| 1950 First Kidney transplant |
| 1953 Mount Everest climbed |
| 1954 First oral contraceptives |
| 1957 Soviet Sputnik flight |
| 1959 North Sea gas discovered |
| 1959 Integrated circuits developed |
| 1950 First Kidney transplant |
| 1953 Mount Everest climbed |
| 1957 Soviet Sputnik flight |
| 1959 North Sea gas discovered |
| 1959 Integrated circuits developed |
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| 1961 Yuri Gagarin becomes first man in space |
| 1962 Communications Satellites |
| 1963 Cassette tape recorder |
| 1967 Satellite navigation |
| 1969 First man on the moon |
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| 1970 Satellite navigation |
| 1971 Decimalisation of currency |
| 1975 Altair 8800 is the first personal computer |
| 1978 First test tube baby |
| 1978 First Apple computer |
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| 1980 Smallpox officially eliminated |
| 1981 Space shuttle Columbia |
| 1981 first reports of AIDS |
| 1984 Genetic fingerprinting |
| 1988 Hawking's Brief History of Time |
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| 1996 Rise and rise of the Internet |
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