Celebrating 50 momentous years
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1963
- The Beatles
- Australian Drug Evaluation Committee meet first at Sydney's RPA
- Lomotil
- John Eccles shares Nobel Peace Prize for work on synapse
- MIMS makes a modest mark in a year that was very memorable in other respects.
1964
- Zidovudine (AZT) synthesised
- Sydney Gladesville Bridge opens - World's longest concrete arch
- US Surgeon General first reports smoking may be hazardous to health
- Indocid
1965
- APC 'celebrated' in comedy review of A Cup of Tea, A Bex, and a Good Lie Down
- Lasix
1966
- Insulin first synthesised in China
- Isordil
- Australian money goes decimal
1967
- NH & MRC recommends Phenacetin off the PBS
- First national polio immunisation with Salk's oral Sabin
- Christian Barnard - World's first heart transplant, Cape Town
1968
- Death of Howard Florey
- Epilim>
- Musical Hair opens on Broadway
1969
- First case of HIV/AIDS in US (confirmed 1984)
- Dr. Denton Cooley - first temporary artificial heart
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1970
- Ventolin first launched in Australia
- Septrin
1971
- Brufen
- World's first microprocessor - Intel 4004
1972
- First paper on recombinant DNA marks birth of modern molecular biology
- Tobicin
- Last major smallpox epidemic in Europe
1973
- Sydney Opera House officially opens
- First handheld mobile phone call made - in New York
1974
- Amoxil
- 40,000 year old Mungo Man uncovered at Lake Mungo, NSW
- Rubik's Cube invented
1975
- Detailing biosynthesis of cholesterol wins Nobel Peace Prize fir Comforth and Prelog
- Microgynin 30
- Lime disease first recognised at Lyme, Connecticut
- Full-time colour TV launched
1976
- Cray - 1, first supercomputer
- Sinemet
- First known outbreak of Ebola virus in Zaire
- Full-time colour TV launched
1977
- Legionnaires' disease bacterium identified
- MIMS Annual launched as a full PI reference for doctors & pharmacists
- Bee Gees release soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever
- Canesten
1978
- Synthetic insulin invented (Humulin in Aust 1986)
- Madopar
- World's first test tube baby is born in Oldham, UK
- Diprosone
- Sydney's first Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras
1979
- Eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, the first and only human disease driven to extinction
- Rocaltrol
- Sony Walkman first on sale in Japan
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1980
- GPS time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC
- Pac-Man (best-selling arcade game of all time) released in Japan
- Endone
1981
- First recognised AIDS cases
- Brufen
- Original IBM PC released in US
- First Space Shuttle launch: Columbia
1982
- RBT introduced in NSW
- Capoten
- First CDs released in Germany
1983
- Australia II wins America's Cup
- FDA approves Immunosuppressant cyclosporine - leads to transplantation revolution
- Anafranil
1984
- Nicorette
- First Apple Mac
- Medicare begins in Australia
1985
- DNA first used in criminal case
- Diaformin
- Wreck of Titanic located
1986
- Humulin
- Chernobyl disaster
- Renitec
1987
- AZT approved by FDA in HIV/AIDS
- The Simpsons first appears as a series if shorts
1988
- U.S. Surgeon General states addictive properties of nicotine similar to heroin, cocaine
- Plendil
- Australia's Bicentenary Year
- Pepcidine
1989
- "Tank Man" defies Tiananmen Square massacre
- Gaby Kennard first Australian woman to fly around the world
- 13 killed by earthquake in Newcastle NSW
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1990
- Hubble Space Telescope launched
- Zocor
- First broadcast of HDTV - World Cup
- Prozac
1991
- World Wide Web announced
- Dissolution of Soviet Union
- Pulmicort
- MIMS Assist launched
1992
- Fluvax Australian discovery
- Neupogen first biological agent, revolutionalises cancer treatment - recombinant DNA technology
- Coversyl
1993
- Lamisil
- Nelson Mandela South Africa's first black president
1994
- Wollemi Pine discovered alive
- AOL offers first easy access to World Wide Web for average person
1995
- First search engine Yahoo!
- First computer animated feature film "Toy Story"
1996
- Britain announces Bovine spongiform encephalopathy likely transmitted to people
- MIMS on Disk launched - 10 floppy disks
1997
- MIMS Online launched
- Revealed: adult sheep named Dolly successfully cloned, born July 1996
- Lipitor
1998
- Losec
- eMIMS on CD ROM launched
- Fosamax
1999
- Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper is placed back on display in Milan, Italy after 22 years restoration
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2000
- Herceptin
- Sydney Olympics "best Olympic Games ever"
2001
- World's first self-contained artificial heart implant
- Release of the iPod
- Wikipedia launches
2002
- Nexium
- MIMS on PDA launched
- Terrorists bomb nightclubs in Kuta, Bali, killing 202 and injuring over 300
2003
- WHO issues a global alert on SARS
- Human Genome Project completed - 99% genome sequenced to 99.99% accuracy
- Pegasys
2004
- Adam Elliot's Harvie Krumpet wins Oscar for Animated Short Film
- Facebook
- 4th Transit of Venus since event Cook observed in 1769
2005
- Nobel Prize for Medicine - Australians Robin Warren, and Barry Marshall show stomach ulcers caused by H pylori
- Gardasil
2006
- Ian Frazer Australian of the Year, discoverer of HPV vaccine
2007
- First iPhone
- Australia ratifies the Kyoto Protocol on climate change
2008
- First operations using bionic eyes, London
- Champix
2009
- Outbreak of H1N1 flu strain ("swine flu"), deemed global pandemic, first thus designated since Hong Kong flu of 1967-1968
- MIMS Mobile launched
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2010
- First iPad
- WHO organisation declares H1N1 influenza pandemic over
- 2010 iMIMS Launched
2011
- World's first artificial organ transplant achieved, using artificial windpipe coated with patient's stem cells
- Brilinta
2012
- CERN announces discovery of new particle consistent with the Higgs boson - so called "God particle"
- Australian skydiver Felix Baumgartner first person to break sound barrier without any machine assistance - from 39km
2013
- First time lab grown meat made from muscle stem-cells has been cooked and tasted
- Peter Higgs & Francois Englert awarded Nobel Peace Prize in Physics fir discovery of Higgs Boson
- New eMIMS launched
* All products are shown in the year they were first listed in MIMS.