions | |
| 1974 | USA | Hewlitt-Packard introduces programable pocket calculator |
| 1973 | USA | Bell Labs develop tunable, continuous wave laser |
| 1973 | USA | Cohen and Boyer demonstrate DNA restriction enzymes/joining enzymes |
| 1972 | California | Cal State Bd of Education demands equal time for Biblical account of creation |
| 1972 | USA | DDT use is restricted to protect birds/environment |
| 1971 | USA | Direct Dialing implmented/Microprocessor chip introduced |
| 1967 | USA | 20 year Study shows Floride decreases tooth decay 58%/Evanston, IL |
| 1962 | USA | Rachel Carson's "The Silent Spring" begins conservation movement |
| 1960 | Pacific | Jaques Piccard/Don Walsh descent 10,900 ft in bathyscaphe |
| 1956 | USA | FORTRAN invented at IBM |
| 1955 | USA | US Vanguard project for launching artificial satellites announced |
| 1955 | USA | Deep freezers for fresh food go on sale |
| 1953 | USA |
David Easton - The Political System - systems analysis uses metaphores from physics/biology - Others use Humor! |
| 1952 | USA | Polio epidemic affects 47,665/Jonas Salk develops killed virus vaccine |
| 1951 | USA | First calf is produced using frozen semen |
| 1944 | Greenwich, UK | Greenwich Royal Observatory installs 1st quartz crystal clock |
| 1940 | USA | First color television broadcast/developed by Peter Carl Goldmark |
| 1937-42 | USA | John V. Atanasoff begins work on first electronic computer/punch card input |
| 1937 | USA | Frank Whittle builds first working jet engine |
| 1937 | Baltic | first rocket tests/Wernher von Braun amongst leaders |
| 1937 | USA | Theodosius Dobzhansky publishes Genetics and the Origin of Species |
| 1935-37 | Germany | Albert Szent-Gyorgi begins discovery of Krebs Cycle |
| 1933 | Germany | 12,000 power electron microscope developed/1st more powerful than light |
| 1933 | Tasmania | Last known Tasmanian Wolf dies |
| 1932 | USA | Cathode ray tube television receiver demonstrated |
| 1931 | Germany | first crude electron microscope |
| 1925 | Dayton,Tennesee | J.T. Scopes "monkey trial"/prosecuted for teaching evolution |
| 1925 | Global | RA Fisher:Statistical methods/Lotka's Elements of Physical Biology/New era |
| 1922 | Germany | Meteor expedition mounts first depth sounder/mapper |
| 1919-1920 | USA | Short wave radio developed/licensed regular broadcasts begin |
| 1913 | England | Soddy/Fajans/Russel note beta emission moves atom up one in atomic mass |
| 1912 | Germany | Alfred Lothar Wegener proposed Plate Tectonics/Continental Drift/Pangea |
| 1911 | England | Soddy observes alpha particle emission result is 2 unit loss in atomic mass |
| 1906 | England | Nobel prize for discovery of electron/hydrogen atom has only one |
| 1905 | Germany | Einstein's second paper on relativity details: E=mc2 |
| 1904 | USA | Bertram Boltwood uses elemental decay to age mineral |
| 1904 | England | Sutton details evidence in "The chromosome theory of heredity" |
| 1902 | England | Rutherford and Soddy demonstrate radionuclides on disintegration via radioactivity |
| 1902 | USA | Stansboro states that chromosomes are paired/may carry heredity |
| 1900 | Europe | Mendels Laws rediscovered by deVries; Correns; von Seysenegg |
