Dolly the sheep cloned
An adult animal copied — the world debates human cloning
On 5 July 1996 Dolly the sheep was born at the Roslin Institute, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell. Her announcement in 1997 sparked worldwide debate about human cloning.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1980 Smallpox declared eradicated — 16 years earlier
- 2008 Global financial crisis — 12 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1980 Solidarity — 16 years earlier
- 1985–1991 Perestroika — 11 years earlier
- 1986 Chernobyl disaster — 10 years earlier
- 1989 Revolutions of 1989 — 7 years earlier
- 1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union — 5 years earlier
Middle East
- 1979 Iranian Revolution — 17 years earlier
- 1980–1988 Iran–Iraq War — 16 years earlier
- 1990–1991 Gulf War — 6 years earlier
Africa
- 1974 Lucy is discovered — 22 years earlier
- 1983–1985 The Ethiopian famine — 13 years earlier
- 1994 End of apartheid in South Africa — 2 years earlier
Asia
- 1975–1979 The Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian genocide — 21 years earlier
- 1989 Tiananmen Square protests — 7 years earlier
- 1991 Eruption of Mount Pinatubo — 5 years earlier
- 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami — 8 years later
- 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami — 15 years later
Americas
- 1983 Birth of the Internet: ARPANET adopts TCP/IP — 13 years earlier
- 1990 Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope — 6 years earlier
- 2001 September 11 attacks — 5 years later
- 2003 Human genome sequenced — 7 years later
- 2007 Apple unveils the iPhone — 11 years later
Oceania
- 1992 The Mabo decision — 4 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Nelson Mandela (aged 78)
- Neil Armstrong (aged 66)
- Mother Teresa (aged 86)
- Ronald Reagan (aged 85)
- Edmund Hillary (aged 77)
- Jimmy Carter (aged 72)
- Fidel Castro (aged 70)
- Elizabeth II (aged 70)
- Gabriel García Márquez (aged 69)
- Mikhail Gorbachev (aged 65)