Death of the last Pyrenean ibex
A lost species is cloned — and goes extinct a second time
On 6 January 2000 a falling tree killed Celia, the last Pyrenean ibex, or bucardo, in the Spanish Pyrenees. In 2003 a clone was born from her cells but lived only minutes: the first 'de-extinction' in history, and the first second extinction.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1980 Smallpox declared eradicated — 20 years earlier
- 2008 Global financial crisis — 8 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1980 Solidarity — 20 years earlier
- 1985–1991 Perestroika — 15 years earlier
- 1986 Chernobyl disaster — 14 years earlier
- 1989 Revolutions of 1989 — 11 years earlier
- 1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union — 9 years earlier
Middle East
- 1979 Iranian Revolution — 21 years earlier
- 1980–1988 Iran–Iraq War — 20 years earlier
- 1990–1991 Gulf War — 10 years earlier
Africa
- 1983–1985 The Ethiopian famine — 17 years earlier
- 1994 End of apartheid in South Africa — 6 years earlier
Asia
- 1975–1979 The Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian genocide — 25 years earlier
- 1989 Tiananmen Square protests — 11 years earlier
- 1991 Eruption of Mount Pinatubo — 9 years earlier
- 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami — 4 years later
- 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami — 11 years later
Americas
- 1983 Birth of the Internet: ARPANET adopts TCP/IP — 17 years earlier
- 1990 Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope — 10 years earlier
- 2001 September 11 attacks — 1 year later
- 2003 Human genome sequenced — 3 years later
- 2007 Apple unveils the iPhone — 7 years later
Oceania
- 1992 The Mabo decision — 8 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Nelson Mandela (aged 82)
- Neil Armstrong (aged 70)
- Ronald Reagan (aged 89)
- Edmund Hillary (aged 81)
- Jimmy Carter (aged 76)
- Fidel Castro (aged 74)
- Elizabeth II (aged 74)
- Gabriel García Márquez (aged 73)
- Mikhail Gorbachev (aged 69)
- Boris Yeltsin (aged 69)